Patents Examined by Livius R Cazan
  • Patent number: 10944250
    Abstract: A method is provided for setting up a transmission link for electrical energy, in which at least one superconductive cable and a cryostat surrounding the same are used, the cryostat having two metal tubes arranged concentrically in relation to one another, between which a vacuum insulation is provided. The ends of the cryostat in the assembled state as well as the superconductive cable located in the same are attached on fixed parts of the transmission link. At least at one end of the cryostat, there is gaplessly connected to the same a tube body which is bent by an angle of at least 180° and likewise consists of two metal tubes arranged concentrically in relation to one another, between which a vacuum insulation is provided. The superconductive cable protruding from the cryostat is arranged in the tube body at room temperature in such a way that it runs at least in the direct proximity of the wall of the inner tube of the tube body that has the greater bending radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Mark Stemmle, Stephan Lange
  • Patent number: 10939601
    Abstract: A component mounting line configured to move an automatic exchanging device that performs setting and removing of feeders of multiple component mounters, including a position detecting device that detects the position of the automatic exchanging device is configured from a timing belt with an end and provided to extend in a straight line along the moving lane on the front side of the component mounting line, a timing pulley that moves together with the automatic exchanging device while maintaining a state in which the teeth of the timing pulley are engaged with the teeth of the timing belt, and a rotary encoder that outputs a rotation angle of the timing pulley, and the pulse output of the rotary encoder is counted to detect the position of the automatic exchanging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahiro Kondo
  • Patent number: 10939599
    Abstract: A component-mounting device includes a mounting head, a discharging portion, and a paste receiving portion. The mounting head holds a component. The discharging portion applies paste by spraying to the component held by the mounting head. The paste receiving portion is provided on the mounting head and captures paste that has been discharged from the discharging portion and has failed to reach the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kouji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10923322
    Abstract: A coil portion is formed. A first articulation portion extends from the coil portion. A first mounting structure extends from the first articulation portion. The first mounting structure includes a first mounting region configured to mount in contact with a terminal of a first electrical component. The first articulation portion and the first mounting structure are configured to position the first mounting region at a location outside of a strong electromagnetic field emanating from the coil portion. A second articulation portion extends from the coil portion. A second mounting structure extends from the second articulation portion. The second mounting structure includes a second mounting region configured to mount in contact with a terminal of a second electrical component. The second articulation portion and the second mounting structure are configured to position the second mounting region at a location outside of the strong electromagnetic field emanating from the coil portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Oscar Lopez, Shen Peng, David Setton, Craig Rosslee, Dan Marohl, Andras Kuthi
  • Patent number: 10923977
    Abstract: A motor for a surgical instrument includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a shaft and a magnet. The stator includes (i) a cavity in which the rotor is disposed, and (ii) a coil assembly. The coil assembly includes multiple phase sets. The phase sets include multiple sets of wires. Each of the phase sets includes multiple coils and corresponds to a respective one of the sets of wires. The coils in each of the phase sets are at respective positions about the rotor. One of the sets of wires includes at least three wires. The stator causes the rotor to axially rotate a surgical tool of the surgical instrument based on current received at the sets of wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred K. Luedi, Vikram A. Garadi, Thierry A. Bieler, Christian R. Koechli
  • Patent number: 10925199
    Abstract: A component mounter for holding a component and for mounting the component on a surface of a board includes a head, a horizontal moving device, a vertical moving device, a mounting control device, and an imaging device. The imaging device is configured to image an imaging target by receiving incident light from the imaging target on an imaging element via an optical system. The optical system includes a first optical system configured to guide incident light from a direction of a side surface of a nozzle tip to a first region of the imaging element, and a second optical system configured to guide incident light from a direction of the surface of the board to a second region of the imaging element. The imaging device is configured to image an image via the first optical system and the second optical system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mizuho Nozawa
  • Patent number: 10906671
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for making a microsatellite, comprising providing: modules of a first type configured to house electronic boards of a microsatellite; modules of a second type configured to house devices and systems of a microsatellite; and modules of a third type comprising first and second interface means configured to be coupled to a launch vehicle and to external appendages of a microsatellite, respectively; said modules of a third type being designed to cause a body of a microsatellite to have a predefined height; wherein all the modules of the first, second and third types are configured to be stacked regardless of the type. The method further comprises making a body of a microsatellite by stacking modules of different types, wherein the stacked modules include at least one module of the second type and at least one module of the third type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.A. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Francesco Lumaca, Giuseppe Oronzo
  • Patent number: 10910890
    Abstract: An electrical machine includes a casing including a base wall provided with a projection projecting from the base wall towards the inside of the casing. A stator includes a core having a plurality of pole shoes, a plurality of conductors wound on the pole shoes to form a plurality of coils constituting a stator winding. Insulators are interposed between the core and the stator winding. A coil of the winding has an end portion engaged with the projection for heat exchange. The insulators include a housing for a first number of turns of the coil and a second housing for a second number of turns of the coil. The first and second housings are shaped such that a layer of the turns of the end portion abutted against the projection is defined by stretches of the conductors all substantially coplanar with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SPAL AUTOMOTIVE S.R.L.
