Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Patent number: 9982857
    Abstract: A light with improved moisture control for a vehicle. The light has a housing and a lens, the housing and the lens forming a light interior. The light also includes a lamp that is at least partially enclosed within the light interior. A vent duct is included and extends through the housing from the light interior to an exterior of the light. An anti-humidity fan is present within the vent duct and is operable to move moisture from the light interior to the exterior of the light and thereby prevent fogging of the light lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sunil Dalal
  • Patent number: 9982825
    Abstract: A bladder and attachment member assembly for use with a container comprises an elastomeric gas-filled bladder comprising a valve stem. A first attachment member is disposed over the valve stem within the container with the bladder. A second attachment member is disposed over the valve stem and over the first attachment member. The second attachment member is outside of the container interposed between the valve stem and a container opening. Rotational movement of the valve stem is fixed relative to one or both of the first and second attachment members. In an example, the valve stem comprises one or more surface features that register with one or more surface features of the first and/or second attachment member to thereby fix relative valve stem rotational movement. In an example, the valve stem surface feature is a flat surface that registers with a flat surface of the second attachment member inside diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Young Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Winston B. Young
  • Patent number: 9981584
    Abstract: A method of reinforcing a seatback frame of a seat assembly in which the seatback frame includes a pair of first frame members. The method includes the steps of providing a reinforcement member having an insertion end and an arm at an opposite end of the reinforcement member. The arm extends generally normal to the remainder of the reinforcement member to define a generally L-shape. An aperture is formed in one of the pair of first frame members. The insertion end of the reinforcement member is inserted into the aperture. The attachment end is aligned with the other of the pair of first frame members. The reinforcement member is welded to the seatback frame to reinforce the seatback frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle E. Rosander, Leon Toma, Christopher H. DeRose, Robert Joseph Hazlewood
  • Patent number: 9982552
    Abstract: A pressurized incineration facility (100, 200) includes: a pressurized incinerator (1) which incinerates a processing object (P) under a pressure increased by compressed air (A); a turbocharger (5) which produces the compressed air by being rotationally driven by combustion exhaust gas (G) of the pressurized incinerator; and a seal device (5i) which jets seal gas (S) to a rear surface (5a1) of a turbine impeller (5a) of the turbocharger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: TSUKISHIMA KIKAI CO., LTD., SANKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ken Nakano, Yutaka Hirata, Yuki Asaoka, Kazuyoshi Terakoshi, Toshiki Kobayashi, Takafumi Yamamoto, Takamitsu Kanno, Kunihiko Koga, Tomokazu Suyama
  • Patent number: 9981485
    Abstract: When an image is printed by inkjet printing on a print surface of a target medium, an overcoat layer is formed in a more appropriate manner. A printing method uses color ink heads 202 as exemplified colored ink heads, a clear ink head 204, and ultraviolet irradiators 206. The printing method includes a color printing step of printing a print image using a colored ink in at least a partial region on a print surface of a medium 50, a non-colored region clear printing step of applying a UV clear ink for printing in a region at least including a non-colored region in which ink droplets are not discharged in the color printing step, and an overcoat layer forming step of forming an overcoat layer that covers the print image using the UV clear ink in a region covering at least the print image printed in the color printing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Ikeda, Norikazu Nakamura, Moe Ito
  • Patent number: 9984986
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a patterned conductive layer on the substrate, a passivation layer on the substrate and surrounding the patterned conductive layer, a first under bump metallurgy (UBM) and a second UBM on the passivation layer and electrically connected to the patterned conductive layer, and an isolation structure on the passivation layer and between the first UBM and the second UBM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: Wen Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 9984985
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for a semiconductor package device. The semiconductor package device includes a substrate, a first antenna, an electronic component, a package body and a second antenna. The substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a first lateral surface extending between the first surface and the second surface. The first antenna is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The electronic component is disposed on the second surface of the substrate. The package body is disposed on the second surface of the substrate and encapsulates the electronic component. The package body has a first lateral surface substantially coplanar with the first lateral surface of the substrate. The second antenna is disposed on the first lateral surface of the substrate and on the first lateral surface of the package body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ADVANCED SEMICONDUCTOR ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventors: Chung-Hsin Chiang, Kuang-Ting Chi
  • Patent number: 9985342
    Abstract: A roof antenna mounting unit for a vehicle is provided. The roof antenna mounting unit is mounted in a mounting aperture formed in a roof of a vehicle and fixes an antenna. The mounting unit includes a fastening member having a molding portion and a fastening portion that is inserted into the mounting aperture. An upper cover is integrally coupled to the fastening member by injection molding to surround an outer circumferential surface of the molding portion and is disposed at an upper side extraneous to the roof. A sealing member is interposed between the roof and the upper cover and a fixing nut is mounted on the fastening portion inserted into the mounting aperture at a lower side in the roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Hyundai Motor India Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Woo Lee, Seung Hai Hwang, Jong Dae Kim, Jack Joseph, Mariyala Satish Reddy
