Patents by Inventor Filipe Fernandes
Filipe Fernandes has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240138044Abstract: A method for testing a luminaire system, and in particular for testing whether a controller (10) of the luminaire system has been correctly installed, said controller (10) being configured to control a light source, wherein, the controller is connected through a first connection interface (11; 11a, 11b) to a driver (20), the method comprising automatically controlling by the controller (10) the following step: a) applying a light output control profile for controlling a light output of the light source during a time period, and determining at least one measure representative for the light output of the light source during said time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Laurent Secretin, Filipe Fernandes
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Patent number: 11926481Abstract: Aspects include a robotic device for inspection of components of a belt conveyor comprising a mobile platform and a robotic arm having a first end coupled to the mobile platform and a second end, the robotic arm configured to guide the second end to contact at least one of the components of the belt conveyor. Further included is a method for inspecting components of a belt conveyor using a robotic device, including: obtaining temperature and/or noise data of at least one of the components of the belt conveyor; and, if the data are outside a range, then: driving a second end a robotic arm of the robotic device for contacting at least one of the components; and obtaining vibration data from at least one of the components.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: VALE S.A., UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO—UFRJInventors: Gustavo Medeiros Freitas, Marcos Paulo Torre, Gabriel Carvalho Garcia, Filipe Augusto Santos Rocha, André Stanzani Franca, Felipe Ribeiro Da Fonseca, Fernando Cesar Lizarralde, Ramon Romankevicius Costa, Alex Fernandes Neves, João Carlos Espiúca Monteiro
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Publication number: 20240025039Abstract: Physical features of an object from tactile robotic exploration, including by manipulation of the object with an effector having a tactile sensor that provides measurements representative of physical interaction of the effector and the object. This exploration may include performing a predetermined set of manipulations of the object using the effector. Measurements made during the manipulations are used to form a data representation of physical characteristics of the object, and this data representation is used to control further motion of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Edward Adelson, Branden Romero, Filipe Fernandes Veiga, Shaoxiong Wang, Chen Wang
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Patent number: 11703321Abstract: A retrographic sensor includes a transparent structure, a transparent elastomeric pad, and an at least partially reflective layer. One or more light sources emit light into a side surface of the transparent structure. The light undergoes internal reflection in the transparent structure and is reflected toward a camera oriented toward the transparent structure. The at least partially reflective layer may be semi-specular in some embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Edward Adelson, Branden Romero, Filipe Fernandes Veiga
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Publication number: 20230172550Abstract: An implantable ureteral stent for implanting in the ureter comprising a first end for placing in the renal pelvis and a second end for placing in the bladder, each said end including a pressure sensor arranged to measure urinary pressure. Each pressure sensor can include an electronic circuit with electronic components and a substrate for receiving the electronic circuit and electronic components, wherein said substrate is a flexible membrane. The flexible membrane can be a sleeve surrounding the stent or the flexible membrane can be a flexible tube that is part of a thin tube that forms the stent, in particular the flexible membrane may have a thickness of 80-150 ?m. The electronic components can be connected by wire-bonding. Each pressure sensor can have a flexible PCB having soldered electronic components. A manufacturing method is disclosed to make said implantable ureteral stent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Alexandre António ANTUNES BARROS, Catarina PIRES SEPÚLVEDA, Estevão Augusto RODRIGUES DE LIMA, Pedro BRAGANÇA, Rui Luís GONÇALVES DOS REIS, Sara CARVALHEIRA NEVES, Helena Filipa DU CUNHA FERNANDES, Hugo Filipe SIMÕES COSTA, André Filipe FERNANDES DA SILVA ANDRADE LEITE, Pedro Tiago DA CRUZ PEIXOTO, Bruno Guilherme GONÇALVES DE MATOS, Juliana Patrícia DA SILVA SOARES
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Publication number: 20230165670Abstract: An implantable biliary or pancreatic stent for implanting in the gastrointestinal tract having a first end for placing in the bile duct or the pancreatic duct and a second end for placing in the duodenum, the first end including a pressure sensor arranged to measure bile duct or pancreatic duct pressure, respectively, and the second end including a pressure sensor arranged to measure duodenal pressure. Each pressure sensor can include an electronic circuit with electronic components and a substrate for receiving the electronic circuit and electronic components, wherein said substrate is a flexible membrane. The flexible membrane can be a sleeve surrounding the stent, or the flexible membrane can be a flexible tube that is part of a thin tube that forms the stent, in particular the flexible membrane can have a thickness of 80-150 ?m. A manufacturing method is disclosed for providing said implantable biliary or pancreatic stent.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Alexandre António ANTUNES BARROS, Catarina PIRES SEPÚLVEDA, Estevão Augusto RODRIGUES DE LIMA, Pedro BRAGANÇA, Rui Luís GONÇALVES DOS REIS, Sara CARVALHEIRA NEVES, Helena Filipa DA CUNHA FERNANDES, Hugo Filipe SIMÕES COSTA, André Filipe FERNANDES DA SILVA ANDRADE LEITE, Pedro Tiago DA CRUZ PEIXOTO, Bruno Guilherme GONÇALVES DE MATOS, Juliana Patrícia DA SILVA SOARES
