Patents Examined by Keith Depew
  • Patent number: 10925160
    Abstract: A silicon circuit board substrate is utilized in an electronic device in place of conventional PCB motherboard. The silicon circuit board substrate is adhered to the back side of a display assembly to provide structural support for the substrate. The silicon circuit board substrate and the display assembly may be electrically connected via contact pads provided on the respective sides of the substrate and the display assembly that are connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel Waising Tam, Jasmin B. Farshi
  • Patent number: 10921863
    Abstract: Conventional laptop computers may utilize a door-hinge style or in a bezel-behind-base style hinge to connect a display with a keyboard of the laptop computer. Typically, these hinges present a discontinuous visual impression to the user. Presenting a more continuous visual impression of the hinge to the user suggests a higher overall quality of the computing device to the user and is thus desirable to the user. The disclosed virtual pivot hinge pivots about a pivot axis running between the display and the keyboard. The hardware of the hinge is located away from the pivot axis, which creates a virtual pivoting action about the axis that maintains a consistent front gap distance (or no front gap) between the display and the keyboard. The resulting visual impression to the user is that the display is floating above keyboard at the same or similar distance regardless of the display angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Benjamin Gault, Brian D. Bitz
  • Patent number: 10908649
    Abstract: Interchangeable housing panel components for a display housing of a portable computing device. The interchangeable housing panel component is sized and dimensioned to be received by a receiving portion of the computing device. A first interchangeable housing panel component is quickly installed by a user to customize the appearance of their computing device and, when desired, is also quickly removed, from the computing device. A second interchangeable housing panel component can then be installed on the same computing device, transforming the appearance of their computing device. When desired, the second interchangeable housing panel component can be removed and the first interchangeable housing panel component can be reinstalled, returning the computing device to its previous appearance. The housing panel components and computing device include provisions for easy removal and installation of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Raymond Lange, Michelle Verena Niethammer, Ching-Hung Huang, Zhan Ding
  • Patent number: 10901208
    Abstract: A display unit projects a display image on a display member outside an apparatus housing from an inside of the apparatus housing through an opening of the apparatus housing. A cover is configured to form a through hole by bending at a second side opposite to a first side. A movable mechanism moves the cover between a closed position, at which an opening of the apparatus housing is closed, and an opened position, at which the opening is opened. When the cover is in the closed position, a bending unit holds the cover in a state where the through hole is not formed. When the cover moves from the closed position to the opened position, the bending unit bends the cover to change the cover from a state in which the through hole is not formed to a state in which the through hole is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinsuke Hisatsugu, Makoto Inomata
  • Patent number: 10869397
    Abstract: A housing of an electronic device includes a first surface facing a first direction, a second surface facing a second direction opposite to a first direction, and a third surface surrounding a space between the first surface and the second surface. The third surface includes a plurality of corner areas, and a plurality of plane areas to connect the corner areas to each other. A plane area of the plurality of plane areas includes a recess area on the housing recessed inward along a peripheral portion of the recess area, and an opening is formed in the recess area passing through an inner part and an outer part of the third surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Jigu Jang, Hoyoung Lee, Duyeong Choi
  • Patent number: 10866620
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. When the support assembly of the mobile terminal is unfolded, an entire display screen can perform displaying, so that the mobile terminal can realize large-screen displaying. When the support assembly is folded, the first housing and the second housing are stacked, so that the length of the support assembly is only about a half of the support assembly when it is unfolded, making the mobile terminal convenient to carry. Therefore, the mobile terminal has a large displaying area and is convenient to carry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 10834861
    Abstract: A component determination device and a component determination method for an electronic component, the component including a reference section formed as a different member to the multiple electrodes. The component determination device includes: a measuring device configured to measure positions of multiple reference points set on the reference section and a position of a measurement point set on each of the multiple electrodes; a plane calculating section configured to calculate a reference plane representing a position of the upper surface of the circuit board with respect to the component main body when the electronic component is mounted on the circuit board based on the positions of the multiple reference points; and a suitability determining section configured to determine whether the electronic component is suitable based on a distance between the reference plane and the multiple measurement points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Ishikawa, Katsunori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10824205
