Patents Assigned to Engineering
  • Method and system for testing base stations of a mobile telecommunications network
    Patent number: 9819425
    Abstract: A method and system for testing of base stations of a mobile telecommunications network having a plurality of cells. A base station at its antenna is connected to a testing system by a radio frequency cable. Mobile terminals of a cell are emulated. The mobile terminals transmit data and sends/receives calls within the cell via the base station. A separate channel emulator is provided for each emulated mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: ERCOM ENGINEERING RESEAUX COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: François Hamon, Yiqi Jiang, The Phuong Nguyen, Damien Pouessel, Frédéric Rible
  • Fuel cell integration within a heat recovery steam generator
    Patent number: 9819042
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for incorporating molten carbonate fuel cells into a heat recovery steam generation system (HRSG) for production of electrical power while also reducing or minimizing the amount of CO2 present in the flue gas exiting the HRSG. An optionally multi-layer screen or wall of molten carbonate fuel cells can be inserted into the HRSG so that the screen of molten carbonate fuel cells substantially fills the cross-sectional area. By using the walls of the HRSG and the screen of molten carbonate fuel cells to form a cathode input manifold, the overall amount of duct or flow passages associated with the MCFCs can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: EXXONMOBIL RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul J. Berlowitz, Timothy Andrew Barckholtz, Frank Hershkowitz
  • Industrial process stream compositional headspace analysis
    Patent number: 9816973
    Abstract: A system and method for compositional analysis of a process stream in an industrial process transports a liquid process stream through an absorption/desorption packed column (A/D column), along with a carrier gas. A gas phase combination of the carrier gas and one or more solutes from the liquid process stream is passed out of the A/D column to a flow cell for analysis by an analyzer to determine presence and concentration of the one or more solutes within the gas phase. A processor uses the concentration of the solutes within the gas phase to perform a headspace analysis to determine the concentration of the solutes in the process stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Nova Engineering Ltd.
    Inventors: Nathaniel J. Peterson, Yoav Barshad
  • Winding apparatus
    Patent number: 9818533
    Abstract: A winding apparatus includes a nozzle for feeding a wire to a first end side of a magnetic pole in a winding position, a first latch pawl capable of latching the wire fed from the nozzle, a first latch pawl moving mechanism that moves the first latch pawl from the first end side to a second end side of the multi-pole armature, and a nozzle moving mechanism that moves the nozzle in both the radial direction and the circumferential direction of the multi-pole armature. A width of the first latch pawl in the circumferential direction of the multi-pole armature is set at a width enabling insertion of the wire wound around and bent back by the first latch pawl into slots formed on both sides of one or more of the magnetic poles in the winding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: NITTOKU ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Kondo
  • Capacitive sensing system and method
    Patent number: 9819355
    Abstract: A capacitive sensing system operates according to a method which uses an ADC. The analog signal to be digitized is modulated with a triangular or saw-tooth modulating signal, so that a modulated analog signal is obtained, which is sampled with the ADC. The triangular or saw-tooth signal is chosen to have a peak-to-peak amplitude corresponding at least approximately to an integer multiple L, with L?1, of the quantization step size of the ADC. The saw-tooth or triangular signal has a number M, of periods per each sequence of N samples. M and N are chosen such that M>1 and M?N and such that R=r*N/(k*gcd(N, M)*L), where gcd(M, N) is the greatest common divisor of N and M and where k=2 if the modulating signal is a saw-tooth signal and k=4 if the modulating signal is a triangular signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: IEE International Electronics & Engineering S.A.
