With Housing Or Chassis Patents (Class 361/752)
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Patent number: 11765844Abstract: A power conversion device, as an electronic device, includes a circuit substrate, a metal housing, an external connection terminal, and an insulator. The external connection terminal projects from the interior to the exterior of the metal housing, and is used to connect an output terminal of the circuit substrate to the exterior. A part of the insulator is disposed between the metal housing and the external connection terminal, and insulates the metal housing and the external connection terminal from one another. A housing extension portion is formed in the metal housing, extending from a body portion of the metal housing, in the inward direction with respect to the metal housing, in a condition facing the external connection terminal. A part of the insulator is disposed between the external connection terminal and the housing extension portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Hideki Miyabayashi, Kenji Ochi, Kazuma Kawai
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Patent number: 11758667Abstract: An electronic control unit (1) includes a connector (2), the connector includes a connector main body (21) and a plurality of terminals (23), the connector main body includes an attachment surface (24) and a seal arrangement portion (210) on a surface (25), the seal arrangement portion includes a first seal arrangement portion (211) formed in an arrangement direction of the terminals, and a second seal arrangement portion (212) that is continuous with both end portions (213) of the first seal arrangement portion and is inclined toward the electronic control board side as it goes toward the other end side facing one end side of an electronic control board (6), the first seal arrangement portion includes a plurality of predetermined portions (2112) formed so as to be directed toward the electronic control board side from a center side of the first seal arrangement portion toward both end sides of the first seal arrangement portion at both end portions of the first seal arrangement portion, the cover (3) includeType: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.Inventors: Masato Saito, Michihito Watarai
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Patent number: 11751343Abstract: A modularly expandable electronic control unit comprises: an electronic circuit board on which a conductor track is disposed on a side in a region of lateral edges and enclosing an inner region and separating it from an outer region of the side, a housing having two halves for receiving the electronic circuit board. With the housing assembled, at least one housing half has an encircling electrically conductive shielding wall which rests on and establishes electrical contact with the conductor track and/or has at least one receptacle accessible from outside the assembled housing. The receptacle is disposed so the electronic module placed in the receptacle may be electrically connected to a module connection port disposed in the outer region of the electronic circuit board. The electronic circuit board has electrical connections between the module connection port and one or more electronic assemblies disposed on the inner region.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Florian Von Reitzenstein, Christoph Kopp, Harsha Walvekar
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Patent number: 11751341Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a bottom cover, a main board provided with a stud, a screw, a washer, and a sponge. The screw has a head portion having a diameter larger than that of an attachment hole, a male screw portion configured to be screwed into a first female screw portion, and a columnar portion having a diameter smaller than a root diameter of the male screw portion. The washer has a flange portion having a diameter larger than that of the attachment hole, a cylindrical portion having a diameter smaller than that of the attachment hole, and a second female screw portion which the male screw portion is screwable into and passable through. The head portion abuts on the bottom cover to fix the bottom cover by the male screw portion. The flange portion is between the stud and the bottom cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.Inventors: Tatsuya Ushioda, Jun Iwasaki, Masaaki Bandoh, Ryota Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamazaki
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Patent number: 11744057Abstract: An apparatus and method for shielding for surface-mount LTCC components and filters to increase the signal isolation from input signal port to output signal port, and to increase isolation from other electrical signals external to the component or filter. Some embodiments include an interposer two-sided and plated through printed circuit board to provide a constant impedance transition from a surface-mount device input and output ports to corresponding input and output connection points of a circuit on a printed circuit board onto which the device is mounted, including a ground plane transition.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Scientific Components CorporationInventor: Aaron Vaisman
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Patent number: 11740655Abstract: A foldable window includes a first film having a modulus, a second film which faces the first film, is closer to a display panel of the display device than the first film and has a modulus, and an adhesive layer which is between the first film and the second film, bonds the first film to the second film. The modulus of the first film and the modulus of the second film are both equal to or more than about 7 gigapascals.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Seokwon Jang, Chul Ho Jeong, Dasom Gu, Yongchan Jeon
