Patents Assigned to Electron, Inc.
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Patent number: 12140318Abstract: A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Yeonsik Ha
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Patent number: 12143574Abstract: A picture decoding method, performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: when an intra-prediction mode of a chroma block is a cross-component linear model (CCLM) mode, deriving neighboring chroma reference samples with respect to the chroma block; deriving neighboring luma reference samples of a luma block corresponding to the chroma block and luma samples in the luma block; deriving down-sampled neighboring luma reference samples and downsampled luma samples by down sampling the neighboring luma reference samples and the luma samples, respectively; deriving a linear model parameter on the basis of the down-sampled neighboring luma reference samples and the neighboring chroma reference samples; generating prediction samples with respect to the chroma block on the basis of the linear model parameter and the down-sampled luma samples of the luma block; and reconstructing the chroma block on the basis of the prediction samples with respect to the chroma block.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jangwon Choi, Jin Heo, Sunmi Yoo, Ling Li
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Patent number: 12139845Abstract: A clothes treatment apparatus includes a cabinet defining a treatment chamber configured to accommodate hanging clothes and a cycle chamber configured to house machinery, the cycle chamber being positioned vertically below the treatment chamber. The clothes treatment apparatus also includes a partition plate that partitions the treatment chamber from the cycle chamber, a door configured to open and close the cabinet, a door liner disposed at an inside of the door and configured to guide condensed water generated in the treatment chamber to an upper side of the partition plate, a condensed water guide member disposed at the partition plate and configured to guide the condensed water from the door liner into the treatment chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Taejun Yoon, Hyungkyu Lim, Jeongryeol Choi, Hyoungsup Park, Youngjin Doh, Sunghoo Park
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Patent number: 12144073Abstract: A voltage doubling circuit including a silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) having a control circuit configured to charge a charging capacitor during a negative alternating current cycle, and including a storage capacitor that receives a voltage from the charging capacitor during a positive alternating current cycle, and by charging the storage capacitor from the charging capacitor when the SCR is off, the storage capacitor is prevented from exceeding its regulated voltage even if the SCR fails.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Tomar Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Scott T. Sikora
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Patent number: 12144070Abstract: An electric heater includes a substrate and an inner plane heating element formed on one surface of the substrate. The inner plane heating element includes an inner pattern portion connecting a start point with an end point. The inner pattern portion includes a first track, a second track located outside the first track and spaced part from the first track, a first bridge connecting the first track with one end of the second track, a third track located outside the second track and spaced apart from the second track, and a second bridge connecting the other end of the second track with the third track. A first gap G1 between the first and second tracks is shorter than a second gap G2 between the second and third tracks along a virtual line crossing the first, second and third tracks and closer to the first bridge than the second bridge.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Misun Song
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Patent number: 12139841Abstract: A washing machine includes: a casing, a tub, a drum, a cylindrical gasket connecting an input port of the casing to an opening of the tub, a pump configured to circulate water discharged from the tub; a guide pipe fixed to the gasket configured to guide water supplied from the pump, and nozzles configured to spray water from the guide pipe into the drum. The nozzles include an upper nozzle configured to spray water downward, intermediate nozzles disposed below the upper nozzle in both left and right sides and configured to spray water downward while spraying water deeper into the drum than the upper nozzle, and lower nozzles disposed above the inflow port, disposed below the intermediate nozzles in both left and right sides based on the inflow port and configured to spray water upward.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hwanjin Jung, Myunghun Im, Junghoon Lee, Kyungchul Woo, Hyundong Kim
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Patent number: 12143712Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) disposed at a vehicle and a camera having a CMOS imaging sensor operable to capture image data. Image data captured by the camera is conveyed from the camera to the ECU via a 50 ohm coaxial cable. The camera is in bidirectional communication with the ECU over the 50 ohm coaxial cable. The 50 ohm coaxial cable commonly carries (i) image data captured by the camera for processing at a data processor of the ECU and (ii) power from a DC power supply of the ECU to the camera. Image data captured by the camera is serialized at a data serializer of the camera and is conveyed to the ECU via the 50 ohm coaxial cable and is deserialized at the ECU by a data deserializer of the ECU.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2024Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Joern Ihlenburg, Jens Steigerwald, Michael Dominik Schöppner
