Patents Examined by Sherman Ng
  • Patent number: 11476126
    Abstract: A printed circuit board according to an embodiment includes: an insulating layer; a first pad disposed on a first surface of the insulating layer; a first conductive layer disposed on the first pad and including gold (Au); a second pad disposed on a second surface of the insulating layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the second pad and including gold (Au), wherein the first conductive layer is a conductive layer connected to a wire, the second conductive layer is a conductive layer connected to a solder, and the first conductive layer is thicker than the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Oh Cho, Yoon Tai Kim
  • Patent number: 11477544
    Abstract: A module for a networking node is disclosed. The module includes a Printed Circuit Board (“PCB”), one or more circuits mounted to the PCB and a faceplate. The faceplate includes a middle plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The first side plate extends from the middle plate at an obtuse angle relative to the middle plate towards a first side and back of the module. The second side plate extends from the middle plate, opposite to the first side plate, at an obtuse angle relative to the middle plate towards a second side and the back of the module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Simon J. E. Shearman, Fabien Colton, Daniel Rivaud, Michael R. Bishop
  • Patent number: 11469034
    Abstract: Anchor conductors extending from internal terminal conductors and being in contact with a component body are provided inside the component body. The anchor conductors are provided so as not to be connected to a coil conductor including a circulating portion, and so as not to be exposed on an outer surface of the component body. The anchor conductors are in contact with the component body to thereby enhance fixing force of the internal terminal conductors to the component body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Mizukami, Yasuo Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11469211
    Abstract: A Chip-On-Film structure, a displaying base plate and a displaying device, wherein the Chip-On-Film structure includes a first substrate; a plurality of driving chips provided on one side of the first substrate, and a plurality of first leads that are connected to the plurality of driving chips; and the plurality of first leads are for binding a displaying base plate, and a quantity of the first leads is greater than or equal to a sum of quantities of channels of the plurality of driving chips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuang Zhang, Weihong Wu, Feifan Li, Ajuan Du, Xiaoxia Huang, Liang Gao, Hufei Yang, Enjian Yang, Hao Sun, Bin Wang, Dong Wang
  • Patent number: 11464108
    Abstract: A flexible substrate includes a base substrate layer; and two patter layers laminated together on the front- and back-sides of the flexible substrate, on which electric circuit lines are printed each. In order to reduce a stress generated in the flexible substrate when it is folded and soldered to an optical communication semiconductor package, the flexible substrate has a thickness-wise concavely deformed portion in a lengthwise middle portion thereof. Also to reduce the stress, the flexible substrate having the deformed portion further has end sections and a middle section formed in its longitudinal direction, and the widths of the end sections are larger than that of the middle section, and the flexible substrate having the deformed portion further has holes and holes respectively formed near the side edges of a lengthwise middle section thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Shinjiro Nishizu
  • Patent number: 11462353
    Abstract: A winding inductor component includes a core having a columnar shaft portion and a pair of support portions provided at both ends of the shaft portion. The wiring inductor component further includes terminal electrodes provided on the pair of support portions, respectively, and being non-magnetic bodies, and a wire wound around the shaft portion and having both end portions connected to the terminal electrodes of the pair of support portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akira Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11456225
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a glass article comprises: (A) forming a first layer of catalyst metal on a glass substrate; (B) heating the glass substrate; (C) forming a second layer of an alloy of a first metal and a second metal on the first layer; (D) heating the glass substrate, thereby forming a glass article comprising: (i) the glass substrate; (ii) an oxide of the first metal covalently bonded thereto; and (iii) a metallic region bonded to the oxide, the metallic region comprising the catalyst, first, and second metals. In embodiments, the method further comprises (E) forming a third layer of a primary metal on the metallic region; and (F) heating the glass article thereby forming the glass article comprising: (i) the oxide of the first metal covalently bonded the glass substrate; and (ii) a new metallic region bonded to the oxide comprising the catalyst, first, second, and primary metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kaveh Adib, Philip Simon Brown, Mandakini Kanungo, Prantik Mazumder, Rajesh Vaddi
