Patents Examined by Minh Trinh
  • Patent number: 8256078
    Abstract: A method for forming a plurality of strips to be used for formulating high-breakdown strength and high-temperature capacitors is disclosed. The method includes forming a metalized substrate having a particular pattern, masking a portion of the metalized substrate, coating the metalized substrate with a dielectric material and removing the masking material and thus the dielectric layer from a portion of the metalized layer to form a contact surface. In lieu of placing a masking material on the metalized substrate, the exposed contact area can be formed by shielding a portion of the metalized substrate while depositing the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Faradox Energy Storage, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Balliette, Keith D. Jamison
  • Patent number: 8256077
    Abstract: A method for forming a capacitor dielectric includes depositing a tantalum oxide layer over a substrate, performing a post-treatment on the tantalum oxide layer to provide the tantalum oxide layer with a tetragonal phase, and depositing a zirconium oxide layer over the tantalum oxide layer such that the zirconium oxide layer has a tetragonal phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Jong-Bum Park
  • Patent number: 8256094
    Abstract: A method is provided for shaping an electric wire for a stator coil of an electric rotating machine. The electric wire to be shaped includes a plurality of straight portions and a plurality of turn portions. Each of the turn portions includes a specific part and all of the specific parts of the turn portions are identical to each other. The method includes clamping the specific part of one of the turn portions of the electric wire in a width-wise direction thereof, holding two different sections of the specific part in a thickness-wise direction thereof, and moving one of the first and second holders relative to the other in the thickness-wise direction of the specific part, thereby shaping the specific part to form a crank-shaped portion therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Akito Akimoto, Aki Itakura, Katsuhiko Kanoh, Kazuhiro Nobata
  • Patent number: 8250738
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a field coil member having first and second edgewise coils to be respectively fitted on first and second pole cores mounted on a circumferential surface of a yoke. Each of the first and second pole cores has an outer periphery, the outer periphery having at least one rounded corner. The method includes providing a rectangular wire strap having a pair of opposing major sides and a thickness therebetween substantially less than a width of the major sides and providing first and second coil forms, the first coil form having an outer periphery identical in shape to the outer periphery of the first pole core, the second coil form having an outer periphery identical in shape to the outer periphery of the second pole core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Youichi Hasegawa, Tomoya Imanishi
  • Patent number: 8250747
    Abstract: A method is provided to mount a capacitor array onto a circuit board formed with first leads for connecting power lines to each other and a second lead for grounding. The method uses one of a first connection method of connecting such that first and second capacitor sections are parallel to each other, third capacitor section is in series with the parallel first and second capacitor sections; a second connection method of connecting such that the first to third capacitor sections are in series in sequence; and a third connection method of connecting such that the first and second capacitor sections are in series with each other without using the third capacitor section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Masaaki Togashi
  • Patent number: 8246849
    Abstract: To provide a magnetic powder production method, a magnetic sheet production method, and an antenna module production method that are capable of reducing a size of magnetic particles, achieving thinning and a low loss, and improving magnetic permeability without lowering it. At least two oxide-based magnetic materials are mixed, preliminarily calcined, and pulverized. The pulverized magnetic materials are typically formed into a paste by being dispersed in an organic solvent, and the magnetic materials are applied onto a film after being subjected to defoaming processing. Accordingly, a sheet-like magnetic material is formed. The sheet-like magnetic material is cut into predetermined sizes so as to be fragmented into particles, with the result that magnetic particles are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiraku Akiho
  • Patent number: 8245386
    Abstract: A set of tools for removing a half turn of a coil from a slot of a dynamoelectric machine. The set of tools includes a coil cutting tool for cutting the coil, an upending tool that grips the coil at an end of the coil where the coil was cut and hydraulically or pneumatically lifts the end of the coil at least partially out of the slot, and an extraction tool that hydraulically or pneumatically grips the upended portion of the coil and pulls the coil from the slot hydraulically or pneumatically a segment at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Dailey, Eric S. McDonald, Adam Stein, Michael Vindler, Jared Orndoff, Ryan Fayewicz, Jason V. Jurgen
