Patents Examined by Lisa M. Caputo
  • Patent number: 11733076
    Abstract: An airflow detection device for detecting whether an air output path is obstructed can be mounted in the air output path and includes a carrying portion, a metallic sensing portion and a metallic air plate portion that are respectively positioned on the carrying portion and have different electrode polarities, so as to detect obstruction of the air output path. The airflow detection device can be applied to products located in remote areas, mountain areas, or other places where maintenance workers cannot inspect the products frequently for the state of their dust screens or ventilation holes, and can help warn of conditions such as ventilation hole obstruction to avoid product overheating due to dust or dirt accumulation on dust screens or ventilation hole obstruction, adverse impacts on product performance, service live or stability, or system crash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Alpha Networks Inc.
    Inventor: Wei-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 11733118
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure detection device that can suppress variation in the pressure detection characteristics of a pressure detection unit from occurring due to individual differences in the shape of flow passage units, variation in work in mounting the flow passage unit on the pressure detection unit, or the like. The pressure detection device including: a pressure detection unit; a flow passage unit; and a mounting unit configured to removably mount the flow passage unit on the pressure detection unit. The pressure detection unit has a pressure detecting diaphragm and a sensor rod arranged at the center part of a first surface of the pressure detecting diaphragm. The flow passage unit has a flow passage diaphragm, and a displacement of the flow passage diaphragm in contact with the top surface is transmitted to the pressure detecting diaphragm via the sensor rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SURPASS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masahiro Hasunuma
  • Patent number: 11733106
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sensor for measuring temperature of a fluid within a vessel, the vessel having a first region and a second region and the fluid having a temperature profile extending between the first region and the second region, the sensor comprising an array of elements, each element having a temperature-dependent parameter, the array being capable of deployment within or adjacent the vessel such that the array extends along the vessel for measuring the temperature profile, the elements of the array being coupled together between an input and an output, the input being coupled or capable of being coupled to a driving source for driving the sensors, and the output being coupled or capable of being coupled to a detector for measuring an aggregate of the temperature-dependent parameter from the array of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Oxford University Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Malcolm Duncan McCulloch, Peter Michael Armstrong
  • Patent number: 11733210
    Abstract: An ultrasonic detection and tensile calibration test method for bonding strength grade comprising bonding an upper substrate block to bonding groove(s) to form a theoretical bonding area, and applying a downward actual tensile force to a lower substrate block; obtaining an actual bonding area of the theoretical bonding area; calculating a first actual bonding strength by using the actual tensile force and the actual bonding area, and comparing the first actual bonding strength with a second actual bonding strength calculated to verify the correctness of the theoretical bonding area as a calibrated bonding strength; forming a bond strength table in which the theoretical bonding areas, the actual bonding areas and the first actual bonding strengths are in one-to-one correspondence; and using the actual bonding area to find the actual bonding strength corresponding to the actual bonding area from the bonding area bonding strength table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chunguang Xu, Lei He, Dingguo Xiao, Qiutao Wang
  • Patent number: 11733104
    Abstract: The present application relates to the technical field of thermodetector, and discloses a high stability Bluetooth temperature measuring probe, including a needle tube having a hollow mounting chamber, a handle configured to abut against a tail end of the needle tube, a first thermal sensor positioned in the mounting chamber of the needle tube close to the head end, an antenna mounted inside the needle tube and electrically connected to the first thermal sensor, and a locking assembly configured for connecting the handle to the needle tube. The locking assembly includes a locking member, a locking nut and a limiting nut, in which the limiting nut is connected to the antenna and is configured to limit the locking member; and an inner wall of the needle tube is defined with a locking slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SHENZHEN KUKI ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Rongyuan Zhu, Guo Qu, Hengshou Qiu, Jianhua Yu
  • Patent number: 11733117
    Abstract: Provided is a pressure detection device which prevents variation of pressure detection characteristics. The pressure detection device including: a pressure detection unit configured to detect a pressure transmitted to a pressure detecting surface; a flow passage unit in which a pressure transmitting surface; and a mounting unit for removably mounting the flow passage unit on the pressure detection unit. The pressure detection unit has a sensor unit having the pressure detecting surface, a holding unit configured to hold the sensor unit to be movable along an axis orthogonal to the pressure detecting surface, and an urging unit configured to generate urging force to urge the sensor unit toward the pressure transmitting surface. The mounting unit mounts the flow passage unit on the pressure detection unit with the pressure detecting surface being in contact with the pressure transmitting surface under urging force generated by the urging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SURPASS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Imai