  • Patent number: 11456106
    Abstract: An inductor component includes cores, a coil disposed in the cores, and terminal electrodes. The coil includes first metal plates disposed on an upper surface of the cores, second metal plates disposed on a lower surface of the cores, and a plurality of metal pins each passing through one of the cores in a thickness direction. The coil has a helical shape by connecting the first metal plates to the second metal plates, with the plurality of metal pins therebetween. The terminal electrodes are spaced apart along a direction in which the helical shape extends, and are connected to the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Munetake Miyashita, Takayuki Tange, Hideaki Hashi
  • Patent number: 11452870
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses and methods for applying high voltage, sub-microsecond (e.g., nanosecond range) pulsed output to a biological material, e.g., tissues, cells, etc., using a high voltage (e.g., MOSFET) gate driver circuit having a high voltage isolation and a low inductance. In particular, described herein are multi-core pulse transformers comprising independent transformer cores arranged in parallel on opposite sides of a substrate. The transformer cores may have coaxial primary and secondary windings. Also describe are pulse generators including multi-core pulse transformers arranged in parallel (e.g., on opposite sides of a PCB) to reduce MOSFET driver gate inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Pulse Biosciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Chaofeng Huang, Gregory P. Schaadt, Kenneth R. Krieg
  • Patent number: 11450461
    Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a body having a first portion and a second portion located below the first portion, wherein a bottom surface of the first portion and a side surface of the second portion forms an opening under the bottom surface of the first portion, wherein at least one portion of an electrode is disposed on the bottom surface of the first portion of the body, and at least one portion of the second portion of the body is disposed in an opening of a circuit board with the electrode being disposed on and electrically connected with the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CYNTEC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sen-Huei Chen, Chi-Cheng Ma
  • Patent number: 11443891
    Abstract: A coil component includes: a core part including: a winding shaft; and a flange part provided on an axial-direction end of the winding shaft, which has an exterior face on the opposite side of the winding shaft, first and second side faces, and first and second groove parts provided on the exterior face and having a cut-out part on each the first and second side faces; a coil part including: a winding part of a conductor wound around the winding shaft; and two lead parts of the conductor led out from the winding part; and two terminal parts formed on the exterior face of the flange part; wherein the two lead parts are led in from the cut-out parts on the first and second side faces and fitted inside the groove parts, respectively, on the exterior face, and included in the pair of terminal parts, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Makoto Shimizu, Tomoo Kashiwa
  • Patent number: 11445645
    Abstract: A hollow shielding structure for different types of circuit elements is provided. The hollow shielding structure includes at least one element mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB), a shield dam surrounding the at least one element, and a shield cover is configured to be electrically coupled to an upper portion of the shield dam and cover the at least one element, with a gap formed between the at least one element and the shield cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keon Kuk, Il-ju Mun, Ji-woon Yeom, Yeon-kyoung Jung, Kyong-il Kim
  • Patent number: 11439004
    Abstract: Disclosed is a durable memory device comprising: a multilayer PCB having a plurality of circuit layers and a plurality of circuit layers insulating layers alternately arranged with each other, ach circuit layer being provided with a via through which the plurality of circuit layers are electrically connected, and the circuit layers has at least one ground layer; a memory member; a connection interface for connecting to a corresponding connecting portion of a computing device; and an anti-sulfuration-and-anti-high-voltage passive component which is disposed at the multilayer PCB and electrically connected to the connection interface and the memory member. By combining the anti-sulfuration-and-anti-high-voltage passive component and multilayer PCB, the durable memory device of the present invention is durable for the outdoor use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TEAM GROUP INC.
