Patents Assigned to CO
  • Patent number: 9990912
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for reproducing a sound in the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a touchscreen displaying a keyboard having a plurality of keys and a plurality of sound source buttons corresponding respectively to a plurality of different sound sources, a processor connected electrically to the touchscreen, and a memory connected electrically to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions that are executed to cause the processor to perform control such that when an input to at least one key among the plurality of keys is received, the sound source corresponding to at least one sound source button selected among the plurality of sound source buttons is reproduced as a sound corresponding to the received input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Min Kim, Min-Hee Lee, Yun-Jae Lee
  • Patent number: 9992858
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a first printed circuit substrate and a second printed circuit substrate. The first printed circuit substrate includes a substrate layer and a first conductive circuit layer. The first conductive circuit layer is formed on the substrate layer. The substrate layer includes at least two first grooves. The first conductive circuit layer includes at least one signal wire. The first grooves are defined in both sides of the signal wire. The second printed circuit substrate is formed on the first printed circuit substrate. The second circuit substrate includes a third copper layer. A second groove is defined in the third copper layer. The first grooves are opposite to the second groove. The first grooves and the second groove form a space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited, HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd., GARUDA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ming-Jaan Ho, Xian-Qin Hu, Yi-Qiang Zhuang, Fu-Wei Zhong
  • Patent number: 9992439
    Abstract: A display apparatus, a controlling method thereof, and a display system are provided. The display apparatus includes a power supply unit and a processor configured to, in response to AC power being applied through the power supply unit, search a connectable control device, determine a pairing history regarding the searched control device, in response to determining that there is no pairing history regarding the searched control device, boot the display apparatus, and perform pairing with the searched control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-hee Lee, Bong-su Kim, Joon-young Ahn, Kun-hee Jo
  • Patent number: 9987970
    Abstract: A headlight socket with an antenna includes a base, cover, first antenna device and connection stand. The base includes a mounting portion. The cover is mounted on the base through the mounting portion and has a sidewall for annularly defining a receiving space. The first antenna device is received in the cover and includes a conductive end. The connection stand is coupled to the sidewall. The connection stand includes a connection port in contact and connection with the conductive end. The headlight socket is mounted on a vehicle. The first antenna device for receiving signals is disposed at the front of the vehicle, thereby enhancing the quality of signal reception. Conventional vehicular antennas are integrated into the headlight socket to manifest advantages of modularization so that an automobile assembly process is simplified, allowing internal circuits to be readily integrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: YI CHANG HSIANG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Yuan Hsueh
  • Patent number: 9987975
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp has a circuit board on which a light emitting element is mounted, a housing for holding the circuit board, a first light guiding lens for guiding part of light emitted from the light emitting element in a predetermined direction, and a second light guiding lens for guiding at least the other part of the light emitted from the light emitting element in the other predetermined direction. The housing, the first light guiding lens and the second light guiding lens are formed integrally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhito Takahashi, Shigehiko Kazaoka
  • Patent number: 9989071
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydraulic unit including a motor housing for receiving components of an electric motor; having a pump housing for receiving components of a pump, which is driven in order to pump a pressure medium from the electric motor, the pump housing having at least one through-bore for fixing the motor housing to the pump housing by a screw; and having a control device which is arranged on the pump housing face opposite the motor housing. A retaining region for the screw is provided in the through-bore of the pump housing for the purpose of an efficient attachment, the retaining region having an inner thread which is cut or tapped into the retaining region by the thread of the screw during the screw-in process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Andreas Heise
  • Patent number: 9990986
    Abstract: A static random access memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, a write driver configured to apply a bit line voltage corresponding to write data to a bit line extending in a column direction of the plurality of memory cells in a write operation, and a sub power line configured to transmit a cell driving voltage to the plurality of memory cells in the write operation and to extend in a direction parallel to the bit line, and includes a first node and a second node. The cell driving voltage is applied to the first node of the sub power line and the first node of the sub power line is aligned with an output node of the write driver in a row direction of the plurality of memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ingyu Park, Inhak Lee, Chanho Lee, Jaeseung Choi
  • Patent number: 9991804
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus is provided, that supplies a bus voltage VBUS to a detachable device. A DC/DC converter generates a DC voltage VOUT used as the bus voltage VBUS. A USB controller receives the DC voltage VOUT as a power supply voltage, and detects whether or not the device is connected. The DC/DC converter generates the DC voltage VOUT such that (i) when the device is detected, the DC voltage VOUT has a specified voltage level, and such that (ii) when the device is not detected, the DC voltage VOUT has a voltage level that is lower than the specified voltage level and that is higher than a minimum operating voltage level required to operate the USB controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Motoki
  • Patent number: 9991905
    Abstract: An encoding method, decoding method, encoder, and decoder are provided in embodiments of this invention. The encoding method comprises: selecting at least one dimension vector from at least two dimension vectors to partition the coefficients to be encoded into vectors, according to the number of the coefficients to be encoded contained in a current subband; quantizing the vectors partitioned from the coefficients to be encoded into lattice vectors according to the selected dimension, and then mapping the lattice vectors to lattice index vectors; performing lossless encoding on the lattice index vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Xiao, Qing Zhang
  • Patent number: 9990880
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel unit, a pixel circuit comprising the pixel unit and a driving method thereof. The pixel unit comprises a light-emitting element and n driving sub-circuits; wherein n is a natural number and n>1; each of the driving sub-circuits comprises a scan signal line for control-electrode, a switching transistor and a driving transistor; the switching transistor has a control electrode connected to the scan signal line for control-electrode, a first electrode connected to a data line, and a second electrode connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor; the driving transistor has a first electrode connected to a power supply line and a second electrode connected to a first electrode of the light-emitting element; and a second electrode of the light-emitting element is connected to a reference voltage terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Hefei Xinsheng Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuting Zhang
