Patents Examined by Farhana A Hoque
  • Patent number: 11867731
    Abstract: A method for measuring the hardware and operational state of a dual-circuit solenoid valve including first and second coaxial coils each associated with a circuit is disclosed. The method includes the steps of injecting a sinusoidal current into the first coil; measuring the voltage induced across the terminals of the second coil; and plotting at least one curve of a first magnitude proportional to the measured induced voltage as a function of a second magnitude proportional to the injected sinusoidal current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE
    Inventors: Blaise Lapôtre, Loïc Parisot
  • Patent number: 11867741
    Abstract: The invention relates to a member (O1) for measuring a magnitude representative of a common mode voltage (Vres) in an electrical network (1) or in an equipment (E), the network (1) or the equipment (E) comprising at least one first power conductor (C1) and a second power conductor (C2). The measuring member (O1) comprises a sensor formed by two resistive elements (R1, R2) which are intended to be arranged in a bridge between the two power conductors (C1, C2) and have resistance values which are identical to each other. The two resistive elements (R1, R2) are connected at a midpoint (T3). The sensor also comprises a measuring dipole (SH) connected to the midpoint (T3) and to a connection terminal intended to be electrically connected to a common conductor (Cc), of which the electrical network (1) or the equipment (E) has been equipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventor: Lionel Cima
  • Patent number: 11867536
    Abstract: To reduce the construction effort and also to make it smaller, the detector coil (6) is formed in the detector head (7) of a magnetostrictive position sensor (100) in a semiconductor chip (2), in which at the same time also the evaluation circuit (16) is formed and—if biased electrically and by means of direct current—also the then necessary separate bias coil (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ASM Automation Sensorik Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Manfred Steinich
  • Patent number: 11860212
    Abstract: A computer monitors a status of grid devices using sensor measurements. Sensor data is clustered using a predefined grouping distance value to define one or more sensor event clusters. A plurality of monitored devices is clustered using a predefined clustering distance value to define one or more asset clusters. A location is associated with each monitored device of the plurality of monitored devices. A distance is computed between each sensor event cluster and each asset cluster. When the computed distance is less than or equal to a predefined asset/sensor distance value for a sensor event cluster and an asset cluster, an asset identifier of the asset cluster associated with the computed distance is added to an asset event list. For each asset cluster included in the asset event list, an asset location of an asset is shown on a map in a graphical user interface presented in a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Dale Anderson, Priyadarshini Sharma, Mark Joseph Konya, Yuwei Liao
  • Patent number: 11852686
    Abstract: The present disclosure relate to a fault diagnosis method, including: collecting at least one set of original data of the high voltage generator during operation, each condition attribute in a condition attribute set corresponding to one piece of original data; pre-processing the original data to obtain pre-processed data and generating a decision table; performing an attribute reduction based on the decision table to obtain a reduced condition attribute set and a reduced decision table; generating a decision tree model according to the reduced decision table; generating a decision forest model according to at least one decision tree model; obtaining a fault type and a fault level according to the decision forest model; determining an acceptable level of the fault according to the fault level and a frequency of occurrence of the same type of fault, and sending the fault type and the acceptable level to the display terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Linchun Li, Dezhi Jiao, Jinfa Zhang
  • Patent number: 11852693
    Abstract: A cable deterioration diagnosis device configured to diagnose deterioration of a cable having a plurality of electrical wires including one or more signal wires configured to transmit signals between a first device and a second device, and includes a test signal output unit configured to output a wave-like test signal to a test signal transmitting wire independent of the one or more signal wires among the plurality of electrical wires, a test signal extraction unit configured to extract a received test signal corresponding to the test signal from a signal propagated in a test signal receiving wire independent of the one or more signal wires and the test signal transmitting wire among the plurality of electrical wires, and a deterioration detection unit configured to detect the deterioration of the cable based on the test signal and the received test signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kita
  • Patent number: 11852470
    Abstract: An inspecting device including a carrier, multiple telescopic probes, a locking component and a conductive structure is provided. The carrier has a through hole and a ground pad corresponding to the through hole. The through hole penetrates from the first surface to the second surface of the carrier, and the ground pad is disposed on the second surface. The telescopic probes are disposed in parallel on the first surface of the carrier. The locking component passes through the through hole and is disposed between two adjacent telescopic probes of the multiple telescopic probes. The locking component includes a screw. A head of the screw has a first pitch and a second pitch, and a density of the first pitch is different from a density of the second pitch. The conductive structure is partially embedded in the locking component, and the conductive structure, the locking component and the ground pad are electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Global Unichip Corporation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Chieh Liao, Yu-Min Sun, Chih-Feng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11856711
