Patents Examined by Dacthang P Ngo
  • Patent number: 11970246
    Abstract: A ship cabin loading capacity measurement method and apparatus thereof, comprises: acquiring point cloud measurement data of a ship cabin; optimizing the point cloud measurement data according to a predetermined point cloud data processing rule, and generating optimized ship cabin point cloud data; calculating said ship cabin point cloud data with a predetermined loading capacity calculation rule, and getting ship cabin loading capacity data. According to the ship cabin loading capacity measurement method of the present invention, the point cloud measurement data can be acquired by a lidar, and processing the point cloud measurement data of the ship cabin with a predetermined point cloud data processing law and a computation law, and as the point cloud data processing law and the computation law can be deployed in a computer device in advance, after point cloud measurement data acquisition, loading capacity of a ship cabin can be acquired quickly and precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Zhoushan Institute of Calibration and Testing for Quality and Technology Supervision
    Inventors: Huadong Hao, Cunjun Li, Xianlei Chen, Haolei Shi, Ze'nan Wu, Junxue Chen, Zhengqian Shen, Yingying Wang, Huizhong Xu
  • Patent number: 11966210
    Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus includes a device management controller including a parts management control part configured to monitor the state of parts constituting the apparatus, a device state monitoring control part configured to monitor integrity of device data obtained from an operation state of the parts constituting the apparatus, and a data matching control part configured to monitor facility data provided from a factory facility to the apparatus. The device management controller is configured to derive information evaluating the operation state of the apparatus based on a plurality of monitoring result data selected from a group consisting of maintenance timing monitoring result data acquired by the parts management control part, device state monitoring result data acquired by the device state monitoring control part, and utility monitoring result data acquired by the data matching control part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide Asai, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Hidemoto Hayashihara, Takayuki Kawagishi, Kayoko Yashiki, Yukio Miyata, Hiroyuki Iwakura, Masanori Okuno, Kenichi Fujimoto, Ryuichi Kaji
  • Patent number: 11953386
    Abstract: A method for estimating the junction temperature of the power semiconductor device of the power module is provided. The method includes computing a junction temperature prediction value of the first power semiconductor device based on a power loss and a thermal resistance of the first power semiconductor device and computing a junction temperature prediction value of the second power semiconductor device based on a power loss and a thermal resistance of the second power semiconductor device. A temperature prediction value of the heat sink is computed by subtracting the junction temperature prediction value of the first power semiconductor device from a sensing temperature sensed by the temperature sensor. The junction temperature of the second power semiconductor device is then finally determined by adding the temperature prediction value of the heat sink to the junction temperature prediction value of the second power semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Je Hwan Lee
  • Patent number: 11946772
    Abstract: The concept described herein relates to a device and a method for determining the transfer function of an angle sensor in the course of operation. For this purpose, a sequence of angle output signals of the angle sensor is received during at least one time interval in which the angle sensor is exposed to a rotating magnetic field. Furthermore, the transfer function of the angle sensor is determined on the basis of the sequence of angle output signals. The method can be carried out during regular operation of the angle sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Benjamin Kollmitzer
  • Patent number: 11906333
    Abstract: Data is utilized more efficiently and effectively. A position detection device includes a plurality of scales that each record absolute data embedded with a scale ID for identifying a scale, a detector that detects the absolute data from each of the plurality of scales, and an extractor that extracts, from the detected absolute data, the scale ID and position data representing the position of the scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DMG MORI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shigeru Ishimoto, Kayoko Taniguchi, Chihiro Murayama
  • Patent number: 11906394
    Abstract: There is described a method of locating an area of interest in a conduit, comprising: measuring multiple acoustic signals at multiple locations along the conduit; for each acoustic signal, determining its autocorrelation; and applying a relationship to the determined autocorrelations to estimate a location of the area of interest, wherein the relationship is between autocorrelations of acoustic signals measured in a modelled conduit and modelled areas of interest in the modelled conduit, wherein it is assumed that acoustic signals propagating along the modelled conduit reflect from at least one point in the modelled conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HIFI ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Arne Dankers, Seyed Ehsan Jalilian
  • Patent number: 11893472