  • Patent number: 9985706
    Abstract: Information associated with a communication service need of the user is received from a user of a client computer system. A set of communication service requirements that indicate satellite resources required to satisfy the communication service need of the user are computed based on the received information, and transmitted to a server computer system. A first beam plan that satisfies the set of communication service requirements is received from the server computer system. The first beam plan includes information on satellite beams and spectra for allocation to the user when the first beam plan is deployed to provide a communication service to the user that satisfies the communication service need of the user. Instructions are transmitted to the server computer system to deploy the first beam plan. Information is received from the server computer system indicating that the first beam plan is deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: RKF Engineering Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Freedman, Ted Kaplan, Arnold Berman, Michael Mandell, Brian Sipos, Scott Conrad Markley, Erik Halvorson, David Marshack
  • Patent number: 9981208
    Abstract: A cyclone reservoir for separation of an aerated portion of a hydraulic fluid and a related method of making the cyclone reservoir. The cyclone reservoir includes a lower chamber having a generally cylindrical side wall, a return port, and a suction port. An upper chamber is connected to the lower chamber by a neck section that places the interior volumes of the lower and upper chambers in fluid communication with one another. The neck section has a cross-sectional area taken perpendicular to a central axis of the reservoir that is smaller than a cross-sectional area of the lower chamber and the upper chamber at a different position along the central axis. The chambers and neck section may be made as a single-piece part by molding the reservoir by, for example, rotomolding. A reinforcement band may also go around the neck section to connect and support the upper and lower chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Price Engineering Company, LLC
    Inventor: Robert A. Doll
  • Publication number: 20180141414
    Abstract: An automatic window tinting system for a vehicle includes a selectively transparent window, a controller including a processing unit and a non-transitory computer readable memory, a temperature sensor, an occupant sensor, a proximity sensor, and a computer readable and executable instruction set. The computer readable and executable instruction set causes the processing unit to receive an occupant sensor signal, a temperature signal and a proximity sensor signal, maintain the selectively transparent window in a first light transmissivity state when the occupant sensor signal is indicative of a presence of an unattended occupant, transition the selectively transparent window to a second light transmissivity state when the temperature signal is indicative of a temperature inside the vehicle that is greater than a threshold value, and transition the selectively transparent window to a third light transmissivity state when the proximity sensor signal is indicative of the presence of a passerby.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Charan S. Lota
  • Publication number: 20180145010
    Abstract: An electronics assembly includes a cooling chip structure having a target layer and a jet impingement layer coupled to the target layer. The jet impingement layer has one or more jet channels disposed within the jet impingement layer. Further, one or more through substrate vias are disposed within the jet impingement layer, where the one or more through substrate vias are electrically conductive and are electrically coupled to the target layer. A fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port are fluidly coupled to the one or more jet channels of the jet impingement layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuoka, Ercan Dede
  • Publication number: 20180140744
    Abstract: A method of incorporating cells in a porous matrix, the method comprising incorporating the cells in the porous matrix by forming a gel comprising the cells in situ in the porous matrix from a gellable medium, wherein the formation of the gel from the gellable medium comprises a time period of 10 minutes or less after contact of the gellable medium with the cells, thereby incorporating the cells in the porous matrix. The incorporated cells can then be used, for example, to produce a cultured skin product or deliver specific cells to a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SKIN TISSUE ENGINEERING PTY LTD
    Inventor: John GREENWOOD
  • Publication number: 20180140306
    Abstract: A low-cost contour cuff for surgical tourniquet systems comprises: a sheath containing an inflatable bladder, the sheath having an arcuate shape, an outer surface and a centerline equidistant between first and second side edges; a securing strap non-releasably attached to the outer surface and formed of substantially inextensible material having a shape that is predetermined and substantially flat, wherein the strap includes a bending portion near a first strap end and a fastening portion near a second strap end, and wherein the bending portion is adapted to allow twisting of the bending portion out of the substantially flat shape to facilitate positioning of the fastening portion into any of a plurality of positions in the substantially flat shape; and fastening means for releasably attaching the fastening portion of the securing strap to the outer surface whenever the sheath is curved into a position for surrounding a limb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Western Clinical Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: James A. McEwen, Michael Jameson, Kenneth L. Glinz, Tom Yu Chia Lai
  • Publication number: 20180142534
    Abstract: A wireline retrievable injection valve for an oil or gas well has an internal valve that is initially moved to open a flapper safety valve and also opens to allow fluid flow through the valve. The internal valve includes a sleeve that opens the flapper safety valve and shields the flapper safety valve from fluid. In this manner the flapper valve is protected from being caused to “flutter” or “chatter” due to pressure variations in the fluid flow, which may damage the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Tejas Research & Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Jason C. Mailand, Thomas G. Hill, JR.
