Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • Patent number: 11016642
    Abstract: A user interface for an infotainment system of a motor vehicle includes a rectangular display screen and a rotatable ring having a central circular viewing window through which the display screen is visible. The rotatable ring includes a plurality of rotational positions relative to the display screen. An optical switch is disposed between the rotatable ring and the display screen and detects the rotational position of the rotatable ring. An electronic processor is communicatively coupled to the display screen and to the optical switch. The electronic processor controls an image presented on the display screen dependent upon the rotatable position of the rotatable ring as detected by the optical switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
    Inventor: Sachiyo Zuehlke
  • Patent number: 11019019
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining a hashtag and analyzing the hashtag to identify components comprising the hashtag. The processor(s) generate sub-hashtags, where each of the sub-hashtags includes at least one component. The processor(s) obtain, over an Internet connection, via a user interface of a social media platform displayed on a first computing resource, an entry by a user comprising text and the hashtag. The processor(s) obtains from a second computing resource, a request from a second user to access the entry that includes parameters of the second user on the platform. The processor(s) determine that a sub-hashtag is most relevant to the second user. The processor(s) configure instructions to display a customized entry, where the customized entry includes the text and the relevant sub-hashtag for the second user. The processor(s) instruct the second computing resource to display the customized entry in its user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kelley L. Anders, Jonathan Dunne, Robert H. Grant, Trudy L. Hewitt
  • Patent number: 11016854
    Abstract: Stabilizing a container-based application includes determining a health of a container. Based on the container health, a most recent stable version of an image for the container is identified. A container image is considered stable if containers spawned from the image have a relatively high MTTF and relatively low MTTR compared to other versions of same image. The container is then deployed using the most recent stable version of the image for the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ambika Nair, Mayank Singh Sachan
  • Patent number: 11017301
    Abstract: An approach is provided for automatically generating and processing concept vectors by extracting concept sequences from one or more content sources and generating a first concept vector for a first concept by supplying the concept sequences as inputs to a vector learning component, such that the first concept vector comprises information interrelating the first concept to other concepts in the concept sequences which is inferred from the concept sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Tin Kam Ho, Luis A. Lastras-Montano, Oded Shmueli
  • Patent number: 11019738
    Abstract: A console assembly for an appliance is provided that includes a shell having a first face and a first rim and a first protrusion operably coupled with the first face. The first face is positioned at an incline relative to a top edge of the shell. A panel is operably coupled with the shell. The panel includes a second face and a second rim and a second protrusion extending from a side of the panel opposite the second face. The panel is positioned parallel to the first face. A plurality of electrical components are operably coupled to one of the shell and the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Azhar K. Momin, Sadasivam Narayanan
  • Patent number: 11014685
    Abstract: A toggle release mechanism comprises a platform, a toggle element comprising one or more rolling or sliding elements configured to move along a track between a first, locking position and a second, release position, and a solenoid configured to move the one or more rolling or sliding elements along the track between the first, locking position and the second, release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: Przemyslaw Kielczykowski, Jakub Bobak
  • Patent number: 11015735
    Abstract: A first flow path is connected to an inlet for introducing gas into a microvalve. A second flow path is connected to an outlet for allowing gas to flow out of the microvalve. A third flow path is for introducing a pneumatic fluid into the microvalve. A negative pressure generation mechanism (a pump) is for generating a negative pressure on the second flow path to suck gas from the first flow path forward the second flow path via the microvalve. A pressure adjustment mechanism (a connection flow path and a valve) is for reducing a pressure difference between the second flow path and the third flow path to prevent the inlet and the outlet from being blocked by a diaphragm layer in response to the negative pressure generated on the second flow path side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wenjian Lu, Shigeaki Shibamoto, Jun Yanagibayashi
  • Patent number: 11015753
