Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Publication number: 20180354877
    Abstract: A method for producing methanol includes obtaining reformed gas by subjecting raw material gas containing methane to partial oxidation reforming by use of oxygen; reducing a CO/CO2 ratio in the reformed gas; and obtaining produced gas containing methanol from the reformed gas with the reduced CO/CO2 ratio by using any of a fixed-bed reactor and an isothermal reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mikiya Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20180358276
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes: (1) a conductive base comprising a sidewall, a cavity defined from a first surface of the conductive base, the cavity having a bottom surface and a depth; (2) a semiconductor die disposed on the bottom surface of the cavity, the semiconductor die having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the second surface of the semiconductor die bonded to the bottom surface of the cavity; and (3) a first insulating material covering the sidewall of the conductive base and extending to a bottom surface of the conductive base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Chi-Tsung CHIU, Meng-Jen WANG, Cheng-Hsi CHUANG, Hui-Ying HSIEH, Hui Hua LEE
  • Publication number: 20180354772
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing system comprises a container enclosing a chamber. A flexible bag in the chamber contains a first liquid. First and second conduits are contained in the chamber. The first conduit connects the chamber to an outlet port in the container were the second conduit connects the bag to the first conduit. A supply source introduces a pressurized second liquid into the chamber. The first conduit serves to direct an exiting flow of the second liquid from the chamber to the outlet port, with the pressurized second liquid serving to collapse the bag and expel the first liquid contained therein via the second conduit to the first conduit for mixture with the exiting flow of the second liquid. The second conduit lacks flow restrictions, such as metering orifices or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: GLOBAL AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING, LLC.
    Inventors: Michael E. Cheney, Scott Ross, John R. Newton
  • Publication number: 20180354197
    Abstract: To cure a layer of curable material for building more uniformly and appropriately at the time of building an object. A building apparatus that builds an object using a curable material that is cured by being irradiated with an ultraviolet ray, the building apparatus including: an ink-jet head serving as an ejection head that ejects a curable material for building; a UV light source that emits the ultraviolet ray to the curable material ejected from the ink-jet head; and a light source driver that supplies electric power for driving the UV light source. The UV light source is a UV LED, and the light source driver supplies electric power that varies in a pulse-like form to the UV light source to drive the UV light source using a pulse driving scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Ochi, Masakatsu Okawa, Kyohei Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180355956
    Abstract: A modular, continuously variable ratio transmission adapted to be coupled between the drive motor of a dual rotor riding trowel and the lower drive train. First and second rigid, generally planar frame plates are secured in parallel relation by a plurality of spacers. The first fame plate has a clearance orifice for admitting a portion of the trowel engine. A stub shaft receives input power and rotates a first pulley that drives a second pulley with a reduced diameter. A first jackshaft driven by said second pulley drives a variable CVT drive pulley affixed externally of the module. A second variable drive pulley coupled to said first variable drive pulley by a belt drives a second jackshaft splined to a fifth pulley that is coupled to a sixth pulley having a diameter greater than the diameter of said fifth pulley. The sixth pulley is coupled to trowel gearbox drive shafts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Allen Engineering Corporation
    Inventor: Jeffrey Lynn Fielder
  • Publication number: 20180354193
    Abstract: A nozzle check suitable for production of a three-dimensional shaped object is performed. A production method of a three-dimensional shaped object M configured to laminate unit layers (L1, L2, . . .), in which a nozzle checking step inspects at least a part of nozzles (6) for ejecting ink for forming a particular unit layer, which is performed after having started production in a case where a timing of the nozzle check is before forming the particular unit layer and this unit layer is a lowermost layer (L1), and is performed after having formed a unit layer that is located directly under the particular unit layer in a case where the timing of the nozzle check is before forming the particular unit layer and this layer is not the lowermost layer (L1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: KAZUHIRO OCHI
  • Publication number: 20180358290
