Patents Examined by Anh Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 12144075
    Abstract: A lighting device connects to an external power supply and includes a light emitting load and a secondary load. A temperature measurement is obtained related to a temperature of the external power supply. The secondary load is activated, thereby allowing the secondary load to be powered by the external power supply, when the temperature measurement is below a threshold. Thus, in cold conditions, an increased load is presented to the external power supply to assist start up of the external power supply in cold conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Wei Li, Yuanqiang Liu, Meiping Mao, Yuan Xin Chen, Ru Yu Li
  • Patent number: 12143108
    Abstract: In an embodiment an integrated device includes a first physical unclonable function module configured to generate an initial data group and management module configured to generate an output data group from at least the initial data group, authorize only D successive deliveries of the output data group on a first output interface of the device, D being a non-zero positive integer, and prevent any new generation of the output data group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS, STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Francesco La Rosa, Marco Bildgen
  • Patent number: 12139062
    Abstract: A variable light distribution light source includes an array-type light-emitting device. The array-type light-emitting device includes a power supply terminal and multiple pixel circuits electrically coupled and spatially arranged in a matrix. A power supply circuit includes a power supply unit that supplies electric power to the array-type light-emitting device. An output of a DC/DC converter is coupled to the power supply terminal VDD of the array-type light-emitting device via an output terminal. A voltage setting circuit generates a controllable correction voltage. A feedback circuit generates a feedback voltage based on the correction voltage and the control target voltage that corresponds to the output voltage of the DC/DC converter, and supplies the feedback voltage to a feedback pin of a converter controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Ota, Masashi Kato, Shohei Yanagizu, Satoshi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12129995
    Abstract: A decorative lighting system including a sensor device; a wiring harness comprising an insulated conductor and a plurality of lighting elements; a controller in communication with the wiring harness and the sensor device, the controller comprising a processor, a memory, and a wireless communication module; and wherein the controller is configured to control the plurality of lighting elements based at least in part on information received from the sensor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: POLYGROUP MACAU LIMITED (BVI)
    Inventors: Chi Yin Alan Leung, Chi Kin Samuel Kwok, Eric Szweda
  • Patent number: 12133309
    Abstract: A lighting device having replaceable intelligent sensor includes a filter, a first voltage converter, a DC-to-DC converter, an intelligent sensor, a control circuit, a load and a rectifier. The first voltage converter is connected to the filter. The DC-to-DC converter is connected to the first voltage converter. The intelligent sensor is detachably connected to the DC-to-DC converter. The control circuit is connected to the filter, and includes an optical coupler and a switch connected to each other. The load is connected to the control circuit. The rectifier is connected to the filter and an external power source in order to drive the intelligent sensor and the control circuit. The intelligent sensor generates a first control signal to control the optical coupler to turn on the switch, such that the control circuit generates a driving signal to drive the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Xiamen PVTECH Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fuxing Lu, Longyin Chen, Rongtu Liu
  • Patent number: 12132244
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a phase shifter and antenna. The phase shifter includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a first dielectric layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate includes: a first base substrate and a transmission line on a side of the first base substrate proximal to the first dielectric layer. The second substrate includes: a second base substrate and a reference electrode on a side of the second substrate proximal to the first dielectric layer. An orthographic projection of the reference electrode on the first base substrate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the transmission line on the first base substrate. The reference electrode is provided with a first opening therein, and a length of the first opening along the first direction is not less than a line width of the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiyuan Wang, Feng Qu
  • Patent number: 12127319
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of resetting a lighting device control apparatus by using a wall switch, capable of resetting an AP setting of the lighting device control apparatus more conveniently in a smart residential lighting device network system including: a plurality of lighting devices provided in an indoor space; a plurality of lighting device control apparatuses for individually or collectively controlling the lighting devices; a plurality of APs configured to perform WiFi communication with the lighting device control apparatuses, respectively; a user terminal for remotely controlling the lighting devices; a lighting device server configured to transmit a lighting device control signal generated by the user terminal to a lighting device control apparatus of a lighting device corresponding to the lighting device control signal; and a home gateway configured to perform relay between the APs and the lighting device server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: K-Bell Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyeong Hoon Kang, Young Jin Lim, Young Sik Jang
