Patents Examined by Glenn F Myers
  • Patent number: 11978650
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for transferring a light emitting diode (LED). The apparatus for transferring an LED includes: a pick-up unit configured to pick up at least some of multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged on one substrate, and, according to a received control signal, put down LEDs selected from among the picked-up LEDs on another substrate; and a controller configured to transmit the control signal to the pick-up unit so as to enable the pick-up unit to individually pick up or put down each of the multiple LEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Kyong Park, Tae Il Jung, Il Soo Kim, Jae Yong Choi
  • Patent number: 11978648
    Abstract: A substrate transport system includes a carrier having a housing forming an interior environment having an opening for holding at least one substrate and a door for sealing the opening from an outside atmosphere where when sealed the interior environment is configured to maintain an interior atmosphere therein, the housing including a fluid reservoir exterior to the interior environment and configured to contain a fluid, forming a different atmosphere in the fluid reservoir than the interior atmosphere, to form a fluidic barrier seal that seals the interior environment from an environment exterior to the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Brooks Automation US, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Babbs, Robert T Caveney, Robert C May, Krzysztof A Majczak
  • Patent number: 11976492
    Abstract: A powered stereo garage without cables on a parking space is disclosed, which includes a conveyor, a guide rail, a parking mechanism, a collector bush and a collector rail. The conveyor is arranged on the guide rail, and the parking mechanism is arranged at a periphery of the guide rail. The collector rail is arranged on the guide rail, the collector brush is provided on the conveyor, and the collector rail on the guide rail is electrically connected with the parking mechanism and the collector brush on the conveyor is electrically connected with a control box on the conveyor. The disclosure can supply power to the electric devices in the parking space according to parking or picking up demands, without laying a large number of cables in the garage to supply power to the electric devices in each of the parking spaces, and with improved fire safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Hangzhou Dazhong Boao Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanzheng Wu, Shuilong Zheng
  • Patent number: 11967513
    Abstract: Described herein is a technique capable of reducing an amount of moisture in a low temperature region in a substrate processing apparatus provided with a transfer chamber. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process chamber provided with a heater; a load lock chamber; a transfer chamber provided between the process chamber and the load lock chamber and including a first region provided adjacent to the process chamber and a second region provided more adjacent to the load lock chamber than the first region and whose temperature is lower than a temperature of the first region; a detector capable of detecting an amount of moisture in the transfer chamber; and an inert gas supplier capable of supplying an inert gas toward the second region in the transfer chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: KOKUSAI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Teruo Yoshino, Naofumi Ohashi, Tadashi Takasaki
  • Patent number: 11961751
    Abstract: An overhead transport vehicle includes an elevator including a base and a first support supporting the base to be vertically movable from below in a vertical direction through a vibration isolator. The vibration isolator includes a first biasing portion in contact with both of the support and the base to urge a first body and the base in a direction away from each other, and a second biasing portion at one of the first body and the base to come into contact with both of the first body and the base and urge the first body and the base in a direction away from each other when a load equal to or greater than a predetermined value is applied to the first biasing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MACHINERY, LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11951050
    Abstract: A lifting mechanism for a foldable ramp may include a swivel lifting arm being biased in a passive position of the foldable ramp and being activatable for releasing and transmitting its bias into a lifting force on the foldable ramp. The foldable ramp may be for providing wheelchair access to a passenger car rear door. The foldable ramp can be swivelled between several positions including a passive position in which the foldable ramp is arranged in the car in a lying position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: API CZ S.R.O.