    Inventor: Pietro DeFilippis
  • Patent number: 10903710
    Abstract: A producing method for an electrical insulating structure that covers an outer surface of a to-be-insulated object is provided. The method comprises: a taping step of winding a main insulation tape on outside of the to-be-insulated object; a spraying step of spraying nanoparticles onto the outer surface of the wound main insulation tape; a vacuum drawing step of vacuum drawing the tape-wound to-be-insulated object; and an impregnation step of injecting a nanoparticle-containing impregnating macromolecular polymer in which nanoparticles have been kneaded to impregnate the to-be-insulated object therewith. In the spraying step, microcapsules, which contain the nanoparticles and are able to release the nanoparticles before the impregnation step, are sprayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kotaro Mura, Kodai Ushiwata, Toshihiro Tsuda, Tetsuo Yoshimitsu
  • Patent number: 10902979
    Abstract: A method and system for fabricating a susceptor coil assembly ribbon. An apparatus comprising a tensioning section 100 that provides a predetermined amount of tension to a plurality of susceptor coil assemblies 20, a collimating section 200 that receives the plurality of susceptor coil assemblies 20 from the tensioning section 100 and aligns the plurality of susceptor coil assemblies 20. An impaling section 300 receives the plurality of susceptor coil assemblies 20 aligned by the collimating section 200 and impales the plurality of susceptor coil assemblies 20 into a matrix material 320 so as to fabricate a susceptor coil assembly ribbon 30.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher John Hottes, Jeffrey M. Hansen, Charles M. Richards
  • Patent number: 10892608
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a cable including an insulating member, a shielding layer, and a conductor, the apparatus includes a frame forming a housing having an aperture configured to receive an end portion of the cable; a first gripping member disposed within the housing and being configured to grip the cable; and a second gripping member disposed within the housing and being configured to grip the cable; wherein the second gripping member is mounted within the housing so as to be movable relative to the first gripping member to effect fanning and cutting of a portion of the shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Nick S. Evans, Bradley J. Mitchell, Kevin Callahan
  • Patent number: 10893602
    Abstract: A method for producing a power electronics system having a cooling device, a switching device, a terminal device, a capacitor device and a control device includes the following production steps: providing a cooling device with a plurality of first and second positioning cutouts; providing the switching device with a substrate and a first mounting device, which has first positioning devices; providing the terminal device, which is completely independent of the switching device, i.e. forms a dedicated component part or a dedicated assembly, with a second mounting device, which has second positioning devices; arranging the switching device on the cooling device, wherein the first positioning devices are arranged in the respectively assigned first positioning cutouts; arranging the terminal device on the cooling device, wherein the respective second positioning devices are arranged in the assigned second positioning cutouts; arranging the capacitor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hunka, Marco Lederer, Rainer Popp, Stefan Weiss, Patrick Sturm
  • Patent number: 10893641
    Abstract: A group determination method includes a step of calculating an external set-up work time for an external set-up work by which a component supplier used in a group that is a next production target of a group under production in a component mounting line, including a plurality of the component mounters capable of attaching and detaching a component supply carriage which can arrange a plurality of the component suppliers (tape feeders), is removed from the component mounting line and arranged in the component supply carriage; and a step of calculating a production completion time at which the production of all the mounting boards that are the production targets is completed in consideration of the external set-up work time. A plurality of groups which are common in an arrangement of component suppliers for the mounting boards that are the production targets are determined so that production completion time is shortened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamazaki, Atsushi Nakazono, Hiroshi Ando, Kazuyoshi Harada
  • Patent number: 10888041
    Abstract: A substrate working system includes a component mounter that mounts a component on a substrate, and an inspection unit provided in the component mounter or a device downstream of the component mounter and that performs a substrate inspection different from a normal substrate inspection when an abnormality related to a mounting operation is detected in the component mounter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazushi Takama, Jun Asai
