Patents Examined by Hoang Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9995170
    Abstract: A system for heating one or more components of a heat recovery steam generator that includes a heat-transferring conduit that fluidly connects a high-pressure section of a flow path to a low-pressure section of the flow path. The flow path is defined by a housing of the heat recovery steam generator and configured to direct a heat-containing medium. The heat-transferring conduit is configured to receive the heat-containing medium from the flow path such that the heat-containing medium flows through the heat-transferring conduit via a pressure differential between a first pressure of the heat-containing medium at the high-pressure section and a second pressure of the heat-containing medium at the low-pressure section. The heat-transferring conduit is further configured to heat the one or more components of the heat recovery steam generator via directing the heat-containing medium to be in heating contact with the one or more components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Fred Magee, Donald William Bairley
  • Patent number: 9995286
    Abstract: A method of harnessing geothermal energy to produce electricity without polluting the environment by using universal portable closed loop systems is provided. The Scientific Geothermal Technology, The Self Contained In-Ground Geothermal Generator; The Self Contained Heat Exchanger; and The IN-LINE PUMP consist of several designs and variations complementing each other and/or operating separately in many different applications in energy sectors. The system can be used for harnessing heat from established lava (tube) flows; harnessing the waste heat from the flame on top of flare stacks; and other situation where a source of heat is difficult to access or is not suitable for relatively heavy equipment of a power plant or power unit. Also, included is an exemplary use for restoration of the Salton Sea which implements the Scientific Geothermal Technology for exchanging water from a salty terminal lake with oceanic water and for production of electricity and fresh water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Inventor: Nikola Lakic
  • Patent number: 9997827
    Abstract: A base block of a flare antenna may be made by: forming a ground plane on a base insulating layer; forming an intermediate insulating layer over the ground plane; patterning radiating and shorting traces on the intermediate insulating layer; forming a top insulating layer over the radiating and shorting traces; forming a top metallization layer; connecting the top metallization layer to the ground plane with vias passing through the intermediate insulating layer; and forming a via that contacts the radiating trace and passes through the ground plane and is not in electrical contact with the top metallization layer or the ground plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventor: Daniel T. McGrath
  • Patent number: 9997845
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a rotationally triply symmetric three axis magnetic antenna system having substantial isolation among the three axes, including a three axis skew orthogonal magnetic antenna system and device utilizing the antenna system. The antenna system comprising three substantially identical magnetic antenna elements disposed symmetrically about a reference point such that the magnetic axes from the three antenna elements are orthogonal to one another in direction and do not intersect one another. The three antenna elements are positioned in a substantial cross coupling null from one another to minimize cross coupling. The arrangement yields packaging efficiency for compact electronic devices. A 1, 1, diameter embodiment is disclosed. A location system utilizing the antenna system is disclosed. Methods for producing the antenna are disclosed. A moldable triple coil holder for the antenna system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Q-Track Corporation
    Inventors: Hans Gregory Schantz, Christopher David Pittman, James Lee Richards, Stephen A. Werner
  • Patent number: 9991600
    Abstract: A dual mode antenna including: an insulative sheet; a loop-shaped wireless communication coil formed on a front surface of the insulative sheet; and a wireless power transmission coil formed inside the loop-shaped wireless communication coil to be electrically disconnected from the loop-shaped wireless communication coil, and formed on the front surface and a rear surface of the insulative sheet, the wireless power transmission coil being electrically connected from each other via a via-hole passing through the insulative sheet to wirelessly transmit or receive power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: LS CABLE & SYSTEM LTD.