    Abstract: A pipe system includes a tubular body having an axis, a bore extending in an axial direction, a tubular body retainer groove formed in the bore, and a tubular body exterior. Retainers are configured to be mounted in the tubular body retainer groove only from the bore of the tubular body. In one version, the retainers cannot be installed in the tubular body retainer groove from the exterior of the tubular body. The retainers are configured to be circumferentially spaced apart from each other with respect to the axis. In addition, a pipe having a pipe exterior with a pipe retainer groove is configured to receive the retainers to form a pipe assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: NORTH AMERICAN PIPE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dmitry Yashin, Roy L. Dean, Joshua E. Clapper
  • Patent number: 11015029
    Abstract: Ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition pellets comprise: an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer, a conjugated polyene, and a predetermined amount of at least one fisheye-suppressing component; wherein pellet surface portions of the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition pellets have a conjugated polyene content of not lower than 30 ppb based on the weight of the pellets. Such ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer composition pellets are capable of reliably suppressing occurrence of minute fisheyes having a diameter of 200 ?m or smaller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuta Seno, Makoto Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 11015541
    Abstract: An engine-driven working machine 1 is provided with: a diesel engine 10; a generator body 30 driven by the engine 10; an exhaust gas purification device 20 for purifying exhaust gas discharged from the engine 10; a VGT 13 for throttling intake air to the engine 10; and a reserve load 40 which can be connected between the generator body 30 and a load. The VGT 13 is throttled when removing deposition substances in the exhaust gas purification device 20, thereby increasing the temperature of exhaust gas from the engine 10, and the reserve load 40 is connected to the generator body 30 when throttling intake air in order to remove deposition substances in the exhaust gas purification device 20, thereby increasing the amount of intake air to the engine 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: YAMABIKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shota Kido, Hiroshige Uemoto
  • Patent number: 11015919
    Abstract: A thickness measuring apparatus includes a white light source for emitting white light, a dispersing mechanism for producing time differences corresponding to the wavelengths of light components of the white light to thereby generate spectral light, the spectral light being applied to the workpiece and then reflected on the upper surface and the lower surface of the workpiece to obtain return light, a two-dimensional image sensor having a photodetecting area for detecting the return light, the photodetecting area including a plurality of pixels, a storing section for storing the intensity of the return light detected by the plural pixels according to wavelength with time difference, the intensity of the return light detected by each pixel being stored as a spectral interference waveform, and a thickness computing section for computing the thickness of the workpiece from the spectral interference waveform stored in the storing section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Kimura, Keiji Nomaru
  • Patent number: 11016731
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to performing floating-point (FP) arithmetic. In one example, a processor is to decode an instruction specifying locations of first, second, and third floating-point (FP) operands and an opcode calling for accumulating a FP product of the first and second FP operands with the third FP operand, and execution circuitry to, in a first cycle, generate the FP product having a Fuzzy-Jbit format comprising a sign bit, a 9-bit exponent, and a 25-bit mantissa having two possible positions for a JBit and, in a second cycle, to accumulate the FP product with the third FP operand, while concurrently, based on Jbit positions of the FP product and the third FP operand, determining an exponent adjustment and a mantissa shift control of a result of the accumulation, wherein performing the exponent adjustment concurrently enhances an ability to perform the accumulation in one cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich, Zeev Sperber
  • Patent number: 11017837
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a memory system includes: a semiconductor memory including a memory cell array, the memory cell array including a memory cell, and a controller configured to issue a first read command sequence after a lapse of a first time period from access to the semiconductor memory, and issue a second read command sequence after a lapse of a second time period from access to the semiconductor memory. When the controller issues the first read command sequence, the semiconductor memory applies a first voltage and a second voltage to the memory cell. When the controller issues the second read command sequence, the semiconductor memory applies a third voltage and a fourth voltage to the memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: KIOXIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshifumi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11018254