  • Patent number: 12127315
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a high-pressure white-red-green-blue (WRGB) string light, including a controller and a string light main body. The controller is connected with the string light main body; the string light main body is provided with a plurality of WRGB bulbs; the controller includes a first power supply module and a main control module; the first power supply module is adapted to be connected to a mains supply to supply power to the main control module; the WRGB bulbs include a second power supply module, an auxiliary control module and a lighting module; the second power supply module is adapted to be connected to the controller or the main supply to supply power to the auxiliary control module and the lighting module; and the main control module is adapted to send a control signal to the auxiliary control module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ZHEJIANG TWINSEL ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianping Yan, Xueren Zeng, Qian Xu, Wei Yi, Shiqing Xia
  • Patent number: 12120792
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surge detector comprising a transformer comprising a primary winding arranged to receive a fraction of a surge current and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding and arranged to output a signal representing the fraction of the surge current. The surge detector further comprises a shunt connection in parallel with the primary winding, wherein the impedance of the shunt connection is lower than the impedance of the primary winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Adrianus Cornelis Misdom, Jop Van Laanen
  • Patent number: 12119820
    Abstract: A programmable circuit includes a superconducting multi-dimensional array. The programmable circuit further includes a plurality of photon detectors coupled to respective portions of the superconducting multi-dimensional array, each photon detector configured to selectively provide input to a corresponding respective portion sufficient to transition the corresponding respective portion from a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state. The programmable circuit also includes one or more electrical terminals coupled to respective second portions of the superconducting multi-dimensional array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: PSIQUANTUM CORP.
    Inventors: Faraz Najafi, Qiaodan Jin Stone
  • Patent number: 12113650
    Abstract: A semiconductor apparatus includes a calibration circuit, a selection circuit, and a data circuit. The calibration circuit generates a plurality of calibration signals by being coupled to a plurality of reference resistors. The selection circuit selects at least one signal among the plurality of calibration signals on the basis of an impedance setting signal. The data circuit sets an impedance based on the selected calibration signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jung Hyun Shin, Yongsuk Choi
  • Patent number: 12114405
    Abstract: A vehicle interior lighting assembly includes a housing configured to contain lighting components, a lens through which light may be projected from the housing, and a light source including a flexible sheet including one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs). The flexible sheet includes a first, larger portion disposed at a first orientation at an oblique angle with respect to the lens, and a second, smaller portion disposed at a second orientation that is substantially aligned with the lens. At least one of the one or more LEDs is disposed on the second, smaller portion of the flexible sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoya Hagihara, Antonio Emilio Sanchez Aguilar
  • Patent number: 12104754
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) tube lamp and an electric leakage protection circuit are provided. The LED tube lamp. The LED tube lamp includes a leakage detecting module and a driving module comprising a Type A+B driving circuit. The leakage detecting module is connected with a power supply. The driving module is electrically connected with the leakage detecting module. The leakage detecting module detects a signal related to the output current of the power supply, and when the signal related to the output current of the power supply exceeds a reference signal, the leakage detecting module limits the current on a power loop connected to the power supply by periodically turning off a switch electrically connected to the power loop in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Jiaxing Super Lighting Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aiming Xiong, Xintong Liu
  • Patent number: 12096747
    Abstract: Organism monitoring devices and organism monitoring methods are described. According to one aspect, an organism monitoring device includes a housing configured to be physically associated with an organism to be monitored, an antenna, signal generation circuitry comprising an oscillator configured to generate an oscillation signal, and an output node configured to output the oscillation signal, impedance matching circuitry coupled with the housing, the antenna and the signal generation circuitry, and wherein the impedance matching circuitry is configured to match an impedance of the signal generation circuitry and an impedance of the antenna, and wherein the impedance matching circuitry is further configured to receive the oscillation signal and to provide the oscillation signal to the antenna, and wherein the antenna is configured to emit a wireless signal externally of the organism monitoring device as a result of the provision of the oscillation signal to the input of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Z. Daniel Deng, Jun Lu, Huidong Li, Jayson J. Martinez, Mitchell J. Myjak
