Patents Examined by Christopher M. Raabe
  • Patent number: 11610770
    Abstract: A radiation source assembly comprises a source base, a UV transparent sleeve, and a UV lamp. The source base comprises a sealed electrical connection interface and an opposing sealed sleeve interface. The sealed electrical connection interface comprises a electrical contacts and the sealed sleeve interface comprise a radial sealing element, an outer collar, and a compression ring. The UV transparent sleeve is engaged with the sleeve interface such that the radial sealing element of the sealed sleeve interface is disposed between the UV transparent sleeve and the outer collar of the source base, and the compression ring is positioned over the UV transparent sleeve and engaged with the source base to compress the radial sealing element onto the UV transparent sleeve and the outer collar. The UV lamp is disposed within the UV transparent sleeve and electrically coupled to the electrical contacts of the electrical connection interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Trojan Technologies Group ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Alexander Fay
  • Patent number: 11600971
    Abstract: A prechamber spark plug. The prechamber spark plug includes: a housing, and a cap which has at least one pass-through opening, the cap being situated at a combustion chamber-side end of the housing. The cap and the housing form a prechamber. An outer cap surface area of the cap, which faces away from the prechamber, has at least one predefined ratio to respectively one further geometric feature of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Mueller, Stephan Kaske, Thomas Steidten, Ugur Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11596707
    Abstract: An ionizing device is described, comprising a tubular bulb made of electrically insulating or dielectric material extending along a longitudinal reference axis and having the two longitudinal open ends and opposite each other, a tubular cathode engaged in the bulb, a tubular anode fitted to the bulb, a pair of covers, each of which has a respective internal seat into which a respective end of the bulb is inserted so as to hermetically seal it, and a conductive electrode which extends into the bulb and is electrically connected to the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: JONIX S.P.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Mantovan, Antonio Cecchi
  • Patent number: 11600970
    Abstract: A spark-plug wire includes a boot of electrically insulative material defining a central bore configured to receive a spark plug, an electrical connector disposed in the central bore and configured to connect with the spark plug, and a cylindrical heat shield circumscribing the boot. The heat shield has retaining features extending past a distal end of the boot and configured to radially flex to engage with a hex of the spark plug to increase a retaining force of the spark-plug wire to the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Langley, Paul S. Bonell, Nelson William Morrow, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11587781
    Abstract: An electrodeless laser-driven light source includes a laser that generates a CW sustaining light. A pump laser generates pump light. A Q-switched laser crystal receives the pump light generated by the pump laser and generates pulsed laser light at an output in response to the generated pump light. A first optical element projects the pulsed laser light along a first axis to a breakdown region in a gas-filled bulb comprising an ionizing gas. A second optical element projects the CW sustaining light along a second axis to a CW plasma region in the gas-filled bulb comprising the ionizing gas. A detector detects plasma light generated by a CW plasma and generates a detection signal at an output. A controller generates control signals that control the pump light to the Q-switched laser crystal so as to extinguish the pulsed laser light within a time delay after the detection signal exceeds a threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Energetiq Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Partlow, Donald Smith, Matthew Besen, Akinori Asai
  • Patent number: 11576243
    Abstract: A light emitting system comprises an angularly varying light emitting device (AVLED) operable to individually adjust light flux output from the one or more light sources into different angular bins in the environment and a light sensor positioned to receive light from the environment. The AVLED emits light flux into different angular bins in the environment, the at least one light sensor provides first information related to light from the light flux from each of the different angular bins reflected from the environment in one or more spatial zones, and the AVLED adjusts the light flux output in at least one angular bin based at least in part on analysis of the first information received by the light sensor and a target light property for the one or more spatial zones. The target light property may be luminance, irradiance, or illuminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Inventor: Zane Coleman
  • Patent number: 11575242
    Abstract: A light emission device includes: a base part; a semiconductor laser device disposed on the base part; a frame body fixed to the base part and provided around the semiconductor laser device; a lid bonded to an upper surface of the frame body; and a first electrical conduction member bonded to an outer surface of the base part or an outer surface of the frame body, the first electrical conduction member having a first conductive region and a second conductive region that are electrically connected to the semiconductor laser device. In a top plan view, the first electrical conduction member includes a first portion overlapping the frame body and a second portion not overlapping the frame body, the first conductive region being contained in the first portion, and the second conductive region being contained in the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takuya Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 11569639
    Abstract: A spark plug includes a central electrode member and an outer electrode member. The central electrode member includes a central base and a plurality of electrode prongs extending in an axial direction from the central base. The outer electrode member surrounds the central electrode member. The outer electrode member includes a wall that is radially spaced from the plurality of electrode prongs to allow a series of electric arcs to form between the wall and the plurality of electrode prongs. The outer electrode member and the central electrode member are sized and positioned relative to one another such that a first rate of wear of the outer electrode member, along a longitudinal axis of the spark plug, is substantially equal to a second rate of wear of the central electrode member along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: James Jay Cress
  • Patent number: 11569640
    Abstract: A spark plug includes a central electrode member and an outer electrode member. The central electrode member includes a central base and a plurality of electrode prongs extending in an axial direction from the central base. The outer electrode member surrounds the central electrode member. The outer electrode member includes a wall that is radially spaced from the plurality of electrode prongs to allow a series of electric arcs to form between the wall and the plurality of electrode prongs. The outer electrode member and the central electrode member are sized and positioned relative to one another such that a first rate of wear of the outer electrode member, along a longitudinal axis of the spark plug, is substantially equal to a second rate of wear of the central electrode member along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: James Jay Cress
  • Patent number: 11569638
    Abstract: An ignition plug includes: an insulator provided with a shaft hole formed therein; a metal fitting caulked to support the insulator from an outer periphery side thereof; and a talc material filled in an annular space provided between an outer peripheral surface of the insulator and an inner peripheral surface of the metal fitting. A first annular member and a second annular member are provided at an end portion of the annular space, the end portion being positioned in a center electrode side along the center axis in the annular space, the second annular member is in contact with the first annular member from an opposite side of the center electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shogo Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 11561625
    Abstract: A light outputting apparatus includes a light source that outputs a first light flux, a collimator that parallelizes the first light flux, a light separator that separates the first light flux into a first partial light flux and a second partial light flux, a first light flux width expander, and a second light flux width expander. The light separator causes the first partial light flux to exit in a first direction and the second partial light flux to exit in a second direction. When a first plane is assumed to be a plane containing the first direction and the second direction, the first light flux width expander expands a width of the first partial light flux in a direction along the first plane, and the second light flux width expander expands a width of the second partial light flux in a direction along the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Makoto Otani
  • Patent number: 11562874
    Abstract: A photoinjector system containing modularly-structured waveguide-mode launcher, which is reversibly connected to the RF gun (containing a tubular construction formed with disattachably-affixed to one another structurally-complementary halves); and a solenoid magnet in operation enclosing such tubular structure in a central hollow. The resulting quality, power, and frequency rate of operation as well as cost of manufacturing and operation of the system are superior as compared with those of a related art system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignees: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University, TibaRay, Inc.
