Patents Examined by Dimary Lopez Cruz
  • Patent number: 10170524
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a member, a first fixing portion, a second fixing portion, and a roll-up portion. The display device has a function that enables selection between a first state in which an image is displayed with the display panel not folded and a second state in which an image is displayed with the display panel folded. The display panel is fixed to the first fixing portion and the second fixing portion. One end of the member is fixed to the first fixing portion. The other end of the member is connected to the roll-up portion. The roll-up portion has a function that enables rolling up of the member from the other end of the member. The display panel is folded by rolling up the member. The display panel is unfolded by pulling out the rolled-up member from the roll-up portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shingo Eguchi
  • Patent number: 10170219
    Abstract: A load carrying bundle of elongate elements combined with a fiber optic cable for integration with an elongated structure to perform global strain monitoring using fiber optic strain sensors is described. The load carrying bundle is made up by a number of individual elongated strength elements, which individual elongated strength elements are laid in a helix around the, in the bundle, centrally located fiber optic cable sensor. The elongated strength elements are laid adjacent to each other enabling to perform both a protective enclosure of the fiber optic cable sensor and to provide frictional bonding between the fiber optic cable sensor and the elongated strength elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: AKER SOLUTIONS AS
    Inventor: Peter M. Willemoës
  • Patent number: 10168738
    Abstract: A portable computing device such as a laptop computer has a base unit (2) and a display screen unit (3) coupled together by a hinge assembly (7) configured to allow rotation of the base unit and the screen unit relative to one another. The display screen unit has a display panel on a first face of the display screen unit and a fuel cell array (12a, 12b) disposed adjacent to a second face of the display screen unit. Ventilation apertures through the second face of the display screen unit provide air flow to the fuel cell array. A fuel conduit extends between the base unit and the display screen unit across the hinge assembly for delivering fuel from the base unit to the display screen unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Intelligent Energy Limited
    Inventors: Zachary Elliott, Hossein Ostadi
  • Patent number: 10163547
    Abstract: A composite cable includes: a plurality of first electric wires; a shield wire including a twisted wire in which a plurality of second electric wires are twisted together and a shield layer provided on an outer periphery of the twisted wire, each of the second electric wires having an outer diameter smaller than each of the first electric wires; a sheath provided on an outer periphery of an electric wire bundle in which the plurality of first electric wires and the shield wire are twisted together; a plurality of first linear fillers filled between the twisted wire and the shield layer; and a plurality of second linear fillers filled between the electric wire bundle and the sheath, wherein each of the first linear fillers and each of the second linear fillers are a same type of linear filler, and a fill ratio of the first linear fillers is greater than a fill ratio of the second linear fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Tomoyuki Murayama, Hirotaka Eshima, Sachio Suzuki, Hiroyuki Ito, Takahiro Futatsumori, Noriyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10165709
    Abstract: Modular network switches and other computer systems are described herein. A modular network switch can include a latching device for installing and removing computer modules (e.g., line cards) from an associated cabinet or enclosure. The network switch can also include interconnected computer modules (e.g., line cards, fabric cards, control modules, etc.) that include circuit boards oriented parallel to the flow of cooling air through the cabinet in the absence of a backplane or midplane oriented perpendicular to the air flow. The absence of such backplanes and/or midplanes provides a more direct air flow path through the cabinet, thereby enabling a more efficient flow of cooling air and lower operating temperatures. Additionally, the network switch can include an orthogonal arrangement of data planes, control planes, and/or power planes that can be efficiently interconnected to increase operational speed and further facilitate the flow of cooling air through the computer cabinet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Zhiping Yao, Che Kin Leung, Xu Wang
  • Patent number: 10165694
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a portable electronic device having a substantially concealed barometric vent. The vent may be used to equalize air pressure within the enclosure while forming a barrier between external contaminants, moisture, and so on and various internal component and assemblies of the device. In one embodiment, the vent may include a screen configured to impede ingress of particulates and an air-permeable membrane configured to impede ingress of moisture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Werner, Maegan K. Spencer, Daniel J. Barrett, Brad G. Boozer, Daniel J. Hiemstra, Christopher D. Guichet, Amin M. Younes, James G. Horiuchi, Eugene H. Fox
  • Patent number: 10159142