    Inventors: Min Seok Han, Young Sun Kim, Sung Han You, Lae Hyuk Park, Un Kyu Park, Ji Hyung Lee
  • Patent number: 9989055
    Abstract: A liquid pump in the present disclosure includes a pressure container, a shaft, a first bearing, a second bearing, a pump mechanism, and a thrust bearing. The internal space of the pressure container is partitioned into a high pressure side space and a low pressure side space. The shaft has a thrust supported face, one of both ends of the shaft is disposed in the high pressure side space, and the other of both ends of the shaft is disposed in the low pressure side space. The pump mechanism is disposed between the first bearing and the second bearing, and pumps liquid by rotation of the shaft. The thrust bearing is disposed to face the thrust supported face between the first bearing and the second bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takumi Hikichi
  • Patent number: 9988984
    Abstract: A turbo-charging system of an engine comprising: a central body on which a turbine and a compressor, both keyed on a same shaft, are mounted; and at least two flange diffusers connected to two Venturi tubes comprised in the central body and ending with nozzles. The turbocharging system is interposed between the engine air filter and the engine throttle unit, the turbine receiving from the nozzles the engine intaking air at the output of the air filter whose flow determines the handling of the turbine and, through the shaft, of the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Inventor: Flavio Ferranti
  • Patent number: 9989068
    Abstract: A method for controlling an inlet-adjustment mechanism in an air inlet for a compressor so as to switch the mechanism in a binary fashion between two positions P1 and P2 for adjusting a flow area of the inlet. The method includes identifying a threshold line on a compressor map of pressure ratio versus corrected flow rate for the compressor. The threshold line is a line on which the pressure ratio and flow rate of the compressor are the same for the P1 and P2 positions of the inlet-adjustment mechanism at equal speeds. When the operating point of the compressor on the compressor map crosses the threshold line, the inlet-adjustment mechanism is switched from one of its binary positions to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Vit Houst, William Joseph Smith
  • Patent number: 9991586
    Abstract: A portable electronic device including a front cover, a back cover and a circuit board is provided. The circuit board is located between the front cover and the back cover. The back cover is combined with the front cover and includes a back section, a plurality of side sections and a separator, at least one of the side sections adjacent to the back cover includes a groove close to the back section and a slot far away from the back section, the slot is connected through to the groove, a first antenna unit and a second antenna unit are defined at the side section by the groove and the slot. The separator is located in the groove and the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Chien-Ming Hsu, Wang-Ta Hsieh, Kuei-Shun Yeh, Shih-Chia Chiu, Chuan-Chien Huang
  • Patent number: 9988996
    Abstract: A method of controlling a supercharger includes: an information conversion step, a map deducing step, a boost amount deducing step, and a RPM deducing step. In the information conversion step, a sensor detects information of a vehicle, and a control unit converts the information into a factor and saves. The map deducing step includes deducing a total boost amount for driving an engine, and deducing a map for a target boost amount of a supercharger using a boost pressure of a turbocharger. A correction value deduced in the boost amount deducing step is calculated according to vehicle environment information, and a target RPM of the supercharger is calculated based on the target boost amount of the supercharger, and a boost pressure by the supercharger. In particular, the target boost amount of the supercharger is deduced based on the correction value, the converted factor, and the deduced map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Seung Eun Yu, Young Ho Kim, Hyo Sang Cho
  • Patent number: 9989020
    Abstract: Embodiments of an internal combustion engine are provided. In one example, an engine includes at least one cylinder, an intake system for supplying charge air to the at least one cylinder, an exhaust-gas discharge system for discharging exhaust gas from the at least one cylinder, a first exhaust-gas turbocharger including a first turbine arranged in the exhaust-gas discharge system and a first compressor arranged in the intake system; and an exhaust-gas recirculation (EGR) system. The EGR system includes a line which branches off from the exhaust-gas discharge system and opens into the intake system, a second exhaust-gas turbocharger comprising an EGR turbine arranged in the line on a shaft and an EGR compressor arranged in the line on the shaft upstream of said EGR turbine, and an EGR cooler positioned between the EGR turbine and the EGR compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vanco Smiljanovski, Joerg Kemmerling, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Franz J. Brinkmann, Werner Willems, Claudia Conee, Michael Forsting, Claudia Katharina Herudek, Tim Franken
  • Patent number: 9991598
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an antenna unit including an antenna pattern; a magnetic member arranged over the antenna unit; and a device that acts as a non-contact type integrated circuit, wherein a ratio of an area of the magnetic member to an area of a region including an outermost periphery of the antenna pattern is 90% or more, and wherein a resonant frequency of the wireless communication device has a deviation from a target resonant frequency falls within a range of ?1.720% to +4.334%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shuya Kaechi
  • Patent number: 9982625
    Abstract: A burner (1) comprises a front wall (2) with an exchanger opening (4) for the passage of a heat exchanger (14), a rear wall (5) with a fume discharge opening (7), a tubular side wall (8), a tubular diffuser wall (9) within the side wall (8), an annular distribution chamber (12) formed between the side wall (8), a combustion chamber (13) formed within the diffuser wall (9) and suitable for the insertion of the heat exchanger (14), wherein the rear wall (5) comprises a cooling interspace in flow communication with the gas supply line of the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Worgas Bruciatori S.r.l.
