Patents Examined by Forrest M Phillips
-
Patent number: 11554730Abstract: A vehicle wheel includes: a rim including a well portion with an outer circumferential surface, the well portion having a recessed portion formed on the outer circumferential surface; a sub-air chamber member serving as a Helmholtz resonator; and a joining member including a joining portion disposed in the recessed portion. The sub-air chamber member is attached to the outer circumferential surface of the well portion via the joining member.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Youichi Kamiyama, Toshinobu Saito, Yusuke Osawa
-
Patent number: 11557273Abstract: Provided is a vehicle wheel with which manufacturing costs can be reduced. The vehicle wheel includes a sub air chamber member as a Helmholtz resonator on a well portion of a rim. The sub air chamber member includes a protrusion portion which protrudes toward the rim, and the rim has a hole portion into which the protrusion portion is inserted to engage with the sub air chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Youichi Kamiyama, Yuta Shimamura, Mikiharu Nakanishi, Takuro Hama
-
Patent number: 11554728Abstract: An assembly includes a panel member and an acoustic sink member. The panel member has a panel edge, and first and second long axes defining a plane. The panel member has a first material composition. The acoustic sink member has a body with a periphery which is coupled to the panel edge. The body has a second material composition, which is distinct from the first material composition. An acoustic impedance of the sink member at the periphery is equal to an acoustic impedance of the panel member at the panel edge, and the body has a cross-sectional profile defined by a power law.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventor: Chong Wang
-
Patent number: 11557937Abstract: An enclosure for a genset comprises a container defining an internal volume for housing the genset. The container comprises a container floor, a container roof, a pair of container sidewalls disposed parallel to a longitudinal axis of the container, and a pair of container endwalls disposed at longitudinal ends of the container. A side cap is positioned parallel to each of the pair of container sidewalls along a longitudinal length of the container, each of the side caps sealed to edges of the corresponding container sidewall so as to define an acoustic cavity therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Cummins Power Generation IP, Inc.Inventors: Shashikant Ramdas More, Nick Heimann, Chitragupt Kulkarni, Doc Weidknecht
-
Patent number: 11547268Abstract: An acoustically insulated machine including a source of noise positioned within a housing, a first insulation member positioned within the housing and including a first porous sound absorbing layer and a first dense layer, and a second insulation member positioned within the housing and including a second porous sound absorbing layer and a second dense layer. The first insulation member being is positioned closer to the internal source of noise than the second insulation member and the first insulation member being spaced apart from the second insulation member such that an air gap is formed between the first insulation member and the second insulation member.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Anthony Lee Rockwell, Phillip J. Johnson, Jeffrey S. Tilton, Donald Hill
-
Patent number: 11552365Abstract: A tripod includes a main body having a center column with a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a longitudinal axis extending through the first end and the second end, and a plurality of legs coupled to the center column. The tripod system also includes a battery receptacle supported at the first end of the center column. The battery receptacle has a first interface configured to mechanically and electrically couple to a battery pack. The tripod system further includes a head supported at the second end of the center column. The head has a second interface configured to mechanically and electrically couple to a luminaire. The second interface is complementary to the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Techtronic Cordless GPInventors: Brianna E. Williams, J. Luke Jenkins, Robert Andrew Patrick
-
Patent number: 11551656Abstract: Provided is a soundproof structure that is small and light and can sufficiently reduce noise with a high natural frequency of a sound source. There is provided a soundproof structure including a frame having an opening, and at least one membrane-like member fixed to an opening surface where the opening of the frame is formed, in which a rear surface space is formed to be surrounded by the frame and the membrane-like member, and a sound is absorbed due to vibration of the membrane-like member, and a sound absorption coefficient of the vibration of the membrane-like member at a frequency in at least one high-order vibration mode existing at frequencies of 1 kHz or higher is higher than a sound absorption coefficient at a frequency in a fundamental vibration mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Shinya Hakuta, Takafumi Hosokawa, Shogo Yamazoe
