Patents Assigned to ADVANCED
  • Patent number: 9755382
    Abstract: A modular connector system for various types of different fiber optic and/or electrical connectors may include a connector having a housing configured to accommodate various different configurations of inserts that are configured to hold different types of either fiber optic connector, electrical connectors, or a combination of fiber optic and electrical connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Gniadek
  • Patent number: 9756164
    Abstract: A method for handling an outgoing call connection in a telecommunication device, comprising the steps of: detecting (201) a request for establishing a communication connection to a called party via the communication device (100a); detecting (202) proximity of the communication device to an object; detecting (203) subsequent lack of proximity of the communication device to the object, while awaiting accepting of the communication connection by the called party; detecting (204) establishment of the communication connection; starting (205) a timer; detecting (206) a request for terminating the communication connection; if the timer indicates a time below a predefined threshold (207), inhibiting (208) the request for terminating the communication connection; and indicating (209), by an indicator of the telecommunication device (100a), that the communication connection is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED DIGITAL BROADCAST S.A.
    Inventor: Pawel Blonski
  • Patent number: 9753462
    Abstract: A vehicular collision avoidance system comprising a system controller, pulsed laser transmitter, a number of independent ladar sensor units, a cabling infrastructure, internal memory, a scene processor, and a data communications port is presented herein. The described invention is capable of developing a 3-D scene, and object data for targets within the scene, from multiple ladar sensor units coupled to centralized LADAR-based Collision Avoidance System (CAS). Key LADAR elements are embedded within standard headlamp and taillight assemblies. Articulating LADAR sensors cover terrain coming into view around a curve, at the crest of a hill, or at the bottom of a dip. A central laser transmitter may be split into multiple optical outputs and guided through fibers to illuminate portions of the 360° field of view surrounding the vehicle. These fibers may also serve as amplifiers to increase the optical intensity provided by a single master laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Advanced Lidar Solutions US, LLC.
    Inventors: Patrick Gilliland, Roger Stettner, Laurent Heughebaert, Barton M. Goldstein
  • Patent number: 9756095
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus includes a cooperator detector, a cooperation planner and a context processor. The cooperator detector selects a cooperating mobile apparatus among adjacent mobile apparatuses. The cooperation planner determines a cooperation plan for operating cooperative context monitoring with the cooperating mobile apparatus. The context processor operates the context monitoring based on the cooperation plan. Accordingly, the resource may be efficiently used and the range of the context monitoring may be enlarged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Junehwa Song, Youngki Lee, Younghyun Ju, Chulhong Min, Inseok Hwang, Jihyun Yu
  • Patent number: 9750565
    Abstract: An electrosurgical balloon includes an inflatable balloon body formed of a non-conductive substrate material. One or more electrodes are disposed on an exterior surface of the balloon body. The electrodes can include a pair of bipolar electrodes, and the balloon body can have at least one fluid outlet hole configured to provide fluid to the pair of bipolar electrodes. A second inflatable balloon body can be disposed inside the first inflatable balloon body. The electrosurgical balloon can be incorporated into a catheter assembly, in which the electrosurgical balloon is a balloon electrode tip at a distal end of a catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Medtronic Advanced Energy LLC
    Inventors: Eliot F. Bloom, Vaclav O. Podany, Chad M. Greenlaw, Brian M. Conley
  • Patent number: 9751448
    Abstract: The present invention provides a support device. The support device includes a strap, the active length of which is variable, the strap supporting the accessory against the bearing element. The device includes a rail extending between two ends along the strap, the rail is secured to the wall, and a sliding element which slides along the rail, the sliding element includes a passage into which the strap is to be inserted. The device includes an adjustment device for adjusting the active length of the strap. The strap can be extended, relative to the adjustment device, between a retracted configuration, in which the active length is at a minimum, and an extended configuration, in which the active length is at a maximum. The adjustment device includes an element for returning the strap to the retracted configuration thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: ADVANCED COMFORT SYSTEMS FRANCE SAS—ACS FRANCE, FAURECIA AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIE
    Inventors: Jacques Decorme, David Billy, Alexis Crabeil
  • Patent number: 9751169
    Abstract: Method for decreasing the number of assembly workstations, comprising: providing a first workstation at a first location, supplied with power from a first source; providing a product to the first workstation and supplying the product with power from the first source; providing a second workstation at a second location, supplied with power from a second source; transporting the product from the first workstation to the second workstation including disconnecting the first source from the product; connecting the product to the second power supply at the second workstation and, before supplying the product with power from the first source, placing the product in a device capable of supplying the product with battery power; disconnecting the first source from the device; and supplying the product with battery power, so that the product remains supplied with power between disconnecting the first source and connecting the product to the second source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED DIGITAL BROADCAST S.A