    Inventor: Laurent Lamesch
  • Ceria-supported metal catalysts for the selective reduction of NO
    Patent number: 9815044
    Abstract: A composition and method for producing the same are provided. The composition includes transition metal oxides adhered to a surface of a cerium oxide support, and can additionally include alkali metal or alkaline earth metal promotors. The method includes incipient wetness impregnation of the support with metal salt in solution, and can include impregnation with a metal chelator salt. The composition can be useful as a catalyst for the reduction of noxious gases in combustion exhaust streams. The composition can be of particular use as a component of an automobile catalytic converter, for the specific catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides to nitrogen gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Northwestern University
    Inventors: Justin M. Notestein, Dario Prieto-Centurion, Paul T. Fanson, Charles Alexander Roberts
  • Control of vehicle interior sound levels based on vehicle location
    Patent number: 9817631
    Abstract: A computing device for a vehicle interior sound control system is described. The device includes one or more processors for controlling operation of the computing device, and a memory for storing data and program instructions usable by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to operate, responsive to a location of the vehicle, at least one portion of the vehicle so as to control a sound level in an interior of the vehicle produced by the at least one portion of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Pierfelice
  • Metastable vanadium oxide cathode materials for rechargeable magnesium battery
    Patent number: 9819021
    Abstract: A magnesium electrochemical cell having a positive electrode containing as an active ingredient, a material of formula [V2O5]c [MaOb]d and/or a material of formula [V2O5]c[MaOb]d[MgXe]g in a metastable structural and morphological phase is provided. In the formulas M is an element selected from the group consisting of P, B, Si, Ge and Mo; and X is O or a halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy S. Arthur, Fuminori Mizuno, Ruigang Zhang
  • Imprint mold manufacturing method, imprint mold, and imprint mold manufacturing kit
    Patent number: 9815230
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an imprint mold which can prevent accumulation of the transferring resin at the joining portion of the film mold is provided. A method for manufacturing an imprint mold, including a winding step to wind a resin film mold onto a cylindrical transferring roll, the resin film mold being provided with a reverse pattern of a desired fine concave-convex pattern and the resin film mold being wound onto the transferring roll so that a gap without the reverse pattern is provided at a butting portion of both ends of the resin film mold; a resin filling step to fill a resin composition into the gap; and a pattern forming step to form a pattern substantially the same as the reverse pattern onto the resin composition, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SOKEN CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehide Misawa, Ikumi Sakata
  • Chip substrate
    Patent number: 9818913
    Abstract: A chip substrate includes at least one insulation portion interposed between conductive portions. A cavity formed in a recessed shape from a region of an upper surface of the chip substrate exposes a top surface of a part of the at least one insulation portion. An insulation layer is coated on the upper surface of the chip substrate excluding the region of the cavity. A bump may be formed at a predetermined height within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Point Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Myung Nam, Young Woon Jeon, Kyoung Ja Yun
  • Substrate treatment apparatus
    Patent number: 9818572
    Abstract: A substrate treatment apparatus includes a chamber providing a reaction region and including first and second sides facing each other, a module connected to the first side, an upper electrode in the reaction region, a substrate holder facing the upper electrode, wherein a substrate is disposed on the substrate holder, and first and second points are defined on the substrate, wherein the first point corresponds to a center of the substrate, and the second point is distant from the first point toward the first side, and a feeding line for applying an RF power, the feeding line connected to the upper electrode corresponding to the second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: JUSUNG ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ho Chul Kang
  • N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone distilling apparatus
    Patent number: 9815000
    Abstract: A distillation apparatus for NMP including a first distillation column in which the spent NMP as a liquid to be treated is subjected to distillation; and a second distillation column in which bottoms from the first distillation column are further subjected to distillation, the distillation apparatus being provided with an automatic treatment function including a start-up function, and then a continuous treatment operation of the distillation apparatus being initiated; and an operational mode switching function in which upon the continuous treatment operation, an operational mode of the distillation apparatus being switched again to the circulation operation according to a level of the liquid in the raw material tank or a level of the liquid in the product tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenyo Miyata, Tomoyuki Kawada, Katsuhiro Katou
  • Path determination for automated vehicles
    Patent number: 9815462
    Abstract: An automated vehicle can generate a path. Sensor data of at least a forward portion of an external environment of the vehicle can be acquired. One or more travel lane markers of a current travel path of the automated vehicle can be identified from the acquired sensor data. A detection range of the acquired sensor data can be determined. A set of travel lane parameters based on the identified one or more travel lane markers can be determined. In at least some instances, the set of travel lane parameters can include at least: offset, curvature, curvature derivative, and yaw. It can be determined whether any of the determined travel lane parameters are reliable based on the determined detection range. In one or more arrangements, a vehicle path can be determined based at least partially on the travel lane parameters that are determined as being reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Pandita, Vladimeros Vladimerou
