Patents Examined by A. Evans
  • Patent number: 11965648
    Abstract: A false window unit includes: a window frame which is disposed in a wall and includes an opening; an image display device which is disposed facing the opening of the window frame, and displays a landscape image toward the indoor space through the opening of the window frame; a light source which is disposed between the window frame and the image display device, and emits light simulating sunlight toward the indoor space through the opening of the window frame; and a sash frame which blocks part of the light from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryou Shimotaya, Takashi Higashida
  • Patent number: 11968764
    Abstract: A light includes a plurality of light-emitting elements; a first substrate having a first surface on which the light-emitting elements are arranged at predetermined intervals, a second surface, and an opening that connects the first surface and the second surface; a second substrate located facing the second surface of the first substrate and having a communication unit mounted thereon; and an antenna arranged on the second substrate, wherein in response to an on/off operation, the communication unit transmits information about the on/off operation to an external destination, and the antenna extends through the opening of the first substrate in a direction crossing the first surface of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOXYZ, INC
    Inventor: Akatsuki Torii
  • Patent number: 11964336
    Abstract: A band saw blade can include a body extending in an endless ribbon, a cutting edge with cutting teeth, a back edge opposite the cutting edge, and a series of notches formed in the back edge. The notches can at least include first, second and third different notches. The notches can be arranged in a repeating pattern and each can be continuously arcuate. The notches can extend into the back edge a first depth. The notches can be separated from one another by a first distance. The notches can have respective radii of curvature and the radii of curvature can be different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: THE M.K. MORSE COMPANY
    Inventors: Chandra Sekhar Rakurty, Roan Kirwin
  • Patent number: 11966151
    Abstract: A phosphor wheel includes a substrate including a first principal surface and a second principal surface located opposite to each other, a phosphor layer on the first principal surface, and a heat dissipating member disposed so as to oppose one of the first principal surface and the second principal surface. The heat dissipating member includes a projecting portion that projects from a center portion of the heat dissipating member, and the projecting portion includes a contact surface that contacts the one of the first principle surface and the second principle surface. The heat dissipating member further includes fins formed in a peripheral region of the heat dissipating member excluding the center portion. The projecting portion secures a certain distance between the substrate and the heat dissipating member and conducts heat in the substrate to the peripheral region of the heat dissipating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Noboru Iizawa, Yosuke Honda
  • Patent number: 11964629
    Abstract: A retractable vehicle step is attachable to a vehicle or truck, such as at the rear portion. The vehicle step facilitates access to a cargo hold of the vehicle. Advantageously, the vehicle step provides clearance space relative to a tailgate of the vehicle by displacing a stepping member of the vehicle step in a generally lateral direction. The vehicle step desirably has a covered and protected biasing mechanism for transitioning between retracted and extended positions of the stepping member. Another advantage is that the vehicle step is readily attachable to the vehicle using already existing connection members, thereby generally eliminating or mitigating the need for customized retrofitting and avoiding undesirable installation cost and time. Further, the vehicle step may be pulled out from under the vehicle by the foot of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lund Motion Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Horst Leitner, Anthony Nicholas Smith
  • Patent number: 11965635
    Abstract: A vehicular light guide member includes a main body part and a light entrance part. The main body part has an exit surface and a plurality of specular surfaces facing the exit surface. Some of the specular surfaces constitute a displaced section that is closer to or farther from the exit surface than a reference section constituted of the remains of the specular surfaces. The specular surfaces as such allow light to be uniformly emitted through the exit surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ICHIKOH INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Ayumi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11964607
