Patents Examined by Minh Trinh
  • Patent number: 8559894
    Abstract: A Klystron transmitter for use in weather radar systems has a transmitter module for operating with any of various Klystron tubes designed for different frequency ranges, such as a low S-Band range, a high S-Band range, and a C-Band range. Each of the Klystron tubes is designed to have similar operating characteristics, such as output power and operating voltages. In addition, the transmitter module has driver circuitry for driving the Klystron tube of the transmitter, and such driver circuitry is operable over a wide frequency range so that the same driver circuitry can be used for any of the contemplated bands. Accordingly, the same core transmitter circuitry can be used for any of the Klystron tubes allowing a manufacturer to control which of the contemplated bands is implemented by selecting the appropriate Klystron tube and stable local oscillator (STALO) for the desired band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Baron Services, Inc.
    Inventor: William H. Walker
  • Patent number: 8545355
    Abstract: A method for assembling a powertrain includes installing transmission gearing and an input shaft in a housing, installing a bearing in a pump housing and securing the pump housing to a pump plate, piloting on the housing the pump plate into position, seating a stator shaft on the pump housing over the input shaft, and installing over the stator shaft a rotor shaft, a rotor hub engaging the bearing and a clutch hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven A. Frait, Steven G. Thomas
  • Patent number: 8544168
    Abstract: It is an objective to provide a part-mounting method that, even when parts are extremely small, makes it possible to mount the parts at a repair-requiring location without fail, to thus enhance a percentage of a non-defective substrate. In a part-mounting method, inspection is made as to whether or not a parts-missing location exists on a substrate Pb reloaded between a solder printer 2 and a first part-mounting machine 4A after having undergone manual repair by an operator OP, or the like, in connection with a repair-requiring location found through inspection performed after mounting of parts Pt, by use of an inspection camera 15A of a first part-mounting machine 4A. When a parts-missing location on the substrate Pb is found, the parts-missing location is identified. Subsequently, a mounting head 14A of the first part-mounting machine 4A and a mounting head 14B of a second part-mounting machine 4B mount a part Pt at the parts-missing location on the thus-identified substrate Pb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Kaida, Kenichiro Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 8539669
    Abstract: A hand-held tool for terminating connectors onto a coaxial cable has an elongated body and an end stop and plunger on the body, the plunger being controlled by a lever arm which will axially advance the plunger toward and away from the end stop to radially compress a portion of the connector into firm crimping engagement with the end of the coaxial cable. To accommodate different lengths of connectors, a plunger permits mounting of different length adapter tips to vary the axial spacing between the adapter tips and the end stop according to the length of connector being terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Belden Inc.
    Inventor: Randall A. Holliday
  • Patent number: 8539665
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rotor for an electric motor that includes producing a generally flat metal strip, bending one section of the strip relative to another section, and rolling the strip to form a cup-shaped shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Luiz V. Dokonal, Claudio W. Lima, Orlando Starke, Rodrigo S. Teixeira
  • Patent number: 8533935
    Abstract: An auxiliary tool, for assembling a number of voice coil motors, includes a number of trays, a rod member, and two limiting members. Each of the trays includes a main portion and a plurality of support arms extending away from the main portion. The main portion includes a top surface and a bottom surface. The support arms and the main portion cooperatively define two receiving spaces respectively on the top surface and the bottom surface. Each voice coil motor is received in two receiving spaces of two neighboring trays and clamped by the two neighboring trays. The rod member passes through trays and the voice coil motors. The two limiting members are sleeved over the rod member at two ends of the rod member. The trays and the voice coil motors are limited between the two limiting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tzu-Nan Chou
  • Patent number: 8533933
