Patents Examined by E. To
  • Patent number: 10847682
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, comprising: a substrate; a semiconductor stacking layer comprising a first type semiconductor layer on the substrate, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the active layer; and an electrode structure on the second semiconductor layer, wherein the electrode structure comprises a bonding layer, a conductive layer, and a first barrier layer between the bonding layer and the conductive layer; wherein the conductive layer has higher standard oxidation potential than that of the bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: EPISTAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: De-Shan Kuo, Ting-Chia Ko, Chun-Hsiang Tu, Po-Shun Chiu
  • Patent number: 10844872
    Abstract: There is provided a blower capable of maintaining output performance and adjusting a thrust acting in an axial direction of an impeller while reducing the number of parts. A flow path is formed in an intake port provided in a central part in the axial direction of the first housing and a blowing passage connecting the intake port and the discharge port as top surface portions of a housing-side shroud connecting to the intake port and an impeller-side shroud formed in the impeller which face the blowing passage are adjacent to each other in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SHINANO KENSHI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shin-ichiro Godo, Akishige Umematsu
  • Patent number: 10844015
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and to their use in therapy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: GlaxoSmithKline Intellectual Property (No. 2) Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John Atkinson, Emmanuel Hubert Demont, Lee Andrew Harrison, Etienne Levernier, Alexander G. Preston, Jonathan Thomas Seal, Ian David Wall, Robert J. Watson, James Michael Woolven
  • Patent number: 10843544
    Abstract: Corner portions of an upper edge of the rear-side roof 24 close to the side windows protrude toward a front of the vehicle beyond a rear frame portion of the associated side window. Pillars are positioned on the respective corner portions inside the vehicle. Weatherstrips 34 each include a lip portion 34b covering an upper end portion of the associated pillar from outside of the vehicle while the roof is closed. Sealing members 40 are respectively provided on the inside of the corner portions. An extended sealing portion 40b extends from each sealing member 40. The extended sealing portion 40b blocks a gap, formed between the associated corner portion and the associated pillar and intended for the lip portion 34b, while the front-side roof is open. The lip portion 34b of the weatherstrip 34 is sandwiched between the extended sealing portion 40b and the pillar while the roof is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Nishikawa Rubber Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Takahashi, Miwa Shinohara, Yoshihiko Horita, Tatsuo Koibuchi, Kazuaki Kikumitsu, Tomohiro Komaji, Sachi Matsui, Daisuke Nakazato, Akio Okayama
  • Patent number: 10848030
    Abstract: A motor slot wedge having a sealing structure is provided. An outer wall of the slot wedge is provided with a groove, and a thermal expansion material is provided in the groove, and the thermal expansion material, after expanding with heat, is in contact with an inner wall of an iron core tooth slot. A combination structure of a motor slot wedge having a sealing structure and a motor iron core is further provided, and includes the motor iron core having an iron core tooth slot and the motor slot wedge. A sealing structure is formed between the slot wedge and the inner wall of the slot of the iron core, thereby preventing the moisture from entering the inside of the slot of the iron core and damaging the insulation structure accordingly, and preventing varnish loss after varnish vacuum pressure impregnation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: XINJIANG GOLDWIND SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Wang, Shengjun Ma, Chengqian Liu, Xiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 10842193
    Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a pre-vapor formulation reservoir configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation material, a heating element coupled to the pre-vapor formulation reservoir and configured to heat at least a portion of the pre-vapor formulation material into a generated vapor and provide the generated vapor to a first portion of a channel, a tobacco housing at a second portion of the channel and positioned to receive the generated vapor, the tobacco housing including tobacco and at least one air flow element in the tobacco housing to direct at least a first portion of the generated vapor towards an end of the non-combustible smoking element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Buket Sahin, San Li
  • Patent number: 10844730
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a blade includes an attachment region, an airfoil extending from the attachment region, and a blade cooling arrangement. The blade cooling arrangement includes at least a first feed passage disposed through the attachment region, which is connected to a first cooling passage disposed in the airfoil. A passively actuated first coolant valve is disposed in or proximate the first feed passage. A plurality of such blades can be disposed in a turbine section of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Lane Thornton, Thomas N. Slavens
