Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 11772900
    Abstract: A conveyor system includes at least one conveyor table and an awareness flag mechanism. The awareness flag mechanism includes a support rod mounted to the at least one conveyor table and extending outwardly therefrom in a cross-conveying direction. A counterweight assembly includes a support shaft pivotally connected to the support rod. The support shaft has a resiliently flexible portion. Aa counterweight is located at a lower end of the support shaft. Aa flag is located at an opposite, upper end of the support shaft. The counterweight biases the counterweight assembly toward an upright, awareness configuration where the flag is located above a conveying surface of the at least one conveyor table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen R. Essex
  • Patent number: 11772726
    Abstract: Methods for aiming a headlamp assembly of a vehicle having an aiming bracket and a sensor coupled to the aiming bracket. The method includes adjusting the aiming bracket such that an optical axis of the optical assembly inside of the headlamp assembly is parallel to a predetermined axis). The method further includes storing an output of the sensor when the optical axis is parallel to the predetermined axis. The method further includes installing the headlamp assembly into the vehicle. The method further includes adjusting the aiming bracket such that the output of the sensor equals the stored output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Alexander L. Paradis
  • Patent number: 11772351
    Abstract: A press machine includes: a press control unit that controls ascending/descending motion of the slide; and an abnormality diagnostic unit configured to perform abnormality diagnosis of the press machine based on data from a sensor provided in the press machine and to output a result of the abnormality diagnosis. The abnormality diagnostic unit is configured to perform the abnormality diagnosis, based on the data acquired from the sensor while the slide moves at a predetermined speed between a bottom dead point and a top dead point in a press-no-load state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: AIDA ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Harada
  • Patent number: 11776862
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device package, which includes a carrier, a lid, a first adhesive layer and a constraint structure. The carrier includes a surface and a first conductive pad on the surface of the carrier. The lid includes a first portion and a second portion separated from the first portion on the surface of the carrier. The first conductive pad is disposed between the first portion of the lid and the surface of the carrier. The first adhesive layer includes a first portion between the first portion of the lid and the first conductive pad. The constraint structure surrounds the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Han Chen, Hsun-Wei Chan, Mei-Yi Wu
  • Publication number: 20230307182
    Abstract: A high-voltage antiferroelectric and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The antiferroelectric has a composition of PbxLa1-x([Zr1-YSnY]ZTi1-Z). The antiferroelectric is sintered at a low temperature, and has a high density and a high breakdown voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, AMOTECH CO., LTD., Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology
    Inventors: Hyung Suk Kim, Sung Jin Hong, Hyun Jin Jo, Jae Woo Choi, Hyo Soon Shin, Dong Hun Yeo, Jeoung Sik Choi
  • Publication number: 20230309277
    Abstract: A hybrid cooling system of an electric machine is contemplated. The hybrid cooling system includes a propeller assembly comprising a propeller, a housing comprising a stator and a rotor coupled to the propeller, and one or more capacitors, a gate drive electronics board, a cold plate, a substrate, power electronics coupled to substrate and the cold plate, a pump for pumping liquid coolant, and a heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Shailesh N. Joshi, Hiroshi Ukegawa
  • Publication number: 20230301769
    Abstract: The present application discloses a covered stent and a method for navigating the covered stent to a branch vessel, the covered stent including a main body and at least one lateral side branch connected to the main body. A system of covered stents and a method for implanting, including interconnecting the covered stents is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Swiss Capital -- Engineering AG
    Inventor: Michael Szente Varga
  • Publication number: 20230301591
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible body having a first portion and a second portion, an electronic component in the first portion and the second portion of the flexible body, a first magnetic element in the first portion of the flexible body and a second magnetic element in the second portion of the flexible body. The first magnetic and the second magnetic generate a repulsive force with each other when the flexible body is bent and the first portion and the second portion of the flexible body are moved toward each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Chao Wei LIU
  • Publication number: 20230305605
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a first part, a second part adjacent to the first part and a rotational shaft. The rotational shaft includes an antenna and configured to allow the first part and the second part to rotate about a rotation axis defined by the rotational shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Yi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230304290
    Abstract: A system and method for securing a roof truss to a load bearing wall is disclosed. A strap is attached to a roof truss at one end and extended to the top of a load-bearing wall. A buckle is placed over the strap to secure the strap between the buckle and the roof truss, and also the buckle and the load-bearing wall. The end of the strap is extended along the top of buckle toward the roof truss and a top plate secures the strap between the buckle and the top plate. Screws are placed through holes in the top plate and corresponding holes in the buckle to attach the system to the top of the load-bearing wall. The system and method of the invention provides both horizontal (lateral) resistance and uplift resistance, thus resisting horizontal (lateral) forces while at the same time providing uplift resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: S.W. Engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen W. Warter
  • Publication number: 20230304425
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for a drone elimination muffler to attenuate drone exhibited by engine exhaust systems. The drone elimination muffler comprises a hollow canister having a length and a diameter, and a tuned port comprising a first end connected to the canister and a second end connected to the exhaust system. The canister operates in concert with the tuned port as a dampener configured to substantially attenuate exhaust drone, or resonance, at one or more frequencies of engine operation. A valve is configured to switch the drone elimination muffler between a closed state in which the exhaust system operates without acoustic influence due to the drone elimination muffler, and an open state in which the drone elimination muffler directly influences the acoustic properties of the exhaust system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: K&N Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Steve Williams, Kevin McCelland
  • Publication number: 20230307406
