Patents Examined by Donghai D. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12273095
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a bandpass filter including a first, second, third and fourth resonators, wherein the second and third resonators are in parallel, wherein the first resonator includes a first and second terminals, wherein the second resonator includes a second resonator top terminal and a second resonator bottom terminal, wherein the third resonator includes a third resonator top terminal and a third resonator bottom terminal, wherein the fourth resonator includes a third terminal and a fourth terminal; wherein the first terminal is coupled to the second resonator top terminal, wherein the second terminal is coupled to the third resonator top terminal, wherein the third terminal is coupled to the third resonator bottom terminal, wherein the fourth terminal is coupled to the second resonator bottom terminal; a first inductor coupled to the first and third terminals; and a second inductor coupled to the second and fourth terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Kai Liu, Rui Tang, Changhan Hobie Yun, Mario Francisco Velez, Jonghae Kim
  • Patent number: 12273993
    Abstract: The invention relates to a carrier arrangement (100; 500; 600; 700; 800; 900; 1000), and a method for producing a carrier arrangement. The method comprises: producing a layer (130; 530; 630; 730; 830; 930; 1030) on a surface (120; 520; 620; 720; 820; 920; 1020) of a carrier (110; 510; 610; 710; 810; 910; 1010), the layer comprising a first region (131; 531; 631; 731; 831; 931; 1031) and a second region (132; 532; 632; 732; 832; 932; 1032) connected to the first region, the first region covering a first surface region (121; 521; 621; 721; 821; 921; 1021) of the carrier and the second region covering a second surface region (122; 722; 922) of the carrier, detaching the second region of the layer from the carrier, the first region of the layer remaining on the first surface region of the carrier and not being separated from the second region, the layer being flexible in the detached second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Mathias Bottcher, Frank Windrich, Kai Zoschke, M. Jürgen Wolf
  • Patent number: 12249971
    Abstract: An acoustic resonator is fabricated with a substrate having a substrate top surface and a piezoelectric plate having plate front and plate back surfaces. An acoustic Bragg reflector is sandwiched between the substrate top surface and the plate back surface. The reflector has a cavity with a top surface perimeter, and the acoustic Bragg reflector is configured to reflect shear acoustic waves at a resonance frequency of the acoustic resonator. The back surface is mounted on the cavity top surface perimeter except for a portion of the plate forming a diaphragm that spans the cavity. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the plate front surface such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. Two or more layers of the acoustic Bragg reflector form pedestals that support the back surface of the plate opposite some or all interleaved fingers of the IDT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ventsislav Yantchev
  • Patent number: 12238871
    Abstract: A component embedded circuit board includes a printed circuit board, a dielectric layer, and an antenna structure laminated in that order. The printed circuit board includes a first opening and a first circuit layer, and the first circuit layer includes at least one first connecting pad. A second opening is defined in the dielectric layer. A conductive structure is embedded in the dielectric layer. The second opening penetrates the dielectric layer. The antenna structure includes a first ground layer. A component is embedded in the first opening. One end of the conductive structure is connected to the first ground layer, and the other end of the conductive structure is connected to the first connecting pad. The second opening corresponds to the first opening. A gap is generated by the second opening and the component. A method for manufacturing the package circuit structure is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: QING DING PRECISION ELECTRONICS (HUAIAN) CO., LTD, Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited.
