Patents Examined by Christopher E Mahoney
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Patent number: 11975528Abstract: A cover glass printing pad, a method of manufacturing the cover glass and the cover glass are provided. The cover glass printing pad includes a jig portion, a body portion in which a first surface contacts the jig portion and at least a part of a second surface is parallel to the first surface and a pad portion including an outer frame portion disposed on at least one side of the body portion and protruding in a first direction perpendicular to the second surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Byoung Yul Shim, Jong Kap Jo
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Patent number: 11977954Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the component of a magnetic field in a predetermined direction. The method comprises preparing a quantum system in a coherent superposition state (S1), letting the quantum system evolve for a delay time period (S2) and performing a readout operation and a projective measurement on the quantum system (S3). The steps (S1, S2, S3) are iteratively repeated in an iteration loop, wherein the delay time period increases linearly by the same time increment after each iteration. The method further comprises determining the component of the magnetic field in the predetermined direction according to the outcome of the projective measurements (S4).Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Terra QuantumInventors: Michael Perelshtein, Nikita Kirsanov, Vladislav Zemlyanov
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Patent number: 11966154Abstract: An optical unit includes a movable body including an optical element, a support body swingably supporting the movable body, and a suction mechanism. The optical element reflects light traveling in a first direction to an intersecting second direction. The suction mechanism generates suction force in the movable body between the movable body and the support body, and includes a magnet and a magnetic member. One of the magnet and the magnetic member is in the movable body, while the other is in the support body. The magnet and the magnetic member overlap each other when viewed from a predetermined direction, which is one of the first direction, the second direction, and a third direction. The third direction intersects the first and second directions. When viewed from the predetermined direction, a center of the magnet and a center of the magnetic member are separated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Iwase, Tomohiro Egawa, Genki Tanaka, Soichiro Kimura
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Patent number: 11964505Abstract: A printer includes a shaft-shaped member, a movable support portion, paired strain detection units, and a control unit. The shaft-shaped member that sets a path of an ink ribbon from a supplying shaft to a winding shaft is provided at least on a downstream side between an upstream side and the downstream side in a conveying direction at a position where a thermal head and a platen face each other with a recording medium interposed therebetween, and the ink ribbon is hung around the shaft-shaped member. The movable support portion movably supports at least one end portion of the shaft-shaped member in a direction in which a tension of the ink ribbon varies. The paired strain detection units are provided at both end portions of the shaft-shaped member, and an output thereof is varied according to a strain of the shaft-shaped member. The control unit controls movement of the shaft-shaped member in a direction in which a difference in output between the paired strain detection units becomes small.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kazuaki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 11958641Abstract: A gimbal configured to be implemented in an unmanned aerial system. The gimbal includes a payload interface; an end effector; a structure that includes composite skins, an internal structure, and integrated seals; integrated drive components; and at least one computer, where excess heat generated by the at least one computer is disposed of through a heat transfer surface integrated into the composite skin of the gimbal.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Flightwave Aerospace SystemsInventors: Trent Lukaczyk, Daniel Levy, Michael Colonno
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Patent number: 11953851Abstract: In an image heating device having a plurality of heating blocks which are controllable independently in a longitudinal direction of a heater, an increase of the size of the heater can be suppressed, and temperatures of a plurality of heating block can be detected. The heater has a first temperature sensor corresponding to a first heating block, a second temperature sensor corresponding to a second heating block, a first electric conductor electrically coupled to the first temperature sensor, a second electric conductor electrically coupled to the second temperature sensor, and a common electric conductor electrically coupled to the first and second temperature sensors.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yasuhiro Shimura, Akira Kato, Atsushi Iwasaki
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Patent number: 11951757Abstract: A print board with a grid for receiving one or more rubber or silicone stamps of various shapes, sizes, and patterns. A base board is provided to receive the print board, and the base board allows the print board to be turned upside down and pressed to a piece of paper or other surface once all inserted stamps have been secured. Each stamp has an upper portion which includes a shape, a letter, or some other pattern which can be stamped to a surface. Each stamp also has a lower portion which wedges into a selected opening within the grid of the print board.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Prixel Press, LLC.Inventor: Brandon Gamm
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Patent number: 11953807Abstract: A detection device includes a photographing unit, a first holding portion holding the photographing unit, a magnet having an attracting face facing a flow space in which fluid flows and opposed to the photographing unit via the flow space, a second holding portion holding the magnet, and a connection portion connected to the second holding portion and having an opening portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Komatsu Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Chikugo, Shuuji Hori, Haruna Higashi
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Patent number: 11953819Abstract: A lens apparatus includes an aperture stop, a driving device configured to drive the aperture stop, a storage storing a driving instruction value for driving the aperture stop, and a controller configured to perform control of the driving device based on the driving instruction value. The storage stores the driving instruction value, among a plurality of ones of the driving instruction value, by which an absolute value of a difference, between a target aperture value and an actual aperture value obtained by the control, that is largest with respect to a plurality of ones of the drive amount is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Kota Asano
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Patent number: 11953812Abstract: An image pickup device, provided with a camera unit that is provided with a lens barrel, an autofocus unit disposed on the outside of the lens barrel, a lens barrel holding member that holds the lens barrel, and a camera case that engages the lens barrel holding member and covers the autofocus unit, the camera unit provided with a base member that supports the camera unit rotatably around a rotation axis, and a regulating member that restricts the rotation of the camera unit to a first rotation range. In the image pickup device, the camera case engages with the lens barrel holding member when the camera unit is in the first rotation range, the regulating member being detachable, and the camera case being detachable from the lens barrel holding member when the camera unit is in the second rotation range.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yuta Yasutake