-
Patent number: 11545128Abstract: An acoustic structure includes a plate and at least one acoustic scatterer having a resonant frequency and coupled to a side of the plate. The at least one acoustic scatterer has an opening, a first channel and a second channel. The first channel has a first channel open end and a first channel terminal end with the first channel open end being in fluid communication with the opening. The second channel has a second channel open end and a second channel terminal end with the second channel open end being in fluid communication with the opening. The first channel terminal end and the second channel terminal end are separate from one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Xiaoshi Su, Debasish Banerjee
-
Patent number: 11543152Abstract: A first ventilation duct line has a first portion having a first sectional area, a second portion having a second sectional area larger than the first sectional area, and a third portion having an inclined inner face connecting the first portion and the second portion to each other. Further, there is a second ventilation duct line having an opening portion positioned on an inner side of the first portion of the first ventilation duct line.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., FUJIFILM CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Kumeta, Fuyuki Kokubu, Shinya Mitourida, Koh Umenai, Shogo Yamazoe, Shinya Hakuta, Akihiko Ohtsu
-
Patent number: 11536343Abstract: A hyperdamping inclusion under constraint with large, broadband frequency damping properties is disclosed. The inclusion includes materials under near-buckling constraint such that fundamental eigenfrequency vanishes at near-buckling.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Ohio State Innovation FoundationInventor: Ryan L. Harne
-
Patent number: 11532295Abstract: A baffle tile has a tile and a baffle. The tile is sized and shaped to be placed in a drop ceiling grid, and has a slot through its thickness. The body of the baffle is inserted into the slot in the tile so that the baffle hangs down from the tile. A pair of folding flaps are defined in an upper extent of the baffle by respective fold lines. The folding flaps are folded outwardly and down, such that they abut the upper surface of the tile. Folded down, the folding flaps define a locking slot. A locking member with features complementary to the locking slot is inserted into the locking slot to lock the folding flaps into position. The baffle itself may have additional fold lines so that it can be folded into its usable configuration from a flat sheet of material, without adhesives or fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: FACT Design, LLCInventors: Daniel Monier, Troy S. Jones
-
Patent number: 11532294Abstract: In a soundproof member 10 including a polyurethane foam 11 and disposed apart from an engine E on a vehicle interior side of a dash panel 50 partitioning a space into an engine room having the engine E as a sound source and a vehicle interior, the polyurethane foam 11 has a surface layer 12 on at least a part of the surface thereof, a one side surface of the polyurethane foam 11 directly facing the vehicle interior side of the dash panel 50 has at least a surface layer 12A in an open cell state or a core, and a surface layer 12B of the other side surface opposite to the one side surface is a surface layer in a closed cell state.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: INOAC CORPORATIONInventors: Yosuke Hasegawa, Yasunari Kojima
-
Patent number: 11524792Abstract: A surface liner member includes an external wall which is provided with multiple holes, a spacer structure, and tubes which are respectively associated with the holes in the external wall. The surface liner member is intended to be applied to a base surface in order to reduce, by acoustic absorption, an acoustic wave reflected on this base surface. The acoustic absorption efficiency is improved, particularly for frequencies below 500 Hz, by varying the shape of the holes in the external wall such that the ratio of the hole perimeter to the hole area varies. Such a surface liner member may be adapted to form a surface portion of an aircraft engine nacelle, or of a leading edge of an aircraft wing.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALESInventor: Frank Simon
-
