Patents Examined by James Wu
  • Patent number: 12761705
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first body including a first side and a second side opposite to each other, a first interface disposed at the first body and configured to electrically connect to a first external device, a display device disposed at the first body and exposed through the second side, a second body connected to the first body through a connection device and configured to move relative to the first body, and a second interface disposed at the second body and configured to electrically connect to a second external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2026
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiaoju Gao
  • Patent number: 12753791
    Abstract: A hinge mechanism includes a base, first rotating components, second rotating components, a first connecting component, a second connecting component, a floating support component, and elastic reset members. In a case that the hinge mechanism is in a first state, at least one of the plurality of the second rotating components supports the floating support component, and the elastic reset members are in a stretched or compressed state. A distance between an outer wall of the base facing away from a rotation axis of the first rotating component and the floating support component is a first distance. In a case that the hinge mechanism is in a second state, the second rotating components avoid the floating support component, a distance between the outer wall of the base and the floating support component is a second distance, and the second distance is less than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenhui Zeng, Yibo Guo
  • Patent number: 12754589
    Abstract: A display device and a flexible frame. The display device includes a housing, a display panel, a flexible frame and a covering body. The flexible frame includes a first fitting body, two second fitting bodies and a covering body. The two second fitting bodies are connected to two opposite ends of the first fitting body, respectively. The first fitting body and the two second fitting bodies together from an installation space, and the display panel is located in the installation space. The covering body protrudes from a side of the first fitting body that is located away from the installation space and has at least one exposing hole. The capturing assembly is disposed on the housing. The first fitting body and the covering body cover different sides of the capturing assembly, respectively. The exposing hole exposes the capturing assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jui-Fong Ho, Te-Shih Chin
  • Patent number: 12748468
    Abstract: A semiconductor storage device includes a substrate, a semiconductor memory, a controller, and an electronic part. The substrate has opposing first and second faces extending in a first direction, a third face extending in a thickness direction of the substrate, a recess provided in the third face and extending in the thickness direction, and a conductive portion provided on an inner face of the recess. The electronic part has a main body and a lead protruding from the main body. The lead has a first portion, which protrudes linearly from the main body toward the recess in the first direction, and a second portion bent from the first portion and extending linearly along the inner face of the recess in the thickness direction, and the second portion is fixed to the conductive portion such that one portion of the first portion overlaps the recess when viewed in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Teruyuki Narita
  • Patent number: 12750949
    Abstract: Tamper-detect assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided. A tamper-detect assembly includes a laminate carrier with embedded tamper-detect circuitry within the laminate carrier, and one or more electronic components on the laminate carrier. Further, the tamper-detect assembly includes a heat sink cover. The heat sink cover includes a heat sink and tamper-detect circuitry integrated within the heat sink cover. The heat sink cover is mounted to the laminate carrier and encloses the one or more electronic components between the laminate carrier and the heat sink cover. Together, the embedded tamper-detect circuitry of the laminate carrier and the integrated tamper-detect circuitry of the heat sink cover define, at least in part, a secure volume about the one or more electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philipp K. Buchling Rego, Sushumna Iruvanti, Jeffrey Allen Zitz, Steven Paul Ostrander, Thomas Anthony Wassick, William Santiago-Fernandez, Nihad Hadzic, James Busby
  • Patent number: 12750993
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a circuit board, a shield base mounted to a surface of the circuit board, a compression connector housed within the shield base and placed on the surface, an information handling resource housed within the shield base and placed on the compression connector, and a shield cap mechanically coupled to the shield base to cause compressive mechanical force between the shield cap and the circuit board which in turn causes compressive mechanical force among the information handling resource, the compression connector, and the circuit board in order to electrically couple the information handling resource to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kened Li-Diaz, Anthony W. Howard