    Inventors: Yong-Chao Wei, Yong-Quan Yang
  • Patent number: 12237637
    Abstract: An inter-device cabling movement system includes a base and a plurality of cable attachment devices that extend from the base in a port identification sequence. Each of the plurality of cable attachment devices includes a cable engagement element that is configured to engage a respective cable, and a cable securing element that is configured to secure the cable engagement element to the respective cable. The cable engagement elements and cable securing elements may be utilized to secure each cable attachment device to respective cables connected to first ports on a first device so that those respective cables may be disconnected from the first pots on the first device and reconnected to second ports on a second device based on the port identification sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shree Rathinasamy, Kannan Karuppiah, Neal Beard
  • Patent number: 12231016
    Abstract: An electric motor built for exposure to high pressure fluid includes a unitary metal sleeve that provides a fluid barrier between the rotor and the stator. An overmolded resin encapsulates the stator windings and reinforces the sleeve to minimize deformation of the sleeve under high fluid pressures. The overmolded resin also fixes the positions of insulation displacement connectors connected to the stator windings, thereby avoiding mechanical brackets and fasteners for holding the insulation displacement connectors in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Carroll, Lee L. Snider, Mohammad Khandan-Barani, Ronald G. Flanary, Allen Duncan, Travis S. King
  • Patent number: 12225824
    Abstract: A piezoelectric microelectromechanical structure is provided with a piezoelectric stack having a main extension in a horizontal plane and a variable section in a plane transverse to the horizontal plane. The stack is formed by a bottom-electrode region, a piezoelectric material region arranged on the bottom-electrode region, and a top-electrode region arranged on the piezoelectric material region. The piezoelectric material region has, as a result of the variable section, a first thickness along a vertical axis transverse to the horizontal plane at a first area, and a second thickness along the same vertical axis at a second area. The second thickness is smaller than the first thickness. The structure at the first and second areas can form piezoelectric detector and a piezoelectric actuator, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Domenico Giusti, Irene Martini, Davide Assanelli, Paolo Ferrarini, Carlo Luigi Prelini, Fabio Quaglia
  • Patent number: 12225823
    Abstract: A technology of fabricating a piezoelectric composite applicable to an ultrasonic transducer is disclosed. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a support member formed with a plurality of through holes is located on one surface of an electrode plate, and lower surfaces of piezoelectric pillars having shapes respectively corresponding to the through holes are adhered onto the one surface of the electrode plate to form the piezoelectric pillars. Further, according to an additional aspect, the plurality of piezoelectric pillars having shapes corresponding to the through holes of the support member are formed by sintering a piezoelectric pellet molded in a pillar shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NEUROSONA Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam Kuy Cho, Jin Su Kim, Jung Ho Ko, Man Soon Yoon, Young Min Park
  • Patent number: 12224730
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a composite substrate for manufacturing an acoustic wave resonator and a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) resonator, and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NINGBO SEMICONDUCTOR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Herb He Huang, Hailong Luo, Wei Li, Fei Qi
  • Patent number: 12213381
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a vibration element that includes a base portion, a first vibration arm and a second vibration arm that extend from the base portion along a first direction and are arranged along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and bottomed grooves on both main surfaces of the first vibration arm and both main surfaces of the second vibration arm includes: a preparing step of preparing a crystal substrate; a protective film forming step of forming a protective film on the crystal substrate except for groove regions that are regions in which the grooves are formed; and a dry etching step of dry etching the crystal substrate through the protective film to form the grooves. The grooves provided in at least one of the first vibration arm and the second vibration arm include a first groove and a second groove arranged along the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiyori Sakata, Takuro Kobayashi, Ryuta Nishizawa, Keiichi Yamaguchi, Shigeru Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 12211660
    Abstract: A fuse assembly includes a housing and a wound wire operable as a fusible element. The housing has a cavity for the fusible element. The fusible element is formed by coating a wire with enamel and wrapping the wire around a core to produce enamel-coated wound wire. The enamel-coated wound wire is attached to the housing. The core is etched away until the core is dissolved and the enamel is stripped away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: Keon Mayson Brosas, Marko Arciaga, Victor Oliver Tabell, Irian A. Chua
  • Patent number: 12206299
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for assembling a large-diameter electric motor, the method includes: a preparing step: providing two or more stator segments for forming a stator and two or more rotor support segments for forming a rotor support; a splicing step: splicing the two or more stator segments and the two or more rotor support segments in a predetermined manner to form the stator and the rotor support that are coaxially assembled, respectively, and maintaining a predetermined gap between the stator and the rotor support in a radial direction; and an assembling step: inserting a plurality of magnetic pole modules into the predetermined gap, and assembling the plurality of magnetic pole modules to a mounting surface of the rotor support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: BEIJING GOLDWIND SCIENCE & CREATION WINDPOWER EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Liang Peng
  • Patent number: 12198839
    Abstract: A pitot tube includes an outer tube extending from a first tube end to second tube end. The second tube end defines a tip portion of the pitot tube. A tube sleeve is located inside of the outer tube and defines a tube passage extending from the first tube end to the second tube end. A heating element is located between the outer tube and the tube sleeve. The heating element is isolated from airflow into the tube passage. A method of forming a pitot tube includes installing a heating element to an outer surface of a tube sleeve, the tube sleeve defining a tube passage of the pitot tube. The tube sleeve is secured in an outer tube such that the heating element is between the tube sleeve and the outer tube and is isolated from airflow through the tube passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT AEROSPACE INC.
