Patents Examined by Minh Trinh
  • Remote locking apparatus for securing a vehicle body to a vehicle body support
    Patent number: 8839507
    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: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Comau, Inc.
    Inventors: Velibor Kilibarda, Michael R. Dugas
  • Dual-layer method of fabricating ultracapacitor current collectors
    Patent number: 8840687
    Abstract: A method of making a multi-layer current collector comprises forming a first layer from a first formulation over each major surface of a current collector substrate, and forming a second layer from a second formulation over each of the first layers, wherein one of the first formulation and second formulation is a graphite formulation and the other of the first formulation and second formulation is a carbon black formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Kishor Purushottam Gadkaree, Felipe Miguel Joos, James Robert Lim, Kamjula Pattabhirami Reddy
  • Method of making a high frequency device package
    Patent number: 8839508
    Abstract: A fabrication method for a low-cost high-frequency electronic device package having waveguide structures formed from the high frequency device to the package lead transition. The package lead transition is optimized to take advantage of waveguide interconnect structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnick GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eric A. Sanjuan, Sean S. Cahill
  • Crimping tool connector locator
    Patent number: 8839653
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hydraulic tool working head guide. The hydraulic tool working head guide includes a main section having a general plate shape. The main section is adapted to be connected to an exterior surface of a hydraulic tool working head. The main section includes a slot having an open end at an edge of the main section and a closed end at a middle portion of the main section. The slot extends through a thickness of the main section. The closed end is adapted to be aligned with a receiving area of the hydraulic tool working head. The slot is adapted to substantially center a connector and/or a conductor in the receiving area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard M. Roman, Jr., John D. Lefavour, Thomas R. Faucher, Alan D. Beck, Mark A. Chiasson, Jennifer M. Peterson, John W. Ayer, Richard E. Robicheau, Justin Lloyd Parker, Bernard P. Vachon, Jerry Heckman
  • Frame device with shimming elements for installing a glass plane
    Patent number: 8832918
    Abstract: A device that includes a frame having a first part and a second part and a plurality of first suction devices connected to the first part of the frame, the first suction devices positioned so as to contact a glass plane. Also included in the device is a plurality of second suction devices connected to the second part of the frame, the second suction devices positioned so as to contact a body having an opening to receive the glass plane. A plurality of positioning components that position the frame with respect to the opening in the body, the positioning components connected to the first part of the frame and a plurality of shimming elements that move down between the glass plane and the opening and shift the glass plane forward, the shimming elements connected to the first part of the frame are as included in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventor: Raza Ali
  • Method of manufacturing surgical antennas
    Patent number: 8832927
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a surgical antenna includes bonding a trocar screw and a conductor together and overmolding the trocar screw with a puck material to form a puck assembly. A trocar is coupled to the trocar screw, which forms a distal radiating section, and a proximal antenna member is coupled to the puck assembly, which forms a proximal radiating section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Joseph D. Brannan
  • Method for twisting end portions of bar conductors, in particular for bar windings of electric machines
    Patent number: 8826513
    Abstract: A twisting method is described, for twisting free end portions of bar conductors for the stator or rotor bar winding of an electrical machine. The twisting method allows achieving a non uniform twisting of the bar conductors from the welding side of the stator or rotor core by means of a twisting fixture. The twisting fixture comprises a pocket member including a main structure provided with an arc of adjacent pockets and a secondary structure, provided with at least one further pocket, which can axially translate with respect to the main structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Technomatic S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sante Guercioni
  • Fiber handler having multiple sides
    Patent number: 8826517
    Abstract: A fiber handler for handling a plurality of different fiber optic cable constructions is disclosed. Generally, the fiber handler comprises a first face that accepts a fiber optic cable of a first construction and a second face that accepts a fiber optic cable of a second construction. An alternate embodiment is disclosed that can accommodate up to four different fiber optic cable constructions. The fiber handler may interface with a fiber optic installation tool such as a fiber cleaving tool or a fiber splicing tool where it functions to align an optical fiber of the cable with functional components of the tool to be cleaved, fused, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Leyva, Jr., David W. Meek, Ashley W. Jones, Kevin C. Beach
