Patents Assigned to Flextronics AP, LLC
  • AUTOMATIC INJECTION DEVICE HAVING A MAGNETIC DRIVE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20170239414
    Abstract: An automatic injection device has an insertion needle configured to be inserted into a patient and a drug container which contains a pharmaceutical product. The drug container includes a plunger. The automatic injection device also has a fluid path which fluidly connects the drug container to the insertion needle. The automatic injection device further has a drive system configured to cause linear movement of the plunger to force the pharmaceutical product into the fluid path. The drive system has a driving element and a movable element. The automatic injection device additionally has electronics configured to provide a signal to the drive system to move the plunger. The movable element has an outer magnet at least partially surrounding the drug container and an inner magnet inside the drug container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: FLEXTRONICS AP, LLC
    Inventors: Eyal BARMAIMON, Lior SHTRAM, Boaz KALISCH, Ronny BELLAN, Nadav CHOEN, Shai FINKMAN, Yuval HAREL
  • Magnet wire for 3D electronic circuitry
    Patent number: 9736932
    Abstract: A method of and device for making a three dimensional electronic circuit. The method comprises coupling one or more magnet wires with a substrate along a surface contour of the substrate, immobilizing the one or more magnet wires on the substrate, and forming the electronic circuit by electrically coupling the one or more magnet wires with an integrated circuit chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC.
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Anwar Mohammed, Murad Kurwa
  • Method and system for order fulfillment
    Patent number: 9733633
    Abstract: A method and system for order fulfillment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the order fulfillment system aggregates and consolidates the picking of products in a wave picking process, followed by a consolidated sortation system to enable automatic sorting of picked items by order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Brian F. Wickham, Marco Minella
  • Stirring device and method using electrostatic charge
    Patent number: 9724659
    Abstract: A stirring device and method for stirring a material using an applicator with an electrically controllable element placed on an outside surface of the applicator so that a controllable power source coupled to the electrically controllable element provides a controlled electrostatic charge to the element. The controlled electrostatic charge provided by the power source creates a variable electric field exterior to the outside surface of the applicator. The variable electric field induces a stirring movement to the material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Susan Abraham, Dennis Willie
  • No load detection and slew rate compensation
    Patent number: 9711990
    Abstract: The power regulation control circuit is implemented during two modes. A first mode is a sleep mode and a second mode is a wake-up mode. During the sleep mode, the power supply detects a no-load presence and artificially increases the output voltage Vout to its maximum allowable value. In some embodiments, this is accomplished by pulling up an output of a error amplifier that feeds a PWM module. During the wake-up mode when the power supply wakes up from the sleep mode under maximum load, the output voltage Vout sinks from the artificially higher voltage, but still stays above a minimum operational voltage level. A slew rate compensation can be implemented to control a rate at which the output voltage drops when a load is applied. The artificially high output voltage during no-load condition and the slew rate compensation provide open loop voltage adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Telefus
  • Adhesive activation system for rounded surfaces
    Patent number: 9709226
    Abstract: An adhesive application system for rounded surfaces of a product. The adhesive activation system include a product body having a round outer perimeter, a band configured to fit along the outside of the round outer perimeter, a plurality of pressure pads arranged positioned along a curved pathway, a support configured to hold the product body such that the outer perimeter aligns with the curved pathway and one or more actuators coupled to each of the pressure pads and configured to move the pressure pads between a contracted position wherein curved inner sides of the pressure pads are substantially aligned with the curved pathway and thereby compress the band onto the round outer perimeter and an extended position wherein the curved inner sides are spaced away from the curved pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Mario Lopez Ruiz, Victor Najar Estrella
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HEAT SINKING OF CAMERA MODULE
    Publication number: 20170195531
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for heat sinking a camera module, which may be used in an automotive camera, which includes but is not limited to automotive rear-view cameras, is described herein. Heating conductors and heat conductive pads may be arranged in a parallel orientation within the housing of the camera module to dissipate heat produced by the printed circuit boards (PCBs) and other components within. The heat conducting pads may conduct heat away from the PCB or component being cooled and into the heat sink, which may be a heat conducting material including but not limited to aluminum, aluminum alloys, or copper. The heating pads may also fill the air gaps within the housing of the camera module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FLEXTRONICS AP, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Warren, Darren Van Roon, Reginald C. Grills, Simon Chamuczynski
