Patents Examined by Darlene M Ritchie
  • Patent number: 11520433
    Abstract: A touch control structure, and a display panel and a display device using the same are provided. The advantage is that an area of a first region which is blocked by metal wirings extending through the first region is less than an area of a second region which is blocked by metal wirings extending through the second region. Therefore, light transmittance in the first region is larger than light transmittance in the second region. A module that needs sufficient visible light can be disposed on a location corresponding to the first region to improve performance of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Liang Ma
  • Patent number: 11515056
    Abstract: A dry storage systems for radioactive nuclear waste materials may include a double-walled canister system. The canister system may include a canister having a tubular inner shell defining an internal cavity for storing nuclear waste material, a first lid sealably welded to a first end of the inner shell, a primary base plate defining a peripheral edge portion and having an annular closure flange, and an annular full thickness butt weld formed at an abutment joint between the annular closure flange and a second end of the inner shell. The inner shell, first lid, and first end closure may collectively define a sealed primary pressure retention barrier. A tubular outer shell may adjoin the inner shell. The outer shell may be welded to the canister to form a hermetically sealed secondary pressure retention barrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Inventor: Krishna P. Singh
  • Patent number: 11513638
    Abstract: A silver nanowire (SNW) protection layer structure includes a substrate; a SNW layer, disposed on the substrate and covering only a partial region of a surface of the substrate, the SNW layer including a plurality of SNW channels; and a SNW protection layer, disposed on the SNW layer and covering a region corresponding to the plurality of SNW channels, the SNW protection layer including a light-resistant antioxidant. A manufacturing method for the SNW protection layer structure above is further provided. The SNW protection layer structure and the manufacturing method thereof are applicable in a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cambrios Film Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yeh-Sheng Wang, Wei-Chia Fang, Chun-Hung Chu, Chung-Chin Hsiao, Ya-Ting Lin, Shih-Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 11508487
    Abstract: A full-digital control rod position measurement device and a method thereof. The full-digital rod position measurement device transforms the core process of rod position measurement that is normally processed by an analog circuit or analog-to-digital mixed circuit into a digital processing. The full-digital rod position measurement device comprises an excitation power supply, an integrated interface board, and a universal signal processor. The universal signal processor processes output signals of detectors according to a preset numerical processing algorithm and outputs Gray code rod position signals. The full-digital rod position measurement device and method disclosed by the present disclosure may effectively reduce the complexity of the primary excitation circuit and the secondary measurement signal processing circuit of the detectors, and improve the operation reliability and measurement accuracy of the rod position processing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CNNC NUCLEAR POWER OPERATION MANAGEMENT CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhengke Chang, Long Yu, ShengFeng Xu, ShaoHua Xu, Bo Chao, Fei Xu, Peng Zhao, Yuan Huang, Chengguang Yuan
  • Patent number: 11508488
    Abstract: A system for transferring heat from a nuclear reactor comprises a nuclear reactor comprising a nuclear fuel and a reactor vessel surrounding the nuclear reactor and a heat transfer system surrounding the nuclear reactor. The heat transfer system comprises an inner wall surrounding the nuclear reactor vessel, first fins coupled to an outer surface of inner wall, an outer wall between the inner wall and a surrounding environment, and second fins coupled to an inner surface of the outer wall and extending in a volume between the outer surface of the inner wall and the inner surface of the outer wall, the outer surface of the inner wall and the first fins configured to transfer heat from the nuclear reactor core to the second fins and the inner surface of the outer wall by thermal radiation. The heat transfer system may be directly coupled to the nuclear reactor vessel, or may be coupled to an external reflector surrounding the nuclear reactor vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC
    Inventors: Abderrafi Mohammed El-Amine Ougouag, Ramazan Sonat Sen, George W. Griffith
  • Patent number: 11507241
    Abstract: A touch panel including a sense electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a first direction and including a first sense electrode and a second sense electrode, and a drive electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction on the sense electrode and including a first drive electrode having a shielding property against electric field components. The first drive electrode is positioned covering at least a part of the first sense electrode in a planar view in which the sense electrode is viewed from the drive electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazutoshi Kida, Yasuhiro Sugita, Hiroshi Fukushima
