Patents Examined by Kevin M. Bernatz
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Patent number: 12224091Abstract: A ferromagnetic-polymer composite material comprises a polymer and a plurality of ferromagnetic film platelets disposed in the polymer. Each ferromagnetic film platelet comprises first and second insulator layers and a ferromagnetic layer disposed between the first and second insulator layers. The ferromagnetic layer can be magnetically anisotropic in which a hard axis of magnetization is aligned parallel to a plane that passes through and parallel to an interface between the first insulator layer and the ferromagnetic layer. The easy and/or hard axes of magnetization in the ferromagnetic film platelets can be aligned. An inductor can have a core formed of the ferromagnetic-polymer composite material.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Ferric Inc.Inventors: Noah Sturcken, Michael Lekas, Ryan Davies, Denis Shishkov, Matthew Cavallaro
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Patent number: 12217775Abstract: A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer positioned between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, and at least one of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer is a Heusler alloy represented by the following General Formula (1): Co2Fe?X???(1) (in Formula (1), X represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mn, Cr, Si, Al, Ga and Ge, and ? and ? represent numbers that satisfy 2.3??+?, ?<?, and 0.5??<1.9).Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuumi Inubushi, Katsuyuki Nakada, Tetsuya Uemura
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Patent number: 12212012Abstract: A battery cell macromodule housing having a housing shell comprising two longitudinal walls and two end walls, the longitudinal walls being arranged perpendicular to the end walls, and the longitudinal walls and the end walls each being parallel to and spaced apart from each other so that the walls annularly enclose the interior space. The housing shell further has a plurality of positioning indentations formed on the inner sides of the walls, respectively, for positioning a battery cell perpendicular to the passage plane enclosed by the walls. The positioning indentations in the end walls are spaced further apart than the positioning indentations in the longitudinal walls.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: SCIO TECHNOLOGY GMBHInventor: Alexander Weis
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Patent number: 12211533Abstract: In an amorphous glass, an SiO2 content is in a range of 56 mol % or more. An MgO content is in a range of 15 mol % or more and 28 mol % or less. An Li2O content is in a range of 0.2 mol % or more. An Na2O content is in a range of 5 mol % or less. A total content of Al2O3, MgO, and CaO (Al2O3+MgO+CaO) is 36.50 mol % or less. The total content of SiO2, MgO, Li2O, Al2O3, and CaO (SiO2+MgO+Li2O+Al2O3+CaO) is 97.5 mol % or more. A mole ratio of the total content of SiO2 and MgO relative to the Li2O content [(SiO2+MgO)/Li2O] is 13 or more. A mole ratio of a CaO content relative to a total content of Al2O3 and MgO [CaO/(Al2O3+MgO)] is 0.10 or less.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Koichi Sato, Kazuaki Hashimoto
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Patent number: 12211972Abstract: A polymer electrolyte includes an ionic liquid and a polymer matrix including a copolymer having a first repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a second repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 2 below:Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF SEOUL INDUSTRY COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Ho Taek Lee, Yong Min Kim, Hong Chul Moon
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Patent number: 12206088Abstract: A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, said negative electrode comprising a negative-electrode current collector, and a negative-electrode active material layer provided upon the negative-electrode current collector, wherein the negative-electrode active material layer includes a negative-electrode active material and a styrene-butadiene rubber, and the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the styrene-butadiene rubber in an area that extends 10% in the thickness direction from the surface of the reverse side of the negative-electrode active material layer from the negative-electrode current collector is higher than that of the styrene-butadiene rubber in an area that extends 10% in the thickness direction from the surface of the negative-electrode current collector side of the negative-electrode active material layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kouhei Tsuzuki, Akihiko Takada, Yuki Morikawa, Hirokazu Wada, Katsunori Yanagida
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Patent number: 12205744Abstract: An inductor includes a wire, and a magnetic layer covering the wire. The wire includes a conducting line, and an insulating layer covering the conducting line. The magnetic layer includes a magnetic particle and a binder. In a peripheral region of the wire, a filling rate of the magnetic particle is 40% by volume or more. The peripheral region is a region of the magnetic layer traveling outwardly from an outer peripheral surface of the wire by 1.5 times an average of the longest length and the shortest length from the center of gravity C of the wire to an outer surface of the wire in a cross-sectional view.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Okumura, Yoshihiro Furukawa