    Inventor: Maciej Skrzypczak
  • Patent number: 9752213
    Abstract: A method for comprehensively recovering rare earth elements and fluorine element in a bastnaesite treatment process. The method comprises: oxidation roasting a bastnaesite, and leaching a roasted mixture using a hydrochloric acid, adding a roasting promoter to the bastnaesite during the roasting process; and/or during the leaching process using the hydrochloric acid, adding a catalytic leaching promoter into the mixture, obtaining a rare earth chloride solution containing little cerium element and a cerium-rich residue containing the fluorine element; and separating and recovering rare earth fluorides from the cerium-rich residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liangshi Wang, Zhiqi Long, Dali Cui, Xiaowei Huang, Ying Yu, Yang Xu, Xingliang Feng
  • Patent number: 9751773
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an ammonia synthesis system comprising, an ammonia synthesis reactor, a waste heat boiler, a supply water heat exchanger, a recycle gas heat exchanger, a water cooler, an ammonia chiller and refrigeration exchanger, a secondary ammonia chiller, an ammonia separator, a liquid ammonia tank, a recycle compressor and a start-up heater, and wherein, a process gas is heated in the recycle gas heat exchanger and enters the ammonia synthesis reactor and the waste heat boiler, a reacted gas stream exits from a bottom of the waste heat boiler and is cooled in the supply water heat exchanger, a gas stream enters the recycle gas heat exchanger, the water cooler, the ammonia chiller and refrigeration exchanger, the secondary ammonia chiller, and is cooled, the gas stream enters the ammonia separator to form a separate liquid ammonia and the separated liquid ammonia enters the liquid ammonia tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Hunan Anchun Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dingzhong Xie
  • Patent number: 9753197
    Abstract: An identification film and pattern having high transparency and a reflectance spectrum with respect to a particular wavelength and including photonic crystals patterned into a particular shape and an anticounterfeiting product including the same are disclosed. A highly transparent colloidal photonic crystal film is easily manufactured using photocurable colloidal suspensions. Even though a plurality of patterns (including sub-patterns) is formed in plural films, there is no reduction in optical characteristics such as transparency, reflectance spectra, and the like. Thus, a film patterned into a desired shape is manufactured and thus usability thereof is enhanced, and a plurality of reflectance spectra with various wavelength ranges is provided and thus identification capability or security is enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shin Hyun Kim, Seung Man Yang, Hye Soo Lee, Tae Soup Shim
  • Patent number: 9755329
    Abstract: Superconducting cable connector structures include a terminal body (or other structure) onto which the tapes from the superconducting cable extend. The terminal body (or other structure) has a diameter that is sufficiently larger than the diameter of the former of the superconducting cable, so that the tapes spread out over the outer surface of the terminal body. As a result, gaps are formed between tapes on the terminal body (or other structure). Those gaps are filled with solder (or other suitable flowable conductive material), to provide a current path of relatively high conductivity in the radial direction. Other connector structures omit the terminal body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Daniël Cornelis van der Laan
  • Patent number: 9754906
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a package substrate. The package substrate includes a patterned conductive layer and conductive pillars. Each of the conductive pillars includes a first portion and a second portion, where the first portion contacts the patterned conductive layer at one end of the first portion, and the second portion is adjacent to another end of the first portion. A thickness of the first portion is greater than a thickness of the second portion. Side surfaces of the first portion are substantially coplanar to side surfaces of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Li-Chuan Tsai, Chih-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: 9755313
    Abstract: Provided are chip antennas for near field communication and methods of manufacturing the chip antennas. A chip antenna for near field communication includes a substrate; a first antenna element on the substrate; and a second antenna element on the first antenna element. The substrate, the first antenna element, and the second antenna element are included in a single chip. The first and second antenna elements are formed outside the chip. The substrate is a lower layer including a plurality of devices. The first antenna element is a metal structure having a fish bone shape. The second antenna element is a dipole antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chulsoon Park, Hojung Kim, Hongyi Kim, Innyeal Oh, Joongho Lee, Taehwan Jang
  • Patent number: 9753963
    Abstract: A method for determining an index of an object in a sequence of objects, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a unique identifier value of a given object O; obtaining a query definition Q of a sequence, the Q query including an order definition according to a parameter of the O object; constructing a Q? query based on the Q query, the Q? query being different from the Q query by having a reversed ordering of results, with respect to the Q query, and providing results having said parameter value of objects preceding or matching the parameter value of the object O in the sequence of objects in the Q query result set; executing the Q? query by a query execution engine; checking whether the object O is present as the first item in Q? result set and in case it is, obtaining the index of the O object in Q sequence by retrieving objects count of the Q? result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED DIGITAL BROADCAST S.A.
