Patents Examined by Kevin J Comber
  • Patent number: 11799288
    Abstract: An electrostatic protection circuit includes first and second output terminals, a first diode circuit connected between the first output terminal and a first node, a second diode circuit connected between the second output terminal and the first node, a first intermediate voltage circuit that is connected between the first output terminal and the second output terminal and that is configured to generate, at a second node different from the first node, a first intermediate voltage having an intermediate voltage value between a voltage value of the first output terminal and a voltage value of the second output terminal, a detection circuit configured to generate a trigger signal in accordance with the first intermediate voltage, and a switch circuit configured to electrically connect the first node to a ground line in accordance with the trigger signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Uemura, Keiji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11794586
    Abstract: A magnetic HVIL system for a drive in a transport application includes a Hall effect sensor within at least one housing of the drive that includes terminals and a removable cover. The removable cover includes a magnet having a magnetic field that is detectable by the Hall effect sensor when the removable cover is installed on the housing. The magnetic field of the magnet is not detectable by the Hall effect sensor when the removable cover is removed from the housing. The magnet HVIL system is configured to be operable to enable active operation of the drive when the Hall effect sensor detects the magnetic field of the magnet and is in a closed circuit condition and disable operation of the drive when the Hall effect sensor does not detect the magnetic field of the magnet and is in an open circuit condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Copeland LP
    Inventors: Nikhil R. Lakhkar, Kevin J. Gehret, Donald Wayne Cox, Russ M. Beisner
  • Patent number: 11798720
    Abstract: A superconductor magnet system (2) includes a cryostat (4), a superconductor bulk magnet (5), and a cryogenic cooling system (12). The bulk magnet (5) has at least N axially stacked bulk sub-magnets (6a-6c), with N?3. Between each two axially neighboring bulk sub-magnets, an intermediate body (7a-7b) is arranged. The intermediate bodies (7a-7b) are made from a non-metallic thermal insulator material. The cryogenic cooling system (12) is adapted for independently controlling the temperature of each bulk sub-magnet (6a-6c), and has, for each bulk sub-magnet, a temperature sensor (16a-16c) for sensing the temperature of the respective bulk sub-magnet and an adjustment unit (13a-13c) for adjusting a heating power and/or a cooling power at the respective bulk sub-magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: BRUKER SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Joerg Hinderer, Stephen Alfred March, Franck Borgnolutti, Dmitry Eshchenko, Stephan Heiss, Pierre-Alain Bovier
  • Patent number: 11789478
    Abstract: Power supply noise reduction methods and low drop out (LDO) voltage regulators with capacitively coupled supply noise-reducing components are disclosed. One illustrative voltage regulator includes: a pass transistor having an n-type conduction channel that couples a supply voltage to an output node; an operational amplifier that derives a control signal for the pass transistor from a difference between a reference voltage and a scaled or unscaled voltage of the output node, the control signal being supplied to a gate or base of the pass transistor; a buffer that derives a ripple cancellation signal from the supply voltage; and a coupling capacitor that couples the buffer to the base or gate of the pass transistor to impose the ripple cancellation signal on the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Credo Technology Group Limited
    Inventors: Zhicheng Deng, Yida Duan
  • Patent number: 11791139
    Abstract: A substrate support includes a base, a substrate support layer disposed on the base, the substrate support layer being formed of an insulating material, and an electrostatic internal electrode layer disposed in the substrate support layer, the electrostatic internal electrode layer including a body portion and a plurality of protruding portions, the body portion having a circular shape in a plan view, and the plurality of protruding portions radially protruding from the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Shin Yamaguchi, Yasuharu Sasaki, Koei Ito
  • Patent number: 11784486
    Abstract: A power value for a low-voltage AC circuit, such as low-voltage circuit breaker, is derived. A voltage between conductors of the low-voltage AC circuit is ascertained and a current of at least one conductor is ascertained by a Rogowski coil, which outputs an analog voltage that is an equivalent to the level of the electric current. The analog voltage of the Rogowski coil is integrated and then digitized, and the level of the voltage is digitized. A power value is calculated in each case from a sample value of the current and an interpolated voltage value. The interpolated voltage value is in each case ascertained from two successive sample values of the voltage such that a phase error generated by the Rogowski coil or/and the integrator is compensated for in relation to the electric current in the conductor and a phase error-free power value is ascertained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Kopaczewski, Marco Bruell
  • Patent number: 11776794
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to an electrostatic chuck assembly suitable for use in cryogenic applications. In one or more embodiments, an electrostatic chuck assembly is provided and includes an electrostatic chuck having a substrate supporting surface opposite a bottom surface, a cooling plate having a top surface, where the cooling plate contains an aluminum alloy having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of less than 22 ppm/° C., and a bonding layer securing the bottom surface of the electrostatic chuck and the top surface of the cooling plate, where the bonding layer contains a silicone material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventor: Vijay D. Parkhe
