Patents Examined by Carlos Amaya
  • Patent number: 12149119
    Abstract: A rechargeable lithium-ion battery system includes a cell pack comprising a plurality of battery cells, a charger connection configured to connect to an external battery charger to supply a first charge current to recharge the plurality of battery cells, and a safety switch positioned between the cell pack and the charger connection and operable to divert the first charge current from the external battery charger through a cell recovery charger to the cell pack. The system is configured to operate the cell recovery charger to deliver a charge current to the cell pack to charge the plurality of battery cells until a cell voltage of each of the plurality of battery cells is greater than a threshold cell voltage or until a time out period is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Aleksandar Lazarov, Ron Hogedoorn
  • Patent number: 12136829
    Abstract: A Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) system may transfer power, without mechanical contact, underwater between a transmitter device and a receiver device or multiple receiver devices in long ranges (>1 meters). An exemplary embodiment may employ focused acoustic sound wave to transfer wireless power underwater over long distances. An embodiment may include a transmitter and receiving device with onboard electronics that effectively power a target electronic system or battery storage device with minimal power losses during transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Technical Systems Integration, Inc.
    Inventors: Gong Zhou, Adrian Hernandez, Casey Durr
  • Patent number: 12136826
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a wireless power transmission device may comprise: a coil circuit configured to generate a power signal for power transmission to an electronic device; an inverter configured to convert direct current power to alternating current power and to provide the alternating current power to the coil circuit; a coil-type detection unit comprising a coil disposed to be adjacent to the coil circuit and configured to detect a signal corresponding to the power signal; and a control circuit configured to adjust, based on the detected signal, a switching frequency of the inverter to change the alternating current power output from the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Kyungmin Lee, Kiyoung Kim, Gun-Woo Moon, Young-Dal Lee, Dongmin Kim, Jaeil Baek
  • Patent number: 12132320
    Abstract: Disclosed is a power management device including a monitoring unit configured to monitor power usage statuses of a plurality of sites individually, a determination unit configured to determine whether to supply the surplus power to a second site of the plurality of sites when the monitoring unit detects that surplus power is generated in a first site of the plurality of sites in accordance with a prediction of a power transmission loss between the first site and the second site, and a site control unit configured to instruct the first site to supply the surplus power to the second site when the determination unit determines that the surplus power is to be supplied to the second site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Naoki Hanaoka, Hidetoshi Takada, Toshihiro Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12132422
    Abstract: An electrical power system for a resource extraction system includes a thermoelectric generator assembly configured to couple to a wall of a fluid containment structure. A portion of the thermoelectric generator assembly is configured to be disposed within an opening in the wall that extends through the wall to a cavity within the fluid containment structure. In addition, the thermoelectric generator assembly includes a thermoelectric generator configured to be in thermal communication with a fluid within the opening and with an environment external to the fluid containment structure. The thermoelectric generator is configured to generate electrical power in response to a temperature differential between the fluid within the opening and the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: OneSubsea IP UK Limited
    Inventor: Parth Dilip Pathak
  • Patent number: 12126187
    Abstract: The present specification provides a wireless power reception apparatus comprising: a power pick-up unit configured to receive wireless power from a wireless power transmission apparatus by magnetic coupling with the wireless power transmission apparatus and convert an AC signal generated by the wireless power into a DC signal; a communication/control unit configured to receive the DC signal from the power pick-up unit and control the wireless power; and a load configured to receive the DC signal from the power pick-up unit. When foreign material is detected before power transmission, wireless power transmission is sustained on the basis of a safe basic power profile of 5 W or less, without interrupting power transmission, and thus, a charging delay can be prevented and the accuracy and reliability of detection of foreign material can be increased despite individual characteristics of the wireless power reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Yongcheol Park, Kyunghwan Kim
  • Patent number: 12122307
    Abstract: A cable assembly for a work machine, includes a cable and a collet. The cable includes an electrically conductive core, an insulating layer covering the core; an electrically conductive shield layer covering the insulating layer over a first length of the cable, and the insulating layer is exposed over a second length of the cable. The shield layer is folded back over a fold length, and the fold length includes two layers of the shield layer. The collet includes an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve extending over a portion of the inner sleeve at an end of the collet. The two shield layers of the fold length are arranged over the inner sleeve and under the outer sleeve, the insulating layer is arranged under the inner sleeve, and the second length of the cable extends through the inner sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Robert A. Jackson
