Patents Assigned to B
  • Plate support for a self-inking stamp
    Patent number: 10442230
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a plate support for a self-inking stamp and plate support with a print side for attaching a text plate to the plate support, with two journals defining a swiveling axis of the plate support about which swiveling axis the plate support is mounted to swivel when used in a self-inking stamp, and with a reinforcing axle at least partially penetrating the two journals, integrally forms the journals with the plate support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: COLOP STEMPELERZEUGUNG SKOPEK GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H. & CO. KG.
    Inventor: Ernst Faber
  • Operating element and appliance provided therewith
    Patent number: 10447264
    Abstract: A domestic appliance has an operating element, the operating element comprising a carrier, at least one pressure sensor configured for detection of an operation of the operating element, and at least one light source. A control is configured to switch the light source on or off subject to a sensor signal coming from the pressure sensor. At least one light conductor is arranged close to the light source and is configured to conduct light from the light source to at least a side of the light conductor remote from the carrier. Provided on or close to the side of the light conductor remote from the carrier is a screen comprising at least one opaque part and at least one translucent part, which together form a symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: INTERGAS HEATING ASSETS B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Jan Cool
  • Method for determining polygons that overlap with a candidate polygon or point
    Patent number: 10445927
    Abstract: An approach is provided for determining a polygon of a geographic database that overlaps a candidate polygon or candidate point. The geographic database represents stored polygons as respective polygon points with zero area. The approach involves determining proximate polygon points from among the respective polygon points with zero area that are within a distance threshold of the candidate polygon or the candidate point. The approach also involves retrieving one or more proximate polygons from the geographic database that correspond to the one or more proximate polygon points. The approach further involves determining an intersection between the one or more proximate polygons and the candidate polygon or the candidate point. The approach then involves selecting the polygon that overlaps the candidate polygon or the candidate point based on the determined intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Richard Kwant, Anish Mittal, David Lawlor
  • Dispensing closure with self-closing valve
    Patent number: 10442584
    Abstract: A dispensing closure for a product container includes a plastic closure body having a top wall with a dispensing opening which is arranged in line with a dispensing passage of the container. The closure includes a self-closing valve embodied as a membrane made of a plastic foil. The membrane has a valve portion, which in use can assume an open position under influence of product pressure, and an attachment portion surrounding the valve portion. The attachment portion of the valve is sealed to an annular support surface integrally formed in the closure body along the periphery of the opening or being formed on a plastic annular insert part that is connected to the closure body along the periphery of the opening. The seal between the attachment portion and the support surface includes an annular groove and an inner annular seal zone adjoining the annular groove on a radial inner side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Weener Plastics Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Lenny Marita Ellenkamp-Van Olst, Willem Ramon, Albertus Rap, Gerrit Jan Stegeman, Sebastiaan Wilhelmus Josephus Den Boer
  • People sensing system
    Patent number: 10448006
    Abstract: A method of testing a sensor unit which detects, locally at the sensor unit, whether a person appears in the images it captures. The method comprises causing a light-emitting device (e.g. screen of a user terminal) to emit a test pattern toward the sensor unit to be captured over a series of images, the test pattern comprising a spatio-temporal pattern of light simulating presence of a predetermined number of people. The method further comprises, at a processing apparatus external to the sensor unit, receiving one or more presence detection reports from the sensor unit indicating an apparent people count detected using the sensor unit when subject to the test pattern. The apparent people count is then compared with the predetermined number of people simulated by the test pattern. Based on this comparison, it is determining whether the sensor unit is functioning correctly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: David Ricardo Caicedo Fernandez, Ashish Vijay Pandharipande, Sandeep Kumar
  • System and method allowing for determining relative positions of slave units along a stub bus
    Patent number: 10447550
