Patents Examined by Arleen M. Vazquez
  • Patent number: 9488681
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing a synchronized phasor in power system based on voltage and current measurements, sampling of the voltage and current measurements and convolving the samples with a function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Oleksandr Korovin, Ilia Voloh, Zhiying Zhang, Sridevi Mutnuri, Ihab Hamour
  • Patent number: 9482720
    Abstract: A design for test (DfT) architecture is provided that enables pre-bond parametric testing of through-silicon vias (TSVs). A grouping of N number of input/output (I/O) segments are configured to receive a test signal in a feedback loop, where each I/O segment includes one or more buffers (or inverters) and a TSV connected at one end to the one or more buffers. The TSV acts as a shunt-connected capacitor—when defect free—and includes a load resistance when the TSV contains a defect. Each I/O segment can also include one or two multiplexers to control whether the I/O segment receives a test or functional signal and, optionally, whether the I/O segment is bypassed or included in the ring oscillator. The varying loads caused by the defects cause variations in the delay across the buffers (or inverters) of an I/O segment that can be detected in the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Sergej Deutsch
  • Patent number: 9476952
    Abstract: A structure for measuring iron loss of a motor stator core is provided. The structure includes an auxiliary core whose both end surfaces in a longitudinal direction come in contact with inner end surfaces of two adjacent stator teeth among a plurality of stator teeth in a radial direction in order to measure iron loss of a stator core in which a plurality of slots and the plurality of stator teeth are alternately formed on an inner circumferential surface of a stator yoke in a circumferential direction. A pair of excitation windings is provided at portions of the auxiliary core in the longitudinal direction spaced-apart from each other. A B-coil that is a sensor coil is provided at the auxiliary core so as to be positioned inside any one excitation winding of the pair of excitation windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, Chungbuk National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Young Jin Seo, Myeong Kyu Jung, Dongyeon Han, Shin Gyu Kim, Chang-Seop Koh, Kwang-Young Jeong, Chan-Hyuk Park, Hee-Sung Yoon
  • Patent number: 9470740
    Abstract: Quality control testing for a batch of electronic modules. A series of tests are performed on manufactured electronic modules, including tests sensitive to the failure rate of previously tested modules. Specifically, a first test comprised of two phases is performed on the module batch. Further screening is then performed responsive to detection of a wire sweep failure in a subset of failed modules from the first test phase. The further screening is on modules that passed the first test phase and excludes modules that failed the first test phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Peter Ayotte, Michael Russell Uy Gonzales, Mark Tiam Weng Lam
  • Patent number: 9470505
    Abstract: A number of position sensors inductively sense a target's position relative to a number of sensor coils. The target is magnetically coupled with first and second coils so that signals are generated that depend on the relative position of the target and the first and second coils. Substantially all of the target overlaps with loops of the first coil and so that when a first end of the target is adjacent a first loop of the first coil, a second end of the target is adjacent a second loop of the first coil that has an opposite winding direction to that of the first loop. The second coil is arranged relative to the target such that the magnetic coupling between the second coil and the first end of the target is opposite to the magnetic coupling between the second coil and the second end of the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Cambridge Integrated Circuits Limited
    Inventor: David Thomas Eliot Ely
  • Patent number: 9470725
    Abstract: By powering an electronic component operating in an ultra-low power mode from a pre-charged measuring capacitor and measuring the time to discharge the capacitor to a trip voltage level, measurement data can be obtained. In some implementations, the capacitance of the capacitor can be obtained by adding a known current to the unknown current drawn from the capacitor and calculating the capacitance using a mathematical formula.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventor: Ingar Hanssen
  • Patent number: 9465085
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a test system for high-voltage technology devices, in particular shunt reactors, as defined in the preamble of independent patent claim 1. The invention also relates to a method which can be carried out with this test system and is intended to test high-voltage technology devices according to coordinate patent claim 5. The general idea of the test system according to the invention is to provide a continuously adjustable inductance and a capacitance, which can be adjusted in discrete steps, on the secondary side of the test transformer in such a manner that said components form a series resonant circuit together with the test object in the form of an inductance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: MASCHINENFABRIK REINHAUSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Hinow, Uwe Stephan, Guenther Siebert, Ralf Bergmann, Andreas Thiede
  • Patent number: 9464994
    Abstract: Highly sensitive and tunable RF sensors that provide detection and analysis of single cells and particles are provided. The tunable RF sensors are configured as tunable interferometers, wherein cells or particles to be analyzed are passed through a channel, such as a microfluidic channel, across waveguides corresponding to reference and test branches of the interferometers. A network analyzer coupled to the interferometers can be configured to measure a plurality of scattering parameters, such as transmission scattering coefficients (S21) of the reference and test branches, to evaluate characteristics of cells passing through the channel. A plurality of tunable interferometers may be employed, each interferometer operating in different frequency bands such that information obtain from the plurality of interferometers may be combined to provide further information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Clemson University