    Abstract: A method of forming a current measurement device includes providing a glass substrate having first and second substantially planar surfaces that are opposite one another, forming a plurality of through-vias in the glass substrate that each extend between the first and second substantially planar surfaces, and forming conductive tracks on the glass substrate that connect adjacent ones of the through-vias together. Forming the plurality of through-vias includes applying radiation to the glass substrate, and the conductive tracks and the through-vias collectively form a coil structure in the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Alexander Breymesser, Francisco Javier Santos Rodriguez, Klaus Sobe
  • Patent number: 11846657
    Abstract: A current detection apparatus includes first current detection circuitry configured to detect a current flowing through a conductive wire with a shunt resistor connected to the conductive wire to obtain a first detected current value; second current detection circuitry configured to detect the current with a Hall element to obtain a second detected current value; a storage configured to store a first probability distribution information of the first current detection circuitry and a second probability distribution information of the second current detection circuitry; synthesis circuitry configured to convert the first and second detected current values into first and second probability distributions based on the first and second probability distribution information, respectively, and to synthesize the first and second probability distributions to obtain a synthesized distribution; and estimation circuitry configured to obtain an estimated current value via a maximum likelihood estimation based on the synthes
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kita
  • Patent number: 11841394
    Abstract: A circuit is provided, comprising a transformer having a first coil that is arranged on a substrate and a second coil that is arranged on the substrate above the first coil, and a dielectric between the first coil and the second coil. The circuit furthermore comprises a guard ring around the transformer. The circuit furthermore comprises a diagnostic circuit (55) that is configured so as to ground the guard ring in a normal operating mode and to measure a measurement voltage or a measurement current at a measurement impedance between the guard ring and the ground potential in a diagnostic operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Marcus Nuebling, Jaafar Mejri
  • Patent number: 11839020
    Abstract: A trace embedded probe device includes a circuit board including an insulating layer unit whose upper surface has first recesses and a second recess located therebetween, grounding traces and a signal trace whose trace main bodies are disposed in the recesses respectively and flush in elevation with the upper surface, and a grounding layer disposed on a lower surface of the insulating layer unit and connected with the grounding traces by conductive vias penetrating through the first recesses and the lower surface and provided therein with conductive layers. The trace main bodies, grounding layer and conductive layers are made of a same metal material. Probes are disposed on the grounding and signal traces respectively. The probe device is easy in control of distance, width, thickness and surface roughness of the traces, and beneficial to achieve the requirements of thin copper traces, fine pitch and high frequency testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: MPI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yu-Shan Hu, Yi-Lung Lee, Shao-Lun Wei, Yu-Wen Chou
  • Patent number: 11835675
    Abstract: The present device and technique relates to measuring geological formation permeability, such as by injection/withdrawal of conductivity-permeability doped fluid and measuring the magnetic permeability and/or conductivity of the surrounding formation. Before, during and/or after injection or withdrawal, pluralities of electromagnetic measurements of the radial distribution of magnetic permeability and/or conductivity of the surrounding formation may be made. The rate of change of the radial distribution of magnetic permeability and/or conductivity of the formation is generally directly proportional to the permeability of the surrounding formation. In implementations, magnetic permeability and electrical conductivity can be measured independently in time domain or frequency domain, such that the magnetic permeability mapping is not disturbed by other confounding electromagnetic parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Val Riachentsev, Robert Adams, Max Deffenbaugh, Howard K. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11835571
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (D) for detecting a fault in an electrical network (1), comprising at least one electrical equipment (E) which is electrically connected to a first power conductor (C1) and to a second power conductor (C2), the electrical network (1) being provided with a common conductor (Cc). The device comprises a first measuring member (O1) of the common mode voltage present on the power conductors (C1, C2) and a second measuring member (O2) of a current flowing in the power conductors (C1, C2). The device also comprises a calculator (UP) configured to determine over a determined observation period a mixed energy (Emix) transported in the measurement region from the first variable (Vres) and the second variable (Inet). The invention also relates to an equipment, a localization system and a method for detecting a fault in an electrical network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER
    Inventor: Lionel Cima
  • Patent number: 11826770
