Patents Examined by V. Trans
  • Patent number: 11976874
    Abstract: A hinge assembly for hinging a door to a cabinet of a refrigerator includes an exposed door frame that extends at least partially about a top panel and opposing side panels of the door. A mounting block is configured to be coupled to the top panel of the door. The mounting block is positioned in a cutout of the exposed door frame that is proximate a front panel of the door and is disposed between the opposing side panels. A hinge support bracket extends across a width of the cabinet and is coupled thereto. A hinge bracket is configured to be coupled to the hinge support bracket. A hinge pin is disposed between the mounting block and the hinge bracket and is engaged thereto such that an entirety of the hinge pin is external to the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Lynne F. Hunter, Daniel Lottinville, Karen J. Querfurth
  • Patent number: 11978427
    Abstract: A method for frequency tuning a set of plates of a watch. The plates are disposed one above the other forming a watch dial with a space defined between the plates. A mechanical shock to the set of plates is generated, and the vibration frequency of each plate is checked. The vibration frequency of at least one of the plates is matched if different from the other plate so as to obtain an identical vibration frequency for each plate in order to tune the plates at least according to the first vibration eigenmode so as to avoid any contact between the plates as a result of any mechanical shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Montres Breguet S.A.
    Inventors: Polychronis Nakis Karapatis, Younes Kadmiri
  • Patent number: 11977588
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for search and navigation on a network to find and display specific search identified information in documents. Queries are sent to search engine services and responses comprising snippets are returned. Then, in response to only one or a few user inputs, documents are opened and locations of content matching or best matching the snippets are found reliably and distinguished in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Inventor: Karl Louis Denninghoff
  • Patent number: 11979084
    Abstract: An isolated DC/DC converter includes a primary stage, a transformer circuit, a secondary stage, an active clamp, a first current sense node, and a second current sense node. The primary stage includes a primary switching inverter configured to invert the source DC voltage into a high-frequency alternating current (AC) voltage. The transformer circuit adjusts an AC voltage level of the high-frequency AC voltage and outputs an adjusted AC voltage. The secondary stage includes a secondary switching converter to convert the adjusted AC voltage into a secondary voltage, and the active clamp is configured to clamp the secondary voltage to provide an output DC voltage. The first current sense node is included in the primary stage conducts a source current having a first current level, and the second current sense node is included in the secondary stage and conducts a clamp current having a second current level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Sriram Chandrasekaran, Bruce Stoltz, Marty Perry, Noel Delgado
  • Patent number: 11979701
    Abstract: Disclosed is an open earphone, comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook may include a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion may be hung between the auricle of a user and the head of the user, the second portion may extend toward a front outer side of the auricle and connect the sound production component, and the sound production component may be located close to the ear canal but not block the opening of the ear canal; wherein the sound production component and the auricle may have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively, a centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction, a ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be within a range of 0.25-0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11979709
    Abstract: An earphone, including a sound production component; an ear-hook configured to place the sound production component near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, at least a portion of the sound production component extends into a concha cavity; and a microphone assembly including a first microphone and a second microphone disposed in the sound production component or the ear hook, the sound production component or the ear hook includes a first sound hole and a second sound hole corresponding to the first microphone and the second microphone, respectively; wherein a projection of the first sound hole on a sagittal plane and a projection of the second sound hole on the sagittal plane have a first distance, a ratio of the first distance to a size of a projection of the sound production component on the sagittal plane along a major axis direction is 0.7-1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SHOKZ CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lei Zhang, Peigeng Tong, Guolin Xie, Yongjian Li, Jiang Xu, Tao Zhao, Duoduo Wu, Ao Ji, Xin Qi
  • Patent number: 11971885
