Patents Examined by Minh Trinh
  • Patent number: 9504166
    Abstract: A process for producing a substrate for mounting element includes forming a thick conductor layer-provided substrate having a thick conductor layer made of a metal composed mainly of silver (Ag) or copper (Cu), on a surface of an inorganic insulating substrate made of an inorganic insulating material, applying wet blast treatment to the thick conductor layer to planarize the surface of the thick conductor layer to a surface roughness Ra of at most 0.02 ?m, and forming a nickel (Ni)/gold (Au)-plated layer on the thick conductor layer having the surface planarized by the wet blast treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Nakayama
  • Patent number: 9502939
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a stator configured to ensure insulation properties between a conductor and an armature core while preventing a manufacturing cost from increasing and preventing a space factor from lowering. In an edge-removing step, a plurality of independent edge-removing punches, which correspond to one slot S or two or more slots S, press and chamfer a corner portion of an axial opening edge of the slot in an axial end core sheet of the armature core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignees: ASMO CO., LTD., DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kinpara, Takahiro Yamamoto, Jirou Hayashi, Asuka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9496618
    Abstract: During a process for manufacturing an antenna, which includes a core of filiform shape and which is intended to be integrated into a rubber compound of a tyre, the core is coated with a coating made of a material different from a material of the core. After the core is coated, at least one portion of the coated core is plastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Michel Robert, Jay Clifford Sinnet
  • Patent number: 9496673
    Abstract: The present invention is a charged-particle gun (EG) in which a negative electrode (1) and a positive electrode (9) are integrated and assembled in advance, and which can be stored and transported in a state in which the negative electrode and the positive electrode are integrated, wherein the negative electrode and the positive electrode are connected by a conductor (11) during storage and transportation of the charged-particle gun. It is thereby possible to prevent an electrode tip of the charged-particle gun from being damaged by electrical discharge caused by static electricity during storage and transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: DENKA COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Morishita, Yoshinori Terui, Shimpei Hirokawa
  • Patent number: 9493201
    Abstract: A vehicle body positioning and locking devices for use in assembling a vehicle body positioned on a movable vehicle support positioned at a vehicle build station. The locking device includes a remote vehicle locking device for selectively securing and locking a vehicle body to a support pallet. The support pallet is accurately and precisely positioned at a build station through alignment and inserting engagement of locating pads in at least one four-way and at least one two way receiver mounted to a build station foundation. A compliant body clamp design is included to provide a desired clamping force between the pallet and a vehicle body across a range of motion of the body clamp to accommodate vehicle build variances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Comau, Inc.
    Inventors: Velibor Kilibarda, Michael R. Dugas
  • Patent number: 9496756
    Abstract: A method of assembling an electrical machine having an axis of rotation is provided. The method includes aligning a plurality of laminations that each includes a slot and coupling a plurality of keys to the plurality of laminations. The method also includes moving the plurality of keys from a first position to a second position to facilitate coupling together the plurality of laminations, and indexing the plurality of keys to facilitate forming at least one planar surface that is positioned orthogonal to the axis of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.