    Abstract: A vertical fin field effect transistor including a doped region in a substrate, wherein the doped region has the same crystal orientation as the substrate, a first portion of a vertical fin on the doped region, wherein the first portion of the vertical fin has the same crystal orientation as the substrate and a first portion width, a second portion of the vertical fin on the first portion of the vertical fin, wherein the second portion of the vertical fin has the same crystal orientation as the first portion of the vertical fin, and the second portion of the vertical fin has a second portion width less than the first portion width, a gate structure on the second portion of the vertical fin, and a source/drain region on the top of the second portion of the vertical fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Karthik Balakrishnan, Kangguo Cheng, Pouya Hashemi, Alexander Reznicek
  • Patent number: 11018472
    Abstract: A semiconductor light emitting device includes a mount section having an insulating property connected to a heat sink, a plurality of semiconductor laser elements disposed on the mount section, and a heat radiation block having an insulating property disposed on the plurality of semiconductor laser elements. A first wiring made of a metal is disposed on an upper surface of the mount section, and a second wiring made of a metal is disposed on a lower surface of the heat radiation block, a part of the second wiring being electrically connected to the first wiring. By electrically connecting the first wiring and the second wiring to each of the plurality of semiconductor laser elements, the plurality of semiconductor laser elements are connected in series, and have a same polarity with each other at a side that each of the plurality of semiconductor laser elements is connected to the first wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinichiro Nozaki
  • Patent number: 11014459
    Abstract: A charging device for a vehicle including an electric storage arrangement. The charging device is arranged to be mounted to a portion of the vehicle, the charging device including a movable contacting element for electric contact with a stationary contacting element for electric charging of the electric storage arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Richard Sebestyen
  • Patent number: 11014679
    Abstract: A sill height morphing feature may comprise an upper chamber comprising an orthogonal foot section and a first foot tube, a lower chamber, relatively below the upper chamber, coupled to the upper chamber and comprising a second foot tube, a sliding surface between the upper chamber and the lower chamber, wherein the first foot tube lies relatively beneath the sliding surface, wherein the second foot tube lies relatively beneath the sliding surface and relatively behind and proximate to the first foot tube, wherein the sliding surface is coupled to the first foot tube at a top surface of the first foot tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan Kruts, Drew Hartman
  • Patent number: 11018189
    Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a plurality of first wiring layers extending in one direction, a plurality of second wiring layers extending in another direction, and a plurality of memory cells provided in respective opposing regions in which the plurality of first wiring layers and the plurality of second wiring layers are opposed to each other. The plurality of memory cells each includes a selector element layer, a storage element layer, and an intermediate electrode layer provided between the selector element layer and the storage element layer. One or more of the selector element layer, the storage element layer, and the intermediate electrode layer is a common layer that is common between the plurality of memory cells, in which the plurality of memory cells is adjacent to each other and extends in the one direction or the other direction. The intermediate electrode layer includes a nonlinear resistive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Nonoguchi, Katsuhisa Aratani, Kazuhiro Ohba
  • Patent number: 11014478
    Abstract: A seat back assembly and method of manufacture is provided. The seat back includes a foam cushion layer. A support sub-assembly is formed including a rigid support layer with a plurality of cavities and channels defined on a rear surface for receiving components and a generally smooth front surface. At least one component is retained in one of the cavities and a second component is secured on the front surface of the support layer. A trim material covers the cushion layer and secures the sub-assembly to the seat back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Dirk Benthaus, Zvonko Van Der Meer
  • Patent number: 11015413
    Abstract: A fracturing fluid delivery system with a fluid conduit having a communication line is provided. In one embodiment, a fracturing system includes a wellhead assembly and a fracturing fluid conduit coupled to the wellhead assembly to enable receipt of fracturing fluid by the wellhead assembly from the fracturing fluid conduit. The fracturing fluid conduit includes a body defining a bore for conveying the fracturing fluid to the wellhead assembly and also includes a communication line. The communication line transmits signals along the body of the fracturing fluid conduit such that the fracturing fluid conduit facilitates transmission of both the fracturing fluid and the signals. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Cameron International Corporation
    Inventor: Kirk P. Guidry