Patents Examined by A. Turner
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Patent number: 11562902Abstract: Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include flowing a silicon-containing precursor into a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be housed within the processing region, and the substrate may be maintained at a temperature below or about 450° C. The methods may include striking a plasma of the silicon-containing precursor. The methods may include forming a layer of amorphous silicon on a semiconductor substrate. The layer of amorphous silicon may be characterized by less than or about 3% hydrogen incorporation.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Rui Cheng, Diwakar Kedlaya, Karthik Janakiraman, Gautam K. Hemani, Krishna Nittala, Alicia J. Lustgraaf, Zubin Huang, Brett Spaulding, Shashank Sharma, Kelvin Chan
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Patent number: 11560611Abstract: A cutting tool which may be used in machining various material may include a body and one or more cutting elements associated therewith. In one example, the cutting element(s) may comprise a superhard table, such as a polycrystalline diamond table. In some embodiments, the polycrystalline diamond table may have a diamond density of approximately 95 percent volume or greater. In some embodiments, the thickness of the superhard table may be approximately 0.15 inch. In some embodiments, the superhard table may include a chip breaking feature or structure. Methods of shaping, finishing or otherwise machining materials are also provided, including the machining of materials comprising titanium.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: US SYNTHETIC CORPORATIONInventors: Regan Leland Burton, Dan Bagley, Ken Jensen
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Patent number: 11555241Abstract: A coating system for a turbine engine component is disclosed. The coating system includes a substrate, an optional bond coat, a synthetic oxide layer and a top coat. The synthetic oxide layer is formed by atomic layer deposition and includes two or more oxides.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Sheedy, John A. Sharon, Neal Magdefrau, Ryan M. Deacon, Wayde R. Schmidt
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Patent number: 11556876Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for detecting business anomalies. Enterprise data as well as compliance rules (e.g., business operational rules) are analyzed to identify entities and concepts to be placed in an ontology. The identified entities and concepts are represented as multi-dimensional vectors. The updates, movements and access to the enterprise data and compliance rules are tracked to determine parameters, such as information velocity, associated with at least some of the elements of the multi-dimensional vectors. The meaning from the enterprise data as well as from the data parameters is discerned. The discerned enterprise data and discerned data parameters are compared with the historical and/or projected utilization of the discerned enterprise data and discerned data parameters to identify any differences. Statistical analysis is then applied based on the enterprise data and the identified differences to generate a value corresponding to a prediction of a business anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven B. Adler, Hyman D. Chantz
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Patent number: 11555620Abstract: This publication discloses a filter unit connectable to a mobile communication device including a fan for generating an air flow inside the filter unit, electrodes covered with a photo catalytic material like TiO2 in the air flow, UV-LEDs illuminating the electrodes, and outlet for the air flow directed in direction of user of filter unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Oy Lifa Air LtdInventors: Janette Mäkipää, Vesa Mäkipää
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Patent number: 11555255Abstract: A member for an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor single crystal having long product life and a tantalum carbide coated carbon material are provided. The tantalum carbide coated carbon material according to the present invention is a tantalum carbide coated carbon material in which at least a part of a surface of a carbon base material is coated with a tantalum carbide coated film containing tantalum carbide as a main component, in which in the tantalum carbide coated film, an intensity of an X-ray diffraction line corresponding to a plane with respect to an out-of-plane direction is larger than intensities of X-ray diffraction lines corresponding to other crystal planes, and the intensity ratio is 60% or more with respect to a sum of intensities of X-ray diffraction lines corresponding to all crystal planes.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chikara Mori, Waichi Yamamura, Shoji Kano, Akihiro Hirate
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Patent number: 11556867Abstract: A method includes receiving target data for a paving project corresponding to a work period. The method also includes receiving sensor data from one or more components associated with the paving project, determining a progress value representing progress of the one or more components of the paving project, and determining a threshold progress value for a time period, the time period having a duration that is less than a duration of a work period. The method further includes determining that the progress value is less than the threshold progress value, generating at least one of an alarm or a recommendation, and sending the alarm or the recommendation to an electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Gautham Subramanian, Jacob J. McAlpine
