Patents Examined by Andargie M Aychillhum
  • Patent number: 11764686
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a VLSI semiconductor die and one or more output circuits connected to supply power to the die mounted to a package substrate. The output circuit(s), which include a transformer and rectification circuitry, provide current multiplication at an essentially fixed conversion ratio, K, in the semiconductor package, receiving AC power at a relatively high voltage and delivering DC power at a relatively low voltage to the die. The output circuits may be connected in series or parallel as needed. A driver circuit may be provided outside the semiconductor package for receiving power from a source and driving the transformer in the output circuit(s), preferably with sinusoidal currents. The driver circuit may drive a plurality of output circuits. The semiconductor package may require far fewer interface connections for supplying power to the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Vicor Corporation
    Inventor: Patrizio Vinciarelli
  • Patent number: 11765844
    Abstract: A power conversion device, as an electronic device, includes a circuit substrate, a metal housing, an external connection terminal, and an insulator. The external connection terminal projects from the interior to the exterior of the metal housing, and is used to connect an output terminal of the circuit substrate to the exterior. A part of the insulator is disposed between the metal housing and the external connection terminal, and insulates the metal housing and the external connection terminal from one another. A housing extension portion is formed in the metal housing, extending from a body portion of the metal housing, in the inward direction with respect to the metal housing, in a condition facing the external connection terminal. A part of the insulator is disposed between the external connection terminal and the housing extension portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideki Miyabayashi, Kenji Ochi, Kazuma Kawai
  • Patent number: 11765828
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an electronic device module and an electronic device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Xiong, Qiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11758662
    Abstract: An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes a first rigid substrate, a second rigid substrate, a flexible substrate comprising a first portion attached to the first rigid substrate, a second portion attached to the second rigid substrate, a middle portion connecting the first portion to the second portion, wherein the middle portion is bent, and metallic traces therethrough, and a component forming a direct interface with the middle portion of the flexible substrate, the component electrically coupled to the metallic traces. In selected examples, the device further includes a casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Tin Poay Chuah, Bok Eng Cheah, Jackson Chung Peng Kong
  • Patent number: 11749880
    Abstract: Disclosed is a portable communication device including a housing, a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the housing, a wireless communication circuit mounted on the first PCB, and a second PCB including a connection part connected with the first PCB, a first PCB portion extended from the connection part and having greater flexibility than the connection part, a second PCB portion extended from the first PCB portion and having less flexibility than the first PCB portion, a third PCB portion extended from the second PCB portion and having greater flexibility than the second PCB portion, a fourth PCB portion extended from the third PCB portion and having less flexibility than the first PCB portion, a signal line extended to the connection part along the first, second, third, and fourth PCB portions, and vias arranged in at least a partial area of the second PCB portion or the fourth PCB portion, wherein a portion of the signal line is located between some of the vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Han-Min Cho, Chan-Gi Park, Yeon-Sang Yun, Tae-Wook Ham, Hei-Seong Kwak, Byoung-Il Son, Sung-Chul Park
  • Patent number: 11751332
    Abstract: A baseboard includes a first connection configured to electrically interface with a motherboard, a second connection configured to electrically interface with a module, and a switch circuit configured to route data channels and power channels between the motherboard and the module. The first connection is configured to interface with more than one connection protocol or standard. The second connection is configured to interface with the more than one connection protocol or standard. The baseboard allows for cableless connections to allow unobstructed airflow over the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTIRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Drury, Sean Michael Robin
  • Patent number: 11737213
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a printed circuit board (PCB) with a plurality of layers are described. An edge connector may be formed on an end of the PCB substrate and may include contact pins on an outer layer of the plurality of layers. The edge connector may also include an intra-pair coupling block disposed on one or more interior layers such that at least a portion of the intra-pair coupling block is colinear with at least one contact pin on the outer layer. The electronic device may also include at least one integrated circuit on the PCB and electrically connected to the contact pins. The intra-pair coupling component may induce coupling of signals carried by the contact pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel B. Stewart
  • Patent number: 11735488
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power module comprising a substrate, first and second pluralities of vertical power devices, and first and second terminal assemblies. The substrate has a top surface with a first trace and a second trace. The first plurality of vertical power devices and a second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically coupled to form part of a power circuit. The first plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the first trace and a bottom of a first elongated bar of the first terminal assembly. The second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the second trace and a bottom of a second elongated bar of the second terminal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: WOLFSPEED, INC.
    Inventor: Brice McPherson
  • Patent number: 11729933
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a low-cost near-hermetic package, which may a substrate configured to support one or more internal components. The package may also include an enclosure comprising a cavity surrounding the one or more internal components and a first sidewall extending upward from the substrate. The first sidewall may be coupled to the substrate. The package may further include a first flexible circuit comprising conductive traces configured to connect to the one or more internal components. The first flexible circuit may include a first section outside the first sidewall of the enclosure, a second section inside the enclosure, and a third section between the first section and the second section joining to the enclosure and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: TTM Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Len, Nicholas S. Koop, Andrew Kempf, Matt Gortner
  • Patent number: 11728320
    Abstract: A semiconductor package includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a conductive component, an electronic component and a passive component. The conductive component is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are separated from each other by an interval. The electronic component and the passive component are disposed within the interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Tien-Yu Lu, Chu-Wei Hu, Hsin-Hsin Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11721617
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a power module having a substrate, first and second pluralities of vertical power devices, and first and second terminal assemblies. The substrate has a top surface with a first trace and a second trace. The first plurality of vertical power devices and the second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically coupled to form part of a power circuit. The first plurality of vertical power devices is electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the first trace and a bottom of a first elongated bar of the first terminal assembly. The second plurality of vertical power devices are electrically and mechanically directly coupled between the second trace and a bottom of a second elongated bar of the second terminal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: WOLFSPEED, INC.