  • Encapsulated sulfur sub-micron particles as electrode active material
    Patent number: 9819015
    Abstract: A core-shell elemental sulfur sub-micron particle having a core of elemental sulfur and a shell of a membrane containing alternating layers of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes is provided. A functionalized conductive carbon material is optionally present in one or more of the core and an outer layer. A cathode containing the core-shell elemental sulfur sub-micron particle and a lithium-sulfur battery constructed with the cathode are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: John G. Muldoon, Claudiu B. Bucur, Adrian Lita
  • Method and system for protecting root CA certificate in a virtualization environment
    Patent number: 9819496
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and a system for protecting root CA certificates in a virtualization environment. The method installs a root CA certificate security manager on a host computer. The root CA certificate security manager stores the lists of root CA certificates and provides certificate validation service to virtual machines via a read-only interface. When a virtual machine needs the verification of a certificate, it sends a certificate validation service request to the root CA security manager. The root CA certificate security manager provides certificate validation services to the virtual machine in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignees: Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Data Assurance & Communications Security Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jingqiang Lin, Jiwu Jing, Le Guan, Bingyu Li, Jing Wang, Wuqiong Pan, Yuewu Wang
  • Seat heater
    Patent number: 9815394
    Abstract: A seat heater (10) with a heating element (12) connected between a first (14) and a second (16) nodes comprises a third (18) and a fourth (20) node operatively connectable to a first and a second terminal, respectively, of a power supply. A first electric component (22) providing a controllable first conductance is connected between the first and the third nodes. A second electric component (24) providing a controllable second conductance is connected between the second and the fourth nodes. A control network (26) is connected to the electric components to control the respective conductances and has a mode of operation in which it applies an oscillating signal to the heating element by modulating the first and second conductances in such a way that a voltage drop variation between the third and first nodes is opposite to a voltage drop variation between the second and fourth nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: IEE International Electronics & Engineering S.A.
    Inventor: Martin Thinnes
  • Inductive sensor with demodulator
    Patent number: 9816840
    Abstract: A transconductor converts voltage on an inductive sensor to a proportional current using two “coupling” capacitors. Responsive to movement of an electrically conductive target from the null position a resonant current is formed between the two sensor coils. A single differential transistor pair switched by periodic drive signals commutes the net alternating current at the single input to direct current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Blue Line Engineering
    Inventors: Steven D. Roach, Gregory H. Ames, Philip N. Zercher
  • Retrofitting structure for existing building
    Patent number: 9816284
    Abstract: Provided is a retrofitting structure for existing building that does not require the addition of a foundation specific to the retrofitting structure, can implement seismic retrofitting at any floors only of the existing building, and hardly causes a large drawing force resulting from eccentric bending moment that may act on the seismic retrofitting structure. A retrofitting structure 100 for existing building includes: a reinforcing frame 10 including a frame member 11 and a vibration control member 12 interposed in the frame member, the reinforcing frame being provided on an outer wall surface of an existing building B having an overhang T on the outer wall surface so as to surround the overhang T; and a vertical truss member 30 and a horizontal truss member 20 configured to couple the reinforcing frame 10 and the outer wall surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinao Konishi
  • Non-axisymmetric aortic valve devices
    Patent number: 9814574
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides aortic valve prosthetic devices that are constructed in a non-axisymmetric shape, or are expandable to a non-axisymmetric shape for improved results in the repair of defective aortic valves. The devices can be surgically implanted, or they can be implanted percutaneously through an insertion catheter. The expandable devices can be self-expanding or expanded by an inflatable balloon to a non-axisymmetric cross-section geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Biostable Science & Engineering, Inc.
    Inventors: J Scott Rankin, Al Beavan, William E. Cohn
  • Systems and methods for seat positioning modification in a vehicle
    Patent number: 9815388
    Abstract: Systems and methods for seat positioning modification in a vehicle are described. One embodiment of a method includes arranging a first movable seat in a default arrangement of a vehicle in preparation for receiving a passenger and determining an occurrence of an external triggering event to the vehicle. Some embodiments include, in response to determining the occurrence of the external triggering event, automatically rearranging the first movable seat to a second arrangement to accommodate for the external triggering event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian L. Lindsay