Patents Examined by Minh Trinh
  • Patent number: 8484827
    Abstract: A method of assembling a hand held electrically powered drilling and/or hammering tool having a tool housing and a drilling and/or hammering spindle mounted within the housing. The spindle has a forward end at which a tool or bit may be mounted. The method of assembly includes the steps of making a motor sub-assembly including a motor and a radial fan, the fan has a plurality of blades located on one side of the fan and non-rotatably mounting the fan on an end of the armature shaft of the motor at a first end of the motor with the blades facing away from the armature of the motor. The method further including balancing the motor sub-assembly, and mounting the sub-assembly within the housing, with the longitudinal axis of the motor armature shaft at an angle, preferably perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the spindle and with the first end of the motor closest to the spindle axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Heinz-Werner Faatz, Thomas Stanke, Ernst Staas, Rosie Wache
  • Patent number: 8484815
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a laminated electronic component including an electronic component main body including laminated functional layers, internal conductors which are disposed inside the electronic component main body and a portion of which are exposed portions exposed at outer surfaces of the electronic component main body, and external terminal electrodes disposed on the outer surfaces of the electronic component main body so as to connect to the internal conductors and cover the exposed portions of the internal conductors includes the step of forming a substrate plating film having an average particle diameter of metal particles of at least about 1.0 ?m on the outer surface of the electronic component main body through direct plating so as to cover the exposed portions of the internal conductors in the formation of the external terminal electrodes on the electronic component main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Takeuchi, Kenichi Kawasaki, Akihiro Motoki, Makoto Ogawa, Toshiyuki Iwanaga
  • Patent number: 8479378
    Abstract: Method of manufacturing a stator core includes stacking a plurality of substantially T-shaped teeth obtained from a jigsaw pattern of said teeth into a plurality of stacks. In each said stack, said teeth are substantially aligned with each other. Said method includes winding said stacks with a plurality of windings and placing said stacks along the perimeter of a polygonal outer surface of a ferromagnetic tube having an inner channel. Each side of said outer surface corresponds to each said stack and contacts the bases of said legs of each said stack. Said method includes inserting said stacks and said tube into an inner space defined by an annular inner surface of a mold and a shaft into said channel. Said stacks are stationed along the circumference of said inner surface. Said method includes vacuum encapsulating said inner space in epoxy resin and removing said mold and shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Inventor: John Pairaktaridis
  • Patent number: 8481858
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a non-developable surface printed circuit and to the thus obtained printed circuit. According to the invention, each electrically conductive pattern of a printed circuit includes at least one base, which is arranged on the non-developable surface and obtained by projecting an electrically conductive varnish, and a coating, which is arranged on the base and made of an electrically well conductive material by buffer electrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Astrium SAS
    Inventor: Christian Desagulier
  • Patent number: 8479377
    Abstract: A method of joining the ends of wire windings for a motor stator or the like includes preparing a surface at each end (e.g., by removing any enamel coating), deforming the surfaces to produce knurls, striations, and the like, and then ultrasonically bonding the two surfaces to produce the bond between windings, thereby providing a joint with improved strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Chih-Chang Chen, Michael J. Bland, Stephen R. Smith
  • Patent number: 8474126
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device include forming a capacitor by forming an oxide film on a surface of a valve metal based on anodic oxidization and by forming a conductive part made of a conductive material on the oxide film; adhering the capacitor on a semiconductor element mounted on a supporting substrate; and coupling the capacitor to the supporting substrate via an outside connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takeshi Shioga, Kazuaki Kurihara
  • Patent number: 8468687
    Abstract: In a component mounting apparatus, a picking member picks components and mounts them on a board through movements of a plurality of moving members driven by motors. The apparatus is provided with a regenerative electric power control section for controlling regenerative electric power produced by regenerating a motion energy when each of the motors is decelerated; power supply sections for the motors each for exchanging electric power with the regenerative electric power control section; and a control section. When two moving members are moved, the control section begins to start and accelerate one of the two moving members in synchronized relation with a timing of beginning to decelerate and stop the other moving member and controls the regenerative electric power control section to utilize a regenerative electric power which is obtained from the motor driving the other moving member, in starting the motor which drives the one moving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Fuji Machine Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Fujita
