Patents Examined by Alexander H Taningco
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Patent number: 12358586Abstract: A headlight device includes a headlight and a control device. The headlight includes a plurality of light sources that is configured to light one or more left oblique areas located in the ahead-driving direction of the leaning vehicle on the left, one or more right oblique areas located in the ahead-driving direction of the leaning vehicle on the right, and one or more lower areas located in the ahead-driving direction of the leaning vehicle. The control device controls the headlight to light at least the left oblique areas and the right oblique areas based on adaptive lighting control. At least one of the left oblique areas and at least one of the right oblique areas that are lit based on the adaptive lighting control spread more outwardly in a left-right direction than any of the lower areas.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takehiro Inoue, Atsushi Kamo, Takahiro Yamada
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Patent number: 12349252Abstract: Disclosed are a drive circuit, a light-emitting circuit and a display device. The drive circuit is connected to a load element. The drive circuit includes a switch power supply circuit for boosting or reducing a first voltage; a feedback circuit for receiving a feedback voltage of the load element, and generating a control signal in response that the feedback voltage is not within a preset voltage range; a pulse circuit for generating a switch signal with a first preset frequency; and a switch circuit. The switch circuit is for transmitting the control signal to the control end of the switch tube in response to receiving the control signal, and the switch circuit is for transmitting the switch signal to the control end of the switch tube in response to not receiving the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITEDInventor: Renjie Zhou
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Patent number: 12332547Abstract: A method for use in testing an operational status of a light source for illuminating a scene, comprises using a camera to capture a first image when the light source is disabled, the light source having a fixed spatial relationship relative to the camera, and using the camera to capture a second image when the light source is enabled. The method comprises determining a test result indicating the operational status of the light source based at least in part on a light source setting when the camera captures each of the first and second images, the light source setting indicating whether the light source is disabled or enabled when the camera captures the first and second images and at least one of: one or more camera settings when the camera captures the first and second images, and one or more image properties of the first and second images.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP OYInventors: Harshal Dhokate, Prateek Tomar
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Patent number: 12288675Abstract: A plasma reactor has a cylindrical microwave cavity overlying a workpiece processing chamber, a microwave source having a pair of microwave source outputs, and a pair of respective waveguides. The cavity has first and second input ports in a sidewall and space apart by an azimuthal angle. Each of the waveguides has a microwave input end coupled to a microwave source output and a microwave output end coupled to a respective one of the first and second input ports, a coupling aperture plate at the output end with a rectangular coupling aperture in the coupling aperture plate, and an iris plate between the coupling aperture plate and the microwave input end with a rectangular iris opening in the iris plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Satoru Kobayashi, Hideo Sugai, Toan Tran, Soonam Park, Dmitry Lubomirsky
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Patent number: 12287168Abstract: A muzzle flash simulator for use in an airsoft gun, comprising an internal passage, a detector, a controller, and multiple illuminating components. In response to a projectile passing through and away from the internal passage, the simulator will be triggered and flash multi-color lights on a projectile passage in front of the simulator. When each color light is illuminated on the moving projectile at a specific intensity at specified time periods, because of an afterimage phenomenon of the human eye, the surface of the moving projectile reflects the corresponding color and leaves a multi-layered light-trail accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2024Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: ACETK CORP LTD.Inventor: Yung-Hui Chang
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Patent number: 12288674Abstract: Provided are a hybrid matcher capable of precisely performing impedance matching at a high speed when RF power is applied with a multi-level pulse in a facility using RF plasma, and an RF matching system including the hybrid matcher. The hybrid matcher includes a matching circuit in which a plurality of variable element-switch sets are connected to each other in parallel, the variable element-switch sets each including a variable impedance element and a switch connected to the variable impedance element in series and electrically operating therewith, a sensor disposed at a front stage of the matching circuit and configured to measure a current and a voltage of radio frequency (RF) power applied from an RF generator, a variable element driver configured to drive the variable impedance element, a switch driver configured to drive the switch, and a controller configured to control the variable element driver and the switch driver.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Hyosin Kim, Sungyong Lim, Minsung Kim, Dongyub Kim, Sungyeol Kim, Jongbeom Moon, Seungbo Shim
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Patent number: 12266506Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure include a method of processing a substrate in a plasma processing system, comprising delivering an RF signal, by an RF generator, through an RF match to an electrode assembly disposed within the plasma processing system, wherein while delivering the RF signal the RF match is set to a first matching point, and delivering a voltage waveform, by a waveform generator, to the electrode assembly disposed within the plasma processing system while the RF signal is delivered to the electrode assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Yue Guo, Kartik Ramaswamy, Nicolas J. Bright, Yang Yang, A N M Wasekul Azad
