Patents Examined by Lam S Nguyen
  • Patent number: 12044601
    Abstract: The present invention belong to the technical field of lattice tower structure monitoring, and discloses a displacement reconstruction method for a lattice tower structure based on improved mode superposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Xing Fu, Qing Zhang, Liang Ren, Hongnan Li
  • Patent number: 12043029
    Abstract: A liquid ejecting head includes: a first pressure chamber to which a first liquid is supplied; a first drive element that applies pressure to the first liquid in the first pressure chamber; a second pressure chamber to which a second liquid is supplied; a second drive element that applies pressure to the second liquid in the second pressure chamber; a nozzle channel which has one end communicating with the first pressure chamber and another end communicating with the second pressure chamber and in which the first liquid supplied from the first pressure chamber and the second liquid supplied from the second pressure chamber are mixed; and a nozzle that is provided in the nozzle channel and ejects a mixture of the first liquid and the second liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takanori Aimono, Eiju Hirai, Akinori Taniuchi, Shotaro Tamai
  • Patent number: 12044817
    Abstract: A proposed geometrical distribution for a first non-impulsive source and a second non-impulsive source of a source array can be received. A near-field-to-notional computation can be performed for the proposed geometrical distribution to yield a respective computed notional output of the first and second non-impulsive sources. Whether the computed notional output of the first non-impulsive source has a first amount of residue greater than a threshold amount of residue can be determined. Whether the computed notional output of the second non-impulsive source has a second amount of residue greater than the threshold amount of residue can be determined. An indication whether either of the first or second amounts of residue is less than or equal to the threshold amount of residue can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
    Inventors: Okwudili Orji, Walter Sollner, Endrias Asgedom
  • Patent number: 12046493
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining the position of a substrate within a closed chamber, wherein the substrate is moved within the chamber by a transport system comprising at least one rotating shaft. A load-converting element is provided adjacent to at least one of the rotating shafts, wherein the load-converting element detects a load acting on the at least one rotating shaft and converts it into an electrical parameter. While no substrate is present on the at least one rotating shaft, a first output signal corresponding to a first value of the electrical parameter is measured. The output signal is then monitored and a presence of the substrate on the at least one rotating shaft is detected when the output signal differs from the first output signal by at least a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: China Thumph International Engineering Co., Ltd., CTF Solar GmbH
    Inventors: Shou Peng, Michael Harr, Xinjian Yin, Ganhua Fu, Christian Kraft, Stefan Rau, Bastian Siepchen
  • Patent number: 12036797
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a printer body and an ink container provided in the printer body. The ink container includes an ink containing portion, a frame portion and a cover portion. A top portion of the ink containing portion includes a port. The cover portion is pivotally connected to the frame portion and pivotable between an opened position, in which the port is exposed, and a closed position, in which the cover portion covers the port, with respect to the frame portion. The cover portion includes a sealing member provided corresponding to the port on an opposing surface of the cover portion. When the cover portion is in the closed position, the sealing member seals the port, and when the cover portion is in the opened position, the sealing member is separated from the port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinori Osakabe, Masako Kawagoe, Taichi Shirono
  • Patent number: 12038065
    Abstract: Systems and a method for resisting a fluctuation in a value of a parameter relating to well equipment using a magnetorheological dampener system are described herein. The method includes continuously determining the value of the parameter relating to the well equipment, determining a fluctuation in the value of the parameter, and comparing the fluctuation in the value of the parameter to a preset limit. The method also includes energizing an electromagnet to increase a viscosity of a magnetorheological fluid (MRF) if the fluctuation exceeds the preset limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
    Inventor: Michael C. Romer
  • Patent number: 12030313
    Abstract: There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, in which a first inductance element included in a first demodulation circuit has a first terminal which a first amplified modulated signal is input, a second terminal which a first driving signal is output, a second inductance element included in a second demodulation circuit has a third terminal which is provided in a fourth side portion, and to which a second amplified modulated signal is input, a fourth terminal which is provided in a fifth side portion that faces the fourth side portion, and from which a second driving signal is output, and a second lead member coupled to the third terminal and the fourth terminal and having a third refraction point and a fourth refraction point, and the first inductance element and the second inductance element are positioned such that the second side portion and the fourth side portion face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Amano, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 12023933