    Inventors: William Graves, Vinod Bharadwaj, Valery Dolgashev, Philipp Borchard
  • Patent number: 11563309
    Abstract: According to one example, a spark plug gapping tool includes a first side handle, a second side handle, a middle handle, and a pusher that are made of a non-metallic material. The middle handle is positioned in-between the first side handle and the second side handle, and has a stopper surface and an insert slot that can receive a feeler gauge insert. The pusher is rotatably positioned in-between the first side handle and the second side handle, and has a hollow housing that can receive a terminal end of a spark plug. In operation, a distal end of the middle handle and distal ends of the side handles can move closer together, when a proximal end of the middle handle and proximal ends of the side handles are moved closer together by a user's hand, so as to gap the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: GP Productions LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Miller, Griffin Steinfeld
  • Patent number: 11554455
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a chuck table having a holding surface for holding a workpiece; a horizontal moving mechanism that moves the chuck table in a horizontal direction and is supplied with a first oil; and a vertical moving mechanism that moves a processing unit in a vertical direction and is supplied with a second oil. Before mounting the workpiece on the holding surface, the holding surface is imaged by a camera while being irradiated with light, and it is examined whether or not the picked-up image is emitting light. If there is a light-emitting part in the picked-up image, it is determined that oil is adhered to the light-emitting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: DISCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Saito, Yoshikuni Migiyama
  • Patent number: 11543699
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a color conversion film comprising a color conversion functional layer including a microcapsule phase change material, and a backlight unit and a display apparatus including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Yong Min, Dong Mok Shin, Nari Kim, Ji Ho Kim, Hye Mi Oh
  • Patent number: 11545816
    Abstract: A spark plug having multiple spark gaps, where at least one of the spark gaps is located within a prechamber. The spark plug may include a first center wire assembly, a second center wire assembly, an insulator, a metallic shell, a first sparking area with a prechamber cap and a ground electrode for a prechamber spark gap, and a second sparking area with a ground electrode for a main chamber spark gap. The spark plug is designed to maximize engine performance and/or operation by utilizing the multiple spark gaps, where the prechamber spark gap may be used for certain operating conditions where such a spark gap is advantageous and the separate main chamber spark gap may be used for other conditions where a main chamber spark gap is advantageous.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL IGNITION GMBH
    Inventors: Werner Niessner, Michael Golin
  • Patent number: 11533802
    Abstract: In an aspect, a direct-current plasma torch apparatus is provided. The plasma torch apparatus includes first and second electrodes and an insulating body, where the electrodes are electrically connected to an external power source to generate an arc discharge between the first and second electrodes. The plasma torch apparatus can be configured as a modular torch apparatus for simple removal and replacement of elements of the plasma torch apparatus. The plasma torch apparatus can also be configured as a cooled plasma torch apparatus to prolong the working life of elements of the plasma torch apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Janak H Handa, Hossam Gaber
  • Patent number: 11529591
    Abstract: A plasma system is provided. The plasma system includes a low-temperature atmospheric-pressure plasma source and a water-mist supplying source. The low-temperature atmospheric-pressure plasma source has a nozzle. The nozzle is configured to eject a plasma. The water-mist supplying source is configured to deliver a water mist to the plasma ejected from the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jong-Shinn Wu, Yun-Chien Cheng, Tsung-Rong Lin
  • Patent number: 11530798
    Abstract: The purpose is to provide a wavelength conversion member, a method for manufacturing the wavelength conversion member, and a light-emitting device, which are capable of reducing the temperature rise of the wavelength conversion member and thus reducing the decrease in luminescence intensity with time and deformation and discoloration of constituent materials. A wavelength conversion member 10 includes a matrix 1 and phosphor particles 3 dispersed in the matrix 1, wherein the matrix 1 is formed of a porous oxide body 2 having an average pore diameter of 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON ELECTRIC GLASS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shotaro Fukumoto, Shunsuke Fujita
  • Patent number: 11527730
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device may include a first electrode, a second electrode opposite to the first electrode, and organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. At least one of organic layers may include an organometallic complex including a first metal complex having a metal atom as a center atom of the first metal complex, a second metal complex having the metal atom as a center atom of the second metal complex, and an aromatic ring group connecting the first metal complex to the second metal complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sujin Shin, Soo-Byung Ko, Junghoon Han, Sungbum Kim, Haejin Kim, Eunsoo Ahn, Eunyoung Lee, Jaesung Lee, Hyunjung Lee, Mina Jeon