    Abstract: A printed wiring board includes a base member that includes a ground wiring pattern and a printed wiring board reinforcing member bonded to the ground wiring pattern in a conductive state. The printed wiring board reinforcing member includes a metal base material layer and a nickel layer bonded to at least a surface on a side opposite to a side bonded to the ground wiring pattern of the metal base material layer by diffusion bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: TATSUTA ELECTRIC WIRE & CABLE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuusuke Haruna, Hiroshi Tajima, Masahiro Watanabe, Yukari Kobayashi, Kiyoharu Sekiguchi, Yoshihiro Hosoya
  • Patent number: 10156868
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus includes a mount, a locking member, a movable projection member, and a first moving mechanism. The mount can mount a first housing in a predetermined positional relationship with the mounting apparatus. The locking member is provided to be movable between an initial position and a position corresponding to a revolving position of a second housing. The locking member can lock the electronic device with the second housing. The movable projection member is disposed to abut the first housing mounted on the mount, and moves in an apparatus thickness direction when the movable projection member abuts the first housing. When the locking member lies at the initial position, and the movable projection member moves in the apparatus thickness direction, the first moving mechanism moves the locking member from the initial position of the locking member to the position corresponding to the revolving position of the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Iwamoto, Hitoshi Nakatani, Kaoru Yasumasa
  • Patent number: 10146075
    Abstract: There is provided a display device including: a display cell (20); a surrounding member (30) provided around the display cell (20); a cover film (10) provided on front side of the display cell (20) and the surrounding member (30); a relay member (40) provided on rear side of the display cell (20) and the surrounding member (30), and facing a margin between the display cell (20) and the surrounding member (30); and an adhesive layer (50) provided between the display cell (20) and the relay member (40), and between he surrounding member (30) and the relay member (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeaki Hirasawa, Hisanori Tsuboi
  • Patent number: 10149408
    Abstract: A liquid immersion bath for an electronic device includes: a bath body that is capable of housing the electronic device, is coupled to a circulation path through which a liquid coolant which cools the electronic device immersed in the liquid coolant circulates, and includes a gas phase portion corresponding to a space free from the liquid coolant; and a container that is disposed in the gas phase portion and has a volume which changes in accordance with a pressure of the gas phase portion, wherein an inside of the container is coupled to an outside of the bath body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shinnosuke Fujiwara, Hideo Kubo
  • Patent number: 10141493
    Abstract: An interconnect may have a first end coupled to a superconducting system and a second end coupled to a non-superconducting system. The interconnect may include a superconducting element having a critical temperature. During operation of the superconducting system and the non-superconducting system, a first portion of the interconnect near the first end may have a first temperature equal to or below the critical temperature of the superconducting element, a second portion of the interconnect near the second end may have a second temperature above the critical temperature of the superconducting element, and the interconnect may further be configured to reduce a length of the second portion such that temperature substantially over an entire length of the interconnect is maintained at a temperature equal to or below the critical temperature of the superconducting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: David B. Tuckerman
  • Patent number: 10136562
    Abstract: An underwater data center includes an electronic device; a housing member that houses the electronic device and that is configured to be disposed under water; and a heat exchanger that is provided at the housing member and that is configured to discharge, into the water, heat discharged from the electronic device, with a face of the heat exchanger that discharges the heat making contact with the water, an opening being formed in a bottom face of the housing member and placing an inside of the housing member in communication with the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Naofumi Kosugi, Susumu Takahashi, Kiyomasa Kamei
  • Patent number: 10136539
    Abstract: An electronic component having plural lead terminals protruding from side surfaces of a component main body is inserted and accommodated in a housing member, and the lead terminals are brought into contact with plural terminal fittings held in the housing member to assemble the electronic component into the housing member. Each of the lead terminals includes a base end protruding from at least one side surface of the component main body and a contact portion connected to the base end to droop along the side surface. The component main body is provided with an insulating member which is located to contact or face the base ends from a side of an end surface of the component main body which is most distant from a bottom wall of the housing member in assembling the electronic component into the housing member. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress deformation of the lead terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukihiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 10131296