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Patent number: 11737235Abstract: A propulsion control device of the present disclosure includes: a housing; a gate controller disposed at one end side of an interior space of the housing in a longitudinal axis direction X, the gate controller being configured to control a power converter; a fan disposed under the gate controller, the fan being configured to feed air to the gate controller; and an airflow guide member disposed at the side opposite to the fan relative to the gate controller, having, on an interior face of a ceiling of the housing, an airflow guide face having a predetermined angle with respect to the vertical direction, the airflow guide member being configured to guide air passed through the gate controller to flow toward the other end side of the interior space of the housing in the longitudinal axis direction X.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventor: Yuta Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11726284Abstract: A telecommunications enclosure extender couples a first telecommunications enclosure to a second telecommunications enclosure. The extender has enlarged heads that mount at seal arrangement mounting locations of the first and second telecommunications enclosures.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventor: Johan Geens
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Patent number: 11729936Abstract: A server chassis includes a baseboard, a power distribution board, and a busbar module. The baseboard includes a front end and a rear end. The front end and the rear end define a chassis depth. The power distribution board is positioned on the baseboard. The busbar module includes a chassis-side busbar connector. The chassis-side busbar connector is configured to mate with a rack-side busbar connector. The rack-side busbar connector is positioned on a rack having a rack depth. The busbar module is adjustable, such that the chassis-side busbar connector mates with the rack-side busbar connector in a first configuration and a second configuration. In the first configuration, the rack depth is approximately equal to the chassis depth. In the second configuration, the rack depth is greater than the chassis depth.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Ren-Cheng Liao, Ting-Kuang Pao
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Patent number: 11714335Abstract: An electronic device includes a body frame formed by mating first to third members. The first and second members each include first to third mating surfaces. The first and second mating surfaces face corresponding surfaces in a first direction and the third mating surfaces face each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first to third members each include fourth to sixth mating surfaces. Between the first and second members and the third member, the fourth and fifth mating surfaces face corresponding surfaces in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and the sixth mating surfaces face each other in the second direction. Microstructures for a liquid repellency are provided on at least one of the first to third mating surfaces and at least one of the fourth to sixth mating surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Shogo Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11712876Abstract: A housing included in a home appliance and used as a decorative housing is shaped like an inverted tray and includes a wood layer, a non-woven cloth layer bonded to the wood layer via a bonding resin layer, and a substrate resin layer fixed to the wood layer while infiltrating gaps between fibers in the non-woven cloth layer. A predetermined cutout pattern is formed on a colored coating film applied to a front surface of the non-woven cloth layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2017Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: Nissha Co., Ltd., Art & Tech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Watanabe, Hideharu Johno, Yasuhide Fukada
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Patent number: 11707341Abstract: A jig includes a base and one or more movable blocks. The base has an upper surface, which is configured to receive a substrate shaped as a flattened polyhedron having multiple facets. The one or more movable blocks are configured to move on the base so as to fold respective ones of the multiple facets, and to hold the substrate in a folded three-dimensional configuration.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Yehuda Algawi, Assaf Govari, Ilya Sitnitsky
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Patent number: 11703919Abstract: Provided is an expansion card installation module including an expansion-card bracket, an operating element, a stopper, and a driving component. The operating element is pivoted on the expansion-card bracket. The stopper is slidably disposed on the expansion-card bracket and is located at a stop position or a non-stop position. The stopper at the stop position is adapted to stop an expansion card in the expansion-card bracket, and the stopper at the non-stop position releases the expansion card, such that the expansion card is allowed to be removed from the expansion-card bracket. The driving component is movably disposed on the expansion-card bracket. The operating element is adapted to push against the stopper to move the stopper from the stop position to the non-stop position, and the driving component is adapted to position the stopper at the non-stop position. A server is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Wistron CorporationInventor: Yong-Qing Zhong
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Patent number: 11705593Abstract: A rack type power source device includes a plurality of battery packs, a rack to house the plurality of battery packs being arranged, and a connector plate fixed to the rack at a far side in a direction in which the battery packs are inserted into the rack. The connector plate is provided with a plurality of connectors designed to be electrically connected to terminals of the plurality of battery packs. The connector plate includes a side wall that constitutes a part of a first-side wall of the rack, and a connector mount wall disposed at an inner position in the rack so as to form a depth difference from the side wall. The connector mount wall is provided with the plurality of connectors arranged corresponding to the battery packs housed in the rack.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Naito, Takashi Hasegawa