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM OF SEALING FRONT HALF OF CAMERA MODULE
    Publication number: 20170192340
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for sealing components of a front half camera module subassembly is described herein. The camera may be used in an automotive camera, which includes but is not limited to automotive rear-view cameras. A glue bead seal may be applied to the front half camera housing to which a camera lens may be attached. Then a glue bead seal may be applied to the other side of the front half camera housing to which a printed circuit board (PCB) is attached. As a result, the seals protect the lens inside optical surface and image sensor located between the camera lens and PCB from the outside environment. The lens inside optical surface and image sensor and PCB may be tested, calibrated, or have other assembly sequences completed outside of a clean room. Alignment of the PCB and lens inside optical surface and image sensor is also secured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: FLEXTRONICS AP, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Warren, Darren Van Roon, Reginald C. Grills, Pompilian Tofilescu
  • Printed circuit board made through sintering copper nano-particles
    Patent number: 9699902
    Abstract: A printed circuit board is formed from a plurality of thinner PCBs stacked on top of each other with an intermediate metal interconnect material selectively positioned between adjacent PCBs. The metal interconnect material is selectively positioned on surface contact points of correspondingly aligned plated through holes on the adjacent printed circuit boards. The stacked printed circuit boards and intermediate metal interconnect material are laminated, thereby sintering the metal interconnect material and the surface contact points of the plated through holes to form electrical interconnects between plated through holes on adjacent printed circuit boards. The metal interconnect material is preferably the same as the plating material used to plate the through holes, such as copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, David Geiger, Anwar Mohammed
  • Method of making RFID antenna by placing wire on fabric
    Patent number: 9684864
    Abstract: An RFID device assembly is fabricated by positioning an electrically conductive wire onto a fabric as a pattern that forms an antenna, and securing the wire to the fabric by stitching a non-electrically conductive thread over the wire and to the fabric. The two ends of the electrically conductive wire are positioned for coupling to antenna contact pads on an RFID device. The RFID device is attached to the fabric either before or after the electrically conductive wire is secured to the fabric by the stitched non-electrically conductive thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC.
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Zhen Feng, Anwar Mohammed
  • Device and method for current flow control for dual battery vehicle architecture
    Patent number: 9682672
    Abstract: Described herein is a device and method for current flow control for dual battery vehicle architecture. The dual battery vehicle architecture includes a second energy source that is used to support electrical loads, such as radio and navigation systems, during re-cranking in stop-start situations. A quasi-diode device is configured to effectively split a main battery and starter circuit from the rest of the vehicle electrical system including the second energy source. The quasi-diode device includes a plurality of field effect transistors (FET) that conducts current in both directions between the main battery and starter circuit and the rest of the vehicle electrical system when the FETs are turned on and conducts current only from the main battery and starter circuit to the rest of the vehicle electrical system when the FETs are turned off, i.e. when re-cranking is occurring during a start-stop situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Pompilian Tofilescu, Reginald C. Grills
  • Systems and methods for managing data in an intelligent television
    Patent number: 9686582
    Abstract: An intelligent television can store and retrieve data about various functions of the television or associated with user behavior. The stored data streamlines the processes of providing electronic programming guide information, providing search results, providing statistics about content, providing channel information, etc. The unique set of data services in the intelligent television receive, store, manage, and retrieve the data for various of the applications or components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Salvador Soto, Mohammed Selim, Alexander de Paz, Fuqu Wu, Robert Csiki, Eduardo Diego Torres Milano
  • Method of making copper pillar with solder cap
    Patent number: 9674952
    Abstract: An electrical interconnect includes a copper pillar and solder cap. The copper pillar and solder cap are formed onto a contact pad or an under bump metallurgy (UBM). In some applications, the contact pad or UBM is part of an electronic component, such as a semiconductor chip. In other cases, the contact pad is part of laminated substrate, such as a printed circuit board (PCB), or a ceramic substrate. The copper pillar and the solder cap are printed using an ink printer, such as an aerosol ink jet printer. A post heat treatment solidifies the interconnection between the contact pad or UBM, the copper pillar and the solder cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Anwar Mohammed, Zhen Feng
