Patents Examined by John B Freal
  • Patent number: 11979985
    Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment includes: a first insulating portion having a cavity; a second insulating portion disposed on the first insulating portion; a third insulating portion disposed under the first insulating portion; and an electronic device disposed in the cavity, wherein a number of layers of the second insulating portion is different from a number of layers of the third insulating portion, and has an asymmetric structure with respect to the first insulating portion in which the electronic device is disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Won Suk Jung
  • Patent number: 11968780
    Abstract: An electronic printed circuit board structure for mitigating conductive anodic filament growth. The structure includes at least two conductive layers and a dielectric layer sandwiched between the conductive layers. At least one hole extends through the dielectric layer, and a layer of nonconductive material covers the at least one hole, wherein the nonconductive material is glass-free. A conductive plate layer is disposed over the nonconductive material layer to form a via connection in the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Indukummar Giesen, Sarah K. Czaplewski-Campbell, Roger S. Krabbenhoft
  • Patent number: 11963294
    Abstract: A multilayer resin substrate includes a base material including stacked resin layers including an opening resin layer, a conductor pattern, and an interlayer connection conductor. A concave portion is provided in the base material. The opening resin layer is closer to a first main surface than other resin layers. The concave portion includes a first opening portion provided by a cutting process from one surface of the opening resin layer, and another resin layer. The interlayer connection conductor is provided by filling a conductor in a second opening portion provided by a cutting process from an opposite surface of the opening resin layer. The end portion of the one surface of the first opening portion is not in contact with the conductor pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Furumura, Shigeru Tago, Hirotaka Fujii
  • Patent number: 11963295
    Abstract: Provided are a circuit apparatus, a manufacturing method thereof, and a circuit system. The circuit apparatus includes a flexible circuit board, a flexible packaging material layer and an electronic device. The flexible circuit board has at least one hollow pattern, wherein the flexible circuit board has an inner region and a peripheral region surrounding the inner region, and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The flexible packaging material layer is disposed in the at least one hollow pattern. The electronic device is disposed on the first surface of the flexible circuit board and electrically connected with the flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Hung-Hsien Ko, Yi-Cheng Lu, Heng-Yin Chen, Hao-Wei Yu, Te-Hsun Lin
  • Patent number: 11963302
    Abstract: An electronic component includes a substrate and side wires. The substrate includes a first major surface, a second major surface, and a side surface. The side wires are on the side surface of the substrate and spaced apart from each other in a direction along an outer periphery of the substrate when viewed in plan in a thickness direction of the substrate. At least a portion of each of the side wires is provided indirectly on the side surface of the substrate. The electronic component further includes an electrically insulating layer interposed between the side surface of the substrate and the at least a portion of each of the side wires. Each of the side wires includes a bent portion bent when viewed in plan in the thickness direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masato Nomiya
  • Patent number: 11963311
    Abstract: A printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The printed circuit board includes a wiring substrate including a plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of wiring layers, and a plurality of via layers and having a cavity penetrating through a portion of the plurality of insulating layers, a passive component disposed in the cavity and including an external electrode electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of wiring layers, and a bridge disposed on the passive component in the cavity and including one or more circuit layers electrically connected to the external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Woong Choi, Yun Je Ji, Seung Eun Lee, Yong Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 11956889
    Abstract: A sample holder includes a base comprising a support structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) in contact with the base. The PCB includes: a dielectric; a front-surface ground (GND) formed on a front surface of the dielectric; a back-surface GND formed on a back surface of the dielectric; a through hole penetrating from the front-surface GND to the back-surface GND, the through hole in which a chip is disposed, and a conductor that electrically connects the front-surface GND and the back-surface GND on an end face of the through hole. At least a part of the base below the through hole has a cavity. The support structure that supports a surface of the chip and is electrically connected to the base. The support structure is disposed in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kohei Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11956899
    Abstract: A display panel includes a substrate including a display area and a pad area, a plurality of pad electrodes disposed on the pad area, and an insulating layer disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of pad electrodes and including a heat absorbing particle. A laser is irradiated to heat the insulating layer, and the heat absorbing particle in the insulating layer absorbs the heat and cures an anisotropic conductive film by heat transfer to electrically connect the plurality of pad electrodes to a plurality of bump electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Joo-Nyung Jang
  • Patent number: 11955257
    Abstract: A join is provided that has an electrically insulating component and two joining partners secured to one another and electrically insulated from one another by the electrically insulating component. The electrically insulating component has a surface that extends between the two joining partners. The surface defines a structure selected from a group consisting of an elevation, a depression, and any combinations thereof. The structure elongates a direct path along the surface. The structure completely surrounds at least one of the two joining partners. The electrically insulating component and/or the structure includes a glass that is at least partially crystallized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ina Mitra, Christian Mix, Björn Ramdohr, Helmut Hartl, Mark Stronczek
  • Patent number: 11950365
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board includes: a base film having a hole for forming a through hole; and a coil-shaped wiring layer layered on at least one surface side of the base film, wherein the wiring layer includes a land portion arranged at an inner peripheral surface of the hole and at a peripheral portion of the hole of the base film, and a winding portion arranged in a spiral shape with the land portion as an inside end portion or an outside end portion, wherein the winding portion includes a first winding portion that is an outermost circumference and a second winding portion that is inside relative to the outermost circumference, and wherein a ratio of an average thickness of the land portion to an average thickness of the second winding portion is 1.1 or more and 5 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.
