Patents Assigned to Solutions
  • Patent number: 11826222
    Abstract: An orthodontic post and pin system for secure attachment of a dental appliance to an alignment wire, which also facilitates quick and easy removal and replacement. The system described herein uses a “twist-lock” dental post that is rotated onto, and counter-rotated off of, an alignment wire. The dental post includes structural elements to facilitate the twist-lock functionality, as well as structures for accepting a fastener to secure the alignment wire in place and inhibit unintentional or undesired dislodging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ortho Solutions, LC
    Inventors: Darren Buddemeyer, Matthew Malabey
  • Patent number: 11827506
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to conduits, devices, systems and methods, which may include a hollow element including an inner surface and an outer surface which allows for a passage of one or more of one or more fluid elements and one or more gaseous elements, a constraining element with one or more openings and one or more non-open elements, one or more blocking elements configured to stop the passage of the at least one of the one or more fluid elements and the one or more gaseous elements when the one or more blocking elements are in a first position relative to the one or more openings, and a movement device configured to move the one or more blocking elements to a second position relative to the one or more openings which allows for the passage of the one or more fluid elements and the one gaseous elements through the one or more openings in the constraining element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: GATE CFV Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: John Newton, Peter Brooke, Dustin Hartsfield, Michael Cheney, Gillian Callaghan, Scott Ross
  • Patent number: 11831971
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an onboard camera that enables a camera chassis to be easily assembled while providing shielding between plates. The onboard camera according to an aspect of the present technology has an internal structure including: a bottom face plate which forms a bottom face of a housing and has end portions serving as wall faces formed respectively at opposite ends of the bottom face plate; a board on which an electronic component is installed; a top face plate which covers the board and has end portions serving as wall faces formed respectively at opposite ends of the top face plate; and a shield plate which has insertion portions formed at opposite ends, the insertion portions being positioned in clearances between the end portions of the bottom face plate and the end portions of the top face plate to close the clearances. The present technology can be applied to an onboard camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Tokito
  • Patent number: 11828214
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises a housing defining a first and a second internal volume fluidly isolated from each other. A first aftertreatment leg extends from the first to the second internal volume and includes an oxidation catalyst and a filter. The oxidation catalyst receives exhaust gas from an inlet conduit and the filter emits exhaust gas into the second internal volume. A second aftertreatment leg extends from the second to the first internal volume and includes at least one SCR catalyst disposed offset from the first aftertreatment leg. A decomposition tube is disposed offset from the SCR catalyst and the oxidation catalyst. The decomposition tube is configured to receive the exhaust gas from the second internal volume and communicate it to the inlet of the at least one SCR catalyst. A reductant injection inlet is defined proximate to the inlet of the decomposition tube for reductant insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan M. Johnson, John G. Buechler, Matthew K. Volmerding, Randy G. Zoran
  • Patent number: 11830616
    Abstract: A medical services kiosk supporting private and secure telemedicine sessions between a patient and a remote network terminal utilized by a remote health care professional. The medical services kiosk comprising at least one privacy chamber having at least one door and at least one window. Each privacy chamber may include a user interactive display terminal that includes a display device, an input device, and a centralized processor, wherein the centralized processor is electronically communicable with the remote network terminal and a cloud based system. Each patient station may each include at least one documentation receiving device, at least one biometric device for obtaining biometric health measurements of the patient utilizing the at least one patient station, an arm mechanism, a seating mechanism, a camera, a retractable diagnostic camera device, a lighting mechanism that lights the privacy chamber, and a purification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MD Health RX Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Leonard Solie
  • Patent number: 11831350
    Abstract: A method for measuring a received signal includes receiving a differential pair of signals by a differential pair of input nodes of a differential circuit. The method includes attempting to match a first current through a first node of the differential circuit corresponding to the differential pair of signals to a second current through a second node of the differential circuit corresponding to a feedback signal. The method includes generating an output measurement signal based on the first current and the second current. The output measurement signal has a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the differential pair of signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Carlos J. Briseno-Vidrios
  • Patent number: 11827012