  • Patent number: 10875016
    Abstract: A micro analysis chip comprises an inlet and a fluid flow path communicating thereto. The fluid flow path comprises a first flow path, a second flow path, and a third flow path arranged continuously along a longitudinal direction of the fluid flow path. An antibody is bound on at least one peripheral surface selected from the group consisting of peripheral surfaces of the second and third flow paths. A cross-sectional area of the third flow path is constant or increased monotonically along a direction X from the second flow path toward the third flow path. A cross-sectional area of the second flow path is increased monotonically along the direction X from the one end to the other end of the second flow path. A cross-sectional area of the first flow path is larger than a cross-sectional area at the one end of the second flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignees: PANASONIC CORPORATION, IMEC VZW
    Inventors: Shuji Sato, Yasuaki Okumura, Yukari Nishiyama, Tatsurou Kawamura, Ben Jones, Liesbet Lagae, Tim Stakenborg
  • Patent number: 10867724
    Abstract: In a method for forming a Category 6A communication cable suitable for Power over Ethernet applications, four pairs of individually insulated conductors may be provided, and each of the conductors may have a diameter of at least approximately 0.0240 inches. A respective twist lay for each of the pairs may be selected to result in the communications cable having a propagation delay skew of less than approximately 45 nanoseconds per one hundred meters and a direct current resistance unbalance between any two of the four pairs of less than approximately one hundred milliohms per one hundred meters. Each of the four pairs may be twisted based at least in part on the selected twist lays, and a jacket may be formed around the four twisted pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Superior Essex International LP
    Inventors: Thibaut Oscar Lanoe, Nathan Spare
  • Patent number: 10842060
    Abstract: A component mounting device includes a control unit that at least controls an imaging portion to image a vicinity of a mounting position during movement of a mounting head, acquires height information in the vicinity of the mounting position based on an imaging result of the imaging portion, and corrects a target lowering position of the mounting head based on the acquired height information in the vicinity of the mounting position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kazushi Takama
  • Patent number: 10832835
    Abstract: Described is an adaptive manufacturing table (100) including a structural frame assembly (300), a moveable table assembly (400) including a table surface (130), and a projector (101) such that the projector (101) is rigidly mounted to the structural frame assembly (300). The projector (101) may be configured to directly project an image onto the table surface (130).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Safran Seats USA LLC
    Inventors: Travis D. Doolittle, Daniel Garcia, Matthew D. Oliver, Andrew J. Baker
  • Patent number: 10820461
    Abstract: In a component mounting machine, before the suction nozzle held by the rotary head is automatically exchanged, the nozzle ID codes of all suction nozzles arranged on the nozzle station are continuously read at a high speed and stored in association with the position of each suction nozzle. Sequentially imaging the nozzle ID code display section of each suction nozzle of each column is performed without stopping the mark imaging camera while moving the camera in an arrangement direction of the suction nozzle of each column of the nozzle station. The movement direction of the camera is reversed each time the last imaging operation of one column is completed and the camera is moved to imaging an adjacent column and the nozzle ID code of each suction nozzle of each column read at the image processing is stored in the storage in association with the position of each suction nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidetoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 10818705
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a field effect transistor including a gate-insulating layer, an active layer, and a passivation layer. The method includes a first process of forming the gate-insulating layer; and a second process of forming the passivation layer. At least one of the first process and the second process includes: forming a first oxide containing an alkaline earth metal and at least one of gallium, scandium, yttrium, and a lanthanoid; and etching the first oxide by use of a first solution containing at least one of hydrochloric, acid, oxalic acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, acetic acid, sulfuric acid, and hydrogen peroxide water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Sone, Naoyuki Ueda, Yuki Nakamura, Yukiko Abe, Shinji Matsumoto, Ryoichi Saotome, Sadanori Arae, Minehide Kusayanagi