    Abstract: An inkjet printer includes a printer body, a waste ink container, and a cover member. The waste ink container includes a first engagement portion. The cover member constitutes a part of a housing of the inkjet printer and includes a second engagement portion. The second engagement portion is engageable with the first engagement portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tomohiro Wada
  • Patent number: 12014431
    Abstract: An agricultural device for working a field, a receiving system configured to receive data from an agricultural device, a system for collecting and storing agricultural data, and a method for aggregating data from an agricultural device. The agricultural device includes—a tool for working the field, a data aggregation system configured to collect a plurality of measurements at a time (T), a data processing unit, operatively connected to the data aggregation system, a memory operatively connected to the data processing unit, and a communication module operatively connected to the data processing unit. The data processing unit is configured to process each measurement from the plurality of measurements from the data aggregation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: EXEL INDUSTRIES
    Inventors: Marten Pieter Van Der Woude, Martinus Henricus Van Alphen
  • Patent number: 11999178
    Abstract: A system for decorating multiple containers in a single manufacturing run has a decorator, which includes a source of ink and print site where an ink graphic is deposited to each container in a plurality of containers that make up a manufacturing queue. An inspection station is located downstream from the decorator. The inspection station performs an optical evaluation of a quality of a pattern of ink deposited on at least one container in the plurality of containers A closed-loop feedback is responsive to the inspection station wherein the decorator is automatically adjusted in response to the optical evaluation performed at the inspection station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: BALL COPORATION
    Inventors: Michael W. Miller, Adam P. S. Stowitts
  • Patent number: 11999162
    Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes a plurality of first data lines, a second data line, a first memory element, and a second memory element. The first memory element is enabled in response to first data on the plurality of first data lines. The second memory element is enabled in response to second data on the second data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Boon Bing Ng
  • Patent number: 11996341
    Abstract: There are provided a first fixing section to a third fixing section that fix a heat sink to a substrate on which a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit are disposed; the first drive circuit includes first transistor and first integrated circuit, and the second drive circuit includes second transistor and second integrated circuit, lengths of the first transistor and the second transistor in the normal direction of the substrate are longer than lengths of the first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit, the first fixing section and the second fixing section overlap a first virtual straight line that connects the first transistor and the second transistor, and the third fixing section overlaps a second virtual straight line that connects the first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11984197
    Abstract: In various embodiments of an analytics system, a spike-in including synthetic constructs of nucleic acid is added to soil samples for processing. The analytics system determines sequence reads classified to a microbe in the soil sample. The analytics system determines one or more measures of soil texture of the soil sample, for example, indicating percentages of sand, silt, and clay. The analytics system determines a measure of the microbe as a function of at least the classified sequence reads, the one or more measures of soil texture, and a mass of the spike-in. The analytics system can transmit the measure of the microbe to a client device for display on a user interface. A field where the soil sample was obtained can be treated according to the measure of the microbe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: TRACE GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Ariel David Zajdband, Wyatt Hugh Hartman, David Curtis Stone, Rosaria Chiang
  • Patent number: 11982175
    Abstract: A method and system for visualizing data to detect a collar. A method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool downhole; emitting an electromagnetic field from the transmitter; energizing a casing with the electromagnetic field to produce an eddy current; recording the eddy current from the casing with the receiver; creating a variable-density-log from the recorded eddy current; selecting a wrapping period for the variable-density-log; creating a wrapped-variable-density-log from the variable-density-log using the wrapping period; and determining at least one collar location and a pipe index with the wrapped-variable-density-log. A system for to detect a collar may comprise an electromagnetic logging tool. The electromagnetic logging tool may comprise a transmitter and a receiver, wherein the transmitter and the receiver may be a coil. The system may further comprise an information handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Burkay Donderici, Ilker R. Capoglu
  • Patent number: 11981128
