Patents Examined by E. A. Miller
  • Patent number: 11986854
    Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to provide an automobile part capable of improving fuel consumption by weight reduction of the part because the impact resistance that can be sufficiently used even in cold regions can be given to a part made of a thinner plastic. An automobile part obtained by forming a coating film layer on a plastic material comprising a polypropylene resin composition modified with an elastomer component having a thickness of 1.5 to 2.5 mm, wherein said coating film layer is a multilayer coating film obtained by coating and baking the following coating compositions in this order; (a) a primer coating composition having a single film tensile elongation of 5 to 35% at ?20° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON PAINT AUTOMOTIVE COATINGS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Takata, Yumiko Hayashi, Emi Toriyama, Ken Nakane
  • Patent number: 11978481
    Abstract: A motor includes a shaft, a base portion, a stator, and a rotor. The shaft extends along a central axis extending in an axial direction. The base portion extends in a radial direction on one axial direction side of the shaft. The stator is located in another axial direction with respect to the base portion and surrounds the shaft. The rotor is rotatable around the central axis. The rotor includes a rotor tube portion, a magnet, and a rotor flange portion. The rotor tube portion surrounds the stator. The magnet is opposed to the stator in the radial direction. The rotor flange portion extends in a radially outer direction from one axial end portion of the rotor tube portion. The rotor tube portion includes a yoke tube portion and a hub tube portion. The yoke tube portion is located on a radially inside surface of the hub tube portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyuki Kimura, Kazuhiro Sato, Tomoki Uchibori
  • Patent number: 11978488
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a PMR write head with a trailing shield that comprises a FeCoNiM composition. The FeCoNiM composition can be formed via an electroplating process by adding Fe2+, Co2+, Ni2+ and a transition metal salt to an aqueous solution comprised of other additives in an electroplating cell that has an Ni or Co as the anode. The plated HD magnetic material as the trailing shield in a PMR writer can minimize a wide area track erasure (WATE). Further, a high moment high damping shield can lower bit error rate (BER) and increase aerial density capability (ADC) of the write head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Headway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaomin Liu, Wenjie Chen, Yue Liu, Weihao Xu, Yuhui Tang, Feiyue Li
  • Patent number: 11976223
    Abstract: An adhesive composition according to an embodiment includes an acrylic copolymer, and a compound containing a sulfide group and having a refractive index of 1.57 or more. The adhesive sheet prepared from the adhesive composition may have a low glass transition temperature and high refractive index, such that an image display device may not include a separate high refractive index pattern layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: DONGWOO FINE-CHEM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyoung Moon Jung, Hye Rim Kwon, Geon Shin, In Oh Hwang
  • Patent number: 11975507
    Abstract: The thermosetting resin composition, a prepreg containing same, a metal foil-clad laminate and a printed circuit board; the resin composition comprises the following components: a combination of a bismaleimide resin and a benzoxazine resin or a prepolymer of a bismaleimide resin and a benzoxazine resin, an epoxy resin and an active ester. A metal foil-clad laminate prepared by using the resin composition provided by the present invention has a high glass transition temperature, a low thermal expansion coefficient, a high high-temperature modulus, a high peel strength, a low dielectric constant, a low dielectric loss factor, as well as good heat resistance and good processability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Shengyi Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhenwen Chen
  • Patent number: 11974961
    Abstract: An example of a system for providing emergency care to a patient includes an automated chest compression device configured to engage the patient at the patient's sternum to provide multiple chest compression cycles to the patient's sternum, an automated mechanical ventilation device to induce negative pressure ventilation, and a controller operably coupled to the automated chest compression device and the automated mechanical ventilation device and including one or more processors configured to control the automated chest compression device to cyclically perform chest compressions, and control the automated mechanical ventilation device to cyclically induce the negative pressure ventilation out-of-phase with the chest compressions such that the automated mechanical ventilation device cyclically induces the negative pressure ventilation prior to each compression of the patient's sternum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A Freeman, Christopher L Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11972650
    Abstract: This disclosure generally relates to an emergency equipment storage receptacle and alert system. When an active shooter or potential life or death situation should arise, an approved/authorized individual can access safely tools, weapons, first aid supplies, and safety equipment through a single or multi-step authentication process that may include using biometric data, while also contacting the local authorities in the area to alert that there is an active shooter in the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Grav I.T., LLC
    Inventors: John Rambadt, Eric Rambadt, Alan Thomason, Amy Rambadt, Bekah Rambadt, Benny Rambadt
  • Patent number: 11961540
