Patents Examined by Minh Trinh
  • Rotating machine with magnetic bearing
    Patent number: 9621013
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical machine includes selecting a desired threshold control current, selecting dimensions to modify stator teeth of a magnetic bearing based on the desired threshold control current, and modifying the stator teeth using the selected dimensions. A method of producing a rotating machine includes selecting an operating point of a magnetic bearing of the rotating machine, and shaping at least some stator teeth of the magnetic bearing to generate increased force at control currents above the control current at the selected operating point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Company
    Inventors: Lauri Juhani Salmia, Petri Juhani Maki-Ontto
  • Shaft assembling structure
    Patent number: 9614412
    Abstract: A shaft assembling structure includes a shaft hole formed on a motor rotor and a shaft with a shaft end sheathed on a shaft hole of the motor rotor. The shaft assembling structure further includes a direction setting member secured to the top of the motor rotor and embedded with the shaft, and at least one direction setting member disposed at the bottom of the shaft assembling structure and extended into the first direction setting portion of shaft hole. The shaft end of the shaft includes at least one second direction setting portion embedded into the corresponding first direction setting portion. When the second direction setting portion is aligned precisely with the first direction setting portion, the shaft hole of the motor rotor is sheathed on the shaft end of the shaft to facilitate the process of recognizing and confirming the rotating direction of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: JIA HUEI MICROSYSTEM REFRIGERATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wen-Fu Chiang
  • Device for attaching a connector to a prepared coaxial cable
    Patent number: 9614341
    Abstract: A device is provided to attach a connector having an internally threaded base and external threads to a cable having a casing. The device includes a body having a bore therethrough. At least a portion of the bore is threaded and the external threads on the connector are threaded into the threads of the bore until a stop surface in the bore is engaged by a portion of the connector. The device may then be turned to thread the base onto the casing of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: PDS Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward L. Merical
  • Printed circuit board assembly methods
    Patent number: 9609756
    Abstract: A method includes aligning a first portion of a magnetic core with respect to a first side of a PCB using a first alignment device. The method includes applying a first bonding material to a surface of at least one of the first portion of the magnetic core and a second portion of the magnetic core. The method further includes coupling a second alignment device that retains the second portion of the magnetic core to the first alignment device. When the first alignment device and the second alignment device are coupled, the first portion and the second portion of the magnetic core are retained in a specified assembly position. The specified assembly position includes a specified gap between the first portion and the second portion of the magnetic core. The method also includes curing the first bonding material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman L. Call, Jose M. Chavez, Rodolfo Chavez
  • Making Z-fold micro-wire substrate structure
    Patent number: 9603240
    Abstract: A method of making a folded micro-wire substrate structure includes providing a flexible substrate and first, second, and third portions. One or more electrical conductors are formed on or in the flexible substrate. The flexible substrate is folded with a first fold between the first and second portions so that the first portion is located adjacent to the second portion in a perpendicular direction. The flexible substrate is folded with at least a second fold between the second and third portions so that the second side is between the second portion and the third portion in the perpendicular direction. The folded flexible substrate is secured to form the folded micro-wire substrate structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: Ronald Steven Cok, Thomas Nathaniel Tombs
  • Method of manufacturing an assembly to couple an optical fiber to an opto-electronic component
    Patent number: 9592578
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an assembly to couple an optical fiber to an opto-electronic component includes providing the optical fiber having an end section with a front face to couple light in and out of the optical fiber, providing a housing to encase the end section of the optical fiber. The housing is formed with an opening to receive the optical fiber. The method further includes inserting the optical fiber in the opening such that the end section of the optical fiber is disposed inside the housing, attaching the optical fiber to a surface of the housing arranged to form a boundary of the opening, and aligning the front face of the optical fiber to the opto-electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: CCS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Joachim Rudolf Beier, Karsten Contag, Markus Meinelt, Dirk Richter, Angela Rief, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Method of forming a substrate core with embedded capacitor and structures formed thereby
