Patents Examined by Suresh K Rajaputra
  • Patent number: 11977045
    Abstract: An embodiment humidity sensor device includes a humidity sensor including a measurement section for measuring humidity, a housing accommodating the humidity sensor while the measurement section is exposed to the outside, and a wall member protruding from a bottom surface of the housing and surrounding a periphery of the measurement section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroto Matsuoka, Takako Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11976921
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing magnetic tracking error in the position and orientation determined in a magnetic tracking system having a magnetic field generator. In some embodiments, the measured position and orientation of a sensor is compared to an expected theoretical position and orientation. Any error is assumed to be from “floor distortion,” i.e., eddy currents in the floor caused by the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field transmitter. The floor distortion is modeled as being caused by eddy currents caused by a second magnetic field transmitter that is a reflection of the actual transmitter. An algorithm iteratively searches over a parameter space to minimize the difference between the measured position and orientation and the theoretical position and orientation, and applies a correction to the measured position and orientation. The measurements and corrections of the position and orientation run in real-time with no additional hardware or calibration required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Penumbra, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Collins, Alejandro S. Diaz, Oded Y. Zur, Cameron J. Mahon, Branislav Vasilijevic, Amir Rubin
  • Patent number: 11971252
    Abstract: An inductive position measuring sensor comprises a fixed ruler and a sliding ruler which can move relatively along the direction of the measuring axis. A series of coupling coils are made on the fixed ruler in the measuring direction,-two sets of driving coils are disposed on the sliding ruler, and induction coils in a staggered manner are also disposed on the sliding ruler. The two sets of driving coils generate excitation signals, by interaction with the coupling coils on the fixed ruler, and being received by the induction coils of the sliding ruler, they are used for measuring the relative movement of the fixed ruler and the sliding ruler. By controlling the positions and winding directions of the driving coils and the induction coils, the sensor can effectively inhibit the direct space signal interference of the driving coils to the induction coils, and the signal-to-noise ratio is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Inventor: Jia Hao
  • Patent number: 11971380
    Abstract: A pump device has at least one chamber (22) or conduit containing or provided for containing a liquid, a concentration sensor (24) arranged in the chamber (22) or conduit for detecting a concentration of a substance in the liquid and an evaluation unit (28) connected to the sensor (24). The sensor (24) and the evaluation unit (28) are configured for an electrical impedance measurement. The evaluation unit (28) is configured such that a measurement for detecting the concentration is carried out by use of an electrical signal applied to the sensor (24) having at least one frequency corresponding to or above an upper cut-off frequency (f2) of a frequency range showing a constant electrical impedance (Rm). A method is provided for determining the concentration of a substance inside a liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GRUNDFOS HOLDING A/S
    Inventors: Gert Friis Eriksen, Jørgen Jensen
  • Patent number: 11953536
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave visualization device includes an image acquisition unit that captures an image of a target device, a measurement unit that measures an electromagnetic wave intensity of the target device, a controller that sets a measurement range of the measurement unit and generates a composite image in which a measurement result of the measured electromagnetic wave intensity is superimposed on the captured image of the target device acquired by the image acquisition unit, and an output unit that outputs the composite image generated by the controller, in which the controller generates the composite image including the measurement range of the measurement unit and outputs the composite image to the output unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichi Tanimoto, Ryo Matsubara, Shinkuro Fujino
  • Patent number: 11946956
    Abstract: A signal detection circuit detects, as a detection target signal, a signal of a main terminal of a switching element by comparing the detection target signal with a reference signal. The signal detection circuit includes: a signal generation unit generating the reference signal; a first capacitor having a first terminal connected with the main terminal of the switching element; a second capacitor having a first terminal connected with an output terminal of the signal generation unit; and a detection circuit receiving, as input signals, a signal output from a second terminal of the first capacitor and a signal output from a second terminal of the second capacitor, and the detection circuit detecting the detection target signal based on the input signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takasuke Itou, Tomohiro Nezuka, Yasuaki Aoki, Yuuta Nakamura, Takashi Yoshiya
  • Patent number: 11946777
    Abstract: A position detection device includes a position sensor including a coil and a magnetic core, and a signal processor. The signal processor generates a rectangular wave voltage applied to the coil, converts a current which flow through the coil by the rectangular wave voltage into a voltage and outputs the voltage, and acquires a voltage measurement value obtained by sampling the output voltage after predetermined time in synchronization with a timing of rising or falling of a waveform of the rectangular wave voltage. The predetermined time is set such that the voltage measurement value is restricted within a range of 40% or more and 99.999% or less with respect to a maximum value of the rectangular wave voltage when the coil is at a position where an inductance of the coil is minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: AKEBONO BRAKE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhito Watanabe, Toru Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: 11937751
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a movable electric device. The movable electric device includes a movable device body and a contact detection electrode. The movable device body has an electric drive means. The contact detection electrode is mounted on the movable device body. When the contact detection electrode _contacts diffusible dirt, a resistance, capacitance or impedance of the contact detection electrode varies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: GUANGDONG MIDEA WHITE HOME APPLIANCE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER CO., LTD., MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pin Yang, Jiefeng Cheng, Xinjian Huang, Shuyun Wu, Junge Zhang
  • Patent number: 11921155
    Abstract: A dice testing method is provided. The dice testing method is used to determine which test data of test items can be explained by test data of other test items based on statistical analysis. After the test items with the test data that can be explained by the test data of the other test items are found out, corresponding dices will not be tested for those test items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TANGO AI CORP.
