Patents Assigned to SENSOR
  • Patent number: 11143799
    Abstract: A diffusive layer including a laminate of a plurality of transparent films is provided. At least one of the plurality of transparent films includes a plurality of diffusive elements with a concentration that is less than a percolation threshold. The plurality of diffusive elements are optical elements that diffuse light that is impinging on such element. The plurality of diffusive elements can be diffusively reflective, diffusively transmitting or combination of both. The plurality of diffusive elements can include fibers, grains, domains, and/or the like. The at least one film can also include a powder material for improving the diffusive emission of radiation and a plurality of particles that are fluorescent when exposed to radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Dobrinsky, Michael Shur
  • Patent number: 11143750
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes calibration methods for optoelectronic modules with active illumination, such as 3D ranging systems. Calibration methods include determining cross-talk calibration parameters for an optoelectronic module having an emitting channel and a receiving channel where the optoelectronic module is operable to demodulate modulated light incident on the receiving channel. Cross-talk calibration parameters are saved to a readable storage medium and recalled during distance measurements to an object or objects in a scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Miguel Bruno Vaello Paños, Javier Miguel Sánchez, Cassian Strässle, Liming Chen
  • Patent number: 11147178
    Abstract: A pre-strain unit for a T-bolt during a release process of two components connected by the T-bolt comprises a slider and a frame for providing a linear guiding for said slider during the release process. The pre-strain unit also includes means for pre-straining said slider in said frame against a head of said T-bolt to keep, during the release process, at least a part of the T-bolt protruding from the two connected components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Hahn, Joachim Kanberg
  • Patent number: 11145796
    Abstract: Various optoelectronic modules are described and include one or more optoelectronic devices. Each optoelectronic module includes one or more optoelectronic devices. Sidewalls laterally surround each optoelectronic device and can be in direct contact with sides of the optoelectronic device or, in some cases, with an overmold surrounding the optoelectronic device. The sidewalls can be composed, for example, of a vacuum injected material that is non-transparent to light emitted by or detectable by the optoelectronic device. The module also includes a passive optical element. Depending on the implementation, the passive optical element can be on a cover for the module, directly on a top surface of the optoelectronic device, or on an overmold surrounding the optoelectronic device. Methods of fabricating such modules are described as well, and can facilitate manufacturing the modules using wafer-level processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Simon Gubser, Mario Cesana, Markus Rossi, Hartmut Rudmann
  • Patent number: 11137455
    Abstract: A magnetic field measuring element includes a Superconducting QUantum Interference Device magnetic sensors, the first sensor disposed either on a second plane perpendicular to a first plane including a coil surface of the third sensor and which includes the center of the third sensor, or in the vicinity of the second plane, and a second sensor disposed either on a third plane perpendicular to the first plane and the second plane, or in the vicinity of the third plane. The center of the first sensor is present either on a straight line which passes through the center of the third sensor and is perpendicular to the first plane, or in the vicinity of said straight line, and the center of the second sensor is present in a position displaced from a line joining the center of the third sensor and the center of the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignees: JAPAN OIL, GAS AND METALS NATIONAL CORPORATION, MITSUI MINERAL DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING CO., LTD., SUPERCONDUCTING SENSOR TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Tsukamoto, Tsunehiro Hato, Keiichi Tanabe, Masayuki Motoori, Hidehiro Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11138710
    Abstract: In an illustrative embodiment, a system for identifying products on a production line includes image capturing devices that acquire images of containers moving along a production line at an inspection location. The system also includes a rejection device and a controller that configures the image capturing devices for image acquisition based on properties of the containers, identifies a product associated with each of the containers based on a portion of a product identification code and a portion of additional features detected in the images, and determines whether the identified product matches predetermined properties or characteristics, resulting in a pass result, otherwise a non-pass result occurs. When a non-pass result occurs, the controller outputs a signal to actuate the rejection device that removes the container from the production line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sensors Incorporated
    Inventor: David J. Kotula
  • Publication number: 20210306535
    Abstract: An imaging device comprising two camera apertures and a method of capturing two fields of view using two camera apertures are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Obsidian Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: John HONG, Bing WEN, Tallis CHANG
