Patents Examined by Andargie M Aychillhum
  • Patent number: 11690174
    Abstract: A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a flexible circuit board electrically connected with the display panel. The flexible circuit board includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board and a conductive portion; the first circuit board includes a first substrate, and a main contact pad, a first wire and a second wire provided on the first substrate; the second circuit board includes a second substrate, a relay contact pad and a third wire provided on the second substrate; and the conductive portion is configured for electrically connecting the main contact pad and the relay contact pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ren Xiong, Fan Li, Qiang Tang, Fei Shang, Haijun Qiu, Yuanyuan Chai, Huiqiang Song
  • Patent number: 11682851
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a second substrate having a third surface and a fourth surface; and a connection module connected between the first substrate and the second substrate. The connection module further includes: a first connection section having two ends respectively connected to a first connection portion and a second connection portion, wherein the first connection portion is connected to the first surface of the first substrate, and the second connection portion is connected to the third surface of the second substrate; a second connection section having two ends respectively connected to the first connection portion and a third connection portion, wherein the third connection portion is connected to the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: I-Chieh Lin, Keng-Yi Lee, Shu-Juien Huang
  • Patent number: 11672076
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a component carrier includes (i) forming a stack having at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure; (ii) assembling a component to the stack; and (iii) forming a thermally conductive tongue having an embedded portion embedded in the stack and having an exposed portion protruding beyond the stack, where a first width of the tongue in the embedded portion is different from a second width of the tongue in the exposed portion. A corresponding component carrier includes analogous features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AT&SAustria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG
    Inventors: Naoto Yokoi, Raymond Yi, Sabine Liebfahrt, Christian Vockenberger, Ferdinand Lutschounig, Bernhard Reitmaier
  • Patent number: 11664360
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein provide for printed circuit boards with one or more spaces for embedding components, which can be used to implement a memory sub-system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Quang Nguyen, Christopher Glancey, Shams U Arifeen, Koustav Sinha
  • Patent number: 11665823
    Abstract: A circuit device formed from a functional substrate. The circuit device comprises a functional substrate component and printed electronic elements formed on the functional substrate component. The printed electronic elements formed on the functional substrate component interact with the substrate component to perform a function and to modify the functional substrate component. The circuit device typically needs a passive base material that takes no functional part in the device operation except mechanical support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC
    Inventor: Ian J. Forster
  • Patent number: 11656662
    Abstract: Embodiments herein may present an integrated circuit or a computing system having an integrated circuit, where the integrated circuit includes a physical network layer, a physical computing layer, and a physical memory layer, each having a set of dies, and a die including multiple tiles. The physical network layer further includes one or more signal pathways dynamically configurable between multiple pre-defined interconnect topologies for the multiple tiles, where each topology of the multiple pre-defined interconnect topologies corresponds to a communication pattern related to a workload. At least a tile in the physical computing layer is further arranged to move data to another tile in the physical computing layer or a storage cell of the physical memory layer through the one or more signal pathways in the physical network layer. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Simon C. Steely, Jr., Richard Dischler, David Bach, Olivier Franza, William J. Butera, Christian Karl, Benjamin Keen, Brian Leung
  • Patent number: 11658142
    Abstract: A connection arrangement for forming a component carrier structure is disclosed. The connection arrangement includes a first electrically conductive connection element and a second electrically conductive connection element. The first connection element and the second connection element are configured such that, upon connecting the first connection element with the second connection element along a connection direction, a form fit is established between the first connection element and the second connection element that limits a relative motion between the first connection element and the second connection element in a plane perpendicular to the connection direction. A component carrier and a method of forming a component carrier structure are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: AT&SAustria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG
    Inventors: Heinz Moitzi, Johannes Stahr, Andreas Zluc
  • Patent number: 11652310
    Abstract: A detachable capacitor connection structure is provided for a storage device. In an embodiment, a connection element detachably connects a capacitor module including one or more capacitors to a circuit board such that the capacitor module is stacked over the circuit board. The connection element includes: a first connector including two pin headers, mounted on a bottom plane of the capacitor module; and a second connector including two sockets, mounted on a top plane of the circuit board corresponding to the bottom of the capacitor module, suitable for connecting the first connector to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofang Chen, Danyang Qiao, Wenwei Wang
  • Patent number: 11647588
    Abstract: A circuit substrate (3) is provided with first and second rigid parts (11, 12) having six metal foil layers, and a thin flexible part (13) having two metal foil layers connecting the two rigid parts. A ground wiring (51) which is shaped like a wide strip is formed on the surface metal foil layer, and a plurality of inter-rigid-part wirings (55) are formed on the inner metal foil layer in parallel lines. Outer edges (51a) of the ground wiring (51) are positioned closer to side edges (13a) of the flexible part (13) than to the inter-rigid-part wirings (55). The ground wiring (51) protects the inter-rigid-part wirings (55) from cracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hara, Takuro Kanazawa, Narutoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11641071
    Abstract: A pin has a compliant section at a first end and a welding section at a second end opposite the first end. The compliant section is electrically connected with a via of a printed circuit board. The welding section has a welded connection with a passive component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Yiyang Liew, Lucian Iordache, Mark Rice, Earl Daniel Swope, Georg Friesen
  • Patent number: 11641715