Patent number: 11524637Abstract: A vibration reduction device having an acoustic meta structure mounted to a vehicle body and configured to block a structure-borne noise transmitted through the vehicle body may include a plurality of unit structures arranged at a predetermined interval therebetween, wherein each of the unit structures includes frame mounted to the vehicle body and configured to separate a predetermined space into a predetermined number of separate sections formed by walls of the frame; and a vibrator formed at a corner portion of each of the separate sections and each of which has a natural frequency to block a vibration transmitted from the vehicle body through the frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Gorporation, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven of KU Leuven Research & DevelopmentInventors: Kyoung Jin Chang, Claus Claeys, Wim Desmet, Bert Pluymers, Elke Deckers, Lucas Van Belle, NoƩ Geraldo Rocha De Melo Filho
-
Patent number: 11519167Abstract: A sound damping wallboard and methods of forming a sound damping wallboard are disclosed. The sound damping wallboard comprises a gypsum layer with a gypsum surface having an encasing layer. The encasing layer is partially removed to expose the gypsum surface and form a gypsum surface portion and a first encasing layer portion on the gypsum layer. A sound damping layer is applied to the gypsum layer to cover at least part of the gypsum surface portion and the encasing layer portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: GOLD BOND BUILDING PRODUCTS, LLCInventors: Michael N. Blades, John M. Watt, John E. Yakowenko, Todd D. Broud, Keith R. O'Leary, Stephen A. Cusa, Mauricio Quiros, Brian G. Randall, Richard P. Weir
-
Patent number: 11521589Abstract: A sound absorption structure includes resonators that constitute separate bodies from each other and that produce Helmholtz resonance and a pliable coupling member that couples the plurality of resonators. Each of the resonators has a tubular shape or a pipe shape, includes an opening portion provided on a first end face, and includes a bottom portion provided on a second end face that is an opposite end face to the first end face. Each of the resonators is pliable.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Kiyoyuki Tomimatsu
-
Patent number: 11514880Abstract: A cushioning element for use in a vehicle, for example in an aircraft, includes at least one tuned absorber embedded within the cushioning element. The tuned absorber is tuned to absorb noise at a predetermined frequency of at least 20 Hz. A method of providing noise absorption within a cabin of a vehicle includes determining a predetermined frequency of at least 20 Hz of an undesirable noise within the cabin, and configuring an internal structure of a cushioning element to define a tuned absorber tuned to absorb noise at the predetermined frequency, the cushioning element in use being located in the cabin.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.Inventors: Alexis Caron-L'Ecuyer, Andre Brodeur, Thineshan Kathirchelvan, Raymond Lee Man Wong
-
Patent number: 11514879Abstract: A sound absorbing apparatus includes a first member including at least one first opening portion for enabling Helmholtz resonance, and a second member that is on the first member, has a plate shape or a sheet shape, and is formed of a porous material. The second member includes at least one second opening portion overlapping one-to-one with the at least one first opening portion in planar view. A periphery of each of the at least one second opening portion coincides with or is located outside a periphery of each corresponding one of the at least one first opening portion in planar view.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Yamaha CorporationInventor: Yoshikazu Honji
-
Patent number: 11511875Abstract: An acoustic absorption structure includes: at least one acoustic element which has at least one cavity delimited by at least one enclosure comprising at least one first drainage orifice passing through the enclosure, and a rotational indexing system making it possible to position the acoustic element so that at least one first drainage orifice is positioned in proximity to or at a lowest point of the cavity. An aircraft propulsion assembly including such an acoustic absorption structure is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventors: Wolfgang Brochard, Laurent Cazeaux, Claire Maffre
-
Patent number: 11505131Abstract: An electronic device having a unitary housing is disclosed. The device can include a first housing component having an open cavity, an internal electronic part disposed within the cavity, a second housing component disposed across the cavity, and a support feature disposed within the cavity and arranged to support the second housing component. The first housing component can be formed from metal, while the second housing component can be formed from a plurality of laminated foil metal layers. The second housing component can be attached to the first housing component via one or more ultrasonic welds, such that a fully enclosed housing is created. The fully enclosed housing can be hermetically sealed, and the outside surfaces thereof can be machined or otherwise finished after the ultrasonic welding.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Christopher D. Prest, Stephen P. Zadesky, Trent Weber, Lucy E. Browning