  • Patent number: 10848779
    Abstract: Temporal motion vector prediction control is described in video coding. In one example, a method includes receiving a plurality of frames representing encoded video, parsing an uncompressed header for each frame, determining whether a temporal motion vector prediction command is included within the parsed uncompressed header of a first frame, selecting a reference frame from a reference list of frames, retrieving motion vector information from the selected reference frame, performing temporal motion vector prediction on the first frame corresponding to the parsed uncompressed header if a temporal motion vector prediction command is included within the parsed header to form a motion predicted frame, applying a loop filter to the motion predicted frame, and rendering the frame as decoded video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fangwen Fu, Jill M. Boyce
  • Patent number: 10843897
    Abstract: An emergency elevator includes a door frame installed on upper, left and right sides of an entrance of an elevator platform, an elevator car configured to vertically move along an elevator passage and provided with a pair of elevator doors, a pair of platform doors installed in the door frame, a lower frame installed on a lower side of the entrance of the elevator platform and configured to slidably support the platform doors, an upper door rim installed on an upper side of the platform doors, a side door rim vertically installed at a lateral end of the platform doors, an oxygen supply device configured to supply oxygen to a patient in the elevator car, an emergency ventilation device configured to supply a purified air into the elevator car, and a filter device provided in the blowing duct so as to remove harmful substances introduced into the elevator car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SONGSAN SPECIAL ELEVATORS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Gi-Young Kim
  • Patent number: 10845070
    Abstract: An extremum-seeking control system for a plant includes a feedback controller for operating the plant to achieve a value of a manipulated variable, and an extremum-seeking controller. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to provide the value of the manipulated variable to the feedback controller and to determine a value for the manipulated variable. The extremum-seeking controller determines the value for the manipulated variable by perturbing the manipulated variable with an excitation signal and monitoring a performance variable of the plant resulting from the perturbed manipulated variable, estimating a normalized correlation coefficient relating the performance variable to the manipulated variable, and modulating the manipulated variable to drive the normalized correlation coefficient toward zero using a general set of tuning parameters. The general set of tuning parameters are adapted for use with the normalized correlation coefficient, independent of a scale of the performance variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Timothy I. Salsbury, John M. House
  • Patent number: 10845754
    Abstract: A drum cartridge includes a frame on which a toner cartridge is attachable, a photosensitive drum, and a drum memory. The drum cartridge relays information stored in the toner memory to the image forming apparatus when the toner cartridge is attached to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yabuki, Takashi Suzuki, Tadao Kyotani
  • Patent number: 10843886
    Abstract: A friction shaft for a slitter has winding tubes disposed on an outer surface thereof to roll unit materials formed by cutting a raw material such as various kinds of paper, fabric, or film with predetermined intervals includes a first rotary shaft, tubes, brake pads, a second rotary shaft, pressing members, first rotary tubes, second rotary tubes, first and second bearings, first elastic members, guide members, second elastic members, and lugs for clamping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: YUL RIM AIR SHAFT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae sik Lee, Soo hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 10843049
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a striking face. The striking face includes: a face center; a face center region that is a square region having a height of 10 mm and a width of 10 mm, a center of figure of the face center region being located at the face center; a central thick portion that includes the face center region and has a first thickness; and a peripheral thin portion that is located on a periphery of the central thick portion and is thinner than the central thick portion. A CT maximum point is present in the face center region. A shape of an outer edge of the peripheral thin portion is not similar to that of an outer edge of the central thick portion. A difference in thickness between the central thick portion and the peripheral thin portion is 0.3 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO RUBBER INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Tomotaka Aramaki