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electronic devices that include a composition that actively generates a gaseous oxidizing agent component within the interior gas space of the electronic device. The present disclosure also relates to electronic devices that include a container that includes a gaseous oxidizing agent component in a manner that the gaseous oxidizing component can transfer from the container to the interior gas space of the electronic device. The present disclosure also involves related methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Silvia De Vito Luebben, Rory S. Goodman, Paul S. Tyler, Paul A. Beatty, Dipeshkumar J. Purani, Kendall H. Fung, Philip W. Viet
  • Patent number: 11950640
    Abstract: A chest patch component and a use method thereof are disclosed according to the present application, and belonging to the technical field of chest patches, including: a chest patch body, a cross-sectional area of the chest patch body is arranged in an arc shape; a detachable massage module arranged at one side of the chest patch body, where the detachable massage module is mounted on a convex part of the chest patch body; a mounting component arranged between the chest patch body and the detachable massage module, the chest patch component disclosed by the present application is mainly composed of a chest patch body, a detachable massage module, a mounting groove, an antibacterial structure, a covering cushion layer, a close-fitting cloth cover and other main structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Shenzhen Shenmo Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yiyue Chen
  • Patent number: 11951945
    Abstract: A near-field communication (NFC) entry device provides remote keyless entry (RKE) into an enclosure having an RKE control unit, a door, and a door actuator. The NFC entry device includes a housing and a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). The housing mounts to the enclosure. The PCBA is enclosed within a cavity of the housing, and includes first and second surfaces, an RF antenna and an inductor coil connected to the first surface, and an NFC communication chipset connected to the second surface. The NFC entry device passively harvests energy from a battery powered mobile device via the inductor coil and stores the energy in the capacitor. The passively harvested energy is used to communicate a control signal to the RKE control unit, via the RF antenna, which activates the door actuator. A standby battery may be used when the capacitor is insufficiently charged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Enterprise Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: David J. Pearson, Jeffrey Carl Vogel
  • Patent number: 11955139
    Abstract: A disk spindle assembly for a hard disk drive includes a hub and a hub flange extending radially from the hub and configured to apply a clamping force to secure disk media to the hub. The hub flange includes multiple protrusions extending from a surface of a top side and configured to contact a disk medium at multiple contact positions in response to application of a clamping load. The protrusions may be annular protrusions circumscribing the hub, where the height of an inner protrusion may be less than the height of an outer protrusion to inhibit coning of the bottom disk medium, and the protrusions may be positioned so that an equivalent contact radius corresponding to contact radii of the inner and outer annular protrusions is at a position halfway between the inner and outer diameters of the disk spacers to inhibit coning of the middle disk media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert McNab, Rasool Koosha, Mukesh Patel, Antony Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11955149
    Abstract: In general, according to one embodiment, a disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a suspension, a ramp, a housing, and a screw. The suspension holds the magnetic head and moves to an unload position. The ramp includes an attachment tab with a through hole. The ramp holds the suspension at the unload position. The housing has a support surface with a screw hole to support the attachment tab. The screw includes a screw head, a screw shaft, and a first contact surface. The screw shaft extends from the screw head in a first direction and is fitted into the screw hole through the through hole. The first contact surface is located on the screw head, tapers in the first direction, and contacts the attachment tab. The screw holds the attachment tab in-between the support surface and the first contact surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventors: Hisashi Hasegawa, Hideki Yamaguchi, Sinji Tukada
  • Patent number: 11955150
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes magnetic disks, a first head gimbal assembly, a first damper, and a carriage. The first head gimbal assembly includes a first magnetic head, a first load beam, and a first base plate. The first load beam supports the first magnetic head. The first base plate is connected to the first load beam. The first damper includes a first viscoelastic material, and a first member attached to the first viscoelastic material. The carriage rotates about a rotation axis to move the first magnetic head along a recording surface of a first magnetic disk. The carriage includes an arm, and a first flat surface of the arm. The first flat surface faces the recording surface of the first magnetic disk. The first base plate and the first viscoelastic material are fixed to the first flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Tokizaki
  • Patent number: 11948611
