Patents Examined by James Wu
  • Patent number: 11889653
    Abstract: A power converter includes a cabinet and an electric device accommodated in the cabinet. The cabinet includes a housing, a door, a support member, and a rotation mechanism. The door is rotatably supported around a first axis with respect to the housing. The support member is interposed between the housing and the door to support the door in the housing. The rotation mechanism rotates the door with respect to the housing around a second axis along a direction orthogonal to a plane direction of an opening of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MITSUBISHI-ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Hasumi
  • Patent number: 11886240
    Abstract: The mobile terminal includes a first part, a second part, a connection structure, and a flexible circuit board. A signal is transmitted between the first part and the second part through the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a first end and a second end. The first end is electrically connected to the first part, and the second end is electrically connected to the second part. The flexible circuit board passes through the connection structure, and a part of the flexible circuit board in the connection structure maintains a regular bending structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wentao Bie, Wen Fan, Chia Huan Chang, Qilin Xu, Rui Wang
  • Patent number: 11886255
    Abstract: A foldable display device includes a first casing and a second casing supporting a first area and a second area of a display panel, respectively, a support disposed between the first casing and the second casing, supporting the display panel based on the folding direction of the foldable display device, and including a support body which ascends toward the display panel during the out-folding operation, and descends toward a bottom face of the hinge cover during the in-folding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuk Lee, Seungo Jeon, Youngjoon Yun
  • Patent number: 11886256
    Abstract: A hinge and an electronic device are provided. The hinge includes a hinge body and a bendable assembly. The bendable assembly is in movable connection with one of opposite sides of the hinge body. The bendable assembly includes a first swing arm, a sliding member and a guide member. The first swing arm is in movable connection with the hinge body. A side wall of the sliding member is provided with a chute, and an end, close to the hinge body, of the chute is provided with a gap. The guide member is connected to the first swing arm and is configured to be engaged with or exited from the chute through the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xinwei Liu
  • Patent number: 11889644
    Abstract: The hinge assembly includes: a rotating assembly and a hovering mechanism. The rotating assembly includes a first rotating part, and the first rotating part comprises a first guide groove extending obliquely around an axial direction of the first rotating part. The hovering mechanism comprises a sliding member and a position limiting member. The sliding member includes a protruding part, the protruding part extends into the first guide groove. The first rotating part drives the sliding member to move along the axial direction of the first rotating part when rotating. One of the position limiting member and the sliding member comprises a first limiting part, the other of the position limiting member and the sliding member comprises a second limiting part cooperated with the first limiting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jieming Yang
  • Patent number: 11882677
    Abstract: Waterborne data center facility systems and methods comprising a purpose-built marine vessel, a pre-fabricated data center facility structure, a plurality of computer systems, a plurality of energy-efficient water-based heat exchange systems, a plurality of energy efficient closed-loop cooling systems, a plurality of data center modules and a plurality of electrical power generators. Described systems and methods may be employed to quickly deploy an energy-efficient waterborne data center facility. Described waterborne data center facility is transportable and may be moved to areas where data center facility and data center type services are needed. Water-based heat exchange and closed-loop cooling system enable energy-efficient cooling to data center facility and the plurality of computing systems therein. Power generators may be used to provide power to data center facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Nautilus TRUE, LLC
    Inventors: Arnold Castillo Magcale, Daniel Kekai, Byron Putnam Taylor
  • Patent number: 11877419
    Abstract: A chassis structure is provided and includes a main body, a lateral plate and a restraining mechanism. The lateral plate is detachably installed on the main body. The restraining mechanism is disposed between the main body and the lateral plate. The restraining mechanism includes a first restraining component and a second restraining component. The first restraining component is disposed on one of the main body and the lateral plate. The second restraining component is disposed on another one of the main body and the lateral plate. The first restraining component is configured to abut against the second restraining component to restrain a pivotal angle of the lateral plate relative to the main body for positioning the lateral plate at a supporting position relative to the main body, so as to prevent the lateral plate from falling off. Besides, an electronic device having the aforementioned chassis structure is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Ming-Chih Shih, Jun Hao Wang, Qi-Hong Yang