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Patent number: 11706888Abstract: A positioning structure adapted for installing and fixing at least two storage devices having different sizes is provided. Each storage device has a plugging end and a fixing end. The positioning structure includes a casing, a socket disposed on the casing, at least two position-limiting components protruding from the casing, and a fixing bracket detachably engaged with any one of the position-limiting components. The plugging end of each storage device is adapted to be plugged into the socket. The position-limiting components respectively keep a first distance and a second distance greater than the first distance from the socket. According to the size of the storage device to be installed, the fixing bracket is engaged with the position-limiting component keeping the first distance from the socket or the position-limiting component keeping the second distance from the socket to fix the fixing end of the storage device to the fixing bracket.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Acer IncorporatedInventor: Li-Hua Hu
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Patent number: 11706879Abstract: A subrack including a frame defining a subrack space and adapted to receive a device module to an operative position, the frame comprising four side walls and an end wall. The subrack comprises a coupling system adapted for coupling the subrack to four other subracks in order to form a subrack matrix, the coupling system comprising at least one wall recess on an inner surface of each of the side walls, and at least one primary screw hole in each of the side walls such that the at least one primary screw hole is located in the at least one wall recess.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Matti Koskinen, Toni Nygren, Joonas Puukko
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Patent number: 11687680Abstract: A technique includes providing a security monitor to at least detect a penetration attack on a circuit assembly that contains the security monitor. The technique includes inhibiting success of the penetration attack, including flexibly mounting the security monitor to the circuit assembly to allow the security monitor to move in response to the security monitor being contacted during the penetration attack.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Utimaco Inc.Inventor: John M. Lewis
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Patent number: 11681174Abstract: A display device is provided, and the display device includes: a display module, including a first outer surface, a second outer surface and a side surface; a tape, including a first part and a second part, wherein the first part is bonded to an edge of the first outer surface of the display module, and the second part is bonded to the side surface of the display module; a cover component, wherein the cover component and the display module are arranged oppositely and spaced apart; and a tape holder between the cover component and the display module, wherein the tape holder includes a main body portion and at least one through hole formed in the main body portion. A method for manufacturing the display device is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaiwen Wang, Haifeng Xu, Hui Dong, Qiang Zhang, Aixia Sang
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Patent number: 11683905Abstract: A connection mechanism is provided with a circuit board that replaces internal chassis cabling to multiple electronic devices. In use, the motion of a lever of the connection mechanism drives a carrier of the circuit board in one direction to make an electrical connection at a side of the circuit board. Continued motion of the lever drives the carrier downward to make an additional electrical connections at the bottom of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.Inventors: Chen An, Mahesh Kumar Varrey
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Patent number: 11675137Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a device and system of devices including: a connector comprising a housing comprising a groove lengthwise in a surface of the housing and a push-pull tab comprising a protrusion, a widthwise recess on the connector housing accepting protrusions on a removable anchor device that retains the connector in a port, wherein the push-pull tab releases the connector from the port using protrusions on the anchor device and the receiver device comprising one or more ports for receiving one or more connector types; and the receiver device comprising one or more ports without an anchor; said port secures a second connector type comprising a latch release mechanism; and the receiver device ports are opposite one another; wherein the opposite ports can accept a first connector and a second connector; wherein the first connector release mechanism and differs from the second connector release mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takano, Jeffrey Gniadek, Kim Man Wong, Siu Kei Ma
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Patent number: 11678538Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a highly reliable display device. In particular, a display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. Further, a bendable display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. The display device includes, over a flexible substrate, a display portion, a plurality of connection terminals to which a signal from an outside can be input, and a plurality of wirings. One of the plurality of wirings electrically connects one of the plurality of connection terminals to the display portion. The one of the plurality of wirings includes a first portion including a plurality of separate lines and a second portion in which the plurality of lines converge.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kensuke Yoshizumi
