Patents Examined by Lisa M. Caputo
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Patent number: 11366032Abstract: A sensor element includes a sensor chip and a diaphragm base joined to a surface of the sensor chip. The sensor chip includes a first diaphragm for measuring differential pressure between a first pressure and a second pressure and a second diaphragm for measuring absolute pressure or gage pressure of the second pressure. The diaphragm base includes a third diaphragm to directly receive a fluid that is a measurement target and has the first pressure, and a fourth diaphragm to directly receive a fluid that is a measurement target and having the second pressure. The sensor element has a liquid amount adjustment chamber to make an amount of a first pressure transmission medium filled in a first pressure introduction path and an amount of a second pressure transmission medium filled in a second pressure introduction path to be equal to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohisa Tokuda, Masayuki Yoneda, Hirofumi Tojo, Ayumi Tsushima, Nozomi Kida
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Patent number: 11366033Abstract: A pressure sensor for being mounted in a vehicle door includes a housing, a pressure transducer, an elastomeric connector, and electrical conductors for facilitating an electrical connection to the pressure sensor. The pressure transducer is mounted in the housing adjacent the elastomeric connector. The housing is configured to exert a force that presses the pressure transducer against the elastomeric connector. The elastomeric connector comprises electrically conductive regions configured to be pressed against electrical contacts of the pressure transducer and the electrical conductors to establish and maintain an electrical connection between the pressure transducer and the electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: ZF ACTIVE SAFETY AND ELECTRONICS US LLCInventors: Neil G. Murray, Jr., Mark Ramsay
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Patent number: 11366019Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for a device with improved ambient temperature detection. In some implementations, a device includes a housing that forms an interior space, and the housing includes an exterior surface, a pass-through region that defines a through-hole between the interior space to the exterior surface, and a recess at the exterior surface adjacent to the pass-through hole. The device includes a printed circuit board disposed within the interior space of the plastic housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventor: Phillip Yee
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Patent number: 11366081Abstract: An assembly for determining a type of a fluid, the assembly configured to be mounted to a tank containing the fluid, comprises an ultrasound sending/receiving subassembly and a processor module. The ultrasound sending/receiving subassembly is configured to send a plurality of ultrasound signals into the fluid and receive the ultrasound signals reflected from the fluid. An ultrasound signal of the plurality of ultrasound signals has at least a first frequency and a second frequency different from the first frequency. The processor module is adapted to determine an attenuation of the ultrasound signal at the first frequency and at the second frequency.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY NORGE ASInventors: Viktor Kolesnikov, Hakon Boe
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Patent number: 11366034Abstract: In a pressure/temperature sensor, a sensor circuit is held by a holding member inside a tube that is fixed to a pipe, and an introduction portion is provided in the holding member at an inner side of the pipe with respect to the sensor circuit. The introduction portion includes a plurality of blades having blade surfaces extending along a protrusion direction of the introduction portion with respect to the sensor circuit. The plurality of blades are arranged radially on a surface perpendicular to the protrusion direction, and angles defined by the blade surfaces of the adjacent blades are all acute angles. Thus, regardless of the angle at which the blade is attached with respect to the flow direction of the measuring medium, an acute-angled portion of any adjacent blades is directed to the flow direction of the measuring medium. Therefore, a pressure loss of the measuring medium can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Takeru Kanazawa, Ryosuke Murayama, Yoichi Okui
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Patent number: 11359987Abstract: A sensor device includes a pressure-temperature detection unit and a signal processing circuit. The sensor device is configured to detect abnormalities by changing a supply voltage supplied to the pressure-temperature detection unit and to the signal processing circuit, and by monitoring changes in a pressure signal and in a temperature signal caused by changing the supply voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Kazuyuki Oono
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Patent number: 11359975Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for determining a maximum temperature to which a perishable good or other temperature sensitive item was exposed. In some embodiments, a capacitance of a circuit provided on a substrate is measured. The circuit includes capacitor(s) each having first and second plates separated from each other by an ionic liquid (IL) in a solid state. The IL melts at a predetermined temperature and flows away from the first and second plates into a void. In some embodiments, the predetermined temperature at which the IL melts is different for each capacitor. For example, each capacitor in the circuit may employ a different N-alkyl bezothiazolium salt. A maximum temperature of exposure is determined based on the measured capacitance. In some embodiments, a decision of whether to discard the perishable good or other temperature sensitive item may be based on the determined maximum temperature.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Sarah K. Czaplewski-Campbell, Joseph Kuczynski, Eric J. Campbell, Timothy J. Tofil