  • Patent number: 8468685
    Abstract: A wire forming device for applying a paste material on an insulating substrate to form a wiring pattern. The wire forming device includes a paste material application unit which includes an atomizing unit atomizing the paste material and a nozzle spraying the atomized paste material onto the insulating substrate. The atomizing unit includes: a medium supplying portion which mixes a medium with a carrier gas to form a mixed gas and an atomizing portion. The atomizing portion holds the paste material and brings the mixed gas into contact with the paste material to atomize the paste material, thereby making a mist stream of the mixed gas and the paste material as the atomized paste material fed to the nozzle. The wire forming further includes a mixing ratio adjusting unit adjusting a mixing ratio of the paste material to the mixed gas in the mist stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Nihon Micronics
    Inventors: Katsumi Tanaka, Kenichi Shinozaki, Tetsuya Okumura, Makoto Kikuta, Masami Sano, Taro Mogi
  • Patent number: 8468664
    Abstract: An EMI filtered terminal assembly including at least one conductive terminal pin, a feedthrough capacitor, and a counter-bore associated with a passageway through the capacitor is described. Preferably, the feedthrough capacitor having counter-drilled or counter-bored holes on its top side is first bonded to a hermetic insulator. The counter-drilled or counter-bore holes in the capacitor provide greater volume for the electro-mechanical attachment between the capacitor and the terminal pin or lead wire, permitting robotic dispensing of, for example, thermal-setting conductive adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Greatbatch Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard L. Brendel, Jason Woods, Jose Luis Lorente-Adame, Robert A. Stevenson, John Roberts, Buehl E. Truex
  • Patent number: 8464421
    Abstract: A substrate conveyor track is provided with first to fourth conveyors. Two conveyors situated on both sides of the substrate conveyor track, and the other two conveyors situated at the center of the same. There is enabled selection of any one from a small substrate mounting mode for giving a single substrate conveyance width to the four conveyors and mounting electronic components on four small substrates having the single width; a large substrate mounting mode for actuating all movable conveyors to the center of the substrate conveyor track and mounting electronic components on two large substrates by the two conveyors; and a large-small-substrates mounting mode for bringing the two conveyors on one side of the substrate conveyor track, among the four conveyors, into the small substrate mounting mode and bringing one of the conveyors on the other side of the track into the large substrate mounting mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Shuzo Yagi, Takeyuki Kawase, Yoshiyuki Kitagawa, Naoto Kohketsu, Nobuhiro Nakai
  • Patent number: 8458898
    Abstract: A method for preparing a terminal end of a cable to connect to a cable connector is provided. The method includes stripping a jacket, an insulating layer, and a corrugated outer conductor from a first section of a coaxial cable, stripping the jacket from a second section of the coaxial cable, and axially advancing a terminal end of the corrugated outer conductor beyond a terminal end of the insulating layer, resulting in an open section of the corrugated coaxial cable having an open space between the corrugated outer conductor and the inner conductor. A tool for accomplishing the foregoing is further provided, and includes first and second opposing jaws that engage the inner and outer conductors, respectively, such that operating the tool causes a terminal end of the outer conductor to axially advance toward the terminal end of the inner conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC
    Inventor: Werner Karl Wild
  • Patent number: 8453314
    Abstract: A process for fabricating an origami formed antenna radiating structure is provided. In one embodiment, the invention relates to a process for precisely fabricating a radio frequency (RF) antenna structure, the process including providing a flexible circuit substrate, forming a plurality of parallel channels in the flexible circuit substrate in a first direction, mounting the flexible substrate to a precision die, pressing the flexible substrate into the precision die using an elastomeric material thereby sandwiching the flexible substrate between the elastomeric material and the precision die, and applying heat to the flexible substrate sandwiched between the elastomeric material and the precision die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Alberto F. Viscarra, Ethan S. Heinrich, Melvin S. Campbell, David T. Winslow, Kevin C. Rolston, Rosalio S. Vidaurri
  • Patent number: 8448313
    Abstract: Provided is a method for producing a ceramic body, which is capable of preventing the ingress of moisture into a void between a conductor and the ceramic body more effectively in the ceramic body including the conductor therein. Ingress of a supercritical fluid containing an oxide sol precursor is achieved into a void between an internal electrode layer and a ceramic laminate. After that, the oxide sol is turned into a gel, and subjected to a heat treatment, thereby filling the void between the internal electrode layer and the ceramic laminate with an oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuo Kunishi, Junichi Saito, Yoshinori Ueda, Akihiro Motoki
