Patents Examined by Janice M Soto
  • Patent number: 10337932
    Abstract: A system is disclosed, including an interface to a DUT and a testing apparatus. The DUT includes a first plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may store a plurality of control values. Each control value may depend on at least two calibration values of corresponding temperature sensing circuits of a second plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may generate a plurality of calibration values for the DUT. Each calibration value corresponds to one of the first plurality of temperature sensing circuits. The testing apparatus may determine a plurality of test values for the DUT. The testing apparatus may calculate a probability value, and repeat generation of the plurality of calibration values upon determining that the probability value is less than a predetermined threshold value. The probability value corresponds to a likelihood that the plurality of calibration values is accurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Venkatram Krishnaswamy, Sebastian Turullols
  • Patent number: 10316644
    Abstract: A system for assessing one or more temperatures in an opening in a subsurface formation includes an electrical conductor and electrical insulation at least partially surrounding the electrical conductor. The electrical insulation includes magnesium oxide and a ferroelectric material. An electrically conductive sheath at least partially surrounds the electrical insulation. A profile of one or more dielectric properties of the electrical insulation along a length of the electrical insulation is assessed during use to assess a temperature profile with spatial resolution along the length of the electrical insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SHELL OIL COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Kelvin Harris, Edward Everett De St. Remey, Stephen Taylor Thompson
  • Patent number: 10318396
    Abstract: A method and device for temperature measurement of a processor is disclosed. A temperature-sensing circuit of the processor may have an associated resonance frequency, wherein the resonance frequency depends on a temperature of the temperature-sensing circuit. A temperature of the temperature-sensing circuit may be determined by determining the resonance frequency of the temperature-sensing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jiangqi He, Hongfei Yan, Chunlei Guo, Wei Shen
  • Patent number: 10302507
    Abstract: A temperature sensor having a structure in which electrode wires are butted against signal wires with their weld portions and a method for manufacturing the temperature sensor. In a temperature sensor (1), outer circumferential portions (57a) and (57b) of each of weld portions (55) between electrode wires (25) and sheath core wires (3) are located outward of a first straight line D1 and a second straight line D2, respectively. A forward end-side length L1 is set to be longer than a rear end-side length L2. In addition, the sheath core wires (3) are larger in diameter than the electrode wires (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Noguchi, Kota Shinohara
  • Patent number: 10295415
    Abstract: A method for temperature measurement includes measuring intensities of two adjacent wavelengths emitted from a heated optical fiber and calculating the thermal population distribution between associated energy levels. The optical fiber is heated to induce fluorescence emission from the optical fiber. The optical fiber comprises OH? dopant ions. The fluorescence emission is due to a first overtone of vibration energy level of the OH? dopant ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Soreq Nuclear Research Center
    Inventor: Sharone Goldring
  • Patent number: 10281340
    Abstract: A temperature measuring system includes a laser light source to emit optical pulses, an optical fiber, arranged to pass through a plurality of measuring points, and input with the optical pulses, and a measuring device to detect back-scattering light output from the optical fiber and measure a temperature at the plurality of measuring points, to acquire measured temperature data. The measuring device computes corrected temperature data by varying a degree of smoothing the measured temperature data in a distance direction of the optical fiber, according to a correlation between the measured temperature data and a transfer function peculiar to the temperature measuring system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro Arioka, Kazushi Uno, Takeo Kasajima, Fumio Takei, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10267689
    Abstract: A temperature measuring system includes a laser light source that emits optical pulses, an optical fiber, arranged to pass through a plurality of temperature measuring points, and input with the optical pulses, and a measuring device that detects back-scattering light output from the optical fiber and measures a temperature at the plurality of measuring points, to acquire measured temperature data. The measuring device computes corrected temperature data by varying a degree of averaging of the measured temperature data in a time direction, according to whether a time-sequential difference temperature data have a spatial correlation or a time correlation within a range that uses a target position of the optical fiber as a reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahiro Arioka, Kazushi Uno, Takeo Kasajima, Fumio Takei, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10254176
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a thermistor having a variable resistance with a first dependence on absolute temperature. The apparatus includes a reference resistor having a resistance with a second dependence on absolute temperature, the second dependence being less than or having opposite polarity to the first dependence. The reference resistor includes a switched-capacitor circuit. The apparatus includes a node coupled between the thermistor and the reference resistor. The node is configured to provide a signal indicative of absolute temperature based on the variable resistance and the reference resistance. The signal may be strain-invariant, proportional to a reference voltage, and indicative of a ratio of the variable resistance to the reference resistance. The apparatus may include a feedback circuit configured to maintain the node at a predetermined voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron J. Caffee, Jeffrey L. Sonntag
  • Patent number: 10254178
    Abstract: Techniques for estimating ambient temperature are described herein. Temperature data may be received from a first sensor of a computing device. Temperature data may be received from a second sensor of a computing device. The ambient temperature may be estimated based on the first temperature data in relation to the second temperature data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Carbone, Paul Karayacoubian
  • Patent number: 10234336
    Abstract: A temperature identification system may include temperature sensing circuitry and a temperature measurement module. The temperature sensing circuitry may include a ring oscillator that generates a ring oscillator output signal having a frequency that varies depending on an operating temperature on the ring oscillator. A frequency divider circuit may divide the frequency of the ring oscillator output signal such that two or more cycles of a noise component of supply voltage are averaged, which may reduce the impact that the noise has on the frequency of the ring oscillator output signal. In some embodiments, a regulator may supply a regulated voltage to the ring oscillator. The regulator may reduce the impact of the noise for low frequency components of the noise, while the frequency divider may reduce the impact for high frequency of the noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bhavin Odedara, Jayanth Mysore Thimmaiah