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a printing portion and a first conveying portion. The printing portion ejects liquid to print a medium having elasticity. The first conveying portion is disposed upstream of the printing portion in a conveying direction along which the medium is conveyed to the printing portion. The first conveying portion includes at least two conveying bodies disposed in the conveying direction and around which the medium is alternately wound. The conveying bodies each include a shaft extending in a width direction orthogonal to the conveying direction and a plurality of rollers rotatably supported by the shaft. The plurality of rollers are supported to be inclined outward with respect to the conveying direction from upstream to downstream in the conveying direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Mashio Takezawa
  • Patent number: 11829660
    Abstract: A print control method includes a confidential print control step. The confidential print control step includes determining whether skip permission conditions set in advance for each of the plurality of pieces of user designation data are satisfied when the submission destination designation data of the confidential job data requested to be executed includes a plurality of pieces of user designation data assigned with prioritization orders, thereby specifying the user designation data falling within a print permission range according to the prioritization orders, and executing confidential print control for the user designation data within the print permission range. The confidential print control step includes causing to execute the print processing for the confidential job data on the condition that the input authentication data by which the user authentication process is successful matches the data corresponding to the user designation data among the plurality of pieces of registration authentication data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20230378432
    Abstract: Disclosed is a secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode current collector, and a positive electrode active material layer disposed on the positive electrode current collector, the positive electrode active material layer including a positive electrode active material and a binder. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material and a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen Xiu Wang, Do-Hwa Jung, Do-Yeon Kwon, Min-Gyu Kim, Sung-Hwan Kim, Tae-In Kim, Tae-Gyun Noh, Sung-Bin Park, Seung-Hark Park
  • Publication number: 20230378454
    Abstract: A lithium secondary battery with improved lifetime characteristics, a driving method thereof, a battery module including the same, and a battery pack including the battery module, provides the lithium secondary battery having an operating voltage that is less than a plateau voltage of the lithium/nickel composite oxide, and thus has an advantage of being enable to prevent the lithium/nickel composite oxide from being transferred to a spinel-like structure, suppress the capacity degradation according to an increase in cycle, and improve a lifetime characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hoon Bae, Young Hwan Lee, Mi Kyung Chung, Su Han Park
  • Publication number: 20230378509
    Abstract: A device for folding a pouch having first and second cup parts, first and second circumferential parts formed flat along circumferences thereof, respectively, includes: lower and upper nests on which the first and second cup parts are seated; first and second guides fixed to the lower and upper nests and having first and second protrusions protruding upwardly therefrom, the first and second protrusions in close contact with each other forming a support protrusion; and a pressing part allowing a connection part of the first and second circumferential parts to be in close contact with the support protrusion when the first and the second cup parts are seated on the lower and the upper nests, respectively, wherein when the pressing part causes the connection part and the support protrusion to be in contact, the upper nest rotates so that the second cup part is folded onto the first cup part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Geun Hee Kim, Se Young Oh, Jung Su Oh, Jeong Min Ha
  • Publication number: 20230373138
    Abstract: An apparatus for molding a battery case includes: a die having a top surface, on which a pouch film is seated, and having at least one molding space formed to be recessed inward from the top surface; and a punch disposed above the molding space and descending to insert the pouch film into the molding space so as to mold the pouch film, wherein the top surface of the die includes at least one die inclined surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Kyu Min, Hyun Beom Kim, Hyung Ho Kwon
  • Publication number: 20230373813
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a high-nickel positive electrode active material comprising the steps of preparing a raw material containing nickel and cobalt; separating a liquid intermediate by leaching a metal component in the pulverized raw material using an acid and removing impurities; and co-precipitating a precursor of a positive electrode active material by adding a chelating agent and a hydroxide precipitant to the liquid intermediate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiyoon Kwon, Kyung Hwan Jung, Dong Hoon Han, Sungwoo Park, Sung Gwang Nam, Su Bin Yoo, Dong Myung Kim
  • Publication number: 20230375736
