Patents Examined by Jagdeep S Dhillon
  • Patent number: 10948940
    Abstract: An adjustable and pluggable control interface device with a sensor thereof includes a sensor and at least one adjusting member. The sensor includes a PCB, a sensing portion and at least one adjusting portion. The PCB is electrically connected to the sensing portion and the adjusting portion, respectively, and the at least one adjusting portion is configured to adjust output signals of the PCB. The at least one adjusting member is inserted into the adjusting portion for adjusting the output signals of the PCB. The structure of the present disclosure can control external lamps to light or extinguish so as to realize the functions of dimming light brightness, setting light duration, adjusting energy-saving parameters and proportion. So, such structure can be easily operated with a wide range of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Shenzhen Guanke Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Qing Lan, Xuren Qiu, Ligen Liu, Shoubao Chen
  • Patent number: 10946751
    Abstract: A power supply device for a vehicle includes first and second power supply systems, a switch, and first, second, and third mode controllers. The first power supply system includes: a first power supply including a first power storage and a first generator, and an electrical apparatus. The second power supply system includes a second power supply. When an SOC of the first power storage exceeds a lower limit, the first mode controller supplies electric power from the first power supply to the electrical apparatus. When the SOC decreases below the lower limit, the second mode controller supplies electric power from the second power supply to the electrical apparatus via the switch. When an abnormality is detected to have occurred in the switch during the second power supply mode, the third mode controller supplies the electric power from the first power supply to the electrical apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Uchimura, Yuji Ohori, Yuki Natsume, Shota Inudo
  • Patent number: 10933758
    Abstract: A power transfer device comprises a power transfer coil, a case that has a surface extending along a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the power transfer coil and stores the power transfer coil, a rotating shaft rotatable about the shaft that extends in the axial direction of the power transfer coil at a central portion in a radial direction of the power transfer coil and has one end penetrating the surface and protruding outward through the surface and a foreign object remover that projects outwardly from the one end of the rotating shaft in a radial direction of the rotating shaft and moves on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Inventor: Ryouhei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10938208
    Abstract: A medium-high voltage photovoltaic (PV) power generation system is provided. A PV string of the system is insulated from the ground via an insulator of a medium-high voltage withstanding level, so that the PV string is applicable under a high voltage level. The PV strings are connected to cascade modules. An output voltage of series-connected cascade modules is grid-connected to a 10 kV power grid through a three-phase filter, without a power booster transformer or a high-frequency isolated DC/DC converter in a conventional power station, thereby improving the system efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUNGROW POWER SUPPLY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Renxian Cao, Yilei Gu, Jun Xu, Xinyu Wang, Nianan Pan
  • Patent number: 10938241
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitting device according to an embodiment may include a power transmission circuit and a processor. The processor may be configured to control the power transmission circuit to wirelessly transmit power to a first area around the wireless power transmitting device, perform a predetermined first operation when an obstacle is detected in a second area around the first area, and perform a predetermined second operation when it is detected that the obstacle has entered the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.. LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Seok Park, Young-Ho Ryu, Chang-hyun Kim, Myung-ho Kim, Woong-Il Choi
  • Patent number: 10931148
    Abstract: A passive tag transponder circuit comprising a receive antenna, reflect antenna, and rectifier network. The receive antenna can be configured to receive an ambient RF signal having a frequency of fc, or, a backscattered RF signal having a frequency of 2fc. The reflect antenna can be configured to receive a rectified output signal from the rectifier network, the rectified output signal having a frequency of 2fc. The reflect antenna can be configured to send a backscattered signal at the frequency of 2fc. The rectifier network can be connected to receive an input corresponding to the ambient RF from the receive antenna and send the rectified output to the reflect antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Zygmunt Haas, Zhong Zheng
  • Patent number: 10924051
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a modulation of at least one electrical operating parameter of at least one component of a power electronics unit, wherein an electric machine of a vehicle is operated by the power electronics unit, wherein the modulation is adjusted by a user of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Apelsmeier, Stephan Brüske
  • Patent number: 10910874