    Inventors: Brice McPherson, Brandon Passmore, Roberto M. Schupbach, Jennifer Stabach-Smith
  • Patent number: 11723148
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a flexible circuit board including flexible pads, a main circuit board including main pads, and a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to the flexible circuit board and configured to receive a signal from the driving chip. In each of the flexible pads and the main pads, a portion of the pads is gradually tilted from pads disposed at a center to pads disposed at an outer side among the pads, and a tilted angle of a main pad disposed at the outermost side of the main circuit board is greater than that of a flexible pad disposed at the outermost side of the flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jeongeun Park, Hanho Park, Jeongmin Ban, Joongmok Lee, Chung-Seok Lee, Soyeon Joo, Seoungbum Pyoun
  • Patent number: 11721667
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a stretchable display device, including a lower substrate as a first substrate, the lower substrate having an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area; a plurality of second substrates positioned on the lower substrate and horizontally separated from each other; a transistor disposed on the second substrate; a plurality of light emitting elements disposed above the transistor and above the plurality of second substrates; a plurality of connecting substrate positioned between the plurality of second substrates to interconnect two adjacent second substrates. With this structure of the display, especially to the structure of the connecting substrate and the connection line, the stress applied to the stretchable display the connecting lines may be attenuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kihan Kim, Hyokang Lee
  • Patent number: 11716812
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave active antenna unit and an interconnection structure between PCBs is provided. The interconnection structure between PCBs comprises a mainboard and an AIP antenna module. The mainboard is a first multilayer PCB on which a signal transmission line and a first pad electrically connected to the signal transmission line are provided. The AIP antenna module is a second multilayer PCB on which a second pad, an impedance matching transformation branch, an impedance line and a signal processing circuit are provided. The mainboard and the AIP antenna module are interconnected by directly welding multiple PCBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventors: Yongzhen Gao, Shangkun Wu, Zhimei Zhang, Xia Gao, Weidong Zhong
  • Patent number: 11715698
    Abstract: A wiring substrate includes a core substrate, and a build-up part formed on the core substrate and including insulating layers and conductor layers. The conductor layers include one or more conductor layers each having a first wiring and a second wiring such that the second wiring has a conductor thickness smaller than a conductor thickness of the first wiring and that a minimum value of a line width of a wiring pattern of the second wiring is smaller than a minimum value of a line width of a wiring pattern of the first wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: IBIDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ikeda, Yoshinori Takenaka
  • Patent number: 11710721
    Abstract: A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes: a first array substrate, a first opposite substrate, a second array substrate and a second opposite substrate stacked in sequence; the first array substrate comprises a first overlap portion overlapping with the first opposite substrate, a first extension portion extending from the first overlap portion, and the second array substrate comprises a second overlap portion overlapping with the second opposite substrate, a second extension portion extending from the second overlap portion; a side, facing the second extension portion, of the first extension portion comprises a first control IC, and a side, away from the first extension portion, of the second extension portion comprises a second control IC; and a space between the first and the second extension portions is filled with a heat dissipation component at least in an area where the first control IC is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tielei Zhao, Rui Han, Jie Yu, Yaoyao Wang, Pengtao Li, Chunhua Wang, Meng Li, Xiaoqiao Dong, Xiaoxia Wang, Li Tian
  • Patent number: 11706868
    Abstract: A circuit board includes at least one circuit board unit sequentially stacked in a thickness direction of the circuit board, an insulating layer, an electromagnetic shielding layer, and a barrier layer. The circuit board unit includes a substrate layer, and two conductive layers respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the substrate layer in a thickness direction of the substrate layer, and each of the conductive layers includes a plurality of signal lines. The insulating layer is located on a side of an outermost conductive layer away from the substrate layer. The electromagnetic shielding layer is located on a side of the insulating layer away from the substrate layer. The barrier layer is located between the electromagnetic shielding layer and the outermost conductive layer. The barrier layer at least covers a plurality of signal lines in the outermost conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Qing Gong
  • Patent number: 11700693
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, it is possible to provide an electronic device including: a housing; a first printed circuit board disposed in the housing; a second printed circuit board disposed in the housing and spaced apart from the first printed circuit board; a first flexible printed circuit board electrically connecting the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board; and a second flexible printed circuit board electrically connecting the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board, in which the second flexible printed circuit board may be longer than the first flexible printed circuit board. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong Woo, Jungchul An, Seungki Choi
  • Patent number: 11700324
    Abstract: According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, an electronic device comprises a battery disposed inside the electronic device; a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed inside the electronic device; at least one electronic component disposed on the PCB; and a first buck converter having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is routed to the battery; and a second buck converter having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is selectively electrically connected to the second end of the first buck converter, and the second end is routed to the at least one electronic component, and wherein the first buck converter and the second buck converter are configured to boost a voltage provided from the battery through an electrical path formed from the battery by the first end of the first buck converter, and the second end of the first buck converter, the first end of the second buck converter and the second end of the second buck converter to the at least one electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghoon Park, Hyunseok Kim, Hoyeong Lim, Seunggoo Kang, Moonki Yeo, Seungbo Shim, Yongseung Yi, Dongil Son
  • Patent number: 11696417
    Abstract: A power module including at least one substrate, a housing arranged on the at least one power substrate, a first terminal electrically connected to the at least one power substrate, a second terminal including a contact surface, a third terminal electrically connected to the at least one power substrate, a plurality of power devices arranged on and connected to the at least one power substrate, and the third terminal being electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of power devices. The power module further including a base plate and a plurality of pin fins arranged on the base plate and the plurality of pin fins configured to provide direct cooling for the power module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: WOLFSPEED, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Feurtado, Brice McPherson, Daniel Martin, Alexander Lostetter