    Abstract: A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a first insulation layer, a support film and an interconnection structure. The substrate has a first sidewall, a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first insulation layer is on the first surface of the substrate and has a second sidewall. The first insulation layer has a first surface and a second surface adjacent to the substrate and opposite to the first surface of the first insulation layer. The support film is on the second surface of the substrate and has a third sidewall. The support film has a first surface adjacent to the substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface of the support film. The interconnection structure extends from the first surface of the first insulation layer to the second surface of the support film via the first insulation layer and the support film. The interconnection structure covers the first, second and third sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Hua CHEN, Ming-Hung CHEN, Hsu-Chiang SHIH
  • Publication number: 20180354030
    Abstract: Disclosed here is a method for making a nanoporous material, comprising aerosolizing a solution comprising at least one metal salt and at least one solvent to obtain an aerosol, freezing the aerosol to obtain a frozen aerosol, and drying the frozen aerosol to obtain a nanoporous metal compound material. Further, the nanoporous metal compound material can be reduced to obtain a nanoporous metal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Bagge-Hansen, Patrick G. Campbell, Jeffrey Colvin, Sergei Kucheyev, Thomas E. Felter
  • Publication number: 20180359853
    Abstract: A semiconductor package device includes a first dielectric layer, a first interconnection layer, a second interconnection layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The first interconnection layer is within the first dielectric layer. The second interconnection layer is on the second surface of the first dielectric layer and extends from the second surface of the first dielectric layer into the first dielectric layer to electrically connect to the first interconnection layer. The second dielectric layer covers the second surface and the lateral surface of the first dielectric layer and the second interconnection layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicant: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming-Ze LIN, Chia Ching CHEN, Yi Chuan DING
  • Publication number: 20180355272
    Abstract: Provided is a lubricating oil composition capable of decreasing friction while ensuring anti-wear properties even if it is reduced in viscosity. The lubricating oil composition comprises a lubricant base oil, (A) a magnesium-based detergent, and (B) a molybdenum-based friction modifier, wherein the amount of component (A) is in the range of 200 to 1200 mass ppm in terms of a concentration in mass ppm of magnesium [Mg] in the lubricating oil composition, and the amount of component (B) is in the range of 500 to 1500 mass ppm in terms of a concentration in mass ppm of molybdenum [Mo] in the lubricating oil composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ko Onodera, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Toyoharu Kaneko, Kazuo Yamamori
  • Patent number: 10151530
    Abstract: A coal upgrade plant includes a dryer 1 that heats and dries coal before pyrolyzing the coal, and a scrubber 32 that treats a carrier gas discharged from the dryer 1 while catching a desorbed component desorbed from the coal when the coal is dried by the dryer 1. The coal upgrade plant further includes a carrier gas circulation path 22 that guides the carrier gas treated by the scrubber 32 to the dryer 1. A cyclone 28 is also provided on the upstream side of the scrubber 32. Thus, mercury and/or mercury-based substances generated in the dryer 1 can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Shintaro Honjo, Kiyotaka Kunimune, Motofumi Ito, Junji Asahara
  • Patent number: 10150903
    Abstract: A composition and use thereof are disclosed herein. The composition comprises at least two selected from the group of amphiphilic block copolymer, polyurethane and acidic ionic compound. Also an oil-based drilling fluid comprising the composition and a method improving shearing force of oil-based drilling fluid are disclosed. The composition disclosed herewith can raise the shearing force of oil-based drilling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL CORPORATION, SINOPEC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
    Inventors: Yongxue Lin, Xianguang Wang, Zhoujun Li, Xiuzhen Han, Sheng Li, Xiaohua Yang, Xiong Li, Jianwu Zhen, Suli Zhao
  • Patent number: 10151732
    Abstract: The present application relates to microfabricated columns having a sealed flow channel. In particular, the channel is sealed during dicing, thereby preventing debris from accumulating within channels. In use, the seal is ruptured mechanically to connect one or more fluidic connections, which deliver analytes to the flow channel. Additional details are provided for making and using sealed columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew W. Moorman, Ronald P. Manginell, John Moses Anderson, Robert J. Simonson, Douglas Read
  • Patent number: 10150083
    Abstract: Asymmetric membrane structures are provided that are suitable for hydrocarbon reverse osmosis of small hydrocarbons. Separation of para-xylene from ortho- and meta-xylene is an example of a separation that can be performed using hydrocarbon reverse osmosis. Hydrocarbon reverse osmosis separations can be incorporated into a para-xylene isomerization and recovery system in a variety of manners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Brian Weiss, Benjamin A. McCool
