Patents Examined by Amy Cohen Johnson
  • Patent number: 11071179
    Abstract: A dimmable LED drive circuit and a control method is provided in the present disclosure. The dimmable LED drive circuit may include a thyristor dimmer, a bleeder current circuit, and an LED circuit. The bleeder current circuit may provide a current required by the thyristor dimmer when an input voltage does not reach a forward voltage of the LED circuit. The dimmable LED drive circuit may further include a thyristor chopping angle detection circuit and a bleeder current control circuit. The thyristor chopping angle detection circuit may obtain a first electrical parameter signal characterizing a thyristor chopping angle when the thyristor dimmer is in a conducting state. The bleeder current control circuit may compare the first electrical parameter signal with a first threshold, and control the bleeder current circuit according to a comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MAXIC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zaixin Mu, Pan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11066327
    Abstract: Examples of a high voltage insulator are described. The high-voltage insulator is vacuum compatible and comprises a glass substrate having a face surface and a ceramic layer with uniform thickness coated on the face surface of 5 the glass substrate. The coated surface of the insulator is able to withstand high voltage pulses and exposure to charged particles radiation for a pre-determined time period. The ceramic coated glass insulator is made of a single piece of glass and can be made to large sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: General Fusion Inc.
    Inventors: Kelly Bernard Epp, Michel Georges Laberge
  • Patent number: 11064601
    Abstract: Examples of systems for imploding liquid liner are described. The imploding system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel. The rotating member has a plurality of shaped blades that form a plurality of curved passages that have an inboard opening at an inner surface and an outboard end at an outer surface. The rotating member is at least partially filled with liquid medium. A driver is used to rotate the rotating member such that when the rotating member rotates the liquid medium is forced into the passages forming a liquid liner with an interface curved with respect to an axis of rotation and defining a cavity. The system further comprises an implosion driver that changes the rotational speed of the rotating member such that the liquid liner is imploded inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner can be used in plasma compression systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Inventors: Joerg Zimmermann, David Franklin Plant, Robert Vlastimil Bouchal, Troy Nickolas Tyler, Victoria Suponitsky, Michael Harcourt Delage, Michel Georges Laberge, Malcolm Newton Williams
  • Patent number: 11064584
    Abstract: The invention relates to a remote control for remotely controlling the illumination of an LED string; the remote control has a control panel having a dial selector for selecting a color of a primary color light emitted by the LED string, a plurality of first color illumination mode buttons, a plurality of background illumination mode buttons, and an illumination sequence button; the remote control has a control circuit having a wireless transmitter for transmitting an LED string control signal to the LED string; a resistive divider circuit providing a plurality of divided voltages to the dial selector which selects one of the divided voltages as an output voltage, a plurality of switches each outputting a state voltage, and a controller connected to the wireless transmitter, the dial selector and the plurality of switches to generate the LED string control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: JETMAX LIGHTING INDUSTRIAL CO., LIMITED
    Inventor: Ping Yang
  • Patent number: 11064589
    Abstract: A system, method and storage medium for providing an emergency lighting includes generating, by a controller, a driving control signal; receiving, by a light source, the driving control signal; and emitting, by the light source, light based on the driving control signal. Intensity of the light emitted from the light source repeatedly ramps up and ramps down with a first period based on the driving control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: WHELEN ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Caleb Garrett, Dave Sousa
  • Patent number: 11063585
    Abstract: A theory and a technical foundation for building a technical framework of a color temperature tuning technology are disclosed composing a power allocation algorithm and a power allocation circuitry, wherein the power allocation algorithm is a software for designing a process of dividing and sharing a total electric power between at least a first LED load with a color temperature CT1 and a second LED load with a color temperature CT2 to generate at least one paired combination of a first electric power X allocated to the first LED load and a second electric power Y allocated to the second LED load to create at least one mingled light color temperature CTapp thru a light diffuser according to color temperature tuning formulas CTapp=CT1·X/(X+Y)+CT2·Y/(X+Y) and X+Y=constant; and the power allocation circuitry is a hardware designed for implementing the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: VAXCEL INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chia-Teh Chen
  • Patent number: 11060673
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a housing, a luminous zone coupled with the housing, and one or more transition zones coupled with the housing and disposed adjacent to the luminous zone. The luminous zone provides a first light to an illuminated area, and the one or more transition zones provide a second light to the illuminated area. The first light is harsher than the second light. A method of illuminating an area includes providing a first light to the area from a luminous zone of a luminaire and providing a second light to the area from one or more transition zones disposed adjacent to the luminous zone within the luminaire. The first light is a harsher light than the second light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC
    Inventors: Yulia Tyukhova, Jon Eric Gibson, John Bryan Harvey, Jie Chen, Craig Eugene Marquardt, Daniel Vincent Sekowski
  • Patent number: 11064590
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component, a method for manufacturing an optoelectronic component and a method for operating an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment, the component includes a carrier comprising a molded body and a light-emitting semiconductor body with a first segment and a second segment, wherein the first segment and the second segment are spatially separated from one another, and wherein each segment has an emission side facing away from the carrier. The component further includes a first electrical conductor path arranged on the first segment and on the second segment on a side of the light-emitting semiconductor body facing towards the carrier and a first electrical connecting structure and a second electrical connecting structure, each electrically connecting the first segment and the second segment to one another, wherein the first and second electrical connecting structure are electrically connected to one another by the first electrical conductor path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GMBH
    Inventor: Korbinian Perzlmaier
  • Patent number: 11058899
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a superconducting electromagnet apparatus having a group of superconducting electromagnets including a first superconducting electromagnet and a second superconducting electromagnet arranged adjacent to the first superconducting electromagnet. Effective magnetic field regions generated by the first and second superconducting electromagnets, respectively, are formed to satisfy predetermined relational equations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: B DOT MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Takuji Furukawa, Eri Takeshita, Yousuke Hara
  • Patent number: 11063591
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes programming a control signal that specifies a target resistance and a target voltage in a circuit. The method further includes sending the control signal to at least one transistor configured to control a current flow in the circuit. The method further includes providing, as an output, a signal with the target voltage and target resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE, LTD.
    Inventor: Lu Wang
  • Patent number: 11054452
    Abstract: A method for operating an electromagnetic compatibility testing system includes for selected frequencies, adjusting incrementally the lengths of each of the plurality of length-adjustable elements for selected combinations of length ratios between the driven element and other length-adjustable elements, including length ratios where the driven element is longer than the other length-adjustable elements, for each selected frequency storing in a table one of the incremental lengths at one of the selected combinations of length ratios having one of the lowest VSWR and a VSWR lower than a threshold value that has highest signal strength, for each selected frequency adjusting the lengths of each of the length-adjustable elements to the stored lengths, driving RF energy at the selected frequency at a EMC test power level into the EMC antenna generating an e-field in the equipment under test, and measuring behavior of the equipment under test in the presence of the e-field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SteppIR Communication Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Yuri Alex Brigance
  • Patent number: 11052815
    Abstract: An auxiliary lighting system for an auxiliary device and methods are provided. The auxiliary lighting system senses the operational state of various ones of the vehicle lights of the vehicle and operably controls the operational state of various auxiliary lights based on the operational state of one or more of the vehicle lights. The method includes controlling the auxiliary lighting system based on the operational state of the vehicle lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Sno-Way International, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy G. Koch, Wilhelm F. Von Menze, Jacob R. Brehmer, Terry C. Wendorff
  • Patent number: 11057038
    Abstract: A device includes a power supply line, an output terminal, a circuit configured to perform a logic operation on a first signal and a second signal to produce a third signal, first, second and third transistors. The first transistor is coupled between the power supply line and the output terminal and includes a control gate supplied with the third signal. The second and third transistors are coupled in series between the power supply line and the output terminal. The second transistor includes a control gate supplied with the first signal and the third transistor includes a control gate supplied with a fourth signal that is different from each of the first, second and third signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Arai, Shuichi Tsukada, Junki Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 11056316