    Abstract: There are provided a substrate on which a first integrated circuit, a first transistor, a second integrated circuit, and a second transistor are disposed; a heat sink fixed to the substrate; a first heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the first integrated circuit; a second heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the first transistor; a third heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the second integrated circuit; and a fourth heat conductive elastic body which is in contact with the heat sink and the second transistor, the heat sink has a first recess portion positioned between the first heat conductive elastic body and the second heat conductive elastic body, and a second recess portion positioned between the third heat conductive elastic body and the fourth heat conductive elastic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shunsuke Yamamichi, Yusuke Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11983089
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training and using machine learning models are disclosed. Methods include creating a model that represents relationships between user attributes, content exposures, and performance levels for a target action using organic exposure data specifying one or more organic exposures experienced by a particular user over a specified time prior to performance of a target action by the particular user and third party exposure data specifying third party exposures of a specified type of digital component to the particular user over the specified time period. Using the model, an incremental performance level attributable to each of the third party exposures at an action time when the target action was performed by the particular user is determined. Transmission criteria for at least some digital components to which the particular user was exposed are modified based on the incremental performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Xinlong Bao, Ali Nasiri Amini, Jing Wang, Mert Dikmen, Amy Richardson, Dinah Shender, Junji Takagi, Sen Li, Ruoyi Jiang, Yang Jiao, Yang Zhang, Zhuo Zhang
  • Patent number: 11971319
    Abstract: A surface electromyography signal-torque matching method based on multi-segmentation parallel CNN model (MSP-CNN model), step 1: collecting torque signals and surface electromyography (sEMG) signals when tightening a bolt; step 2: dividing a range of a transducer by at least two granularities, generating a plurality of torque sub-ranges corresponding to the at least two granularities and labeling the plurality of torque sub-ranges with torque labels; step 3: generating sEMG graphs of the sEMG signals in each time window; step 4: determining the torque labels of each time window under each of the at least two granularities according to the torque sub-ranges that average values of torques fall in; step 5: establishing a sample set; step 6: building a MSP-CNN model, and training parallel independent CNN models with sample datasets; and step 7: inputting the sEMG signals of the operator during assembly into trained MSP-CNN model and identifying assembly torques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Cheng Jun Chen, Kai Huang, Dong Nian Li, Shuai Zheng, Jun Hong
  • Patent number: 11970014
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for profiling a print medium for use in a printing system. The print medium is received in an input holder and a plurality of test jobs is received in a test job receiver. For each test job a uniquely determined combination of at least a first printing system parameter of print speed of the printing system and a second printing system parameter of coverage of the marking material is intended to be prepared by a print controller. The printing system registers a test result of each test job. The print controller creates a two-dimensional media print mode table of media print modes for the print medium to be profiled based on the test results of the test jobs for the print medium. When a print job arrives intended to be printed on the profiled medium, a media print mode is selected from the two-dimensional media print mode table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: CANON PRODUCTION PRINTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Eduardus J. W. Van Vliembergen
  • Patent number: 11971875
    Abstract: A fault monitoring method is executed by a monitoring device in a fault monitoring system that includes a terminal used by a user, an appliance to be operated by the user, the monitoring device, and a plurality of authentication servers each including a distributed ledger, and includes: obtaining event information stored in the plurality of authentication servers and indicating an event generated in response to a request that includes a processing instruction for the user operating the appliance; obtaining state information indicating whether the appliance is faulty, from the appliance; generating first transaction data including the state information obtained and transmitting the first transaction data to the plurality of authentication servers; and transmitting the processing instruction included in the event information to the appliance, when the appliance is determined to be not faulty from the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Naohisa Nishida, Junichiro Soeda, Yuji Unagami, Junji Michiyama
  • Patent number: 11969999
    Abstract: An integrated circuit to drive a plurality of fluid actuation devices includes an ID line, a fire line, a discharge path, a memory element, and a latch. The memory element is electrically coupled to the fire line and the discharge path. The latch disables the discharge path in response to a first logic level on the ID line and enables the discharge path in response to a second logic level on the ID line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Boon Bing Ng, Mohan Kumar Sudhakar