    Abstract: An apparatus for distant detection of ferrous metallic objects includes a plurality of magnetic field sensors and a fingerprint processing system. The plurality of magnetic field sensors each measure an ambient magnetic field. The fingerprint processing system receives, from the plurality of magnetic field sensors, magnetic field data corresponding to the ambient magnetic field. The fingerprint processing system also generates, from the magnetic field data, a magnetic fingerprint image of one or more perturbations of the ambient magnetic field. The plurality of magnetic field sensors is separated from the ferrous metallic objects being detected by a detection distance that is greater than or equal to 0.5 meters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Amano
  • Publication number: 20230377132
    Abstract: A template for assigning the most probable root causes for wafer defects. The bin map data for a subject wafer can be compared with bin map data for prior wafers to find wafers with similar issues. A probability can be determined as to whether the same root cause should be applied to the subject wafer, and if so, the wafer can be labeled with that root cause accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: PDF Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomonori Honda, Lin Lee Cheong, Richard Burch, Qing Zhu, Jeffrey Drue David, Michael Keleher
  • Publication number: 20230378417
    Abstract: It is preferred that the foreign material removal device for notching a secondary battery according to one example of the present invention comprises: a foreign material confirmation part provided so that in a transport path of an electrode film through a notching process, the upper and lower surfaces of the notched electrode pattern are photographed, and a position of a foreign material present in the electrode pattern is calculated based on the photographed image; and a foreign material removal process part provided so that air is sprayed to the position of the foreign material and a vacuum pressure is applied thereto according to the foreign material position information calculated by the foreign material confirmation part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hyun Park, Tae Su Kim, Seo Jun Lee, Hyo Jin Lee, Gil Woo Kim, Hyuk Soo Lee, Byung Hee Lee
  • Publication number: 20230378566
    Abstract: A secondary battery includes a separator in an electrode assembly thereof that has a sealing part for individually sealing a positive electrode and a negative electrode and has a double sealing structure. The double sealing structure including a first sealing part and a second sealing part so that an accommodation part for accommodating a fire extinguishing agent is provided at an end part of the negative electrode. Further, the secondary battery includes a flame propagation prevention part disposed on an outer surface of the electrode assembly so that a flame generated during thermal runaway of the secondary battery can be blocked in a stage in which the electrode assembly is positioned inside the battery cell, and thus a longer flame propagation time can be induced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Su Han Park, Young Hwan Lee
  • Publication number: 20230376538
    Abstract: A sentence search apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit: accept a character string input by a user; search a sentence collection in which a plurality of sentences as a search target is accumulated based on the accepted character string to acquire one or more search result sentences matching the accepted character string; perform sentence analysis on the search result sentence to acquire a dependency relation between words constituting the search result sentence; and determine one or more recommended words for narrowing down the search result sentence to a sentence desired by the user based on the accepted character string, the search result sentence, and the dependency relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicants: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hisayoshi NAGAE, Kenji IWATA, Takami YOSHIDA, Yuka KOBAYASHI, Tsuyoshi KUSHIMA, Urara IWATA, Yukiko FURUSAWA
  • Publication number: 20230377018
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for retail environments. In one implementation, a non transitory computer-readable medium may include instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method. The method may include detecting online digital activities related to a retail store and originating from customers in the retail store; receiving position information indicating positions from which the detected online digital activities originated; clustering the detected online digital activities based on the position information to provide clusters of detected online digital activities, each cluster being associated with a different region of the retail store; using an image acquisition device to capture images of a particular region of the retail store associated with a particular cluster; analyzing the images to detect a condition of the retail store associated with the detected cluster; and automatically initiating a remedial action to address the detected condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd.
    Inventors: YOUVAL BRONICKI, May Masha Mordechay
  • Publication number: 20230375624
    Abstract: A battery monitoring apparatus for a battery assembly having a housing and a plurality of battery cells which is received in the housing is provided herein. The battery monitoring apparatus includes a first sensor to detect an internal temperature of the housing; a second sensor to detect an internal pressure of the housing; a third sensor to detect an internal gas of the housing; a power circuit to generate an operating voltage using a direct current power of the battery assembly; and a controller to change the first sensor, the second sensor and the third sensor from an idle state to a wake-up state using the operating voltage. The controller monitors an internal abnormality of the battery assembly based on a detection value collected from each sensor in the wake-up state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventor: Won-Gon Kim