Abstract: A system and method for die crack detection in a CMOS bonded array includes a capacitor that is formed in an edge seal, where one of the capacitor plates is in the edge seal portion of a first wafer, and the other capacitor plate is in the edge seal portion of a second wafer. A crack in the die can be detected by applying an alternating current waveform to a testing contact on the integrated circuit and monitoring for a shift in the alternating current waveform, as a crack would cause modulation in the capacitance.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 22, 2021
Date of Patent:
September 20, 2022
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Jayavel Pachamuthu, Kirubakaran Periyannan, Daniel Linnen
Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a miniaturized horn antenna suitable for ultra-wideband measurement, and relates to the technical field of horn antennas. The antenna includes a horn antenna body, a coaxial connector and a mounting base, wherein the horn antenna body includes an upper plate, a lower plate, a side plate and a cover plate which are provided with ridges, mounting seats being formed on front and rear sides of an upper half cavity and a lower half cavity, several threaded holes being provided in the mounting seats separately, an upper mounting groove and a lower mounting groove being formed between the mounting seats of the upper plate and between the mounting seats of the lower plate respectively, the upper mounting groove and the lower mounting groove jointly forming a mounting space of a protrusion part at a left end of the cover plate.
Abstract: A sensor device for measuring a rotational position of an element that is rotatable about an axis of rotation includes a sender member emitting a magnetic field and a plurality of receiving members receiving the magnetic field. Each of the receiving members has a pair of conductors that together delimit a pair of surrounded areas. Each of the surrounded areas tapers in and against a circumferential direction at ends of the surrounded areas.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 10, 2020
Date of Patent:
September 13, 2022
Assignees:
TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH, TE CONNECTIVIYU BELGIUM BV
Abstract: Embodiments of this application relate to the technical field of electronics, and disclose an electrical control device detection circuit, a detection method, and an electric vehicle. In some embodiments of this application, the detection circuit is configured to detect a drive circuit of the electrical control device. The drive circuit includes a high-side switch unit. The detection circuit includes a first detection module and a control module. A first end of the first detection module is connected to a first end of the electrical control device. A second end of the first detection module is connected to a second end of the electrical control device. A third end of the first detection module is connected to the control module.
Abstract: A system for measuring the voltage potential across test coupons, reference cells and metal structures is disclosed. The system may evaluate the amount of cathodic protection that may be applied to the metal structure. A series resistor may be configured between at least one of the test coupons and the metal structure so that the at least one test coupon may be at a lower voltage potential than the metal structure.
Abstract: Techniques for measuring liquid properties include circulating a mixed oil-water liquid flow through a fluid flow circuit; polarizing the mixed oil-water liquid flow with a pre-polarizing magnet to an initial polarization; circulating the polarized mixed oil-water liquid flow to an EFNMR detector that includes a radio-frequency (RF) coil and a surrounding electromagnet; further polarizing the polarized mixed oil-water liquid flow with the surrounding electromagnet; measuring fluid induction decay (FID) values of the additionally polarized mixed oil-water liquid flow with the EFNMR detector; transforming the measured FID values to an effective adiabatic transition from the Earth's field to the polarizing field; determining a velocity of the oil in the mixed oil-water liquid flow and a velocity of the water in the mixed oil-water liquid flow based on differences in NMR signal relaxation properties of the transformed FID values; and determining an oil content and a water content of the mixed oil-water liquid flo
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 31, 2020
Date of Patent:
August 30, 2022
Assignee:
Saudi Arabian Oil Company
Inventors:
Keelan Thomas O'Neill, Michael Leslie Johns, Einar Orn Fridjonsson, Paul Louis Stanwix, Jana M. Al-Jindan, Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi
Abstract: The invention relates to a device for measuring a first parameter of a specimen, the device including a measuring volume configured to receive the specimen, a first control module and a measuring module, the first control module being configured to supply electricity to the measuring module with an electrical supply current, the measuring module including a magnetic field generator, a sensor and a second control module, the magnetic field generator being configured to generate a magnetic field in the measuring volume, the sensor being configured to measure values of a variable of the measuring volume during the generation of the magnetic field, the second measuring control module being configured to calculate a value of the parameter based on at least one value of the variable. The first control module is configured in order, following the generation of the magnetic field, to inhibit the power supply of the measuring module during a first predetermined length of time (dn).