    Inventor: Min-Ju Tsai
  • Patent number: 11915902
    Abstract: A conduction inspection method for a multipole aberration corrector according to one aspect of the present invention includes applying, in a state where a predetermined potential has been applied to each shield electrode, an inspection charged particle beam to pass through a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening, using a multipole aberration corrector which includes an upper-stage substrate where the first opening is formed and a shield electrode is arranged around the first opening, a middle-stage substrate where the second opening is formed, a plurality of control electrodes are disposed to be opposite each other across the second opening, and a plurality of wirings are arranged to be individually connected to one of the plurality of control electrodes which are different from each other, and a lower-stage substrate where the third opening is formed and a shield electrode is arranged around the third opening, and which corrects aberration of a correction charged particle beam passing through
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Atsushi Ando, Kazuhiko Inoue
  • Patent number: 11906509
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for characterizing shuttle capture events in a nanopore sensor. The method first collects time-dependent current blockage signatures for at least one bias voltage. The method then identifies each signature as corresponding to a permanent or transient event. The method then generates a protein dynamics landscape (PDL) for the transient event signatures. The PDL comprises a set of histograms of nanopore current data and characterizes current through the nanopore during shuttle capture events. The method can then comprise identifying an entrance level blockage value based on the permanent event signatures. Permanent event captures can be determined by time duration which is larger than a certain threshold time value. Applying a voltage between the fluidic chambers above a threshold voltage level can be used to control that the vast majority of events are permanent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Lene V. Hau, Jene A. Golovchenko
  • Patent number: 11900709
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor package includes a first substrate including a core insulating layer; a first bonding pad on the core insulating layer; and an external connection pad between an edge of the second surface of the core insulating layer and the first bonding pad, a second substrate on the core insulating layer, the second substrate including: a plurality of first sensing patterns spaced apart in a first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a plurality of second sensing patterns spaced apart from each other in the second direction and extending in the first direction; and a second bonding pad, a conductive wire connecting the first bonding pad to the second bonding pad; a controller chip on the second substrate; and a molding layer covering the second substrate and the first bonding pad and spaced apart from the external connection pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaehyun Lim, Younghwan Park, Kwangjin Lee, Dongha Lee, Hyuntaek Choi
  • Patent number: 11867737
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a detection apparatus includes a pair of conductors configured to detect an electromagnetic wave occurring due to a discharge phenomenon in a target apparatus, wherein the pair of conductors are arranged in a near field region of the target apparatus in which the electromagnetic wave occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Inoue, Tetsu Shijo, Yasuhiro Kanekiyo
  • Patent number: 11860332
    Abstract: A semi-airborne electromagnetic survey device and a semi-airborne electromagnetic survey method based on coaxial coplanar mutual reference coil assembly are provided. The device includes a measuring coil and a reference coil with linear correlation of additive motion noise; the reference coil and the measuring coil have a same bandwidth, are coaxial and coplanar and are in hard connection or soft connection; detection resolution of the reference coil only distinguishes the additive motion noise; detection resolution of the measuring coil distinguishes real vertical magnetic field signals and motion noise simultaneously; the reference coil has a much smaller outer diameter than the measuring coil. In the method, one coil only receives the additive motion noise, and an other coil simultaneously receives the additive motion noise and the real vertical magnetic field signals; and the additive motion noise received by the two coils is cancelled to obtain the real vertical magnetic field signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Lili Kang, Zhongxing Wang, Xiong Yin, Zhiyao Liu
  • Patent number: 11859970
