Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 11674925
    Abstract: This invention is directed to an inexpensive, miniaturized, portable, low-power device and method for electrophoretic separation and electrochemical detection of an analyte, including different isotopes of the same element. The invention replaces a conventional or microfabricated capillary electrophoresis tube with a microchip comprising an array of parallel electrophoretic separation nanotubes or aligned hollow channels fabricated in a porous substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle C. Klavetter, Michael P. Siegal, William G. Yelton, Carlos Perez, Amalie L. Frischknecht, Michael C. Wanke
  • Patent number: 11676912
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device package are provided. The semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a clip, and a support structure. The clip is disposed on the substrate. The clip includes a first portion and a second portion separated from each other by a slit. The support structure is above the substrate and supports the clip. The support structure has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, and the first surface and the second surface define a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Chia Hsiu Huang, Chun Chen Chen, Wei Chih Cho, Shao-Lun Yang
  • Patent number: 11673452
    Abstract: The oven for the transport of food, installable in particular on motorcycles or the like, comprises a container securable to a motorcycle and having an inner chamber for the housing of food, an heating heat exchanger associated with the container and adapted to heat the air in the inner chamber, in which the heating heat exchanger has an inlet duct connectable to a scavenging system of the exhaust gases of the motorcycle and an outlet duct of the exhaust gases, and a dehumidifying heat exchanger associated with the container and adapted to dehumidify the air in the inner chamber, in which the dehumidifying heat exchanger comprises a cooling portion adapted to be hit by an air flow external to the container during the transit of the motorcycle, and a dehumidification portion positioned internally to the container and adapted to condense the water vapor present in the inner chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Beyond Engineering S.r.l.
    Inventors: Anthony Byron Prada, Claudio Joel Giovini, Domenico Palladino, Marco Caputo
  • Patent number: 11677268
    Abstract: An intelligent electronic device (IED) includes memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to establish, over a communication network of a power system, a connection association (CA) with a receiving device using a MACsec Key Agreement (MKA). The processor is configured to automatically send an announce message indicating a set of enabled application protocols on the IED to the receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Gordon, Sai Krishna Raghupathula
  • Patent number: 11677668
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of deep packet inspection (DPI) in a network is provided. The method comprises collecting data packets comprising a number of traffic flows from a number of devices via a number of traffic taps and classifying each traffic flow according to data about network protocol layers of the packets comprising the traffic flow. Application layer metadata is extracted from the packets. Traffic flow classification data and the extracted metadata are ingested into a data cluster and normalized. The normalized classification data and extracted metadata is then correlated to other data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Urias, Brian P. Van Leeuwen, William M. S. Stout
  • Patent number: 11674234
    Abstract: A coating made of platinum-gold alloy is provided, together with a method of its preparation by electrodeposition. The alloy is composed of more than 50 atomic percent platinum. The microstructure of the alloy consists of generally ellipsoidal grains. More than half of the grains have a major axis of 10 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Chris Klavetter, Jonathan Joseph Coleman
  • Patent number: 11675343
    Abstract: A production system for producing products from raw materials by a production process with several steps has a number of production facilities that perform the steps and a control device. The control device determines a control target value by referring to information about group combinations specified in accordance with the relative merits of the manufacturing condition routes followed by respective lots during the production process. The routes are respectively set for a number of groups that are classified on the basis of raw material properties formed of a combination of property items of one or more types of raw materials. The relative merits of the routes are determined on the basis of quality items of the lots, classified for inter-step combinations of groups, which are classified on the basis of manufacturing conditions at the steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Engineering Corporation
    Inventors: Kouji Kawano, Akihiro Matsuki
  • Patent number: 11673587
    Abstract: Disclosed is a comprehensive inspection vehicle for a subway tunnel, including a positioning system, an acquisition system and a flatcar. The flatcar runs on a railway of the subway tunnel. The positioning system and the acquisition system are arranged on the flatcar. The positioning system includes a laser ranging module and an inertial navigation module. The comprehensive inspection vehicle further includes an independent power supply system and a central control system arranged on the flatcar. The independent power supply system supplies power for the acquisition system, the positioning system and the central control system. The central control system includes an acquisition industrial computer and a positioning industrial computer which are respectively connected to the acquisition system and the positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: TONGJI UNIVERSITY, Shanghai Tongyan Civil Engineering Technology Corp., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xuezeng Liu, Xingen Liu, Yingying Chen, Yunlong Sang
  • Patent number: 11674346
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an ambidextrous hinge. The ambidextrous hinge includes a first knuckle with a first engagement feature, a second knuckle with a second engagement feature, and a third knuckle movably coupled between the first knuckle and the second knuckle. The third knuckle includes a third engagement feature that engages the first engagement feature to cause the ambidextrous hinge to lock in a first open position when used as a first swing hinge. The third knuckle includes a fourth engagement feature that engages the second engagement feature to cause the ambidextrous hinge to lock in a second open position when used as a second swing hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric M. Sawyer
  • Publication number: 20230178444
    Abstract: A semiconductor package structure includes a circuit pattern structure, an encapsulant and an anchoring structure. The encapsulant is disposed on the circuit pattern structure. The anchoring structure is disposed adjacent to an interface between the encapsulant and the circuit pattern structure, and is configured to reduce a difference between a variation of expansion of the encapsulant and a variation of expansion of the circuit pattern structure in an environment of temperature variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Yung-Shun CHANG, Teck-Chong LEE
  • Publication number: 20230175168
