Patents Examined by Binh Tran
  • Patent number: 9521751
    Abstract: A substrate package includes a woven fabric having electrically non-conductive strands woven between electrically conductive strands including wire strands, co-axial strands, and/or an inductor pattern of strands. The package may be formed by an inexpensive and high throughput process that first weaves the non-conductive strands (e.g., glass) between the conductive strands to form a circuit board pattern of conductive strands in a woven fabric. Next, the woven fabric is impregnated with a resin material to form an impregnated fabric, which is then cured to form a cured fabric. The upper and lower surfaces of the cured fabric are subsequently planarized. Planarizing segments and exposes ends of the wire, co-axial, and inductor pattern strands. Since the conductive strands were formed integrally within the planarized woven fabric, the substrate has a high mechanical stability and provides conductor strand based electrical components built in situ in the substrate package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mihir K. Roy, Mathew J. Manusharow
  • Patent number: 9521749
    Abstract: A circuit substrate which is capable of decreasing the possibility that the amount of solder in the overall mounting land is uneven and reducing formation of a solder void even when a mounting terminal has a large soldering area. An electronic component having the mounting terminal is mounted on the circuit substrate. A mounting land is connected to the mounting terminal of the electronic component by soldering, and the mounting land has a protruding portion of an insulating material formed so as to protrude from an outer side of the mounting land toward an inner side of the mounting land, and the protruding portion does not divide the mounting land into a plurality of areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Odagaki, Shuichi Kato
  • Patent number: 9521741
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a first shield positioned over a top surface of a printed circuit board and a second shield positioned over a bottom surface. The first and second shields include conductive tabs which are coupled to a first side surface of the circuit board, wherein the tabs of the first shield are generally interposed or staggered with the tabs of the second shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Libo Wang, Jasmin B. Farshi, Andrew Frederick Skipor
  • Patent number: 9518887
    Abstract: This disclosure provides example methods, devices, and systems for a flexible interconnect structure for a sensor assembly. In one configuration, a flexible interconnect structure may couple a first portion of a differential sensor structure to a second portion of the differential sensor structure. Further, the flexible interconnect structure may couple the differential sensor structure to an external component such as a circuit board, used to receive measurement information from the differential sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Kulite Semiconductor Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis DeRosa, Robert Gardner
  • Patent number: 9521742
    Abstract: A mounting block is provided that has a multi-level upper surface that is used to mount one or more IC chips and the printed circuit board (PCB) thereon at heights that allow the lengths of the bond wires interconnecting the chips with the PCB and/or with the other IC chips to be reduced. The distances between the levels of the multi-level surface are preselected based at least in part on the known height of the PCB and the known height of at least one of the IC chips such that when the chip and the PCB are mounted on the mounting block, the distance between the contact pads of the PCB and the contact pads of the IC chip is very small, thereby allowing the lengths of the bond wires to be kept very short.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew C. Engel, Michael J. Brosnan, David J. K. Meadowcroft, Klaus D. Giessler, Paul Yu
  • Patent number: 9521753
    Abstract: A vibration damping circuit card assembly includes a populated circuit card having a mass M. A closed metal container is coupled to a surface of the populated circuit card at approximately a geometric center of the populated circuit card. Tungsten balls fill approximately 90% of the metal container with a collective mass of the tungsten balls being approximately (0.07) M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: Ronald Allen Hunt
  • Patent number: 9450164
    Abstract: An electrical bushing is disclosed for use in high voltage cryogenic applications. The bushing including first and second bushing portions and an electrical conductor disposed longitudinally within the portions. The electrical conductor has a first terminal extending from the first bushing portion and a second terminal extending from the second bushing portion. The first terminal is configured to couple to a first electrical element at ambient temperature, and the second terminal is configured to couple to a second electrical element at cryogenic temperature. The first and second bushing portions comprise a base insulator material, while the first bushing portion further comprises an environmental protection layer disposed over the base insulator portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: VARIAN SEMICONDUCTOR EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATES, INC.