    Inventor: Miroslav Bartos
  • Patent number: 11951051
    Abstract: A lifting system includes a top plate, a bottom plate and N pairs of hinged plates. The N pairs of hinged plates are connected by 2N pairs of hinges to N sides of the top plate and the bottom plate, where N is an integer greater than 2. A bladder is arranged between the top plate and the bottom plate and between inner edges of the N pairs of hinged plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wonhee M. Kim, Paul W. Alexander
  • Patent number: 11952795
    Abstract: A bollard setting and installation system for efficiently installing a bollard wall without any restrictions relating to proximity to water or flood plains. The bollard setting and installation system generally includes a setting frame which is positioned on a ground surface. A plurality of bollards is positioned on the setting frame in a desired spacing and orientation to form a bollard wall. A vehicle having a vehicle arm connected to a lifting frame is positioned such that the bollards are secured to the lifting frame by clamps in the desired spacing and orientation. The vehicle may then move the lifting frame to position the lower ends of the bollards in an opening in the ground surface. Concrete may be poured to encapsulate the lower ends of the bollards. The lifting frame may then be removed, with the bollard wall being free-standing in the ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: TGR Construction, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Fisher, Gregory L. Schafer
  • Patent number: 11945664
    Abstract: A pneumatic dispatch station includes a station housing with receiving and output points, and a gripping device automatically movable within the station housing between the receiving and output points and configured to automatically grip a pneumatic tube capsule that has arrived at the receiving point and move the capsule to the output point. The pneumatic dispatch station further includes at least one removal point adjacent the output point and a tool changer assigned to the output point and having at least one first emptying tool and a second emptying tool. The tool changer includes a drive device designed to automatically move the first or second emptying tool into a working position, wherein the emptying tool is aligned with a pneumatic tube capsule positioned at the output point to output an object in the pneumatic tube capsule, so that the object reaches the removal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Swisslog Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Frederick Vogt, Patrick Hellpap, Maik Reddemann
  • Patent number: 11946222
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a working machine, including a pair of front wheels having a front rotational axis, a pair of rear wheels having a rear rotational axis, a frame structure including a front frame portion connected to the front rotational axis, a rear frame portion connected to the rear rotational axis, and a pivot joint pivotally connecting the front and rear frame portions to each other around a laterally extending pivot axis, an actuator arrangement connected to the frame structure, the actuator arrangement being arranged to control a mutual motion between the front frame portion and the rear frame portion; and a lift arm including an inner end portion pivotably connected to the front frame portion at a position between the front and rear wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB
    Inventors: Joakim Unnebäck, Andrew Woodman
  • Patent number: 11937554
    Abstract: A method for controlling operation of a wood-handling device in a work machine. The wood-handling device is attached through a rotation device to an end of a set of booms of the work machine to create a desired orientation of the wood-handling device for the operation. The orientation of the wood-handling device using the rotation device is tied on the basis of the operation to be performed using the set of booms. The orientation of the wood-handling device is tied to the position of the end of the set of booms. The position of the end of the set of booms is defined while performing the operation, on the basis of the position of the end of the set of booms. The wood-handling device is oriented using the rotation device, according to the said tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: PONSSE OYJ
    Inventors: Jukka Tossavainen, Terho Tanskanen
  • Patent number: 11939147
    Abstract: A method of transporting proppant to a wellsite can comprise transporting a plurality of trailers to a proppant-loading site, each of the trailers comprising one or more containers. At the proppant-loading site, proppant can be loaded into the container(s) of each of first and second ones of the trailers. A long combination vehicle comprising a truck and the first and second trailers can be formed at least by coupling the first trailer to the truck and the second trailer to the first trailer. The long combination vehicle can be driven from the proppant-loading site to the wellsite after proppant is loaded into the container(s) of each of the first and second trailers at the proppant-loading site. Less than 1% of a distance that the long combination vehicle drives from the proppant-loading site to the wellsite can be on a public road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Atlas Sand Company, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher R. Scholla, Alexandra Couture, Dacia Webb
  • Patent number: 11940724
    Abstract: Provided herein are apparatus, systems and methods for processing reticle blanks. A reticle processing system includes a support assembly having a plate coupled to a frame, and a carrier base assembly supported on the support assembly. The carrier base assembly comprises a wall extending from a top surface of the carrier base and defining a containment region for a reticle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Bhat, Vibhu Jindal
  • Patent number: 11935770
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus bonding chiplets to substrates are provided herein. In some embodiments, a multi-chamber processing tool for processing a substrate includes: an equipment front end module (EFEM) having one or more loadports for receiving one or more types of substrates; and a plurality of automation modules coupled to each other and having a first automation module coupled to the EFEM, wherein each of the plurality of automation modules include a transfer chamber and one or more process chambers coupled to the transfer chamber, wherein the transfer chamber includes a buffer configured to hold a plurality of the one or more types of substrates, and wherein the transfer chamber includes a transfer robot configured to transfer the one or more types of substrates between the buffer, the one or more process chambers, and a buffer disposed in an adjacent automation module of the plurality of automation modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Randy A. Harris, Coby Scott Grove, Paul Zachary Wirth, Avinash Shantaram, Alpay Yilmaz, Amir Nissan, Vincent Dicaprio
