Circuits For Reducing Thermal Inertia; Circuits For Predicting The Stationary Value Of Temperature (epo) Patents (Class 374/E7.042)
  • Patent number: 11886914
    Abstract: A system, and method for controlling a computing system, comprising: reading a stored energy-performance characteristic of a plurality of different phases of execution of software, an execution of each phase being associated with a consumption of a variable amount of energy in dependence on at least a processing system performance state, the performance state being defined by a selectable performance-energy consumption optimization for at least two processing system components; scheduling a plurality of phases of execution of the software, in dependence on the stored energy-performance characteristics, for each of the respective phases of execution of the software and at least one system-level energy criterion; and executing the phases of execution of the software in accordance with the scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventor: Kanad Ghose
  • Patent number: 11883133
    Abstract: An in-vivo temperature measurement device includes a plurality of thermal resistors, temperature sensors for measuring an epidermis temperature of a living body, and temperature sensors for measuring an upper surface temperature that are provided at both ends of the thermal resistors, respectively, a memory that stores an estimation model of the core temperature of the living body that takes into consideration a non-thermal equilibrium state of the living body, and thermal resistance values of the thermal resistors, and an arithmetic circuit that estimates, based on the plurality of temperatures measured by the temperature sensors and the temperature sensors, the core temperature of the living body using the estimation model and the thermal resistance values, and the thermal resistance values are different from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Daichi Matsunaga, Yujiro Tanaka, Michiko Seyama
  • Patent number: 11872156
    Abstract: Continuous core body temperature measurements are made during hypothermic operations, where the core body temperature of the patient is lowered to reduce swelling. Caregivers monitor the patient's core body temperature to prevent damage that can occur to the patient if the patient's core body temperature becomes too low. To accurately determine the core body temperature of the patient, a temperature monitoring system measures the temperature at or near the surface of the patient and through at least a portion of a thermal block at multiple locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Valery G. Telfort, Philip Perea, Jerome Novak
  • Patent number: 11846675
    Abstract: A battery temperature estimation method includes fitting, when a battery is in an offline state, a first function relationship according to corresponding admittances of the battery at different test temperatures, and obtaining a temperature distribution model of the battery according to the shape and the size of the battery, and determining a second function relationship corresponding to internal temperatures and a surface temperature by combining with the first function relationship. The second function relationship is used for estimating the internal temperature of the battery by using the surface temperature and the admittances of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaoqian Li, Tianyu Feng, Sijia Liu, Yonggang Yin, Shiwei Shu
  • Patent number: 11836028
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a management controller configured to determine whether to initiate control of power consumption of a memory subsystem of the information handling system. A closed-loop memory thermal controller may receive temperature values to determine a temperature setpoint for the memory subsystem, and calculate an error value that is a difference between the temperature setpoint and a temperature measurement. If the error value is within a temperature margin, then the thermal controller may determine a proportional-integral power signal based on the temperature margin and the temperature measurement; and determine a proportional-integral gain based on a maximum rate of change of the temperature measurement between polling events of the temperature measurement and a polling rate of the temperature measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Hasnain Shabbir, Carlos Henry
  • Patent number: 11726507
    Abstract: A smart-home device may include a temperature sensor, energy-consuming subsystems, and processors programmed to receive a temperature measurement from the temperature sensor for an ambient environment surrounding the temperature sensor; receive inputs from the energy-consuming subsystems that indicate power-consuming activities of the energy-consuming subsystems; providing the inputs from the energy-consuming subsystems to a model that is trained to calculate an effect of the power-consuming activity of the energy-consuming subsystems on the temperature measurement from the temperature sensor; and calculating an estimate of the temperature of the ambient environment by compensating the temperature measurement from the temperature sensor with using the effect of the power-consuming activity of the energy-consuming subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Adam Warren, Michael Mitchell, Gwendolyn van der Linden, Ford Rylander, Brian Silverstein, Arun Raghupathy
  • Patent number: 11717170
    Abstract: In one embodiment a temperature sensor system includes two sensor assemblies with different thermal resistances, each sensor assembly including a temperature sensing portion and a thermoelectric generator portion configured to receive heat flow from a body through the associated temperature sensing portion. A control unit is operably connected to the sensor assemblies and the memory. The control unit is configured to execute program instructions stored in the memory to obtain signals from the temperature sensor portions and the thermoelectric generator portions and to calculate and output a body core temperature (TB) based upon the obtained signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Beatrix Mensch, Thomas Rocznik, Christian Peters, Seow Yuen Yee
  • Patent number: 11672428
    Abstract: A biological data measurement device in which a living organism having a first thermal resistance Rth1 from a core to a surface is a measuring object, includes a heat insulating layer which is disposed on a body surface of the measuring object and has a second thermal resistance Rth2; a measurement device for measuring a first and a second temperatures, which is segregated by the heat insulating layer; and an adding device for adding a predetermined delay time to the second temperature in order to correct a response delay of the first temperature as compared with the second temperature. The first temperature is a bottom side temperature of a bottom surface of the heat insulating layer, which is in contact with the body surface, and the second temperature is a top side temperature of a top surface of the heat insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TECHNO-COMMONS INC.
