Patents Assigned to "A" Co.
  • Terminal device, electronic device and control method for determining the position of searching object device
    Patent number: 10536922
    Abstract: A controlling method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a search request for a searching object device from a terminal device, broadcasting a pre-defined search signal in response to the search request, in response to a response signal being received from an external device in response to the pre-defined search signal, analyzing a pattern of the received response signal and determining whether the external device is the searching object device, and in response to the external device being determined as the searching object device, transmitting intensity information of the received response signal to the terminal device to determine a position of the external device which is determined as the searching object device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-bae Yoon
  • Patient support plate including accessory part
    Patent number: 10531995
    Abstract: The invention provides a patient supporting plate (2) consisting of at least one first and one second patient supporting components (3, 4) and an accessory part (7). The first or the second patient supporting component (3, 4) is provided with a hinge (5) having a swivel axis (6). The hinge (5) has a drive element (11) for swiveling the patient supporting components (3, 4), as well as at least one coupling element (8) for coupling the first patient supporting component to the second patient supporting component (3, 4). The drive element (11) and the coupling element (8) are arranged juxtaposed in the direction of the swivel axis (6) and can be fastened to one another by means of at least one first detachable fastening element (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: TRUMPF MEDISIN SYSTEME GMBH + CO. KG
    Inventors: Kevin Fiedler, Arnd Kuchenbecker, Carmen Ludwig
  • Support structure including conductive paths and electronic device having the same
    Patent number: 10534405
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing comprising a first plate, a second plate apart from the first plate while facing the first plate, and a side member which surrounds a space between the first plate and the second plate, a touchscreen display exposed through the first plate, a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed between the touchscreen display and the second plate, a mid-plate disposed between the touchscreen display and the PCB, and extending from the side member, and at least one integrated circuit (IC) mounted on the PCB and relating to power, wherein the mid-plate can include at least one conductive path formed on a surface facing the PCB and electrically connected to the at least one IC, and the at least one conductive path can be formed with the same metallic material as the mid-plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Soo Kim, Kyujin Kwak, Soo-Gyu Lee, Sung-Won Park, Joon Won Chang, Jin-Wan An, Janghoon Lee
  • Mutual capacitive touch substrate, mutual capacitive touch panel, and mutual capacitive touch apparatus
    Patent number: 10534493
    Abstract: The present application discloses a mutual capacitive touch substrate comprising a matrix of a plurality of electrode units, adjacent electrode units complementarily matching each other. Each electrode unit comprises a first electrode having a first undulating boundary; a second electrode having a second undulating boundary; and a fill pattern between the first electrode and the second electrode, having an undulating boundary substantially complementary to corresponding portions of the first undulating boundary and the second undulating boundary. The first electrode, the second electrode, and the fill pattern in a same electrode unit are electrically isolated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xie, Zouming Xu, Ming Hu, Ming Zhang, Min He, Jian Tian, Jing Wang
  • GOA display panel and GOA display apparatus
    Patent number: 10535285
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) display panel and a GOA display apparatus are disclosed. The display panel has a scan driving circuit, a data driving circuit, a thin-film transistor array, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a sub-pixel array. Starting from the first row of the sub-pixels, two of the scanning lines that are connected to two adjacent odd-numbered rows of the sub-pixels are both connected to a first clock signal control terminal; two of the scanning lines that are connected to two adjacent even-numbered rows of the sub-pixels are both connected to a second clock signal control terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Opto Semicon Display Tech Co.