    Inventors: Adam Romanek, Tomasz Szajna, Adam Stolcenburg, Piotr Kobzda
  • Patent number: 9753231
    Abstract: An optical connector cleaning tool includes a cylindrical connecting portion to which an optical connector is connected, a cleaning unit configured to guide a cleaning thread to a coupling end face of an optical connector plug, and an optical unit having an optical path reaching the optical connector plug. The optical unit includes a lens arranged in a position facing the coupling end face to form one end portion of an optical system, and having a missing portion extending in an optical-axis direction, and an image sensor positioned at the other end of the optical system. The cleaning unit includes a rod-like cleaning tip having a thread passage through which the cleaning thread passes. The cleaning tip is inserted into a hollow portion of the lens having the missing portion extending in the optical-axis direction, such that the cleaning tip is movable in a longitudinal direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignees: NTT ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toru Miura, Masayuki Murakami, Masaru Kobayashi, Yuichi Higuchi, Joji Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9755365
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a holding device, that has a recess and at least one conductive pad disposed therein, and a socket that has at least one conductive pin configured to engage at least one of the conductive pads when the socket is inserted into the holding device and a port configured to receive an interface of an external device. The shape of the socket is complementary to the shape of the recess. A first retaining element included in the holding device and a second retaining element included in the socket are together releasably maintain interconnection between the holding device and the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems Corp.
    Inventor: Mark A. Peabody
  • Patent number: 9753193
    Abstract: Lenses, devices, apparatus, systems, methods of manufacturing and fabricating an ophthalmic lens device for correction of human vision. The ophthalmic lens device includes at least one diffractive waveplate coating with an optical axis orientation pattern designed to correct the vision of individual patients. The ophthalmic lens device including diffractive waveplate coating may also provide a portion of the required vision correction by means of refraction of light by curved surfaces of a dielectric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.
    Inventors: Nelson V. Tabirian, Anna Tabirian, David E. Roberts
  • Patent number: 9755353
    Abstract: A waterproof and interference proof receptacle connector has an upper insulative housing, a lower insulative housing, a first terminal set, a second terminal set, a shell, a watertight casing and an interference proof rear guard. The first and second terminal sets are mounted respectively on the upper and lower insulative housings. The shell is mounted on the upper and lower insulative housings. The watertight casing is mounted around the shell. The interference proof guard is mounted on the watertight casing. The watertight casing provides a waterproof function to allow the waterproof and interference proof receptacle connector to operate in humid or underwater environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Publication number: 20170245837
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe calibration system and method. The system comprises an ultrasound probe calibration phantom (100), and the ultrasound probe calibration phantom (100) is provided with a sunken recess (110) at a middle position of an upper surface thereof and with several conical holes on a side surface thereof. The sunken recess (110) is fixedly connected with a two dimensional ultrasound probe (220) therein. The conical hole is inserted with an NDI insertion stylus (230), and a tip of the NDI insertion stylus (230) can be acquired in ultrasound imaging. An ultrasound probe calibration system employing the above structure enables a midplane of an ultrasound plane to pass a midplane of an ultrasound probe calibration phantom (100) along a middle gap, such that a tip of an NDI insertion stylus (230) is used for the midplane of the ultrasound plane, thereby addressing the problem of misalignment of a point-type phantom or a two-dimensional plane-type phantom to the ultrasound plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: SHENZHEN INSTITUTES OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Tiexiang WEN, Jia GU, Yaoqin XIE, Lei WANG
  • Publication number: 20170247814
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a diamond substrate, including: a first step of preparing patterned diamond on a foundation surface, a second step of removing a foreign substance adhered on a wall of the patterned diamond prepared in the first step, and a third step of growing diamond from the patterned diamond prepared in the first step to form the diamond in a pattern gap of the patterned diamond prepared in the first step. There can be provided a method for manufacturing a diamond substrate with few dislocation defects, in which generation of abnormal growth particles are suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicants: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD., NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hitoshi NOGUCHI, Shozo SHIRAI, Toshiharu MAKINO, Masahiko OGURA, Hiromitsu KATO, Hiroyuki KAWASHIMA, Daisuke KUWABARA, Satoshi YAMASAKI, Daisuke TAKEUCHI, Norio TOKUDA, Takao INOKUMA, Tsubasa MATSUMOTO