    Inventors: Shoichiro Sakai, Koji Nitta, Yoshio Oka, Junichi Motomura, Masanao Yamashita
  • Patent number: 11936174
    Abstract: A device to be attached to an overhead power line for the purpose of manipulating movement of the overhead power line comprises an electric power source; a base, defining a base plane; and a clamp, secured to the base, to be attached to a section of the overhead power line. The device further comprises a flywheel, having a rotational axis; an actuator, arranged to adjust the rotational axis of the flywheel in dependency of an actuator control signal; and an electric motor, arranged to rotate the flywheel about the rotational axis in dependency of a motor control signal. The device further comprises an acceleration sensing device, secured to the base, providing an acceleration signal; and a controller device, arranged to receive the acceleration signal and to provide the motor control signal and the actuator control signal. The controller device is configured to operate in an overhead power line stabilizing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: A&M Utvikling AS
    Inventors: Andreas Fors Haugen, Magnus Haugen
  • Patent number: 11931930
    Abstract: The present embodiments generally describe a monolithic, e.g., integral, box unit and methods of manufacturing monolithic box units. The monolithic box unit has a ring portion and a body portion, both of which are molded and set simultaneously. The method proceeds with filling a female oriented cavity with a Polymer mixture, allowing both the ring portion and body portion to fill and cure at the same time. Once ejected from the cavity, the entire unit can be trimmed and then add hardware and cover to complete the box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Newbasis, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Harrington, Matt Stockbridge, Adrian Garcia
  • Patent number: 11924980
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer substrate including first and second insulating resin base material layers including different materials, includes configuring a conductor film-attached insulating resin base material with a conductor film on the first insulating resin base material layer, or a second conductor film-attached insulating resin base material with a conductor film on a main surface of the first insulating resin base material layer including a main surface of a stacked body including at least the first insulating resin base material layer, and stacking the first or second conductor film-attached insulating resin base material and another base material layer such that the conductor film is in contact with the second insulating resin base material layer. An adhesion strength of the first insulating resin base material layer to the conductor film is higher than an adhesion strength of the second insulating resin base material layer to the conductor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yusuke Kamitsubo, Tomohiro Furumura
  • Patent number: 11917752
    Abstract: A second main surface of the copper plate is opposite a first main surface of the copper plate, and is bonded to a silicon nitride ceramic substrate by the bonding layer. A first portion and a second portion of an end surface of the copper plate form an angle of 135° to 165° on an outside of the copper plate. An extended plane of the first portion and the second main surface form an angle of 110° to 145° a side where the second portion is located. A distance from the second main surface to an intersection of the first portion and the second portion in a direction of a thickness of the copper plate is 10 to 100 ?m. The second main surface extends beyond the extended plane of the first portion by a distance of 10 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NGK INSULATORS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ebigase, Izumi Masuda, Takeshi Kaku
  • Patent number: 11910526
    Abstract: A wired circuit board includes a metal supporting layer, an insulating base layer and a conductor layer from bottom to top. A peripheral edge of the insulating base layer includes an extension part extending further outward relative to the metal supporting layer. The metal supporting layer has a thickness T1 of 50 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Takakura, Daigo Tsubai, Hiroaki Machitani
  • Patent number: 11910538
    Abstract: In one example, an electronic device housing may include a substrate, an insulating adhesive layer formed on a surface of the substrate, a patterned electroless plating layer formed on the insulating adhesive layer, and a patterned electrolytic plating layer formed on the patterned electroless plating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Yi-Chen Chen, Kun Cheng Tsai, Kuan-Ting Wu, Ying-Hung Ku, Hsueh Chen Hung
  • Patent number: 11903143
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed related to forming solder joints between printed circuits by using radiant heat. One example provides a method of manufacturing an electronic device, the method comprising aligning a contact of a first printed circuit with a via of a second printed circuit. The method further comprises applying radiant heat via an infrared light source to a second surface of the second printed circuit, the radiant heat incident on the via to cause the via to conduct heat to solder located at an interface of the contact and the via, and after heating the solder to reflow, cooling the solder, thereby forming a solder joint between the contact of the first printed circuit and the via of the second printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: David Christopher Perna, Elisa Naseem Haqq, Daniel Tusteh Chian, Kevin The-Hung Pham
  • Patent number: 11903145
    Abstract: A wiring board may include a core portion having first and second surfaces, and first and second buildup portions on the first and second surfaces, respectively. Each of the first and second buildup portions may include a first insulating layer on the core portion, a wire pattern on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer to cover the wire pattern, and a protection layer covering the second insulating layer and exposing a portion of the wire pattern. The second insulating layer may include a resin layer and inorganic fillers distributed in the resin layer. The fillers may not be provided in the protection layer, and the resin layer of the second insulating layer and the protection layer may be formed of the same material. The wire patterns of the first and second buildup portions may be electrically connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-Yeol Yang
  • Patent number: 11895770
    Abstract: A copper-clad laminate includes an insulating layer and a copper foil in contact with at least one surface of the insulating layer, in which the insulating layer contains a cured product of a resin composition containing a modified polyphenylene ether compound of which a terminal is modified with a substituent having a carbon-carbon unsaturated double bond, a chromium element amount on an exposed surface on which the insulating layer is exposed by an etching treatment of the copper-clad laminate with a copper chloride solution, measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy is 7.5 at % or less with respect to a total element amount measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and a surface roughness of the exposed surface is 2.0 ?m or less in terms of ten-point average roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Inoue, Tatsuya Arisawa, Shun Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11894597
    Abstract: A directional coupler includes a substrate, a main line 121, a main line 122, and a sub-line. The main line 121 and the main line 122 each include a conductor pattern formed in the substrate, and are connected in parallel to each other. The sub-line includes a conductor pattern formed in the substrate. The sub-line is disposed at a position at least partially overlapping with the main line 121 in a plan view of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Tokuda, Yasushi Shigeno