Patents Examined by Brian Ngo
  • Patent number: 11907635
    Abstract: A modeling circuit of a field effect transistor includes a first field effect transistor, a first bipolar transistor, a second bipolar transistor and a substrate resistor. The first bipolar transistor has a collector electrode connected to a first node corresponding to a first electrode of the first field effect transistor, an emitter electrode connected to a second node corresponding to a second electrode of the first field effect transistor, and a base electrode. The second bipolar transistor has a collector electrode connected to the second node, an emitter electrode connected to the first node, and a base electrode connected to the base electrode of the first bipolar transistor. The substrate resistor is connected between the base electrodes of the first and second bipolar transistors and a first surface of a semiconductor substrate on which the first field effect transistor is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongjin Mun, Kiyoung Moon, Hyein Lee
  • Patent number: 11897350
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle including a vehicle-side charging contact assembly coupled to a battery, a steerable drive wheel defining a drive wheel track width W, and a pair of load wheels defining a load wheel gap G between the pair of load wheels that is larger than the drive wheel track width W. A charging station includes a pair of floor-side charging contacts configured to transfer charging current to the vehicle-side charging contact assembly. The pair of floor-side charging contacts define an inner contact spacing S1 that is larger than the drive wheel track width W, and an outer contact spacing S2 that is larger than the inner contact spacing S1 and smaller than the load wheel gap G to permit passage of the steerable drive wheel between the floor-side charging contacts, followed by passage of the pair of load wheels outside of the floor-side charging contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Trautner, Robert Shearrer, Stefan Hannemann, Kevin Gilliland, Adam Wietholter
  • Patent number: 11900213
    Abstract: A quantum computer executes quantum measurement of <?1|Pi|?2>, <?1|Uij,+|?2>, <?1|Uij,?|?2>, <?1|Pj|?2>, and <?1|PiPj|?2< below based on a quantum state pair configured by a first quantum state ?1 and a second quantum state ?2, and outputs measurement results of the quantum measurement. A classical computer computes a transition amplitude |<?1|A|?2>|2 based on measurement results for <?1|Pi|?2>, <?1|Uij,+|?2>, <?1|Uij,?|?2>, <?1|Pj|?2>, and <?1|PiPj|?2>, wherein A is a physical quantity for computation of transition amplitude, i and j are indices for identifying a and P, a is a real number, P is a tensor product of a Pauli matrix, U is a unitary gate, and <?1|?2>=0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: QUNASYS INC.
    Inventors: Yohei Ibe, Yuya Nakagawa, Takahiro Yamamoto, Kosuke Mitarai
  • Patent number: 11890953
    Abstract: An electrically powered work vehicle includes a work vehicle frame and a plurality of ground engaging units for supporting the work vehicle frame from a ground surface, at least one of the ground engaging units being powered by an electric drive motor to drive the vehicle. An electrical power storage system is carried by the work vehicle frame and connected to the electric drive motor to provide electrical power to the electric drive motor. A work tool coupler is carried by the work vehicle and configured to selectively interconnect the work vehicle with a coupler receiver of a selected one of a plurality of different work tools. A vehicle side electrical connector is carried by the work tool coupler and configured to transfer electrical power to the electrical power storage system to charge the electrical power storage system. Such a work vehicle may be used in combination with an external charging station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Skyler S. Hagen, Eric Vilar
  • Patent number: 11887773
    Abstract: A coil winding includes a first part of coils and a second part of coils located on opposite sides of an insulation layer, where the first part of coils comprises a first segment of conducting wire, and the second part of coils comprises a second segment of conducting wire. The first segment of conducting wire and the second segment of conducting wire each includes N cutting openings. Both the first segment of conducting wire and the second segment of conducting wire are divided into N+1 sub conducting wires by the N cutting openings. The N+1 sub conducting wires in the first segment of conducting wire and the N+1 sub conducting wires in the second segment of conducting wire are electrically coupled in a one-to-one manner to form N+1 pairs of sub conducting wires including a crossover structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongfa Zhu, Xiaowei Chen, Zhiqiang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11881724
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless charging device and method. The wireless charging device may include: a first group of coils; a second group of coils; and a processor. The processor may be configured to: transmit a first ping signal through the first group of coils and the second group of coils; sense a change in current, voltage, and/or frequency occurring in the first group of coils and the second group of coils in response to the first ping signal to detect that an electronic device is placed on the wireless charging device; select at least one coil from the first group of coils and at least one coil from the second group of coils at which the change is sensed; transmit a second ping signal through the selected coils; and wirelessly transmit power to the electronic device by using the selected coils. Various other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mingi Song, Dohyeon Kim, Seho Park, Wooram Lee
  • Patent number: 11878602