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Patent number: 11678453Abstract: A socket which holds an IC package and is to be mounted on a circuit board is described that includes: a housing with a bottom portion, two pairs of side wall portions and an opening accommodating the IC package, contacts and holders. The bottom portion is provided with penetration holes. The two pairs of side wall portions face each other across the opening and one pair of side wall portions are provided with ribs protruding outward. The contacts are supported by the housing so as to pass through the penetration holes and are exposed on an opposite side of the opening. The holders have first support holes and are fixed to side surfaces of the housing with the ribs passing through the first support holes.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Hui Zhang, Jie Zhang, Xiaohui Li
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Patent number: 11677291Abstract: A motor includes a motor main body including a rotor and a stator, a housing that houses the motor main body, a controller that is located above the motor main body o controls rotation of the rotor, and a cover that surrounds the controller from a radially outer side. The housing includes a cover joint that is annular and surrounds the controller when viewed in an axial direction. The cover includes a cylindrical portion that surrounds the cover joint from an outside in a radial direction. The cover joint includes a contact portion that contacts a surface of the cylindrical portion in the radial direction and an adhesive joint that is bonded with the cylindrical portion via an adhesive in the radial direction. The contact portion and the adhesive joint are adjacent each other in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Hattori, Yuichi Nishikawa, Takao Atarashi, Yuki Hamada, Yu Kuwamoto
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Patent number: 11672097Abstract: An electronic device for an aircraft includes: a casing; a first boss projecting from a bottom wall of the casing toward an opening of the casing; a second boss projecting from the bottom wall of the casing toward the opening of the casing by a larger amount than the first boss; a first circuit board fixed to the first boss; and a second circuit board fixed to the second boss. The first circuit board includes cutouts penetrated by the second boss when the first circuit board is fixed to the first boss.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventor: Hisanobu Kimura
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Patent number: 11660890Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a housing having a discharge port through which a printing medium being allowed to be discharged; an installation part to which a unit being removably installable to the installation part, the unit being configured to surround at least a part of the discharge port in a case the unit is installed, the unit being configured to perform specific processing on the printing medium; and a lid member removably installed to the installation part, the lid member being installable to the installation part in a case the unit is not installed to the installation part.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Ikemoto, Yushi Kato, Sho Asai, Shotaro Watanabe, Takehiko Inaba
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Patent number: 11659675Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a first case in which a groove is arranged along an outer circumference; a second case that overlaps with the first case and that has a rib extending toward a bottom face of the groove; and a seal member that is sandwiched between the bottom face and the rib, wherein the groove includes: a first side wall that is arranged on one end portion of the bottom face; and a second side wall that is arranged on other end portion of the bottom face, a height of the first side wall from the bottom face is lower than a height of the second side wall, and the first side wall does not come into contact with the second case.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takafumi Satou, Takeyuki Dohda, Kenji Ishibashi
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Patent number: 11658446Abstract: A relay connector connects a plurality of front female terminals that are fitted from a front side in a front-rear direction and a plurality of rear female terminals that are fitted from a rear side in the front-rear direction together. The relay connector includes a housing and a busbar. The housing includes a front insertion recess portion, a rear insertion recess portion, an intermediate wall portion, and a busbar holding portion disposed at the intermediate wall portion. The busbar includes a base portion, a rear tab, an extension portion extending from the base portion to the same side in an up-down direction, and a front tab extending from an extension end of the extension portion to the front-insertion-recess-portion side. The rear tab includes a rear held portion adjacent to the base portion and a rear male terminal portion housed in the rear insertion recess portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shozaburo Koyama, Yuto Mantani
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Patent number: 11638575Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis and therapy apparatus according to an embodiment may include an ultrasound output unit including a plurality of ultrasound output elements, a circuit board that can be attached and detached through a connecting board connected to the ultrasound output unit to determine a function of the ultrasound output unit, and a control unit configured to control a setting value of each of the plurality of ultrasound output elements, wherein therapy and diagnosis functions are selectively or simultaneously implemented by changing the circuit board. With the ultrasonic diagnosis and therapy apparatus, it is possible to selectively or simultaneously implement the therapy and diagnosis functions by selectively mounting different types of circuit boards that determine the type and function of ultrasound outputted from the ultrasonic transducers.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Byung Chui Lee, Hyung Min Kim, Ki Joo Pahk, Hyunsu Lee, Nakwon Choi, Hong Nam Kim