    Inventors: Pingshan Wang, Yan Cui, Yuxi He, David Moline, Jiwei Sun
  • Patent number: 9464881
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a displacement sensor and a displacement detection apparatus and method. The displacement detection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a receiving unit for receiving a plurality of receiver signals dependent on displacement of a coupler element, an acquisition unit for acquiring information about the displacement of the coupler element and information about a gap between the coupler element and a transmitting coil or the plurality of receiver coils by using the plurality of receiver signals, and a compensation unit for compensating for the acquired displacement information using the acquired gap information. The acquisition unit acquires the displacement information of the coupler element using one of the plurality of receiver signals, and acquires a compensation signal, independent of the displacement of the coupler element including the gap information, using remaining receiver signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Kyoung Lee, Jin Yong Jeon, Yoo Sung Kim, Jang Hyun Yoon
  • Patent number: 9465402
    Abstract: A pedal travel transducer has sensors and a pedal unit which has a pedal travel transducer. The pedal travel transducer has a transducer which experiences a movement of the pedal through an elastic driver that is connected to the pedal so that the sensors register this movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Harry Kaiser
  • Patent number: 9465070
    Abstract: An electronic device and a detection method thereof for detecting an appliance are provided herein. The detection method includes: selectively providing a first test load to connect with the appliance or providing a first test signal to the appliance; detecting a first voltage/current value of the appliance when the appliance is connected with the first test load or when the appliance receives the first test signal; generating a first voltage/current signature data according to the first voltage/current value; and identifying a type of the appliance according to the first voltage/current signature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: METALLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiao-Li Tsao, Ming-Ling Lo
  • Patent number: 9465050
    Abstract: An assembling method for a vertical probe device includes steps of disposing a lower die on a jig by inserting supporting columns through jig holes of the lower die, fastening a positioning film on the supporting columns, installing probe needles and an upper die in a way that the positioning film is located between the upper and lower dies without contacting the upper die, unfastening the positioning film, and removing the jig so that the upper and lower dies, positioning film and probe needles constitute the device. A maintaining method for the device includes steps of inserting the supporting columns through the jig holes, fastening the positioning film to the jig, and removing the upper die. The probe needles and upper die are easily removed and installed and the probe needles are reliable. The vertical probe device is applicable for accommodating electronic components on the top thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: MPI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsung-Yi Chen, Horng-Kuang Fan, Ching-Hung Yang, Chung-Tse Lee, Chia-Yuan Kuo, Tien-Chia Li, Ting-Ju Wu
  • Patent number: 9459329
    Abstract: There is provided a system (100) for magnetic field detection, comprising a fiber optic interrogator (104) adapted to interrogate a first length of optical fiber (102) with interrogating radiation, detect radiation backscattered from said optical fiber and analyze said detected radiation to provide distributed sensing indicative of mechanical disturbances of said optical, wherein the optic fiber is mechanically coupled to a material whose dimensions vary dependent on applied magnetic field. Changes in dimensions of the optic fiber as can be detected by virtue of changes in back-scattering of light from said fiber using the principles of fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Optasense Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Magnus McEwen-King, David John Hill, Alastair Godfrey
  • Patent number: 9459302
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device under test (DUT) tester using a redriver. The DUT tester more effectively tests the DUT, which is a predetermined semiconductor device, by applying an electrical signal to the DUT and measuring the electrical signal. The DUT tester includes a DUT test unit, a printed circuit board (PCB) provided therein with connectors for the connection with the DUT test unit, one DUT or more horizontally arranged on the PCB, and redrivers horizontally provided under the PCB and one-to-one matched with one DUT or more to compensate for the distortion of the signal integrity of test signals caused according to the variation of the transmission distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: UNITEST INC
    Inventor: Jin An Oh
  • Patent number: 9453715
    Abstract: A device for detecting position of a rotating working means in an active magnetic bearing which comprises sensors (A, B) of the position of a rotating working means, detectors (D) of an output signal of the sensors (A, B) and evaluation circuits connected to control system of the active magnetic bearing. The sensors (A, B) of the position are composed of high frequency transformers, each of which is directly connected to the detector (D) of its output signal and the detectors (D) are composed of an electrical quadrupole with a non-linear transfer characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: RIETER CZ S.R.O.