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) pulse matching method includes presetting a matching threshold and initializing a pulse count value to a pulse reference value and loading pulse power to an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The upper electrode includes an upper RF power supply and a corresponding upper matching device. The lower electrode includes a lower RF power supply and a corresponding lower matching device. The method further includes collecting a pulse signal of the pulse power and calculating a matching parameter according to the pulse signal, determining a magnitude of the matching parameter relative to the matching threshold and resetting the pulse count value, causing the upper matching device to perform matching on the upper RF power supply or the lower matching device to perform matching on the lower RF power supply, and repeating processes until the upper RF power supply and the lower RF power supply are matched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING NAURA MICROELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyang Cheng, Gang Wei, Jing Wei, Jinzhi Bai, Jing Yang
  • Patent number: 11049619
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a fusion reactor includes an enclosure, one or more internal magnetic coils suspended within an interior of the enclosure and co-axial with a center axis of the enclosure, one or more encapsulating magnetic coils co-axial with the center axis of the enclosure, the encapsulating magnetic coils having a larger diameter than the internal magnetic coils, one or more mirror magnetic coils co-axial with the center axis of the enclosure, and one or more magnetic reconnection coils co-axial with the center axis of the enclosure, wherein the one or more magnetic reconnection coils, when pulsed by a power source, are disposed to reconfigure one or more magnetic fields within the enclosure. The reconfiguration, or magnetic reconnection, of the one or more magnetic fields is disposed to increase energy in the magnetic fields, thereby facilitating the conditions operable to generate plasma, and further, when the magnetic fields are collapsed, releasing the energy into the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas John McGuire
  • Patent number: 11051376
    Abstract: A lighting method for illuminating an environment by means of a plurality of light sources is comprised of the following steps: acquiring a video signal, in which an image of each frame is divided into a plurality of boxes; subdividing the video signal into a plurality of video signal boxes, each associated with an image portion of each frame displayed on a respective box; processing frequency of the frame video signals, for obtaining spectra of respective luminance and chrominance signals associated with each video signal box; extracting a dominant frequency band of the luminance signal spectrum associated with each box video signal; extracting a dominant frequency band of the chrominance signal spectrum associated with each box video signal; summing the processed spectra of luminance and chrominance signals; and obtaining a time driving signal of each of the light sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventor: Salvatore Lamanna
  • Patent number: 11049694
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a source for a processing tool. In an embodiment, the source comprises a dielectric plate having a first surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface, and a cavity into the first surface of the dielectric plate. In an embodiment, the cavity comprises a third surface that is between the first surface and the second surface. In an embodiment, the source further comprises a dielectric resonator extending away from the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph F. AuBuchon, James Carducci, Larry D. Elizaga, Richard C. Fovell, Philip Allan Kraus, Thai Cheng Chua
  • Patent number: 11051390
    Abstract: To provide a functional membrane for ion beam transmission capable of enhancing ion beam transmittance and improving beam emittance. A functional membrane for ion beam transmission according to the present invention is used in a beam line device through which an ion beam traveling in one direction passes and has a channel. The axis of the channel is substantially parallel to the travel direction of the ion beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignees: Japan Atomic Energy Agency, PESCO Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Natsuko Fujita, Akihiro Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11043951
    Abstract: An analog circuit for solving optimization algorithms comprises three voltage controlled current sources and three capacitors, operatively coupled in parallel to the three voltage controlled current sources, respectively. The circuit further comprises a first inductor, operatively coupled in series between a first pair of the capacitors and the voltage controller current sources and a second pair of the capacitors and the voltage controller current sources. The circuit further comprises a second inductor, operatively coupled in series between the second pair of the capacitors and the voltage controller current sources and a third pair of the capacitors and the voltage controller current sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ion Matei, Aleksandar Feldman, Johan de Kleer
  • Patent number: 11042027
    Abstract: Described herein are plasma generation devices and methods of use of the devices. The devices can be used for the cleaning of various surfaces and/or for inhibiting or preventing the accumulation of particulates, such as dust, or moisture on various surfaces. The devices can be used to remove dust and other particulate contaminants from solar panels and windows, or to avoid or minimize condensation on various surfaces. In an embodiment a plasma generation device is provided. The plasma generation device can comprise: a pair of electrodes positioned in association with a surface of a dielectric substrate. The pair of electrodes can comprise a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and second electrode can be of different sizes, one of the electrodes being smaller than the other of the electrodes. The first electrode and second electrode can be separated by a distance and electrically connected to a voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Marios Neophytou, Deanna A. Lacoste, Mindaugas Kirkus