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Patent number: 11945244Abstract: A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge includes a ribbon roll around which an ink ribbon is wound, and a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound and that accommodates the ribbon roll, in which the cartridge case includes a third case portion, a first case portion that constitutes a tape roll accommodating portion accommodating the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion, and a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion and accommodates the ribbon roll between the second case portion and the third case portion, and the first case portion is configured to open and close the tape roll accommodating portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Taruya, Taishi Sasaki, Akio Ishimoto, Hirosuke Yasuki
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Patent number: 11945208Abstract: A movable cart includes a housing configured to move along a horizontal surface and a plurality of shelves supported by the housing Each shelf of the plurality of shelves is configured to move between a retracted in which the shelf is positioned within the housing and an extended position in which the shelf extends from the housing. The movable cart further includes a sensing system configured to determine whether each shelf of the plurality of shelves is in the retracted position and a type of item supported by the shelf. Other aspects of the movable cart are further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: James Lynch, Kenneth J. King, Patsy A. Mattero, William A. Losiewicz
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Patent number: 11948739Abstract: A system may include an electromagnetic actuator, a first coil configured to drive mechanical displacement of the electromagnetic actuator, a second coil configured to drive mechanical displacement of the electromagnetic actuator, and an inductance sensing subsystem having an inductance sensing path coupled to the first coil and the second coil.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: Emmanuel A. Marchais, Tejasvi Das, Siddharth Maru
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Patent number: 11949823Abstract: Provided for is a film conversion apparatus comprising a body and a first reel shaft having a first proximal end and a first distal end. A first reel may be disposed on the first distal end. The apparatus may include a second reel shaft having a second proximal end and a second distal end, where the first proximal end and the second proximal end are movably attached to the body. A second reel may be disposed on the second distal end. The apparatus may further include a camera configured to capture a plurality of frames and a computer configured to convert the plurality of frames to a digital format.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: C&A Marketing IncInventor: Sam Kain
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Patent number: 11940716Abstract: A camera module includes: a first lens module disposed in a housing; and a reflective module. The reflective module includes: a reflective member including at least two reflective surfaces disposed at different angles and configured to reflect light passing through the first lens module; and a carrier disposed between the reflective member and the housing. The cameral module further includes an image sensor configured to collect light reflected from the reflective module. The reflective member is configured to move in a first direction with respect to the carrier, and the carrier is configured to move in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction with respect to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young Hwan Kwon, Ik Jin Jang, Chuel Jin Park, Se Houn Lee
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Patent number: 11932003Abstract: Disclosed is a precision cut printing screen in which the features of a printing pattern are defined on a sheet material by a plurality of apertures within a target printing boundary. Also disclosed is a method of making the printing screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TANNLIN TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: James Stewart Hall, James Graham Hall
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Patent number: 11921418Abstract: A shutter and a photographing apparatus are provided. The shutter includes: a shutter base including an exposure opening; a shutter mechanism including a blade assembly and a synchronizer ring for driving the blade assembly, the synchronizer ring being movable between a first position and a second position, and the exposure opening being open when the synchronizer ring is in the first position and closed when the synchronizer ring is in the second position; and a braking member for decelerating the shutter mechanism. In the shutter and the photographing apparatus according to the present disclosure, the shutter mechanism may be buffered when the blade assembly closes the exposure opening of a camera, so as to prevent the shutter mechanism from being damaged.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Longji Bai, Tongyao Huang
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Patent number: 11919063Abstract: A machine for shaping an initially tubular cylindrical preform to form a non-round shape in registration with printed or similarly applied surface decoration or the like on the preform, comprises: a conveyor for carrying a series of the preforms; a tool table having a plurality of tool stations between which the preforms are conveyed by indexed motion of the conveyor, the tool table being reciprocable along an axis towards and away from the conveyor, to bring forming tools at the tool stations into and out of operative engagement with the preforms; a registered shaping tool at at least one of the tool stations operatively arranged to deform the preforms to an out-of-round shape; at least one sensor operatively arranged to determine the angular orientation of each preform in a plane normal to the reciprocation axis; at least one reorientation actuator operatively arranged to cause relative rotation between each preform and the registered shaping tool, whereby the registered shaping tool and the preforms are brType: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Envases (UK) LimitedInventor: Begona Bustinza
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Patent number: 11912050Abstract: A method of screen printing an image on a substrate, such as rotary screen printing, includes using a printing screen having a surface structure at its printing side and attached imaged lacquer layer having open areas defining the image to be printed, where the image includes pixel based design elements, the printing screen has a parallelogram pattern, preferably an orthogonal pattern, of screen openings and the open areas of the imaged lacquer layer representing the pixel based design elements are arranged in an orthogonal raster.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PGPrints B.V.Inventor: Albrecht Gebhard
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Patent number: 11904597Abstract: A printing pad machine that can print a 360 degree image on a cylindrical object. That objective is achieved by modifying a conventional printing pad machine. The modifications include using a single angled print pad having a contact wall having a first height, a lower wall having a second height that is less than the first height, an angled surface interconnecting the contact wall's distal end and the lower wall's distal end, and a base wall interconnecting the contact wall's proximal end and the lower wall's proximal end and connectable to a base. Another modification includes a flexion-extension hinge positioned between the support member and the base or the support member and the overhead gantry and controlled by the adjustable and moveable actuator system and power source. That objective can be accomplished with the conventional printing pad machine using the single angled print pad.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PRINTEX INC.Inventor: James Cheng