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Patent number: 11641716Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a step of forming a resist pattern, and a step of forming a conductive pattern by using the resist pattern. The resist pattern has an acute angle portion in which an outer edge of a resist is bent to form an acute angle in a plan view. In a corner portion of the acute angle portion, an outer-side outer edge of the resist is rounded, and a radius of curvature of the outer-side outer edge is more than or equal to a distance from the outer-side outer edge to another outer edge adjacent thereto in a direction away from a center of curvature of the outer-side outer edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kou Noguchi, Hiroshi Ueda
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Patent number: 11638359Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a module electronics package. The modular electronics package includes a main circuit. The first main circuit board is configured to provide electrical interconnections to form an electric circuit. The modular electronics package includes a first power module. The first power module includes a first power device card and a first expansion slot. The first power device card is configured to be inserted into the first expansion slot and to be electrically coupled to the main circuit board via the first expansion slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Danny Lohan, Shailesh N. Joshi
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Patent number: 11624888Abstract: A high density fiber enclosure system includes a chassis, cassette trays, an optional unification clip, cassettes, and an optional trunk cable management system. The chassis, cassette trays, and cassettes are configured such that individual cassettes may be installed, removed, and otherwise positioned for easy access by a user. The unification clip allows two adjacent cassette trays to be connected to one other such that cassette trays move as one unit. The trunk cable management system is designed to organize trunk cables and trunk cable furcation legs as well as relieve strain on the trunk cables and trunk cable furcation legs.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Jerry A. Wiltjer, Shaun P. Brouwer, Gregory L. Kuffel, Joel D. Kwasny, Kai C. Lui, Benjamin S. Novak, Joseph E. Sanders
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Patent number: 11626357Abstract: 3D electrical integration is provided by connecting several component carriers to a single substrate using contacts at the edges of the component carriers making contact to a 2D contact array (e.g., a ball grid array or the like) on the substrate. The resulting integration of components on the component carriers is 3D, thereby providing much higher integration density than in 2D approaches.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: FormFactor, Inc.Inventors: Roy J. Henson, Shawn O. Powell
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Patent number: 11622214Abstract: An eartip includes a compliant portion that forms at least a portion of a sound channel, and a wax guard that is supported in the compliant portion and is disposed within the sound channel. The wax guard includes a porous, planar body that permits the passage of acoustic energy but inhibits the passage of cerumen therethrough, and a retention member. The retention member is arranged along an outer edge of the planar body and in direct contact with the compliant portion. The retention member includes a plurality of openings. A compliant material that forms the compliant portion permeates the openings in the retention member to assist in retaining the wax guard in the compliant portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew D. Dominijanni, Christopher R. Paetsch, Ryan Joseph Wexler, Richard Lionel Lanoue
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Patent number: 11621469Abstract: Power-combining devices, and more particularly spatial power-combining devices with increased output power are disclosed. Increased output power may be realized by increasing a number of transmission paths for amplification that are associated with each amplifier assembly of a spatial power-combining device. Each transmission path may include an input antenna structure, an amplifier, and an output antenna structure for providing amplification of signals that pass therethrough. In this manner, a total number of transmission paths for amplification may be increased without having to increase a total number of amplifier assemblies. Further improvements to electrical separation and stability between neighboring amplifier assemblies may be provided by electrically grounded conductive sheets that are arranged between neighboring amplifier assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.Inventors: John Kitt, Dylan Murdock
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Patent number: 11619980Abstract: In an example, an electronic device chassis may include a back panel and an expansion card bracket which may be attached or attachable to the back panel. The expansion card bracket may include a bracket body, a lock feature to engage with an expansion card of the electronic device, and a retention loop extending from the bracket body to receive a portion of a peripheral device to lock the peripheral device to the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Tien Liang Chung
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Patent number: 11622477Abstract: An apparatus comprising an ac/dc power supply for providing power to power consumers in an internet data center or to a stand-alone server includes power-handling circuitry and a passive heat-dissipation system that passively dissipates heat generated by the power-handling circuitry. The passive heat-dissipation system comprises a housing that encloses that power-handling circuitry and a thermal network that provides thermal communication between the power-handling circuitry and faces of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: AA Power Inc.Inventor: Qun Lu