  • Patent number: 11500237
    Abstract: An array substrate includes: a signal supply unit configured to supply a signal; a plurality of position detection electrodes; a plurality of position detection wiring line; a plurality of scanning wiring lines; a plurality of pixel regions; a scanning connection wiring line having one end side connected to the signal supply unit and another end side connected to the scanning wiring lines, the scanning connection wiring line being arranged passing through some of the pixel regions included in the plurality of pixel regions; and an auxiliary position detection wiring line having at least one end side and another end side each connected to the position detection wiring lines, the auxiliary position detection wiring line being disposed in the pixel regions, of the plurality of pixel regions, not provided with the scanning wiring lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11494007
    Abstract: Disclosed is an adaptive stylus frontend to identify and update zero force offset pressure codes. The adaptive stylus frontend comprises a high gain instrumentation amplifier configured to receive the analog signal and provide the required gain to the analog signal. The adaptive stylus frontend comprises an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the analog signal to digital codes at a predetermined sampling frequency. The stylus comprises an adaptive offset controller configured to adaptively identify, and update zero force offset pressure codes, wherein the zero force offset pressure code is the ADC output value when no external force is applied at the stylus tip. The zero force offset pressure comprises the pressure sensor offset introduced by a pressure sensor, the amplifier offset introduced by the amplifier, and the offset introduced by the analog to digital converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: CIREL SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventors: Navaneeth Bhardwaj Gokul, Vikas Suresh Agarwal
  • Patent number: 11495362
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for creating, controlling, conducting, and optimizing fusion activities of nuclei. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions from aneutronic, fusion reactions that produce essentially no neutrons, to neutronic, fusion reactions that produce substantial numbers of neutrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ALPHA RING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Alfred Y. Wong, Charles Rinzler, David A. Woodbury
  • Patent number: 11488728
    Abstract: A compact, simpler, more economical ICF target chamber and reactor design that maintains a low internal pressure, sub-atmospheric, and very small neutron flux on any pressure bearing vessel or steam generating mechanism. The present invention reduces radiant target emission towards the nearest wall of the hohlraum wall and/or sleeve material so that the radiation from target burn exits the end of the hohlraum through a wall material sufficiently thick to contain the target drive radiation, but becomes transparent to the target emitted radiation. The compact converter contains the energy released by the ICF target and converts it into usable heat to create steam. It also converts the excess neutrons, from the ICF target, into tritium. This is then collected with the unburnt fuel tritium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INNOVEN ENERGY LLC
    Inventors: Robert O. Hunter, Jr., Eric W. Cornell
  • Patent number: 11488729
    Abstract: A confinement chamber for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) may include a closed hohlraum and ICF target wherein the ICF target may comprise a central spherical fuel region, inner shell, outer fuel region, outer shell, and propellant region. A multitude of cylindrical beam channels may penetrate the entire thickness of the hohlraum. At the end of each cylindrical beam channel, where they exit the hohlraum, is a hemispherical cavity. Centered in the curvature of each cavity, and coaxial with each beam channel is a gold foam radiator. By layering materials or grading the density of a material in the propellant region of the closed hohlraum ICF target, the pressure profile on the outer shell may be tailored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INNOVEN ENERGY LLC
    Inventors: Robert O. Hunter, Jr., Eric W. Cornell
  • Patent number: 11488733
    Abstract: The method and system for bringing a nuclear power plant to a safe state after extreme effect reduce the temperature of the coolant after extreme effect. The system includes inlet and outlet pipelines, a steam generator, a storage tank and a heat exchanger, a separation tank above the steam generator and connected by two pipelines to a storage tank, a pump, a control unit. The method involves filling the system with coolant, feeding the coolant from the steam generator through the inlet pipeline and the storage tank to the heat exchanger, and feeding the coolant through the outlet pipeline back to the steam generator, wherein the pump is turned on for feeding the coolant and subsequent operation of the system. The first air valve is used to maintain pressure in the system, ensuring the absence of boiling of the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignees: JOINT-STOCK COMPANY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND DESIGN INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES ATOMPROEKT, JOINT STOCK COMPANY “SCIENCE AND INNOVATIONS”
