Patents Assigned to Read AS
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Patent number: 11977100Abstract: An inspection jig includes contact terminals and a pitch conversion unit electrically connected to the contact terminals and configured to convert a first pitch between adjacent two of the contact terminals into a second pitch different from the first pitch. The contact terminals each include a tubular body that extends in an axial direction of the contact terminal and is electrically conductive, and a conductor that is electrically conductive and has a stick shape. The tubular body includes a spring portion that has a helical shape along a peripheral surface of the tubular body. The conductor includes an uninserted portion that protrudes from the tubular body toward a first side in the axial direction, and an inserted portion that is disposed in the tubular body and is fixed to a first axial end portion of the tubular body. The pitch conversion unit includes a board portion and a protruding portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventor: Michio Kaida
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Patent number: 11953314Abstract: A bump inspection device images a wafer that includes a plurality of bumps arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the bumps is elongated along a first direction that is along a substrate surface. The bump inspection device includes: a laser-light source that emits laser light in a direction that is inclined relative to the substrate surface; a camera that images the substrate surface onto which the laser light is emitted; and a direction adjusting portion that adjusts an arrangement relation between the direction in which the laser light is emitted and an orientation of the wafer to allow the first direction to become inclined relative to the direction in which the laser light is emitted, in a plan view. The camera images the wafer while the first direction is inclined relative to the direction in which the laser light is emitted, in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventors: Alexsandr Juk, Alain Ross, Takashi Miyasaka, Takeya Tsukamoto, Shigeya Kikuta
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Patent number: 11953562Abstract: An MI sensor includes: an amorphous wire; an insulator layer formed on an outer peripheral surface of the amorphous wire; and an X-axis coil, a Y-axis coil, and a Z-axis coil which are formed, in a spiral shape, on an outer peripheral surface of the insulator layer. The X-axis coil, the Y-axis coil, and the Z-axis coil are formed of a conductive layer, and the X-axis coil, the Y-axis coil, and the Z-axis coil are arranged in directions orthogonal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: NIDEC-READ CORPORATIONInventor: Tatsufumi Kusuda
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Patent number: 11940482Abstract: An upper mechanism including a table provided with a placement surface of an inspection target, a lower mechanism configured to rotatably support the upper mechanism, and a lifting operation unit configured to be supported by the upper mechanism so as to be movable up and down are provided. The lower mechanism includes a rotation drive unit configured to rotate the upper mechanism, and a push-up force output unit configured to lift and lower the lifting operation unit. A transmission member with which a tip of the push-up force output unit can contact or separate is provided at a lower end of the lifting operation unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Isa
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Patent number: 11933837Abstract: In various examples, an inspection jig includes a plate-shaped insulating member having a recess; a first board having a first electrode; and a conducting wire electrically connected to a contact terminal. The insulating member is provided with a through hole penetrating a bottom portion of the recess. One end portion of the conducting wire is disposed in the through hole. The other end of the conducting wire is connected to the first electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventors: Minoru Kato, Makoto Fujino
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Patent number: 11830670Abstract: A coiled electronic component includes: an electronic component body which includes a coil portion having a spiral structure and formed of an electrically conductive material, and electrically conductive connection portions arranged on both ends of the coil portion; and a pair of electrodes for respectively connecting the electrically conductive connection portions to assembly portions arranged on an assembly object. The electrode includes a pair of pinching pieces for pinching the electrically conductive connection portion, and the pair of pinching pieces is opened in a manner that the electrically conductive connection portion is received and fitted therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Nidec-Read CorporationInventor: Tatsufumi Kusuda
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Patent number: 11799679Abstract: A method comprises receiving a set of data from at least one interaction, calculating, an audio score for any audio data received in the set of data, and calculating a video score for any video data received in the set of data. The audio score is joined with the video score to create an audiovisual score, and some subset of measurement, alert or recommendation is sent to a user, the set being based on the audiovisual score and configured to be displayed on a user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Read AI, Inc.Inventors: David Shim, Elliott Waldron, Robert Williams
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Patent number: 11768226Abstract: Provided are an inspection jig and an inspection apparatus in which a configuration for bending a plurality of contacts in the same direction can be simplified. The inspection jig includes a plurality of contacts each of which has a rod shape, a first support portion that supports the first end portion side of the plurality of contacts, and a second support portion that supports the second end portion side of the plurality of contacts. The first support portion includes a facing support plate that is disposed to face the second support portion in a manner separated from the second support portion and has a plurality of through holes through which the plurality of contacts are inserted, and a cross section of each of the through holes has an elliptical shape whose major axis extends in a predetermined specific direction along a plane direction of the facing support plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventors: Kohei Tsumura, Takanori Furukawa, Jyun Yamanouchi
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Patent number: 11720740Abstract: Methods and systems of displaying a first string of characters and a second string of characters on an electronic display in a manner to reduce interference between the first and second strings, where a layout of displayed content is preserved, the method including steps of receiving a first string of characters, receiving a second string of characters, identifying a first character in the first string that interferes with a second character in the second string, receiving a modified character corresponding to the first character, rendering the first string and the second string for display, and displaying the first string and the second string on an electronic display. In some embodiments, airspace scaling or deemphasis is used to generate modified characters.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: READ TWOGETHER LTD.Inventors: David Allen Fesbinder, Alexander Postnikov
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Publication number: 20230068243Abstract: A coiled electronic component includes: an electronic component body which includes a coil portion having a spiral structure and formed of an electrically conductive material, and electrically conductive connection portions arranged on both ends of the coil portion; and a pair of electrodes for respectively connecting the electrically conductive connection portions to assembly portions arranged on an assembly object. The electrode includes a pair of pinching pieces for pinching the electrically conductive connection portion, and the pair of pinching pieces is opened in a manner that the electrically conductive connection portion is received and fitted therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: Nidec-Read CorporationInventor: Tatsufumi KUSUDA
