Patents Examined by Rockshana Chowdhury
  • Patent number: 9860353
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus having a rollable display panel includes a case having an opening portion formed therein, a first roller rotatably provided inside the case, a display portion provided on the first roller to be wound around the first roller or released from the first roller, and a rotatable guide portion provided inside the case to guide the display portion by radially bending the display portion at least one time during a movement of the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junghun Lee, Younjoon Kim, Kyunghyun Baek, Sangjo Lee, Jangdoo Lee, Jusuck Lee, Kyungmin Choi
  • Patent number: 9844903
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing a housing and an electronic device. The method comprises the following steps: preparing a mold according to a predetermined shape of the housing, wherein the mold comprises at least one moving die and at least one fixed die, a first texture structure is formed on the inner surface of the mold, and the first texture structure comprises a plurality of projections arranged in a first arrangement, and a groove recesses inwardly is formed between any two adjacent projections, and the groove is formed by etching and removing a part of the moving die and/or the fixed die by the laser engraving method; closing the moving die and the fixed die, and heating the mold to a predetermined mold temperature; and injecting a raw material in a melting state into the mold cavity of the mold; retaining a pressure of the raw material in the mold cavity of the mold; cooling the mold; opening the mold to complete the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventors: Yuming Xie, Liang Bo, Xudong Jing, Shurong He, Xiaoqin Han, Lei Ma, Lei Xu, Lan Zhou
  • Patent number: 9811119
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first and second body, a hinge unit configured to connect to the first and second body, and a flexible display disposed on the hinge unit, the first, and second body, wherein the hinge unit includes a bendable support member supported by the first and second body, and a plurality of slit members, wherein each slit member includes a fixed end that is supported by the support member and a free end that extends toward the flexible display, and wherein the plurality of slit members are arranged in a longitudinal direction relative to the flexible display and are spaced apart by an interval, wherein the free ends limit a curvature of the flexible display in a folded state by moving closer to each other and touching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho-seong Seo
  • Patent number: 9811117
    Abstract: A dock for an electronic device is in capable of keeping conductive contacts within the dock until the electronic device is inserted into the dock. Furthermore, collision between an insertion portion of the electronic device and the conductive contacts can be avoided in the process of inserting the electronic device into the dock or removing the electronic device from the dock, so as to prevent the conductive contacts or the surface of the electronic device from being damaged. An electronic device assembly having the aforementioned dock is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Chien-Lung Huang, Yen-Te Chiang, Wen-Kai Tu, Po-Yi Chiang
  • Patent number: 9791890
    Abstract: A secure housing for a portable computer, which has a screen, operating keys and at least one connector, can be transferred from an open state to a closed state. In order to protect the computer and the data stored thereon, the secure housing can be locked in the closed state and conceals at least one operating key of the computer while the screen is exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Lufthansa Systems AG
    Inventors: Peter Hommel, Joerg Liebe
  • Patent number: 9791893
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first housing component including a side wall portion surrounding an electronic component; a concave portion provided in the side wall portion of the first housing component; a second housing component whose edge portion is arranged on the side wall portion of the first housing component; a seal member which has elasticity and waterproofness and which is arranged between the side wall portion of the first housing component and the edge portion of the second housing component; and a fixing component which includes a first claw portion that comes into contact with an upper surface of the edge portion of the second housing component and a second claw portion that fits into the concave portion of the side wall portion of the first housing component and which fixes the second housing component onto the first housing component by the first claw portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shingo Yamaguchi, Satoshi Watanabe, Hayato Shida
  • Patent number: 9788449
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus 2 has a configuration in which a plate-like bus-bar 80, 80? is disposed vertically so that a width direction thereof is set in a vertical direction, electrically connected to positive electric potential of a battery and fixed to a resin case 50 to include a flat plate-like bus-bar body 81, 82, to which positive electric potential of the battery is applied, and a voltage measuring terminal 82 to 85 branched from the bus-bar body 81, 82. The voltage measuring terminal 82 to 85 includes a projecting portion 83 projecting from the bus-bar body 81, 82, an upright portion 84 extending from the projecting portion 83 upward toward a circuit board 100, and a measuring terminal portion 85 that is an upper part of the upright portion 84 and electrically connected to the circuit board 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Nagasawa, Hiroaki Iida, Morifumi Shigemasa, Yasuhiro Maeda, Masami Ogura, Hitoshi Nishio
  • Patent number: 9781828
    Abstract: A module substrate includes a plurality of electronic components mounted on at least one surface of a base substrate and a columnar terminal connection substrate connected to the one surface of the base substrate on which a plurality of the electronic components are mounted. The terminal connection substrate includes a plurality of conductor portions, at least one corner of the columnar terminal connection substrate is chamfered with a flat surface and/or curved surface, and the terminal connection substrate is connected at a side surface thereof contacting the chamfered surface, to the one surface of the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Issei Yamamoto, Yoshihito Otsubo
  • Patent number: 9766486
    Abstract: A flexible display apparatus includes a main body, a rotation structure and a signal transfer portion. The main body includes a control circuit portion. The rotation structure includes a rotation body and a flexible display panel. The rotation body is capable of rotating about an axis extending in a first direction, and the flexible display panel is fixed to the rotation body. The signal transfer portion transfers a signal between the control circuit portion and the flexible display panel. A method of manufacturing the flexible display apparatus is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Jae Lee, Mu-Gyeom Kim
  • Patent number: 9746882
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic device with a curved display module. A housing has a first surface adjacent to the display module and the first surface is formed to have a curvature corresponding to the curvature of the display module. At least one electronic component is disposed in a second surface of the housing that is opposite to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chan-Keun Song, Jong-Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 9750143