  • Patent number: 11726195
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving spectral-shift methods for calculating acoustic attenuation coefficients are disclosed. Systems, methods, and apparatuses for transmitting ultrasound pulse sequences for improved signal-to-noise outside the main passband of ultrasound transducers are disclosed. Systems, methods, and apparatuses for using the echoes from the transmitted pulse sequences to calculate the attenuation coefficient are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Sheng-Wen Huang, Hua Xie, Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert, Man Nguyen, Vijay Thakur Shamdasani
  • Patent number: 11726063
    Abstract: A method for detecting at least one condition of interest relating to a tube, e.g. the presence of an air bubble. In some embodiments, the sensor includes antennas, a split-ring resonator, a frequency generator capable of generating frequencies in the microwave range, and a detection component. The detection component may estimate at least one parameter of received microwave energy in order to determine if a condition of interest exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventor: David Blumberg, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11725991
    Abstract: Provided in this disclosure are systems and methods for determining a confidence level of a sensor measurement of a sensor. A system may include a sensor array, which includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect a physical phenomenon. Each sensor of the sensor array may generate an output signal that includes measurement datum related to the detected physical phenomenon, which may be received by a controller of the system. Controller may compare the measurement datum from a selected sensor to other sensors of the sensor array to determine the confidence level of the selected sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Moy, Collin Freiheit, Joshua E. Auerbach
  • Patent number: 11726067
    Abstract: A detection system (100) and a method for identifying structural change (300) with a substrate (200) includes a sensor (101) configured to resonate at variable frequencies, the resonant frequency of the sensor changing in response to structural change in the substrate, a detector (102) located in proximity to the sensor for detecting the resonant frequency of the sensor, and a receiving device (103) in communication with the detector for receiving information output by the detector, an analyzing device (108) in communication with the receiving device for and interpreting information output by the receiving device. The sensor includes an engagement surface for engaging the substrate. The detector is located on the sensor and away from the engagement surface in such a way that the sensor and the detector are arranged to form a laminated structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Chun Hung Cheng, Ho Lam, Ka Leung Lau
  • Patent number: 11725997
    Abstract: The invention includes differential pressure transducer assembly systems and methods in which headers are configured with header pins that extend perpendicular with respect to an axis of the assembly and through header sidewalls, enabling a compact configuration, ease of assembly, enhanced reliability and/or redundancy. Channels and ports defined in a housing portion of the assembly are configured to enable the use of substantially straight tubing sections for routing main and/or reference pressures to one or more differential sensing elements mounted on the headers. Two or more headers with associated sensing elements can be stacked to provide redundant differential pressure sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KULITE SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Gardner, Louis DeRosa
  • Patent number: 11726068
    Abstract: Systems and methods for testing steam traps or other similar devices in a hot water or steam system are described. A tester includes a wand that is handheld that can communicate with a handheld electronic device which in turn can communicate with a central monitor for storing and compiling readings as historical profile data. The wand includes a probe to physically contact the device to acoustically sense the performance of the device. The probe includes a probe tip and a stack of acoustic elements, an electrode, a stack mass, and a head to covert the acoustic signal into an electrical signal. The handheld device includes circuitry to process the information, interact with the user, and transmit information to and from the handheld electronic device and/or the central monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: ARMSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Shane Russell, William R. Horton, Glenn T. Leggett, Robert E. Carter, Kurt Armstrong, Thomas Jack Secord, Michael Herman Gaines
  • Patent number: 11719672
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved ultrasonic testing are provided. An ultrasonic testing system can include an ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic controller in electrical communication with the ultrasonic probe. The ultrasonic probe can include a plurality of ultrasonic transducers. The ultrasonic controller can be configured to generate one or more driving signals operative to cause the plurality of ultrasonic transducers to generate respective ultrasonic waves. A combination of the ultrasonic waves can form an ultrasonic waveform having one or more characteristics specified by the one or more driving signals. The ultrasonic controller can be further configured to change the one or more driving signals to adjust at least one characteristic of the ultrasonic waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Wuerschig, Johannes Buechler
