Patents Examined by Lam S Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11971319
    Abstract: A surface electromyography signal-torque matching method based on multi-segmentation parallel CNN model (MSP-CNN model), step 1: collecting torque signals and surface electromyography (sEMG) signals when tightening a bolt; step 2: dividing a range of a transducer by at least two granularities, generating a plurality of torque sub-ranges corresponding to the at least two granularities and labeling the plurality of torque sub-ranges with torque labels; step 3: generating sEMG graphs of the sEMG signals in each time window; step 4: determining the torque labels of each time window under each of the at least two granularities according to the torque sub-ranges that average values of torques fall in; step 5: establishing a sample set; step 6: building a MSP-CNN model, and training parallel independent CNN models with sample datasets; and step 7: inputting the sEMG signals of the operator during assembly into trained MSP-CNN model and identifying assembly torques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Cheng Jun Chen, Kai Huang, Dong Nian Li, Shuai Zheng, Jun Hong
  • Patent number: 11970014
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for profiling a print medium for use in a printing system. The print medium is received in an input holder and a plurality of test jobs is received in a test job receiver. For each test job a uniquely determined combination of at least a first printing system parameter of print speed of the printing system and a second printing system parameter of coverage of the marking material is intended to be prepared by a print controller. The printing system registers a test result of each test job. The print controller creates a two-dimensional media print mode table of media print modes for the print medium to be profiled based on the test results of the test jobs for the print medium. When a print job arrives intended to be printed on the profiled medium, a media print mode is selected from the two-dimensional media print mode table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Eduardus J. W. Van Vliembergen
  • Patent number: 11971875
    Abstract: A fault monitoring method is executed by a monitoring device in a fault monitoring system that includes a terminal used by a user, an appliance to be operated by the user, the monitoring device, and a plurality of authentication servers each including a distributed ledger, and includes: obtaining event information stored in the plurality of authentication servers and indicating an event generated in response to a request that includes a processing instruction for the user operating the appliance; obtaining state information indicating whether the appliance is faulty, from the appliance; generating first transaction data including the state information obtained and transmitting the first transaction data to the plurality of authentication servers; and transmitting the processing instruction included in the event information to the appliance, when the appliance is determined to be not faulty from the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Naohisa Nishida, Junichiro Soeda, Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama
  • Patent number: 11969997
    Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes a plurality of first data lines, a second data line, a first memory element, and a second memory element. The first memory element is enabled in response to first data on the plurality of first data lines. The second memory element is enabled in response to second data on the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Boon Bing Ng
  • Patent number: 11969999
    Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes an ID line, a fire line, a discharge path, a memory element, and a latch. The memory element is electrically coupled to the fire line and the discharge path. The latch disables the discharge path in response to a first logic level on the ID line and enables the discharge path in response to a second logic level on the ID line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Boon Bing Ng, Mohan Kumar Sudhakar
  • Patent number: 11964495
    Abstract: Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Sakaguchi, Itsuro Sasaki, Ayaka Tanaka, Naoto Shimura, Shunsuke Horie, Hiroshi Gotou, Yuta Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11964479
    Abstract: A medium feeding device includes a feeding roller that is provided in a medium feeding path through which a medium is fed and that feeds a medium downstream by rotating in the forward direction in response to power of a motor, a nip roller that is provided in the medium feeding path and that nips a medium in cooperation with the feeding roller and rotates, and a controller configured to control the motor. Based on an increase in a variation value varying in accordance with a drive load of the motor, the controller controls the motor and causes the feeding roller to start a medium feeding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Takayuki Tanaka, Hiroki Shinagawa
  • Patent number: 11964480