  • Patent number: 12126273
    Abstract: A method for driving an electro-optical functional layer by a control, the functional layer being applied on a substrate and being variable in its transmissive and/or reflective properties by applying an electric field, the control unit having a supply voltage input and a feed output, and a voltage measuring system and an energy store, includes measuring a voltage actually available at the supply voltage input, if the available voltage is greater than a reference value, driving the functional layer with an AC voltage via the feed output, the energy store being charged at least in sections, if the available voltage is less than or equal to a reference value, driving the functional layer with a DC voltage via the feed output. At least part of the energy for the driving is drawn from the energy store. The DC voltage is less than the peak value of the AC voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Richard Stelzer, Bastian Klauss, Michael Zeiss, Doane Shelby Craig
  • Patent number: 12126198
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a power supply device and a control method for the power supply device. The power supply device includes: a battery; an external interface electrically connected to the battery and electrically attachable to or detachable from an external device; a voltage converter provided between the battery and the external interface; a low-voltage circuit that branches from an interface connection circuit connecting the external interface and the voltage converter and is connected to a low-voltage load having a rated voltage lower than a voltage of the battery; an interrupt circuit provided in the low-voltage circuit and configured to electrically interrupt the low-voltage circuit and the interface connection circuit; and an electronic control unit configured to control operations of the voltage converter and the interrupt circuit. The electronic control unit operates the interrupt circuit when a voltage of the interface connection circuit exceeds the rated voltage of the low-voltage load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Daisuke Ueo, Ryota Tanabe, Yohei Imai
  • Patent number: 12115884
    Abstract: A power supply system for electric vehicle comprising; power; a first power line; and a second power line; wherein the output of the high voltage side from the power line is fed to the high voltage side of each of the first power line and the second power line, the output of the low voltage side from the power line is fed to the low voltage said of each of the first power line and the second power line, the first power line and the second power line are connected at their far ends and a power supply system for electric vehicle that supplies electric power to an electric vehicle by means of said first power line or said second power line. the first power line and the second power line have a bypass line that interconnects from the power to the connection at the far end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Industrial Products, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Miyata, Kazuhiro Imaie, Junichi Yanagita
  • Patent number: 12113389
    Abstract: The control device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a first index value that is an index of a deterioration state of the power storage device, and a lower limit setting unit that lowers a lower limit value of an allowable range for a second index value indicating a power storage state of the power storage device, when the first index value acquired by the acquisition unit indicates a predetermined degree of deterioration or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenta Onishi, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Uchida, Yuki Sugo
  • Patent number: 12108709
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods provide for technology that locates one or more masses of an ocean-based weather system, as the ocean-based weather system starts to organize and before the ocean-based weather system spawns a land-based storm, and controls a transmission of electromagnetic radiation from the space platform to the one or more masses, wherein the transmitted electromagnetic radiation tracks the one or more masses as the ocean-based weather system is starting to organize and rotate, and wherein the transmitted electromagnetic radiation prevents the ocean-based weather system from rotating and spawning the land-based storm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Inventor: S. Bruce Morton
  • Patent number: 12110122
    Abstract: A power supply system includes: a power converter for converting electric power of any one of a plurality of batteries and supplying the converted electric power to one or more second loads; a switch capable of selectively connecting any one of the plurality of batteries to the power converter; and a controller for comparing remaining capacities of the respective batteries, and when the difference between the highest remaining capacity and the lowest remaining capacity exceeds a predetermined threshold, controlling the switch to connect the power converter to the battery having the highest remaining capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoyo Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 12107435
    Abstract: An electronic device utilizing a wireless charging system is provided. The electronic device includes a power source, a transmission coil, a full-bridge inverter electrically connected to the power source and the transmission coil, and a control circuit which communicates with an external device through the transmission coil, and controls the full-bridge inverter to transmit a power signal through the transmission coil. The control circuit may: receive, from the external device, a first control signal requesting that the power of the power signal be reduced to less than a specified power, in response to the first control signal, adjust the duty cycle of each of first to fourth gate signals for controlling the full-bridge inverter, and switch to a pulse width modulation (PWM) drive state in which an operation according to a first period and an operation according to a second period are alternately repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hangseok Choi
