Patents Examined by James Wu
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Patent number: 11700700Abstract: A latching apparatus has a first component and a second component. The first component is made of a first material and includes a distal end, a proximal end, and an indention between the distal end the proximal end. The distal end includes a mating tab, whereas the proximal end includes a flange member for fixing the first component to a lid of a housing. The second component is made of a second material and is coupled to the mating tab. The second component includes a receiving element for engaging with a securing element of the housing. The latching element includes a pressing region formed in one of the first component and the second component between the indention and the receiving element. The first material has a higher flexibility that the second material.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER, INC.Inventors: Chao-Jung Chen, Hou-Hsien Chang
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Patent number: 11698660Abstract: A display device includes a window, a display panel disposed below the window, and a cushion layer disposed below the display panel. The cushion layer includes a plurality of rod parts extending in a thickness direction of the cushion layer and a binder part coupled to the plurality of rod parts.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Sebong Kim
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Patent number: 11698666Abstract: A buckle base and buckle-fixing pin combination to be used in fixing a printed circuit board to a sheet includes a buckle base and a buckle-fixing pin. The buckle base is in a generally U-shaped form. The buckle base includes a first leg, a second leg, and a bridge therebetween. The first and second legs are connected to the bridge. The buckle-fixing pin forms a longitudinal slot therein.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Chun Chang, Kai-Yuan Chuang, Wei-Pin Chen, Jyue Hou
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Patent number: 11696416Abstract: A chassis for housing a computing device of an information handling system includes a receiving portion of an expansion card receiver that receives an expansion card and operably connects the expansion card to another component of the computing device while the expansion card is received by the receiving portion. The chassis further includes a management portion of the expansion card receiver that receives a force from a user and, in response to receiving the force: transitions the management portion from a first state to a second state. In the first state, a handle, that enables the expansion card to be removed from the chassis is disposed inside of the management portion and the expansion card receiver is locked to the chassis. In the second state, the handle is disposed outside of the management portion and the expansion card receiver is unlocked from the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.Inventors: Liang-Chun Ma, Matthew Bryan Gilbert, Richard A. Crisp, Kevin R. Garrett
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Patent number: 11683898Abstract: A fiber optic node includes an electronics equipment enclosure. The electronics equipment enclosure includes a lid and a base defining an overall interior space of the electronics equipment enclosure. The lid includes a lid top and a lid mating surface to contact and overlap a base mating surface of the base to close the electronics equipment enclosure. The lid further includes at least one lid side wall extending away from the lid top. The at least one lid side wall includes at least one protruding lid side wall extending outwards to project beyond the lid mating surface. The base includes a base bottom and at least one base side wall extending away from the base bottom. The base further includes a base mating surface to contact and overlap the lid mating surface of the lid to close the electronics equipment enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Ayham Al-Banna
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Patent number: 11683905Abstract: A connection mechanism is provided with a circuit board that replaces internal chassis cabling to multiple electronic devices. In use, the motion of a lever of the connection mechanism drives a carrier of the circuit board in one direction to make an electrical connection at a side of the circuit board. Continued motion of the lever drives the carrier downward to make an additional electrical connections at the bottom of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.Inventors: Chen An, Mahesh Kumar Varrey
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Patent number: 11683896Abstract: A combination mounting bracket for an information handling system includes a main bracket and an adjustable bracket. The main bracket is securely mounted on a display device of the information handling system. The adjustable bracket includes a mounting surface and multiple standoffs. The mounting surface is configured to be placed in physical communication with a stand for the display device. The standoffs are in physical communication with the mounting surface and with the main bracket. The standoffs are configured to transition between an extended position and a compressed position.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Chung-An Lin, Yi-Change Yeh, Yan-Zih Chen
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Patent number: 11678457Abstract: A module is retained in a slot of an electronics chassis. A clearance space is provided for receiving the module in a slot of the electronics chassis by controlling an internal pressure of a bellows. The bellows forms a part of a retainer that is disposed on an elongated rail extending along a length of the slot. The bellows defines an internal bellows capsule which contains a fluid. Once the module has been inserted in the slot, the module is secured with the retainer by further controlling the internal pressure of the bellows to exert a force on the module.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC, SENIOR OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Clarke O. Fowler, Patrick Bradley Reed
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Patent number: 11675399Abstract: A fixing device is provided for fixing an expansion card in an electronic device. The fixing device includes a supporting base, a fastening element and an actuating element. The supporting base includes a sliding rail. The sliding rail is located under the expansion card. The sliding rail includes plural first positioning structures. The fastening element includes a sliding part and a locking part. The sliding part is movably installed on the sliding rail. The locking part is protruded from the sliding part. The expansion card is arranged between the locking part and an expansion port of the electronic device. The actuating element includes a pressing part and an elastic part. The pressing part is connected with the sliding part through the elastic part. The pressing part includes a second positioning structure. The second positioning structure is detachably engaged with one of the plural first positioning structures.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.Inventor: Rong-Fu Lee
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Patent number: 11672089Abstract: Support systems for electronic devices such as display screens are described and have support connector portions configured to connect to support devices such as adjustable mount supports. The support devices have magnetic elements, and the display devices have magnetic sensors configured to detect the magnetic fields emitted from the support devices. A relationship between the magnetic fields detected and target magnetic field values is determined to provide an output signal or indicator of the propriety of the support device used or the propriety of its connection to the display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Simon S. Lee