    Patent number: 9572258
    Abstract: Methods of forming a microelectronic structure are described. Embodiments of those methods include forming a substrate core by attaching a first dielectric layer to a second conductive layer of a thin film capacitor, and attaching a second dielectric layer to a first conductive layer of the thin film capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sriram Srinivasan, John S. Guzek, Cengiz A. Palanduz, Victor Prokofiev, Joel A. Auernheimer
  • Method for producing a stator winding of an electric machine, in particular for producing an AC generator
    Patent number: 9564791
    Abstract: Method for producing a stator winding (18) of an electric machine (10), in particular an AC generator, wherein the stator winding (18) has at least n phase windings (120, 121, 122, 123, 124), and one phase winding (120, 121, 122, 123, 124) has a plurality of successive wound coils (82) with coil sides (88) and coil side connectors (91), wherein the coils (82) are divided into first coils (82.1) and second coils (82.2), with a forming tool (100), in which slots (105, 106) are provided which are suitable for accommodating the coils (82), wherein a first coil (82.1) is arranged in a slot (105), and a second coil (82.2) is arranged in the same slot (105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Wolf, Klaus Herbold, Gerlinde Weber, Christoph Schwarzkopf, Eberhard Rau, Alexander Mueller, Helmut Kreuzer, Kurt Reutlinger
  • Circuit obfuscation using differing dielectric constants
    Patent number: 9565749
    Abstract: An obfuscated radio frequency circuit may be manufactured to include a metallization layer, and a dielectric layer under the metallization layer. The dielectric layer may be made up of a plurality of dielectric substrates having different dielectric constants to obfuscate functions of the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Robert Tilman Worl
  • Method for manufacturing permanent-magnet motor rotor
    Patent number: 9559572
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a permanent-magnet motor rotor includes manufacturing a rotary shaft, a permanent magnet, a front end cover, a rear end cover, and a magnetic yoke unit, where the magnetic yoke unit contains multiple pole shoe parts and one iron core part, where each pole shoe part and the iron core part are connected therebetween via a connecting strip; manufacturing a rotor spacer; all positioning holes of the magnetic yoke unit correspond to the permanent-magnet through hole of the rotor spacer to form a permanent-magnet passage; inserting the permanent magnet into the permanent-magnet passage; inserting tightening bolts; cutting off the mid-section of each connecting strip, overlapping the pole shoe parts to form a rotor pole shoe, overlapping the iron core parts to form a rotor iron core; and arranging respectively the front end cover and the rear end cover on a front end and a rear end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Zhejiang University
    Inventors: Youtong Fang, Jien Ma, Xiaoyan Huang, Jian Zhang, Qinfen Lu, Jiancheng Zhang, Wei Chen, Jiabin Liu
  • Methods for forming electrically precise capacitors on insulative substrates, and structures formed therefrom
    Patent number: 9552924
    Abstract: High precision capacitors and methods for forming the same utilizing a precise and highly conformal deposition process for depositing an insulating layer on substrates of various roughness and composition. The method generally comprises the steps of depositing a first insulating layer on a metal substrate by atomic layer deposition (ALD); (b) forming a first capacitor electrode on the first insulating layer; and (c) forming a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer and on or adjacent to the first capacitor electrode. Embodiments provide an improved deposition process that produces a highly conformal insulating layer on a wide range of substrates, and thereby, an improved capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Thin Film Electronics ASA
    Inventors: Arvind Kamath, Criswell Choi, Patrick Smith, Erik Scher, Jiang Li
  • Multilayer capacitor with integrated busbar
    Patent number: 9552926
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to obtaining a specification of at least one operational requirement for at least one capacitor, generating a design of the at least one capacitor to satisfy the at least one operational requirement, the design of the at least one capacitor comprising a plurality of layers and a first integrated busbar coupled to at least a portion of the layers, and based on the design, manufacturing the at least one capacitor by utilizing an additive manufacturing technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Horowy, Gary L. Galloway, Debabrata Pal, Eric Karlen, Mark W. Metzler
  • Terminal crimping system with wire alignment aid
    Patent number: 9548580
