Patents Assigned to Corporation
  • Microelectronic package having at least two microelectronic elements that are horizontally spaced apart from each other
    Patent number: 9679876
    Abstract: A microelectronic assembly (300) or system (1500) includes at least one microelectronic package (100) having a microelectronic element (130) mounted face up above a first surface (108) of a substrate (102), one or more columns (138, 140) of contacts (132) extending in a first direction (142) along the microelectronic element front face. Columns (104A, 105B, 107A, 107B) of terminals (105 107) exposed at a second surface (110) of the substrate extend in the first direction. First terminals (105) exposed at surface (110) in a central region (112) thereof having width (152) not more than three and one-half times a minimum pitch (150) of the columns of terminals can be configured to carry address information usable to determine an addressable memory location. An axial plane of the microelectronic element can intersect the central region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Invensas Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Dewitt Crisp, Wael Zohni, Belgacem Haba, Frank Lambrecht
  • Combined plate and collapsible beverage holder
    Patent number: 9675190
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a plate defining a surface for holding food that defines at least one opening therein. A collapsible beverage holder fits within the at least one opening defined within the surface of the plate. The collapsible beverage holder is automatically configured to a collapsed configuration responsive to the apparatus being placed on a surface and is automatically configured to an un-collapsed configuration responsive to the apparatus being lifted off the surface by the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: COGENT TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David W. Douglas, Robert R. Durkee, III
  • Device for filtration with a set of least one filter cassette
    Patent number: 9676069
    Abstract: The invention concerns a filtration device comprising a manifold providing fluid connection and mechanical connection comprising a clamping plate movably mounted relative to the manifold and adapted to compress at least one cassette against the manifold, means for driving and guiding the clamping plate comprising a rod extending between the manifold and the plate, an actuator provided with a body and a member moveable relative to the body, which member is adapted to move through a predetermined travel between an extended position and a retracted position, the body being carried by the manifold, and the member carrying the rod and driving the plate via the rod to a clamped position in which the member is in an intermediate retracted position in which it has moved through a shorter travel than the predetermined travel relative to its extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: EMD Millipore Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastien Cirou, Jean-Louis Weissenbach, Rene Reinbigler, Jean-Luc Beulay, Frans Mels, Cecile Delbos
  • Elevator refurbishing method
    Patent number: 9676596
    Abstract: In an elevator refurbishing method in which a hydraulic elevator in which a hydraulic jack is installed in an equipment installation zone is refurbished into a machine-roomless elevator that uses a two-to-one (2:1) roping method, the equipment installation zone being a region inside a hoistway on either a left side or a right side of a car when viewed from directly above, at least one guide rail from a pair of counterweight guide rails is installed in the equipment installation zone while leaving the hydraulic jack in position, the hydraulic jack is removed from the hoistway, the hoisting machine is installed in a lower portion of the equipment installation zone using a space that is created by removal of the hydraulic jack, and a car return sheave and a counterweight return sheave are installed on an upper portion of the counterweight guide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Hideki Miyahara, Kazuhiro Sasaki, Yoshinao Takahashi
  • Run time insertion and removal of buffer operators
    Patent number: 9679033
    Abstract: Insertion, in a data warehouse process, of a buffer operator between an upstream data operator and a downstream data operator. The processor processes a data record for the upstream data operator to pass to the downstream data operator. In response to determining that the downstream data operator is not ready to accept the data record from the upstream data operator, a buffer operator is inserted between the upstream data operator and the downstream data operator. The data record processed by the upstream data operator is passed to the buffer operator for storing into a buffer allocated for use by the buffer operator. The data record stored into the buffer is passed to the downstream data operator when the downstream data operator is ready to accept data. In another aspect, when the allocated buffer utilization decreases to a threshold value, the buffer operator is removed and the buffers are released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Krishna K. Bonagiri, Kalyanji Chintakayala, Ritesh K. Gupta
  • Visual checkout with center of mass security check
    Patent number: 9679327
    Abstract: A method, computer program product, and system for providing a security check of items being purchased by a consumer. A digital image of items for purchase arranged on a scale is captured. An estimated total weight and a cumulative center of mass of the items are estimated. An actual total weight and cumulative center of mass of the items are measured using the scale. If the estimated total weight of the items differs from the actual total weight by more than a first threshold amount and/or if the estimated cumulative center of mass of the items differs from the measured cumulative center of mass by more than a second threshold amount, an alert can be output. The alert can include an instruction for the customer or a store employee to rearrange the items on the scale to attempt to resolve the discrepancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Dean Frederick Herring, Brad Matthew Johnson, Jeffrey John Smith, Edward John Vitek
  • Control and monitoring of battery-backed emergency lighting systems
    Patent number: 9679448