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Patent number: 11359984Abstract: A pressure sensor is provided that uses an electric field effect. The pressure sensor includes a first electrode extending in a vertical direction and defining a core region, a second electrode disposed to entirely surround the first electrode, a first insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrodes, a ground electrode electrically insulated from the second electrode, the ground electrode being disposed to surround the second electrode and a membrane connected to the ground electrode and positioned to cover the first and second electrodes, and the membrane being provided to generate an electric field in an adjacent region together with the first and second electrodes. The particular arrangements described herein are configured to make the electric field distort when an object approaches thereto, enhancing sensitivity by measuring change in capacitance, pressure, and impedance.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: INNER SENSOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Moon Sik Kang
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Patent number: 11353375Abstract: An example test system includes a tray to hold devices, where the devices include devices to be tested or devices that have been tested; a motor that is controllable to cause vibrations; and a component that couples the motor to the tray to cause the tray to vibrate in response to the vibrations of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: TERADYNE, INC.Inventors: Christopher J. Bruno, Mark S. O'Brien, Philip Campbell, Marc LeSueur Smith, Adnan Khalid
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Patent number: 11353377Abstract: In a wedge looseness diagnosis which is performed by striking wedges of a rotary electric machine, a variation of a wave form of a strike sound is reduced with respect to a variation of an amount of looseness of the wedges, and it is difficult that a slight difference of the amount of the looseness of the wedges is discriminated, so that the wedges are struck by a strike portion in a state where the wedges are pressed by a pressure portion which presses the wedges, and a strike sound at a high frequency is reduced, whereby an amount of a variation of magnitude of the strike sound is enlarged with respect to a valuation of the amount of the looseness of the wedges, and the amount of the looseness of the wedges is judged in accordance with the strike sound which is obtained by a strike sound measuring portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshihiro Morimoto, Daisuke Mizuno, Kazuhiko Fukushima, Kohei Nakamura, Wataru Nagaya
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Patent number: 11353432Abstract: Disclosed are a method for measuring the adhesive strength of a thin film using surface waves, and a computer-readable recording medium having a program for performing same recorded thereon. The method for measuring the adhesive strength of a thin film measures the adhesive strength between a substrate and a thin film by means of an electronic calculator, using sound waves measured from a thin film structure having a thin film formed on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: Seoul National University of Technology Center for Industry CollaborationInventors: Ik Keun Park, Tae Sung Park, Yu Min Choi, Dong Ryul Kwak
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Patent number: 11346725Abstract: A temperature sensor for a cold reference junction of a thermocouple is provided that may be incorporated permanently or removeably in a releasable connector having a first connector part arranged to engage releasably with a second connector part in which the thermocouple conductors terminate, so forming a cold reference junction for the thermocouple. When the two parts of the connector are engaged, the temperature sensor of the present invention is able to sense the temperature in the vicinity of a cold reference junction in the connector. The temperature sensor may be provided by embedding one or more thermistors into a flexible disk or plate-like seal able to fit around the conductors of the first connector part such that the thermistors make electrical contact with selected conductors of the first connector part and thermal contact with the cold reference junction.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plcInventor: Stuart John Kitching
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Patent number: 11346726Abstract: A sensor element, a sensor arrangement, and a method for manufacturing a sensor element and a sensor arrangement are disclosed. In an embodiment, a sensor element includes a ceramic main body having at least one electrode arranged at the main body and having at least one contact piece for the electrical contacting of the electrode, wherein the contact piece is fastened to the electrode by welding or bonding.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: EPCOS AGInventors: Heinz Strallhofer, Gerald Kloiber, Thomas Stendel, Jan Ihle