    Abstract: A mobile power supply unit includes a base and a housing including at least one housing member secured to the base and movable relative to the base. The mobile power supply unit further includes a generator disposed within the housing, and a battery disposed within the housing. The mobile power supply unit further includes an inverter electrically connected to the generator and the battery, and an electronics enclosure including an electrical port, and a transfer switch electrically connected to the inverter and adapted to provide power through the electrical port. The mobile power supply unit further includes a portable transfer switch having a first electrical cable selectively electrically connectable to the electrical port and a second electrical cable selectively electrically connectable with a power receptacle of a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Worldwide Energy LLC
    Inventor: Raymond Ellis
  • Patent number: 10908662
    Abstract: It is necessary to suppress the interruption of the power supply when the power source is changed. A power receiving apparatus receives power from a first power source or a second power source, and one of power from the first power source and power converted by a voltage conversion unit is supplied to a load unit, based on a result of detection of whether the power receiving apparatus is connected to the first power source, a result of detection of whether the power receiving apparatus is connected to the second power source, and a voltage that can be supplied from the second power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuto Amano
  • Patent number: 10903780
    Abstract: A rechargeable battery powered generator for quiet, off-grid power production includes a housing having a front panel separated from a rear panel, a top panel separated from a bottom panel, and a left panel separated from a right panel forming an inner compartment. A plurality of solar panels is coupled to the top panel. A plurality of batteries, a generator, and an electrical system are coupled to the housing. A plurality of outlets is coupled to the housing. The electrical system converts energy from the plurality of solar panels to charge the plurality of batteries, powers the generator from the plurality of batteries, and converts power from the plurality of batteries and the generator to the plurality of outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Bill Wilson
  • Patent number: 10897108
    Abstract: The device for use in an explosive atmosphere zone has a device housing and at least one energy supply part that is provided with at least one battery or at least one rechargeable battery as well as energy-associated supply contacts. The energy-associated supply contacts interact with device-associated supply contacts when the energy supply part is connected to the device. The energy-associated and device-associated supply contacts have connected upstream thereof switches that, prior to separation of the energy supply part from the device, can be controlled by a circuit such that the switches deenergize the energy-associated and the device-associated supply contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: BARTEC GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Emmert, Sebastian Kuhn, Ralph Lanig
  • Patent number: 10895856
    Abstract: A system, supplied by a power supply, is switched into standby mode by an electronic device that includes a charging input coupled to a charge voltage obtained from the voltage delivered by the power supply. A first input is coupled to the power supply and a power supply output is coupled to the system. A storage capacitive element is coupled to the charging input and configured to be charged by the charge voltage. A switching circuit, coupled between the first input and the power supply output, disconnects the power supply output from the first input when the voltage across the terminals of the storage capacitive element is higher than a threshold. A discharge circuit discharges the storage capacitive element so that the capacitor voltage becomes lower than the threshold. The switching circuit further re-connects the first input to the power supply output at the end of the discharge period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS
    Inventor: Pascal Fornara
  • Patent number: 10892649
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) power source for use with a wireless power transmitter is provided. A direct current (DC) voltage supply of the RF power source supplies a substantially constant DC voltage to RF power source circuitry of the RF power source. A first node of the RF power source circuitry is electrically coupled to a first terminal of the DC voltage supply. The RF power source circuitry has first and second terminals that are electrically coupled to first and second terminals, respectively, of a resonant magnetic loop antenna of the wireless power transmitter circuit to provide an RF current having a constant amplitude to the resonant magnetic loop antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Etherdyne Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Moffatt
  • Patent number: 10886749
    Abstract: A method for synchronizing startup of a plurality of power supplies in an electrical system includes supplying input power to a first power supply to supply power to an auxiliary converter and an auxiliary controller. The method also includes monitoring, via the auxiliary controller, a signal shared by each of the plurality of power supplies. The method further includes incrementally increasing, via the auxiliary controller, a value of the shared signal to a next incremental value of a plurality of specified values. The method also includes enabling, via the auxiliary controller, each of the power supplies to supply power to a load when the value of the shared signal is set to a maximum value of the specified values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Daniel Humphrey, Stewart G. Goodson, Robin Schrader