    Abstract: A control system including: a stationary control console and a first emergency stop button positioned on the control console, a mobile control unit including a mobile holder and a second emergency stop button arranged on the mobile holder, the control console including at least one cavity, the mobile holder configured to assume a first position in which the second emergency stop button is located inside the cavity to be hidden from a view of a user, and a second position in which the second emergency stop button is outside the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Tewfik Meftah, Francis Chauvet, Dominique Benni
  • Patent number: 9723727
    Abstract: The modular electronic instrumentation platform chassis is for use with a plurality of instrumentation modules and includes a frame defining a module area and a non-module area. The module area includes a plurality of slots open to a front of the frame and configured to receive instrumentation modules therein. A front panel may be carried by the front of the frame adjacent the plurality of slots. A chassis power unit is configured to provide power to the plurality of instrumentation modules received in the slots. A reference clock unit carried by the frame in the non-module area and is configured to provide a low phase-noise reference clock for the plurality of instrumentation modules received in the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kuen Yew Lam
  • Patent number: 9713851
    Abstract: A method and system for securing a flexible circuit to a mounting structure is disclosed. The system can include a surface-mount device, flexible circuit, stiffener, and bracket. The stiffener is used as an intermediate coupling device between the flexible circuit and bracket. The flexible circuit is coupled to the stiffener with a heat-activated adhesive. Next, the surface-mount device is mounted to the flexible circuit with surface-mounting techniques. A peripheral area of the stiffener is then welded to the bracket. The bracket in turn can be fastened to the enclosure of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas G. Merz, Shayan Malek, Sawyer I. Cohen, Timothy Lui
  • Patent number: 9703319
    Abstract: A curved surface adjustment structure for an LED display screen, and an LED display screen. An upper frame and a lower frame of a box body of the LED display screen are both formed by rotatably connecting hinge blocks. Each of the hinge blocks comprises a hinge block body, on which a rotating connecting structure and a locating structure are provided. The rotating connecting structure comprises a lug and a groove body which are respectively arranged on two side edges of each hinge block, and a lateral groove is provided in the groove body; the lug on one hinge block is inserted into the groove of another hinge block which is adjacent thereto, and is movably connected together through a limiting shaft; and an arc-shaped groove hole, which is used as a motion track of the limiting shaft, is provided on the lug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Shenzhen Create LED Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Furong Guo, Zhoukun Wang
  • Patent number: 9699926
    Abstract: A case for an electronic device includes an injection preform having a recess on at least one portion of a surface thereof, a deposition layer deposited on a surface of the injection preform, and a paint layer formed on the deposition layer. The deposition layer may directly contact a surface of the injection preform. A method of manufacturing a case includes injection-molding an injection preform having a recess on a surface thereof, forming a deposition layer directly contacting a surface of the injection preform, and forming a paint layer on the deposition layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-Youn Hwang, Won-Tae Kim, Hak-Ju Kim, Jong-Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 9693476
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus has a configuration in which plate-like bus-bars are laminated via an insulating material to define a pair of bus-bars. A laminated bus-bar, in which the pair of bus-bars is disposed vertically so that a width direction thereof is in a vertical direction, includes a pair of voltage measuring terminals that is correspondingly branched from a part of the pair of bus-bars to extend toward a circuit board. The pair of voltage measuring terminals is arranged symmetrically with respect to the pair of bus-bars to extend upward toward the circuit board, while extending in an intersecting direction intersecting with the pair of bus-bars, to be electrically connected to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: KEIHIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Nagasawa, Hiroaki Iida, Morifumi Shigemasa, Yasuhiro Maeda, Masami Ogura, Hitoshi Nishio
  • Patent number: 9684344
    Abstract: An exterior case includes a first member to which a hinge bracket is attached, a fastener portion being a portion of the first member surrounding a hole in the first member, and being thickened in a thickness direction of the first member, a second member that is fixed to the first member and surrounds the fastener portion of the first member, and at least one fastener screw screwed into the hole to fasten the first member and the second member together and to fasten the hinge bracket to the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Yasufumi Yamamoto, Masuo Ohnishi, Takashi Abe, Sonomasa Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9661776
    Abstract: Mounting assembly for a backplane communication system. The mounting assembly includes a retention collet that has a collet base and a coupling arm that extends from the collet base. The collet base includes a passage therethrough. The collet base is configured to be mounted to a backplane such that the passage extends through the backplane and the coupling arm extends from the collet base away from the backplane. The mounting assembly also includes a spacer member having a member cavity that receives the coupling arm when the spacer member is mounted to the backplane. The coupling arm is held in a locked position when engaged by a guide pin that has been inserted through the passage of the collet base and into the member cavity. The retention collet and the spacer member are interlocked when the coupling arm is in the locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jared Evan Rossman
  • Patent number: 9658655
    Abstract: A cover structure for an electronic apparatus is disclosed. The cover structure includes a bezel, a first bracket and a first handle. The bezel includes two long sides, a first lateral side and a second lateral side. The first bracket is fixed on the first lateral side and includes a first protruding portion. The first handle moveably combines with the bezel, and the first handle is moved substantially parallel to each long side of the bezel. The first handle includes a first recess and at least one first fixed portion, and the first protruding portion is disposed in the first recess. The at least one first fixed portion is used for combining with a housing of the electronic apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Ching-Jen Yu
  • Patent number: 9625944
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure may take the form of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a housing defining a port and a cavity, a processing element contained within the cavity of the housing, an input/output device (such as, but not limited to, a sound wave transducer) in selective communication with the port, and a flow-blocking member movably connected to the housing. The flow-blocking member selectively prevents fluid-flow, such as the flow of air, through the port. The electronic device also includes a fluid repelling member connected to the housing and positioned in a flow path between the port and the input/output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Douglas J. Weber