Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Publication number: 20200300368
    Abstract: A mechanical seal assembly has rotational and stationary sealing members) and a drive unit, which is axially adjacent one of the sealing members. An energizing member urges the drive unit towards the sealing members. A retainer axially and radially retains one of the sealing members. The drive unit is in contact with one of the rotational and stationary members by way of contacting surfaces which are in the range of 1 and 20 light bands of flatness, inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: AES Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Martin Shaw, Andrew Colverson
  • Publication number: 20200301076
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to conductive cooling of a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) transceiver. For example, an SFP transceiver assembly may include a cooling block and a thermally conductive pad having a thermally conductive material. The SFP transceiver assembly may include a spring finger that contacts the thermally conductive pad while the SFP transceiver is inserted into the SFP transceiver assembly to allow heat to be conducted from the SFP transceiver to the cooling block via the thermally conductive pad to conductively cool the SFP transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Watts
  • Publication number: 20200303335
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device includes a first redistribution layer (RDL) including a circuit layer. The second electronic device is disposed on the first RDL of the first electronic device. The second electronic device includes an encapsulant and a patterned conductive layer. The encapsulant has a first surface facing the first RDL of the first electronic device, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The patterned conductive layer is disposed at the second surface of the encapsulant, and is configured to be electrically coupled to the circuit layer of the first RDL of the first electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Hsien CHU, Chi-Yu WANG
  • Publication number: 20200303294
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes a carrier provided with a first conductive element, a second conductive element arranged on a semiconductor disposed on the carrier, and a second semiconductor device disposed on and across the first conductive element and the first semiconductor device, wherein the first conductive element having a surface that is substantially coplanar with a surface of the second conductive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Chih-Hsin CHANG, Tsu-Hsiu WU, Tsung-Yueh TSAI
  • Publication number: 20200300174
    Abstract: Power train architectures with low-loss lubricant bearings and low-density materials are disclosed. The gas turbine used in these architectures can include a compressor section, a turbine section, and a combustor section. A generator, coupled to the rotor shaft, is driven by the turbine section. The compressor section, the turbine section, and the generator each include rotating components, at least one of the rotating components in at least one of the compressor section, the turbine section, and the generator including a low-density material. Bearings support the rotor shaft within the compressor section, the turbine section and the generator, wherein at least one of the bearings is a low-loss bearing having a low-loss lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicants: General Electric Company, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: David Lee Williamson, Raymond John Bankert, Jessica Lee Prince, Carlos Eduardo Silva
  • Publication number: 20200304328
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system comprising PoE apparatus including midspans, switches and routers that can provide high powered PoE connections that enable the recovery of DC power in sufficient quantities that allow it to be converted to AC power by way of an inverter. The invention also provides a method for providing AC power, data and light to office workstations using a single PoE connection. The invention further comprises a common mode signalling system that operates independently of any TCP/IP signal transmitted through an Ethernet connection wherein said signalling system is adapted to communicate with and control PoE powered devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Electrical Engineering Solutions Pty Limited
    Inventors: Norman Boemi, David John Bull, James Bull, Stephan Meyer
  • Patent number: 10781591
    Abstract: A wind protection device for a building has lateral face elements (630) positioned at a distance from an inner building wall (631) creating at least one riser shaft (239) for air. The lateral face element (630) is closed at lateral sides, wherein the wind protection device further has at least one lower air entry element (620, 620?) connected to at least one riser shaft (239) and at least one upper virtual ledge (620?; 643) connected to at least one riser shaft (239) having an outlet opening directing the air flow from the connected riser shaft(s) (239) to the area in front and above the respective upper virtual ledge (620?, 643). The lateral face element (630) has a sequence (650) of side air entries (651, 651?, 651?) connected with at least one riser shaft (239).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Elemental Engineering AG