    Inventors: Kasegn D. Tekletsadik, Charles Stanley, Semaan Fersan, Nicholas A. Venuto, Scott Nickerson
  • Patent number: 9439319
    Abstract: A cable backplane system includes a plurality of cable connectors interconnected by cables, each cable connector having a header holding signal contacts at a mating end of the header configured for mating with a card connector. A cable tray having side walls surrounds a cavity defining a raceway for the cables. The cable tray has a front edge and holds header frames between the side walls. The header frames hold headers of corresponding cable connectors. An organizer plate is coupled to the cable tray at the front edge. The organizer plate has a plurality of connector channels receiving mating ends of corresponding headers. The connector channels hold the headers in position relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Christopher Ritter
  • Patent number: 9433121
    Abstract: A cable backplane system includes cable connectors having cables extending therefrom. Each cable connector has a header holding signal contacts at a mating end of the header configured for mating with a card connector. The cable backplane system includes a cable tray having side walls surrounding a cavity defining a raceway for the cables. The cable tray has a front edge. A plurality of connector bricks are received in the cable tray. The connector bricks each having a header frame comprising end spacers and side spacers defining a header opening receiving a plurality of the cable connectors. The end walls hold the headers of corresponding cable connectors. The side spacers have guide paddles extending from a front of the side spacers forward of the cable connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electonics Corporation
    Inventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Christopher Ritter
  • Patent number: 9416988
    Abstract: An illustrative electronic assembly includes a housing and a wall plate, where the wall plate is releasably connectable to the housing. The housing and the wall plate may be configured such that the housing and the wall plate may be able to initially engage each other with the wall plate misaligned relative to the housing. The housing and the wall plate may be configured to guide one another into alignment as the housing and the wall plate are moved together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Tarik Khoury, Steven J. Mcpherson, Stephane Joseph Pierre Beland
  • Patent number: 9410985
    Abstract: A printed circuit has a creep suppressor and a stack of metallization layers separated by electrically insulating layers. A metallization layer arranged above the insulating layer at least partially covers a cavity formed in the latter's top face. Prepreg arranged directly on the insulating layer below the metallization layer bonds the layers together. A magnetic core is housed in the cavity leaves at least a five micrometer gap between the cavity's vertical walls and roof and the core's facing vertical and top faces. During stack assembly, the creep suppressor prevents prepreg from flowing, by creep, into the cavity until it contacts more than 20% of the core's top face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Commissariat à l'énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives
    Inventor: Philippe Klein
  • Patent number: 9408305
    Abstract: Buffer structures are provided that can be used to reduce a strain in a conformable electronic system that includes compliant components in electrical communication with more rigid device components. The buffer structures are disposed on, or at least partially embedded in, the conformable electronic system such that the buffer structures overlap with at least a portion of a junction region between a compliant component and a more rigid device component. The buffer structure can have a higher value of Young's modulus than an encapsulant of the conformable electronic system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: MC10, Inc.
    Inventor: Yung-Yu Hsu
  • Patent number: 9397418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and a method which enable an increase in signal transmission speed and stable operation, without incurring the likes of restrictions on the manufacturing of circuit boards. A transmission system includes an AC terminal connector, having an AC termination circuit including a resistor and a capacitor, at the open ends of through hole stubs provided in a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Kashiwakura
  • Patent number: 9383771
    Abstract: A docking station for an electronic device includes a station body to which the electronic device is detachably docked, at least one locking unit comprising a hook member to move between a first position in which the station body and the electronic device are connected and a second position in which the station body is separated from the electronic device, and a lock maintaining unit to maintain the hook member in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tae-young Kim, Yun-pil Yeom, Jin-gyu Choi
  • Patent number: 9380704
    Abstract: A through-hole stub AC termination circuit including a resistor and a capacitor, is connected to an open end of a stub of a through-hole provided in a circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Kashiwakura
  • Patent number: 9380702
    Abstract: A server system includes an array of server cells. Some or all of the server cells include a set of at least three side panels forming an enclosure and a compute component comprising a processor core. At least one side panel of each server cell is removably mechanically coupled and removably electrically coupled to a facing side panel of an adjacent server cell. The enclosure may form a triangular prism enclosure, a cuboid enclosure, a hexagonal prism enclosure, etc. The enclosure can be formed from a rigid flex printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, whereby the side panels are implemented as rigid PCB sections that are interconnected via flexible PCB sections, with the flexible PCB sections forming corners between the rigid PCB sections when the rigid-flex PCB assembly is folded into the enclosure shape. The compute component and other circuit components are disposed at the interior surfaces of the rigid PCB sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Jean-Philippe Fricker
  • Patent number: 9377597
    Abstract: An aggregator for interconnecting a hydra with an breakout box, said aggregator comprising: (a) a bottom wall, two sides walls, and at least one faceplate; (b) adapters for multi-conductor connectors arranged in at least one column on said faceplate; and (c) wherein at least two adapters of each column are secure adapters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Eltringham Barry, Michael Jon Kepko, James Joseph Eberle, Jr., Sean Patrick Kelly, Jeffrey Dean Shipe, Kenneth Cameron Hall, David Donald Erdman
  • Patent number: 9363893
    Abstract: The invention relates to a printed circuit board arrangement, more particularly a multilayer printed circuit board. The printed circuit board arrangement comprises at least two printed circuit boards which are arranged parallel to one another and connected to one another. According to the invention, in the case of the printed circuit board arrangement of the type mentioned initially, at least one surface region of one printed circuit board is connected to another printed circuit board of the printed circuit board arrangement by means of an element embodied in an elastic and/or damping fashion in such a way that an oscillatory system, more particularly a spring-mass system, an oscillatory bending strip or a flexurally oscillatory board is formed by means of the surface region of the printed circuit board and the element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Hansen
  • Patent number: 9354666
    Abstract: An electronic device including a first body, an input module and a second body is provided. The first body has a positioning structure. The input module is slidably disposed on the first body and positioned at a first position by the positioning structure. The second body is pivoted with the first body. When the second body is expanded relative to the first body to obtain a first included angle between the first body and the second body, the second body drives the positioning structure to release the input module, such that the input module is capable of sliding from the first position to a second position relative to the first body and separating from the positioning structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Li-Fang Chen, Yung-Hsiang Chen, Pei-Pin Huang
  • Patent number: 9351417
    Abstract: Provided are a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. The display device includes a display panel having one surface and the other surface, a main drive board formed on the other surface of the display panel, a flexible circuit board having one end electrically connected to the one surface of the display panel and the other end electrically connected to the main drive board and having a bent portion formed at a lateral surface of the display panel, and a board support portion formed on an inner surface of the flexible circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung-Jun Park, Won Il Lee