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Patent number: 11548074Abstract: Provided is a coated cutting tool having improved wear resistance and fracture resistance and a prolonged tool life. The coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a coating layer formed on the substrate. The coating layer includes a first layer containing Ti(Cx1N1-x1) and a second layer containing (Ti1-y1Aly1)N, particles in the first layer have an average particle size of 5 nm or more and less than 100 nm, 1.0?I(111)/I(200)?20.0 in the first layer, the first layer has an average thickness of 5 nm or more and 1.0 ?m or less, 0.1?I(111)/I(200)?1.0 in the second layer, particles in the second layer have an average particle size of more than 100 nm and 300 nm or less, and the second layer has an average thickness of 5 nm or more and 2.0 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: TUNGALOY CORPORATIONInventor: Takao Katagiri
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Patent number: 11541343Abstract: An electrical appliance having an electrostatic dust collecting device includes a main body including an inlet; a charging device disposed on the main body at an edge of the inlet and configured to charge contaminants in air; an air moving device disposed inside the main body and configured to suck air containing contaminants and exhaust the air to an outside; and a dust collecting device disposed in an air passage and configured to collect contaminants charged by the charging device from the air. The charging device includes a plurality of carbon fiber electrodes disposed toward the inlet and configured to generate electrons to charge contaminants; a printed circuit board on which the plurality of carbon fiber electrodes are disposed; and a ground electrode disposed adjacent to the printed circuit board without facing the plurality of carbon fiber electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kyuho Shin, Yasuhiko Kochiyama, Soyoung Yun
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Patent number: 11541400Abstract: An electrostatic precipitating apparatus for a cooling tower is provided. The precipitating apparatus include an electrostatic precipitator including a plurality of discharge electrodes to which a voltage is applied and a plurality of electrostatic precipitating electrodes each disposed between the discharge electrodes and grounded, a washing water supply spraying the washing water to the electrostatic precipitator, and a frame assembly supporting the electrostatic precipitator. The electrostatic precipitator includes a first setting beam having a plurality of lower slots into which the discharge electrodes are fixedly inserted, and the frame assembly includes a lower frame extending in a stacking direction of the discharge electrodes to support the first setting beam, via which a voltage is applied to the discharge electrode.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: DOOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Woon Lee, Sang Rin Lee, Jae Dong Hwang, Sang Chul Moon
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Patent number: 11541932Abstract: A vehicle side member includes: a main member portion which extends in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; a front-side mounting portion which is one-piece construction with a front portion of the main member portion; a rear-side mounting portion which is one-piece construction with a rear portion of the main member portion; and a damper mounting portion which is one-piece construction with the main member portion, and in which a top end of a damper is received and mounted.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Il Do Kim
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Patent number: 11541792Abstract: An armrest assembly mounted on a console of a vehicle may include a console main body provided with a storage box in which a space is formed and installed between a driver seat and a passenger seat of a vehicle, an armrest pivotably installed in the storage box and configured to support an arm of a passenger in the vehicle and open and close an upper portion of the storage box, a button member installed in the console main body and configured to be operated by the passenger to unlock the armrest, an operating unit configured to lock or unlock the armrest from the console main body according to whether the button member is operated, and a console cover configured to cover a portion in which the button member and the operating unit are installed in the console main body and expose an upper end of the button member.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, ECOPLASTIC CORPORATIONInventors: Gye-Young Ahn, Woo-Hyun Lim, Sang-Ki Lee, Hae-Ju Park, Sung-Gu Yeo
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Patent number: 11541468Abstract: A coated tool of the present disclosure is provided with a base member and a coating layer located on a surface of the base member. The coating layer includes a TiCNO layer and an Al2O3 layer. The Al2O3 layer is located in contact with the TiCNO layer at a position farther from the base member than the TiCNO layer is. The TiCNO layer includes a plurality of first protrusions that project toward the Al2O3 layer, and a beam that extends in a direction intersecting a direction in which the first protrusions project, to connect the first protrusions. A cutting tool of the present disclosure is provided with: a holder extending from a first end toward a second end and including a pocket on a side of the first end; and the above-described coated tool located in the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Yuusaku Sugawa, Yoshikazu Kodama, Kenji Kumai, Takanori Sugiyama, Hirotoshi Itoh
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Patent number: 11541819Abstract: A vehicle center console assembly includes a vehicle body structure and a center console assembly. The vehicle body structure includes a passenger compartment floor with a front seat assembly installed to the floor and a pair of second row seats installed to the floor rearward of the front seat assembly. The center console assembly is releasably attached to the floor between the pair of second row seats. The center console has a manually operated latch mechanism operable between a locked orientation in which the center console is fixedly attached to the floor in an installed orientation and a release orientation in which the center console is released from attachment to the floor and is movable away from the installed orientation and out of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Jessica Booth, Christian Dubrock, Katie Andersen