    Inventors: Antonio Acocella, Gabriele Gangale, Giulio Cenci
  • Patent number: 9982610
    Abstract: A control method of a boosting apparatus includes: driving the boosting apparatus according to driving maps pre-input to a controller, judging driving conditions of an engine, selecting a driving map pre-input to the controller and reflecting the driving conditions in the selected driving map, correcting the driving maps of the boosting apparatus based on the selected driving map and driving the boosting apparatus based on the corrected driving maps, and confirming whether variations in operating amounts of the boosting apparatus are generated and, when the variations are confirmed, correcting the operating amounts of the boosting apparatus and reflecting the corrected operating amounts in the driving maps. In particular, the controller controls an EGR valve according to driving conditions through operation of the boosting apparatus and thus controls the amount of EGR gas supplied to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Jung Sub Lee, Young Ho Kim, Hyo Sang Cho, Seung Eun Yu
  • Patent number: 9985344
    Abstract: Electronic articles, antennae, and processes of producing electronic articles are disclosed. The electronic article includes a rigid substrate having a non-planar region and a sintered conductive ink positioned on the non-planar region. The antenna is a specific type of electronic article covered by the disclosure. Additionally or alternatively, the antenna has a light transmission of at least 85%. The process includes positioning a substrate having a non-planar region, applying a conductive ink to the non-planar region, and sintering the conductive ink on the non-planar region thereby producing the sintered conductive ink on the electronic article and/or producing an antenna having a light transmission of at least 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bruce Foster Bishop, James Paul Scholz, Jerry L. Moore, Michael A. Oar, Leonard Henry Radzilowski
  • Patent number: 9985346
    Abstract: Antenna package structures are provided to implement wireless communications packages. For example, an antenna package includes a package carrier and a package cover. The package carrier includes an antenna ground plane and an antenna feed line. The package cover includes a planar lid having a planar antenna element formed on a first surface of the planar lid. The package cover is bonded to a first surface of the package carrier with the first surface of the planar lid facing the first surface of the package carrier, and with the planar antenna element aligned to the antenna ground plane and the antenna feed line of the package carrier, wherein the first surface of the planar lid is disposed at a distance from the first surface of the package carrier to provide an air space between the planar antenna element and the package carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Wilhelmus Baks, Xiaoxiong Gu, Duixian Liu, Alberto Valdes-Garcia
  • Patent number: 9982569
    Abstract: A method for operating a steam turbine plant including a steam turbine and a steam generator allows a power reserve to be provided whilst simultaneously maintaining a high level of efficiency in the normal mode of operation. The steam turbine plant includes a heat reservoir which is associated with the steam turbine, from which the steam is removed and is fed to the steam turbine. The steam is fed to the steam turbine when the steam generator is not in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Lenk, Alexander Tremel
  • Patent number: 9976478
    Abstract: A solar heat turbine system includes: a compressor which compresses a working fluid, and generates a high-pressure working fluid; a solar heat receiver which heats the high-pressure working fluid with solar heat, and which generates a high-temperature working fluid; a turbine which is rotationally driven by the high-temperature working fluid; a restriction mechanism which restricts a flow of at least one of the high-pressure working fluid and the high-temperature working fluid; a rotation interlocking mechanism which rotationally drives the compressor so as to interlock with the turbine; a bleed mechanism which causes the high-pressure working fluid which is in a process of being generated in the compressor to be bled as a bled working fluid; and a system control unit which causes the bleed mechanism to execute bleeding after the restriction mechanism is caused to restrict.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shoichi Harada, Kazuya Higashi, Takashi Sonoda, Keisuke Yamamoto, Yoshifumi Iwasaki, Tatsuya Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 9979082
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an antenna assembly is described. The antenna assembly includes and antenna and an antenna positioner coupled to the antenna. The antenna positioner includes a single drive interface and a plurality of gears. The plurality of rotate in a first manner in response to a first drive direction applied through the single drive interface, and rotate in a second manner in response to a second drive applied through the single drive interface. The antenna positioner also includes a threaded rod that moves in a first rod direction and a second rod direction in response to rotation of the plurality of gears in the first manner and the second manner respectively. The antenna positioner also includes a tilt plate contacting the threaded rod. The tilt plate tilts about a pivot line in response to movement of the threaded rod to move a beam of the antenna in a spiral pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: VIASAT, INC.
    Inventors: Donald L Runyon, Edward Mitch Blalock
  • Patent number: 9972891
    Abstract: An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for a given antenna may be formed from metal structures supported by a plastic carrier. The antenna resonating element arm may be coupled to switching circuitry to isolate the antenna resonating element arm when the antenna resonating element arm is not being used to handle communications in a communications band. The electronic device may have a metal housing. A slot may separate a peripheral portion of the housing such as a sidewall portion from a planar rear portion. The sidewall portion and the planar rear portion may form an additional antenna that operates at communications frequencies outside of the communications band handled by the given antenna. A parasitic antenna resonating element arm may be formed in the slot to enhance the frequency response of the additional antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Hongfei Hu, Nanbo Jin, Matthew A. Mow, Liang Han, Mattia Pascolini