Patents Examined by James Wu
  • Patent number: 12045095
    Abstract: A window includes a folding portion foldable with respect to an imaginary folding axis extending in a first direction, a first non-folding portion, and a second non-folding portion spaced apart from the first non-folding portion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction with the folding portion interposed therebetween. The folding portion includes a base portion and a plurality of protrusion portions disposed on the base portion and spaced apart from each other in the second direction. A width, in the first direction, of the folding portion is smaller than a width, in the first direction, of each of the first non-folding portion and the second non-folding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seongjin Hwang, Kyung-Man Kim, Dawoon Kim, Sanghoon Kim, Sunghoon Kim, Seungho Kim, Yuri Kim, Min-Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 12045094
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display screen having a bendable region; a housing around the flexible display screen; and a support layer having ductility between the housing and a back side of the flexible display screen. The support layer is at least partially on the bendable region of the flexible display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghong Zhou, Shangchieh Chu
  • Patent number: 12038792
    Abstract: The present application provides a flexible display panel, an electronic device, and a hinge. A plurality of support members of the hinge rotate under an action of a rotation mechanism and a linkage mechanism, and a rotation of the support member drives a first packaging mechanism and a second packaging mechanism to rotate. Thus, when the support member is in a first position and a second position, the first packaging mechanism and the second packaging mechanism may shield the rotation mechanism and the linkage mechanism. The packaging mechanism may shield and protect members in the hinge before and after folding a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zikang Feng
  • Patent number: 12038790
    Abstract: A display device is provided. The display device includes a housing, a flexible display screen arranged in the housing, and a keyboard assembly located between the housing and the flexible display screen. The keyboard assembly includes a driving component and a keyboard component. The flexible display screen and the keyboard component are fixedly connected, and the keyboard component is arranged up and down in the housing along a light emitting direction of the flexible display screen through the driving component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zikang Feng
  • Patent number: 12035500
    Abstract: A cage assembly is configured to be detachably cooperated with an engagement component having at least one through hole and at least one engagement portion. The cage assembly includes a main cage and a releasing component, the main cage includes at least one engaging structure configured to be inserted into the at least one through hole and engaged with the at least one engagement portion, and the releasing component is slidably disposed on the main cage and is configured to push the engagement component so as to force the at least one engagement portion to be released from the at least one engaging structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventor: Zhong-Hui Mao
  • Patent number: 12035495
    Abstract: A computer system includes a chassis comprising location indicating elements, such as springs, magnets, standoffs, or other types of location indicating elements physically attached to the chassis in a configuration that indicates locations in the chassis. Also, the computer system includes multiple printed circuit boards comprising pads configured to interface with the location indicating elements, wherein combinations of sensed or not sensed location indicating elements at the pads of the printed circuit boards provide a physically verified placement location for the printed circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shay Madar, Yotam Admon, Ali Elashri, Ziv Harel, Nafea Bshara, Noam Navon
  • Patent number: 12026025
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a body in a plate shape, and a storage unit that includes a storage device and is removably attached to the body. The body includes a housing part in a recessed shape that is recessed in a thickness direction of the body, the housing part storing the storage unit, and a first connector provided on a bottom surface of the housing part. The storage unit includes a second connector connected to the first connector to be removably attached in the thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Furujiku, Ryusuke Teramoto, Munehiro Torii, Tatsuo Kuromoto
  • Patent number: 12019477
    Abstract: In at least one example, an electronic device can include a display film and a retention assembly for the display film. The retention assembly can include an aperture defined by the display film with the display film encircling the aperture. The retention assembly can further include a post extending towards the aperture and a bracket having a first portion adhered to the display film and a second portion abutting the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Po Chang, Chun Chih Cheng, Mandy Wong, Marianna C. Sbordone
  • Patent number: 12016123
    Abstract: Computer modules that can have a high-capacity, can simplify the design of a computer system housing the modules, can utilize system resources in a highly configurable manner, can provide a variety of functionality, and can be readily inserted into, and removed from, a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Michael E. Leclerc, Eric R. Prather, Scott J. Campbell, James M. Cuseo, Rodrigo Dutervil Mubarak, Ian A. Guy, Daniel D. Hershey, Mariel L. Lanas, Michael D. McBroom, David C. Parell, Bartley K. Andre, Danny L. McBroom, Houtan R. Farahani
  • Patent number: 12016140
    Abstract: An electrical device includes a housing including a receiving space in which electrical components of the device are arranged, a cover device including a first cover element and a second cover element, and a sensor unit including a magnetic element and a magnetic sensor, which is configured to provide a detection signal when the magnetic element is detected to be absent. The first cover element has a cut-out, and the second cover element is arranged such that the second cover element, in a first position, covers the cut-out and, in a second position, allows access to the cut-out. The cover device is arranged such that the cover device, in a first position, closes the receiving space when the second cover element is in the first position, and in a second position, allows access to the first sub-receiving space and the second sub-receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Christof Bothor, Frank Roeder, Christoph Hoyler, Markus Reymann, Michael Tilp
  • Patent number: 12016122
    Abstract: A video transcoding card includes a first transcoding assembly and a second transcoding assembly. The first transcoding assembly includes a first circuit board, first transcoding boards, and a first main electrical connector. The first transcoding boards and the first main electrical connector are disposed on the first circuit board and are electrically connected to the first circuit board. The second transcoding assembly includes a second circuit board, second transcoding boards and a second main electrical connector. The second transcoding boards and the second main electrical connector are disposed on the second circuit board and are electrically connected to the second circuit board. The first main electrical connector and the second main electrical connector are connected to each other, and the second transcoding boards are electrically connected to the first circuit board via the second circuit board, the second main electrical connector, and the first main electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xun Wang, Sheng Guo