    Abstract: Examples of a suspension are provided. The suspension includes a mount plate attached to a load beam at a suspension assembly attachment point. The suspension may include a first actuator and a second actuator located at the mount plate. The first actuator is shaped as a non-right angle parallelogram spanning across a first opening in the mount plate. The second actuator is shaped as a non-right angle parallelogram spanning across a second opening in the mount plate. The first and second actuators are configured to deflect the distal end of the mount plate, which causes the load beam to rotate with a rotation center located along the load beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Magnecomp Corporation
    Inventors: Long Zhang, Kuen Chee Ee, David Glaess
  • Patent number: 11948752
    Abstract: A ceramic electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode. The dielectric layer includes a plurality of dielectric grains, and at least one of the plurality of dielectric grains has a core-dual shell structure having a core and a dual shell. The dual shell includes a first shell surrounding at least a portion of the core, and a second shell surrounding at least a portion of the first shell, and a concentration of a rare earth element included in the second shell is more than 1.3 times to less than 3.8 times a concentration of a rare earth element included in the first shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Hyung Kang, Jong Hyun Cho, Ji Hong Jo, Hang Kyu Cho, Jae Shik Shim, Yong In Kim, Sang Roc Lee
  • Patent number: 11948610
    Abstract: A suspension is described. The suspension includes a base plate and a load beam coupled to the base plate. The base plate includes a distal elongated element and a proximal elongated element. The distal elongated element includes at least one non-straight baseplate edge and the proximal elongated element includes at least one non-straight baseplate edge. The load beam includes a first mounting shelf and a second mounting shelf. The load beam is coupled to the base plate such that the first mounting shelf is exposed adjacent to the distal elongated element, and the second mounting shelf is exposed adjacent to the proximal elongated element. The first and second mounting shelves are configured to receive an actuator, such that an edge of the actuator and the at least one non-straight baseplate edge forms a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Magnecomp Corporation
    Inventors: Kuen Chee Ee, Ekaratch Pankaew, Preecha Sudachun
  • Patent number: 11942121
    Abstract: A multi-actuator hard disk drive includes a lower actuator with a corresponding voice coil motor assembly (VCMA) including a magnet coupled with a first magnet housing plate, a coaxial upper actuator with a corresponding VCMA including a magnet coupled with a second magnet housing plate, and a central support plate mechanically fastened to an enclosure base, at one or more locations, and positioned between the first magnet housing plate of the first VCMA and the second magnet housing plate of the second VCMA. Thereby, the pivot and VCM tilt and the coil torsion modes of the direct plant transfer function are minimized and the peak-to-peak gain in the coil torsion mode of the coupled plant transfer function is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jung-Seo Park, Siddhesh Vivek Sakhalkar, Thomas J. Hitchner, Arman V. Golgolab
  • Patent number: 11941960
    Abstract: A presence alert system (24) includes a sniffer (36), controller-circuitry (38), radio frequency (RF) background data (40), and a software program (42). The sniffer is configured to sample and measure a characteristic of ambient RF signals (33) over time. The controller-circuitry includes one or more processors and one or more storage mediums. The RF background data is stored in at least one of the one or more storage mediums, and is indicative of no moving presence. The software program is stored in at least one of the one or more storage mediums, and is executed by at least one of the one or more processors. The software program is configured to evaluate the measured characteristic of the ambient RF signals, compare the measured characteristic to the RF background data, and thereby determine motion of a presence (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Piyush Agrawal, Ankit Tiwari, Blanca Florentino Liano
  • Patent number: 11935560
    Abstract: A disk clamp for a hard disk drive, configured to clamp disk media to a spindle, includes multiple protrusions extending from a surface of a bottom side and configured to contact a disk medium at multiple contact positions in response to application of a clamping load. The protrusions may be annular protrusions circumscribing a disk clamp hub, where the height of an inner protrusion may be less than the height of an outer protrusion to inhibit coning of the top disk medium, and the protrusions may be positioned so that an equivalent contact radius corresponding to contact radii of the inner and outer annular protrusions is at a position halfway between the inner and outer diameters of the disk spacers to inhibit coning of the middle disk media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert McNab, Rasool Koosha, Mukesh Patel
  • Patent number: 11936088
    Abstract: A method of forming a composite material for use as an isolator or circulator in a radiofrequency device comprises providing a low temperature fireable outer material, the low fireable outer material having a garnet or scheelite structure, inserting a high dielectric constant inner material having a dielectric constant above 30 within an aperture in the low temperature fireable outer material, and co-firing the lower temperature fireable outer material and the high dielectric constant inner material together at temperature between 650-900° C. to shrink the low temperature fireable outer material around an outer surface of the high dielectric constant inner material to form an integrated magnetic/dielectric assembly without the use of adhesive or glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael David Hill, David Bowie Cruickshank, Jeffrey Alan Shunkwiler, John Jianzhong Jiang, David Martin Firor, Srinivas Polisetty