    Inventors: Vladimir Viktorovich Bezlepkin, Maksim Vladimirovich Gavrilov, Evgenij Aleksandrovich Tretyakov, Vyacheslav Borisovich Kozlov, Evgenij Pavlovich Obrazcov, Evgenij Igorevich Mezenin, Anton Eduardovich Shirvanyanc, Darya Robertovna Altbregen, Lajne Vyajnovna Nosankova, Evgenij Yurevich Egorov, Anzhela Vasilevna Lukina, Dmitrij Yakovlevich Vibe
  • Patent number: 11488528
    Abstract: To provide a display device capable of displaying a plurality of images by superimposition using a plurality of memory circuits provided in a pixel. A plurality of memory circuits are provided in a pixel, and signals corresponding to images for superimposition are retained in each of the plurality of memory circuits. In the pixel, the signals corresponding to the images for superimposition are added to each of the plurality of memory circuits. The signals are added to the signals retained in the memory circuits by capacitive coupling. A display element can display an image corresponding to a signal in which a signal written to a pixel through a wiring is added to the signals retained in the plurality of memory circuits. Reduction in the amount of arithmetic processing for displaying images by superimposition can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kei Takahashi, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11488735
    Abstract: A method for determining at least one threshold value of at least one operating parameter of a nuclear reactor is implemented by an electronic determination system and includes the steps of determining a first threshold value of a respective operating parameter for an operation of the reactor at a first power; and determining a second threshold value of said parameter for an operation of the reactor at a second power. The operation at the lower power of the first and second powers is an operation continued for a duration of at least 8 hours over a 24-hour sliding window. The method also includes determining a third threshold value of said parameter for an operation of the reactor at a third power between the first power and the second power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FRAMATOME
    Inventor: Gilles Andre Poyaud
  • Patent number: 11488732
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary shutdown structure of a nuclear reactor, which uses sliding doors, and more particularly, to a secondary shutdown structure of a nuclear reactor, which uses sliding doors and is capable of shutting down a nuclear reactor reliably with a simple structure without using a boric acid solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: KEPCO ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Jin Seok Park, Myoung Goo Lee, Yeon Ho Cho, Hyunmin Kim, Cheol Soo Maeng, Hyeong Heon Kim, Byung Jin Lee, Chang Kyu Chung
  • Patent number: 11482343
    Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing multi-scaled capture type vacuum pumping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Alan Van Drie
  • Patent number: 11482342
    Abstract: A nuclear fusion reactor includes a chamber containing plasma and two or more devices which include superconducting electromagnetic coils. At least one of the two or more devices may be biased to a high voltage to provide thermal energy to ions in the magnetic confinement region. In some examples, the chamber and the two or more devices can be coaxial and toroid shaped. In some examples, the chamber can be spherical or cylindrical with the two or more devices being toroid or elongated toroid shaped and formed on opposite faces of a cuboid. The two or more devices may be disposed in the chamber to provide a high-beta magnetic confinement region for the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Inventor: Tanner L. Horne
  • Patent number: 11469002
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for creating, controlling, conducting, and optimizing fusion activities of nuclei. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions from aneutronic, fusion reactions that produce essentially no neutrons, to neutronic, fusion reactions that produce substantial numbers of neutrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: ALPHA RING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Alfred Y. Wong, Charles Rinzler, David A. Woodbury
  • Patent number: 11462334
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, devices, and systems for creating, controlling, conducting, and optimizing fusion activities of nuclei. The controlled fusion activities cover a spectrum of reactions from aneutronic, fusion reactions that produce essentially no neutrons, to neutronic, fusion reactions that produce substantial numbers of neutrons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ALPHA RING INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Alfred Y. Wong, Charles Rinzler, David A. Woodbury
  • Patent number: 11455018
    Abstract: This application provides an optical proximity sensor component that includes an optical proximity sensor and a light guide body. The light guide body includes a first end face. The light guide body is disposed on the optical proximity sensor, and the light guide body is configured to transfer, to the optical proximity sensor, light that enters from the first end face, and send out, through the first end face, light that is emitted by the optical proximity sensor. No additional connector or supporting component is required in the optical proximity sensor, which has a simple structure and is easy to assemble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Junfeng Yu, Tao Wang, Chaoliang Yang, Xiaoyong Wang