  • Patent number: 11871530
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing; a display provided at a front side thereof; and a stand provided at a back side thereof. The housing has a transition wall between back and bottom walls, which extends further to the front as further downwardly separated from the back wall. The transition wall has a recessed part and a ventilation hole communicated with the recessed part. The stand is attached to the housing so that the stand can move between a closed state where the stand approaches the back wall and an open state where a bottom end part of the stand is separated away from the back wall so that the stand can support the housing at an angle from a placement surface. The stand is configured so that the bottom end part of the stand covers part of the recessed part when the stand is in the closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Miyatake, Yuya Okazaki, Takafumi Nishida
  • Patent number: 11868188
    Abstract: The described technology provides implementations of a storage device carrier assembly adapted to removably mate with a chassis. The storage device carrier assembly includes a storage device carrier adapted to be coupled to a storage device and a biased latch attached to the storage device carrier and adapted to transition from an engaged state to a retracted state to remove the storage device carrier from the chassis, wherein the biased latch includes extendable portions adapted to engage the chassis in the engaged state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jason David Adrian
  • Patent number: 11871534
    Abstract: A display includes an outer frame, a supporting frame, a display module, and a covering member. The supporting frame is accommodated in the outer frame. The display module is disposed on a supporting member of the supporting frame. The supporting member extends toward a display region of the display module from the supporting frame. On a first surface of the display module, a projection area of the supporting member and a projection area of an first optical film of the display module are partially overlapped with each other. A third surface of the covering member is closely attached to a second optical film of the display module. The covering member has an extension portion. The extension portion extends from a fourth surface opposite to the third surface toward a direction away from the third surface, and the extension portion is coplanar with the outer side surface of the outer frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AUO DISPLAY PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Chen, Chung-Kuan Ting, Hong-Ming Chen, Yung-Jen Chen
  • Patent number: 11871533
    Abstract: A carrier assembly for installing a hard disk drive (HDD) rapidly without tools or screws or other fasteners disk includes a bracket and a carrier. The carrier is movably disposed within the bracket. The hard disk drive is disposed with the carrier. The bracket includes a side plate and a plurality of first protrusions arranged on the side plate along with electrical connectors. The side plate defines interconnecting slots, a vertical first slot and a horizontal second slot. The carrier includes a lateral plate, a rotating handle connected to the lateral plate, and second protrusions arranged on the lateral plate. When the rotating handle is manually rotated, the second protrusion becomes locked within the first slot or the second slot to fix the HDD in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Ge Liu, Han-Yu Li, Bin-Bin Yang, Meng-Ya Cui
  • Patent number: 11864336
    Abstract: A casing assembly includes a carrier, a pivotable component, and a handle, where the carrier has a positioning slot with a fixing end, the pivotable component is pivotably disposed on the carrier, the handle is movably disposed on the pivotable component and pivotably connected to the carrier via the pivotable component, the handle has an engagement element selectively inserted into the positioning slot and engaged with the fixing end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Siyun Tan, Jiacheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11853119
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a first non-folding region, a second non-folding region, and a folding region between the first and second non-folding regions, and a lower member below the display panel. The lower member includes a support layer below the display panel and including a first support part which overlaps the first non-folding region, a second support part which overlaps the second non-folding region, and a folding part which overlaps the folding region, where openings are defined in the folding part, a digitizer below the support layer and corresponding to the first and support parts, a cover layer between the support layer and the digitizer and attached below the folding part, and a lower adhesion layer between the support layer and the digitizer. The lower adhesion layer is between the first and second support parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bugyoon Yoo, Yunjae Kim
  • Patent number: 11856815
    Abstract: A display panel including a first edge extending in a first direction, a second edge extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and a corner edge extending in a curved shape from the first edge to the second edge includes: a substrate including a front area overlapping a center of the display panel and a corner area extending from the front area to the corner edge; and a pixel arranged over the substrate, wherein the display panel is curved in the corner area in a direction in which the corner edge approaches the center of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiwon Lee, Sangho Kim, Soomin Baek, Cheonmyeong Lee, Juhwa Ha