    Abstract: Systems and methods for information retrieval are described. Embodiments generate a dense embedding for each of a plurality of media objects to be searched, generate a sparse embedding for each of the media objects using an encoder that takes the dense embedding as an input, wherein the sparse embedding satisfies a sparsity constraint that is applied to at least one layer of the encoder during training, and perform a search on the plurality of media objects based at least in part on the sparse embedding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Fengbin Chen, Venkat Barakam, Benjamin Leviant, Amine Ben Khalifa, Kerem Turgutlu, Jayant Kumar, Sumeet Zaverilal Gala, Gaurav Kukal, Vipul Dalal
  • Patent number: 11973279
    Abstract: A patch antenna is constituted by a radiation element disposed on a substrate and a ground conductor disposed in the substrate. A dielectric member is disposed to cover the radiation element and a body of a resin material is disposed to cover the dielectric material as viewed from above. The dielectric member is disposed on a side opposite a side on which the ground conductor is disposed as viewed from the radiation element. When a direction of a normal line to the radiation element is assumed as a height direction, a line which links centroids of horizontal sectional surfaces of the dielectric member in the height direction leans with respect to the direction of the normal line to the radiation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dai Futagami, Takaya Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11973262
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided and includes a housing, a first substrate disposed in an inner space of the housing, a second substrate disposed on a first surface of the first substrate, a third substrate disposed on a first surface of the second substrate, a first conductive patch attached to at least a partial region of the side surfaces of the first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate, and a second conductive patch attached to at least another partial region of the side surfaces of the first substrate, the second substrate, and the third substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woongsun Hong, Hongil Kwon
  • Patent number: 11971206
    Abstract: A home appliance includes a refrigerator including a panel assembly. The panel assembly includes: a first panel formed of a glass material; a second panel spaced apart from the first panel and formed of a glass material; a plurality of spacers provided between the first panel and the second panel so as to maintain a gap between the first panel and the second panel, and arranged to be spaced apart from each other; a sealing member disposed between the first panel and the second panel for sealing a space between the first panel and the second panel; an exhaust hole provided in at least one of the first panel and the second panel so as to discharge air such that the space between the first panel and the second panel becomes a vacuum insulation space; and a cover member covering the exhaust hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Soyoon Kim, Eunsoo Yang, Joonghan Son, Sangho Park
  • Patent number: 11973417
    Abstract: A voltage drop Vzs is calculated based on an output current detection value Iac and a virtual synchronous impedance Zs or a corrected virtual synchronous impedance Zs?, and a value obtained by subtracting the voltage drop Vzs from an internal induced voltage Ef is output as a grid voltage command value Vac*. Zs calculation unit 7 limits an output current phase ? so that the output current phase ? is within an effective range by a phase limiter 12a, and calculates the corrected virtual synchronous impedance Zs? based on a limited output current phase ?, the internal induced voltage Ef, a grid voltage detection value Vac and a current limit value Ilim. Accordingly, in grid interconnection power conversion device that controls a virtual synchronous generator, it is possible to continue operation while suppressing an overcurrent and possess a synchronizing power generated by action or working of a virtual synchronous impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY HOLDINGS, INCORPORATED, MEIDENSHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Suzuki, Jun Takami, Ryota Samejima, Hideki Noda, Naoto Maeda, Toshiya Inoue, Kazu Shoji
  • Patent number: 11969088
    Abstract: A guide rail including a rail body and a fastening element having a narrow front edge portion abutting the rail body, and configured as a bracket element from an angled sheet metal material with limbs oriented at an angle and connected along a bending edge, and a horizontal limb forming the flat material portion with the upper side and with the underside of the flat material portion with the edge portion. A horizontal limb of the bracket element has an inner limb portion adjoining the bending edge and an outer limb portion adjoining the inner limb portion via a longitudinally extending shoulder. The outer limb portion includes the edge portion and a reinforcing mechanism is provided on the fastening element as an arch extending along the shoulder over a partial region of the outer limb portion and over the shoulder and over part of the inner limb portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Grass America, Inc.
