Patents Examined by Anthony R Jimenez
  • Patent number: 11928557
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can be configured to determine a targeted scenario and a mission associated with the targeted scenario. A route to a location associated with the mission can be determined based at least in part on a likelihood of encountering the targeted scenario, wherein the likelihood of encountering the targeted scenario is based at least in part on a frequency with which scenarios similar to the targeted scenario were encountered at the location. Whether the targeted scenario was encountered can be determined based on an evaluation of captured sensor data associated with the mission upon passing the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Lyft, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathryn Flaherty Frisbie, Sen Xu
  • Patent number: 11929222
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic switch comprises a housing formed by a first housing part and a second housing part, at least one rivet by means of which the first housing part is riveted onto the second housing part in order to form the housing, and at least one pyrotechnic actuator arranged in the housing. Further, at least one of the first housing part or the second housing part comprises a metal insert and a plastic body overmolded onto the metal insert, and the metal insert comprises a passage opening for the rivet such that the rivet is in contact with the passage opening of the metal insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB
    Inventors: Francois Gaudinat, Sebastien Menestre, Ludovic Lageat
  • Patent number: 11929227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-contact disconnect switch for a lightning arrester configured to maintain contact points of a contact shaft evenly and to improve the operation stability of the contact shaft, and more particularly to, a multi-contact disconnect switch for a lightning arrester including a first body having a passage formed therein and a multi-contact unit positioned on one side of the passage, and a second body having a contact shaft inserted into the passage and coupled to the other side of the first body, wherein, when the second body is coupled to the first body in a contact state, an end of the contact shaft is in contact with the multi-contact unit, and thus the multi-contact unit is in multi-contact with a contact circumferential surface of the contact shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: CHERYONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jong Tae Park
  • Patent number: 11923155
    Abstract: A keyboard includes a base plate, a plurality of keys and a backlight module. The base plate has a short-axis direction and a long-axis direction. The keys are disposed on the base plate. The backlight module is disposed on the base plate and includes a shielding sheet, a light guide plate and a reflecting sheet. The light guide plate is disposed on a lower surface of the shielding sheet. The light guide plate includes a plurality of light guide structures corresponding to the keys respectively. Each of the light guide structures includes a ring portion and at least one bend line portion. The bend line portion connects to the ring portion, and the ring portion is formed by a plurality of bending portions. The reflecting sheet is disposed below the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: CHICONY ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuo Horiuchi, Chia-Hsin Chen, Ping-Ju Kuo
  • Patent number: 11915889
    Abstract: A control device is provided. A key structure of the control device includes a keycap, an optical film layer and a membrane switch. A protrusion structure is formed on the optical film layer or the membrane switch. When the keycap is pressed down by the user, the arrangement of the protrusion structure can facilitate the user to trigger the underlying membrane switch more precisely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Yung-Tai Pan, Chun-Nan Su, Chien-Pang Chien, Ting-Sheng Wang
  • Patent number: 11904884
    Abstract: An autonomous vehicle (AV) maintenance system engages a user of an AV to assist in maintenance tasks. A sensor interface receives data captured by a sensor of the AV. An issue detector processes the sensor data to detect an issue in the AV. A user interface module instructs a user to perform a maintenance task addressing the detected issue. A verification module verifies that the user successfully completed the maintenance task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: GM Cruise Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Yifei Zhang, Jeffrey Shaw, Alexander Willem Gerrese, Jeremy Stephen Juel
  • Patent number: 11894201
    Abstract: An illuminated keyboard includes a supporting plate, a bottom circuit membrane disposed on the support plate, an intermediate partition plate disposed above the bottom circuit membrane, and a top circuit membrane disposed above said intermediate partition plate. A light emitter unit is disposed on the bottom circuit membrane. A light diffusion layer is disposed above the top circuit membrane and has a light transmission region for transmitting light rays generated from the light emitter unit. An elastic member is made of an elastic material and disposed on and above the diffusion layer. A bridging unit is disposed above the diffusion layer and aligned with the elastic member. A keycap is disposed above and connected to the bridging unit. The elastic member elastically abuts against the keycap. The keycap is light permeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SUNREX TECHNOLOGY CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Pin Lin, Chao-Chieh Yang
  • Patent number: 11892295