  • Patent number: 12750970
    Abstract: A test system rack or cabinet includes a housing containing instruments or equipment and a mass interconnect (MIC) mounted within the housing. The MIC has inputs to couple to the instruments or equipment and outputs to couple to a second MIC separate from the rack. The test system rack has legs positioned underneath the housing to support the housing and the first MIC. The test system rack has actuators configured to adjust a position of the first MIC without adjusting a position of the one or more legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2026
    Assignee: National Instruments Corporation
    Inventors: Kosta Ilic, Michael H. Singerman, Kevin Krietz
  • Patent number: 12743138
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a slider that is movable between a first position and a second position; a shield cover on the slider, the shield cover being located to cover the front of the camera when the slider is in the first position and located to be away from the front of the camera when the slider is in the second position; a movable magnet at the slider; and a fixed magnet at the chassis. The fixed magnet has four poles of magnets. The fixed magnet is configured so that the width of the magnets at both ends is narrower than the width of the center magnets, and the center magnets have the same width and are wider than the width of the magnets at both ends. The width of the movable magnet is equal to or less than half of the width of the fixed magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2026
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Takehito Yamauchi, Shigehiro Horiuchi, So Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 12740001
    Abstract: A rail mounting backplane kit is provided and including a backplane assembly, a first mating structure and a second cooperating structure. The first mating structure is for cooperating with a first cooperating structure of a first cooperating backplane kit for allowing or restraining assembly of the backplane assembly and a first cooperating backplane assembly of the first cooperating backplane kit, and the first mating structure includes a plurality of first mating features, which can selectively be protruding, flat or recessed mating features. The second cooperating structure is for cooperating with a second mating structure of a second cooperating backplane kit for allowing or restraining assembly of the backplane assembly and a second cooperating backplane assembly of the second cooperating backplane kit, and the second cooperating structure includes a plurality of second cooperating features, which can selectively be protruding, flat, or recessed cooperating features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: Moxa Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Jen Shih, Chih-Hsiang Tang
  • Patent number: 12737016
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing having an outer wall forming a side surface of the electronic device and having at least one opening and an inner wall arranged to be spaced apart from the outer wall to form a groove. The electronic device further includes an input button inserted into the opening; a waterproof member arranged between the outer wall and the inner wall and including a protrusion coming in contact with one surface of the outer wall; a switch module including a switch; and a bracket arranged between the switch module and the inner wall. The protrusion forms a structure in which the height of a first region is greater than the height of a second region on the basis of one surface of the waterproof member corresponding to the position in which the input button is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gyeongtae Kim, Taewon Park
  • Patent number: 12740033
    Abstract: A fabric-over-foam (FOF) gasket assembly includes a foam core having a shaped suited for sealing a gap in a structure of the computing device. The foam core has a base surface and a sealing surface. The FOF gasket assembly further includes an electrically conductive fabric wrapped around the foam core, and a conductive adhesive attached to the base surface. The conductive adhesive includes a release coat layer for attaching the conductive adhesive to the base surface of the foam core, a carrier layer attached to the release coat layer, and a release paper layer removably attached to the carrier layer. The carrier layer includes a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) layer forming a structural base of the threads, an inner layer of a copper material, and an outer layer of a nickel material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2026
    Assignee: Quanta Computer Inc.