    Abstract: A vehicle loads at least one of a plurality of upper units having space to store a person or an object on an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels in the vehicle. The vehicle includes an under unit including a drive mechanism that rotates wheels and the at least one of the plurality of upper units loaded on the under unit. The under unit includes a loading unit, on which the at least one of the plurality of upper units as described above can be loaded. Each of the plurality of upper units includes a joint that joins to a different upper unit that is adjacently loaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Yabushita, Keiichi Kondo, Kaori Takahashi, Jin Xin, Daisuke Mizushima, Satoru Ando, Takeshi Murakami, Yuchi Yamanouchi, Kenta Miyahara, So Sawahira, Rina Mukai
  • Patent number: 11968878
    Abstract: A display panel is provided in the present disclosure. The display panel has an additional function area, and the display panel includes a substrate, an array layer and a light-emitting device layer disposed in sequence on the substrate, an encapsulation layer covering the light-emitting device layer, and a touch layer disposed on the encapsulation layer. An opening area surrounded by the additional function area is disposed at an edge position of the additional function area. An opening penetrating the array layer and extending to a surface of the substrate is defined by the opening area, and the opening is filled with a light-blocking layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sihang Bai
  • Patent number: 11963487
    Abstract: A sensor system is described. The sensor system includes one or more sensor nodes. The sensor nodes are communicatively coupled to a server by way of a network. The sensor nodes may be communicatively coupled to the network by a cellular connection or a LoRa connection to a gateway. The sensor node may measure a variety of information associated with a transport environment, a confined animal feeding environment, or another agricultural environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: REALMFIVE, INC.
    Inventors: Brant Burkey, Mateusz Mittek, Austin Benes, Steve R. Tippery
  • Patent number: 11968224
    Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for security risk analysis is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include collecting operational data. Embodiments of the present invention may include building pipelines. Embodiments of the present invention may include localizing security issues using the operational data on an unsupervised model. Embodiments of the present invention may include constructing a semantic graph using shift-left data. Embodiments of the present invention may include constructing a mapping between the operational data and the shift-left data. Embodiments of the present invention may include clustering collected datasets. Embodiments of the present invention may include creating an active learning cycle using ground truth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jinho Hwang, Larisa Shwartz, Raghav Batta, Michael Elton Nidd, Jakub Krchak
  • Patent number: 11965626
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an LED strip includes arranging conductive lines at intervals to extend along a first linear trace; arranging supporting bases at intervals along the first linear trace on the conductive lines, each supporting base including multiple conductive portions and an avoidance through-hole; each two multiple conductive portions arranged at intervals along the first linear trace, the avoidance through-hole disposed between two of the multiple conductive portions arranged along the first linear trace; soldering the supporting bases and the conductive lines so as to have each conductive line soldered to two of the conductive portions arranged along the first linear trace and one of the conductive lines spanning over the avoidance through-hole to form a spanning portion; stamp-cutting the spanning portion; disposing an LED bead on a surface of each of the supporting bases; and subjecting the LED bead and the conductive portions to a processing of soldering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: DONGGUAN OPSCO OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mingjian Liu, Gengsheng Zhu, Zhenlei Wu, Kai Zhou
  • Patent number: 11966471
    Abstract: Secure circuitry detects a latency between when an interrupt occurred and when the interrupt was released in correspondence with handling of the interrupt. The secure circuitry detects an interval between consecutive occurrences of the interrupt. In response to either or both of the latency exceeding a latency limit and the interval exceeding an interval limit, the secure circuitry performs an action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gary T. Brown, Vincent C. Skurdal, Marvin Nelson
  • Patent number: 11964341
    Abstract: A laser welding head with movable mirrors may be used to perform welding operations, for example, with wobble patterns and/or seam finding/tracking and following. The movable mirrors provide a wobbling movement of one or more beams within a relatively small field of view, for example, defined by a scan angle of 1-2°. The movable mirrors may be galvanometer mirrors that are controllable by a control system including a galvo controller. The laser welding head may also include a diffractive optical element to shape the beam or beams being moved. The control system may also be used to control the fiber laser, for example, in response to the position of the beams relative to the workpiece and/or a sensed condition in the welding head such as a thermal condition proximate one of the mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: IPG PHOTONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuri Grapov, Kris Pruyn, Felix Stukalin, Erik Hinrichsen