    Inventor: Bryan J. Stout
  • Patent number: 9490072
    Abstract: A method for making multilayer ceramic capacitors is described with high voltage capability without the need of coating the part to resist surface arc-over. One design combines a high overlap area for higher capacitance whilst retaining a high voltage capability. A variation of this design has increased voltage capability over this design as well as another described in the prior art although overlap area and subsequently capacitance is lowered in this case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: KEMET Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: John Bultitude, James R. Magee, Lonnie G. Jones
  • Patent number: 9490051
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a wire harness including a core inserting step of forming a widely open braided mesh portion by widening a braided mesh of a braid before crimping is performed, and of inserting a core into an end from the outside of the braid via the widely open braided mesh portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Inao, Hideomi Adachi, Takeshi Ogue, Tatsuya Oga, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Masaaki Suguro, Yoshiaki Ozaki
  • Patent number: 9484130
    Abstract: A device for assisting in the production of wiring harnesses. The device includes a board, with a groove that makes it possible to receive cables. The device further includes an arrangement for transporting a cable, including a nozzle making it possible to position the cable in the groove of the board. Further, a control is configured and arranged to drive the displacement of the cable transport arrangement. Also, flexible and resilient holding elements are provided for holding cables in the groove. The holding elements deform to allow the nozzle to pass when the nozzle positions a cable in the groove and then revert to their initial form to hold the cable in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (SAS)
    Inventors: Claude Metche, Michel Teysseyre
  • Patent number: 9485876
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing at least a portion of a printed circuit board. The method includes: applying a lamination adhesive on a first plural-layer substrate that includes a plurality of circuit layers with at least one first metal pad on a first side of the first plural-layer substrate; applying a protective film on the lamination adhesive; forming at least one via into the lamination adhesive to expose the at least one metal pad on the first side of the first plural-layer substrate; filling at least one conductive paste into the at least one via formed in the lamination adhesive; removing the protective film to expose the lamination adhesive on the first plural-layer substrate; and attaching the first plural-layer substrate with a second plural-layer substrate that includes a plurality of circuit layers with at least one second metal pad on a second side of the second plural-layer substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Viasystems Technologies Corp., L.L.C.
    Inventors: Raj Kumar, Monte P. Dreyer, Michael J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9479033
    Abstract: Apparatuses and method for manufacturing coil members (230, 250) for insertion in slots of a core of an electric dynamo machine, wherein the coil members (230, 250) are formed by bending portions of an electric conductor (10). Portions of conductor of a predetermined length are fed through an aperture (80), where at least one engagement member (51) can move to engage and bend the conductor (10) so as to form the configuration of the coil member (230, 250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ATOP S.p.A.
    Inventors: Massimo Ponzio, Rubino Corbinelli, Maurizio Mugelli
  • Patent number: 9472989
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature for an electric motor, includes: placing a commutator and a lamination stack on an armature shaft, winding magnet wire in slots in the lamination stacks to form coils, attaching ends of the magnet wire to the commutator, and molding plastic around the magnet wire and around the shaft of the armature at ends of the lamination stack. A spinning inertia of the armature is adjusted by adjusting at least one of a mass of the plastic molded and a distribution of the plastic molded. Alternatively and/or additionally, at least one of a resonant frequency and critical speed of the armature is adjusted by adjusting at least one of a geometry of the plastic molded, the physical properties of the plastic and the mechanical properties of the plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Hung T. Du, Brandon L. Verbrugge, Joshua F. West, Michael R. Sell, Richard T. Walter, David J. Smith, Earl M. Ortt, John C. Stone, Howard T. White
  • Patent number: 9465491
    Abstract: A method of forming a capacitive sensor includes forming a capacitive touch position sensor including a first plurality electrodes sense electrodes and drive electrodes in a touch sensing area of a capacitive sensor. The first plurality of sense electrodes and drive electrodes are configured to enable detection of the presence and position of a touch in the touch sensing area. The method also includes forming a capacitive finger print sensor including a second plurality of sense electrodes and drive in a fingerprint sensing area of the capacitive sensor. The second plurality of sense electrodes and drive are configured to enable identification of the fingerprint of a finger placed in the fingerprint sensing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Jalil Shaikh, Esat Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 9460380