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Patent number: 12198743Abstract: Provided is a magnetic recording medium with a tape shape capable of correcting a change in width of the magnetic recording medium by adjusting a running tension of the magnetic recording medium in a case where the magnetic recording medium is saved or caused to run in a high-temperature environment. The magnetic recording medium is a magnetic recording medium with a tape shape, an amount of change in average width of the magnetic recording medium before and after the magnetic recording medium is left still for 40 hours in an environment at a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 40% RH in a state where a tension of 0.55 N is applied in a longitudinal direction is 170 ppm or less, and an average tension responsiveness with respect to a tension in the longitudinal direction in the environment at a temperature of 50° C. and a relative humidity of 40% RH is 700 ppm/N or more.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Sony Group CorporationInventors: Minoru Yamaga, Takahiro Takayama
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Patent number: 12190923Abstract: A substrate for a magnetic disk includes a substrate main body having two main surfaces and an outer circumferential edge surface, and a film that is an alloy film containing Ni and P and provided on a surface of the substrate main body. A disk shape of the substrate main body has an outer diameter of 90 mm or more. A thickness T of the substrate that includes film thicknesses of sections of the film provided on the main surfaces is 0.520 mm or less. A total thickness D mm, which is a sum of the film thicknesses of the sections of the film on the main surfaces and the thickness T mm satisfy D?0.0082/T?0.0015. A surface roughness maximum height Rz of the film provided on the outer circumferential edge surface is smaller than that of the substrate main body at the outer circumferential edge surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: HOYA CORPORATIONInventor: Kinobu Osakabe
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Patent number: 12191480Abstract: A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery according to an embodiment contains: a first composite oxide component represented by general formula Li?[LixMnyCozMe(1?x?y?z)]O2 (in the formula, Me is at least one selected from among Ni Fe, Ti, Bi, Nb, W, Mo, and Ta, 0.5<?<0.85, 0.05<x<0.2, 0.4<y<0.75, and 0<z<0.25), and having at least one crystal structure selected from among O2, T2, and O6 structures; and a second composite oxide component represented by general formula LiaMObAc (in the formula, M is at least one selected from among Ni, Co, Mn, Fe, Cu, Ti, Nb, Al, Ga, Bi, Zr, Ce, Y, W, Ta, Sn, Ca, Ba, and Na, A is at least one selected from among F, Cl, and S, 1.3<a<7, 2?b<5, and 0?c?0.3).Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kosuke Kuroda, Hiroshi Kawada, Atsushi Fukui
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Patent number: 12187614Abstract: The present application discloses a composite graphite material and a method for preparing the same, a secondary battery, and an apparatus. The composite graphite material includes a core material and a coating layer that coats at least a portion of the surface of the core material, the core material including graphite, and the coating layer including a coating material containing a cyclic structure moiety, wherein the composite graphite material has a weight-loss rate of from 0.1% to 0.55% when the composite graphite material is heated in an atmosphere of an inert non-oxidative gas at a temperature rising from 40° C. to 800° C. The composite graphite material can enhance the gram capability and reduce the expansion rate of an electrode plate, and more preferably, can improve the cycle performance and kinetic performance of a battery as well.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY (HONG KONG) LIMITEDInventors: Chengdu Liang, Yuzhen Zhao, Yan Wen, Qisen Huang
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Patent number: 12183377Abstract: A magnetic recording medium includes a rigid substrate, an amorphous soft magnetic underlayer (SUL) on the substrate, a dead magnetic layer on the SUL, a seed layer on the dead magnetic layer, and a magnetic recording layer (MRL) on the seed layer. The dead magnetic layer is configured to provide an interdiffusion region between the amorphous SUL and seed layer with a saturation magnetic moment per unit area less than 5×10?5 electromagnetic unit (emu)/cm2, and to produce a recording medium having an increase in tracks per inch (TPI) without significant reduction in bits per inch (BPI), and a net increase in areal density capacity (ADC) relative to a recoding medium that does not have the dead magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cristian Papusoi, Kai Tang
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Patent number: 12183958Abstract: An energy management system is provided with a fuel synthesizing apparatus, a power generation apparatus, a CO2 recovering unit, a compressor, a CO2 storage unit, a CO2 pressure reducing unit and a heat recovery unit. The fuel synthesizing apparatus generates hydrocarbon from H2O and CO2 using externally supplied power. The power generation apparatus generates power using the hydrocarbon. The CO2 recovering unit recovers CO2 from an exhaust gas exhausted from the power generation apparatus during a power generation. The compressor compresses the recovered CO2. The CO2 storage unit stores the CO2 compressed by the compressor. The CO2 pressure reducing unit depressurizes the CO2 stored in the CO2 storage unit in order to supply the fuel synthesizing apparatus therewith. The heat recovery unit recovers heat from the CO2, the heat having been stored in the CO2 when compressed or depressurized.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Youhei Morimoto, Shigekazu Hidaka