    Inventor: Mian Zeng
  • Battery charging method and apparatus
    Patent number: 10536018
    Abstract: A battery charging method includes determining a battery overpotential based on a reference physical quantity and a battery physical quantity corresponding to a charging capacity of a battery while charging the battery in an initial charging step, determining whether a condition for changing a battery charging step is satisfied based on the battery overpotential, and changing the battery charging step from the initial charging step to an adjusted charging step in response to the condition being satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Daeryong Jung
  • Acoustic system and volume adjustment method
    Patent number: 10534574
    Abstract: An acoustic system comprises an operation condition determination part for determining an operation condition of an operating element for controlling sound volume of a sound reproduction device which reproduces sounds from a plurality of sound sources, and a control part for changing a control object of the sound volume by the operating element in accordance with the sound source which is reproduced by the sound reproduction device, based on the operation condition determined by the operation condition determination part. The control part prohibits switching of the control object of the sound volume by operation of the operating element even when the sound source to be reproduced has been changed while it is determined by the operation condition determination part that the operation of the operating element is continuously performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mutsumi Katayama
  • Fully strained channel
    Patent number: 10535736
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an exemplary method to form p-type fully strained channel (PFSC) or an n-type fully strained channel (NFSC) that can mitigate epitaxial growth defects or structural deformations in the channel region due to processing. The exemplary method can include (i) two or more surface pre-clean treatment cycles with nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and ammonia (NH3) plasma, followed by a thermal treatment; (ii) a prebake (anneal); and (iii) a silicon germanium epitaxial growth with a silicon seed layer, a silicon germanium seed layer, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shahaji B. More, Huai-Tei Yang, Zheng-Yang Pan, Shih-Chieh Chang, Chun-Chieh Wang, Cheng-Han Lee
  • GPS/BDS vehicle antenna with dual output port LNA
    Patent number: 10535920
    Abstract: A GPS/Beidou onboard antenna with a dual output port low noise amplifier includes an antenna, an amplifier chip, a power divider, a first radio frequency switch, a second radio frequency switch, a first direct-current bias, a second direct-current bias, a first port, a second port, and a voltage selection circuit. The antenna transmits a received radio frequency signal amplified by the amplified chip to the power divider connected to the amplified chip; the radio frequency signal is divided by the power divider, in one of which the radio frequency signal goes through the first radio frequency switch, the first direct-current bias and the first port so as to be output to a receiver connected, and in the other of which the radio frequency signal goes through the second radio frequency switch, the second direct-current bias and the second port so as to be output to another receiver connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: CHANGZHOU CTW ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yabin Zhang
  • Photographing method and mobile terminal
    Patent number: 10536629
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a photographing method. The method includes: detecting a first operation performed on the mobile terminal; determining whether the first operation meets a first preset condition; supplying electrical power to hardware components of the mobile terminal that are involved in performing the photographing operation when the first operation meets the first preset condition, and pre-allocating an application resource for the photographing operation; detecting a second operation performed on the mobile terminal; determining whether the second operation meets a second preset condition; and performing the photographing operation when the second operation meets the second preset condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiuwen Wang, Xiaobo Yu, Yuanqiang Ni, Wei Su, Junbo Ye
  • Internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 10533516
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: a crankcase that supports a crankshaft rotatably about a rotational axis; a cylinder block connected with the crankcase and including at least one pair of cylinders that sandwich a valve chamber therebetween in an axial direction of the crankshaft, the valve chamber housing therein a valve actuating mechanism that connects a camshaft to the crankshaft; a detected member disposed between crank pins corresponding to the pair of cylinders, the detected member rotating integrally with the crankshaft; and a detection sensor disposed to face a trajectory of the detected member and generating a pulse signal in accordance with movement of the detected member. Accordingly, the internal combustion engine can avoid displacement of a nearby part and enlargement of the crankcase as much as possible, while allowing the detected member to be increased in size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Shigematsu, Nobuyuki Kishi, Takashi Kaneishi
  • Pulsed laser device
    Patent number: 10534128
    Abstract: A pulsed laser device includes: a semiconductor laser device that outputs laser light having a single wavelength; a semiconductor optical amplifier that receives the laser light output from the semiconductor laser device and amplifies the laser light to output; and a semiconductor-optical-amplifier driver that supplies a pulse-modulated semiconductor-optical-amplifier driving current to the semiconductor optical amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eisuke Otani
  • Force touch sensing structure, force touch display device, and force touch sensing method using same
    Patent number: 10534470
