Patents Examined by Clayton E. LaBalle
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Patent number: 11635165Abstract: The embodiments of the Remote Video Inspection System comprise a remote video inspection hardware assembly and a video inspection software system. The remote video inspection hardware assembly is comprised of a camera and a stage assembly. The stage assembly is comprised of a horizontal gimbal, an outer gimbal, and an inner gimbal, a base plate, and a component table. The video inspection software system is comprised of both a local and remote component. The local component is operated by a technician who oversees the remote inspection, and allows for setup, manual positioning, and manual camera adjustment. The remote component is operated by an inspector, and provides video feed to them, as well as a system to control the viewing angle and position of the component/camera.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Frontier Electronic Systems CorporationInventors: Kurt Ashley McLain, Scott Andrew Briggs
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Patent number: 11633253Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Certain embodiments include various modular medical devices for in vivo medical procedures.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Virtual Incision CorporationInventors: Shane Farritor, Chris Santoro, Jeff Shasho, Nishant Kumar, Mateusz Szczesiak, Jason Herman
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Patent number: 11635677Abstract: A projection screen apparatus and method of making the same. The apparatus has a perimeter frame and a projection screen where the perimeter frame includes an upper frame member, a lower frame member, a left frame member and a right frame member, where at least two of the frame members have a groove or track. The projection screen has fastening edges on at least two opposite sides for fastening the projection screen to the perimeter frame by inserting the fastening edge in the groove or track of a frame member. An auxiliary element is inserted in the groove or track next to a fastening edge, to prevent the fastening edge from exiting the groove.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: BARCO N.V.Inventors: Stefaan Ducasteele, Nursen Avci, Johan Cyriel Decock
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Patent number: 11630180Abstract: A technique for polar aligning the mount of a telescope or other astronomical instrument includes acquiring star images from an electronic polar scope and determining a location of a celestial pole relative to the star images based on computerized matching of the star images to information in a database. The mount has a right-ascension (RA) axis, and the technique directs an adjustment to the mount so as to align a location of the RA axis with the determined location of the celestial pole.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Nanjing iOptron Scientific, Inc. Ltd.Inventors: Chengcheng Xu, Baitao Zhao, Hua Jiang
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Patent number: 11630377Abstract: A lens assembly includes a lens having an inner surface and an outer surface. A lens barrel supports the lens and has outer and inner lens barrel ends separated by a longitudinal axis. The lens is arranged along the longitudinal axis to span the outer lens barrel end such that the inner surface of the lens is within the lens barrel and the outer surface of the lens is outside the lens barrel. A heater element is located within the lens barrel. The heater element has a heater element electrical lead extending radially and longitudinally therefrom to provide power to the heater element. A carrier ring extends circumferentially around at least a portion of an outside lens barrel surface adjacent the inner lens barrel end. The carrier ring includes at least one lead station radially aligned with the heater element electrical lead.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Anthony Louis Rivas, Thomas E. Blake, III, Michael A. Hart
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Patent number: 11630409Abstract: A processor selects a target sheet from a plurality of predetermined sheet candidates in accordance with selection information that is input via an input device. Furthermore, the processor derives feature information regarding a noise point from a target image that is obtained through an image reading process performed on an output sheet output from an image forming device, the noise point being a dot-like noise image included in the target image. Furthermore, the processor determines whether or not the noise point is a dot-like sheet noise by applying the feature information to a determination algorithm that corresponds to the target sheet, the sheet noise being included in a sheet of the output sheet itself, the determination algorithm being one of a plurality of determination algorithms that respectively correspond to the plurality of sheet candidates.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Kazunori Tanaka, Kanako Morimoto, Takuya Miyamoto, Koji Sato, Rui Hamabe
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Patent number: 11630375Abstract: A flash housing for photographic purposes can include a flash forming element arranged to generate a flash light, a lens element arranged to let at least part of the generated flash out of the flash housing so as to obtain a flash light, and a fastening element for attachment of a flash light shaping tool on top of the lens element. The fastening element can be arranged at least partly along a border of the lens element for magnetic engagement with a corresponding fastening element at the flash light shaping tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: PROFOTO AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Philip Fahlborg, Peter Pinzke