Abstract: An approximation B?f(Id,?) of a fluorescence spectral emissivity coefficient by a standard illumination light Id is obtained at following steps from spectral power distributions R(Ik,?) of sample radiation lights radiated from a fluorescence whitened sample when the fluorescence whitened sample is sequentially illuminated with a plurality of excitation lights Ik having different spectral power distributions, and a spectral power distribution Id(?) of the standard illumination light Id. Spectral power distributions Rf(Ik,?) of fluorescence are obtained from the spectral power distributions R(Ik,?) by respective excitation lights Ik (first step). The spectral power distributions Rf(Ik,?) of fluorescence by the respective excitation lights Ik are linearly combined with a given weighting coefficient Wk, and an approximation R?f(Id,?) of a spectral power distribution of fluorescence by the standard illumination light Id is obtained by equation (second step: #11).
Abstract: Provided is a measurement device including an application unit, a detection unit, and a calculation unit. The application unit applies a first magnetic field, which is generated by applying a pulse current to a coil or applying currents with a plurality of frequencies to the coil in order, to an object. The detection unit detects a second magnetic field which is generated by applying the first magnetic field to the object. The calculation unit calculates a distribution of a magnetic field source m in the second magnetic field. The calculation unit may further generate an imaging signal for displaying the calculated distribution of the magnetic field source m, as an image. The display unit displays the image indicating the distribution of the magnetic field source m by using the imaging signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 26, 2021
Date of Patent:
August 23, 2022
Assignees:
National University Corporation Kobe University, Integral Geometry Science Inc.
Abstract: A method and device for monitoring a multi-die power module in a half-bridge switch configuration are provided. The method and device are designed to set dies in a non conductive state, select one die which is blocking a voltage, inject a current in a gate of the selected die in order to charge an input parasitic capacitance of the selected die, monitor a voltage that is representative of a voltage on the gate of the selected die, and memorize the value of the monitored voltage when the value of the monitored voltage is stabilized.
Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for creating a maximum intensity projection of a volume of an examination subject, MR data are acquired for a number of slices of the volume, and an MR image is reconstructed for each of the slices that MR data have acquired in order to create a maximum intensity projection for each of the slices. The maximum intensity projection of the respective slice is shown on a display. The slices, which have a thickness of at least 15 mm, have various slice directions, in order to display the maximum intensity projections from various directions.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 2018
Date of Patent:
August 16, 2022
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH
Inventors:
Dominik Paul, Flavio Carinci, Wilhelm Horger
Abstract: A hybrid automated testing equipment (ATE) system can simultaneously test electrical and optical components of a device under test, such as an optical transceiver. The device under test can be a multilane optical transceiver that transmits different channels of data on different lanes. The hybrid ATE system can include one or more light sources and optical switches in an optical test lane selector to selectively test and calibrate each optical and electrical components of each lane of the device under test.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a magnetic arrangement for detecting the relative movement and/or relative position of a first and a second object to each other in six components, namely three displacements and three angular rotations in and about three axes of the Cartesian coordinate system respectively with at least six sensor units to detect the three displacements and the three angular rotations, wherein each sensor unit has at least one magnet and a magnetoresistive sensor, wherein the at least one magnet of the sensor unit can be moved relative to the magnetoresistive sensor of the sensor unit, and wherein each sensor unit has a sensor direction, wherein the magnetoresistive sensor measures a position of the at least one magnet along the sensor direction. The present disclosure also relates to an input device and a mobile input device that has a magnetic arrangement of this kind.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 5, 2018
Date of Patent:
August 2, 2022
Assignee:
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
Inventors:
Volker Senft, Josef Reill, Armin Wedler, Nikolaus Seitz
Abstract: A test socket assembly including a contactor body having a socket opening sized and configured to receive a device under test therein, and one or more waveguides at least partially disposed within the contactor body or external to the contactor body. The assembly further including at least one waveguide antenna probe coupled with the one or more waveguides, where the at least one waveguide antenna probe including a first set of sides and a second set of sides, at least one of the first set of sides are flared out away from the longitudinal axis.