  • Patent number: 10886781
    Abstract: A wireless power transmitting device includes a plurality of coils and respective wireless power transmitting circuitry coupled to each coil. The wireless power transmitting circuitry coupled to each coil may include an inverter and adjustable circuitry that is configured to mitigated radiated emissions in nominally passive coils in the power transmitting device. The wireless power transmitting circuitry coupled to each coil in the wireless power transmitting device may include adjustable circuitry coupled to an inverter output terminal in parallel or in series with the coil. The adjustable circuitry may have a variable capacitance that is controlled based on whether the coil is in an active or passive mode. The capacitance of the adjustable circuitry may be varied in a repeating cycle when the coil is in a passive mode. The adjustable circuitry may include one or more capacitors coupled between the inverter output terminal and ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Soumya Mantha, Manjit S. Walia, Rahul A. Sabnani, Yiling Xu
  • Patent number: 10879895
    Abstract: A sensor device for detecting the presence of an electrically conductive substance in a space region, and applications thereof. The sensor device includes a detecting circuit, including at least first and second foils or sheets of an electrically conductive material; and a control circuit coupled with said detecting circuit and having an output connected with one of the foils for applying a first electric radiofrequency signal thereto and an input connected to other one of the foils for receiving a second radiofrequency signal induced in said other foil. The control circuit generates an information signal indicative of the strength of the second signal, which varies as a function of the presence of a body or a substance on or at said other foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: BITRON S.p.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Verdesio
  • Patent number: 10873184
    Abstract: A system includes a controller that is configured to generate a node control signal and a plurality of switch control signals, a plurality of programmable emulators, each of the plurality of programmable emulators being configurable as one of a plurality of node types responsive to the node control signal, and a plurality of switches that are programmable to couple ones of the plurality of programmable emulators to each other responsive to the plurality of switch control signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: University of Tennessee Research Foundation
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Leon M. Tolbert, Yiwei Ma, Kevin Tomsovic, Kai Sun, Shuoting Zhang, Jingxin Wang
  • Patent number: 10868470
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle power supply device that is capable of executing non-synchronous rectification control and synchronous rectification control while switching therebetween and can suppress, during switching from the non-synchronous rectification control to the synchronous rectification control, an output voltage value from significantly deviating from a target voltage value. If a determination unit determines, during the execution of the non-synchronous rectification control, that a current-increasing state arises, a driving unit performs switching to the synchronous rectification control in which a PWM signal with a duty cycle of a fixed value is supplied to a first switch unit, and then performs the synchronous rectification control in which a PWM signal with a duty cycle that is calculated by a feedback operation unit based on the target output voltage value and the detection result of the detecting unit is supplied to the first switch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisanori Kanbara, Naoya Koda
  • Patent number: 10862339
    Abstract: A power reception device includes a power reception coil configured to couple with a power transmission coil included in a power transmission device; a rectifier circuit including a diode and a transistor electrically connected to the power reception coil and configured to rectify a high frequency AC current flowing in the power reception coil; outputs configured to output the current rectified by the rectifier circuit to a load; a voltage detection circuit configured to detect an output voltage Va; and a controller configured to control an operation of the transistor based on the output voltage Va. The controller turns off the transistor when the output voltage Va?the threshold value Va1 is satisfied and causes the rectifier circuit to execute a rated rectification operation, and turns on the transistor when the voltage Va?the threshold value Va2 is satisfied and stops the rated rectification operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tatsuya Hosotani
  • Patent number: 10848008
    Abstract: The disclosure disclosed herein provides a wireless power transmission device that wirelessly transmits power to electronic equipment coupled to a seat regardless of a position of the seat. According to an embodiment of the disclosure disclosed herein, a wireless power transmission device includes a power receiving unit coupled to a lower portion of a seat, and a power transmitting unit spaced apart from and below the power receiving unit, in which the power receiving unit is spaced apart from the power transmitting unit and slides into a moving direction of the seat, and the power receiving unit wirelessly receives power from the power transmitting unit and supplies power to electronic equipment installed in the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventors: Chan Ki Cho, Hyun Chul Woo