  • Patent number: 11957092
    Abstract: A packaging bag as an agricultural container has a film which forms a partition separating a housing space which houses agricultural products such as fruits and vegetables from an external space. The packaging bag includes a CA film and a porous film. The CA film contains cellulose acylate having an acyl group substitution degree of 2.00 to 2.97. The porous film is formed such that a plurality of pores having an average pore size of 0.0050 ?m to 5.0 ?m penetrate the film in a thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yusuke Fujihara, Akihiro Ikeyama, Shogo Katano
  • Patent number: 11960098
    Abstract: A beam shaping method and device employing full-image transfer for planar light sources. The method comprises: using multiple first lenses to respectively magnify and image beams emitted by multiple planar light sources, so as to obtain magnified full images of the multiple planar light sources; and seamlessly stitching together the magnified full images of the multiple planar light sources at a primary imaging position, so as to obtain a seamless light source at the primary imaging position. The beam shaping method for the planar light sources achieves the elimination of gaps between the light sources with almost no loss of optical power by means of full-image transfer and seamless stitching, thereby improving the beam quality of the light sources as a whole. This kind of optical shaping method is suitable for shaping and processing planar light sources such as VCSEL and LED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHANDONG XINYUAN PHOTOELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Delong Li
  • Patent number: 11960659
    Abstract: A cake decoration that enables visual shows controlled by a controller that is either remote to the decoration or integral with the decoration and interacts with a finger controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Gregory A. Piccionelli, Gregory B. Gulliver
  • Patent number: 11960540
    Abstract: A process for tagging incident data captured by non-public-safety agency controlled cameras. In operation, an electronic computing device detects an occurrence of an incident and obtains an incident identifier associated with the incident. The electronic computing device determines that a non-public-safety agency controlled camera is available for capturing incident data corresponding to the incident. The electronic computing device then controls a public-safety agency controlled internet-of-things (IoT) infrastructure deployed at an incident location to emit a signal including one of an audible signal, visible signal, or a combination of audible and visible signals to enable the non-public-safety agency controlled camera to tag incident data using the emitted signal. The electronic computing device links a unique tag representing the emitted signal to the incident identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Pawel Wilkosz, Lukasz Osuch, Krzysztof Jasinski, Marcin Lukasik
  • Patent number: 11958206
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes: a stage on which is disposed a preliminary stacked body from which a cut stacked body having an edge is formed; a cutting unit movable along a first direction corresponding to an extension direction of the edge of the cut stacked body and with which the preliminary stacked body is cut to form the cut stacked body; a first detaching unit movable in a direction forming an acute angle with the first direction and including a first detaching tool which contacts the cut stacked body in detaching of the cut stacked body from the carrier substrate; and a second detaching unit movable in a direction parallel to the first direction and including a second detaching tool which is inserted between the cut stacked body and the carrier substrate in the detaching of the cut stacked body from the carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junho Sim, Byunghoon Kang, Seungjun Moon, Dongkyun Seo, Heekyun Shin, Woojin Cho
  • Patent number: 11958520
    Abstract: A foldable cart having a rectangular frame composed of a front wall and a back wall which are symmetric with each other, two symmetric side walls, and a bottom frame. Four wheels are disposed at four corners of a bottom surface of the rectangular frame. The front wall has two sliding seats, two vertical tubes, a folding assembly, two upper fixing seats and two lower fixing seats. Each side wall has two X-shaped side assemblies, a middle support tube, and a sliding sleeve slidably disposed around the middle support tube, wherein middle fixing seats are disposed at an upper end and a lower end of the middle support tube respectively, and each X-shaped side assembly is formed by two side cross tubes which are riveted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG PRIDE LEISURE PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Benlong Sun
  • Patent number: D1023813
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Inventor: Yan Zhao