  • Patent number: 10150519
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for designing a reinforcement structure. The reinforcement structure includes a deck sill with a connecting end, having substantially uniform area moment of inertia throughout a length of the deck sill. Also, the reinforcement structure includes a rear post with a connecting end and a free end, having a varying area moment of inertia, and where the rear post is attached to the deck sill in a substantially perpendicular manner by attaching the connecting end of the deck sill to the connecting end of the rear post forming the reinforcement structure that limits deflection of the free end of the rear post to a target value upon application of a cantilever force at the free end of the rear post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Higgins, James J. Chung
  • Patent number: 10150873
    Abstract: Metals across all industries demand anti-corrosion surface treatments and drive a continual need for high-performing and low-cost coatings. Ordered thin films comprising aligned inorganic platelets dispersed in a polyelectrolyte polymer matrix provide a new class of transparent conformal barrier coatings for protection in corrosive atmospheres. For example, films assembled via layer-by-layer deposition, as thin as 90 nm, are shown to reduce copper corrosion rates by >1000× in an aggressive H2S atmosphere. These coatings can provide high-performing anti-corrosion treatment alternatives to costlier, more toxic, and less scalable thin films, such as graphene, hexavalent chromium, or atomic layer deposited metal oxides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Eric John Schindelholz, Erik David Spoerke, Neil R. Sorensen, Jaime C. Grunlan
  • Patent number: 10152587
    Abstract: A device pairing method relates to steps of transmitting authentication information to a second device from a first device via a physical connecting line. First, a connectivity interface on the second device is electrically connected to an authentication connectivity interface on the first device via a connecting line; second, the first device in the mode of the virtual authentication disk is electrically connected to the second device; third, authentication information in the virtual authentication disk is accessed by an application program of the second device; fourth, an electrical connection between the second device and the first device is disabled with the connecting line removed; finally, the first device is accessed by the application program of the second device when the authentication information is transmitted to a network interface on the first device through some wireless networks of the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: WALTON ADVANCED ENGINEERING INC.
    Inventors: Hong Chi Yu, Mao Ting Chang
  • Patent number: 10151540
    Abstract: There is provided a large-sized reboiler that can achieve space saving and reduction in plant cost. Specifically, there is provided a large-sized reboiler comprising a vessel of which a liquid is supplied from a lower part and a vaporized gas is discharged from an upper part; and a heat transfer tube group arranged in such a manner that a void penetrating in the up-and-down direction is formed in the vessel, wherein a maximum length of a cross-sectional figure of a flow path for the liquid exceeds 2 m, and the void occupies 5 to 10% of an area of the cross-sectional figure of the flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINEERING, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Kondo, Hiromitsu Nagayasu, Takashi Kamijo, Osamu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10151383
    Abstract: A planetary carrier assembly is provided for a transmission. The carrier assembly comprises a powder metal carrier member including a carrier plate having a plurality of carrier legs extending from the carrier plate, and a powder metal cover member including a cover plate having a plurality of cover legs extending from the cover plate. The carrier assembly includes a sleeve member defining a plurality of braze material retention features stamped along a perimeter of the sleeve member. In various aspects, the braze material retention features cooperate with the carrier member and the cover member, in an assembled state, to define retention apertures shaped and sized to retain a braze material adjacent the single plane prior to a sintering process. A portion of the carrier member is aligned with both a portion of the cover member and a portion of the sleeve member, and brazed together in a single plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., AISIN AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shail N. Shah, Shinji Oita
  • Patent number: 10151008
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for treatment of a surface of a metallic material component, the method comprising the steps: electro-spark treating the surface of the metallic component by means of an electro-spark electrode, wherein the metallic material is a basically ferritic, perlitic and/or austenitic steel and the method creates a thin layer with martensitic microstructures at the surface of the metallic material component. Serpentines and quartz can be incorporated by an additional step as well as the surface randomly structured by this.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LONGEVITY ENGINEERING SA
    Inventors: Valentin Kislov, Stanislav Kislov