    Abstract: The present application provides a biasing device for detecting a conductor position and wire processing equipment. The biasing device has a bracket, a first drive mechanism, and a detection mechanism. The first drive mechanism has a first support shaft and a mounting slide block rotatably arranged on the bracket, and a mounting slide block, the mounting block can move relative to the bracket along the extension direction of the first support shaft when the first support shaft rotates; the detection mechanism is fixedly connected to the mounting slide block, and is arranged movably relative to the bracket along the extension direction of the first support shaft to determine whether the measured conductor is located in the detection area of the designated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhen Wang, Yiqun (Cham) Zhu
  • Patent number: 11835563
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for systems and methods for using pulsed radio frequency (RF) signals to stimulate one or more modulated scattering probes (MSPs) to enable measurements of distance to and planarity of a surface of a wireless device under test (DUT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: LITEPOINT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Minh-Chau Huynh, Morten Damgaard, Christian Volf Olgaard
  • Patent number: 11835575
    Abstract: A tester apparatus is described. Various components contribute to the functionality of the tester apparatus to facilitate movement of a wafer pack holding a vacuum without human oversight. These functionalities include a latch system to keep the wafer pack intact and a pressure sensing system to detect and relay a pressure in the wafer pack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: AEHR TEST SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Gaylord Lewis Erickson, II, Jovan Jovanovic
  • Patent number: 11828799
    Abstract: An electrical property testing device of an evaluation board includes a main circuit board, a voltage detecting unit, a storing unit, a processing unit and an adapter board. The voltage detecting unit is configured to detect a plurality of voltage values of the signal pads. The storing unit stores a plurality of standard voltage values corresponding to the signal pads. The processing unit is electrically connected to the voltage detecting unit and the storing unit. The processing unit receives the voltage values and determines whether the voltage values match the standard voltage values to generate a determining result. The adapter board includes a plurality of conductive pads. The conductive pads are correspondingly connected to the signal pads of the evaluation board. The voltage detecting unit detects the voltage values of the signal pads of the evaluation board via the conductive pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ho-Chu Kao
  • Patent number: 11826123
    Abstract: A transmitting element for generating a magnetic field for tracking of an object includes a first spiral trace that extends from a first outer origin inward to a central origin in a first direction. A second spiral trace can extend from the central origin outward to a second outer origin in the first direction. The second spiral trace can extend from the central origin to the second outer origin in the first direction. The first spiral trace and the second spiral trace can be physically connected at the central origin to form the fluorolucent magnetic transmitting element and at least a portion of the first spiral trace overlaps at least a portion of the second spiral trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ST JUDE MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL HOLDING S.À R.L.
    Inventors: Anthony D. Hill, John Hauck, Ryan M. Albu, Timothy G. Curran, Ryan Link
  • Patent number: 11825605
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides an interconnect between a stretchable electronic element and a circuit on a rigid or flexible printed circuit board (PCB Circuit), the stretchable electronic element is operable to be mechanically coupled to a substrate which deforms, and the stretchable electronic element will deform with the substrate and may or may not change an electrical characteristic as a result, the stretchable electronic element comprising one or more electrical pathways; the PCB Circuit configured to communicate electronically with the stretchable electronic element and comprising at least one circuit board extending from the stretchable electronic element to an electrical circuit on the PCB Circuit; wherein the interconnect comprises an electrical coupling between the electrical pathways of the stretchable electronic element and the PCB Circuit; and wherein the interconnect simultaneously prevents the connection between the stretchable electronic element from failing when the stretchable substra
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sensor Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Todd Alan Gisby, Llewellyn Adair Sims Johns, Andrew Thomas Wong, Felix Qing-Song Lun, Paul Malcolm Guininbert, Jeremy Labrado, Lewis Freeth Harpham, Elodie Lyath Bouzbib