  • Patent number: 8448331
    Abstract: A component mounting apparatus includes: two heads equipped with plural nozzles for suctioning and mounting a component; a memory holding at least one of information on maximum speed and maximum acceleration; an operation determining unit determining whether an operation after a suctioning operation of any one of heads is a suctioning operation or not; a speed/acceleration calculating unit calculating at least one of speed and acceleration at the time of axial movement by using at least one of the maximum speed and the maximum acceleration for the suction, if it is determined that the operation after the suctioning operation is the suctioning operation; a control signal generating unit generating a control signal; and a driving unit performing movement from the suction operation to a component suction position of the subsequent nozzle in accordance with the control signal when the suctioning operation by the subsequent nozzle is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Baba
  • Patent number: 8444328
    Abstract: A flip-chip bonder fabricates an optical assembly by horizontally positioning a flexible portion of a substrate including a waveguide with the waveguide exposed at one end edge of the substrate; bending a portion of the flexible substrate to place the waveguide exposed end in approximately a vertical position; vertically positioning a bond head containing an optical component upon the waveguide exposed substrate edge to optically mate the optical component with the exposed waveguide; and fixably mounting the optical component to the substrate edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefano Sergio Oggioni, Jonas R. Weiss, Bert Jan Offrein
  • Patent number: 8443509
    Abstract: A method of preparing a plurality of bar-wound stator conductors for electrical interconnection includes inserting the plurality of conductors into a stator, twisting a conductor such that a first conductor of a first row is adjacent to a second conductor of a second row; trimming the adjacent first and second conductors to a common length using a trimming device; and grinding the trimmed first and second conductors to a pre-determined surface profile using a rotary cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Urban J. De Souza, Richard M. Kleber, Justin Hanson, Frederick W. Rhoads, John D. Campbell
  • Patent number: 8446330
    Abstract: In one embodiment a method to form a load bearing antenna aperture comprises forming a honeycomb core structure having a plurality of wall sections, the wall sections including electromagnetic radiating elements, and wherein lower surfaces of the wall sections defines a first surface and upper surfaces of the wall sections define a second surface, positioning a back skin to the first surface of the honeycomb core structure with an adhesive layer which comprises a layer of adhesive film and a paste adhesive disposed on the layer of adhesive film. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Douglas A. McCarville, Joseph A. Marshall, Manny S. Urcia, Otis F. Layton
  • Patent number: 8443498
    Abstract: The present invention carries out the vacuum deposition by setting a deposition angle between a single mask set including a shadow mask having a plurality of slits and a deposition source to form a lower terminal layer, a dielectric layer, an inner electrode layer, and an upper terminal layer at once under a vacuum state generated once, or adjusts slit patterns by relatively moving upper and lower mask sets that respectively include shadow masks having a plurality of slits and face each other to form a lower terminal layer, a dielectric layer, an inner electrode layer, and an upper terminal layer at once under a vacuum state generated once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sehyang Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jae-Ho Ha
  • Patent number: 8434212
    Abstract: A stator coil producing method and a stator coil production machine. The stator coil is used in an electric rotating machine. The stator coil production machine includes a rotary retainer which retains and moves shaping press pairs along a looped path to press or shape portions of a conductor wire into in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and coil-end portions which extend outside the slots. The method comprises a coil-end portion shaping step of bringing press members of each of the shaping press pairs close to each other in sequence to shape the coil-end portions and an in-slot portion shaping step of advancing the shaping press pairs on the looped path in contact with the cam mechanism and also moving selected ones of the shaping press pairs in sequence in a direction perpendicular to the path to shape the in-slot portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Okushita, Yusuke Hara, Takao Takeuchi, Kiyokazu Futami, Satoshi Nakamura, Fumihiro Nakano
  • Patent number: RE44384
    Abstract: In a component mounting device in which a component is picked up and mounted on a circuit board by a suction nozzle, an amount of displacement between a center position of the suction nozzle 11 and that of the picked-up component 12 is measured, and when it is larger than a preliminarily determined value, a warning is generated indicating that the parts cassette 3 from which the component 12 has been fed is in abnormal condition, as well as the mounting action of the component 12 is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Hirano, Yoshinori Sakai, Tateo Nakashima