    Inventor: Miroslav Stusak
  • Patent number: 9448054
    Abstract: A throttle opening detection device includes a rotor which is rotated in an interlocking manner by manipulation of an acceleration grip which is mounted together with the rotor on a handlebar. First magnets are arranged near a peripheral portion of one side surface of the rotor along the circumferential direction of the rotor, while second magnets are respectively laminated to the first magnets, and have opposite polarities to the first magnets. The first magnets with the second magnets laminated thereto are disposed with a set spacing therebetween. A magnetic sensor for detecting a magnetic force generated by all the magnets is arranged to oppose, with a clearance therebetween, the one side surface of the rotor in which the magnets are arranged, in an axial direction of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Nomura, Yuichi Kawasaki
  • Patent number: 9448248
    Abstract: The present invention pertains to a method for detecting a fluid surface, comprising the following steps: providing at least one probe having an electric capacitance with respect to its surroundings; moving the probe into or out of a fluid; charging the probe by applying a periodic first electric signal to the probe for activating the probe; applying a periodic third electric signal to one or more electrically conductive regions different from the probe simultaneously with applying the first electric signal to the probe, wherein the third electric signal corresponds to the first electric signal or an amplified/damped first electric signal; at least partially discharging the probe so as to obtain a discharging current; detecting a second electric signal based on the discharging current; analyzing the second electric signal or a signal derived from the second electric signal with respect to the capacitance of the probe; identifying the fluid surface of the fluid based on a change of the capacitance of the probe
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Adelrich Zuppiger
  • Patent number: 9442154
    Abstract: The magnitude (charge quantity) and energy of discharge are obtained by optical measurement based on light emission, and are evaluated. A discharge source is caused to emit discharge light by applying a voltage to the discharge source from a known power supply, the intensity waveform of the discharge light emission is measured using a light receiving element, the waveform of discharge current is simultaneously measured using a current conversion probe or a current waveform detector, and a database is created in which a relation with analysis data sets obtained by analyzing the waveforms is recorded in consideration of applied power information. The intensity waveform of discharge light emission from a piece of equipment under measurement is measured using the light receiving element, and light emission data obtained by analyzing the waveform is compared with the data recorded in the database so as to estimate the magnitude of discharge as a value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Shinya Ohtsuka, Masaaki Furukawa, Yuki Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 9441942
    Abstract: A stator includes: a core formed by laminating magnetic steel sheets; and an excitation coil and a detection coil which are wound around teeth provided at the core. The core includes a peripheral section which is disposed to surround the rotor and a detection section which is disposed at the interior of the peripheral section and has the teeth. When the magnetic steel sheets are laminated, each of the magnetic steel sheets forming the core includes a portion which constitutes the peripheral section and a portion which constitutes the detection section. The detection section is substantially U-shaped, and both sides of the U-shape become a pair of teeth which form one phase. A base portion of the substantially U-shape of the detection section connects with the peripheral section, and gaps are provided between the peripheral section and a part of the base portion which is the root of the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: OKUMA Corporation
    Inventors: Soichi Kawamura, Motozumi Yura, Shinji Shibata
  • Patent number: 9442149
    Abstract: An embodiment of a measuring circuit for measuring the leakage current flowing in a portion of an electronic device when said portion is biased by a biasing unit of the electronic device is proposed. The measuring circuit includes a first section configured to generate a threshold current, a second section configured to receive the leakage current, a third section configured to compare the threshold current with the leakage current, and a fourth section configured to generate an output voltage based on the comparison between the threshold current and the leakage current. Said first section is configured to set the value of said threshold current to a different value at each reiteration of an operating cycle. Said fourth section is configured to measure said leakage current based on a detection of a change in the value of the output voltage between two reiterations of the operating cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Marco Pasotti, Fabio De Santis