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Patent number: 12176576Abstract: Provided is a solid electrolyte membrane for a solid-state battery, including at least two solid electrolyte layers and at least one volume-swelling layer, wherein the volume-swelling layer is disposed between the solid electrolyte layers. The solid electrolyte membrane includes (a) an ion conductive solid electrolyte material, and the volume-swelling layer includes (b) inorganic particles, wherein the inorganic particles form an alloy with lithium and include a metal, metal oxide or both. Thus, it is possible to provide a solid electrolyte membrane for a solid-state battery fundamentally prevented from a short-circuit by inhibiting growth of lithium dendrite.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Jung-Pil Lee, Sung-Joong Kang, Eun-Bee Kim, Ji-Hoon Ryu, Suk-Woo Lee
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Patent number: 12176139Abstract: A magnetic film includes iron and copper distributed between opposing first and second major surfaces of the magnetic film. The copper has a first atomic concentration C1 at a first depth d1 from the first major surface and a peak second atomic concentration C2 at a second depth d2 from the first major surface, d2>d1, C2/C1?5.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Seong-Woo Woo, Jung Ju Suh, Charles L. Bruzzone, Jennifer J. Sokol, Sergei A. Manuilov
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Patent number: 12178140Abstract: A thin film heterostructure of a topological insulator (TI) with a normal metal (NM) is used as a highly energy efficient and low power dissipation spin Hall Material (SHM). The TI material is sputter deposited onto a substrate and cooled in high vacuum, and an NM material is sputter deposited onto the TI film. The structure and method is compatible with complementary metal oxide (CMOS) processes, and with growth of large-area TI films for wafer-level device fabrication.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Northeastern UniversityInventors: Nian-Xiang Sun, Nirjhar Bhattacharjee
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Patent number: 12159657Abstract: Provided are a magnetic recording medium including a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. The ferromagnetic powder is an ?-iron oxide powder, and an intensity ratio (Int1/Int2) of diffraction intensities obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer using an In-Plane method after the magnetic layer is pressed at a pressure of 70 atm is 1.0 or more and 6.5 or less, a magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic recording and reproducing device each including the magnetic recording medium.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Eiki Ozawa, Takashi Fujimoto
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Patent number: 12161051Abstract: Disclosed are a spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based magnetic tunnel junction and a method of fabricating the same. More particularly, the SOT-based magnetic tunnel junction includes a spin-orbit torque (SOT)-based magnetic tunnel junction, including: a spin-orbit active layer formed on the substrate; a free layer formed on the spin-orbit active layer; a tunnel barrier layer formed on the free layer; and a pinned layer formed on the tunnel barrier layer, wherein the spin-orbit active layer includes a W—X alloy (where W is tungsten and X includes at least one of group IV semiconductors and group III-V semiconductors).Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Korea University Research and Business FoundationInventors: Young Keun Kim, Taehyun Kim
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Patent number: 12156479Abstract: A memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) and a spin Hall electrode (SHE). The MTJ includes a free layer, a reference layer and a barrier layer lying between the free layer and the reference layer. The SHE is in contact with the MTJ, and configured to convert a charge current to a spin current for programming the MTJ. The SHE is formed of an alloy comprising at least one heavy metal element and at least one light transition metal element. The heavy metal element is selected from metal elements with one or more valence electrons filling in 5d orbitals, and the light transition metal element is selected from transition metal elements with one or more valence electrons partially filling in 3d orbitals.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yen-Lin Huang, MingYuan Song, Chien-Min Lee, Shy-Jay Lin, Chi-Feng Pai, Chen-Yu Hu, Chao-Chung Huang, Kuan-Hao Chen, Chia-Chin Tsai, Yu-Fang Chiu, Cheng-Wei Peng
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Patent number: 12144603Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are described including an invasive medical device with a magnetic region. The magnetic region can include a discontinuity in the magnetic region providing a diameter transition, a plurality of spaced magnetic regions can be provided or the magnetic regions can be encoded with data. Systems and methods are described that include ways to read the data.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanuInventors: S. Ray Isaacson, Edward G. Henderson, Siddarth Shevgoor, Jonathan Karl Burkholz