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a hinge module and a linkage mechanism. The second body includes a main body portion and a back cover movably disposed to the main body portion. The hinge module is pivoted between the first body and the second body. The linkage mechanism is disposed in the second body, and is connected to the hinge module. The back cover is fixed to the linkage mechanism. The linkage mechanism is changed between a first state and a second state. When the linkage mechanism is in the first state, there is a first space between the back cover and the hinge module. When the linkage mechanism is in the second state, there is a second space between the back cover and the hinge module. The second space is larger than the first space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Che-Hsien Lin
  • Patent number: 10827631
    Abstract: A foldable display has a foldable area. The foldable display includes: a flexible display screen having a display surface and a back surface opposite to the display surface; a foldable mechanism fastened on the back surface of the flexible display screen; and a elastic portion disposed between the foldable mechanism and the flexible display screen. The elastic portion is connected to the foldable mechanism and the flexible display screen. At least a part of the elastic portion is located in the foldable area. The at least a part of the elastic portion located in the foldable area is configured to elastically deform as the flexible display screen and the foldable mechanism are synchronously switched between a folded state and a flattened out state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lu Liu, Paoming Tsai, Dejun Bu
  • Patent number: 10817030
    Abstract: A portable information handling system integrates a sliding support with interlaced fingers below a flexible display to adjust support the display based upon rotational orientation of housing portions of the information handling system. In a closed position, the sliding support compresses by fully engaging the fingers so that room is provided over a hinge assembly that rotationally couples the housing to provide folding of the flexible display without wrinkling or compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Gerald Rene Pelissier, Kevin M. Turchin, John Trevor Morrison, Yung-Fa Cheng
  • Patent number: 10817017
    Abstract: In a structure in which a main body housing and a display housing are connected by a swivel shaft and a tilt shaft, reduction in the strength of the tilt shaft is prevented. The present invention has a swivel shaft 36 that has a through hole 36H intersecting a first surface of the main body housing in an axial direction, and a tilt shaft 38 that has a groove 38M positioned continuously from the through hole 36H in a horizontal direction and is disposed so as to avoid the through hole 36H of the swivel shaft 36. A cable that electrically connects the main body housing to the display housing is disposed in the through hole 36H and the groove 38M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU CLIENT COMPUTING LIMITED
    Inventor: Masao Honda
  • Patent number: 10802550
    Abstract: Conventional laptop computers may utilize a door-hinge style or in a bezel-behind-base style hinge to connect a display with a keyboard of the laptop computer. Typically, these hinges present a discontinuous visual impression to the user. Presenting a more continuous visual impression of the hinge to the user suggests a higher overall quality of the computing device to the user and is thus desirable to the user. The disclosed virtual pivot hinge pivots about a pivot axis running between the display and the keyboard. The hardware of the hinge is located away from the pivot axis, which creates a virtual pivoting action about the axis that maintains a consistent front gap distance (or no front gap) between the display and the keyboard. The resulting visual impression to the user is that the display is floating above keyboard at the same or similar distance regardless of the display angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Benjamin Gault, Brian D. Bitz
  • Patent number: 10788854
    Abstract: A clamshell electronic device is provided. The clamshell electronic device includes a device body, a cover, an auxiliary display unit and an orientation adjustment mechanism. The cover pivots on the device body, and the cover includes a cover notch. The auxiliary display unit is disposed on the device body, wherein the auxiliary display unit is adapted to be rotated between a first unit orientation and a second unit orientation. The orientation adjustment mechanism is connected to the cover and the auxiliary display unit, wherein when the cover is in a first cover orientation relative to the device body, the cover covers the device body, and the auxiliary display unit is in the first unit orientation and corresponds to the cover notch. The user can obtain information such as time, weather or messages directly via the auxiliary display unit in the the cover notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventors: Chen Yi Liang, Chen-Wen Liu, Ming-Ju Hsieh, Tzu Yuan Tseng, Chun Yi Lu, Ko-Chen Chang
  • Patent number: 10785896