  • Patent number: 11775006
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a device magnet designed to magnetically couple with an accessory device magnet. The electronic device further includes a display assembly and a magnetic field sensor configured to detect the accessory device magnet, thereby providing an indication that the accessory device is covering the display assembly. The electronic device further includes a shunt assembly designed to reduce the magnitude of the magnetic field of the device magnet, as determined by the magnetic field sensor, while allowing the magnetic field from the accessory device to sufficiently reach the magnetic field sensor. As such, the magnetic field sensor can be placed near the device magnet without triggering the magnetic field sensor. The electronic device may further include a microphone. Communication between the microphone and an integrated circuit can cease based on the magnetic field sensor detecting the accessory device magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Pinciuc, Zhen Zhang
  • Patent number: 11776776
    Abstract: A power circuit breaker has a housing defining a first passage and a cross passage through the housing. A bus bar extends through the cross passage and is configured to transmit electric power and/or break transmission of the electric power through the housing. The bus bar includes at least an input section, a coin or center section, and an output section that are separable from each other. The housing aligns a solenoid piston within the first passage of the housing. The solenoid has a piston with two opposite ends, and one of the ends operates as a plunger to separate the sections of the bus bar when the solenoid is actuated. The plunger moves the coin or center section of the bus bar out of contact with the input section and the output section of the bus bar to break electrical transmission across the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC
    Inventors: Raad Konja, Jason Lisseman, Michael Moore, Leonard Cech
  • Patent number: 11775645
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to method and/or device which is effective at cancelling or altering electrical signals or pulses, generated by, for example, digital electronic systems and components, that are induced, reflected or otherwise made present on the mains power supply conductors and/or the earthing or grounding conductor (if present.) The disclosed embodiments cancel these electrical signals thereby providing an effective means of preventing the exfiltration of various data from a computing or similar system by means of power line emissions. The disclosed embodiments may perform this subjugation by: altering the shape of the fundamental current and voltage waveforms and also altering and diminishing any non-fundamental frequency waveforms to a point where they are no longer measurable or detectable; and preventing the communication via inductive coupling of any electrical signals on mains current onto the grounding path or vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Lodestone LLC
    Inventor: Michael W. Januszewski
  • Patent number: 11769641
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an Energy Reduction Maintenance Setting (ERMS) key that includes a data connector configured to communicatively couple to a data port of a target device. The ERMS key further includes an illumination device and an actuator mechanism having a base positional state and an actuated positional state. The ERMS key includes logic configured to, upon detecting the actuator mechanism has moved from the base positional state to the actuated positional state, generate and transmit a first data message to the target device through the data connector instructing the target device to enter a protected mode. The logic is further configured to, upon receiving a second data message from the target device over the data connector acknowledging that the target device has successfully entered the protected mode, cause the illumination device to illuminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Faber, Justin Siefkes
  • Patent number: 11763971
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are reluctance actuators and methods for feedback control of their applied force. Embodiments of the reluctance actuators include an electromagnet positioned to deflect a metallic plate to provide a haptic output. The control of the force is provided without force sensors (sensorless control) by monitoring voltage and/or current (V/I) applied during an actuation. For a given intended force output, an electrical parameter value (flux, current, or other parameter) is read from a look up table (LUT). The LUT may store a present value of the inductance of the reluctance actuator. The feedback control may be a quasi-static control in which the LUT is updated after actuation based on the monitored V/I. The feedback control may be real-time, with a controller comparing an estimated electrical parameter value based on the measured V/I with the value from the LUT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Hari Vasudevan, Juil Lee, Denis G. Chen
  • Patent number: 11764554
    Abstract: Disclosed are an installation device for air gap arrester and installation method thereof. The installation device includes a handheld pole, a wire clamping mechanism provided at the bottom end of the handheld pole for clamping a split wire, a tray provided on the handheld pole for lifting the arrester, an insulating rope provided on the tray, a fixing rope provided on the handheld pole for temporarily fixing the arrester, and a scale provided on the handheld pole for measuring the distance from the bottom end of the arrester to the bottom end of the handheld pole. The installation device for air gap arrester and installation method thereof have high installation efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: State Grid Jinhua Power Supply Company