  • Patent number: 11719583
    Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums and electronic devices are provided for controlling temperature. A terminal obtains a target environment temperature value of an environment where the terminal is located. When the terminal is being charged, the terminal determines a target temperature control strategy according to the target environment temperature value. The terminal controls a temperature of the terminal according to the target temperature control strategy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Changyu Sun
  • Patent number: 11719589
    Abstract: A pressure sensor assembly includes an external housing unit; a sensor unit received within the external housing unit, the external housing unit has an external surface including a mounting surface; a sensing element mounted within the sensor unit and including a pressure-sensing surface; a substrate upon which the mounting surface is mounted; an air passage to enable air to impinge on the sensing element; and a filling passage, separate from the air flow passage, for the introduction of an encapsulation material onto the sensor unit, during assembly. The encapsulation material covers at least a part of the external surface of the sensor unit but does not cover the pressure-sensing surface of the sensing element which remains directly exposed to air within the air passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES IP LIMITED
    Inventors: Jia luan Lau, Cheng Feng Lee
  • Patent number: 11719560
    Abstract: An optical fiber distributed acoustic sensor system makes use of a specially designed optical fiber to improve overall sensitivity of the system by a factor in excess of 10. This is achieved by inserting into the fiber weak broadband reflectors periodically along the fiber. The reflectors reflect a small proportion of the light from the DAS incident thereon back along the fiber, typically in the region of 0.001% to 0.1%. To allow for temperate compensation to ensure that the same reflectivity is obtained if the temperature changes, the reflection bandwidth is relatively broadband. The reflectors are formed from a series of fiber Bragg gratings, each with a different center reflecting frequency, the reflecting frequencies and bandwidths of the gratings being selected to provide the broadband reflection. The reflectors are spaced at the desired spatial resolution of the optical fiber DAS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Silixa Ltd.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Farhadiroushan, Tom Parker, Sergey Shatalin
  • Patent number: 11719592
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for non-destructive inspection of an interior of a vessel filled with a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Sonasearch, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Edward Walker, Sheldon Rubin
  • Patent number: 11714016
    Abstract: A leakage of liquid inside a differential pressure detection device is reliably preventable. A diaphragm portion that detects a differential pressure as a pressure difference between a high pressure side and a low pressure side includes an annular member, a strain gauge provided in a hollow portion of the annular member, and a first plate and a second plate provided such that the annular member and the strain gauge are sandwiched. The first plate and the second plate each abut on a first annular packing. A first groove and a second groove (the first annular packing) overlap with the annular member when viewed from a first direction along an axis of the first hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: YAMASHIN-FILTER CORP.
    Inventors: Nobuki Sasaki, Megumi Nomoto, Tatsuhiro Oshita
  • Patent number: 11709151
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a control method includes setting a transmission angle of an ultrasonic wave to a standard angle. The control method further includes transmitting an ultrasonic wave at the set transmission angle and detecting an intensity of a reflected wave from an object. The control method further includes calculating a tilt angle based on a gradient of the intensity. The tilt angle indicates a tilt of the object. The control method further includes resetting the transmission angle based on the tilt angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Ono, Atsushi Matsumura
  • Patent number: 11709178
    Abstract: An accelerometer structure, a method for preparing the accelerometer structure and an acceleration measurement method are provided. The accelerometer structure includes a substrate having a groove structure, a test mass, a plurality of nano-tethers, and a nano-photonic-crystal measurement unit. The test mass, nano-tethers, and the nano-photonic-crystal measurement unit are suspended above the groove structure. A nano-photonic-crystal resonant cavity is formed in the nano-photonic-crystal measurement unit, and an acceleration of the test mass is characterized by a resonant frequency of the nano-photonic-crystal resonant cavity. The present disclosure provides a photoelasticity-based opto-micromechanical accelerometer structure, which uses a cavity resonance tension sensor in a nano-photonic-crystal cavity to measure a tension of the nano-photonic-crystal resonant cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Shenzhen Conjugate Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hengjiang Ren, Jie Luo