    Abstract: To provide: an atomizer that allows a sample liquid to be made into minute droplets stably and that inhibits clogging of an aerosol gas outlet by salting out or the like when atomizing a sample containing a high density matrix; a sample introduction unit that includes the atomizer; and an analysis device. An atomizer includes: a liquid supply tube that has a first channel in which a liquid can circulate and that has, on one end, an outlet to spray the liquid; and a gas supply tube that encloses the liquid supply tube with a gap therebetween, that has a second channel in which a gas can circulate, and that has, on one end, an outlet to spray the gas. The second channel is defined by the outer circumferential face of the liquid supply tube and the inner circumferential face of the gas supply tube and has a narrow portion upstream of the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Kazumi Inagaki, Shinichi Miyashita, Shinichiro Fujii
  • Patent number: 11815541
    Abstract: A fault location system in a cable transport installation comprises a safety unit (10) and an end module (13) connected by an electrical safety line (11). The safety line (11) comprises a plurality of cable fault contacts (14) of the normally-closed type connected in series. The location system includes a plurality of location modules (20) distributed along the transport installation, each of which comprising a first test contact (21), of the normally-open type, for short-circuiting the safety line (11). Once a fault coming from one of the cable fault contacts (14) is detected, each location module (20) is capable of selectively closing its first test contact (21) so as to be able to locate said faulty contact (14) on the safety line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: POMA
    Inventor: Christian Paul Mathieu
  • Patent number: 11815530
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) power detector with a variable threshold for dynamic power detection. The RF power detector includes stacked transistors of an input stage and stacked transistors of an output stage. A DC bias voltage plus an input RF signal are applied to a control electrode on the input stage and the same DC bias voltage plus an additional DC bias voltage are applied to a control electrode on the output stage. Depending on the input power of the RF signal, a ? current is generated in the output stage, and the output capacitor is either charged or discharged, and the output capacitor voltage is compared to a threshold to generate an output signal. The output signal may be averaged over time by two capacitors, miller capacitor and output capacitor. The output voltage of the RF power detector is an integration over time of the input RF power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joerg Fuhrmann, Werner Schelmbauer, Herbert Stockinger, Dieter Pimingsdorfer
  • Patent number: 11808803
    Abstract: A thermal chamber multiple sides that form an enclosed chamber. The thermal chamber includes a first side of the multiple sides, the first side configured to adjustably mount an electronic circuit board within the enclosed chamber. The thermal chamber includes a second side of the multiple sides, the second side located opposite the first side and including one or more ports that expose the enclosed chamber. Each of the one or more ports is configured to receive a temperature control component that transfers thermal energy locally to and from a plurality of electronic devices of an electronic system that is coupled to and positioned above the electronic circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel G. Scobee, Aleksandr Semenuk, Aswin Thiruvengadam
  • Patent number: 11796583
    Abstract: A member for measuring a variable representative of a common mode voltage in an electrical network a device. The network or the device includes at least a first power conductor and a second power conductor. The measuring member has two capacitive elements which are intended to be arranged in a bridge between the two power conductors and have capacity values that are identical to each other. The two capacitive elements are connected at a midpoint. The measuring member also includes a two-terminal measurement circuit connected on the one hand to the midpoint and on the other hand to a connection terminal intended to be electrically connected to a common conductor provided in the electrical network or device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER, LIONEL CIMA
    Inventor: Lionel Cima
  • Patent number: 11796303
    Abstract: Provided is a sheet thickness measurement device capable of increasing measurement density and measurement accuracy over the entirety of a sheet to be measured. Based of a difference between a sheet thickness signal at a position of a backup roll where the sheet exists, and a sheet thickness signal at a position of the backup roll where the sheet does not exist, the sheet thickness signals from the plurality of sheet thickness sensors are zero-adjusted in association with the position of the surface of the backup roll. Based on an output signal from a magnetic sensor in a state in which the sheet is not present on the backup roll, the sheet thickness signals from the plurality of sheet thickness sensors in a state in which the sheet is present on the backup roll are corrected in association with the position of the surface of the backup roll. This enables high-density and accurate sheet thickness measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Maysun Corporation
    Inventor: Shigeru Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 11796582
    Abstract: The method for monitoring the electrical network comprises the identification of critical element(s) of the network, for at least one source-load pair that are connected to the network; the parametric estimation of a value of the electrical characteristic of each critical element, by using a numerical model modelling an electrical behavior of the network as a function of said electrical characteristic and of electrical measurements performed by means of sensors positioned in the network, a sensor being positioned in the network for each critical element on at least one network element or on at least one network path formed by a plurality of network elements affected by a disturbance in the electrical characteristic of this critical element; the evaluation, for said at least one source-load pair and the determination of a state of the electrical network by taking into account the operational criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRICAL & POWER, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
    Inventors: Anca-Lucia Dieudonne, Etienne Goddet, Nicolas Marie Henri Retiere, Jean-Michel Guichon