  • Patent number: 9990878
    Abstract: A data clipping method using red, green, blue and white data, and a display device using the same are disclosed. Red (R), Green (G), Blue (B), and White (W) data are modulated by multiplying clipped data of an input image by a gain, a luminance increment is created based on the result of subtracting the clipped data from the modulated RGB data, and the luminance increment is added to the W data to be written to a W sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheon Heo, Kyungjoon Kwon
  • Patent number: 9987954
    Abstract: An increase in the lateral dimension of a vehicle seat equipped with a tip up lock cancel mechanism is prevented. In a vehicle seat equipped with a tip up mechanism for retaining the seat cushion at least in a tip up position and a tip up lock cancel mechanism for releasing the seat cushion from a retained condition effected by the tip up mechanism in response to a forward tilting movement of the seat back, the tip up lock cancel mechanism includes a cable encasing member having one end fixed to the seat cushion and another end fixed to a back side frame via a fixing part, and a cable slidably received in the cable encasing member and having one end connected to the tip up mechanism and another end connected to a seat base, the fixing part for fixing the cable encasing member to the back side frame being located on an inner side of the back side frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shingo Kimata
  • Patent number: 9989812
    Abstract: A sealant (9), a method for producing bezel-less liquid crystal display, and a bezel-less liquid crystal display produced by the same. The sealant (9) comprises: an azopyridine derivative represented by the structural formula (1); one or more of polyvinyl alcohol and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer; and a solvent, wherein m in the structural formula (1) is an integer of 8-20; and a mass ratio of the azopyridine derivative to the one or more of polyvinyl alcohol and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer is 1/99-15/85. A color filter substrate (6) and an array substrate (7) of a liquid crystal display are bound under the irradiation of ultraviolet light by using the photothermal effect and the binding property of a mixture of an azopyridine derivative and one or more of polyvinyl alcohol and ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, while the bezel of the liquid crystal display panel is not occupied, so as to obtain a bezel-less liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaojuan Wu, Yao Bi
  • Patent number: 9990894
    Abstract: A semiconductor device where delay or distortion of a signal output to a gate signal line in a selection period is reduced is provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate signal line, a first and second gate driver circuits which output a selection signal and a non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and pixels electrically connected to the gate signal line and supplied with the two signals. In a period during which the gate signal line is selected, both the first and second gate driver circuits output the selection signal to the gate signal line. In a period during which the gate signal line is not selected, one of the first and second gate driver circuits outputs the non-selection signal to the gate signal line, and the other gate driver circuit outputs neither the selection signal nor the non-selection signal to the gate signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 9991318
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device includes a substrate, reflection structure, and a sub-pixel structure. The substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixel regions and a reflection region surrounding the sub-pixel regions. The reflection structure is disposed on the substrate in the reflection region and has a plurality of openings exposing the sub-pixel regions. The reflection structure includes first reflection patterns, second reflection patterns, and connection patterns. The first reflection patterns extend in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, and are spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second reflection patterns are spaced apart from each other in the first direction between two adjacent first reflection patterns. The connection patterns electrically connect two adjacent second reflection patterns in the second direction. The sub-pixel structure is disposed on the substrate in the sub-pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mu-Gyeom Kim, Min-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9991552
    Abstract: A secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a cathode; an anode; and a non-aqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the cathode includes any one of a first lithium-containing compound and a second lithium-containing compound, the first lithium-containing compound having a bedded salt-type crystal structure, wherein the first lithium-containing compound includes one or more metal elements (M) other than lithium (Li), wherein the second lithium-containing compound having an olivine-type crystal structure, and wherein the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes an unsaturated cyclic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Nishi, Masayuki Ihara, Hideki Nakai, Akinori Kita
  • Patent number: 9992397
    Abstract: A camera module and its molded circuit board assembly and manufacturing method are disclosed, wherein the molded circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and a molded base integrally formed with the circuit board through a molding process. The molded base forms a light window disposed corresponding to a photosensitive element of the camera module, wherein the light window is configured to have a trapezoidal or to multi-stair trapezoidal shape cross section which has diameters increasing from bottom to top to facilitate demolding, so as to prevent damage to the molded base, and to avoid stray light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ningho Sunny Opotech Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingzhu Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Nan Guo, Takehiko Tanaka, Bojie Zhao, Zilong Deng
  • Patent number: 9992887
    Abstract: A protective cover for a portable electronic device, which is configured for supporting the device and for storing an earphone and cable, includes a casing body, a winding portion, a limiting plate, and a support plate. The device is received in a receiving portion in the casing body and the winding portion protrudes out of one side of the casing body spaced apart from the receiving portion, the winding portion being able to accept the cable of the earphone wound onto it. The limiting plate covers one side of the winding portion spaced apart from the casing body and defining an opening. The support plate covers the opening of the limiting plate and is rotatably coupled to the limiting plate. A ring-shaped accommodating space is defined between the limiting plate and the casing body for receiving the cable of the earphone wound onto the winding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (TAIYUAN) CO, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong-Peng Li, Zhi-Ming Wang
  • Patent number: 9991802
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for regulating a power conversion system. An example system controller includes a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal. The first controller terminal is configured to receive a first signal associated with an input signal for a primary winding of a power conversation system. The second controller terminal is configured to output a drive signal to a switch to affect a first current flowing through the primary winding of the power conversion system, the drive signal being associated with an on-time period, the switch being closed during the on-time period. The system controller is configured to adjust a duration of the on-time period based on at least information associated with the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: On-Bright Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangkun Zhai, Yunchao Zhang, Jun Zhou, Lieyi Fang
  • Patent number: D819508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanobu Ino, Junichi Horii