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing and preparing for assembly a stator core of a generator, the stator core having a central cylindrical bore along a longitudinal axis of the stator core, the method including in a first step, mounting a first press plate onto a tooling device and concomitantly and/or subsequently positioning at least one key bar to be manufactured in an axial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis in a spaced manner along a peripheral circumference of the first press plate. The method includes in a second step, stacking a plurality of generator laminations onto the first press plate and mechanically coupling the plurality of generator laminations with the at least one key bar and, in a third step, mounting a second press plate onto the plurality of generator laminations, fixing the second press plate to at least one of the at least one key bar and at least one axial fixing device and concomitantly and/or subsequently exerting axial stress on the first and the second press plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventor: Michel Verrier
  • Patent number: 8528175
    Abstract: Some embodiments include methods of forming capacitors. A metal oxide mixture may be formed over a first capacitor electrode. The metal oxide mixture may have a continuous concentration gradient of a second component relative to a first component. The continuous concentration gradient may correspond to a decreasing concentration of the second component as a distance from the first capacitor electrode increases. The first component may be selected from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide and mixtures thereof; and the second component may be selected from the group consisting of niobium oxide, titanium oxide, strontium oxide and mixtures thereof. A second capacitor electrode may be formed over the first capacitor electrode. Some embodiments include capacitors that contain at least one metal oxide mixture having a continuous concentration gradient of the above-described second component relative to the above-described first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Vassil Antonov, Vishwanath Bhat, Chris M. Carlson
  • Patent number: 8528193
    Abstract: A device suitable for producing an image of an object disposed in an object space by means of a sensor comprises at least the sensor, a first lens assembly disposed in front of the sensor, a stop plate comprising a light passage disposed in front of the first lens assembly, a second lens assembly disposed in front of the stop plate and the object space disposed in front of the second lens assembly. The device further comprises a light source, as well as a diffuser which is disposed on a side of the object space that is averted from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Assembleon B.V.
    Inventor: Joseph Louis Horijon
  • Patent number: 8528192
    Abstract: A fixture for removing slip ring assemblies from rotating electrical machinery. The fixture attaches directly to the slip ring assembly through bolted connection points for ease of installation and removal. A jacking mechanism provides mechanical leverage to pry the slip ring from its heat-shrunk fit mounting location in a manner that is reliable and safe for the service worker and the slip ring assembly. The fixture is lightweight and portable, facilitating use with electrical generators in the field and especially with wind turbine generators located on a wind turbine tower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy W. Jayko, Michael G. McClure
  • Patent number: 8528198
    Abstract: When a component mounting process by mounting heads is executed on substrates which are positioned alternately by two substrate carrying lines, a determination is made on whether or not a mounting turn can be completed every time the mounting heads perform the mounting turn, and when it is determined that one of the mounting turns performed by the mounting head cannot be completed, a component mounting process is executed on the substrate which is positioned by the substrate carrying line which is opposite to the substrate carrying line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Kenichiro Ishimoto
  • Patent number: 8522421
    Abstract: A method of making a patch antenna includes the steps of: stamping a first metal plate to form a radiation metal layer having a first protruding portion; stamping a second metal plate to form a grounding metal layer having a second protruding portion; and attaching the radiation metal layer and the grounding metal layer to opposite surfaces of a dielectric layer to couple together the first and second protruding portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Wistron NeWeb Corp.