  • Patent number: 11849270
    Abstract: An electronic device may include: a housing including a front plate oriented in a first direction, a rear plate oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member enclosing at least a part of a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The electronic device further including a display disposed to be visible through the front plate; a printed circuit board disposed between the display and the rear plate; a support structure having a first face oriented in the first direction and supporting the display and a second face oriented in the second direction and supporting the printed circuit board; a conductive member disposed between the support structure and the rear plate; and a sealing structure disposed between the conductive member and the rear plate, the sealing structure extending along a periphery of the conductive member and formed in a closed curve shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wontae Jeong, Eungkyu Park, Dongyeop Lee, Yonghwa Kim, Gihoon Lee, Jaehwan Lee, Seungbum Choi, Hyounggil Choi, Changryong Heo
  • Patent number: 11846987
    Abstract: A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a stand, and a hinge structure is provided. The stand has a first pivot part and a second pivot part opposite to the first pivot part, wherein the first pivot part is pivotally connected to the first body, and the second body is pivotally connected to the second pivot part. The hinge structure includes a first bracket secured to the second body, a second bracket secured to the second pivot part of the stand, a first movable base, a first shaft secured to the first bracket and pivoted to the first movable base, a second movable base, a second shaft secured to the first movable base and pivoted to the second movable base, and a sliding shaft fixed to the second movable base and slidably connected to the second bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Chia-Bo Chen, Yi-Hsuan Yang, Hung-Chi Chen, Wu-Chen Lee
  • Patent number: 11849560
    Abstract: A holding module is installed in a chassis of an electronic device. The holding module is used to hold an expansion module and includes a holding member, a fixation member, and a linkage member. The holding member includes a carrier plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The first side plate and the second side plate are connected to two opposite sides of the carrier plate, respectively. The fixation member is pivotally connected to the first side plate and the second side plate. The fixation member is provided with a linkage portion. The linkage member is rotatably arranged in the holding member. The linkage member includes a docking portion and a pushing portion. The docking portion is connected to the linkage portion. The pushing portion is connected to the expansion module selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yong-Qing Zhong, Zhao-Ping Fu
  • Patent number: 11841742
    Abstract: The present invention provides an external module including a housing and an electronic component. One surface of the housing is provided with a through hole. The electronic component is disposed in the housing and includes a first connector, wherein the first connector is floatingly arranged in the housing and is exposed in the through hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: GETAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tzu-Chiu Huang, Juei-Chi Chang, Jui-Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 11844187
    Abstract: A cable management device in a server chassis able to hold and safeguard a greatly extended range of cable lengths, and server chassis including same, comprises connecting assembly, sliding rail assembly, and cable management assembly. The sliding rail assembly includes parallel first and second sliding rails, the first sliding rail including outer, middle, and inner rails, and the second sliding rail including similar outer, middle, and inner rails. The assembly includes first to fourth sliding arms, together with a supporting bar. The first sliding arm is movably connected to the outer rail of the second sliding rail, and the fourth sliding arm is movably connected to the inner rail of the first sliding rail. One end of the supporting bar is connected to the middle rail of the first sliding rail, the other end is connected to the middle rail of the second sliding rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang-Ju Wu, Chen-Sheng Tang
  • Patent number: 11841751
    Abstract: Locking structure includes a first connector, a second connector, a locking member, a sliding member, and a holding member. The first connector includes a first cavity and a first protrusion in the first cavity. The second connector includes a second cavity and a second protrusion in the second cavity. The locking member is slidably received in the second cavity and extends into the first cavity. A peripheral wall of the locking member defines a fastening groove. The sliding member extends into the second cavity and abuts the locking member to drive the locking member to move toward the first protrusion and the second protrusion so that two opposite side walls of the fastening groove press against opposite sides of the first protrusion and the second protrusion. The sliding member defines a latching slot. The holding member includes a latching member for latching in or disengaging from the latching slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Ying Gao