  • Patent number: 10215643
    Abstract: There are many industrial applications in which non-contact temperature sensing is useful for increasing production speed and quality, such as printing, laminating, extrusion, and metal forming. Disclosed is a non-contact temperature determining apparatus which uses two wide wavelength bands integrating sensors to determine the radiance ratio of a target and thereby determine a corresponding temperature of the target. Also disclosed is a non-contact temperature determining apparatus in which a beam splitter passes one wide wavelength band to a sensor and reflects another distinct wide wavelength band to another sensor from which temperature can be determined. A disclosed embodiment of the dual waveband temperature detector improves upon traditional and currently available ratio pyrometers by further reducing the cost of the system, making installation and use easier, and improving temperature detection for low temperature industrial applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Exergen Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Stein, Francesco Pompei
  • Patent number: 10197457
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining a control temperature to control a function of an electronic device by using an atmospheric temperature when controlling a temperature of the electronic device, and for controlling the function of the electronic device according to a control step of the determined control temperature are provided. A method of operating an electronic device includes measuring an atmospheric temperature, determining at least one control temperature corresponding to the measured atmospheric temperature, measuring an internal temperature of the electronic device, and controlling a function in accordance with the measured internal temperature of the electronic device and the determined at least one control temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki-Youn Jang, Min-Su Kim, Kun-Tak Kim, Chi-Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 10180360
    Abstract: A distributed temperature sensor probe for measuring temperature at multiple depths. The probe includes a plurality of temperature sensors connected in series inside a sensor housing. The temperature sensors are distributed at various points along the length of the sensor housing. Each temperature sensor has an internal storage and an internal battery. A probe head is connected to a top of the sensor housing, and a probe tip is connected to a bottom of the sensor housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Department of the Interior
    Inventors: Ramon Carlos Naranjo, Robert Turcotte
  • Patent number: 10175117
    Abstract: A temperature sensing assembly for measuring the temperature of an inner wall of a high temperature vessel includes a thermocouple assembly having multiple junction points to provide indications of temperature. The assembly further includes support structures for supporting the thermocouple assembly in the interior space of the vessel and to maintain the junction points proximate the inner wall of the vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Inventors: Jesse Branken, Samuel Stein, Jeffrey N. Daily, Carlos Alvarado, Raymond B. Litteaur
  • Patent number: 10132698
    Abstract: A waterproof food temperature probe includes a penetrating portion for inserting into food during cooking; a cable for coupling the penetrating portion to a display unit separated from the penetrating portion; and, a high temperature resistant seal portion permanently covering at least part of the penetrating portion and at least part of the cable. The seal portion prevents moisture from entering the penetrating portion thereby preventing the temperature probe from malfunctioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Ewig Industries Macao Commercial Offshore Limited
    Inventor: Luk Wah Jackson Chu
  • Patent number: 10126173
    Abstract: An inexpensive thermopile temperature detector is particularly adapted to monitoring of electrical equipment, such as a power bus bar, within an enclosed area such as a cabinet. The detector may have a plastic housing, a thermopile sensor and a plastic Fresnel lens. Each sensor also includes a calibrated element such that, but for calibration, the same sensor may be used for various applications for different target sizes and distance or, more generally, with respect to effective target percentage of field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Exergen Corporation
    Inventor: Francesco Pompei
  • Patent number: 10113919
    Abstract: Provided are a temperature sensor that is hard to increase resistance in the electrode structure with respect to a Ti—Al—N thermistor material layer even under a high-temperature environment, and has a high reliability with a high heat resistance as well as a method for producing the same. The temperature sensor includes an insulation substrate; a thin film thermistor portion formed on the insulation substrate; and a pair of pattern electrodes formed on the insulation substrate with a pair of opposed electrode portions being arranged so as to be opposed to each other on the thin film thermistor portion, wherein the thin film thermistor portion is made of a Ti—Al—N thermistor material, and the pair of pattern electrodes has a Ti—N bonding layer formed on the thin film thermistor portion and an electrode layer made of a noble metal formed on the bonding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki Nagatomo, Hitoshi Inaba, Hiroshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10088369
    Abstract: A sensor arrangement for measuring the temperature of a medium in a motor vehicle. The sensor has a sensor body and two connecting wires and is completely insulated from the medium. The sensor body is electrically insulated by the medium by way of a covering completely surrounding the sensor body, and is in heat-conducting contact with the medium by way of the connecting wires and the surrounding covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Keuten, Andreas Voegerl, Juergen Henniger, Matthias Wieczorek, Lisa-Maria Wittmann
  • Patent number: 10072987
    Abstract: A temperature sensor includes a thermo-sensitive element, a pair of element electrode wires electrically connected to the thermo-sensitive element, a sealing body covering the thermo-sensitive element and part of the pair of the element electrode wires, and a tablet formed with a pair of insertion holes through which the pair of the element electrode wires pass. An air bubble is formed at a position within the glass sealing body on a distal end side opposite to the tablet. The center of the air bubble is located within the outline of the thermo-sensitive element when viewed in the axial direction of the pair of the element electrode wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Motoki Sato, Tsunenobu Hori
  • Patent number: 10031031
    Abstract: A wireless temperature sensor includes an electrical conductor and a material spaced apart from the conductor and located within one or more of the responding electric field and responding magnetic field of the conductor. The conductor is electrically unconnected and is shaped for storage of an electric field and a magnetic field. In the presence of a time-varying magnetic field, the conductor resonates to generate harmonic electric and magnetic field responses, each of which has a frequency associated therewith. The material is selected such that it experiences changes in one of dielectric properties and magnetic permeability properties in the presence of a temperature change. Shifts from the sensor's baseline frequency response indicate that the material has experienced a temperature change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATION OF NASA.
    Inventors: Stanley E. Woodard, Chuantong Wang, Bryant D. Taylor