    Inventors: Akio Tanaka, Chun Kit Chan, Kohei Higuchi
  • Patent number: 11674856
    Abstract: A system for estimating junction temperatures of a power semiconductor module includes a constant current source to apply constant drain current to a drain terminal of a power semiconductor device, an adjustable gate voltage source to apply a gate voltage signal to a gate terminal, a drain-source voltage sensor between the drain terminal and the source terminal and configured to measure a value of the current drain-source voltage across the power semiconductor device and output a corresponding drain-source voltage signal, a gate controller to determine a difference between the drain-source voltage signal and a constant reference voltage and control output of the adjustable gate voltage source dependent on the determined difference, and a system controller to switch the power semiconductor device to its fully conducting state and to estimate junction temperature within the power semiconductor device in dependency from the on-state resistance in the fully conducting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Gerhard Steiner, Florian Kapaun
  • Patent number: 11671103
    Abstract: A circuit for sensing local operating properties of an integrated circuit is disclosed. The circuit may include one or more sensor circuits configured to sense the local operating properties of the integrated circuit. The sensor circuits may receive a supply voltage with a magnitude in a limited range from a digital power supply that is different from the digital power supply that provides power to functional circuits in the integrated circuit. Level shifters may be coupled to the sensor circuits to shift output signals from the sensor circuits to levels that correspond to the digital power supply that provides power to functional circuits in the integrated circuit. Counters and a shift register may be coupled to the level shifters to receive the shifted output signals, the values of which may be used to determine the local operating properties of the integrated circuit as sensed by the sensor circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ramy A. Ahmed, Bruno W. Garlepp, Jafar Savoj
  • Patent number: 11642974
    Abstract: A connection device for electrical connection of a vehicle to a charging cord provided with a charging socket is presented herein. The connection device includes a housing, at least a first and a second power contact disposed within the housing. Each power contact has a front section disposed in a front part of the housing which extends in a connection base and a rear section disposed in a rear part of the housing which extends in a direction substantially parallel to a direction of connection of the charging socket. The connector device also includes a printed circuit board mounted in the rear part of the housing. The printed circuit board extends in a plane substantially parallel to the direction of connection. The printed circuit board has a first face provided with a first metal pad which is compressed between the printed circuit board, an axial surface of the rear section of the first power contact, and a second face provided with a first temperature sensor which is arranged opposite the first metal pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Olivier Malandain, Stephane Barlerin
  • Patent number: 11616841
    Abstract: A digital sensor network is overlaid on an integrated circuit for identifying and mapping hotspots in the integrated circuit. The digital sensor network may include a plurality of digital sensors distributed within an area of an integrated circuit component of an integrated circuit. Each of the plurality of digital sensors may include a ring oscillator and may be configured to output a counter value of a ring oscillator counted over a designated period. A sensor network control unit may be provided that is communicatively connected to the plurality of digital sensors via a communication circuit. The sensor network control unit may be configured to receive a plurality of counter values including the counter value from each of the plurality of digital sensors and identify a hotspot within the area of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
    Inventors: Bogdan Tutuianu, Osamu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11566947
    Abstract: A temperature estimation system includes an internal temperature data obtainer that obtains internal temperature data of a smartphone carried by a user; an operation data obtainer that obtains operation data on an operation state of the smartphone; and a temperature estimator that calculates an estimated value of an external temperature in a vicinity of the smartphone from the internal temperature data and the operation data of the smartphone, based on correlation among internal temperature data of a mobile terminal device for measurement, operation data on an operation state of the mobile terminal device for measurement, and actual temperature data that represents an actual environmental temperature in a vicinity of the mobile terminal device for measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: SHISEIDO COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11527789
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a temperature adjustment method and a temperature adjustment system for a vehicle. The temperature adjustment method includes the following steps: obtaining a required power used for performing temperature adjustment on a battery; obtaining an actual power used for performing temperature adjustment on the battery; and adjusting an opening degree of an intra-vehicle cooling branch and an opening degree of a battery cooling branch according to the required power, the actual power, an intra-vehicle temperature, and an air conditioner set temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xingchi Wu, Jigang Tan, Hongjun Wang
  • Patent number: 11513933
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to a memory device are described. A controller may be configured to predict a temperature of a memory based on a real-time temperature of the controller. Based on the predicted temperature of the memory, the controller may execute a remedial action to reduce an actual temperature of the memory for executing an upcoming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Cyrus Elmtalab, Jacob Sloat
  • Patent number: 11506883
    Abstract: An optical wavelength selecting filter-module into which light is incident from a prescribed direction determined in advance, the optical wavelength-selective filter module including: an optical filter of which an orientation can be changed; a frequency information acquiring unit which acquires frequency information that is information indicating a frequency of light to be transmitted through the optical filter; a temperature information acquiring unit which acquires temperature information that indicates a temperature of the optical filter; a determining unit which determines an orientation of the optical filter based on relationship information that is information associating, for each prescribed frequency, the temperature and an orientation of the optical filter at which light of the frequency is transmitted through the optical filter at transmittance equal to or higher than prescribed transmittance at the temperature, a temperature indicated by the temperature information, and a frequency indicated by the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Imai, Takuya Kanai, Yumiko Senoo, Kota Asaka