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for establishing an active distribution network planning model considering location and capacity determination of an electric vehicle charging station. In terms of location and capacity determination of electric vehicle charging stations, a traffic flow of electric vehicles is converted into a charging demand flowing in a traffic network, and an electric vehicle traffic network model is established based on an M/M/s queuing model and a flow capturing location model in the traffic field. A distributed generation (including wind power and photovoltaic) and load model is established, based on a time series method. An energy storage element model in a power distribution network is established based on an idea of equivalent load. A nested planning model is established by taking economy and reliability of a power distribution network and a maximum traffic flow intercepted by the electric vehicle charging stations as objectives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignees: State Grid Fujian Electric Power Co., Ltd., State Grid Fujian Economic Research Institute, Fujian Yirong Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shiyuan Ni, Linyao Zhang, Jieyun Zheng, Tingting Lin, Pengjia Shi, Guilian Wu, Li Zhuang, Yi Liang, Xin Liu, Changzhui Lin
  • Patent number: 11880640
    Abstract: A method involving obtaining a resist deformation model for simulating a deformation process of a pattern in resist, the resist deformation model being a fluid dynamics model configured to simulate an intrafluid force acting on the resist, performing, using the resist deformation model, a computer simulation of the deformation process to obtain a deformation of the developed resist pattern for an input pattern to the resist deformation model, and producing electronic data representing the deformation of the developed resist pattern for the input pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Chrysostomos Batistakis, Scott Anderson Middlebrooks, Sander Frederik Wuister
  • Patent number: 11880264
    Abstract: A battery management system (BMS) recognition system, comprising: a master BMS including a master light emitter, the master BMS being configured to flicker the master light emitter to transmit an operation mode shifting signal to a slave BMS when it is intended to shift an operation mode of the slave BMS; and a slave BMS including a slave light receiver configured to correspond to the master light emitter, the slave BMS being configured to: recognize the flickering of the master light emitter through the slave light receiver; and shift the operation mode thereof in response to the operation mode shifting signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-Won Hwang, Chang-Hyun Sung
  • Patent number: 11882407
    Abstract: A charging case having one or more charging docks for charging one or more earbuds. The charging case can further have UV LEDs for automatically sterilizing the earbuds while charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventor: Reshma N Kheraj
  • Patent number: 11881732
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for controlling power receiving operation. The apparatus includes a controller configured to compare a frequency of an electric current generated by a voltage induced in a power receiving circuit by a magnetic field generated by a power transmitting apparatus, against a frequency threshold to determine whether the frequency is equal to or below the frequency threshold, and in response to determining that the frequency is equal to or below the frequency threshold, control a communications circuit to communicate a control command message instructing the power transmitting apparatus to modify a power charge signal used to provide the magnetic field in a manner for protecting the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics America Inc.
    Inventors: Jiangjian Huang, Hulong Zeng
  • Patent number: 11876386
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system includes a wireless power transmitter, a wireless power transfer circuit electrically connectable to the at least one wireless power transmitter, and a transmitter controller. The transmitter controller is configured to perform an initial foreign object detection prior to any transmission of wireless power, the initial foreign object detection for detecting presence of a foreign object within a charge volume, the initial foreign object detection determining an initial quality factor (Q). The controller is further configured to begin wireless power transfer negotiations with one of the one or more wireless power receivers, if the initial Q has a value in a range indicating that an object in the charge volume is a wireless power receiver, and perform continuous foreign object detection, if the initial Q has the value in the range indicating that an object in the charge volume is a wireless power receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Luzinski, Alberto Peralta, Matt Zamborsky
  • Patent number: 11876459
    Abstract: A power conversion system applied to a solid state transformer includes a DC link, a plurality of capacitors, and a plurality of power conversion module assemblies. The plurality of capacitors is coupled in series between a positive bus and a negative bus of the DC link. Each of the power conversion module assemblies has a plurality of DC conversion modules. In any of the power conversion module assemblies, input sides of the DC conversion modules are connected in series to form two input ends of the power conversion module assembly, and output sides of the DC conversion modules are connected in parallel to form two output ends of the power conversion module assembly. Each of the plurality of power conversion module assemblies is correspondingly connected to each of the plurality of capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Wen-Lung Huang, Sheng-Hua Li
  • Patent number: 11870272