    Abstract: The present application relates to a system and a method for determining relative positions slave units along a stub bus with at least a power line and a ground line. Each slave unit is operable in different power modes, which are differentiated by effective resistances between the power and ground lines. A reference voltage potential drop is determined for each slave unit while the slave units are operating in a first power mode. A positioning voltage potential drop is determined for one or more slave units while a selected slave unit is operating in a second power mode. Relative positions of the slave units are determined based on the relative voltage potential drops obtained from the reference and positioning voltage potential drops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Arnoud Pieter van der Wel, Joop Petrus Maria van Lammeren, Luc van Dijk
  • Aircraft monument
    Patent number: 10442535
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, an aircraft monument is adapted for being mounted against an aft-facing bulkhead of the aircraft. The monument may have an aisle-accessible compartment that includes comestible item dispensers and lower footwell regions to accommodate the passengers seated immediately aft of the monument. The monument may also include an aft-facing wall that is readily removal during a maintenance operation so as to facilitate servicing of a heater or chiller unit disposed inside the monument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventor: Jefferey McKee
  • Tunable white light source with variable UV component
    Patent number: 10441809
    Abstract: The invention provides a lighting system (10) comprising a first light source (100), a second light source (200) and a control system (20) configured to control the first light source (100) and the second light source (200), wherein: —the first light source (100) is configured to provide first light source light (101) comprising: (i) a UV component; and (ii) (iia) a blue component or (iib) a blue component and a yellow component; —the second light source (200) is configured to provide white second light source light (201) having a second light source light correlated color temperature (Tc2); —the lighting system (10) is configured to provide lighting system light (11) comprising one or more of said first light source light (101) and said second light source light (201), with the lighting system light (11) having a controllable correlated color temperature (Tc).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
  • Power management circuit
    Patent number: 10447068
    Abstract: One example discloses a power management circuit, wherein the power management circuit is configured to cause a device to be operated at a first power level and a second power level. The circuit includes: an RF transmitter configured to generate an RF signal having a set of transmitted RF signal attributes; an RF receiver configured to detect the RF signal having a set of received RF signal attributes; and a proximity detection circuit configured to transition the device from the first power level to the second power level in response to a preselected difference between the transmitted set of RF signal attributes and the received set of RF signal attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Ferdinand Jacob Sluijs, Marcel Wilhelm Rudolf Martin van Roosmalen
  • Lumped compensated outphasing power combiner
    Patent number: 10447216
    Abstract: A power combiner for an outphasing amplifier system comprises an output terminal, a first input terminal, a first inductor, and a first capacitor, wherein the first input terminal is connected to ground via the first inductor and the first input terminal is connected to the output terminal via the first capacitor. The power combiner further comprises a second input terminal, a second capacitor, and a second inductor, wherein the second input terminal is connected to ground via the second capacitor and the second input terminal is connected to the output terminal via the second inductor. The first capacitor can have a same capacitance as the second capacitor and the first inductor has a same inductance as the second inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Dialog Semiconductor B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Aart Johannes Aartsen
  • Focusing magnet and charged particle irradiation apparatus
    Patent number: 10446364
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a focusing magnet including a coil pair arranged on both sides of a path of a charged particle beam. The coil pair generates an effective magnetic field region in which a magnetic field is oriented in a direction (z-axis) perpendicular to a traveling direction (x-axis) of a charged particle beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: B DOT MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Kota Mizushima, Takuji Furukawa, Eri Takeshita, Yousuke Hara, Naoya Saotome, Yuichi Saraya, Ryohei Tansho
  • Fermentation process for producing itaconic acid under nitrogen free conditions
    Patent number: 10443077