    Inventor: Chin Feng Chang
  • Patent number: 11439001
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a barrier frame, thermal potting material that fills the barrier frame, and a heat removing structure embedded into the thermal potting material. The barrier frame encloses a first device, and extends to also enclose a second location of the PCB. The thermal potting material surrounds the first device. The heat removing structure includes a first pad co-located with the first device, a second pad co-located with the second location, and a thermally conductive connection between the first pad and the second pad. The heat removing structure may remove heat generated by the first device to the second pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Iris Huang, Cliff CH Chuang
  • Patent number: 11437184
    Abstract: An inductor includes a base body and a metal body. The base body contains magnetic powder. The metal body includes first and second metal units. The first metal unit passes through inside the base body. The second metal unit is continuously provided from both ends of the first metal unit and protrudes from the base body to outside. The second metal unit is used as an outer electrode. In a cross section cut along a direction substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the first metal unit, the length of external shape lines of the sectional configuration of the first metal unit is about 1000 to 1800 ?m, and the area surrounded by the external shape lines is about 40000 to 112500 ?m2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Mori, Masayuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11430602
    Abstract: An adhesive layer is in contact with a rising portion of a metal terminal and an outer end surface of a flange portion of a drum-shaped core. A surface of the rising portion that faces the outer end surface is an inclined surface that inclines with respect to the outer end surface. The thickest portion of the adhesive layer is located near a position at which a distance between the inclined surface and the outer end surface is largest. The thickness of the thickest portion of the adhesive layer is 13 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akio Igarashi, Yuuji Igarashi, Takao Miyamoto, Takuya Ishida, Koji Onishi
  • Patent number: 11424603
    Abstract: A modular electrical wiring device assembly including, but not limited to, a frame assembly having a top surface, a bottom surface, a width, a length and a height; a primary opening defined by a primary opening surface, wherein the primary opening is positioned through the top surface and the bottom surface; a cover plate positioned over and in contacting relation to the top surface of the frame assembly, wherein the cover plate includes a cover plate opening positioned over and in line with the primary opening; and a modular electrical wiring device positioned through the cover plate opening and the primary opening, wherein a portion of the modular electrical wiring device is positioned below the bottom surface of the frame assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Pass & Seymour, Inc.
    Inventors: Alec J. Brindisi, Richard M. Rohmer
  • Patent number: 11420905
    Abstract: The present invention focuses on a silicon nitride substrate having high mechanical strength, high thermal conductivity and the like, and takes advantage of such properties to provide: a ceramic substrate capable of providing improvement in a bonding property between a silicon nitride substrate and a ceramic layer which uses a dielectric ceramic material capable of being simultaneously sintered with a low-resistance conductive material such as a low-melting metal (Ag or Cu); and a method for producing the ceramic substrate. The ceramic substrate of the present invention is obtained by stacking and bonding a silicon nitride substrate and a ceramic layer composed of a dielectric ceramic material, wherein: the dielectric ceramic material contains Mg, Al, and Si as main ingredients, and Bi or B as an accessory ingredient; and the ceramic layer includes a region with a high Si element concentration at a bonding interface with the silicon nitride substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Itoh, Shinroh Itoh
  • Patent number: 11425820
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plastic substrate and a first inner lead bonding (ILB) electrode on the plastic substrate. The first ILB electrode includes a first bonding segment, a second bonding segment, and a first connection segment. The first bonding segment is extended in a first direction oblique to a vertical direction of the display panel. The first connection segment is configured to provide an electrical connection between the first bonding segment and the second bonding segment. The first bonding segment is configured to be bonded to a first display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) chip, and the second bonding segment is configured to be bonded to a second DDIC chip configured differently from the first DDIC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Toshifumi Ogata, Atsushi Maruyama, Goro Sakamaki
  • Patent number: 11419215
    Abstract: A module includes a wiring board having a first main surface, a first component mounted on the first main surface and having a first height H1, a second component mounted on the first main surface and having a second height H2 lower than the first height H1, and a sealing resin arranged so as to cover the first component and the second component while covering the first main surface. Compared to a first connection terminal used for connection between the first component and the first main surface, a second connection terminal used for connection between the second component and the first main surface has a higher height. A surface of the first component on a side far from the first main surface and a surface of the second component on a side far from the first main surface are exposed from the sealing resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Otsubo, Kyo Shin