  • Patent number: 8240016
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a multilayer electronic component includes a step of preparing a laminate which includes a plurality of stacked insulator layers and a plurality of internal electrodes extending along the interfaces between the insulator layers, and in which an end of each of the plurality of internal electrodes is exposed at a predetermined surface corresponding to one of the first and second end surfaces; a step of forming external electrodes on the predetermined surfaces; and a step of forming thick-film edge electrodes at edge portions. The step of forming external electrodes includes a step of attaching a plurality of conductive particles having a particle size of about 1 ?m or more to the predetermined surfaces of the laminate, and a step of performing plating directly on the predetermined surfaces to which the conductive particles are attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Motoki, Makoto Ogawa, Kenichi Kawasaki, Shunsuke Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 8240022
    Abstract: Method of connecting an antenna wire to a transponder chip. A transponder chip or chip module in a recess in a substrate, and an antenna wire mounted to the surface of the substrate and having end portions spanning the recess. The end portions are spaced wider than the chip, to allow the chip to be inserted (installed) into the recess from the same side as the antenna past the end portions of the antenna wire. The chip may be moved in the recess so that its terminals are under the wires, or the wires may be repositioned to be over the terminals, for subsequently bonding thereto. Prior to installing the chip in the recess, insulation may be removed from the end portions of the antenna wire, which may also be flattened to improve bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Feinics Amatech Teorowita
    Inventor: David Finn
  • Patent number: 8234776
    Abstract: A method for making and magnetizing an un-magnetized mechanically keyed permanent magnet rotor that can be magnetized in a magnetization fixture, without regard to the angular position of the rotor in the magnetizing fixture, and nevertheless result in a permanent magnetic field angularly synchronized to said keyed rotor comprises the steps of providing an annular permanent magnet or annular permanent magnet rotor body; a mechanically keyed rotor shaft; means for aligning and assembling the un-magnetized permanent magnet or permanent magnet rotor body and the mechanically keyed rotor shaft during assembly to form an assembled rotor; and magnetization thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Electric Motor + Actuator Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Mike Bonilla Lopez
  • Patent number: 8230580
    Abstract: Disclosed is a split stator manufacturing method, which is enabled to enhance a production efficiency and to charge a thermoplastic resin between an insulator and a coil by molding the resin. The split stator manufacturing method comprises a setting step of setting an insulator and a split stator core element in a stationary mold and setting an edgewise coil in a movable mold, a resin injecting step of injecting a resin into a cavity with the stationary mold and the movable mold being half-opened, and a clamping step of clamping the stationary mold and the movable mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takaaki Kiyono, Hideaki Takahashi, Koji Nakanishi, Takeo Hayashida
  • Patent number: 8230578
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing at least one winding of an electrical machine that has a plurality of poles, in particular of a motor generator, preferably for a hybrid drive of a motor vehicle, the winding being formed by winding parts connected in parallel and each pole being associated with at least one groove set that is associated with the winding parts and comprises a plurality of grooves which have different circumferential angle positions relative to the associated pole, grooves with the same circumferential angle position forming equivalent grooves and each winding part of the winding being wound with the same number of windings in equivalent grooves. The invention also relates to a corresponding winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Knappenberger
  • Patent number: 8230581
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a method for producing a multi-band waveguide reflector antenna feed. The antenna feed includes a first tube and a second tube. The first and second tubes are connected to form a concentric multi-band waveguide feed array. The first tube includes a surface(s) which is/are at least partially covered by metamaterial(s), thereby forming a first waveguide feed. The second tube also includes a surface(s) which is/are at least partially covered by metamaterial(s). A radial separation is established between the first tube and the second tube, thereby forming a second waveguide feed. The radial separation may be maintained between the first tube and the second tube by one or more of: a loading material, support structures, strings, and wires. The loading material, support columns, strings, and/or wires also structurally interconnect the first tube and the second tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Ross K. Wilcoxon, John C. Mather, Wajih A. El Sallal, James B. West