  • Patent number: 12013722
    Abstract: A computing device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a display operatively coupled to the processor; and an external shell assembly that includes an array of electronic components, where the array of electronic components includes transducers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Joseph David Plunkett, Jeremy Carlson, Dhruvi Suresh Fulfagar
  • Patent number: 12007805
    Abstract: A foldable display panel and a manufacturing method of the display panel are provided. A plurality of photo spacers are disposed in a first region of the foldable display panel, i.e., the plurality of photo spacers are disposed at a folded position. Widths of the photo spacers gradually decrease from a flexible substrate to a direction away from the flexible substrate. When the foldable display panel is folded, the photo spacers can cooperate with a folding curve to contact with each other, thereby reducing extrusion between the plurality of photo spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Liu, Baixiang Han
  • Patent number: 12007816
    Abstract: A heat dissipation module is adapted for a circuit board, which has an M.2 bonding hole. The heat dissipation module includes a supporting bracket and a heat dissipation element. The supporting bracket has a first side and a second side opposite to each other, and an accommodating space, which is located between the first side and the second side, and is adapted for installing an SSD interface card. The first side has a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole. The heat dissipation element is combined to the first side through the first mounting hole. When the SSD interface card is installed in the accommodating space, the SSD interface card and the supporting bracket are combined to the M.2 bonding hole through the second mounting hole so that the second side faces the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Dun-Hao Yang, Kuang-Yu Chang, Ming-Fang Tsai
  • Patent number: 12010807
    Abstract: A base member of the sensor includes a first projection part, a second projection part, and a third projection part, being columnar and projecting from a first placement surface. Tip ends of the first, second and third projection parts are formed on second placement surfaces. The first and second projection parts respectively include a fourth pin and a fifth pin inserted through a second rigid substrate and projecting from the second placement surface. Three ribs are formed on a peripheral surface of the fourth pin and disposed so that positions viewed from a center of the fourth pin respectively form angles less than 180 degrees. Two ribs are formed on a peripheral surface of the fifth pin, and project along a fourth line perpendicular to a third line connecting the fourth pin and the fifth pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Mizusaki, Jumpei Nakamura, Shunya Takahashi, Tomonari Kawakami
  • Patent number: 12007811
    Abstract: A cable retractor includes a frame having first and second frame ends, opposing frame walls between the frame ends, and a track extending along one of the frame walls. A block slides along the track. A single first pulley is coupled to the block and is rotatable about a first axis that moves together with the block, the first pulley being the sole pulley that is rotatable about the first axis. A spring spool is mounted at the first frame end. A spring has a coiled part wound around the spring spool and has a segment that extends away from the coiled part and is coupled to the block. A single second pulley is disposed at the second frame end and is rotatable about a fixed second axis, the second pulley being the sole pulley that is rotatable about the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Crestron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: King Woo Cheung, Ningsheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 12004313
    Abstract: A connecting module that includes a body to engage with a computing resource, a first lever having a first end pivotally coupled to a first side of the body, and a second lever having a first end pivotally coupled to a second side of the body, second ends of both levers being latched with a front side of the body. The connecting module includes an actuator disposed on the front side of the body to allow disengagement of the module from the computing resource upon actuation, and to unlatch the second ends of each of the first lever and the second lever from the front side of the body. The first lever and the second lever are manually deflected with respect to first ends to allow travel of the module in a direction inward and outward with respect to the computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BULL SAS
    Inventors: Jithendra Bangera, Sanjayakumar Halli
  • Patent number: 11996871
    Abstract: A transmitter housing of an operating device for devices and installations, such as in particular remote-controlled mobile, industrial or commercial devices and installations, has a housing wall which encloses a receptacle, wherein at least one operating element is mounted on an outer side of the housing wall and control electronics are accommodated in the receptacle, and two retaining elements, which close the receptacle, which are connected to a left-hand end and a right-hand end of the housing wall and therein project beyond the contour of the housing wall on all sides of the latter. Therein it is provided that the retaining elements are produced from an elastomer material at least in a respective contact region with the housing wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Haug
  • Patent number: 11997820
    Abstract: A cage assembly includes a cage body and an adjustable component, where the adjustable component is movably disposed on the cage body, the adjustable component has a connector-installing portion, and a position of the connector-installing portion is changed along with the adjustable component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Zih-Yao Liu, Shin-Yi Hsieh
  • Patent number: 11991818
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided and includes a circuit board and a casing. The circuit board includes a plate body, a perforation and a ground wire. The perforation penetrates through the plate body, the ground wire is electrically coupled with the plate body and crosses over the perforation. The casing includes a bottom plate and a clamping structure. The clamping structure is disposed on the bottom plate and includes a first clamping part and a second clamping part. The circuit board is disposed in the casing, and the clamping structure penetrates through the plate body through the perforation, so that the circuit board is positioned on the casing, and the ground wire is clamped by the first clamping part and the second clamping part of the clamping structure. Consequently, the circuit board is grounded with the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jui-Ching Lee, Po-Heng Chao, Do Chen, Ching-Ho Chou