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Patent number: 12261035Abstract: A high-pressure discharge lamp with a burner unit which has a discharge vessel which encloses a discharge space and in which two electrodes are arranged opposite one another, wherein the electrodes each have an electrode support and an electrode tip, wherein the electrode tips are located opposite one another to form an electric arc during operation of the high-pressure discharge lamp, wherein at least a first one of the electrodes is configured as a coil electrode which has an electrode support and an electrode coil formed by a wire wound around the electrode support, wherein an exposed end of the electrode support forms the electrode tip, and wherein the electrode coil is arranged in a tip region of the electrode support adjacent to the electrode tip in the discharge space, and wherein an antenna to which voltage can be applied is routed along an outer surface of the discharge vessel.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Ushio Germany GmbHInventors: Thorsten Baum, Marcin Piotrowsky
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Patent number: 12250755Abstract: The disclosure provides a secondary light assembly, a night light assembly, a light fixture, and a method and unit for controlling the secondary light assembly. The secondary light assembly can be mounted on a main light assembly of the light fixture. The main light assembly is configured to provide first lighting light. The secondary light assembly includes: light emitting devices configured to provide second lighting light, a main sensor configured to detect the first lighting light of the main light assembly and generate a lighting light detection signal according to a detection result; and a control part configured to receive the lighting light detection signal from the main sensor and control the light emitting devices of the secondary light assembly at least based on the lighting light detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: SAVANT TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Yin Suo, Yao Fu, Huisheng Zhou
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Patent number: 12232706Abstract: A light source includes a first LED in communication with a first DAC; a second LED in communication with a second DAC; a third LED in communication with a third DAC; a color sensor capable of sensing light in the visible light spectrum; and one or more processors configured for: receiving color intensity values from the color sensor, determining whether the color intensity values are balanced to achieve white light, adjusting the current to the second DAC and third DAC until the color intensity levels are balanced to achieve white light at a combined intensity level, setting a new red LED current value, a new green LED current value, and a new blue LED current value to adjust the combined intensity level toward a target intensity level, and repeating the setting step until the target intensity level is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Ajay Ramesh, Perry Hu, Harman Singh, Chien Mien Pang, Vasudev Nambakam
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Patent number: 12213223Abstract: A power supply circuit for an LED color-changing lamp is provided, which includes an input rectification circuit, an input filtering circuit, a control circuit, a transformer T1, an output rectification circuit, and an output filtering circuit; an input terminal of the input rectification circuit is connected to an AC power, an output terminal of the input rectification circuit is connected to the input filtering circuit. The input filtering circuit and the control circuit are both connected to an original side of the transformer T1; the output rectification circuit and the output filtering circuit are both connected to a secondary side of the transformer T1. The control circuit includes a first chip U1 in a model of MT3612. Through the above arrangement, the circuit is more integrated, the number of components in the circuit is reduced, the circuit structure is simplified, and the volume of the circuit board is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Inventor: Yufeng Xu
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Patent number: 12207370Abstract: The present invention provides a luminaire (1), in particular a street lamp. The luminaire comprises at least one lighting means (5), such as at least one light emitting diode, at least one sensor unit (15) including an acoustic sensor (2) configured to measure environmental sound, and further comprising a processing unit (3). The processing unit (3) is configured to identify an environmental situation of the luminaire (1), in particular the street condition at the street lamp, on the basis of at least one characteristic of the measured environmental sound, such as the amplitude, frequency or pattern of the measured environmental sound and/or control information for controlling light emission.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co KGInventors: Roger Kistler, Markus Künzli
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Patent number: 12191105Abstract: According to one embodiment, a switch device includes a container configured to house a gas, a cathode located in the container, a first anode located in the container, and a second anode located in the container. A second direction from the cathode toward the second anode crosses a first direction from the cathode toward the first anode. A second distance between the cathode and the second anode is greater than a first distance between the cathode and the first anode.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions CorporationInventors: Hisao Miyazaki, Hisashi Yoshida, Shigeya Kimura
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Patent number: 12172573Abstract: An illumination control device that controls an illumination device illuminating inside of a vehicle includes: an action detecting unit that detects an action pattern that is a body motion of a driver and/or a fellow passenger of the vehicle; and a determination unit that determines whether or not a current situation needs illumination control of the illumination device on the basis of the action pattern, and the illumination device is controlled on the basis of the determination of the determination unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Remi Hirohashi, Jumpei Matsunaga, Shuto Higashi, Yoshikazu Matsuo, Yuna Inamori