    Abstract: An insert bus bar plate includes a plate-shaped resin material and a plurality of metal bus bars that are embedded within the resin material by insert molding and have a terminal part exposed to a mounting surface that is one of principal faces of the resin material. The bus bars are formed, before the insert molding, as a bus bar assembly before molding the one ends different from the terminal part of which are coupled to each other by a carrier to be cut after the insert molding. The insert bus bar plate (a substrate main body) is formed by the insert molding performed by oppositely arranging two bus bar assemblies before molding of the same shape so that two terminal parts are positioned in between two carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hara, Hiroki Shiraiwa, Kazuomi Kiyosue
  • Patent number: 10133303
    Abstract: A display device includes a bottom chassis including first and second bottom portions, a mold frame including first and second frame portions disposed in respective first and second bottom portions, a hinge portion configured to couple the first and second frame portions to each other, a flexible display panel disposed on the mold frame and the hinge portion, a first curvature adjusting portion disposed between one side of the hinge portion and the display panel and coupled to the first frame portion, a second curvature adjusting portion disposed between the opposite side of the hinge portion and the display panel and coupled to the second frame portion, a first support portion coupled to the hinge portion and configured to support the first curvature adjusting portion, and a second support portion coupled to the hinge portion and configured to support the second curvature adjusting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Min Park, Sang Wol Lee
  • Patent number: 10135268
    Abstract: In a stack or matrix of lockers, typically in two, three or more tiers or rows and in multiple columns, charge power strips are secured at the back sides of the lockers and exposed through openings in the back walls of the lockers so as to provide line power and also low-voltage DC charging power for smartphones and other portable devices, with a plurality of different charge port fittings provided. The power strips are of a length to extend to two or more lockers and preferably are installed vertically, but could be installed horizontally. The lockers have a protected channel at rear, within which the power strip is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Digilock Asia Ltd.
    Inventor: Asil T. Gokcebay
  • Patent number: 10134500
    Abstract: An aluminum wire 10 has a composition containing at least one element of Fe: 0 to 2.0 mass %, Mg: 0 to 1.0 mass %, Zr: 0 to 0.5 mass %, Si: 0 to 1.2 mass %, or Ni: 0 to 0.3 mass %, with the remainder being composed of aluminum and unavoidable impurities. In a cross section 15 perpendicular to the longitudinal direction 11 of the aluminum wire, the surface area proportion of component crystals for which the angle 14 between the longitudinal direction and the <111> direction of the crystal is 10° or less, relative to the total surface area of the cross section, is 50% or greater, and the surface area proportion of component crystals for which the angle 14 between the longitudinal direction and the <111> direction of the crystal is 20° or less, relative to the total surface area of the cross section, is 85% or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hayato Ikeya
  • Patent number: 10129998
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first circuit board and a second circuit board arranged to have their first main surfaces facing each other, and a casing containing the first and second circuit boards. The first circuit board has the first main surface having a first electronic component with a mounting height from the first main surface toward the second circuit board greater than a distance between the first and second circuit boards. The second circuit board has an opening or a cutout as a first hollow portion facing the first electronic component. The first hollow portion receives a part of the first electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Ueda
  • Patent number: 10127947
    Abstract: A data storage system assembly includes a rigid central plate with multiple data storage devices (DSDs) mounted on the central plate, where a first row of DSDs is coupled with a first side of the central plate, and a second row of DSDs is coupled with a second side of the central plate, both in a side-by-side arrangement. A plurality of flexible mounting grommets may be fastened to each DSD and coupled to the central plate, such as in an arrangement in which an even number of grommets are fastened to one side and an odd number of grommets are fastened to an opposing side of the DSD. Each respective DSD may be fastened to a corresponding adaptor plate, where each adaptor plate is coupled with the central plate. Flexible mounting grommets may be fastened to each adaptor plate and coupled to the central plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Albrecht, Darya Amin-Shahidi, Toshiki Hirano, Lidu Huang, Jeffrey D. Wilke
  • Patent number: 10130002
    Abstract: Provided are a heat-radiating adhesive member, a heat-radiating sheet using the heat-radiating adhesive member, and an electronic apparatus having the heat-radiating sheet. The heat-radiating adhesive member includes: an adhesive layer; first thermally conductive fillers that are dispersed inside the adhesive layer and spreads heat generated from a heat-generating component of an electronic apparatus in a horizontal direction of the adhesive layer; and second thermally conductive fillers that are dispersed inside the adhesive layer and transfer the heat generated from the heat-generating component of the electronic apparatus to the first thermally conductive fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: AMOGREENTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung Jae Hwang