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Patent number: 11424588Abstract: A wire cutter apparatus includes a first rotatable wire guiding tube for receiving the leading end of a wire. The first tube has a wire entrance and a wire exit and is rotatable around the wire entrance whereby the wire exit is movable between a first wire exit position coinciding with a longitudinal feeding axis and a second wire exit position spaced away from the longitudinal feeding axis. The apparatus includes a similar, second rotatable wire guiding tube. A first crimping press receives the leading end of the wire when the wire exit is in the second wire exit position. The first crimping press and the second crimping press are both at least partially located between the longitudinal feeding axis and a first side wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Filipe Fernandes Da Anunciação, António José Costa Da Silva
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Publication number: 20210318116Abstract: A retrographic sensor includes a transparent structure, a transparent elastomeric pad, and an at least partially reflective layer. One or more light sources emit light into a side surface of the transparent structure. The light undergoes internal reflection in the transparent structure and is reflected toward a camera oriented toward the transparent structure. The at least partially reflective layer may be semi-specular in some embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Edward Adelson, Branden Romero, Filipe Fernandes Veiga
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Publication number: 20210006025Abstract: A wire cutter apparatus includes a first rotatable wire guiding tube for receiving the leading end of a wire. The first tube has a wire entrance and a wire exit and is rotatable around the wire entrance whereby the wire exit is movable between a first wire exit position coinciding with a longitudinal feeding axis and a second wire exit position spaced away from the longitudinal feeding axis. The apparatus includes a similar, second rotatable wire guiding tube. A first crimping press receives the leading end of the wire when the wire exit is in the second wire exit position. The first crimping press and the second crimping press are both at least partially located between the longitudinal feeding axis and a first side wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2018Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Filipe Fernandes DA ANUNCIAÇÃO, António José Costa DA SILVA
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Publication number: 20200383585Abstract: A method for determining an internal myocardial power of a heart, the method comprising non-invasively obtaining one or more first images that are indicative of a structure of the heart, non-invasively obtaining one or more second images that are indicative of a flow property of the heart, segmenting, based on the one or more first images, the blood pool and the myocardium of the heart, determining, based on the segmented 5 blood pool, the myocardium and the one or more second images, one or more mechanical parameters of the heart, and determining the internal myocardial power based on the one or more mechanical parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: December 10, 2020Inventors: MARCUS KELM, LEONID GOUBERGRITS, JOAO FILIPE FERNANDES, TITUS KÜHNE
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Patent number: 10818457Abstract: Electrical switch devices are installed at in-wall electrical boxes of a building. Each device features a switch module with multiple electrically controlled switches for respective connection of multiple load circuits. A control panel with a user interface is mountable over the electrical box and is connected or connectable to the switch module. A communications transceiver of each device is operable to transmit and receive communications to and from each of the other devices. The control panel has a touch-screen display, and is configured to display virtual on-screen switches, including at least one virtual switch whose output is assigned to a respective one of the electrically controlled switches of the other devices. The at least one virtual switch at one device is thereby operable to control at least one load at another of said devices. User selected names are assignable to the switches, and used to label the virtual switches.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: Umbrela Smart Inc.Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar
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Publication number: 20200281478Abstract: The disclosure refers to a method for non-invasively determining a pressure difference in a cardiovascular vessel, comprising providing imaging data indicative of imaging signals detected in a region of interest of a cardiovascular vessel, the region comprising a proximal vessel portion, a distal vessel portion, and a vessel narrowing located between the proximal and the distal vessel; and determining, from the imaging data, a pressure difference between a first location and a second location in the cardiovascular vessel portion, the first location and the second location provided in the proximal and the distal vessel portions, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Joao Filipe FERNANDES, Titus KÜHNE
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Publication number: 20200006023Abstract: Electrical switch devices are installed at in-wall electrical boxes of a building. Each device features a switch module with multiple electrically controlled switches for respective connection of multiple load circuits. A control panel with a user interface is mountable over the electrical box and is connected or connectable to the switch module. A communications transceiver of each device is operable to transmit and receive communications to and from each of the other devices. The control panel has a touch-screen display, and is configured to display virtual on-screen switches, including at least one virtual switch whose output is assigned to a respective one of the electrically controlled switches of the other devices. The at least one virtual switch at one device is thereby operable to control at least one load at another of said devices. User selected names are assignable to the switches, and used to label the virtual switches.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar
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Patent number: 10290447Abstract: A plurality of nodes installed throughout a building each include a wall-mounted unit supported by an in-wall electrical box, a connection inside said in-wall electrical box between the wall-mounted unit and the building's mains-power wiring system, and a power line communications transceiver for communication with the other nodes through the mains-power wiring system. The nodes includes respective speakers, and are operable in a music playing mode in which music data is streamed over the mains-power wiring system to two or more nodes in different rooms of the building for simultaneous audio playback therein. The wall mounted unit includes a panel mounted over the in-wall electrical box and a plurality of light sources positioned to emit light from perimeter edges of the panel to provide a wall illumination effect on the wall surface surrounding the control panel and the electrical box.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Umbrela Smart Inc.Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar
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Patent number: 10062533Abstract: An electrical switch device features a switch module housing that fits at least partially within an in-wall electrical box. The housing contains electrically controlled switches and has line and neutral contacts carried for each of the electrically controlled switches to enable connection of a different respective load circuit across each electrically controlled switch. A control panel is mountable over an open front of the in-wall electrical box and the housing therein, and has a user-interface for operation of the switch module to control the electrically controlled switches and connected loads. The control panel is sized to fully cover the open front of a multi-gang electrical box, whereby the same switch module and control panel are usable with either a single-gang or multi-gang electrical box without leaving any portion of the open front of the single-gang or multi-gang electrical box uncovered by said control panel.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Umbrela Smart Inc.Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar
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Publication number: 20160171040Abstract: System and Method or Process that validates documents in hierarchical cross-linked purpose.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2015Publication date: June 16, 2016Applicant: VORTAL-COMERCIO ELECTRONICO, CONSULTADORIA E MULTIMEDIA, S.A.Inventors: Nuno Gonçalo Maruny Vidal De Oliveira Martins, Daniel Filipe Fernandes Carvalho de Sousa Lobo
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Publication number: 20160111878Abstract: An electrical switch device features a switch module housing that fits at least partially within an in-wall electrical box. The housing contains electrically controlled switches and has line and neutral contacts carried for each of the electrically controlled switches to enable connection of a different respective load circuit across each electrically controlled switch. A control panel is mountable over an open front of the in-wall electrical box and the housing therein, and has a user-interface for operation of the switch module to control the electrically controlled switches and connected loads. The control panel is sized to fully cover the open front of a multi-gang electrical box, whereby the same switch module and control panel are usable with either a single-gang or multi-gang electrical box without leaving any portion of the open front of the single-gang or multi-gang electrical box uncovered by said control panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar
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Publication number: 20160110154Abstract: A plurality of nodes installed throughout a building each include a wall-mounted unit supported by an in-wall electrical box, a connection inside said in-wall electrical box between the wall-mounted unit and the building's mains-power wiring system, and a power line communications transceiver for communication with the other nodes through the mains-power wiring system. The nodes includes respective speakers, and are operable in a music playing mode in which music data is streamed over the mains-power wiring system to two or more nodes in different rooms of the building for simultaneous audio playback therein. The wall mounted unit includes a panel mounted over the in-wall electrical box and a plurality of light sources positioned to emit light from perimeter edges of the panel to provide a wall illumination effect on the wall surface surrounding the control panel and the electrical box.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar
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Publication number: 20160110977Abstract: Nodes installed at various locations throughout a building each include a wall-mounted unit supported by an in-wall electrical box, a connection inside said in-wall electrical box between the wall-mounted unit and said mains-power wiring system of the building, and a power line communications transceiver by which the nodes can communicate through said connection to the mains-power wiring system, and at least sensor operable to detect home intrusion events. Each node is configured to, in response to a detection of a home intrusion event by said node, activate a local alarm-responsive action at said node that detected the home intrusion event, and also send out an alarm signal for triggering additional alarm-responsive actions at the other nodes. The sensor(s) include a microphone operable to capture audible events, through which the node can recognize home intrusions events and verbal commands for voice-activated functions, and perform alarm-related or control-related functions accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Salman Qureshi, Filipe Fernandes, Ryan Ramchandar