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for remotely receiving information from and configuring a battery-backed emergency lighting system. In one embodiment, the method includes establishing a wireless communication session with a web server via a wireless fidelity (WiFi) connection, receiving a request for information related to the battery-backed emergency lighting system and a request to change a configuration of the battery-backed emergency lighting system over the wireless communication session, configuring the battery-backed emergency lighting system in accordance with the request to change the configuration and sending the information that is requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Dialight Corporation
    Inventors: Eman Koosha, Kevin Hebborn, Rizwan Ahmad
  • Method and device for improving acoustics of an AM demodulation output signal
    Patent number: 9680435
    Abstract: A method for improving acoustics of amplitude modulation (AM) audio signal, comprising: amplifying and mixing, with an amplitude modulation (AM) front-end module, an analog AM signal and an automatic gain control (AGC) signal from an AGC module; converting and sampling, with an analog-digital converter and down-sampling module, the amplified and mixed signal to generate a digital AM signal; digitally mixing, with a digital mixer module, the digital AM signal to generate a first digital AM envelope signal; compensating, with an AM compensator module, the first digital AM envelope signal by an AM compensating AGC signal from the AM compensator module to generate a second digital AM envelope signal; demodulating, with a demodulation module, the second digital AM envelope signal; and outputting, with an output module, a demodulated AM audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Beken Corporation
    Inventors: Yiming Huang, Weifeng Wang
  • In-painting method for 3D stereoscopic views generation using left and right images and a depth map
    Patent number: 9681115
    Abstract: A method for generating an intermediate view on the basis of left and right views of a 3D picture and a disparity map, the method including: using pixel information contained in the left and right views and the disparity map for creating an intermediate view, identifying occlusion pixels in the created intermediate view, and filling the occlusion pixels with information gained from adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Piergiorgio Sartor, Filippo Rossi
  • Semiconductor memory device including a resistance change element and a control circuit for changing resistance of the resistance change element
    Patent number: 9679647
    Abstract: Included are memory cells each including a resistance change element and a control circuit. The circuit performs an On writing process for applying, to the memory cell, an On writing pulse for the cell to be in a resistance state where a resistance value of the resistance change element is lower than a first reference value and an Off writing process for applying an Off writing pulse with an opposite polarity to the On writing pulse for a high resistance state with a second reference value or greater. The circuit applies, in the On writing process, a trial pulse having the same polarity as that of the On writing pulse and having the pulse width shorter than that of the On writing pulse and a reset pulse having the same polarity as that of the On writing pulse, in this order before applying the On writing pulse to the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Ueki, Koji Masuzaki, Masaharu Matsudaira, Takashi Hase, Yoshihiro Hayashi
  • Energy saving method in combined system of bioethanol producing device and solid oxide fuel cell
    Patent number: 9680173
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide, in a combined system of a bioethanol producing device and an SOFC, a method that is capable of further enhancing the electric power generation efficiency of the SOFC, and is also capable of achieving further reduction of the energy required for distillation of the fermented liquid. A part of an anode off-gas is refluxed to the water-containing ethanol vapor line from the mash column to the reforming device at a reflux ratio ((flow rate of reflux gas)/(flow rate of (anode off-gas)?(reflux gas))) of from 1 to 2. The ethanol concentration of the water-containing ethanol vapor is controlled by refluxing, to a range of from 25 to 35% by weight with water contained in the anode off-gas of the solid oxide fuel cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Zosen Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Takaki, Masato Kawami, Yoshihiro Asari, Yoshinori Sakai, Daisuke Hashimoto
  • Method for performing built-in self-tests
    Patent number: 9679665
    Abstract: A method including determining a test duration for testing each of a plurality of memory arrays individually coupled to a plurality of array built-in-self test (ABIST) engines, the test duration is equal to a time period required by each of the plurality of ABIST engines to test each of the plurality of memory arrays, determining a corresponding delay value for each of the plurality of ABIST engines, each of the corresponding delay values is based on the test duration for each of the plurality of memory arrays, and consecutively delaying the start of processing of each of the plurality of ABIST engines by providing each of the corresponding delay values to each of a plurality of programmable delay units individually coupled to each of the plurality of ABIST engines, the start of processing of each of the plurality of ABIST engines is delayed by a different corresponding delay value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Eckert, Otto A. Torreiter, Christian Zoellin
  • Connector system with connector position assurance
    Patent number: 9680256
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a connector position assurance (CPA) element. The CPA element includes a beam that is deflected from a blocked position to a clearance position by a mating connector that is loaded into a cavity of the housing. When the beam is in the blocked position, movement of the CPA element from an extended position to an inserted position is mechanically blocked by a protrusion of the housing that abuts the beam. The beam of the CPA element, when moved to the clearance position, clears the protrusion to allow the CPA element to move from the extended position to the inserted position. The housing may include a pair of such deflectable beams, each with a slot having an opening at its distal end. The opening of one of the beams aligns with the protrusion when the beam is deflected to its clearance position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David James Lane, James Michael Raudenbush, Douglas John Hardy