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Patent number: 11585652Abstract: A bump inspection device images a wafer that includes a plurality of bumps arranged in parallel to each other. Each of the bumps is elongated along a first direction that is along a substrate surface. The bump inspection device includes: a laser-light source that emits laser light in a direction that is inclined relative to the substrate surface; a camera that images the substrate surface onto which the laser light is emitted; and a direction adjusting portion that adjusts an arrangement relation between the direction in which the laser light is emitted and an orientation of the wafer to allow the first direction to become inclined relative to the direction in which the laser light is emitted, in a plan view. The camera images the wafer while the first direction is inclined relative to the direction in which the laser light is emitted, in a plan view.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2017Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventors: Alexsandr Juk, Alain Ross, Takashi Miyasaka, Takeya Tsukamoto, Shigeya Kikuta
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Patent number: 11585839Abstract: A resistance measuring device includes: a first jig; a plurality of first contacts; a second jig; a plurality of second contacts; a resistance measuring unit that supplies a current between a first contact and a second contact, which correspond to each other, detects a voltage between a first contact and a second contact, and calculates a resistance value of an object to be measured based on a relationship between a value of the supplied current and a value of the detected voltage; first wirings connecting the resistance measuring unit and each of the first contacts, for the first contacts, respectively; and second wirings connecting the resistance measuring unit and each of the second contacts while passing from the resistance measuring unit through the first jig, for the second contacts, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventor: Tadashi Takahashi
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Patent number: 11527341Abstract: A coiled electronic component includes: an electronic component body which includes a coil portion having a spiral structure and formed of an electrically conductive material, and electrically conductive connection portions arranged on both ends of the coil portion; and a pair of electrodes for respectively connecting the electrically conductive connection portions to assembly portions arranged on an assembly object. The electrode includes a pair of pinching pieces for pinching the electrically conductive connection portion, and the pair of pinching pieces is opened in a manner that the electrically conductive connection portion is received and fitted therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Nidec-Read CorporationInventor: Tatsufumi Kusuda
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Patent number: 11520999Abstract: A rendering engine and method for reducing character clutter in display of composite text formed from a first text string and a second text in a single viewing field. The composite text having foreign language text and truncated translation characters of the foreign language in which the foreign language text is embedded in area vacated by truncation of translation character strokes to enable readers to identify translation text based on remaining distinguishing character strokes with reduction of eye shift between the two text strings.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: READ TWOGETHER LTD.Inventors: David Allen Fesbinder, Aryeh Rosenzweig
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Patent number: 11467186Abstract: When a load necessary for inspection is applied to a cylindrical body in the axial direction thereof, an end of the first bar-like main body is located closer to the other end side of the cylindrical body than one end of a support portion in a support member that supports the body portion, an end of the second bar-like main body is located closer to one end side of the cylindrical body than the other end of the support portion, the body portion is located in the entire portion where the support portion is located, and a radial distance between the outer peripheral surface of the axial central portion of at least one of the first spring portion and the second spring portion and the support member is larger than the distance between the body portion and the support portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: NIDEC-READ CORPORATIONInventors: Norihiro Ota, Sukkwi Kim
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Patent number: 11454650Abstract: A probe has a substantially bar shape, and includes a tip end, a base end, and a body portion that is located between the tip end and the base end and has a thickness in a thickness direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the substantially bar shape thinner than the tip end. The body portion includes a slope surface that is continuous with the tip end and is inclined with respect to the axial direction in a direction in which the thickness becomes gradually thinner with increasing distance from the tip end. A first region having a surface shape that bulges outward is provided in at least a part of the slope surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: NIDEC-READ CORPORATIONInventors: Hidekazu Yamazaki, Yukio Kumamoto
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Publication number: 20220261528Abstract: A rendering engine and method for reducing character clutter in display of composite text formed from a first text string and a second text in a single viewing field. The composite text having foreign language text and truncated translation characters of the foreign language in which the foreign language text is embedded in area vacated by truncation of translation character strokes to enable readers to identify translation text based on remaining distinguishing character strokes with reduction of eye shift between the two text strings.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: READ TWOGETHER LTD.Inventors: David Allen FESBINDER, Aryeh ROSENZWEIG
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Patent number: 11415599Abstract: A contact probe may include a Ni pipe that may include a coiled spring structure, and the Ni pipe 11 may contain 0.5 to 10 wt % of phosphorus (P). The contact probe may have improved durability, by reducing shrinkage, after probing performed in a high temperature environment.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventors: Masami Yamamoto, Norihiro Ota, Shigeki Sakai
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Patent number: 11408915Abstract: A cylindrical body is formed of a conductive member provided with a spiral spring portion. Further, the cylindrical body includes a Ni metal layer and a Ni—W alloy layer containing W, and an end portion of the Ni—W alloy layer protrudes to an outer side of the Ni metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: NIDEC READ CORPORATIONInventor: Masami Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11327094Abstract: An inspection jig includes a support member that supports a probe. The support member includes an inspection side plate-shaped body arranged on one end portion side, and an electrode side plate-shaped body arranged on the other end portion side of the support member. A probe support hole into which one end portion of the probe is inserted and supported is formed in the inspection side plate-shaped body. A probe insertion hole into which the other end portion of the probe is inserted is formed in the electrode side plate-shaped body. The probe is supported while the one end portion of the probe abuts on an inner wall of the probe support hole in a state in which a contact portion provided at the one end portion of the probe is not in contact with an inspected portion to be inspected.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: NIDEC-READ CORPORATIONInventor: Norihiro Ota