  • Method for manufacturing a fluid bearing device
    Patent number: 8826541
    Abstract: A fluid bearing device is manufactured with a high adhesive strength in fixing another member by adhesion to a resin housing. A bearing sleeve is secured in position inside the resin housing, and a shaft member is radially supported in a non-contact fashion by a dynamic pressure action of lubricant generated in a radial bearing clearance between the shaft member and the bearing sleeve. A metal bracket for mounting the stator coil of a motor is fixed by adhesion to the outer periphery of the housing, in which the adhesion portion of the outer periphery of the housing to be fixed to the bracket is roughened, setting the surface roughness to 0.5 ?mRa to 2.0 ?mRa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventor: Kenji Ito
  • Apparatus for extracting a rotor from a generator
    Patent number: 8826520
    Abstract: This disclosure describes embodiments of an apparatus for use to extract a rotor from a generator. The apparatus can include a central mount element that secures to the end of the rotor. A pair of support members coupled to the sides of the central mount element. The support members can include a load bearing element that permits travel of the apparatus on a surface, e.g., a platform proximate to the turbine generator. During implementation, the apparatus is configured to direct pulling forces along the center axis of the rotor to restrict movement of the rotor and, in particular, limit rotation of the rotor that can result in inadvertent contact with the stator or other parts of the generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Charles Vaughan Spanos, Charles Van Buchan, James Bradford Holmes
  • System for manufacturing laminated circuit boards
    Patent number: 8831918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pin-less registration and inductive heating system involving the use of a pre-alignment station for imaging an initial position of a laminate element, an imaging and computer operation control system for determining a required correction factor between an alignment of the laminate element at the pre-alignment station and a preferred stack orientation for the laminate element, and an alignment and transfer system for securely gripping, transferring, and repositioning a laminate element from atop position to the preferred stack orientation employing a preferred four-axis orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Duetto Integrated Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Faraci, Gary N. Sortino
  • Methods of fabricating an array capacitor
    Patent number: 8826503
    Abstract: Methods of fabricating an array capacitor are disclosed, in which via structures of the array capacitor have increased uniformity in their transverse areas. One method involves perforating a capacitor body to form first holes extending from a first surface and partially through the capacitor body. The capacitor body may be further perforated to form second holes extending from a second opposed surface of the capacitor body. The second holes are to connect to the first holes to provide through holes extending across a thickness of the capacitor body. An appropriate conductive material may then be filled in the through holes to form via structures with increased uniformity in their transverse areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Sriram Dattaguru
  • Pressing terminal and terminal pressing device
    Patent number: 8826523
    Abstract: A pressing terminal includes an outer conductive member having a shield outer tube; an inner conductive member; and a dielectric member. The dielectric member includes a protruding portion fitted into the shield outer tube so that a signal line pressing portion of the inner conductive member is situated at a pressing tool insertion opening portion. The dielectric member is inserted into a shield outer tube with the protruding portion thereof sliding against the shield outer tube. A terminal pressing device includes an anvil unit and a crimper unit. Upon attaching the signal wire, a claw portion of a signal line crimper of the crimper unit is inserted into a claw insertion groove portion of a signal line anvil of the anvil unit. A terminal pressing anvil portion of the signal line anvil is ushered to a terminal pressing anvil insertion portion of the signal line crimper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Maori Takahashi, Masao Okada
  • Component mounting method
    Patent number: 8819929