  • Patent number: 11932417
    Abstract: A system for receiving a package from an unmanned aerial vehicle that includes a landing pad comprises a flat platform with a central hole, an elevating subsystem comprises a lifting board and a lifting mechanism, and a compartments subsystem comprises plurality of compartments, one above the other, each of which has a pushing rod with an actuator. The flat platform is suitable for the aerial vehicle to land on it. The lifting board is positioned in the central hole in such a way that the lifting board can be leveled with the flat platform when the aerial vehicle is landing, and the lifting board is suitable to the aerial vehicle to place the package on it. The lifting mechanism can lift up and lower down the lifting board that can stop in front of each compartment and the pushing rod can push the package to the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Niv Aharoni, Maoz Klein
  • Patent number: 11932486
    Abstract: The mechanical arm system can include a garbage container holder and at least one mast. The holder can have guiding wheels engaged with adjacent tracks of the mast, the two adjacent tracks both having a lower portion extending upwardly along the mast, the lower portion of the first track being located forwardly of the lower portion of the second track, the lower portion of both tracks leading into corresponding upper portions which are curved rearwardly. The system can have a primary mast and a secondary mast slidably mounted to the primary mast, with the garbage container slidable mounted to the secondary mast. A driving link can simultaneously connect the primary mast to the secondary mast, and the secondary mast to the holder in a manner that when the driving link is moved, both sliding movements are performed in the same direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventors: Claude Boivin, Eric Boivin, Hugo Marsan
  • Patent number: 11935771
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for bonding chiplets to substrates are provided herein. In some embodiments, a multi-chamber processing tool for processing substrates, includes: a first equipment front end module (EFEM) having one or more loadports for receiving one or more types of substrates, a second EFEM having one or more loadports; and a plurality of atmospheric modular mainframes (AMMs) coupled to each other and having a first AMM coupled to the first EFEM and a last AMM coupled to the second EFEM, wherein each of the plurality of AMMs include a transfer chamber and one or more process chambers coupled to the transfer chamber, wherein the transfer chamber includes a buffer, and wherein the transfer chamber includes a transfer robot, the one or more process chambers, and a buffer disposed in an adjacent AMM of the plurality of AMMs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Randy A. Harris, Coby Scott Grove, Paul Zachary Wirth, Avinash Shantaram, Alpay Yilmaz, Amir Nissan, Jitendra Ratilal Bhimjiyani, Niranjan Pingle, Vincent Dicaprio
  • Patent number: 11926515
    Abstract: The present invention relates to ground support equipment for aerospace engineering, and particularly relates to an assembly and test operation robot for a space station experimental cabinet. The assembly and test operation robot comprises a mobile lifting platform, a comprehensive monitoring system, a rotating clamping mechanism, a multifunctional adapter and a science experimental cabinetet, wherein the mobile lifting platform is used for regulating the horizontal position and the height position of the science experimental cabinetet to realize assembly and transportation functions of the experimental cabinet; the rotating clamping mechanism is installed on the mobile lifting platform to realize clamping and rotation functions of the science experimental cabinet; the multifunctional adapter is installed on the rotating clamping mechanism to carry the science experimental cabinet; and the comprehensive monitoring system is used to monitor the assembly state of the science experimental cabinet in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Jinguo Liu, Yuanzheng Tian, Zhenxin Li, Hongye Han
  • Patent number: 11919728
    Abstract: A conveyor assembly for raising and feeding debris such as fallen branches from an orchard floor to a processor such as a wood-chipper is provided. The conveyor assembly comprises a body including a floor having a leading end for location adjacent ground level and a trailing end for location above the leading end in use. A ground contact arrangement is located toward the leading end extends beneath the leading end to thereby raise the leading end above ground level. A powered leading feed roller is disposed adjacent the leading end of the floor to direct members from ground on to the floor. A powered, primary infeed roller is located rearward the leading infeed roller and is arranged to move toward and away from the floor to accommodate members between said roller and the floor and urge the members, such as fallen branches rearward for entry into an inlet of the wood-chipper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Adds Up Engineering Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Anthony David Denton, John Vaughan, Jason Green
  • Patent number: 11923215
    Abstract: A processing system for processing a plurality of workpieces includes a transfer chamber in process flow communication with a first processing chamber and a second processing chamber, the transfer chamber having a first straight side, wherein the first process chamber includes at least one first processing station, and wherein the first processing chamber is disposed along the first straight side, wherein the second process chamber includes at least two second processing stations, wherein the second processing chamber is disposed along the first straight side, and wherein the second process chamber disposed in linear arrangement with the first process chamber along the first straight side, and wherein the transfer chamber includes at least one workpiece handling robot configured to transfer at least one workpiece to the at least one first processing station and the at least two second processing stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing E-Town Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., Mattson Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Yang