  • Patent number: 10847673
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to a method for producing at least one semiconductor component coupled to a target substrate, where a coupon comprising one or more constituent layers of the at least one semiconductor component is transferred to the target substrate by transfer printing. The coupon is embedded in a portion of a support layer thereby forming an enlarged coupon provided with solid alignment markers on the underside thereof. Corresponding hollow alignment markers exist on the location of the target substrate where the coupon is to be placed. The alignment markers engage to thereby align the coupon to the target location. The disclosure is equally related to a device assembly obtainable by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignees: IMEC VZW, UNIVERSITEIT GENT
    Inventor: Gunther Roelkens
  • Patent number: 10847879
    Abstract: An antenna having an array structure for full-duplex communication on a same wireless resource is provided, as well a network element including such an antenna and a beamforming processor. A method for transmitting and receiving simultaneously on a same wireless resource using such an antenna is also provided. The antenna includes multiple transmit antenna elements, each of these elements coupled to a respective gain-controlled transmit amplifier. The antenna also includes multiple receive antenna elements, each of these elements coupled to a respective gain-controlled receive amplifier. The antenna also includes an electromagnetic isolation structure located between the plurality of transmit antenna elements and the plurality of receive antenna elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CANADA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tho Le-Ngoc
  • Patent number: 10844446
    Abstract: A method is provided for fabricating iron castings for metallic components. The method for fabricating the iron castings may include forming a molten solution by melting carbon and iron and combining carbon nanomaterials with the molten solution. A first portion of the carbon nanomaterials combined with the molten solution may be dispersed therein. The method may also include cooling the molten solution to solidify at least a portion of the carbon thereof to fabricate the iron castings. The first portion of the carbon nanomaterials may be dispersed in the iron castings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: DRESSER-RAND COMPANY
    Inventor: Kevin Pickrell
  • Patent number: 10847857
    Abstract: An RF circulator in combination with a RF integrated circuit, the RF integrated circuit having a plurality of RF waveguide or waveguide-like structures in or on the RF integrated circuit, the RF circulator comprising a disk of ferrite material disposed on a metallic material disposed on or in the RF integrated circuit, the disk of ferrite material extending away from the RF integrated circuit when disposed thereon, the metallic portion having a plurality of apertures therein adjacent the disk of ferrite material which, in use, are in electromagnetic communication with the disk of ferrite material and with the plurality of RF waveguide or waveguide-like structures, the disk of ferrite material being disposed in a metallic cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan J. Lynch, Florian G. Herrault
  • Patent number: 10842161
    Abstract: A meat smoker/cooker device is provided and includes a fuel chamber having a fuel chamber structure which includes a fuel chamber sidewall that defines a fuel chamber cavity, wherein the fuel chamber sidewall includes a first mounting hole, a second mounting hole and a sidewall slot communicated with the chamber cavity. Additionally, the meat smoker device also includes a fuel container having a container rim and being located within the chamber cavity proximate the slot bottom and an ignition article having an ignition article handle, an ignition article mounting structure and a heating element, wherein the ignition article handle includes a handle portion movably located within the sidewall slot and wherein the ignition article mounting structure is configured to mountingly engage with the first and second mounting hole, such that the ignition article is configurable between a first and second configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Luther, Michael Luther, Arnold Tang
  • Patent number: D902922
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Cédric Eric Jean-Edouard Bernard, Chadwick John Harber, Brian Dennis Paschke, Derek Jenchia Loh, Eric John Fairbanks, Mark Woolhiser Huang, Jonah Avram Becker
  • Patent number: RE48326
    Abstract: In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of transmitting and receiving radio access information that allows a faster and an efficient way of establishing a radio connection between a terminal and a target base station while performing a handover for the terminal to a cell of the target base station. The network transmits in advance, the radio access information and the like, to the terminal so that the terminal can be connected with the target cell in a faster manner which minimizes the total time for the handover process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: EVOLVED WIRELESS LLC
    Inventors: Sung Jun Park, Young Dae Lee, Sung Duck Chun, Myung Cheul Jung