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of itaconic acid, which method comprises fermenting a recombinant cell capable of producing itaconic acid in a suitable fermentation medium, thereby to produce itaconic acid, wherein: (a) the recombinant cell: (i) overexpresses cis-aconitate decarboxylase; and (ii) overexpresses a part of the citric acid cycle and/or has reduced activity of a native metabolic route to acetate and/or lactate; and, optionally, (b) the fermentation is carried out under anaerobic conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Ruud Weusthuis, Kiira Vuoristo, Gerrit Eggink, Johan Pieter Marinus Sanders
  • Antenna combination device
    Patent number: 10446930
    Abstract: One example discloses an antenna combination device, comprising: a modulation unit; wherein the modulation unit is configured to be coupled to: a first antenna, having a first set of electromagnetic field lobes and configured to pass a first signal; a second antenna, having a second set of electromagnetic field lobes and configured to pass a second signal; wherein the modulation unit is configured to vary the first signal and the second signal, resulting in a third set of electromagnetic field lobes from a combination of the first and second sets of electromagnetic field lobes; wherein the first, second and third electromagnetic field lobes are in a same plane; and wherein a number of the third set of lobes is less than or equal to either a number of the first set of lobes or a number of the second set of lobes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Liesbeth Gommé, Anthony Kerselaers
  • Polycarbonate-Based Thermal Conductivity and Ductility Enhanced Polymer Compositions And Uses Thereof
    Publication number: 20190309205
    Abstract: Thermally conductive compositions include from about 20 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of a polycarbonate polymer, from about 0.5 wt. % to about 30 wt. % of an impact modifier, and a thermal conductivity modifier. The thermal conductivity modifier includes from about 0.5 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of a high density polyethylene polymer, from about 0.5 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of a maleic anhydride type copolymer, or from about 0.01 wt. % to about 10 wt. % of an acid component. In some aspects the thermally conductive compositions have a notched Izod impact strength of at least about 30 J/m, a through-plane thermal conductivity of at least about 0.4 W/mK and/or an in-plane thermal conductivity of at least about 1.0 W/mK. Methods for making the compositions and articles formed according to the methods are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Mingcheng GUO, Yaqin ZHANG, Shijie SONG, Narong AN, Yubin BAO
  • VITAMIN D LIGHTING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190308032
    Abstract: A lighting system comprises a housing, an arrangement of UV-B LEDs in the housing and a fabric output screen which provides a UV-B exit surface. This provides UV-B light for an indoor application in order to replicate the health benefits of natural sunlight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: JIANGHONG YU
  • METHOD OF PREDICTING PATTERNING DEFECTS CAUSED BY OVERLAY ERROR
    Publication number: 20190310553
    Abstract: A method including determining a first color pattern and a second color pattern associated with a hot spot of a design layout pattern, the design layout pattern configured for transfer to a substrate, and predicting, by a hardware computer system, whether there would be a defect at the hot spot on the substrate caused by overlay error, based at least in part on a measurement of an overlay error between the first color pattern and the second color pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Marinus JOCHEMSEN, Stefan HUNSCHE, Wim Tjibbo TEL
  • Handheld computer
    Patent number: D863294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: OCKEL COMPUTERS B.V.
    Inventor: Tim Rogier Haaksma
  • Knee protector
    Patent number: D863568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Fento Knee Protection B.V.
    Inventor: Gerardus Bernardus Kaal
  • plant named ‘Fichryraincar’
    Patent number: PP30942
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named ‘Fichryraincar’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading and uniformly mounded plant habit; moderately vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; dense and full plant form; uniform and freely flowering habit; medium to large semi-decorative type inflorescences with red purple and white bi-colored ray florets; response time about 51 days under controlled photoperiodic treatments; and good postproduction longevity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Dümmen Group B.V.
    Inventor: Peter Wain
  • plant named ‘ANTHENAXEN’
    Patent number: PP30948
    Abstract: A new Anthurium plant named ‘ANTHENAXEN’ particularly distinguished by having small, shiny and blistered, wavy, deep red, orbicular cordate and very durable spathes that retain the original color for a very long time, dark green, broad deltoid leaves, white spadices with yellow tips, early and rich flowering continuously throughout the year, and a plant height of 15.0 cm to 20.0 cm is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ANTHURA B.V.
    Inventor: Jan Van Dijk