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Patent number: 12140369Abstract: A multi-joint link hinge includes a hinge bracket, a plurality of side portions, a link module, and a door bracket coupled to the link module. The hinge bracket includes a base portion that defines a plurality of screw coupling holes at a vertical surface of the base portion, and a plurality of side portions that extend from the base portion in a horizontal direction and are spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction. The link module includes a plurality of links that are coupled to the plurality of side portions along an axis that extends in the vertical direction, where the plurality of links is disposed between the plurality of side portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., EPTech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Changseok Oh, Chunho Byun
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Patent number: 12144019Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method for a first device to transmit a PUCCH to a base station. The method may comprise: a step for generating multiplexing information including at least one among HARQ feedback information for DL transmission, UL PSR for UL transmission, or SL PSR for SL transmission; and a step for transmitting the multiplexing information to the base station on a single slot through the PUCCH.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Suckchel Yang
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Patent number: 12139838Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus includes a drum body, a front cover, a rear cover, a fixed panel spaced apart from the rear cover, a housing fixed to the fixed panel, a stator, a rotor, a ring gear fixed in the housing, a first shaft fixed to the rotor and located in the housing, a driver gear located within the housing and fixed to the first shaft, a second shaft that is concentric with the first shaft, fixed to the rear cover, and located within the housing, a base located within the housing and coupled to the second shaft, and a driven gear having a first body rotatably fixed to the base, a first gear defined at the first body and engaged with the driver gear, a second body fixed to the first body, and a second gear defined at the second body and engaged with the ring gear.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Hyeonjoong Kim, Hongjun Cho, Hyojun Kim, Oshin Kwon, Yangguk Hwang, Hyuksoo Lee, Yeonju Lee
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Publication number: 20240368823Abstract: A laundry treating apparatus including a cabinet; a laundry receiving space defined in the cabinet and configured for receiving laundry therein; an insertion opening defined in a front face of the cabinet and in fluid communication with the laundry receiving space; a door rotatably fixed to the cabinet to open and close the insertion opening; a supply unit configured to supply at least one of air or water vapor to the laundry receiving space; a support assembly provided in the laundry receiving space and configured to support the laundry; and a conveying part configured to move the support assembly toward the insertion opening when the door opens the insertion opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaehyung KIM, Semin JANG, Boram NOH
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Publication number: 20240372476Abstract: A bidirectional power supply includes an alternating current (AC) port as a source in a first mode and as a load in a second mode and a line-frequency rectifier/inverter to function as a rectifier in the first mode and a set of switches to function as an inverter in the second mode. A bidirectional resonant converter is coupled to a direct current (DC) port with primary-side switches and secondary-side switches respectively arranged on a primary and secondary side of a transformer. A controller controls the primary-side switches and the secondary-side switches by controlling switching frequency based on a determined value while setting time delay between control of the primary-side and the secondary-side switches to be a predefined time delay or by controlling the time delay between control of the primary-side and the secondary-side switches based on a determined value while setting the switching frequency to be a predefined switching frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: Delta Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Misha Kumar, Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa, Sergio Fernandez Rojas, Chao-Jui Huang
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Publication number: 20240369209Abstract: Systems, methods, and modes for a modular recessed light fixture and for mounting and aligning thereof. The light fixture comprises a housing supporting a lighting module, a bracket ring located within the housing, and an alignment ring adapted to magnetically attach to the bracket ring through an architectural panel to locate the bracket ring. The alignment ring may comprise an adjustment mechanism that is laterally adjusted within the alignment ring to a desired position. The bracket ring may be adjustable and adapted to laterally travel with respect to the housing such that displacing the alignment ring along the architectural panel, moves the adjustable bracket ring within the housing to a desired position. The housing may comprise a baseplate comprising material capable of being cut such that after locating the bracket ring using the alignment ring an opening is cut through the architectural panel and the housing baseplate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: Crestron Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Victor M. Menendez, Bryan Ortega