    Abstract: Calibrating an unstable sensor of a mobile device. Systems and methods for calibrating a sensor of a mobile device determine a first estimated position of the mobile device without using any measurement from the sensor of the mobile device, generate a second estimated position of the mobile device using a measurement from the sensor, estimate a sensor error of the sensor using the first estimated position and the second estimated position, and use the sensor error to determine a calibration value for adjusting one or more measurements from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: NextNav, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Dormody, Ganesh Pattabiraman, Abijith Kumar, Thomas Wolf, Gary Parsons, Christian Gates, Deepak Joseph, Badrinath Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 11888473
    Abstract: A capacitance type input apparatus includes a plurality of touch switches; and a determining unit configured to determine which one touch switch among the plurality of touch switches a touch operation is performed on, based on outputs of the plurality of touch switches. The determining unit performs a first comparison of comparing a first threshold used for determining whether the touch operation has been performed, with each of the outputs of the plurality of touch switches, performs a second comparison of comparing an output that is higher than the first threshold among the outputs of the plurality of touch switches, with a plurality of comparison thresholds that are greater than first threshold and that are different from each other, and determines which one touch switch among the plurality of touch switches the touch operation is performed on, based on a comparison result of the first or second comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS ALPINE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Fujiki, Kohei Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11876189
    Abstract: A battery module for use in a battery system is operable in a bottom mode, a top mode or a middle mode during an enabled state. The battery module includes a battery unit and a battery control circuit. The battery unit which includes at least one battery generates a battery unit voltage between a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the battery unit. The battery control circuit is powered by the battery unit voltage and is configured to control the battery unit. The battery control circuit includes an enable terminal, an upstream input terminal, an upstream output terminal, a downstream input terminal, and a downstream output terminal. When the enable terminal is at an operation enabling level, or when the upstream input terminal is at an upstream enabling level, the battery module enters the enabled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Hsu Chang, Hao-Wen Chung, Chung-Hui Yeh, Kuo-Chen Tsai
  • Patent number: 11875951
    Abstract: A button structure includes a circuit board, a first portion, a second portion, and a reinforcement structure. The circuit board has a switch thereon. The first portion is located above the switch. The second portion partially covers the first portion and surrounds the first portion. The reinforcement structure is disposed on the first portion. The reinforcement structure is higher than the first portion in Young's modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Te-Wei Chang, Chih-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 11869731
    Abstract: An operating member includes: a support; an actuating part, which defines an actuating surface is mounted on the support by a mount to be movable relative to the support, by manual actuation against a resetting force, while carrying out an actuating movement from a rest position into a depressed position; a detector having at least one force sensor, wherein the detector is adapted to detect at least one position of the actuating part; wherein the mount includes a guidance mechanism having at least one pair of coupled levers, wherein the levers are each pivotably mounted on the support by a first pivot joint and on the actuating part—by a second pivot joint to cause a pivoting movement of the at least one pair of coupled levers by the actuating movement, wherein the guidance mechanism further includes at least one coupling rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: PREH GMBH
    Inventors: Arthur Klossek, Thomas Ofenhitzer, Thilo Schultheis, Andreas Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11862411
    Abstract: A membrane circuit board includes a first membrane substrate, a spacer substrate, a second membrane substrate and a third membrane substrate. The first membrane substrate includes a first gas channel and a first conductive contact. The spacer substrate includes a first gas hole and a second gas hole. The second membrane substrate includes a second gas channel, a second conductive contact, a third gas hole and a fourth gas hole. The second gas channel is in communication with the third gas hole and the fourth gas hole. The second gas channel is in communication with the first gas channel through the first gas hole and the second gas hole. The third membrane substrate includes a third gas channel. The third gas channel is in communication with the second gas channel through the third gas hole and the fourth gas hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Chuang-Shu Jhuang, De-Guang Zhu, Rong-Biao Xu
  • Patent number: 11862413
    Abstract: A detection device (18) for detecting the position of a moving object comprises a base (20); an arm (22) that is mounted rotatable to the base (20), wherein the arm (22) is rotatable around a first rotational axis (26) and has a free end (28) for contact with the moving object; and a sensor (24) that is configured to detect rotation of the arm (22) relative to the base (20), wherein the sensor (24) has a first part and a second part, wherein the first part moves with the arm (22), and the second part is attached to the base (20). The first part is a first component of a magnet (40) switch (42) pair, wherein the switch is an electrical switch (42) that is configured to be actuated by the magnetic field of the magnet (40), and the second part is another component of the magnet (40) switch (42) pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FRAMATOME GmbH