Abstract: A heterodyne, wideband active load pull tuner allows creating and controlling the reflection in a different frequency range than the operation frequency. It comprises an active feedback loop and a digital electronic tuner, wherein the electronic tuner operates at a single frequency while the active loop is wideband. This is achieved using a pair of down- and up-conversion stages, driven by an external signal source (local oscillator) which tracks the operation frequency and creates a fixed intermediate frequency, which is processed by the electronic tuner. This, two-frequency operation bypasses all circulator and electronic tuner bandwidth limitations and uses readily available large band components such as mixers and amplifiers.
Abstract: A position detection device includes a magnetic detection element, a wiring, a first component and a second component as a first mold resin, a terminal, and a sensor cover as a second mold resin. The magnetic detection element can detect a change in magnetic field. The wiring is connected to the magnetic detection element. The first component and the second component mold the magnetic detection element and the wiring so that the wiring is exposed. The terminal is connected to the wiring. The sensor cover molds the first component, the second component and the terminal so that the first component and the second component where the magnetic detection element is located are exposed, and has a deformation suppressing portion. The deformation suppressing portion suppresses the deformation of the first component or the second component when the sensor cover is deformed.
Abstract: A method for modeling electromagnetic characteristics of a vehicle having electrical components comprising generating a parallel plate waveguide model and inserting a vehicle model for the vehicle within the parallel plate waveguide model. The vehicle model has a plurality of lumped ports corresponding to on-board electrical components. The method executes an electromagnetic field solver on a first and second waveguide ports and the lumped ports and determines a scaling factor between a first power level configured to excite the first and/or second waveguide ports and a second power level configured to excite the lumped ports. The electromagnetic field solver runs on the first and second waveguide and lumped ports, producing a first output data and the method produces a scattering parameter (S-parameter) model for the vehicle from the first output data that includes a plurality of S-parameter ports.
Abstract: A device for determining an angle of rotation and/or a torque of a rotating part, having at least one angle detector for detecting an angular position of the rotating part relative to a reference position and at least one indexer for indexing at a 360° rotation of the rotating part relative to the reference position, the angle detector having a rotor connected in a non-rotatable manner to the rotating part with a base body for attachment to the rotating part and a plurality of vanes extending radially outwardly from the base body. At least one of the vanes of the rotor have a marker detectable by means of the indexer.
Abstract: A charging system includes a charger, a battery charged by receiving a power of a first voltage from the charger, a multi-charge configured to boost a power of a second voltage lower than the first voltage to the first voltage and supply the boosted power to the battery, a charge relay connected at a position between the battery and the charger and configured to be switched to be in an ON state when the power of the first voltage is supplied from the charger and to be in an OFF state when the power of the second voltage is supplied from the charger, and a charging controller configured to control, based on whether a melting fault of the charge relay occurs, whether to supply the power of the first voltage to the battery through the charge relay or to supply the battery with the power through the multi-charge device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 10, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 28, 2022
Assignees:
HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
Abstract: A drive circuit for driving an electronically commutated motor contains a DC voltage intermediate circuit, and an inverter which is connected to the latter and has a bridge circuit containing a plurality of transistors, to which the motor phases of a motor configuration containing the motor can be connected. For detecting an insulation fault in the motor configuration, a positive or negative transistor of the inverter is switched on, while all other transistors of the inverter are switched off before all transistors of the inverter are switched off. A motor phase voltage of a selected motor phase of the motor phases with respect to a reference potential is then captured, while all transistors of the inverter remain switched off in order to determine whether there is an insulation fault on the motor phase on a basis of a voltage profile of the motor phase voltage.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 12, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 28, 2022
Assignee:
Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG
Inventors:
Martin Weinmann, Andreas Schmid, Sebastian Tinius