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Patent number: 11606658Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a privacy blocking device configured to prevent receipt, by a listening device, of video and/or audio data until a trigger occurs. A blocker may be configured to prevent receipt of video and/or audio data by one or more microphones and/or one or more cameras of a listening device. The blocker may use the one or more microphones, the one or more cameras, and/or one or more second microphones and/or one or more second cameras to monitor for a trigger. The blocker may process the data. Upon detecting the trigger, the blocker may transmit data to the listening device. For example, the blocker may transmit all or a part of a spoken phrase to the listening device.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Inventor: Thomas Stachura
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Patent number: 11599143Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display, a middle plate, an adhesive layer, a support layer, and a coating layer. The housing includes a front plate facing a direction, a rear plate facing an opposite direction, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the front and rear plate. The display is configured to be seen through the front plate, and includes a first and second surface. The middle plate is disposed between the display and the rear plate, and includes a surface facing the display, and a recess. The adhesive layer is attached to the display, and the support layer is disposed between the adhesive layer and the middle plate. The coating layer is disposed between the support layer and the adhesive layer and is disposed in a first portion overlapped with the recess when viewed from the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jonghwan Choi
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Patent number: 11586251Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Scott A. Myers
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Patent number: 11585359Abstract: A fixing device includes a substrate, a slot, a fixing bracket. The slot is disposed on the substrate, and a first end of an expansion unit is inserted in the slot. The fixing bracket is disposed on the substrate, in which the fixing bracket includes a force receiving upper portion and a supporting lower portion. An accommodating space is defined between the force receiving upper portion and the supporting lower portion. When a force is applied to or released from the force receiving upper portion, the force receiving upper portion elastically deforms or elastically recovers. Therefore, the fixing bracket switches between an open state and a fixing state for enabling the accommodating space to selectively accommodate a second end of the expansion unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kuo-Jui Lu
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Patent number: 11581516Abstract: A heat radiation member for a flexible display having a bending panel fixing member is disclosed, and an electronic device using the same is disclosed, wherein the heat radiation member includes a heat radiation sheet portion including a metal layer; a bending panel fixing member attached to a first area in one surface of the heat radiation sheet portion; a spacer attached to a second area in the one surface of the heat radiation sheet portion; a dummy double sided tape attached to the spacer; an upper delamination film covering an entire area of the other surface of the heat radiation sheet portion; and a lower delamination film covering an entire area of the dummy double sided tape and an entire area of the bending panel fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kou Choi, Junjae Lee, JongHyuk Kim, Kwangju Lee, Junho Yun, Myeongah Shin
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Patent number: 11582881Abstract: A cabinet and a server having the cabinet are disclosed, the cabinet includes a housing, two trays, an elastic piece, and a limiting piece. The trays are arranged in parallel and capable of sliding out of an opening or retracting in the housing. The elastic piece is connected to the housing and arranged between the trays. The limiting piece is connected to the elastic piece and arranged between the trays, each of the trays defines a hole corresponding to the limiting piece, each of the trays includes a protrusion. When one of the trays slides out of the opening, the protrusion slides to the limiting piece and pushes the limiting piece into the hole of the other tray; when the tray retracts in the housing, the protrusion slides away from the limiting piece, the elastic piece elastically recover the limiting piece to separate from the hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.Inventors: Han-Yu Li, Gong-Wen Zhang, Yang Li, Jin-Xing Zhang, San-Long Zhou, Jun Li
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Patent number: 11573612Abstract: A type of portable computer with interchangeable components is provided. The chassis of the portable computer includes an upper part, a lower part, and an edge part. The edge part can be equipped with removable input and output (I/O) plates. The motherboards and batteries of this type of portable computer are standardized with or without optional components such as optical drives and/or 2.5 inch hard drives. Motherboards, batteries and other components can be mounted in the chassis of the portable computer through fixed mounting stands and/or removable mounting standoffs. The portable computer allows the I/O plates and/or the edge part to be replaced. Therefore, a motherboard with different I/Os, a motherboard and other components with different heights, and an auxiliary cooling system can be installed in the chassis. In the portable computer, mounting stands and standoffs can be shared by multiple components.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Inventors: Zhonghong Liang, Benjamin Liang