    Inventors: Shih-Hong Chen, Chieh-Sheng Hsu, Chang-Hsiu Huang, Chi-Chung Chang
  • Patent number: 8516677
    Abstract: A method and associated apparatus are provided for removing an auxiliary contact device from a motor starter assembly engaged with a motor controller unit of a motor control center. The method includes engaging an extraction tool with a securement member operably engaged between the auxiliary contact device and the motor starter assembly. The extraction tool includes a handle portion and a securement-engaging portion. The handle portion extends along the auxiliary contact device for the securement-engaging portion to engage the securement member. The method further includes exerting an axial force on the handle portion such that the handle portion cooperates with the securement-engaging portion to disengage the securement member from between the auxiliary contact device and the motor starter assembly, and to disengage the electrically-conductive engagement between the auxiliary contact device and the motor starter assembly, to remove the auxiliary contact device from the motor starter assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Floyd Coleman, Sr., Robert Eugene Weaver, Charles Julius Van Hoorne
  • Patent number: 8516682
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a stator core of a rotating electrical machine includes a finishing process that simultaneously moves a coining punch divided in a circumferential direction and arranged around a helically stacked core to a center side in a radial direction and presses an outer surface of a core-back part of the helically stacked core while pressing an end side of the helically stacked core in an axial direction by a holding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoutarou Kojima
  • Patent number: 8516683
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for an electronic assembly. The electronic assembly has a first object created and separated from a host substrate. The first object has a first electrical circuitry therein. A carrier substrate is coupled to the first object wherein the first object is being recessed below a surface of the carrier substrate. The carrier substrate further includes a first carrier connection pad and a second carrier connection pad that interconnect with the first object using metal connectors. A receiving substrate, which is substantially planar, including a second electrical circuitry, a first receiving connection pad, and a second receiving connection pad that interconnect with the second electrical circuitry using the metal connectors. The carrier substrate is coupled to the receiving substrate using the connection pads mentioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Alien Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Lloyd Credelle, Glenn Gengel, Roger Green Stewart, William Hill Joseph
  • Patent number: 8510930
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of shield type motor includes the following steps: a): providing an iron core; b): providing a plastic shell and having the exterior face of the plastic shell press against the interior face of the iron core; c): providing a plurality of connected enamel-covered coils for being wound around the bobbin; d): providing a wire fastener for bundling the first material of plastics and the second material of plastics; e): providing a protecting jacket to be connected to the plastic shell and for containing the plurality of enamel-covered coils; f): providing a mold to let the iron core place in the mold and having the first material of plastics teem into the mold; g): having the second material of plastics teem into the mold; and h): removing the mold to expose a main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventor: Fang-Fu Chang
  • Patent number: 8505194
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of mounting components are provided. The apparatus for mounting components includes: a component supplying unit which supplies the components so that the components move in at least one line; and a plurality of suction nozzles disposed to approach to or retreat from the components, wherein intervals between the plurality of suction nozzles are changeable so that the suction nozzles correspond to positions of the components. The method of mounting components includes: disposing a plurality of suction nozzles corresponding to the positions of the components; picking up the components by using the suction nozzles adjusting intervals between the suction nozzles; moving the suction nozzles to an upper side of a substrate, on which the components are to be mounted; and putting the components down on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-eok Ban, Byung-Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 8505191
    Abstract: A method of assembling electric power supply cables on a stator of an electric motor including the following steps: electrically connecting an end of each cable to an end of at least one respective wire of the winding; inserting each pair of connected ends into a respective small tube of a protection and positioning element made of insulating plastic and having a strip from which a number small tubes at least corresponding to the number of electric power supply cables transversally protrudes; clamping each small tube so as to fix it to the pair of ends inserted inside it; inserting an end of the strip inside a cavity of the pack, so that the small tubes are located within the head; and tying the winding in the region of the head so as to enclose the small tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Embraco Europe S.r.l.
    Inventors: Michele Marino, Gianfranco Arato
  • Patent number: 8508945
    Abstract: A card installation device includes a casing and a pushing member. The casing has an accommodating recess for accommodating a card. A pushing end of the pushing member is movably disposed in the casing. When the card is accommodated in the accommodating recess, the pushing end is used for pushing the card into a card slot of an electronic device. Accordingly, the invention can assist a user in aligning the card with the card slot well during insertion so as to prevent the card and/or the card slot from being damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: HannStar Display Corp.
    Inventor: Chang-An Chiang
  • Patent number: 8499426
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first electrode; a second electrode; a first and second ceramic material disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the second ceramic material having a greater electrical conductivity than the first ceramic material. A method including forming a first ceramic material film and a different second ceramic material film on a first electrode; and forming a second electrode on the second ceramic material film to form a capacitor structure having the first ceramic material film and the second ceramic material film disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first ceramic material has a conductivity selected to dampen undesired oscillations in electrical device operation to which the capacitor structure may be exposed. An apparatus including a first electrode; a second electrode; and a composite dielectric including a plurality of dielectric films including a different Curie temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Cengiz A. Palanduz