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer; a protective filler layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer; a first wiring layer disposed on the one surface of the first insulating layer and having a pad protruding with respect to the protective filler layer; a first via passing through the first insulating layer and contacting the pad; and a second insulating layer disposed on the first wiring layer and the protective filler layer, and having a cavity exposing the pad and at least a portion of the protective filler layer, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eun Sun Kim, Jin Uk Lee, Young Hun You, Chi Seong Kim
  • Patent number: 11638359
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a module electronics package. The modular electronics package includes a main circuit. The first main circuit board is configured to provide electrical interconnections to form an electric circuit. The modular electronics package includes a first power module. The first power module includes a first power device card and a first expansion slot. The first power device card is configured to be inserted into the first expansion slot and to be electrically coupled to the main circuit board via the first expansion slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Danny Lohan, Shailesh N. Joshi
  • Patent number: 11637504
    Abstract: A power electronics converter includes a carrier substrate, and a converter commutation cell including a power circuit. The power circuit includes a power semiconductor switching element. The power semiconductor switching element is comprised in a power semiconductor prepackage. The power semiconductor prepackage includes a power semiconductor switching element embedded in a solid insulating material, and an electrical connection extending from a terminal of the power semiconductor switching element through the solid insulating material to an electrical connection side of the power semiconductor prepackage. The power electronics converter includes a heat sink arranged to remove heat from the power semiconductor prepackage. The power electronics converter includes a thermal interface layer arranged between the heat removal side of the power semiconductor prepackage and the heat sink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Uwe Waltrich, Stanley Buchert, Marco Bohlländer, Claus Müller
  • Patent number: 11626357
    Abstract: 3D electrical integration is provided by connecting several component carriers to a single substrate using contacts at the edges of the component carriers making contact to a 2D contact array (e.g., a ball grid array or the like) on the substrate. The resulting integration of components on the component carriers is 3D, thereby providing much higher integration density than in 2D approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: FormFactor, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy J. Henson, Shawn O. Powell
  • Patent number: 11612058
    Abstract: A module assembly is attached on a headlining of a vehicle and includes a base where an upper portion thereof is open, a first printed circuit board (PCB) and a second PCB sequentially stacked on a plurality of supporting pillars extending in a vertical direction to an inner bottom surface of the base and electrically connected to each other by a flexible cable, and a cover assembled with the base to cover the first and second PCBs stacked on the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myeong Nam Woo, Uhn Yong Shin
  • Patent number: 11596069
    Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting an upper circuit board to a lower circuit board is disclosed. The upper circuit board includes a series of fastener holes for a fastening device allowing attachment to the lower circuit board. The connector assembly has a support bracket with access holes aligned with the holes of the upper circuit board. The support bracket is configurable to be positioned over the upper circuit board. The connector assembly has a moveable cover bracket having a series of access holes. The cover bracket is suspended between the support bracket and the cover bracket. The cover bracket is moveable between an open position aligning the access holes with the access holes of the support bracket, and a closed position. In the closed position, the cover bracket blocks access between the access holes of the support bracket and the holes of the upper circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Chih-Hsiang Lee, Hou-Hsien Chang, Wei-Chih Hung
  • Patent number: 11589461
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit and a manufacturing method thereof, an electronic device module and an electronic device are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ren Xiong, Qiang Tang
  • Patent number: 11589460
    Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board including a first printed circuit board portion, including a first inserting connector, including a plurality of contacts for creating a first removable bus connection; a second printed circuit board portion, including a second inserting connector, including a plurality of contacts for creating a second removable bus connection; a third printed circuit board portion, connected between the first printed circuit board portion and to the second printed circuit board portion, wherein a rigidity of the third printed circuit board portion is less than a rigidity of each of the first printed circuit board portion and the second printed circuit board portion; wherein the multilayer printed circuit board is foldable along the third printed circuit board portion and, if so folded, the first printed circuit board portion is arranged on top of the second printed circuit board portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tin Poay Chuah, Min Suet Lim, Chee Chun Yee, Yew San Lim, Eng Huat Goh
  • Patent number: 11582873
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a substrate unit and a substrate assembly, and a camera module using the same. The present invention may comprise: a first substrate part having rigidity; a second substrate part stacked on one surface of the first substrate part and having flexibility; a third substrate part extending outwardly from the second substrate part and having flexibility; and a reinforcing part which is disposed at a portion where the edge portions of the first substrate part and the third substrate part meet, the reinforcing part having a recessed portion which is formed by recessing the first substrate part inwardly so as to inhibit interference between the first substrate part and the third substrate part. The present invention is capable of resolving the interference between a rigid PCB and a flexible PCB and the tearing thereof by providing a reinforcing part in a connection portion of the rigid PCB and the flexible PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun Woo Ryou
  • Patent number: 11582862
    Abstract: A high-speed circuit includes a printed circuit board, a ground plane layer, a pair of first and second differential traces, and a cascading common mode filter. The printed circuit board has a first surface and an opposite second surface. The ground plane layer has a first surface in contact with the second surface of the printed circuit board. The pair of first and second differential traces are on the first surface of the printed circuit board. The first and second differential traces carry an electrical signal. The cascading common mode filter includes an outer and an inner common mode filter. The outer common mode filter includes a U-shaped void section on the first surface of the ground plane layer. The inner common mode filter includes an H-shaped void section on the first surface of the ground plane layer. The H-shaped void section is located proximate to the U-shaped void section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventor: Che-Wei Chang