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Patent number: 11575234Abstract: A male connector (100) includes a contact pad substrate (101) and a connector shell (102). The contact pad substrate (101) includes a linear array of contact pads (103a, 103b, 103c, 103d) that are adapted for aligning with corresponding contacts (103?a, 103?b, 103?c, 103?d) of a contact-bearing tongue (104?) of a corresponding female connector (100?) that conforms to a USB Series A receptacle contact pad pitch specification. The two outermost contact pads (103a, 103d) of the linear array are electrically connected together. The connector shell (102) is formed from an insulating material and comprises a tubular portion (102a) for insertion into the corresponding female connector (100?), and a handling portion (102b) for handling during insertion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Robert Willem Bosma, Johannes Antonius Van Rooij, Willem-Jan Arend De Wijs, Jan Harm De Boer, Mustafa Hakan Gokgurler
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Patent number: 11570924Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board. The apparatus also includes a first connector coupled to the printed circuit board. The first connector is configured to couple the apparatus to a computing device. The apparatus further includes a second connector coupled to the printed circuit board. The second connector is configured to couple the apparatus to a data storage device. The apparatus further includes a securement mechanism comprising a first portion and a second portion. The securement mechanism is movable about the apparatus between a first position and a second position. The first portion is configured to maintain the securement mechanism at the first position. The second portion is configured to secure the data storage device to the apparatus when the securement mechanism is in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Everett Lyons, Daniel Linnen, Randy Gillespie
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Patent number: 11565638Abstract: An electric connection box that has a function of relaying power of power supply supplied from an input-side power supply line and supplying the relayed power of power supply to an output-side load on a vehicle, that includes a first circuit unit, a second circuit unit, and an air blower configured to blow air to the first circuit unit, and in which the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit are arranged in a state of being close to each other, the electric connection box includes: a gap portion that is a space formed on a boundary between the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit; and an airflow guide portion configured to guide an airflow blown by the air blower to both the first circuit unit and the gap portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Minoru Kubota
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Patent number: 11570887Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) and a method of manufacturing the same is described. The PCB includes a substrate defining a major plane and an integrated electromagnetic interference and compatibility (EMC/EMI) shielding enclosure configured to enclose the substrate. The shielding enclosure includes a metallic top layer deposited on top of the major plane of the substrate so as to envelop an uppermost layer of the substrate, a metallic bottom layer deposited on bottom of the major plane of the substrate so as to envelop a bottommost layer of the substrate, and a metallic side layer formed along a length of one or more edges of the substrate to electrically connect the metallic top layer and the metallic bottom layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Shaowu Huang, Dance Wu
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Patent number: 11562970Abstract: A semiconductor device, including a semiconductor module, a positioning member and a printed board. The semiconductor module includes a case that stores a semiconductor chip, a plurality of external terminals electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and extending upward from a front surface of the case, and a reference pin extending upward from the front surface of the case. The positioning member has a reference hole and a plurality of supporting holes penetrating therethrough. The printed board including a plurality of terminal holes that respectively correspond to the plurality of external terminals. The printed board is disposed on the front surface of the case via the positioning member. The plurality of external terminals of the semiconductor module are respectively attached to the plurality of terminal holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Tadahiko Sato
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Patent number: 11549834Abstract: A multifunctional environmental sensor device is connectable to a terminal of an electronic device for use. The sensor device includes a substrate, a plurality of different types of components mounted on the substrate and including at least a light emitter and an illuminance sensor, and a wiring pattern located on a surface of the substrate and including a contact to be in contact with the terminal of the electronic device. The light emitter is mounted on a surface of the substrate opposite to a surface of the substrate on which the illuminance sensor is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mino, Kayo Nakamura, Ryusuke Sakai, Yuhei Motoki, Naotsugu Ueda
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Patent number: 11550313Abstract: There is provided an equipment element maintenance analysis system including: a history information acquirer that is attached with at least one equipment element and acquires, at a predetermined timing, operation history information on a piece of manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product; an error rate calculator that calculates an error rate based on the number of errors related to each of the at least one equipment element, included in the operation history information; a maintenance determiner that determines maintenance necessity of each of the at least one equipment element; and a notifier that notifies an information item on an equipment element determined to require maintenance among the at least one equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nakajima, Hitoshi Komatsu, Manabu Ohuchi, Kazuyuki Yoshidomi, Noritada Kawamoto, Hirofumi Koga