    Abstract: A component mounting method for mounting a plurality of types of components on a substrate is disclosed. The mounting method includes providing a component mounting apparatus 1 for mounting a semiconductor chip 6a picked from a component feeding stage 3 to a substrate 7, having a paste coating unit 20 for squirting paste from an associated coating nozzle to apply the paste to the substrate 7, a paste transfer unit 54 for transferring paste by an associated transfer tool to the substrate 7, and a heating-press unit 57 for pressing the component loaded on the substrate 7 against the substrate 7 while heating the component. The mounting method also includes selecting a work unit from the paste coating unit 20, the paste transfer unit 54 and the heating-press unit 57, and equipping a second head 12 with the selected work unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Noda
  • Manufacturing method for a dual interface card
    Patent number: 8819918
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a chip card, such as a dual interface card, is provided. The method generally includes collocating multiple card support sheets one onto the other, depositing a conductive adhesive onto contact pads on at least one of the sheets, positioning a dual interface module in a recess established in at least one of the sheets, and executing a lamination step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Assa Abloy AB
    Inventors: Stéphane Ayala, Lionel Carre, Jari-Pascal Curty
  • Method of forming a non-linear path of an electrically conducting wire
    Patent number: 8819919
    Abstract: A method of forming a non-linear path of at least a portion of at least one electrically conducting wire extending between a first location and a second location. The method includes the steps of forming a wire path template defining a non-linear path, winding said wire through said template such that said wire adopts said non-linear path, connecting the wire to a feedthrough member, wherein the feedthrough member is configured to provide an electrical connection through a wall of an implantable component implantable in a recipient along with the wire, and removing the wire from the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Andy Ho, Niki Eder, David Walker, Katherine Meagher, Peter Schuller
  • Method for manufacturing disk drive device
    Patent number: 8813345
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a disk drive device includes (a) assembling a sub assembly by assembling a bearing unit and a rotating body to a fixed body in a clean room, the rotating body being supported by the bearing unit in a freely rotatable manner to the fixed body, (b) cleaning the sub assembly by spraying a mixture of a cleaning liquid and a first gas to at least either one of the fixed body and the rotating body; and (c) enclosing the sub assembly using an enclosing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Japan Advanced Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Nishihara, Hirofumi Kajiwara
  • Method for fabricating a DRAM capacitor
    Patent number: 8813325
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) capacitor stack is disclosed wherein the stack includes a first electrode, a dielectric layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed from a conductive binary metal compound and the conductive binary metal compound is annealed in a reducing atmosphere to promote the formation of a desired crystal structure. The binary metal compound may be a metal oxide. Annealing the metal oxide (i.e. molybdenum oxide) in a reducing atmosphere may result in the formation of a first electrode material (i.e. MoO2) with a rutile-phase crystal structure. This facilitates the formation of the rutile-phase crystal structure when TiO2 is used as the dielectric layer. The rutile-phase of TiO2 has a higher k value than the other possible crystal structures of TiO2 resulting in improved performance of the DRAM capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignees: Intermolecular, Inc., Elpida Memory, Inc.
    Inventors: Karthik Ramani, Nobumichi Fuchigami, Wim Deweerd, Hanhong Chen, Hiroyuki Ode
  • Efficient assembly of insulating glass windows
    Patent number: 8813337
    Abstract: An insulating glass unit (IGU) assembly line capable of interleaving double and triple pane IGUs in accordance with an IGU production schedule. Visual indicators or prompts instruct operators at the assembly line in configuring a sequence of IGUs. Triple pane IGUs are assembled with minimal contamination of a center glass lite. A non-contact Bernoulli pad is used to lift a glass lite off from a horizontal or vertical support that conveys it from a glass washer to an assembly station. Each of multiple pads has a capacity to lift approximately seven to ten pounds. Use of multiple pads per glass sheet or lite allows lites having dimensions up to 70 by 100 inches (assuming glass thickness of one quarter inch) to be assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: GED Integrated Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: William A. Briese, John Grismer, Timothy B. McGlinchy
  • Process for changing a spent anode
    Patent number: 8808526
    Abstract: The process involves pouring a smothering powder onto a spent anode placed on a support to cover it, with the aim of limiting fluorinated gas emission by the anode. The support may include a temporary tank, pre-filled with powder and provided with an opening for discharging the powder towards the anode on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Rio Tinto Alcan International Limited
    Inventors: Maxime Faure, Christian Cloue, John MacLeod