    Inventors: Story Woolson, Toni Hayes, Manfred Peer, Georg Domenig
  • Patent number: 11970893
    Abstract: A furniture fitting for moving a movable furniture part relative to a furniture carcass includes a housing to be connected to the furniture carcass, and an actuating mechanism arranged or can be arranged at least in part within the housing. The actuating mechanism can be connected to the movable furniture part, and the actuating mechanism can swivel about at least one rotation axis. The actuating mechanism and/or at least one inner side of the housing facing the actuating mechanism has a local elevation, by which, at least in a relative position of the actuating mechanism to the housing, a play between the actuating mechanism and the inner side of the housing facing the actuating mechanism is at least halved in comparison to a region surrounding the local elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Julius Blum GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Holzapfel, Philip Schluge
  • Patent number: 11973409
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a heating system comprising: a heating element for heating a process medium; a DC power converter configured to receive an input direct-current voltage from a power supply and to deliver an output direct-current voltage to the heating element; a sensor arrangement configured to generate a first sensor output signal indicative of a thermodynamic parameter of the process medium or the heating element; and a controller configured to control the DC power converter based on the first sensor output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Chromalox, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Mark Trussler, Walter Thomas Robinson, Jie Chen
  • Patent number: 11970072
    Abstract: An example of a vehicle electrical system includes a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) having a first voltage and a power inverter electrically connected to the RESS. The system further includes an electric motor having a plurality of machine windings with each of the machine windings including a polyphase terminal electrically connected to the power inverter. The electric motor further includes a neutral terminal separate from the polyphase terminals. The system further includes an accessory load electrically connected to the power inverter and the neutral terminal of the electric motor, with the accessory load requiring a second voltage that is below the first voltage. A current flows through the machine windings to step down the first voltage to the second voltage. The power inverter is configured to cycle between first and second operational states, such that the power inverter steps down the first voltage to the second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Rashmi Prasad, Chandra S. Namuduri
  • Patent number: 11970273
    Abstract: Examples provide a seat assembly, a system including the seat assembly and a method for reducing electromagnetic interference in an aircraft. A seat assembly for an aircraft includes a frame having a base and a support member operatively coupled to the base. A seat is coupled to the base and a first side of the support member. The seat includes a conductive substrate layer configured to absorb electrical charges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Murat Saylik, Joseph A. Bolton
  • Patent number: 11973880
    Abstract: A data processing method for a data processing system having a first communications node and a second communications node where the first communications node corresponds to a first blockchain node and the second communications node corresponds to a second blockchain node that maintains a same block chain as the first blockchain node, the method including obtaining, by the first communications node, to-be-verified data when a terminal camps on a target cell, where the to-be-verified data is obtained based on camping information of the terminal, and the target cell is a cell within signal coverage of the first communications node sending, by the first communications node, the to-be-verified data to the second communications node, so that the second communications node verifies the to-be-verified data based on the second blockchain node, and obtaining, by the first communications node, a target block if the verification succeeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yunfei Qiao, Rongdao Yu, Yinggang Du, Guangjian Wang
  • Patent number: 11973277
    Abstract: Disclosed is a 5G NR antenna device. An antenna module includes an antenna material formed of a metal material and having a semi-planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) structure, and a support formed in the shape of a hexahedron with side and bottom faces that are bent from the antenna material by stamping, wherein the support and the antenna material are formed as an integral body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon Kim, Chang Hyun Lee, Dong Wook Park
  • Patent number: 11974092
    Abstract: A method for operating a bone conduction communication system can include establishing a communicable connection, operating a transducer in an input mode wherein the bone conduction transducers are configured to detect a vibration associated with a bone of the user; transmitting an audio signal over the communicable connection; and operating the transducers responsive to the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Mobilus Labs Limited
    Inventor: Jordan McRae
  • Patent number: 11973440
    Abstract: A voltage converter for direct current includes a power converter circuit having a transformer, a switch converter bridge on a primary-side of the transformer, and a full-bridge rectifier on a secondary side of the transformer. The full-bridge rectifier has first and second rectifier branches. A capacitor is asymmetrically connected to the second rectifier branch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ulrich Lukas