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Patent number: 11350208Abstract: The present invention relates to a vibration sensor comprising a pressure generating element for generating pressure differences between a first and a second volume in response to vibrations of the vibration sensor, the first and second volumes being acoustically sealed from each other, and a pressure transducer for measuring pressure differences between the first and second volumes. The present invention also relates to an associated method for detecting vibrations.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Sonion Nederland B.V.Inventors: Peter Christiaan Post, Raymond Mögelin
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Patent number: 11340125Abstract: To provide a pressure sensor that has high pressure resistance performance, small measurement error by suppressing hysteresis with respect to pressure, and high sensitivity and high productivity, a pressure sensor includes a diaphragm unit with a first main surface that receives a measurement target fluid's pressure and a second main surface located on the opposite side of this first main surface, a housing, and a sensing unit that outputs the diaphragm unit's deformation as an electric signal, in which at least part of the diaphragm unit has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of thin plate members are stacked, and the plurality of thin plate members are deformed independently of each other while at least part of the plurality of thin plate members is in press-contact to each other in a pressure receiving state in which the measurement target fluid's pressure is applied to the first main surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: AZBIL CORPORATIONInventors: Yuki Seto, Rina Ogasawara, Yusuke Niimura
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Patent number: 11340194Abstract: In a method for detecting moisture on a road surface used by a vehicle, wherein at least one acoustic signal resulting from the moisture on the road surface is captured by at least one sensor device arranged on said vehicle, and wherein the captured acoustic signal is analysed via at least one analyser associated with said vehicle, it is provided according to the invention that at least one energy value of at least one signal portion of the captured acoustic signal is calculated for the analysis, that the effective value of the at least one signal portion is calculated, that a shape factor of the at least one signal portion is calculated from the quotient of the effective value and the energy value, that the minimum of the energy value in the at least one signal portion is calculated, that the maximum of the shape factor in the at least one signal portion is determined, that a quotient of the minimum of the energy value and the maximum of the shape factor is created and that said quotient is associated with aType: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAAInventor: Adil Murtaza Zuberi
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Patent number: 11340120Abstract: A sensor mounting structure includes an insulator and a temperature sensor. The insulator is attached to a wall of a case of an electric storage component to hold an electrode terminal projecting from the case and insulating the electrode terminal from the case. The temperature sensor includes a temperature sensing portion, a locking portion, and a spring portion. The temperature sensing portion holds a temperature sensing component and includes a temperature sensing surface that contacts the wall of the case. The locking portion is locked to the insulator. The spring portion presses the temperature sensing portion to hold the temperature sensing surface in close contact with the wall of the case.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Matsumura, Shinichi Takase, Yusuke Suzuki, Atsushi Yamanaka
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Patent number: 11340129Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a capacitive pressure measurement device. In order to achieve an insensitivity to external signal sources, the disclosure proposes continuously varying the working frequency of the pressure measurement device so that a resonance formation with externally injected (interfering) frequencies is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: IFM ELECTRIC GMBHInventors: Heinz Walter, Manfred Maurus, Peter Kimbel, Alexander Oppe
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Patent number: 11333560Abstract: A heat-sensitive resistor with a negative or positive temperature coefficient comprises respectively an antimony-doped tin oxide-based resistive element or a carbon black-based resistive element, containing a polymer having a dielectric constant between 2 and 3, a molar mass between 50000 and 150000 g/mol, and a glass transition temperature Tg between 40 and 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Abdelkader Aliane, Romain Coppard
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Patent number: 11333564Abstract: An embodiment is to provide a strain sensor fixing device and torque sensor using the same capable of preventing the sensor performance from being deteriorated, and preventing the device configuration from being upsized, and further capable of securely fixing the strain sensor to a structure. A fixing member includes a first end and a second end. The first end is provided with a projection which contacts a first structure and the second end contacts a first end of a strain body provided on the first structure. A screw is inserted into the first structure and screwed into a part of the fixing member between the first end and the second end.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: NIDEC COPAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Takayuki Endo, Takashi Kanai