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Patent number: 12135162Abstract: A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a main door having an opening, a sub-door rotatably provided in front of the main door to open and close the opening and filled with a heat insulating material, a locking member protruding from the sub-door to the main door and operated to lock the main door, an operation member provided below the locking member and protruding downward from a lower portion of the sub-door to be directly operated by a user, a connection member connecting the locking member and the operation member such that the locking member operates when the operation member operates, and a connection member case provided inside the sub-door and defining a space in which the connection member is operatively accommodated. The connection member case is formed with a reinforcement part extending in an upper-and-lower direction along the connection member case to prevent deformation of the connection member.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Woojin Jeon, Myeongseong Park
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Patent number: 12137240Abstract: Disclosed are an inter prediction mode-based image processing method and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for processing an image on the basis of inter prediction may comprise the steps of: determining whether a motion vector scale adaptation is applied to a block; up-scaling a down-scaled MVD (Motion Vector Difference) when the motion vector scale adaptation is applied to the block; deriving a MV (Motion Vector) for the block, using the up-scaled MVD and a MVP (Motion Vector Predictor); and generating a predictive block of the block, using the derived MV.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jaehyun Lim, Naeri Park, Jungdong Seo, Junghak Nam
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Patent number: 12136270Abstract: A vehicular trailer assist system includes a rearward viewing camera disposed at a vehicle that views a trailer hitched at a fifth wheel hitch at a bed of the vehicle. With the trailer hitched to the fifth wheel hitch at the bed of the vehicle, the vehicular trailer assist system, via processing fisheye-view frames of image data captured by the camera, transforms fisheye-view frames of image data captured by the rearward viewing camera into bird's-eye view frames of image data. The vehicular trailer assist system determines a region of interest (ROI) in a transformed bird's-eye view frames of image data that includes a region where the fifth wheel hitch is present. The vehicular trailer assist system, via a Hough transform that transforms the determined ROI from a Cartesian coordinate system to a polar coordinate system, determines a trailer angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jyothi P. Gali, Harold E. Joseph, Gajanan Subhash Kuchgave, Alexander Velichko, Guruprasad Mani Iyer Shankaranarayanan
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Patent number: 12137453Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a PDSCH in a wireless communication system, and a device for same. The method for a terminal to receive a PDSCH includes the steps of: receiving setting information; receiving, on the basis of the setting information, Downlink Control Information (DCI) for scheduling the PDSCH, wherein the DCI includes a frequency domain resource assignment field and a Transmission configuration indication (TCI) field; and receiving the PDSCH on frequency domain resource blocks assigned on the basis of the frequency domain resource assignment field, wherein the frequency density of the PTRS can be determined by the number of resource blocks associated with each TCI state.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kyuseok Kim, Hyungtae Kim, Jiwon Kang
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Patent number: 12135449Abstract: Provided is a lighting assembly including an upper body that defines a top surface thereof; a lower body coupled to a lower portion of the upper body and defining a bottom surface thereof; a light diffusion member coupled to the upper body and the lower body, the light diffusion member including a first surface facing the upper body, a second surface facing the lower body, and a third surface that has a curved surface and is exposed to an outside of the light diffusion member; a light guide made of a light transmissive material, the light guide being in contact with the light diffusion member; and a light-emitting diode (LED) disposed to face a surface of the light guide.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sunghun Lee, Hoon Kim, Minki Kim, Jihoon Park
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Patent number: 12137475Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method by which a first device performs sidelink communication with a second device. The method can comprise the steps of: determining a first resource for first sidelink transmission; receiving, from the second device or a third device, on an Nth slot, SCI including information related to a second resource for second sidelink transmission; determining, on the basis of a DMRS RSRP threshold value and a DMRS RSRP measurement value of a first PSCCH related to the SCI, whether to reselect the first resource overlapping with the second resource on an N+Kth slot spaced from the Nth slot by K slot length; and transmitting, to the second device, a second PSCCH related to the first sidelink transmission or a PSSCH related to the second PSCCH, on the basis of the determination on whether to reselect.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Seungmin Lee
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Patent number: D1051067Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Howard Balch, Sae Jhun, Don Florczak