    Abstract: Disclosed is an accuracy compensation method for discharge caustic alkali concentration measuring device in evaporation process, comprising following steps: step 1. collecting process data of instrument values and laboratory values of alkali liquor refractive index, temperature and caustic alkali concentration in the evaporation process; step 2. performing sliding average filtering, time series matching and normalization on the process data collected in step 1 to obtain preprocessed process data; step 3. inputting the preprocessed process data into an accuracy compensation model of the caustic alkali concentration measuring device to obtain compensation values; step 4. adding the compensation values of the caustic alkali concentration to the instrument values to realize on-line compensation of the caustic alkali concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Northeastern University
    Inventors: Tianyou Chai, Yao Jia, Liangyong Wang
  • Patent number: 11874329
    Abstract: A server includes a communicator and a controller configured to acquire battery status information of each of a plurality of batteries through the communicator, acquire target device information from a user terminal through the communicator, determine a battery from the plurality of batteries having a lifespan corresponding to a required output of a target device among the plurality of batteries as a recommended battery based on the battery status information and the target device information, and control the communicator to transmit information on the recommended battery to the user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jong Bok Lee, Minjae Park, Seunghyun Woo
  • Patent number: 11838990
    Abstract: According to an example aspect, there is provided a method comprising a non-cellular receiver configured to receive first sensor data from a first wireless sensor node and second sensor data from the first or a second wireless sensor node, a processor configured to determine whether the second sensor data is a duplicate of the first sensor data and a cellular transmitter configured to transmit, responsive to the determination, third sensor data to a server, wherein said third sensor data is based on at least one of said first and second sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventors: Jussi Virkkala, Timo Eriksson, Erik Lindman, Tuomas Hapola, Mikko Martikka, Heikki Nieminen
  • Patent number: 11822453
    Abstract: Methods and systems for status determination are disclosed. A computing device may determine a status of the computing device or another computing device. The status may be based on operational data. One or more actions may be taken based on the status of the computing device or the another computing device. For example, at least one computing task may be performed based on the status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
    Inventors: Chun Hsu, Michael Horwitz, Chris Orogvany, Alfred Stappenbeck
  • Patent number: 11806109
    Abstract: A method includes receiving location data of a monitoring device when carried by a user and receiving motion data of the monitoring device. The motion data is associated with a time of occurrence and the location data. The method includes processing the received motion data to identify a group of the motion data having a substantially common characteristic and processing the location data for the group of the motion data. The group of motion data by way of processing the location data provides an activity identifier. The motion data includes metric data that identifies characteristics of the motion data. The method includes transferring the activity identifier and the characteristics of the motion data to a screen of a device for display. The activity identifier being a graphical user interface that receives an input for rendering more or less of the characteristics of the motion data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, James Park, Hans Christiansen Lee
  • Patent number: 11781972
    Abstract: Techniques for selecting a spectroscopic light source include obtaining a light source dataset and a spectroscopic dataset, initializing a genetic algorithm, selecting a first individual solution and a second individual solution from an initial generation of solutions, generating a new individual solution from the first and second individual solutions by combining their respective chromosome encodings, evaluating a specificity of the new individual solution to a target material, adding the new individual solution to a new generation of solutions, populating the new generation of solutions with a plurality of additional individual solutions, generating one or more descendent generations of solutions by iterating the genetic algorithm, selecting one or more implementation individual solutions exhibiting a threshold specificity to the target material, and outputting the one or more implementation individual solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Gearoid Murphy, Diosdado Rey Banatao, Artem Goncharuk, Neil Treat
  • Patent number: 11773571
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for managing public water in a smart city. The method may be performed by an urban public water management platform. The method may include: obtaining initial rainwater data in at least one area, the initial rainwater data may include rainfall data and rainwater collection data of at least one rainwater collection system, each of the at least one rainwater collection systems corresponding to at least one rainwater collection mode; determining the amount of purified rainwater during a first period corresponding to the at least one rainwater collection mode according to the initial rainwater data in the at least one area; and determining a rainwater storage plan during a second period based on the amount of purified rainwater during the first period corresponding to the at least one rainwater collection mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zehua Shao, Xiaojun Wei, Zhihui Wen, Yong Li, Bin Liu
  • Patent number: 11733410