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Patent number: 11664573Abstract: A heat dissipation system for an antenna assembly for a vehicle is disclosed that provides enhanced heat removal attributes and that provides heat transfer from various components to a heat sink through different heat transfer flow paths to reduce the transfer of heat from high heat producing components to heat sensitive components. Improved heat insulation components can be added to maximize the thermal isolation between heat producing components and to prevent heat transferred from the vehicle into the antenna assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Airgain, Inc.Inventors: Larry Greenstein, Joe L. Romack
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Patent number: 11665840Abstract: A server information handling system couples to a rack and is secured with a security device coupled to one side of the information handling system housing clear of the front side of the information handling system so that the entire front side of the housing is available for venting and/or interface devices like a power switch and ports. The security device has a latch that moves vertically in response to an outward and upward pull on a lever engaged with the latch. The latch secures and releases the housing to the server rack, such as at the rail holding the housing in the rack, and releases a pin from a slot of a bezel that covers a front face of the server information handling system. The pin moves vertically in a channel of the latch and is biased to a locked position so that insertion of the server bezel onto the housing will lock the bezel with the pin while the lever remains in a locked position.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Sean P. O'Donnell, Richard W. Guzman, Richard A. Crisp, Jean M. Doglio, Peter Clark, Kevin Keller
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Patent number: 11659680Abstract: A suspendable assembly for fixing and holding a server includes a housing, a torsion spring, a limiting frame, a handle, and a shaft. The housing includes a first through hole. The torsion spring is fixed on the housing. The limiting frame clamps the torsion spring. The handle is fixed with the limiting frame, the handle comprising a first hook. The shaft penetrates through the housing, the torsion spring, the handle, and the limiting frame. The first hook is configured to engaged with a second hook to limit the suspendable assembly.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.Inventors: Wen-Hu Lu, Li-Yi Yin, Shu-Tong Wang
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Patent number: 11653458Abstract: A flexible display device is provided, including: a housing including a support surface, one end of the support surface being bent to form an curved region; a flexible display screen at least partially covering the support surface; and a flexible support layer arranged between the flexible display screen and the support surface for supporting the flexible display screen, one end of the flexible support layer covering the support surface and being connected to the support surface via a first adhesive layer, where the flexible support layer is further connected to the curved region via a snap-fit structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Liming Dong
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Patent number: 11647603Abstract: A server containing hard disk modules which can be slid into place and which allow connection at the front and at the rear of a housing. The server includes the housing which defines an opening, the hard disk modules, and a plurality of trays. Receiving channels communicating with the opening are defined in the housing, the receiving channels are isolated and arranged side by side and each channel can receive one tray. A hard disk module is positioned in one tray, a front end and a rear end of the housing defines front connection port and rear connection port for cable connections to each hard disk module.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.Inventors: Han-Yu Li, Wen-Hu Lu, Shu-Tong Wang, Li-Yi Yin, Gong-Wen Zhang, Yang Li, San-Long Zhou
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Patent number: 11641722Abstract: An electronic device includes one or more sensors, one or more processors operable with the one or more sensors, one or more extendable gripping feet, and an actuation engine operable to extend and retract the one or more extendable gripping feet. The one or more sensors detect a condition of the electronic device and, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the condition, the one or more processors cause the actuation engine to transition the one or more extendable gripping feet from a retracted position to an extended position where the one or more extendable gripping feet extend distally away from the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventors: Gary D Cudak, John S Crowe, Jennifer J Lee-Baron, Nathan J Peterson
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Patent number: 11638360Abstract: An orientation-adjustment mechanism is provided, which is adapted to be affixed to a mounting surface. The orientation-adjustment mechanism includes a base, a rod, a joint unit, and a mounted member. The base is adapted to be affixed to the mounting surface. The rod includes a first section and a second section. The first section of the rod pivots on the base. The joint unit is disposed on the second section of the rod. The joint unit includes a plurality of joint-positioning portions. The joint-positioning portions include a first joint-positioning portion and a second joint-positioning portion. The mounted member is connected to the joint unit and is adapted to be rotated relative to the joint unit. The mounted member includes a member housing. The member housing includes at least one member-positioning portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.Inventors: Lan-Chun Yang, Chun-Hung Huang, Li-Han Hsu, Yi-Chieh Lin
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Patent number: 11630492Abstract: A mother board with a central processing unit and two riser slots configured to cooperate with one riser card for connecting two expansion cards to the mother board. The first riser slot and the second riser slot may be connected by metal traces to the central processing unit, and the two riser slots may be spaced apart by a distance greater than 8 cm.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: BULL SASInventors: Sanjayakumar Halli, Prakash Nagaraja, Sriprada Adiga, Shubham Kumbhar, Kumar Avinash, Madhu K Sharma, Pravin Kumar Thakur
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Patent number: 11627672Abstract: A display apparatus includes a PCB on which a plurality of LEDs emitting light in a first direction are mounted, a frame configured to support the PCB, and a chassis coupled to the frame. The frame has a length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction that is longer than that of the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong Yeob Lee, Byung Chul Kim, Seung Ryong Han
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Patent number: 11625077Abstract: The present invention provides a solid-state hard disk lug-in device, including: a main body; a solid-state hard disk installation slot arranged on one side of the main body; and plug-in components. The plug-in components include an operating switch and an operating handle. When the operating switch is closed, the operating handle is restricted to a closed position, and when the operating switch is open, the operating handle is released to an extended position; when the operating handle in the closed position is pushed by an external force, the solid-state hard disk can be inserted into the hard disk slot of the solid-state hard disk system; when the operating handle in the extended position is pulled by an external force, the solid-state hard disk can be pulled out of the hard disk slot.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATIONInventors: Hui Zhu, Jiaqi Yuan