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Patent number: 11630287Abstract: A tethered imaging camera encapsulated in a shell lens element of such camera enables viewing from inside and imaging of a biological organ in/from a variety of directions. A portion of camera's optical system together with light source(s) and optical detector mutually cooperated by housing structure inside the shell are moveable/re-orientable within the shell to vary a desired view of the object space without interruption of imaging process. A tether carries electrical but not optical signals to and from the camera and controllable traction cords to move the camera, and a hand-control unit and/or electronic circuitry configured to operate the camera and power its movements. Method(s) of using optical, optoelectronic, and optoelectromechanical sub-systems of the camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: OMNISCIENT IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Bhaskar Banerjee, Richard Pfisterer, John Jameson, Chih-Chiang Chang, Haiyong Zhang
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Patent number: 11630281Abstract: A lens module includes a carrier having an internal space, a lens unit including lens groups and installed in the carrier so that at least two of the lens groups are independently movable in a length direction of the carrier, a guide unit including guide members arranged on both side surfaces of the lens groups to guide movement of the movable lens groups, and driving wires connected to each of the guide members and formed of a shape memory alloy, wherein each of the movable lens groups is connected to a pair of guide members disposed on both sides of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jae Woo Jun, Jae Ki Eom
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Patent number: 11630321Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a camera module and a terminal device, and belongs to the field of optical image stabilization technologies. The camera module includes a lens optical device and an actuating part. The actuating part includes two movable blocks, fastening brackets located on two sides of each movable block, and a plurality of electrically controlled flexible members. The lens optical device is located between the two movable blocks, and is fastened on the two movable blocks. Each movable block is suspended on the fastening brackets by using elastic members. Each movable block and the fastening brackets on the two sides are connected by the electrically controlled flexible members. The present disclosure can improve an image stabilization effect of a terminal device in a photographing process.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Liang Li, Li-Te Kuo, Zhuolin Cai
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Patent number: 11624968Abstract: A control method of an optical element driving mechanism includes: providing a first coil group to a fixed assembly, wherein the first coil group includes a plurality of first coils; providing a magnetic element to be connected to a movable assembly; and controlling at least one first coil of the first coil group by a control circuit at least according to position information of the movable assembly relative to the fixed assembly to act with the magnetic element to generate an electromagnetic driving force, thereby driving the movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly in a first direction toward a target position.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TDK TAIWAN CORP.Inventors: Chao-Chang Hu, Chao-Hsi Wang, Chih-Wei Weng, Kuen-Wang Tsai, Sin-Jhong Song
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Patent number: 11624808Abstract: Provided is a lidar sensor having a driving motor of which the entire portion is covered under an inclined surface of a scan mirror having an opened bottom surface and an A-shaped cross-section. A rotating shaft of the driving motor may be connected to the bottom of a backing surface disposed under the inclined surface, a magnet may be disposed at the bottom of one or more of the backing surface and a support surface which are connected to the inclined surface of the scan mirror, and a hall sensor may be disposed at the bottom surface of the lidar sensor corresponding to the position where the magnet is disposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung Rin Kim, Sung Eun Jo, Won Gyum Kim, Young Shin Kim
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Patent number: 11623123Abstract: A golf club head includes a club face and a body. The club face is formed from a metallic material and includes a first, hitting surface, a second, rear surface that is opposite the first surface, and a flange that is separated from the second surface by a transverse distance. The body is formed from a polymeric material and includes a crown, a sole, a hosel, and a face support. The club face and the body cooperate to define a closed volume, and the face support extends to opposing sides of the flange and is operative to couple the club face to the body.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing CorporationInventor: Raymond J. Sander