  • Patent number: 11486768
    Abstract: A deep body thermometer that includes a body temperature measurement unit having a thermal resistor layer formed of a thermal resistor having a predetermined thermal resistance value, four temperature sensors arranged in a thickness direction of the thermal resistor layer, and a wiring substrate on which a processing circuit for processing an output signal of each of the four temperature sensors is mounted. Moreover, the thermometer includes an upper exterior body made of a foamed material of a closed cell or a semi-closed cell having a waterproof property to accommodate the body temperature measurement unit, and a lower exterior body formed of a non-foamed resin film having a waterproof property, in which peripheral edge portions of the upper exterior body and the lower exterior body are fixed in a close contact manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Shimuta
  • Patent number: 11329436
    Abstract: An electrical contact element for a plug connector includes an electrically conductive base body electrically connected to a mating contact element, the base body having a longitudinal axis extending along a plugging direction between the contact element and the mating contact element, and a first temperature probe and a second temperature probe arranged at a pair of different measurement regions of the contact element spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Marco Wolf, Michael Ludwig, Martin Rieder
  • Patent number: 11291327
    Abstract: A control system is described for synchronizing food processing steps performed by a multi-function cooking apparatus with food processing steps performed by one or more remote kitchen appliances, includes a recipe program interface for accessing a recipe program on a data storage device wherein the recipe program is configured to be executed by the cooking apparatus and has internal instructions configured to control functions of the cooking apparatus for performing food processing steps thereon, and has at least one external instruction for a remote food processing step performed by a particular remote kitchen appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbH
    Inventors: Maximilian Koennings, Maria Jose Resende, Georg Hackert, Julius Ganns, Stefan Hilgers
  • Patent number: 11144421
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to a memory device are described. The memory device may include a non-volatile (NV) memory and a controller. The controller may be configured to predict a temperature of the NV memory based on a real-time temperature of the controller. Based on the predicted temperature of the NV memory, the controller may execute a remedial action to reduce an actual temperature of the NV memory for executing an upcoming operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Cyrus Elmtalab, Jacob Sloat
  • Patent number: 10481014
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a first adaptive filter, a second adaptive filter, a filter, and a third adaptive filter. The first adaptive filter can be configured to determine an estimated magnitude of a control signal associated with a control measure based on a magnitude of a signal from a sensor, wherein the signal is indicative of operating temperature of a memory system. The second adaptive filter can be configured to determine an estimated operating temperature based on a magnitude of the control signal. The filter can be configured to determine a change magnitude of the control signal based on a difference between the magnitude of the signal from the sensor and a threshold operating temperature. The third adaptive filter can be configured to determine a throttle rate at which to apply the control signal based on a change magnitude of the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shirish D. Bahirat, Aditi P. Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 9930109
    Abstract: This invention relates to methods and systems for workload distribution, particularly in data centers, more particularly data centers which use fresh air cooling. Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems which calculate a load value for each server which takes account of both the temperature of the server and its current job queue, and determine the server to which an incoming job should be allocated on the basis of the load values of the available servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignees: Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, British Telecommunications plc, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation
    Inventors: Fabrice Saffre, Hanno Hildmann, Sebastien Matthieu Rene Nicolas
  • Patent number: 7653510
    Abstract: A device and method for providing a load calculating device is presented. In one embodiment, a load calculating device can include a variable acquiring unit configured to acquire monitoring variables. The monitoring variables can include in a detected value by a sensor monitoring a state of a circuit board and a performance characteristic obtained by a tool monitoring performance of the circuit board. The device can also store a first statistical model that is one of a regression model, an occurrence frequency distribution and a probability distribution; a second storage configured to store a second statistical model that is one of a regression model, an occurrence frequency distribution and a probability distribution. An arithmetic processor can then be used to calculate the intermediate variable from the monitoring variables according to the first statistical model and calculate the physical quantity from calculated intermediate variable according to the second statistical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kenji Hirohata, Minoru Mukai, Katsumi Hisano, Takashi Kawakami
  • Patent number: 7445381
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus capable of providing a predicted completion time for heating and/or cooling of an item based on a manually entered length of time and/or a determination of the amount of time remaining before an item such as food reaches a desired temperature such as a cooking temperature or approximately room temperature. In at least one embodiment, determining the amount of time remaining is based at least on the elapsed time and the percentage of temperature range between a first temperature and the desired temperature completed or remaining to be covered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: F.O.B. Instruments Ltd
    Inventors: Richard Rund, Pierre Charlety, Ma Huai Wang, Quan Zhi Yong