    Inventor: Osman Saeed
  • Patent number: 10781308
    Abstract: A resin composition for laser welding contains: relative to 100 mass parts of (A) a thermoplastic polyester resin material that contains a polybutylene terephthalate homopolymer and at least one of a polybutylene terephthalate copolymer, a polyethylene terephthalate resin, and a polycarbonate resin, 0.0005 to 0.5 mass parts of (B) nigrosine; and 0.01 to 2 mass parts of (C) a colorant containing at least an anthraquinone dye C1 having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 590 to 635 nm, a perinone dye C2 having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 460 to 480 nm, and an anthraquinone dye C3 having a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 435 to 455 nm, at C1:C2:C3=24 to 41:24 to 39:22 to 46 as the mass ratio relative to 100 mass parts for a total of C1, C2, and C3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation, ORIENT CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasushi Yamanaka, Makiko Yoshida
  • Patent number: 10781438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and processes in the field of self-cleaning system using digestive proteins. One composition includes a substrate, a digestive protein capable of decomposing a stain molecule, and a linker moiety bound to both said digestive protein and said substrate. The processes include binding a substrate to a surface and forming a linker moiety between a digestive protein and said substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Toyota Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Ping Wang, Minjuan Zhang, Hongfei Jia, Archana H. Trivedi, Masahiko Ishii
  • Patent number: 10782328
    Abstract: A single point to modify a behavior of intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) between active and testing modes is disclosed herein. The IED may include a variety of logical nodes, each with a behavior object related to the active or testing mode behavior of the IED. A single testing mode selection point of the IED is used to modify each of the logical nodes to change between active and testing modes. The testing mode selection point may be a logical input. The testing mode selection point may be a physical switch on the IED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamza Abubakari, Tovah Whitesell, Manodev J. Rajasekaran, Cody Browne, Gabriel DeRuwe, David J. Dolezilek, Karen S J Wyszczelski
  • Patent number: 10784115
    Abstract: A method of etching features in a silicon wafer includes coating a top surface and a bottom surface of the silicon wafer with a mask layer having a lower etch rate than an etch rate of the silicon wafer, removing one or more portions of the mask layer to form a mask pattern in the mask layer on the top surface and the bottom surface of the silicon wafer, etching one or more top surface features into the top surface of the silicon wafer through the mask pattern to a depth plane located between the top surface and the bottom surface of the silicon wafer at a depth from the top surface, coating the top surface and the one or more top surface features with a metallic coating, and etching one or more bottom surface features into the bottom surface of the silicon wafer through the mask pattern to the target depth plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Ki Wook Jung, Ercan Mehmet Dede, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson
  • Patent number: 10780927
    Abstract: Spoiler apparatus for use with vehicles are disclosed. A disclosed spoiler for a vehicle includes a sensor operatively couple to the vehicle. The spoiler also includes a body supporting the sensor and including an aperture positioned thereon. The body is coupled to an exterior vehicle surface near a lamp of the vehicle, separate from the spoiler, such that the lamp is exposed via the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Varun Jonathan Prabhakar
  • Patent number: 10780430
    Abstract: Methods are provided for forming noble metal catalysts comprising both platinum and a second Group VIII metal, such as palladium, with improved aromatic saturation activity. Instead of impregnating a catalyst with both platinum and another Group VIII metal at the same time, a sequential impregnation can be used, with the Group VIII metal being impregnated prior to platinum. It has been discovered that by forming a Group VIII metal-impregnated catalyst first, and then impregnating with platinum, the distribution of platinum throughout the catalyst can be improved. The improved distribution of platinum can result in a catalyst with enhanced aromatic saturation activity relative to a catalyst with a similar composition formed by simultaneous impregnation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Matthew S. Ide, Stephen J. McCarthy, Gary P. Schleicher
  • Patent number: 10785189
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods of monitoring communication devices and communication links in a software-defined network (SDN). Network packets may be colored or tagged for routing to a packet analyzer. A VLAN bitmask may be added to a packet to identify the packet for inspection and, optionally, provide origin information identify a switch and/or port of origin. Port mirroring may be utilized and/or eventual routing of network packets to their original destination may ensure that network traffic is not disrupted. In one example, a most significant bit of a VLAN bitmask may be used by a match rule to identify packets intended for a packet analyzer without regard to original packet routing instructions and/or packet content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Dearien, Rhett Smith, Robert Meine