    Abstract: A terminal crimping system for a crimping machine includes an anvil, a movable ram, an image acquisition device, and a display device. The anvil is located in a crimping zone and configured to receive a terminal thereon. The terminal has a wire crimp barrel configured to receive a wire therein. The ram has crimp tooling configured to crimp the wire crimp barrel of the terminal to the wire during a crimp stroke of the ram. The image acquisition device is configured to be mounted on the crimping machine above the crimping zone. The image acquisition device is positioned to acquire an image of the wire within the wire crimp barrel of the terminal in the crimping zone. The display device is configured to display the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Edward Hallman, Mark Elton Unger, III
  • Self-aligning plug removal device and method therefor
    Patent number: 9539710
    Abstract: A plug removal device for removing a plug from an access port located below a deck includes retracting means and a framework supporting the retracting means at an elevated position with respect to the deck. The framework is rigid and has a central axis. The retracting means produces a retracting force along a retracting axis. In response to the retracting means producing the retracting force, the framework moves along the deck to align the retracting axis with the central axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Inventor: Darlene M. Heimmer
  • Method for manufacturing a lighting arrangement
    Patent number: 9541269
    Abstract: Disclosed is method of manufacturing a lighting arrangement (100) comprising a plurality of conductive wires (110) organized in a flexible grid comprising a plurality of grid nodes (115), each grid node comprising a first one of said conductive wires and a second one of said conductive wires, at least some of the grid nodes further comprising a solid state lighting element (120) conductively coupled to the first one of said conductive wires and the second one of said conductive wires, wherein each grid node comprises a mechanical support member (130, 134) including a polymer portion (130) embedding the first one of said conductive wires and the second one of said conductive wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V.
    Inventors: Sébastien Paul René Libon, Johannes Wilhelmus Weekamp
  • Installation kit and method of using same for sign construction with sectional sign assemblies
    Patent number: 9536457
    Abstract: A method of converting an existing signage mounting structure to an electronic sign comprises using an installation kit for providing and installing at least one section sign assembly, loaded with a plurality of display modules and having a power routing system with a plurality of individual power extensions extending from a single node to a plurality of display module receiving bays node receptacles, wherein passageway openings at a rear portion of the at least one sectional sign assembly facilitate replacement of individual ones of said plurality of display modules from a rear side of the sign construction, and coupling said single node to a source of power for completing the conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ADTI Media LLC
    Inventors: David Franklin Cox, Richard J Romano, Arne E Carlson
  • Apparatus for the efficient assembly of multi-pane insulating glass windows
    Patent number: 9534439
    Abstract: An insulating glass unit (IGU) assembly line apparatus 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: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: GED Integrated Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: William A. Briese, John Grismer, Timothy B. McGlinchy
  • Method of converting a plastic container refurbishing machine to a plastic container reforming machine
    Patent number: 9527239
    Abstract: A method for converting a refurbishing machine into a reforming apparatus. The apparatus reforms a portion of a plastic container using induction heating. The method includes the steps of replacing heating assemblies of the refurbishing machine with the reform heating assembly and the reform cooling assembly, respectively, using the existing equipment utilities of the refurbishing machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: GRAHAM PACKAGING COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Garrett R. Pennington
  • Method and fixture for twisting end portions of bar conductors, in particular for bar windings of electric machines
    Patent number: 9520762
    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: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: TECNOMATIC S.p.A.
    Inventor: Sante Guercioni
  • Bonding device
    Patent number: 9508572
    Abstract: A boding device includes a light guiding part that guides laser beam oscillated from a laser oscillator, a bonding head that heats a chip with the laser beam, and a bonding head moving part that moves the bonding head between a supply position and a bonding position. The laser oscillator is separated from the bonding head. The light guiding part includes an irradiation barrel that is provided in the vicinity of the bonding position and, a shutter part that is provided in the irradiation barrel, and a light receiving part that is provided in the bonding head and guides the laser beam to the chip. When the bonding head moving part moves the bonding head to the bonding position, the shutter part is opened so that the laser beam from the irradiation barrel is guided to the bonding head through the light receiving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SHIBUYA KOGYO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Yasuyoshi