    Abstract: A wireless charging receiving apparatus of a mobile terminal. The wireless charging receiving apparatus is configured to be disposed inside the mobile terminal and close to a metal rear housing of the mobile terminal, and includes two interconnected coils. The two coils are located in a same plane and are connected in series, and winding directions of the two coils are opposite, so that directions of magnetic fluxes generated by the two coils on the metal rear housing are opposite, thereby resolving a problem of an eddy current on the metal rear housing of the mobile terminal such as a smartphone including a wireless charging system, and reducing a temperature of a metal body and reducing an energy loss without forming a hole or a seam on the metal rear housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Songnan Yang, Xiaoqing Hu, Bing Cai
  • Patent number: 11857797
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to implantable neuromodulation devices, and in particular to a wireless power coil for a neuromodulation device that is to be implanted in a minimally invasive manner, for example, through a trocar or cannula. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical device that includes a lossy housing surrounding a power supply, and a receiving coil configured to exchange power wirelessly via a wireless power transfer signal and deliver the power to the power supply. The receiving coil is spaced a predetermined distance from the lossy housing. The medical device further includes a gap provided between the lossy housing and the receiving coil on a vertical plane, and a spacer that fills in at least a portion of the gap to maintain the lossy housing a predetermined distance from the receiving coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Stephen O'Driscoll, Damiano Patron
  • Patent number: 11860227
    Abstract: A delay estimation system estimates a delay of a DUT for an emulation system. The delay estimation system receives logic blocks of the DUT and a combinatorial path connecting one or more of the logic blocks. The system applies a delay model to a feature vector representing the combinatorial path, where the delay model can determine a delay of the combinatorial path. The delay model may be a machine learning model. The system generates a timing graph using the determined delay and provides the timing graph to a compiler to perform placement and routing of the DUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Yanhua Yi, Yu Yang, Jiajun Fan, Vinod Kumar Nakkala, Vijay Sundaresan, Jianfeng Huang
  • Patent number: 11863003
    Abstract: A power converting device, such as one used in an energy storage apparatus, comprises a first input terminal to receive a first DC voltage from a battery, a second input terminal to receive a second DC voltage from a power generation device, a switching module including a plurality of upper arm switching elements and a plurality of lower arm switching elements, and to output DC voltage to a DC link by switching the first DC voltage or the second DC voltage, and, a DC link capacitor disposed at the DC link, wherein at least some of the plurality of lower arm switching elements of the switching module operate in a power generation mode of the power generation device, and at least some of the plurality of upper arm switching elements of the switching module operate in a charging mode of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventor: Namyeol Kwon
  • Patent number: 11862990
    Abstract: A wireless charging device is provided and includes a first inverter, a first switch electrically connected to the first inverter, a second inverter, a second switch electrically connected to the second inverter, a first coil group connected to the first inverter through the first switch, a second coil group connected to the second inverter through the second switch, and a processor operatively connected to the first inverter, the first switch, the second inverter, the second switch, the first coil group, and the second coil group. The processor detects an electronic device disposed above the wireless charging device through at least one coil in the first coil group or the second coil group, and to wirelessly transmit power to the electronic device by using one coil in the first coil group and one coil in the second coil group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Wooram Lee, Dohyeon Kim, Seho Park, Mingi Song
  • Patent number: 11855471
    Abstract: A power management system for use in a device comprising a battery and one or more components configured to draw electrical energy from the battery may include a first power converter configured to electrically couple between charging circuity configured to provide electrical energy for charging the battery and the one or more downstream components and a bidirectional power converter configured to electrically couple between the charging circuitry and the battery, wherein the bidirectional power converter is configured to transfer charge from the battery or transfer charge from the battery based on a power requirement of the one or more components and a power available from the first power converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Perry, Hasnain Akram, Eric J. King
  • Patent number: 11846674
    Abstract: The present application relates to a circuit simulation test method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. The method includes: creating a parametric data model, wherein the parametric data model is configured to generate preset write data based on a preset parameter; creating a test platform, wherein the test platform is configured to generate a test result based on the preset write data; creating an eye diagram generation module, wherein the eye diagram generation module is configured to generate a data eye diagram based on the test result; and conducting a simulation test, inputting the preset write data to the test platform and obtaining the test result, and generating the data eye diagram by using the eye diagram generation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC
    Inventors: Feng Lin, Kang Zhao, Zengquan Wu