  • Patent number: 10780388
    Abstract: Achieving the selective and reversible adsorption of CO2 from humid, low partial pressures streams such as the flue gas resulting from the combustion of natural gas in combined cycle power plants (4% CO2) is challenging due to the need for high thermal, oxidative, and hydrolytic stability as well as moderate regeneration conditions to reduce the energy of adsorption/desorption cycling. Appending cyclic primary, secondary diamines, exemplified by 2-(aminomethyl)piperidine (2-ampd), to the metal-organic frameworks Mg2(dobpdc) (dobpdc4?=4,4-dioxidobiphenyl-3,3-dicarboxylate), Mg2(dotpdc) (dotpdc4?=4,4?-dioxido-[1,1?:4?,1?-terphenyl]-3,3?-dicarboxylate) or Mg2(pc-dobpdc) (pc-dobpdc4?=dioxidobiphenyl-4,4?-dicarboxylate) produces adsorbents of the classes EMM-44, EMM-45, and EMM-46, respectively, that display step-shaped adsorption of CO2 at the partial pressures required for 90% capture from natural gas flue gas at temperatures up to or exceeding 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Long, Simon Christopher Weston, Phillip J. Milner, Rebecca L. Siegelman
  • Patent number: 10781386
    Abstract: Marine fuel oil compositions are provided that exhibit unexpectedly high cetane numbers after addition of a cetane improver. Methods of making such compositions are also provided. The unexpected nature of the marine fuel oil compositions is based in part on the ability to achieve a substantial improvement in estimated cetane number by addition of a cetane improver to a hydrocarbonaceous composition with a natural estimated cetane number of less than 35. These unexpectedly high increases in estimated cetane number for fuels or fuel blending components with low natural estimated cetane numbers can allow for production of fuel compositions with desirable combustion characteristics while also maintaining a higher level of aromatic compounds and/or reducing or minimizing the amount of distillate boiling range components in the fuel or fuel blending component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Kenneth C. H. Kar, Sheryl B. Rubin-Pitel, David T. Ferrughelli, Anthony S. Mennito, Teng Xu
  • Patent number: 10782704
    Abstract: One or more roadway features can be determined based on information received from one or more vehicles traveling on a roadway. A data packet can be received from a remote vehicle. The data packet can include data corresponding to locations and headings of the remote vehicle. A path history for the remote vehicle can be determined based on the data packet. The path history can include data points corresponding to a plurality of locations and headings for the remote vehicle. A geometry for a portion of the roadway preceding the remote vehicle can be determined using the path history. The determined geometry of the roadway can be used to determine a driving maneuver for a vehicle and/or to verify a map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimeros Vladimerou, Miles J. Johnson, Guarav Bansal, Ahmed Sakr
  • Patent number: 10780997
    Abstract: A shock-resistant memory device comprises a housing and a memory module. The memory module is disposed within the housing and surrounded by potting material to protect the memory module from damage during a shock event. The housing can include a port that accommodates a data connection between the memory module and a sensor from which data is desirably received by the memory module. During a shock event the connection between the memory module and the sensor may be severed, but data stored in the memory module can be retained in the memory module which is protected by the housing. To facilitate retrieval of the memory device subsequent to a shock event, a balloon can be affixed to the housing. The balloon can be configured to inflate subsequent to the shock event so that the shock-resistant memory device does not sink in water and to make the memory device more visible for recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Josiah Bigelow, Brandon Toepper
  • Patent number: 10783758
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to a tower light assembly having an output indicator responsive to an onboard sensor in accordance with a predetermined environmental parameter threshold. In an illustrative example, an augmented sensing tower light assembly (ASTLA) may include a light tower assembly having a controller configured to receive status data from monitored equipment. The controller may further receive environmental data from the onboard sensor. In response to the received status data and the received environmental data, the controller may actuate the output indicator in accordance with one or more predetermined criteria. Advantageously, the ASTLA may provide supplemental low-cost sensing capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Banner Engineering Corp.
    Inventor: Robert T. Fayfield
  • Patent number: 10784511
    Abstract: Nanoporous carbon provides a binderless, three-dimensional form of graphene as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Katharine Lee Harrison, Matthaeus Wolak, Michael P. Siegal