  • Patent number: 8225482
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a waveguide structure includes forming a metal layer of a predetermined size on a substrate to form a structure, forming a lower clad layer on the structure in order to completely cover the metal layer, forming a core layer of a predetermined size on the lower clad layer at the location corresponding to the metal layer, and forming an upper clad layer thereon in order to completely cover the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology International
    Inventors: Sung-dong Suh, Eun-hyoung Cho, Jin Seung Sohn
  • Patent number: 8225484
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator includes: (a) preparing a stator core and electric wires; (b) assembling together the stator core and the electric wires; (c) welding corresponding pairs of the electric wires to form a stator coil, wherein for each corresponding pair of the electric wires, end portions of the electric wires are radially bent toward each other to have distal end surfaces thereof abutting each other at a position axially outside an annular coil end part of the stator coil, the distal end surfaces are welded together to form a weld between the end portions, and the end portions together make up a crossover part that extends to cross over the coil end part; and (d) deforming, for each corresponding pair of the electric wires, the end portions so as to reduce an axial distance between the coil end part and the crossover part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventor: Ryosuke Utaka
  • Patent number: 8225491
    Abstract: A coil manufacturing method for manufacturing a wave wound coil in a substantially cylindrical shape by shaping a linear conductor with a cross-sectional shape having directionality, includes: transferring a linear wave conductor shaped in a substantially rectangular waveform, and having straight side portions extending in a wave width direction, one-side connecting portions sequentially connecting every other pair of adjacent side portions at ends on a one wave width direction side, and other-side connecting portions sequentially connecting pairs of adjacent side portions that are not connected by the one-side connecting portions at ends on an other wave width direction side; first bending the one-side and second bending the other-side connection portions so that the side portions are arranged along a coil circumferential direction, and directions of cross-sectional shapes of the side portions are in a constant direction with respect to a coil radial direction; and winding the bent wave conductor on a bobbin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Masaki Saito, Masafumi Jinno, Hironao Fujiwara, Hideki Mukaizaka, Shinichi Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 8214984
    Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer component is described. A stack of green foils, to which inner electrodes including palladium oxide are applied, is sintered. The sintered stack is provided with a silver paste on two or more sides for outer electrodes that are burned into the sintered stack in a further temperature step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Bisplinghoff, Axel Pecina
  • Patent number: 8215005
    Abstract: A chip mounting system in which a whole system can be compact including a transfer stage and a tool holding member between a chip feeding section and a substrate holding section. In the chip mounting system, a transfer stage is disposed between a chip feeding stage and a substrate holding stage. A pick-up head and a mounting head are provided movably in a Y-axis direction in which the chip feeding stage and the substrate holding stage are aligned. A movable table which is movable in an X-axis direction, which intersects the Y-axis direction at right angles, is provided in a overwrapping movable region of the chip feeding stage and the substrate holding stage. The transfer stage and a tool holding member, which holds at least one of replacement tools for a pick-up tool and a mounting tool, are provided on the movable table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Tsutomu Hiraki
  • Patent number: 8209829
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an electronic device includes selectively forming a glass layer on a ceramic substrate by printing, baking the glass layer, and forming a capacitor on the glass layer, the capacitor including metal electrodes and a dielectric layer interposed between the metal electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignees: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Takeo Takahashi, Xiaoyu Mi, Satoshi Ueda
  • Patent number: 8209826
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a coupled resonator device includes forming a first BAW-device on a first substrate, forming a second BAW-device on a second substrate, and bonding the first and the second BAW-device such that the bonded first and second BAW-device are sandwiched between the first and second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Avago Technologies Wireless IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Martin Handtmann, Klaus-Guenter Oppermann, Martin Fritz