  • Publication number: 20210294093
    Abstract: Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices, methods of operating the MEMS device, and methods of manufacturing the MEMS device are disclosed. In some embodiments, the MEMS device includes a glass substrate; an electrode on the glass substrate; a hinge mechanically coupled to the electrode; a membrane mirror mechanically coupled to the hinge; a TFT on the glass substrate and electrically coupled to the electrode; and a control circuit comprising: a multiplexer configured to turn on or turn off the TFT; and a drive source configured to provide a drive signal for charging the electrode through the TFT. An amplitude of the drive signal corresponds to an amount of charge, and the amount of charge generates an electrostatic force for actuating the hinge and a portion of the membrane mirror mechanically coupled to the hinge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Obsidian Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: John HONG, Tallis CHANG, Bing WEN, Edward CHAN, Sean ANDREWS, Heesun SHIN
  • Patent number: 11124750
    Abstract: Ultraviolet irradiation of fluids for the purposes of disinfection, sterilization and modification of a target organic compound found within the fluids. The target compound in the fluids can have an absorption spectra with an ultraviolet wavelength ranging from 230 nm to 360 nm. The absorption spectra includes a first and second set of wavelengths corresponding to absorption peaks and absorption valleys in the absorption spectra, respectively. A-set of ultraviolet radiation sources irradiate the fluids. The set of ultraviolet radiation sources operate at a set of peak wavelengths ranging from 230 nm to 360 nm with a peak full width at half maximum that is less than 20 nm. The set of peak wavelengths are proximate to at least one wavelength in the second set of wavelengths corresponding to the absorption valleys in the absorption spectra with a variation of a full width half maximum of the absorption valley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Faris Mills Morrison Estes, Alexander Dobrinsky
  • Patent number: 11125710
    Abstract: A sensor includes electrodes and two enclosure portions. The electrodes have a shape to match an outer periphery of a non-metallic parent pipe. The two enclosure portions are connected by a hinge to facilitate positioning around the outer periphery of the non-metallic parent pipe. A first portion of the two enclosure portions includes a cutout electrode for surrounding a cutout space. The cutout electrode is tied to a ground to shield against signals from the cutout space. The sensor generates a signal indicative of the presence or absence of a pipe inserted within an inner periphery of the non-metallic parent pipe based on a capacitance measurement and a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Atlas Sensors, LLC
    Inventor: Philip Jason Stephanou
  • Publication number: 20210288100
    Abstract: A system includes a pixel having a diffusion layer within a cap layer. The diffusion layer defines a front side and an illumination side opposite the front side with an absorption layer operatively connected to the illumination side as well as the diffusion and cap layers. A set of alternating oxide and nitride layers are deposited on the front side of the cap and diffusion layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sensors Unlimited, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Douglas Stewart Malchow, John Liobe, Michael J. Evans, Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11122232
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pixel collection circuit and an optical flow sensor including the pixel collection circuit. The pixel collection circuit at least includes a light intensity detector, a first state storage module, a second state storage module, a light intensity signal collection and storage module, and a time information storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: OMNIVISION SENSOR SOLUTION (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Shoushun Chen
  • Publication number: 20210278432
    Abstract: A high precision rotation sensor comprises an inertial mass suspended from a base wherein the mass is responsive to rotational inputs that apply loads to load-sensitive resonators whose changes in resonant frequency are related to the applied loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Quartz Seismic Sensors, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome M. Paros, Krishna Venkateswara
  • Publication number: 20210275056
    Abstract: Methods and devices provide physiological movement detection with active sound generation. In some versions, a processor may detect breathing and/or gross body motion. The processor may control producing, via a speaker coupled to the processor, a sound signal in a user's vicinity. The processor may control sensing, via a microphone coupled to the processor, a reflected sound signal. This reflected sound signal is a reflection of the sound signal from the user. The processor may process the reflected sound, such as by a demodulation technique. The processor may detect breathing from the processed reflected sound signal. The sound signal may be produced as a series of tone pairs in a frame of slots or as a phase-continuous repeated waveform having changing frequencies (e.g., triangular or ramp sawtooth). Evaluation of detected movement information may determine sleep states or scoring, fatigue indications, subject recognition, chronic disease monitoring/prediction, and other output parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: RESMED SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen MCMAHON, Damien O'ROURKE, Alberto ZAFFARONI, Redmond SHOULDICE, Tony FAGAN, Niall FOX, Niall O'MAHONY, Graeme LYON