  • Ultra dense vertical transport FET circuits
    Patent number: 9680473
    Abstract: Logic circuits, or logic gates, are disclosed comprising vertical transport field effect transistors and one or more active gates, wherein the number of CPP's for the logic circuit, in isolation, is equal to the number of active gates. The components of the logic circuit can be present in at least three different vertical circuit levels, including a circuit level comprising at least one horizontal plane passing through a conductive element that provides an input voltage to the one or more gate structures and another conductive element that provides an output voltage of the logic circuit, and another circuit level that comprises a horizontal plane passing through a conductive bridge from the N output to P output of the field effect transistors. Such logic circuits can include single-gate inverters, two-gate inverters, NOR2 logic gates, and NAND3 logic gates, among other more complicated logic circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brent A. Anderson, Albert M. Chu, Edward J. Nowak
  • Refrigerant system with multiple load modes
    Patent number: 9677788
    Abstract: A refrigerant system capable of operating at multiple capacity modes includes an evaporator, a multi-stage compressor assembly, a first fluid flow path, a second fluid flow path, a first valve, and a second valve. The multi-stage compressor assembly has a first stage and a second stage. The first fluid flow path extends from the evaporator to the first stage of the multi-stage compressor assembly. The second fluid flow path connects to the first fluid flow path and to the multi-stage compressor assembly between the first stage and the second stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: CARRIER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Lifson, Mark J. Perkovich
  • Machining device with visual sensor for locating contaminants
    Patent number: 9676072
    Abstract: A machining device is provided with a machine tool, a pallet to which a workpiece is secured, a pallet changer configured to move and change the pallet, and a workpiece attaching unit configured to attach and detach the workpiece to and from the pallet. Further, the machining device is provided with a visual sensor configured to capture an image of the pallet, and contaminants that may possibly cause jamming as the workpiece is supplied to the pallet are detected from the image captured by the visual sensor. A workpiece supply operation for the pallet is suspended if the contaminants are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kiwamu Saitou
  • Head-mounted display device and control method for the head-mounted display device
    Patent number: 9678346
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes: an image display unit including an image-light generating unit that generates image light representing an image and emits the image light and a light guide unit that guides the emitted image light to the eye of a user, the image display unit being for causing the user to visually recognize a virtual image; and a control unit that includes an operation surface, is connected to the image display unit, and controls image display by the image display unit. When it is assumed that the user shifts the user's attention from the virtual image, the control unit adjusts the luminance of the image-light generating unit or adjusts the image light generated by the image-light generating unit to reduce the visibility of the virtual image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuji Nakada, Hitoshi Saito
  • Movement supporting method and apparatus
    Patent number: 9675866
    Abstract: A movement supporting method includes the following steps: detecting a movement tempo of a user; determining whether a movement tempo detection value is within a target range; and outputting a warning when the movement tempo detection value is out of the target range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoichiro Sako, Hirofumi Tamori, Susumu Takatsuka, Toshiro Terauchi, Makoto Inoue, Katsuya Shirai, Motoyuki Takai, Kenichi Makino, Takatoshi Nakamura, Akihiro Komori, Akane Sano, Toru Sasaki, Yuichi Sakai
  • Liquid container and liquid ejection apparatus
    Patent number: 9676201
    Abstract: Provided is an ink tank including: a wall portion that constitutes a liquid containing portion for containing ink; a liquid injection port for injecting the ink into the liquid containing portion, the liquid injection port being provided above the liquid containing portion; and a liquid visual check portion that is translucent and through which a position of a liquid surface of the ink can be visually checked from the outside, the liquid visual check portion being a part of the wall portion constituting the liquid containing portion. The liquid visual check portion has an inclined portion that inclines relative to a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Omuro, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Shoichi Ishizawa, Koji Kawai
  • Insertion body, insertion apparatus, rotation unit and rotative force transmission unit
    Patent number: 9677599
    Abstract: An insertion body includes: a base arranged in the central axis; a rotating body provided on an outer periphery of the base and rotatable around the central axis; and a channel which includes a guide provided at the base such that the rotative force transmitting section is able to be guided between a first position in which the rotative force transmitting section in the longitudinal axis can be inclined from the central axis when the rotative force transmission unit is inserted from the outside to the inside and a second position in which the rotative force transmitting section in the longitudinal axis is parallel to the central axis and a rotative force can be transmitted to the rotating body from the rotative force transmitting section, and through which the rotative force transmission unit is inserted through the opening end and the guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kimihiko Naito