    Inventor: Steffen Siegelin
  • Patent number: 11863176
    Abstract: An operation panel provided on a vehicle is provided with: a panel member exposed to an interior of a vehicle cabin of the vehicle; an operation part provided on the panel member; and a load sensor provided so as to face a back surface of the panel member, the a load sensor being configured to detect that the operation part has been operated based on a load caused by a displacement of the panel member, wherein the load sensor is provided at a position where the displacement of the panel member is greater than a displaced amount of the operation part when the operation part is operated, the panel member has a projected portion projecting out from the back surface such that a tip end portion faces the load sensor, and the projected portion is formed of divided projected portions, the divided projected portions being provided by being divided into a plurality of parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Yuuichi Fukumitsu, Hideto Ujiie
  • Patent number: 11852861
    Abstract: A luminous keyboard includes a keyswitch module and an optical module disposed under the keyswitch module. The keyswitch module includes a plurality of keyswitches. The optical module includes a mask film and a light guide sheet. The mask film has a mask pattern. The mask pattern defines a plurality of light-transparent regions respectively corresponding to the plurality of keyswitches, and an outer light-transparent region of the plurality of light-transparent regions has a boundary. The light guide sheet has a light-exit edge. The vertical projection of the light-exit edge of the light guide sheet on the mask film at least partially falls within the outer light-transparent region and is not parallel to the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DARFON ELECTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Shih-Yung Ku, Wen-Ming Hsu
  • Patent number: 11854417
    Abstract: A method and a system are provided herein for calculating whether or not a specific aerial vehicle at a specified point of time can maneuver over a given location in the terrain while complying with terrain clearance requirements. The system may include a computer memory configured to store a 3D model representing at least a portion of a terrain located in a vicinity of an aerial vehicle; a computer processor configured to map said portion of the terrain into at least two types: a first type indicative of a potential of the aerial vehicle to maneuver over a respective terrain while complying with terrain clearance, and a second type indicative of a non-potential of said aerial vehicle to maneuver over a respective terrain, wherein the mapping is carried out based on said parameters, the 3D model and given predefined performance of the aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS LTD.
    Inventors: Sharon Hiddai, Judith Zelicovici, Jacob Avinu, Eyal Ziv, Yana Zohar, Yonathan Mizrahi
  • Patent number: 11846522
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to perform a method for generating warning polygons for weather events in a geographic region. The method includes receiving measurement data from one or more sensors, identifying at least one location from the measurement data, identifying a map tile within a predetermined distance to the at least one location, defining an index including the map tile in response to identification that the map tile is within the predetermined distance to the at least one location, calculating a confidence level for the map tile accessed from the index, comparing the confidence level for the map tile to a threshold confidence level, clustering the map tile in a map tile cluster in response to the confidence level exceeding the threshold level, and calculating a polygon based on the map tile cluster such that the polygon intersects the geographic region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventor: Leon Stenneth
  • Patent number: 11833962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle horn operating device comprising: a steering wheel skeleton structure, a support for a portion of an electric horn circuit comprising a first electrical contact point, an operating component comprising a second contact point, the operating component being able to move between a rest position and a depressed position; in the rest position, the second contact point is kept in contact with the first contact point by a spring element, the first contact point forming a first end stop for the operating component, wherein the device comprises—operating-component retaining elements arranged in such a way as to form a second end stop in the event of loading that causes the operating component to move beyond the first end stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Autoliv Development AB
    Inventors: Olivier Bertrand, Hugues Doursoux, Thomas Letierce
  • Patent number: 11833960
    Abstract: A brake lamp control method of a vehicle is provided. The method includes determining whether a deceleration of the vehicle based on regenerative brake through the electric motor is present in a hysteresis period between an off threshold as a reference for turning off a brake lamp and an on threshold as a reference for turning on the brake lamp. When the deceleration of the vehicle is present in the hysteresis period, the method includes determining a state of the brake lamp before the deceleration of the vehicle enters the hysteresis period. In response to determining that the brake lamp is turned on or off for a reason except for the regenerative brake before the deceleration of the vehicle enters the hysteresis period, a request for turning on the brake lamp is set or reset based on the regenerative brake in response to the determined state of the brake lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Hui Un Son, Sang Joon Kim, Kyu Hwan Jo, Sung Bae Jeon, Sung Hoon Yu, Joo Young Kim, Jin Kyeom Cho