    Abstract: A driving waveform determining method with which a waveform of a driving pulse applied to a driving element provided in a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid is determined includes: a first step of measuring, by performing a simulation, ejection characteristics of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head when a waveform candidate is used for the driving pulse; a second step of measuring, by performing an actual measurement, the ejection characteristics of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head when the waveform candidate is used for the driving pulse; and a third step of determining the waveform of the driving pulse in accordance with a measurement result obtained in the first step and a measurement result obtained in the second step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Toyofuku, Toshiro Murayama, Takahiro Katakura
  • Patent number: 11965738
    Abstract: Disclosed is a data analysis-based intelligent deformation monitoring system for mountain landslides, which solves the technical problem in the prior art that when a landslide occurs in a landslide area, it is not possible to implement region-specific monitoring for landslide soil, thus failing to minimize the real-time impact of the landslide area. The present disclosure involves marking a sub-area where a landslide occurs as a landslide area, marking a real-time sliding direction within the landslide area as a landslide flow direction, setting areas at both sides of the landslide flow direction as landslide slopes, generating a control adjustment signal or a risk monitoring signal through landslide slope analysis, and sending the signal to a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Northwest University
    Inventors: Haijun Qiu, Yaru Zhu, Dongdong Yang, Zijing Liu, Zhigang Ren, Jianhua Qiang, Shuyue Ma
  • Patent number: 11958289
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head control circuit controls a liquid ejecting head and a switching circuit. The liquid ejecting head control circuit includes a drive signal output circuit, and a switching control circuit. The switching control circuit outputs an ejection control signal defining an amount of a liquid to be ejected from a nozzle, a switching timing signal defining switching timing of the switching circuit, and a state selection signal defining a state of the switching circuit in a control period defined by the switching timing signal. The state selection signal for a first time period for which the liquid ejecting head is controlled so as to eject the liquid from the nozzle is different from the state selection signal for a second time period for which the liquid ejecting head is controlled so as not to eject the liquid from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sukehiro Ito
  • Patent number: 11959743
    Abstract: A dimensionless kinematics calibration method based on a virtual point and a related apparatus thereof. The method comprises: establishing a kinematics model of a motion mechanism, and arranging a plurality of virtual points at a tail end of the motion mechanism to establish a dimensionless kinematics model and a dimensionless error model; converting a measurement coordinate system into a motion mechanism coordinate system, acquiring a rotation matrix and a translation matrix of a target virtual point measured by the measurement device, and calculating actual coordinates of all virtual points to obtain a measured value of the dimensionless kinematics model; calculating a theoretical value of the dimensionless kinematics model according to a spatial relationship between a reflecting head and the tail end of the motion mechanism; and optimizing the dimensionless error model according to the measured value and the theoretical value to obtain a calibration result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jian Gao, Disai Chen, Yuheng Luo, Lanyu Zhang, Zhuojun Zheng, Guoqing Wu, Xin Chen
  • Patent number: 11926153
    Abstract: A droplet discharge apparatus includes a discharge device, a plurality of waveform generation units, a plurality of correction units, and a drive unit. The discharge device discharges droplets of a plurality of droplet types according to a plurality of drive waveforms. The plurality of waveform generation units individually generate drive waveforms used to discharge each of the plurality of droplet types. The plurality of correction units individually correct the drive waveforms generated by each of the plurality of waveform generation units, using correction magnifications different corresponding to the drive waveforms generated by the plurality of waveform generation units, to generate correction waveforms. The drive unit causes the discharge device to discharge the droplets according to corrected drive waveforms generated by individually switching the drive waveform corresponding to the plurality of droplet types to the correction waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Takatsugu Maeda
  • Patent number: 11927891
    Abstract: A sensor is disclosed, wherein a transducer generates acoustic waves, which are received by a lens assembly. The lens assembly transmits and directs at least a part of the acoustic waves to a target. The lens assembly then receives at least a part of acoustic waves, after interaction with the target. The sensor further comprises an optical detector that comprises at least one optically reflective member located at a surface of the lens assembly, which surface is arranged opposite to a surface of the lens assembly which faces a focal plane of the lens assembly, wherein the at least one optically reflective member is mechanically displaced in response to the acoustic waves, which are received and transmitted by the lens assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Nitesh Pandey, Duygu Akbulut, Alessandro Polo, Sebastianus Adrianus Goorden
  • Patent number: 11927619