    Inventors: Yuqun Fang, Yunpeng Guo, Chi Yu, Zhiyi Wang, Jianye Cui, Wendong Jiang, Bo Zhang, Bin Wang, Weinan Qin, Kaimei Zhao
  • Patent number: 11751464
    Abstract: Provided is a display substrate. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of data transmission lines, a plurality of electrostatic discharge circuits, a panel crack detection trace, and a plurality of electrostatic discharge dummy circuits. At least one of the electrostatic discharge dummy circuits may be connected to the panel crack detection trace. A display device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaofeng Jiang, Linhong Han, Huijuan Yang, Meng Zhang, Jie Dai, Xin Zhang, Huijun Li, Yu Wang, Lulu Yang, Lu Bai, Siyu Wang, Yupeng He
  • Patent number: 11749674
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit including a monitoring unit, a main discharge transistor, and an auxiliary discharge transistor is provided herein. The monitoring unit is configured to detect an electrostatic pulse caused by accumulation of electrostatic charges. The main discharge transistor and the auxiliary discharge transistor are configured discharge the electrostatic charges to ground end after the electrostatic pulse is detected. A first section of a power supply metal line is coupled to the main discharge transistor and the auxiliary discharge transistor, a third section of the power supply metal line is coupled to an internal circuit protected by the ESD protection circuit, and a second section of the power supply metal line couples the first section to the third section. The power supply metal line includes an angle that is less than 180 degrees at a contact position between the second section and the first section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Li, Zhan Ying
  • Patent number: 11742159
    Abstract: A switch that includes a sensor device capable of transmitting data related to a sensor signal of at least one sensor of the sensor device to an external unit through wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Bastiaan Brand, Cezanne de Heus
  • Patent number: 11742657
    Abstract: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a capacitor, a voltage dividing circuit, and a first diode. The first transistor is coupled between a first power rail and a second power rail. The second transistor is coupled between the first power rail and the second power rail. A bulk of the second transistor is coupled to a control terminal of the first transistor. The capacitor is coupled between the first power rail and a control terminal of the second transistor. The voltage dividing circuit is coupled between the control terminal of the second transistor and the second power rail, and has a divided voltage output terminal coupled to the bulk of the second transistor. The first diode is coupled between the divided voltage output terminal and the second power rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Jhih-Chun Syu, Chao-Lung Wang
  • Patent number: 11736100
    Abstract: An active gate voltage control circuit for a gate driver of a power semiconductor switching device comprising a power semiconductor transistor, such as a GaN HEMT, provides active gate voltage control comprising current burst mode operation and protection mode operation. The gate-source turn-on voltage Vgs(on) is increased in burst mode operation, to allow for a temporary increase of saturation current. In protection mode operation, a multi-stage turn-off may be implemented, comprising reducing Vgs(on) to implement fast soft turn-off, followed by full turn-off to bring Vgs(on) below threshold voltage, to reduce switching transients such as Vds spikes. Circuits of example embodiments provide for burst mode operation for enhanced saturation current, to increase robustness of enhancement mode GaN power switching devices, e.g. under overcurrent and short circuit conditions, or to provide active gate voltage control which adjusts dynamically to specific operating conditions or events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GAN SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Ruoyu Hou, Juncheng Lu, Larry Spaziani
  • Patent number: 11721510
    Abstract: An electronic device includes an input, an output, a metal fuse, a resistor, a heat control transistor, and a heat controller. The metal fuse is coupled between the input and the output. The resistor is coupled between the metal fuse and the heat control transistor. The heat control transistor is coupled between the resistor and a reference terminal of the electronic device, and the heat controller is configured to control a heater current of the heat control transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yogesh K. Ramadass, Ujwal Radhakrishna, Vinod Kuniganahalli Rai
  • Patent number: 11715614
    Abstract: A remote-controlled mechanism according to an embodiment is used for coupling to a protective switching device to use a controllable drive device of the remote-controlled mechanism to actuate the coupled protective switching device. To this end, the remote-controlled mechanism includes: an actuating element operatively connectable to an actuating element of the coupled protective switching device and actuatable either by a remotely controllable drive device of the remote-controlled mechanism or manually; one or more sensor devices for capturing position data relating to a position of the actuating element of the remote-controlled mechanism; and a controller for evaluating the captured position data and for controlling the drive device via control commands. The controller is designed to disable the drive device upon an evaluation of the position data and/or of the control commands revealing that the actuating element of the remote-controlled mechanism has been switched off manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Hochmuth