    Inventor: Ching-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 12733142
    Abstract: An electronic component comprising a package base and an at least partly metallic cap which is attached to the package base to form an enclosure. A metallic sheet is fixed to the package base. The metallic sheet comprises a sheet side section and the cap comprises a cap side section. The sheet side section is in contact with the cap side section so that they together form a side-shield on the side of the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Teppo Syrjänen
  • Patent number: 12727104
    Abstract: A power supply mechanism is provided, which includes a housing and a power supply component, the housing is provided with an installation chamber, which is provided with a battery cell bracket, a bottom of the housing is provided with a fixing part, which is configured to face with the installation chamber, a top of the housing is provided with a connection groove corresponding to the fixing part, the connection groove is communicated with the installation chamber, the power supply component is connected to the battery cell bracket, passes through the connection groove and is provided with a conductive column that is protruded along a direction away from the connection groove; the power supply component is faced to the conductive column and provided with a conductive elastic sheet, a locking part is formed by an outer wall of the conductive column and the connection groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2026
    Assignee: CHAO CHEN
    Inventor: Chao Chen
  • Patent number: 12713547
    Abstract: A rotating shaft assembly, including a shaft sleeve which has an inner cavity, a second shaft, and a flexible circuit board. A part of the second shaft is located in the inner cavity and is rotatably connected to the shaft sleeve, and the other part of the second shaft is located outside the inner cavity. The flexible circuit board includes a first electrical connection end and a second electrical connection end located outside the inner cavity, a mounting part located between the first electrical connection end and the second electrical connection end, which includes a wound part and a laminated part that are connected, the wound part is wound around the part that is of the second shaft and located in the inner cavity, the laminated part is in a folded state, and at least a part of the laminated part is accommodated in a channel of the second shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Li, Wei Chen, Zhangjun Chen, Xianchun Zhang
  • Patent number: 12710787
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel mounted on a curved surface, and driver circuits including circuit elements which are mounted on a plurality of plane surfaces provided on the back of the curved surface in a stepwise shape along the curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2026
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 12701666
    Abstract: Example integrated separator devices for hardware component separation are disclosed herein. An example apparatus include a processor carrier having an inner edge and an outer edge; and a component separator rotatably coupled to the processor carrier, the component separator including a shaft, an entirety of the component separator closer to a center of the processor carrier than the outer edge is to the center of the processor carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Neumann, Andrew Larson, Eric Buddrius, Jeffory Smalley, Shelby Ferguson
  • Patent number: 12696415
    Abstract: A buffer module including a main body, a driven component, and a sliding assembly is provided. The driven component is movably disposed on the main body and is used to move relatively to the main body. The sliding assembly is slidably disposed on the main body along a moving direction, where the sliding assembly is used to contact the driven component to suppress the movement of the driven component. In addition, an electronic device including the buffer module is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Siyun Tan, Yisheng Chen
  • Patent number: 12696405
    Abstract: This patent relates to hinged devices, such as computing devices. One example includes a first portion and a second portion. A compliant mechanism is positioned in the first portion and includes a pair of bell cranks coupled by a cross-member. A flexible hinge has opposing sides of a first end secured to the pair of bell cranks and a second end secured to the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Oluwatomi Osamuede Akin-Sodipo, Brian D. Bitz, Nicholas Wendt
  • Patent number: 12696410
    Abstract: A lock mechanism is attachable to a rack-mountable exterior body for housing an electronic device, and includes a latch and a bumper. The latch has a first flat plate and a first protrusion). The first flat plate has a main surface. The first protrusion protrudes from the first flat plate to a side that the main surface faces. The bumper has a second flat plate in contact with the latch and a second protrusion. The second protrusion protrudes from the second flat plate to a side in the same direction as the first protrusion. A specific axis parallel to the main surface is a first axis, and an axis orthogonal to the first axis and parallel to the main surface is a second axis. The first protrusion has a latch surface perpendicular to the first axis. The second protrusion has a bumper surface perpendicular to the second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masataka Furuno
  • Patent number: 12696421
    Abstract: A method for managing computer network cables is disclosed. The method includes inserting a cable holding tool between two rows of computer network cables that are connected to a multiport network device, the cable holding tool having two rows of notches on opposite long edges of the cable holding tool, after the cable holding tool is inserted between the two rows of computer network cables, inserting the computer network cables into the notches of the two rows of notches, after the computer network cables are inserted into the notches of the two rows of notches, disconnecting the computer network cables from the multiport network device, and after the computer network cables are disconnected from the multiport network device, moving the cable holding tool, which has the computer network cables inserted into the notches of the two rows of notches, away from the multiport network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Nile Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Promode Nedungadi, Vigneshwara Upadhyaya