    Abstract: Technologies are generally directed to assembly of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag precursor. An assembly may be provided, the assembly having an RFID integrated circuit (IC), a nonconductive repassivation layer on a surface of the IC and confined within a perimeter of the surface, and a conductive redistribution layer on the repassivation layer and confined within the perimeter of the surface, in which a first portion of the redistribution layer is electrically connected to the IC through a first electrical connection. A substrate having a first antenna terminal to the assembly may be attached with an adhesive, and at least a first portion of a nonconductive barrier present on at least one of the first antenna terminal and the first portion of the redistribution layer may be reacted with a reactant to make the first portion of the nonconductive barrier conductive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: IMPINJ, INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventors: Ronald Lee Koepp, Tan Mau Wu, Ronald A. Oliver, Harley Heinrich, Jaideep Mavoori, Christopher J. Diorio
  • Patent number: 9455611
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a process for assembling a stator core assembly to replace existing stator cores in electric power generators. First and second stator core modules are positioned adjacent to one another such that one end of a fastener assembly in the second stator core module is nested in a counter-bore of the first stator core module and one end of a fastener assembly in the first stator core is nested in a counter-bore of the second stator core module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: David Thomas Allen, Victor A. Siegel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9455614
    Abstract: Embodiments of disclosure include, for example, a method for aligning wire conductors of coil members of a core of an electric motor or generator for welding the ends thereof. Such methods may include providing a plurality of circumferentially arranged first passages and a plurality of circumferentially arranged second passages, where each first passage is overlapped with a second passage to form a pair, each pair of passages form a combined third passage. Such methods may further include moving at least one of the first plurality of passages and the second plurality of passages relative to one another to cause radial sides of the passages to engage and move the end portions of the wire conductors in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: ATOP S.P.A.
    Inventors: Rubino Corbinelli, Massimo Ponzio
  • Patent number: 9447323
    Abstract: A method for producing a liquid crystal display includes providing a first substrate having a first electrode and a second electrode on a surface of the first substrate. The first and the second electrodes are made of conductive films. A liquid crystal aligning agent is applied to the surface of the first substrate to form an alignment film on the first substrate. The liquid crystal aligning agent includes at least one of: a polymer that includes a photoalignment structure and a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond; a polymer that includes a photoalignment structure, and a component that includes a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond; or a polymer that includes a photoalignment structure and a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, and a component that includes a polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond. The second substrate is provided to form a liquid crystal cell. Light is applied to the liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: JSR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Nagao, Yoshikazu Miyamoto, Hiroaki Tokuhisa, Michinori Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9449863
    Abstract: A device for aligning and prefixing a flat substrate on a carrier substrate for the further processing of the substrate. The device includes aligning means for aligning a substrate's outside contour relative to a carrier substrate's outside contour by engaging the substrate's outside contour. The alignment of the substrate is carried out along a substrate plane E that is parallel to a contact surface of the substrate. Attaching means is provided for at least partial prefixing of the aligned substrate on the carrier substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: EV Group GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Burggraf, Friedrich Paul Lindner, Stefan Pargfrieder, Daniel Burgstaller
  • Patent number: 9437366
    Abstract: Disclosed are methodology for providing a precision laser adjustable (e.g., trimmable) thin film capacitor array. A plurality of individual capacitors are formed on a common substrate and connected together in parallel by way of fusible links. The individual capacitors are provided as laddered capacitance value capacitors such that a plurality of lower valued capacitors corresponding to the lower steps of the ladder, and lesser numbers of capacitors, including a single capacitor, for successive steps of the ladder, are provided. Precision capacitance values can be achieved by either of fusing or ablating selected of the fusible links so as to remove the selected subcomponents from the parallel connection. In-situ live-trimming of selected fusible links may be performed after placement of the capacitor array on a hosting printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: AVX Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin D. Christian, Gheorghe Korony
  • Patent number: 9437922
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fluidic structure is disclosed. A cavity that defines a shape of an element of the fluidic structure within a material is formed. The cavity is filled with liquid metal. The cavity is sealed. The fluidic structure behaves as an antenna. A fluidic antenna includes a material that defines a shape of the fluidic antenna by a cavity filled with liquid metal formed within the material, where the material further defines at least one mechanical property of the fluidic antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Michael David Dickey, Gianluca Lazzi, Ju-Hee So, Jacob Thelen, Amit Qusba, Gerard James Hayes