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Patent number: 11619896Abstract: A fixing device includes a fixing member, a pressurizing member, a charging portion, and a control portion. The fixing member rotates while being heated. The pressurizing member forms a nip portion between itself and a surface of the fixing member in such a way as to hold a sheet therebetween and conveys the sheet by rotating together with the fixing member, wherein an image of toner has been formed on the sheet. The charging portion electrically charges the surface of the fixing member to a polarity that is same as a charging polarity of the toner by supplying a charging current to a pair of electrodes that is disposed to face the surface of the fixing member. The control portion increases the charging current as time passes during a control time period that corresponds to a time period for which the sheet passes through the nip portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Einosuke Kikuchi, Kuniaki Nakano
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Patent number: 11619862Abstract: A camera shutter for exposing or shielding a camera including a supporting portion, a winding assembly, a movable cover, and a magnet is provided. The winding assembly is capable of driving the magnet to move the movable cover along a first direction while a first current passes through the winding assembly to form a first magnetic field, and to make the shielding side of the movable cover shield the camera. The winding assembly is also capable of driving the magnet to move the movable cover along a second direction while a second current passes through the winding assembly to form a second magnetic field, and to make the shielding side of the movable cover away from the camera to expose the camera.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: LANTO ELECTROINIC LIMITEDInventors: Fu-Yuan Wu, Meng-Ting Lin, Shang-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Lin, Chun-Hui Wu
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Patent number: 11619570Abstract: A filter-based air sampler, more specifically a filter-based air sampler capable of integration into small unmanned aerial systems is disclosed. The filter-based air sampler may include a filter assembly which has as its component parts: an open faced air intake component, a filter, and a filter support that has a central supporting grid. The filter assembly may joined to the housing of a fan, such as a centrifugal fan, with the supporting grid of the filter support being disposed over the air inlet of the fan.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Robert Eninger, Stephanie Ohms, Jeremy Slagley
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Patent number: 11619571Abstract: An air sampling system is disclosed. The air sampling system includes: an air intake unit defining an inlet and an air inflow channel; a fan configured to cause air in a sampling environment to flow into the air inflow channel via the inlet; a cooling unit for cooling air in the air inflow channel; a collection chamber for collecting liquid water condensed from air in the air inflow channel, the collection chamber being removably coupled to the air intake unit and including an active target substrate having a surface that is coated with bioreceptors; and an optical detection unit including a light source, the optical detection unit being configured to illuminate the active target substrate with the light source.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Kontrol Energy Corp.Inventors: Gary Saunders, Paul Ghezzi
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Patent number: 11619864Abstract: Folded cameras and dual folded-upright cameras that reduce a mobile electronic device and specifically a smartphone bump footprint and height. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section of the folded camera. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section and a lens subsection of the folded camera.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Corephotonics Ltd.Inventors: Gal Shabtay, Ephraim Goldenberg, Itay Yedid, Gil Bachar, Noy Cohen
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Patent number: 11614349Abstract: The present teaching relates to method and system for an assembly for protecting a sensor. The assembly includes a first structure having a rectangular prism and connected with a truncated tube, wherein the rectangular prism and the truncated tube have parallel longitudinal axes and the tube is truncated to yield a cross section having a norm that forms an angle with the longitudinal axis of the truncated tube and a second structure of a trapezoid prism having a longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axes and with the first structure embedded therein. The second structure has a slanted surface in the front that meets the cross section of the truncated tube and has the norm of the cross section.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: PlusAI, Inc.Inventors: Jinpeng Li, Greg Seyfarth, Qiaoyu Zhang, Amit Kumar
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Patent number: 11614700Abstract: Provided is an intermediate transfer member containing a thermoplastic resin and carbon black. The carbon black has a structure volume of 50 or more and 250 or less, and a content of the carbon black is from 15.0 mass % to 30.0 mass % with respect to the intermediate transfer member. When a region ranging from an inner peripheral surface on a back side with respect to an outer peripheral surface on which a toner image is borne to 10 ?m in a thickness direction is defined as an inner peripheral surface region, a value of an L-function indicating dispersibility of the carbon black with respect to the thermoplastic resin in the inner peripheral surface region is 150 nm or less.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Midai Suzuki, Koji Sato, Akira Okano, Toshiyuki Yoshida