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an electronics assembly includes a cold plate assembly having a first surface, at least one power electronic device disposed within a recess on the first surface of the cold plate assembly, and a printed circuit board disposed on a surface of the at least one power electronic device. The printed circuit board includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, an electrically conductive power layer between the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer, a first set of thermal vias extending from the electrically conductive power layer and toward the first surface of the cold plate assembly, and a second set of thermal vias extending from the first surface of the cold plate assembly toward the electrically conductive power layer. The first set of thermal vias is electrically isolated from the second set of thermal vias.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Yanghe Liu, Hiroshi Ukegawa
  • Publication number: 20230303452
    Abstract: A high permittivity antiferroelectric composition and a manufacturing method thereof aim to provide an antiferroelectric, which has a PbxLa1-x([Zr1-YSnY]ZTi1-Z) composition, is sintered at low temperatures, and has a high density and a high permittivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, KOREA INSTITUTE OF CERAMIC ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Hyung Suk Kim, Hyo Soon Shin, Dong Hun Yeo, Jeoung Sik Choi
  • Publication number: 20230307380
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package is disclosed. The semiconductor device package includes a carrier, a first electronic component disposed on the carrier and a support component disposed on the carrier. The semiconductor device package also includes a second electronic component disposed on the first electronic component and supported by the support component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng-Nan LIN, Ming-Chiang LEE, Yung-I YEH
  • Patent number: 11769712
    Abstract: A semiconductor package structure includes a first electronic component, a conductive element and a first redistribution structure. The first electronic component has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and includes a first conductive via. The first conductive via has a first surface exposed from the first surface of the first electronic component. The conductive element is disposed adjacent to the first electronic component. The conductive element has a first surface substantially coplanar with the first surface of the first conductive via of the first electronic component. The first redistribution structure is configured to electrically connect the first conductive via of the first electronic component and the conductive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Hsiao-Yen Lee, Hung-Yi Lin
  • Patent number: 11767468
    Abstract: Optical tags provide a way to identify assets quickly and unambiguously, an application relevant to anti-counterfeiting and protection of valuable resources or information. The present invention is directed to a tag fluorophore that encodes multilayer complexity in a family of heterometallic rare-earth metal-organic frameworks (RE-MOFs) based on highly connected polynuclear clusters and carboxylic acid-based linkers. Both overt (visible) and covert (near infrared, NIR) properties with concomitant multi-emissive spectra and tunable luminescence lifetimes impart both intricacy and security. Tag authentication can be validated with a variety of orthogonal detection methodologies. The relationships between structure, composition, and optical properties of the family of RE-MOFs can be used to create a large library of rationally designed, highly complex, difficult to counterfeit optical tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Dorina F. Sava Gallis, Kimberly Butler, Lauren E. S. Rohwer
  • Patent number: 11768058
    Abstract: A detection method for discovering an unexploded ordnance includes: surrounding a detection region with a transmitting coil and surrounding a detection site with a second receiving coil; conducting the transmitting coil with a second electric current; respectively acquiring a plurality of second feedback signals at a plurality of second feedback time points; partitioning the transmitting coil into a plurality of dipoles, and acquiring a plurality of distance values r respectively between the plurality of dipoles and the detection site; respectively calculating feedback depths according to feedback time periods; respectively calculating apparent resistivity values corresponding to the feedback depths; obtaining an apparent resistivity distribution in depth at the detection site according to the apparent resistivity values and the feedback depths; and judging whether there is any unexploded ordnance at the detection site according to the apparent resistivity distribution in depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY, BEIJING INSTITUTE OF SATELLITE ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Xiao-Ping Zheng, Zhen-Yuan Sun, Hua Geng, Xiao-Jiao Deng, Bin Wang
  • Patent number: 11768536
    Abstract: A method for controlling vehicle operations based on user orientation and user interaction data is provided. The method includes detecting, using a sensor operating in conjunction with the computing device of the vehicle, an orientation of a part of a user relative to a location on a display that is positioned in an interior of the vehicle, detecting, using an additional sensor, an interaction between the user and a portion of the display positioned in the interior of the vehicle, determining, using the computing device, whether a distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies a threshold, and controlling, by the computing device, an operation associated with the vehicle responsive to determining that the distance between the location and the portion of the display satisfies the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Mikio David
  • Patent number: 11769879
    Abstract: A coaxially arranged energy storage device suitable for energy storage and structural support for a composite component is provided. The coaxially arranged energy storage device contains an anode core of a continuous carbon fiber;, an electrolyte coating coaxially arranged on the continuous carbon fiber core; and a cathode layer coating coaxially arranged to the continuous carbon fiber core on the electrolyte coating. The electrolyte coating comprises a gel or elastomer of a cross-linked polymer and a lithium salt and a Young's modulus of the gel or elastomer of a cross-linked polymer is from 0.1 MPa to 10 Mpa. The cathode layer comprises particles of a cathode active material embedded in a matrix of an electrically conductive polymer. Methods to prepare the coaxially arranged energy storage device are described and utilities described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Jae Seung Lee, Paul Gilmore
  • Patent number: 11767753
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for determining movement of a fluid into or out of a subsurface wellbore, to thereby enable accurate allocation of fluids being produced by or injected into each of several zones of the wellbore. A temperature change is effected in the fluid in a semi-continuous or pulsed manner at one or more locations in the wellbore. A temperature of the fluid is measured at one or more sensing locations downstream of the location of the temperature change. A time of flight model is used to determine, for a plurality of points of interest, a fluid flow direction, bulk flow rate and/or a cumulative flow rate contribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Brian C. Seabrook, Ted A. Long, Charles J. Mart