    Inventors: Robin Jacob, Guru Prasad Mahapatra, Paul Robert Johnson
  • Patent number: 12199395
    Abstract: A method for monitoring the state of pressing elements of a crimping device of a crimping apparatus includes: setting of a crimping height; measuring of a travel from a rest position to a working position of the pressing elements, which working position corresponds to the set crimping height; comparing of the travel with a travel from the rest position to a working position of the pressing elements of a setting operation of a crimping height, which setting operation was carried out before the setting operation of the crimping height; recording of data, wherein the recorded data comprises at least one result of the comparison; testing of the comparison for the presence of a predefined criterion; and outputting of a signal if the predefined criterion is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH &CO. KG
    Inventor: Till Riechmann
  • Patent number: 12200875
    Abstract: A method for metallizing through-glass vias in a glass substrate includes functionalizing a surface of the glass substrate with a silane. The glass substrate has an average thickness t and comprises a plurality of vias extending through the thickness t. The method further includes applying an electroless plating solution comprising a copper ion to deposit a copper seed layer on the functionalized surface, disposing an electrolyte within the plurality of vias, wherein the electrolyte comprises copper ions to be deposited on the copper seed layer within the plurality of vias; positioning an electrode within the electrolyte; and applying a current between the electrode and the glass substrate, thereby reducing the copper ions into copper within the plurality of vias such that each of the plurality of vias is filled with copper and the copper has a void volume fraction of less than 5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yiu-Hsiang Chang, Jen-Chieh Lin, Prantik Mazumder, Scott Christopher Pollard, Pei-Lien Tseng
  • Patent number: 12193168
    Abstract: Circuit board includes conductive plate, core dielectric layer, metallization layer, first build-up stack, second build-up stack. Conductive plate has channels extending from top surface to bottom surface. Core dielectric layer extends on covering top surface and side surfaces of conductive plate. Metallization layer extends on core dielectric layer and within channels of conductive plate. Core dielectric layer insulates metallization layer from conductive plate. First build-up stack is disposed on top surface of conductive plate and includes conductive layers alternately stacked with dielectric layers. Conductive layers electrically connect to metallization layer. Second build-up stack is disposed on bottom surface of conductive plate. Second build-up stack includes bottommost dielectric layer and bottommost conductive layer. Bottommost dielectric layer covers bottom surface of conductive plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiun-Yi Wu, Chien-Hsun Lee, Chen-Hua Yu, Chung-Shi Liu
  • Patent number: 12181494
    Abstract: Disclosed are a probe sheet with a multi-layer contact tip and a method of manufacturing the same capable of improving the design freedom of a contact tip formed on a probe sheet of a probe card for testing a semiconductor device to come in contact with a pad of the semiconductor device. According to the present invention, the design freedom of a contact tip formed on a probe sheet of a probe card for testing a semiconductor device to come in contact with a pad of the semiconductor device can be improved, and since the shape of a contact surface of a contact tip is maintained the same and contact resistance is maintained in an allowable range even when a protective layer coated on the contact tip to increase durability of the contact tip is worn, test reliability of the probe card can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: PROTEC MEMS TECHNOLOGY INC
    Inventors: Yong Ho Cho, Tae Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12171958
    Abstract: An elongate, flexible, medical device having distal and proximal ends, including an inner member having a proximal and distal end, a support member extending around the inner member between the proximal and distal end, a plurality of electrically-conductive wires, each braided with the support member having a proximal and distal end, an outer member surrounding the inner member, the support member, and the plurality of electrically-conductive wires and an actuator including a polymer electrolyte layer secured adjacent to the distal end of the elongate, flexible inner member and defining an exterior surface, electrodes distributed about the exterior of the polymer electrolyte layer. The distal end of one of the electrically-conductive wires is electrically connected to one of the electrodes. The polymer electrolyte layer is configured to deform asymmetrically in response to the application of an electrical signal through the plurality of electrically-conductive wires to the plurality of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, XCATH, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Kim, Dong Suk Shin, Viljar Palmre, Younghee Shim
  • Patent number: 12168602
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electroacoustic transducer includes a frame; an element movable with respect to the frame, the movable element including a membrane and a structure for rigidifying the membrane; a first transmission arm, the movable element being coupled to an end of the first transmission arm; wherein the trimming of the membrane and the trimming of the rigidification structure are decorrelated in a region around an intersection between the position of the first transmission arm and the periphery of the rigidification structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Loïc Joet
  • Patent number: 12160215
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator. The method includes: depositing a piezoelectric layer and forming a recess in a lateral area in such a way that a silicon functional layer is exposed inside the recess, forming a silicide layer on a surface of the silicon functional layer exposed inside the recess, forming a diffusion barrier layer on the silicide layer, depositing and structuring a first and second metallization layer in such a way that a supply line and two connection elements are formed, forming the oscillating structure by structuring the silicon functional layer, the silicon functional layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the first connection element and forming a lower electrode of the resonator, the first metallization layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the second connection element and forming an upper electrode of the resonator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Friedjof Heuck, Marcus Pritschow, Markus Kuhnke, Peter Schmollngruber, Ricardo Zamora, Sebastien Loiseau, Stefan Majoni, Stefan Krause, Viktor Morosow