    Abstract: Power semi-conductor module (1) comprising: —at least one IGBT with a Gate G forming a first electrode (11) and an Emitter E forming a second electrode (12), or —at least one MOSFET with a Gate G forming a first electrode (11) and a Source S forming a second electrode (12). The first electrode (11) includes a polysilicon material made in one piece. The one-piece is made partly of a monitoring portion (13). The monitoring portion (13) is in electrical contact with the second electrode (12) such that a leakage current flows between the first electrode (11) and the second electrode (12) in an operational state of the module (1). The monitoring portion (13) has a location, a form, a size and a material composition selected together such that to have a variable resistance in function of its temperature during the operational state of the module (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nicolas Degrenne
  • Patent number: 11926155
    Abstract: An inkjet recording device includes an inkjet discharge head including a nozzle through which ink is discharged, a pressure chamber that communicates to the nozzle, and a pressure generator that generates a pressure change in ink in the pressure chamber according to application of a drive signal to cause ink to be discharged from the nozzle; a driver that is disposed outside the ink discharge head and that is provided with a drive circuit that outputs the drive signal; and a wire that electrically connects the driver with the ink discharge head and through which the drive signal output from the drive circuit and applied to the pressure generator. The driver includes a resistance element provided in a transmission path of the drive signal between the drive circuit and the wire. A magnitude of a resistance value of the resistance element corresponds to a length of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Rieko Seike, Takakazu Kuki
  • Patent number: 11919291
    Abstract: There are provided a characteristic table generation system and so on capable of enhancing the convenience of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SII PRINTEK INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Shimizu, Masakazu Hirata
  • Patent number: 11919298
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes an amplification circuit configured to output an amplified modulation signal and a level shift circuit. The level shift circuit includes a second gate driver that outputs a third gate signal and a fourth gate signal, a third transistor that operates based on the third gate signal, and a fourth transistor that operates based on the fourth gate signal. The second gate driver outputs the third gate signal for controlling the third transistor to be conductive and the fourth gate signal for controlling the fourth transistor to be nonconductive in a second period in which a driving signal is fixed in a second potential that is higher than a first potential and lower than a third potential and the fourth gate signal for controlling the fourth transistor to be nonconductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noritaka Ide, Kunio Tabata
  • Patent number: 11919297
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes an amplification circuit that outputs an amplified modulation signal and a level shift circuit. In the level shift circuit, when a reference potential of the amplified modulation signal is shifted to a second potential from a first potential, a second gate driver outputs a third gate signal for controlling a third transistor to be nonconductive and a fourth gate signal for controlling a fourth transistor to be conductive, then outputs the third gate signal for controlling the third transistor to be conductive and the fourth gate signal for controlling the fourth transistor to be nonconductive, and thereafter outputs the third gate signal for controlling the third transistor to be nonconductive and the fourth gate signal for controlling the fourth transistor to be conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noritaka Ide, Kunio Tabata
  • Patent number: 11919304
    Abstract: A drive-waveform determination method determines a waveform of a first drive pulse to be applied to a drive element included in a first liquid discharging head that discharges liquid. The drive-waveform determination method includes: a first step of obtaining second waveform information regarding a waveform of a second drive pulse to be applied to a drive element included in a second liquid discharging head that discharges liquid; and a second step of determining the waveform of the first drive pulse, based on the second waveform information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Toyofuku, Toshiro Murayama, Takahiro Katakura
  • Patent number: 11904609
    Abstract: An inkjet head includes a pressure chamber in which ink is stored, a nozzle plate including a nozzle which connects with the pressure chamber, an actuator configured to change a volume of the pressure chamber, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit, before a printing is performed, outputs, to the actuator for a first time period, a first signal for changing the volume of the pressure chamber without ejecting ink from the nozzle. A second signal for changing the volume of the pressure chamber is then output to the actuator for a second time period such that ink is ejected from the nozzle. A third signal for changing the volume of the pressure chamber to the extent that the ink is not ejected from the nozzle is then output to the actuator for a third time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masaya Ichikawa