  • Publication number: 20210278544
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling an autonomous vehicle with a processor that controls operation, includes operating a Doppler LIDAR system to collect point cloud data that indicates for each point at least four dimensions including an inclination angle, an azimuthal angle, a range, and relative speed between the point and the LIDAR system. A value of a property of an object in the point cloud is determined based on only three or fewer of the at least four dimensions. In some of embodiments, determining the value of the property of the object includes isolating multiple points in the point cloud data which have high value Doppler components. A moving object within the plurality of points is determined based on a cluster by azimuth and Doppler component values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Blackmore Sensors & Analytics, LLC.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Crouch, Devlin Baker
  • Patent number: 11112288
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides thermal gas property sensors and compensated differential pressure sensors, as well as methods for measuring a physical property of a gas and methods for compensating differential pressure sensors. A reference overpressure of a gas is generated in a cavity. Based on the flow of the gas from the cavity through a channel, properties of the gas are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: First Sensor AG
    Inventors: Oleg Grudin, Andreas Niendorf
  • Patent number: 11114573
    Abstract: An optoelectronic module assembly includes an optoelectronic module. The module includes: an active optoelectronic component in or on a mounting substrate, an optical sub-assembly, and a spacer disposed between the mounting substrate and the optical sub-assembly so as to establish a particular distance between the active optoelectronic component and the optical sub-assembly. The optoelectronic module assembly also includes a recessed substrate including first and second surfaces, wherein the second surface is in a plane closer to the optical sub-assembly than is the first surface. The optoelectronic module is mounted on the first surface. The second surface is for mounting other components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Martin Lukas Balimann, Matthias Gloor, Philippe Bouchilloux, Jukka Alasirnio, Hartmut Rudmann, Nicola Spring
  • Patent number: 11114593
    Abstract: This disclosure describes optoelectronic modules, methods for manufacturing pluralities of discrete optoelectronic modules, and optoelectronic molding tools. The methods include coating a substrate wafer and a plurality of optoelectronic components with a photosensitive material, and further include exposing select portions of the photosensitive material to electromagnetic radiation. The exposed portions delineate at least in part the dimensions of the optical channels, wherein the optical channels are associated with at least one optoelectronic component. In some instances, optical elements are incorporated into the optical channels. In some instances, the exposed portions are the optical channels. In some instances, the exposed portions are spacers between the optical channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Lenart, Sonja Gantner, Oezkan Ahishali
  • Publication number: 20210270946
    Abstract: In an example implementation, a first light measurement is obtained using a photodetector of a sensor module. The first light measurement corresponds, at least in part, to ambient light in an environment of the sensor module. Modulated light is generated using a light source of the sensor module, and a second light measurement is obtained using the photodetector of the sensor module. The second light measurement corresponds, at least in part, to modulated light reflected from an object toward the photodetector. A distance between the sensor module and the object is estimated, using an electronic control device, based on the first measurement, the second light measurement, and the modulated light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: ams Sensors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Javier Miguel Sánchez, Miguel Bruno Vaello Paños
  • Publication number: 20210270935
    Abstract: Radio frequency motion sensors may be configured for operation in a common vicinity so as to reduce interference. In some versions, interference may be reduced by timing and/or frequency synchronization. In some versions, a master radio frequency motion sensor may transmit a first radio frequency (RF) signal. A slave radio frequency motion sensor may determine a second radio frequency signal which minimizes interference with the first RF frequency. In some versions, interference may be reduced with additional transmission adjustments such as pulse width reduction or frequency and/or timing dithering differences. In some versions, apparatus may be configured with multiple sensors in a configuration to emit the radio frequency signals in different directions to mitigate interference between emitted pulses from the radio frequency motion sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: RESMED SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen MCMAHON, Przemyslaw SZKOT, Redmond SHOULDICE