    Abstract: A force touch sensing structure which is immune to changes in sensitivity caused by external factors defines a force touch sensing area. The force touch sensing structure includes protrusions in the force touch sensing area, at least one image recognition camera, and a processor. A height of at least one protrusion varies when the force touch sensing area is force touched. The image recognition camera detects positions of the height-varied protrusions and the extent of the variations. The processor receives and processes signals from the at least one image recognition camera to obtain force touch position and touch force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignees: Interface Technology (ChengDu) Co., Ltd., INTERFACE OPTOELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., GENERAL INTERFACE SOLUTION LIMITED
    Inventor: Chien-Hung Lin
  • Plug connector module having spring links
    Patent number: 10535960
    Abstract: A system comprises a first plug connector module and a second plug connector module. The plug connector modules each have at least two contact elements. The first plug connector module has at least one spring link. In the unplugged state, the at least one spring link connects the at least two contact elements of the first plug connector module electrically conductively to each other. A method for plugging a first plug connector module with a second plug connector module is based on the first and the second plug connector modules being guided toward each other in the plug-in direction. A sliding element of the second plug connector module presses against at least one spring link of the first plug connector module and, as a result, the at least one spring link is brought out of touching contact with at least two associated socket contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heiko Meier, Norbert Kropiewnicki, Martin Schmidt, Michael Przyborowski
  • Inter-digitated capacitor in split-gate flash technology
    Patent number: 10535676
    Abstract: The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a plurality of upper electrodes separated from a semiconductor substrate by a first dielectric layer. A lower electrode is laterally disposed between the plurality of upper electrodes and between sidewalls of the semiconductor substrate. A second dielectric layer lines opposing sidewalls and a lower surface of the lower electrode. The second dielectric layer laterally separates the lower electrode from the plurality of upper electrodes and from the sidewalls of the semiconductor substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wan-Chen Chen, Yu-Hsiung Wang, Han-Yu Chen
  • Light reflecting assembly
    Patent number: 10534220
    Abstract: A light reflecting assembly includes a cabinet and a light reflecting member. The light reflecting member includes a center reflecting part, four peripheral reflecting parts and a tongue part. Side end portions of an adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts form a corner section of the light reflecting member at a corner portion of the center reflecting part while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet. The tongue part extends from one of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts towards the other of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts. The tongue part at least partially overlaps with the other of the side end portions of the adjacent pair of the peripheral reflecting parts while the light reflecting member is attached to the cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuaki Kawada
  • Method of fabricating an interposer
    Patent number: 10535534
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an interposer includes: providing a carrier substrate; forming a unit redistribution layer on the carrier substrate, the unit redistribution layer including a conductive via plug and a conductive redistribution line; and removing the carrier substrate from the unit redistribution layer. The formation of the unit redistribution layer includes: forming a first photosensitive pattern layer including a first via hole pattern; forming a second photosensitive pattern layer including a second via hole pattern and a redistribution pattern on the first photosensitive pattern layer; at least partially filling insides of the first via hole pattern, the second via hole pattern, and the redistribution pattern with a conductive material; and performing planarization to make a top surface of the unit redistribution layer flat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Un-Byoung Kang, Tae-Je Cho, Hyuek-Jae Lee, Cha-Jea Jo
  • Semiconductor device
    Patent number: 10535533
    Abstract: A semiconductor may include a substrate including a cell array region and a TSV region, an insulation layer disposed on the substrate and having a recess region on the TSV region, a capacitor on the insulation layer of the cell array region, a dummy support pattern disposed on the insulation layer of the TSV region and overlapping the recess region, when viewed in plan, and a TSV electrode penetrating the dummy support pattern and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yanghee Lee, Jonghyuk Park, Choongseob Shin, Hyojin Oh, Boun Yoon, Ilyoung Yoon
  • Washing machine
    Patent number: 10533274
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a washing machine having a tub, a screen provided inside the tub to support laundry, a nozzle assembly having a plurality of washing medium spraying nozzles configured to spray washing medium toward the laundry and being movable, a driver configured to move the nozzle assembly, and a washing medium supply configured to supply the washing medium to the nozzle assembly. The washing machine may efficiently perform anhydrous washing when dry ice snow or liquefied nitrogen is used as a washing medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Valeriy Prushinskiy, Oleg Feygenson, Igor Ivanov, Jee Su Park, Jung Su Ha
  • Ultraviolet light emitting element and lighting system having a quantum barrier structure for improved light emission efficiency
    Patent number: 10535795
    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a light emitting element, a method for manufacturing a light emitting element, a light emitting element package, and a lighting system. An ultraviolet light emitting element according to an embodiment may comprise: a first conductivity type semiconductor layer (112); an active layer (114) comprising a quantum barrier (114B) and a quantum well (114W), the active layer (114) being arranged on the first conductivity type semiconductor layer (112); and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer (116) on the active layer (114). The quantum barrier (114B) may comprise an undoped AlxGa1-xN layer (0?x?1) (114BU) and an n-type AlyGa1-yN layer (0?y?1) (114BN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chan Keun Park