  • Patent number: 12107502
    Abstract: A voltage converter for an electrified vehicle is connected between an external low-voltage source and an external high-voltage source. The voltage converter includes a power conversion device having at least two power conversion components connected in parallel. The voltage converter further includes a safety power switching device, connected to the power conversion device and comprising at least two safety power switching components, configured for providing a protection mechanism for the voltage converter in an OFF or ON selection process thereof. Also included is a safety detection controller, connected to each of the safety power switching components, configured for real-time detection of each of the safety power switching components. A real-time detecting method for the voltage converter may be used in an electrified vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES DE CONTROLE MOTEUR
    Inventors: Qiong Jin, Hanyu Jin, Min Yang
  • Patent number: 12107438
    Abstract: A power receiving device includes a power receiving antenna, a rectifier circuit, and a bias circuit. The power receiving antenna is configured to receive radio waves for supplying power. The rectifier circuit includes a rectifier diode and is configured to convert radio waves received by the power receiving antenna into a DC power. The bias circuit is configured to apply a DC bias to the rectifier diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Seki, Shinichiro Fuki, Teppei Yamakoshi
  • Patent number: 12103423
    Abstract: In order to ensure continued charging of electric vehicles when a charging station is not currently received an input power from an external power source, the systems and methods disclosed herein provide for operation of the charging station in a resilient operating mode in which an operating current is derived from a charge previously stored in a battery of the charging station. The operating current is produced by a resilient power subsystem within the charging station using the stored charge and is provided by the resilient power subsystem to one or more system components within the charging station in order to enable continued operation of the charging station, including enabling continuing vehicle charging during a time interval in which the charging station is not receiving input power from an external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: SPEED CHARGE, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Seroff, Tabish Shibly
  • Patent number: 12097784
    Abstract: Fuse configurations for a distributed power architecture of a vehicle is provided. The distributed power architecture includes a high-voltage battery pack having a plurality of batteries and a plurality of converters, each of the plurality of converters being configured to receive high-voltage power from one of the plurality of batteries and to provide low-voltage power to a low-voltage bus. The distributed power architecture also includes a plurality of fuses disposed on one or more of an input side and an output side of each of the plurality of converters and a vehicle controller with at least one communication link to each of the plurality of power converters. Each of the plurality of fuses are configured to selectively prevent current flow through one of the plurality of converters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Kamel, Chandra S. Namuduri, Rashmi Prasad, Jun-mo Kang, Muhammad Hussain Alvi
  • Patent number: 12100989
    Abstract: The present application relates to relates to a power strip in a server cabinet that can accommodate a plurality of devices and distribute power to the accommodated devices. The power strip includes an inlet connectable to the first power source for receiving the first power, one or more first outputs, one or more second outputs, and an automatic transfer switch integrated into the power strip. The automatic transfer switch is provided with a first input and a second input. The one or more second outputs are connected to the inlet for receiving and outputting the first power. The first input of the automatic transfer switch is connected to the inlet for receiving the first power. The second input of the automatic transfer switch is connectable to a second power source for receiving a second power. The automatic transfer switch automatically switches between the first input and the second input to connect one of the first input and the second inputs to the one or more first outputs of the power strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Zonit Structured Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Chadwick Rislov
  • Patent number: 12095280
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a device and a method enabling in-band communication and out-band communication between a wireless power transmission device and a wireless power receiving device. The present specification discloses a wireless power transmission device, a wireless power transmission method, a wireless power receiving device, a wireless power receiving method and a wireless power transmission system, whereby the existence or not of an inter-device communication connection history is checked using whitelist information of an out-band communication module, and when corresponding to a reconnection, out-band communication is connected, and data exchange for wireless power transmission is carried out via the out-band communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Joonho Park, Minsoo Lee, Jinkwon Lim, Jingu Choi