    Abstract: Proposed is a manufacturing method of a high-quality ?-Ga2O3 thin film using a high-quality ?-Ga2O3 thin film manufacturing apparatus based on halide vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) growth. The apparatus includes a reaction gas generating unit in which a chlorine-based gas and Ga in a source zone react to generate GaClx, a dopant gas supply unit, an additional chlorine-based gas supply unit for supplying an additional chlorine-based gas in a source tube, oxygen-based gas supply units, and a susceptor unit supporting a substrate on which a Ga2O3 thin film is to be formed. During the epitaxial growth, the additional hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas is supplied to reduce the pre-reaction between precursors, and a movement distance to the susceptor can is increased to increase growth rate and growth speed to control the crystallinity. Thus, high-quality epitaxial growth and a high production yield can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology
    Inventors: Dae-Woo JEON, Ji-Hyeon Park
  • Publication number: 20230173138
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for modifying a hydrogel lubricating coating on a surface of general equipment, and hydrogel lubricating coating-modified general equipment, belonging to the technical field of material surface modification. In the present disclosure, by combining catechol adhesion chemistry and free radical polymerization initiated by surface catalysis, the method can realize in-situ generation of free radicals at an interface of a substrate and a hydrogel monomer solution at room temperature, without external auxiliary conditions such as illumination or heating. The method can prepare the hydrophilic hydrogel lubricating coating on the surface of almost all existing substrates, which is especially suitable for lubricating modification on an inner surface of a non-translucent pipeline instrument, showing material versatility. Therefore, the method is suitable for the fields of surface engineering and biomedicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai Zhongke Research Institute of Advanced Materials and Green Chemical Engineering
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Shuanhong Ma, Yunlei Zhang, Zhengfeng Ma
  • Publication number: 20230174225
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to various multi-rotor aircrafts including at least one passively tiltable rotor group which may be tilted, typically in a direction of their movement. More importantly, the passively tiltable rotor group can tilt on its own, without having to include any additional electric motor or other power generating devices. This disclosure relates to various multi-rotor aircrafts including various load sharing units capable of taking up at least a portion of a weight load of the aircraft to itself, thereby diverting that portion of the weight load from a tilting unit. Therefore, the tilting units may be tilted more easily under the reduced weight load and friction. This disclosure further relates to various methods of fabricating or operating such passively tiltable rotor groups, tilting units, or load sharing units, and various methods of incorporating such into the multi-rotor aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: this is engineering Inc.
    Inventor: Yoojung HONG
  • Publication number: 20230173813
    Abstract: An ink supplying device includes: an attachment unit to which a cartridge for storing ink to be supplied to an inkjet head of a printing apparatus is attached and in which an internal flow path is formed for the ink stored in the cartridge to flow; an external tube that is connected to the internal flow path of the attachment unit and circulates the ink; and a base portion that supports the attachment unit and a part of the external tube. The attachment unit is supported by the base portion so as to be rotatable in a direction around a predetermined central axis. The external tube is disposed in a curved state from a connecting portion connected to the internal flow path to a supported portion supported by the base portion and is provided such that the curved state changes in accordance with the rotation of the attachment unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoya Kawai
  • Publication number: 20230176248
    Abstract: A meta-crystal slab includes photonic structure with an input surface and an output surface, and a plurality of first voxels with a first permittivity and a plurality of second voxels with a second permittivity not equal to the first permittivity disposed between the input surface and the output surface. The photonic structure has a periodicity greater than an operating photonic wavelength ‘?’ for general convolution by the photonic structure and the photonic structure is configured to provide an output image with a convolution of an input image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicants: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Shanhui Fan, Weiliang Jin, Cheng Guo, Nathan Zhao, Haiwen Wang, Sean P. Rodrigues
  • Publication number: 20230180442
    Abstract: An integrated power electronic package includes a cold plate having a microcontroller, driver circuit, and power module embedded within a top surface of the cold plate. A 3D-printed circuit board is printed on and/or around the microcontroller, driver circuit, and power module to create electrical connections between the components. Additional electrical components are mounted to the 3D-printed circuit board to form the integrated power electronics package. The cold plate further includes a hollow interior recess having a plurality of fins. The plurality of fins have varying densities to allow targeted cooling of the microcontroller, driver circuit, and power module embedded in the cold plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Hiroshi Ukegawa
  • Publication number: 20230179122
    Abstract: A hybrid actuation device that includes a first plate coupled to a second plate, a shape memory alloy wire coupled to the first plate, and an artificial muscle stack positioned between the first plate and the second plate. The artificial muscle stack includes a plurality of artificial muscles stacked in a vertical arrangement. Each artificial muscle includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region, a first electrode and a second electrode each disposed in the electrode region of the housing and a dielectric fluid disposed within the housing. The expandable fluid region of the housing is positioned apart from a perimeter of the first plate and the second plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Maduran Palaniswamy, Michael P. Rowe
  • Publication number: 20230179505
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein monitor real-time digital data for degradation. A merging unit may measure electrical parameters in an electric power system using a sensor component and may generate a stream of digital data representing measured electrical parameters. The merging unit may transmit the stream of digital data representing measured electrical parameters and receive a plurality of data frames using an interface. A digital data degradation detection subsystem may analyze a plurality of digital metrics associated with the plurality of data frames and make a determination of whether a subset of the plurality of data frames satisfies the plurality of digital metrics, and the subset of the plurality of data frames fails at least one of the plurality of digital metrics. The merging unit may implement a response when the subset of the plurality of data frames fails at least one of the plurality of digital metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Lautenschlager, Arun Shrestha, Nishchal Sharma, Vinodev E. Rajasekaran, Karthi Sellakkannu, Sajal Harmukh
  • Patent number: D988967
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Sharrow Engineering LLC
    Inventor: Gregory C. Sharrow
  • Patent number: D989359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: SHANGHAI SANSI ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING CO. LTD., SHANGHAI SANSI TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., JIASHAN SANSI OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., PUJIANG SANSI OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Chen, Xing Wen, Shan Li, Peng Wang, Xiaoliang He