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Patent number: 11544810Abstract: A method for predicting inventory availability, involving receiving a delivery order including a plurality of items and a delivery location, and identifying a warehouse for picking the plurality of items. The method retrieves a machine-learned model that predicts a probability that an item is available at the warehouse. The machine-learned model is trained, using machine learning, based in part on a plurality of datasets. The plurality of datasets include data describing items included in previous delivery orders, whether each item in each previous delivery order was picked, a warehouse associated with each previous delivery order, and a plurality of characteristics associated with each of the items. The method predicts the probability that one of the plurality of items in the delivery order is available at the warehouse, and generates an instruction to a picker based on the probability. An instruction is transmitted to a mobile device of the picker.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Maplebear Inc.Inventors: Sharath Rao, Shishir Prasad, Jeremy Stanley
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Patent number: 11541461Abstract: A coated cutting tool includes a substrate and a hard film on coated on the substrate. The hard film contains a complex nitride of Al and Cr. The hard film includes aggregates of columnar grains grown on the substrate along the thickness of the film. The nitride has an Al content of 60 atom % or more, a Cr content of 10 atom % or more, and a total content of Al and Cr of 90 atom % or more relative to the total amount of metal and metalloid elements. The complex nitride has the highest peak intensity assigned to crystal plane (311) of an fcc structure in X-ray diffractometry. In the hard film, the ratio of an X-ray diffraction intensity of plane (311) to the intensities of the other planes is 1.30 or more. A method and a system are also provided for manufacturing the coated cutting tool by chemical vapor deposition.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: MOLDINO Tool Engineering, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuzoh Fukunaga, Masayuki Imai
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Patent number: 11541401Abstract: Disclosed herein is a dust collecting tower apparatus that includes a housing having an inlet, into which gas is introduced, and an outlet from which the gas is discharged, and a collection module disposed in the housing and configured to collect particulates with a corona discharge. The collection module includes a plurality of discharge electrodes, to which a voltage is applied, a plurality of collection electrodes disposed between the respective discharge electrodes, where the collection electrodes is grounded, and a first setting beam having a plurality of lower slots into which the discharge electrodes are inserted. The apparatus further includes a washing water feeder configured to spray washing water to the collection module.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: DOSAN ENERBILITY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Woon Lee, Sang Rin Lee, Jae Dong Hwang, Sang Chul Moon
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Patent number: 11534836Abstract: A surface-coated cutting tool includes: a substrate including a rake face and a flank face; a first coating film that coats the rake face; and a second coating film that coats the flank face, wherein the first coating film includes a first composite nitride layer at a region d1 on the rake face, the second coating film includes a second composite nitride layer at a region d2 on the flank face, the first composite nitride layer includes Ti1-x1-y1Alx1Tay1C?1N?1, the second composite nitride layer includes Ti1-x2-y2Alx2Tay2C?2N?2.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC HARDMETAL CORP.Inventors: Kouhei Yoshimura, Haruyo Fukui, Makoto Setoyama, Keizo Tanaka
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Patent number: 11538940Abstract: To provide a miniaturized transistor having highly stable electrical characteristics. Furthermore, also in a semiconductor device including the transistor, high performance and high reliability are achieved. The transistor includes, over a substrate, a conductor, an oxide semiconductor, and an insulator. The oxide semiconductor includes a first region and a second region. The resistance of the second region is lower than that of the first region. The entire surface of the first region in the oxide semiconductor is surrounded in all directions by the conductor with the insulator interposed therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yuta Endo, Yoko Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 11537081Abstract: A component of external parts for a timepiece, the component including a first silicon-based part and a second metal-based part, where one surface of the first part is welded using laser-type electromagnetic radiation onto a surface of the second part in order to secure the parts to each other. A method for fabrication of a component of external parts for a timepiece, by forming a first silicon-based part and a second metal-based part, mounting a surface of the first part on a surface of the second part, and welding, using laser-type electromagnetic radiation, the surface of the first part mounted on the surface of the second part, in order to secure the parts to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development LtdInventor: Jean-Luc Bazin