    Abstract: A data center cooling system includes a plurality of server racks aligned within a row in a human-occupiable workspace of a data center, the server racks supporting a plurality of heat-generating computing devices; a warm air aisle positioned adjacent the server racks opposite the human-occupiable workspace and including a warm air inlet adjacent to a back side of the row of server racks and a warm air outlet in fluid communication with a warm air plenum; a plurality of cooling modules each including at least one fan and a cooling coil; and a controller to perform operations including controlling the plurality of fans in the plurality of cooling modules to operate at a specified fan speed, and controlling a plurality of valves fluidly coupled to the plurality of cooling coils in the plurality of cooling modules to modulate to a specified valve position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eehern J. Wong, Pascal Kam, Thomas R. Kowalski, Ron Drew
  • Patent number: 10775842
    Abstract: A portable electronic device including host body, display body, hinge and heat pipe assembly. The host body includes base and heat source disposed on base. Side of positioning structure is connected to first fixed part. First fixed part is fixed to base. Second fixed part is fixed to metal casing. Heat pipe assembly includes first heat pipe and second heat pipe. End part of first heat pipe has insertion hole. End part of second heat pipe is pivotally inserted into insertion hole of end part of first heat pipe. Another end part of first heat pipe is in thermal contact with heat source. Another end part of second heat pipe is in thermal contact with metal casing. Another side of positioning structure is fixed to end part of first heat pipe so as to keep pivot part and end part of first heat pipe coaxial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignees: INVENTEC (PUDONG) TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, INVENTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chi-Zen Peng, Chia-Chen Chen, Ting-Yuan Lin
  • Patent number: 10772224
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first body, a second body and at least one driving mechanism. The second body includes a casing and a flexible screen installed on the casing. The driving mechanism includes a shaft, a driving element and a linking assembly. The shaft has first and second connecting portions opposite to each other, the first connecting portion is fixed to the first body, and the second body is pivoted to the second connecting portion. The driving element is sleeved on the shaft and is located in the casing. The linking assembly is carried by the casing and covered by the flexible screen. When the second body is folded onto the first body, the flexible screen keeps flat. When the second body is unfolded with respect to the first body, the driving element is rotated and moved with respect to the shaft to drive the linking assembly to move, and the linking assembly drives the flexible screen to bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Wei-Hao Lan, Cheng-Shiue Jan, Yao-Hsien Yang, Jyh-Chyang Tzou, Hsiao-Wen Tseng, Yi-Hsun Liu, Chen-Cheng Wang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Han-Tsai Liu
  • Patent number: 10754395
    Abstract: A portable information handling system rotationally couples first and second housing portions with a multi-axis hinge and disposes a flexible display over the first and second housing portions supported by a first sliding support over the first housing portion and a second sliding support over the second housing portion. An actuator interfaced with the multi-axis hinge translates hinge axis rotation into lateral movement of the sliding supports to adjust sliding support positions relative to flexible display positions as the flexible display folds around the hinge inner circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Sanchez, Jason Scott Morrison, Chris A. Torres
  • Patent number: 10755158
    Abstract: To provide an electric circuit, a communication device, and a method for manufacturing the electric circuit to maintain or improve connection reliability while suppressing increase in manufacturing costs. The electric circuit includes a connecting unit that electrically connects an antenna coil and an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The connecting unit includes a first partial connecting unit that is electrically connected to the antenna coil, and a second partial connecting unit that is electrically connected to the first partial connecting unit and the IC chip to be arranged and that is made of a material different from a material of the first partial connecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuji Sakai
  • Patent number: 10750624
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a display device and a frame member. A display device according to an aspect of the disclosure includes a bezel that forms a border of a display and a frame fixed to the bezel to hide a front surface of the bezel. The bezel includes at least one first member, the frame includes a plurality of frame pieces, and each of the plurality of frame pieces includes at least one second member and is fixed to the bezel by an attractive force between the first member and the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung Jin Ann, Ki Hong Kim, Sang Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10748363
    Abstract: A key fob for retaining a key or other object, including: a body structure manufactured from a printed circuit board material; a key ring structure manufactured from the printed circuit board material coupled to the body structure; and a conductive loop disposed one or more of within, on a surface of, and coupled to the printed circuit board material of the key ring structure. Optionally, the body structure and the key ring structure are integrally formed from the printed circuit board material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Marcon International Inc
    Inventors: Bobby Jain, Ric Stone, Larry Green