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Patent number: 12170233Abstract: A plasma treatment apparatus includes a light generator that generates light, a chamber that receives the light generated from the light generator, an optical element provided between the light generator and the chamber, a light detector that detects the light reflected in the chamber, and a controller connected to the light generator and the light detector. The chamber includes an electrostatic chuck provided in a lower portion of the chamber, an edge ring provided around the electrostatic chuck, an outer wall for sealing an inner space of the chamber, and a gas supply that injects a process gas into the chamber. The optical element branches the generated light to irradiate branched light to different regions of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Meehyun Lim, Sung-Yeol Kim, Sunghyup Kim, Hyung-Jung Yong, Hosun Yoo
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Patent number: 12132411Abstract: The invention provides a power supply module and a charged particle beam device that are capable of reducing ripple noise. A high-voltage generation circuit 101 includes booster circuits CPa and CPb of two systems that are configured to be symmetrical to each other, and performs a boosting operation by using a capacitive element and a diode in the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems. The high-voltage generation circuit is housed in a housing and a reference power supply voltage is applied thereto. A left electrode 102a is fixedly provided in the vicinity of one of the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems in the housing, and a right electrode 102b is fixedly provided in the vicinity of the other of the booster circuits CPa and CPb of the two systems in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2019Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Hitachi High-Tech CorporationInventors: Ryo Kadoi, Wen Li, Naoya Ishigaki
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Patent number: 12101855Abstract: Apparatus, methods and systems for providing power to light-emitting diode (“LED”) light sources are provided. The apparatus may include a plurality of power output channels. Each of the power output channels may provide a current to a plurality of LED modules. Each of the LED modules may correspond to one of the power output channels. The apparatus may include a protection circuit. The protection circuit may receive a conditioned voltage. The protection circuit may use the conditioned voltage to feed to the power output channels an output current that, in total, has a power no greater than a predetermined power limit. The apparatus may include a voltage conditioning circuit. The voltage condition circuit may receive line voltage. the voltage condition circuit may condition the line voltage. The voltage conditioning circuit may provide the conditioned voltage to the protection circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Wangs Alliance CorporationInventor: Voravit Puvanakijjakorn
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Patent number: 12101869Abstract: Disclosed a particle accelerator that accelerates a charged particle beam while circulating the charged particle beam as a circulating beam and outputs some of the circulating beam as an output beam, the particle accelerator including: a first deflection section and a second deflection sections each having a deflection electromagnet; a first straight section, a second straight section, and third straight section each not having the deflection electromagnet; and a control unit, wherein a preceding output deflector of the first straight section deflects some of the circulating beam toward an inner side of a circulating trajectory of the circulating beam to separate the some of the circulating beam as an output beam, wherein a succeeding output deflector of the third straight section deflects the output beam separated from the circulating beam by the preceding output deflector toward an outer side of the circulating trajectory of the circulating beam, and wherein the control unit controls at least the quadrupoleType: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: National Institutes for Quantum Science and TechnologyInventors: Kota Mizushima, Toshiyuki Shirai
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Patent number: 12089312Abstract: An illumination control apparatus, an illumination control method, and a computer readable recording medium that records an illumination control program are provided. The illumination control apparatus includes: a start position storage section that stores start positions of the sets of illumination control values in a control signal, created by a signal creation section, including a plurality of sets of illumination control values for controlling illumination; and a start position output section that outputs the start positions stored in the start position storage section in a manner that the start positions can be set for the illumination devices, in which the illumination devices are configured to be able to control conditions of the illumination on the basis of the sets of illumination control values in the control signal transmitted by a signal transmission section by setting the start positions output by the start position output section for the illumination devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Roland CorporationInventor: Satoshi Wakuda
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Patent number: 12085263Abstract: An LED light tube includes a glass tube, end caps, an LED light strip, LED light sources, and a power supply module. The end caps are respectively attached at two ends of the glass tube. The LED light strip is attached to an inner circumferential surface of the glass tube. The LED light sources are mounted on the LED light strip. The power supply module is electrically connected to the LED light strip. Each of the end caps includes a lateral wall and an end wall. The lateral wall is substantially coaxial with the glass tube and connected to the glass tube. The end wall is substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the lateral wall and connected to an end of the lateral wall away from the glass tube. The power supply module includes a rectifying circuit and a filtering circuit electrically connected to the rectifying circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTDInventors: Tao Jiang, Qifeng Ye, Aiming Xiong, Yueqiang Zhang