  • Methods of stitching components on fabrics using metal foils
    Patent number: 9674950
    Abstract: An electronics assembly includes one or more electronic components coupled to a fabric. Each electronic component includes one or more electrical connection points, such as a bond pad or solder bump. The electronics assembly also includes one or more metal foils, one metal foil coupled to one electrical connection point on an electronic component. The metal foil is stitched to the fabric by an electrically conductive wire, thereby providing an electrical connection between the electronic component and the electrically conductive wire via the metal foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Zhen Feng, Anwar Mohammed
  • Method of making stretchable interconnect using magnet wires
    Patent number: 9674949
    Abstract: A stretchable wire assembly includes a metal wire coupled between two elastic substrates. The two elastic substrates are selectively coupled together, and the metal wire is attached to one or both elastic substrates at select locations. The form of the metal wire is such that when the elastic substrates are in a relaxed, or non-stretched, state the metal wire forms a tortuous path, such as a waveform, along the coupled elastic substrates. The tortuous path of the metal wire provides slack such that as the elastic substrates are stretched the slack is taken up. Once released, the elastic substrates move from the stretched position to the relaxed, non-stretched position, and slack is reintroduced into the metal wire in the form of the original tortuous path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Weifeng Liu, Zhen Feng, Anwar Mohammed
  • Dynamic current compensation
    Patent number: 9671032
    Abstract: A method for characterizing a fluid control solenoid with current compensation is described. A current command is sent to the fluid control solenoid. The current command indicates a desired current value related to a desired fluid output pressure to be applied to the solenoid. An actual fluid output pressure is measured at a valve associated with the fluid control solenoid for the desired current value applied to the solenoid. An actual current received value at the fluid control solenoid is also measured. Post processing is then applied. A compensated current value related to the actual fluid output pressure is determined based on a difference between the current command and the actual current received value. Methods for dynamic current compensation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Castora, Hamid Najmolhoda, David Lee Seid
  • SMART SOLENOID FOR CONTROLLING FLUID FLOW
    Publication number: 20170152963
    Abstract: A solenoid fluid control valve for controlling fluid flow. The solenoid fluid control valve may comprise a transceiver that receives a signal via a controller area network (CAN) bus, and a micro controller unit that decodes the signal to determine a temperature. The micro controller unit may send a signal to a driver circuit based on the temperature. The driver circuit may send a current through a coil in response to the signal, wherein an armature moves in response to the current through the coil. The movement of the armature may direct a cooling fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Applicant: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: David Phillips, Richard Guzorek
  • Dual screen folding display hinge
    Patent number: 9665126
    Abstract: Dual screen display devices are disclosed. The device is able to be a mechanical hinge capable of joining multiple screens to form a single display or a substantially continuous display. The device is also capable of splitting a jointed display into separated screens. In some embodiments, the device comprises detaining mechanisms allowing the device to instantly interchange among several pre-defined angles or positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Mike O'Connor, Marty Kimbell, Steve Gaynes
  • Inlay PCB with embedded coin board
    Patent number: 9668336
    Abstract: A PCB and a method of manufacturing a PCB with combined inlay-PCB process and embedded coin technology are disclosed. The method and device disclosed herein is able to manufacture an inlay part of a high frequency laminate into FR4 laminate. The present invention is advantageous in many aspects including having an inlay design on the PCB, which can save the cost of high frequency laminate. Further, the inlay PCB with embedded coin technologies can enhance the thermal reliability of the finished PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventor: Henrik Jacobsson
  • Nano-copper pillar interconnects and methods thereof
    Patent number: 9661756
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to nano-copper pillar interconnects. Nano-copper material is a mixture of nano-copper particles and one or more organic fluxes. In some embodiments, the one or more organic fluxes include organic solvents that help bind the nano-copper particles together and allow the nano-copper material to be printable. The nano-copper material is applied onto bond pads on a printed circuit board (PCB) via a printing process, a dipping process or the like, to form nano-copper covered PCB bond pads. A component can thereafter be coupled with the PCB at the nano-copper covered PCB bond pads. What is left when the solvents evaporate are nano-copper pillar interconnects that form, coupling the component with the PCB bond pads. The nano-copper pillar interconnects are of pure copper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Jennifer Nguyen, David Geiger, Anwar Mohammed, Murad Kurwa