  • Publication number: 20180142434
    Abstract: A fiction pendulum isolation bearing, an intelligent bearing and a bearing monitoring system are disclosed. The fiction pendulum isolation bearing comprises a top bearing plate, a bottom bearing plate, a top hinge, a bottom hinge, a base plate stacked with the top bearing plate or the bottom bearing plate, and a pressure sensing unit arranged between the top bearing plate and the base plate or between the bottom bearing plate and the base plate. The intelligent bearing comprises a data acquisition unit, a data output unit and the friction pendulum isolation bearing, wherein the data acquisition unit is configured to transmit the bearing pressure measured by the pressure sensing unit to the data output unit. The bearing monitoring system comprises a data acquisition unit, a data output unit, a monitoring center and the friction pendulum isolation bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicants: Shenzhen Municipal Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Innova-Wise Engineering Technology Consulting Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang YU, Ruijuan Jiang, Yiyan Chen, Weiming Gai, Jie Peng, Jucan Dong
  • Publication number: 20180145009
    Abstract: An electronics assembly includes a cooling chip structure having a device facing surface opposite a base surface and one or more sidewalls extending around a perimeter of the cooling chip structure between the device facing surface and the base surface. A plurality of fluid microchannels fluidly are coupled to a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port. A through substrate via extends from the base surface of the cooling chip structure to the device facing surface of the cooling chip structure, where the through substrate via intersects two or more fluid microchannels of the plurality of fluid microchannels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuji Fukuoka, Ercan Dede, Kyosuke Miyagi
  • Publication number: 20180144853
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel cup-magnet composite structure by using the cup-magnets to generate both vertical lift and horizontal shift. This module functions uniquely due to its coherent magnetic force and the innovative design. According to this invention, the cup-magnet module can be embedded into many products of various applications. The module can be made at efficient cost to perform great function such as providing cushion support with gentle magnetic therapy in applications of magnetic pillow, chair and mattress, etc. . . . It can also be embedded in the shoe to provide the luxury comfort of relieving the foot-ache via magnetic cushion. In many applications, it also reduces the energy use and its associated impact on the environment by replacing the traditional component that runs on electricity otherwise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: AMERICAN MAGNETIC ENGINEERING, INC.
    Inventor: KANG YAO
  • Publication number: 20180143120
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing vehicle stone chippings is disclosed. The apparatus includes a stone chipping rig having a chassis. The chassis includes a first end, a second end, and a longitudinally extending tongue extending from the second end. A rolling fixture is coupled to the first end of the chassis. A stone chipping test device is coupled to the first end of the chassis adjacent to the rolling fixture for measuring an impact force of a stone that strikes the stone chipping test device. The apparatus further includes a pilot vehicle used to receive the stone chipping rig so as to measure the impact force of the stone launched off the pilot vehicle wheels when the pilot vehicle travels on a road with loose gravel. The stone chipping rig is defined as a test vehicle towed at a fixed distance behind the pilot vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin C. Nevaux
  • Publication number: 20180145867
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus control method, device and system. The method is applied to a controller of a system. The method comprises: wirelessly acquiring control information by the controller and from a mobile terminal or a server, and if the control information indicates that a target apparatus passes authentication, then controlling the target apparatus to be in an unlocked state, enabling an operator to operate the target apparatus, thus providing the apparatus with secure and reliable driving. User authentication information is acquired by the mobile terminal, replacing an existing vehicle-mounted card reader or vehicle-mounted display/input terminal, and thus device hardware costs are reduced, and since the mobile terminal and the controller communicate wirelessly, device wiring is simplified, and moreover the field of view of the driver is not blocked, ensuring the safety of the driver and persons and objects around the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Applicant: SUZHOU TEKNECT ENGINEERING CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chuangyu ZHU, Liang LIU