    Abstract: A method for detecting potential faults in a cooling system that cools a detector electronic assembly (DEA) of a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging system having a plurality of PET detector rings each including a plurality of PET detectors having an associated DEA. The method includes verifying continuity of coolant lines in a coolant flow path of a DEA and calculating a flow rate through a coolant flow path of a DEA. Selected circuit board temperature sensors are used to detect temperature values that serve as surrogates for temperature change of a coolant. Further, the selected temperature sensors are located on hardware that is replicated on different points or locations on the flow path such that the temperature sensors have similar performance characteristics and are of like kind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventor: John Keller
  • Patent number: 11698656
    Abstract: A frequency characteristic measurement device that measures the frequency characteristic of a measurement target includes: a multi-sine signal generation unit that generates a multi-sine signal; a sweep sinusoidal wave generation unit that generates a plurality of sweep sinusoidal waves; an input signal switching unit that selects any one of the multi-sine signal and the sweep sinusoidal waves so as to input the selected one to the measurement target; a data acquisition unit that acquires, at a predetermined sampling frequency, sampling data of an input signal which is input to the measurement target and sampling data of an output signal which is output from the measurement target; and a characteristic calculation unit that calculates a frequency characteristic including the gain and the phase of the input and output signals in the measurement target from the sampling data of the input and output acquired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei Luo, Tsutomu Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11639861
    Abstract: An electric power steering apparatus has a rotation detection device that includes a sensor section that detects a rotation of a motor and outputs a mechanical angle and a count value, and a signal obtainer that obtains the mechanical angle and the count value from the sensor section. The rotation detection device also includes an absolute angle calculator that calculates an absolute angle based on the mechanical angle and the count value and a storage area for storing a reference value that is used for correcting calculation errors in the absolute angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiro Fujita, Nobuyori Nakajima, Masaya Taki, Takahiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11640557
    Abstract: A machine learning device performs machine learning on a numerical control device which, when a first command including a corner portion, composed of two blocks in the machining program, generates a second command in which the two blocks are replaced with m or more blocks. The machine learning device comprises: a state information acquisition unit for acquiring state information including the first command, coordinate values of each block in the m or more blocks, and location information of the machining path and the machining time; an action information output unit for outputting action information; a reward output unit for outputting a reward value based on the inward turning amount in the corner portion; and a value function updating unit for updating a value function based on the value of the reward outputted from the reward output unit, the state information and the action information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chunyu Bao
  • Patent number: 11624674
    Abstract: Example aspects of a nozzle cap for a fire hydrant and a method of detecting a leak in a fluid system are disclosed. The nozzle cap for a fire hydrant can include an outer housing defining a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a substantially circumferential wall extending from the first end to the second end; an antenna coupled to the substantially circumferential wall of the outer housing; a cap cover coupled to the outer housing at the first end; and an inner housing coupled to the outer housing at the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Daryl Lee Gibson, William Mark O'Brien, Sebastien Perrier, Paul S. Gifford
  • Patent number: 11614205
    Abstract: A piping diagnostic device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: criteria distribution generating means for generating a criteria distribution that is statistical data of criteria data of piping based on construction information about the piping, design information about the piping, and material information about the piping; changed-state distribution generating means for generating a changed-state distribution that is statistical data of changed-state data of the piping that have changed due to aging based on at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping that have changed due to aging; measurement means for measuring at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping; and determining means for determining deterioration of the piping based on the criteria distribution, the changed-state distribution, and at least either vibration or dynamic pressure of the piping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soichiro Takata, Takahiro Kumura, Kanta Miyake, Shin Tominaga, Hirofumi Inoue, Shigeki Shinoda
  • Patent number: 11564335
    Abstract: The selection support system selects components constituting a machine tool including a drive system having a motor and a motor drive device configured to drive and control the machine tool, and a housing part configured to house at least a part of the drive system. The selection support system includes an information reception unit configured to receive operation information on operation of the machine tool, machine information on a configuration of the machine tool, and housing part information on the housing part, and a calculation unit. The calculation unit has a temperature estimation unit configured to estimate a temperature of an inside of the housing part, on the basis of the operation information, the machine information, and the housing part information received by the information reception unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Okuaki, Kazuhiro Yamamoto