  • Patent number: 12101856
    Abstract: A method of driving a plurality of LED-based light sources to provide accurate white points and saturated color points. The method includes receiving or setting a selectable target chromaticity; determining that the selectable target chromaticity is between two vertices of the global common gamut; defining an inner region within the global common gamut; calculating a first directed distance between the selectable target chromaticity and the transition boundary of the inner region and a second directed distance between the selectable target chromaticity and a straight side of the global common gamut; and modifying the selectable target chromaticity to a modified target chromaticity within a light fixture gamut based at least in part on the calculated first and second directed distances; or generating an activation signal for driving the plurality of light sources based on the selectable target chromaticity based at least in part on the calculated first and second directed distances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Isaac Goldstein, James William Preston, Hong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12101857
    Abstract: A light source driver circuit has a switching regulator including a voltage input, a voltage output, and a regulation input; a current source with a switching element and a voltage-controllable member arranged in series with the light source load. A pulse signal is applied to a control terminal of the switching element to connect, in a first switching state of the switching element, a control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to a voltage source and in a second switching state of the switching element not to connect the control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to the voltage source; and a regulation unit. An optical measuring instrument includes a light source driver circuit, a device checks value documents with the light source driver circuit, and a method is provided for operating a light source load with the light source driver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Ulf Ehrhardt
  • Patent number: 12101087
    Abstract: A bistable physical unclonable function circuit based on subthreshold leakage current deviation comprises a time sequence control circuit, a decoder, 16 bias voltage converters and a PUF array, wherein the time sequence control circuit is used for generating a precharge signal and an enable signal, the decoder is used for converting an external stimulus signal into 16 decoded signals under the control of the precharge signal and the enable signal, the kth bias voltage converter is used for converting the kth decoded signal into a kth word line signal which is input to the PUF array, the PUF array is used for generating 16 response signals under the control of the precharge signal and the 16 word line signals, and comprises four PMOS transistors, four NMOS transistors, two two-input NAND gates and sixteen PUF units, and each PUF unit comprises two NMOS transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Wenzhou University
    Inventors: Pengjun Wang, Yuanfeng Xie, Gang Li, Hao Ye
  • Patent number: 12095462
    Abstract: An electric circuit includes one or more photon detector components and a superconducting logic gate component coupled to respective outputs of the one or more photon detector components. The electric circuit further includes a bias source electrically coupled to the superconducting logic gate component, the bias source configured to provide a bias current adapted to cause the superconducting logic gate component to function as a logical gate. The electric circuit also includes an optical switch component electrically coupled to an output of the superconducting logic gate component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: PSIQUANTUM CORP.
    Inventor: Faraz Najafi
  • Patent number: 12096527
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a multifunctional dimming power supply circuit for an LED light source, including an alternating-current input circuit, an alternating-current/direct-current (AC/DC) circuit, a feedback control loop, an output circuit, a low dropout regulator (LDO) power circuit, a micro control unit (MCU) minimum system, a data storage circuit, a parameter setting circuit, and a Class2 acquisition circuit. By using the parameter setting circuit, a user can set different output powers, different color temperature values, and different dimming curves as required. Thus, the output circuit drives the LED light source according to parameters set by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventor: Jianhua Liang
  • Patent number: 12096530
    Abstract: A power control device is configured to control a power circuit that generates an output voltage based on an input supply voltage relative to a ground, and includes a first terminal fed with a common voltage, a second terminal connectable to an application terminal for the ground, a P-type substrate fed with the common voltage, a MOS transistor connected between the first and second terminals and configured with an N-channel MOSFET, and an internal reference voltage generating circuit configured to generate, based on the input supply voltage, an internal reference voltage relative to the common voltage. When the input supply voltage is turned on, the MOS transistor is turned on and thereby the first and second terminals are short-circuited together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Daisuke Kanbara, Akira Aoki, Ryo Takagi