Patents Examined by Nader Alhawamdeh
  • Patent number: 10153601
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal, an earphone socket and a method for manufacturing an earphone socket. The earphone socket includes a housing and a sealing member. The housing has an insertion hole surrounded by a peripheral side wall, the peripheral side wall has a first peripheral side wall located at an inner portion of the insertion hole and a second peripheral side wall located at an outer portion of the insertion hole, the first peripheral side wall has a thickness greater than that of the second peripheral side wall, and the second peripheral side wall has an opening port at an outer end of the insertion hole. The sealing member is embedded on an outer surface of the housing, and surrounds a periphery of the opening port, and at least a part of the sealing member extends to the first peripheral side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Feifei Li, Hanjie Huang
  • Patent number: 10153595
    Abstract: A plug connector part for a shielded plug connector unit, including an insulating body and a plurality of electric plug-in contacts connected to electric cable ends. An electric plug-in contact is configured as a protective conductor contact, and has an electrically conducting shielding shell surrounding the insulating body on the exterior side. The protective conductor contact is arranged centrally in the interior of the insulating body and is surrounded by the other electric plug-in contacts on the exterior side. The protective conductor contact is electrically contacted to the shielding shell by at least one electrically conducting radial web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: LQ MECHATRONIK-SYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: José Quero, Marcin Moscicki, Hermann Engber
  • Patent number: 10147960
    Abstract: A shut down system of a fuel cell vehicle includes: a fuel cell configured to output a high voltage; a rechargeable high voltage battery; a bidirectional converter arranged between an output terminal of the fuel cell and the high voltage battery; a first relay arranged between the fuel cell and the bidirectional converter; and a controller configured to control a voltage of the bidirectional converter when the fuel cell vehicle stalls to reduce a voltage of the output terminal of the fuel cell and turn off the first relay when a voltage value of the output terminal of the fuel cell is below a preset voltage reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Kyu Il Lee, Jae Yeong Yoo, Sung Suk Ok
  • Patent number: 10141591
    Abstract: A fuel cell system comprises a controller configured to: (i) calculate a torque target value of a compressor and an opening position target value of a pressure regulation valve from a flow rate target value of a cathode gas and a pressure target value of a cathode gas flow path, the flow rate target value of the cathode gas and the pressure target value being determined according to a required power output of a fuel cell stack; (ii) calculate a torque feedback value of the compressor from a difference between a flow rate measurement value and the flow rate target value of the cathode gas, and control the compressor using a torque command value obtained by adding the torque target value and the torque feedback value; and (iii) calculate an opening position feedback value of the pressure regulation valve from a difference between a pressure measurement value and the pressure target value of the cathode gas flow path, and control an opening position of the pressure regulation valve using an opening position comm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Sugiyama, Atsuo Iio, Kohei Oda, Tomio Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 10135102
    Abstract: A battery management system for an electric automobile and a control method are provided. The battery management system includes a temperature monitoring device (10) connected to a battery compartment of the electric automobile for monitoring the battery temperature and transmitting the battery temperature to a main control device (12), a refrigeration circulation channel (11) connected to the battery compartment for circulating a refrigerant so as to refrigerate the batteries. The main control device is connected to an acquisition device and the refrigeration circulation channel, for controlling the refrigerant to be circulated so as to refrigerate the batteries when the battery temperature exceeds a preset upper limit value. With the battery management and the control method, the impact of the high temperature on the service life and the capacity and the like of the batteries can be reduced, and the service life of the batteries can be prolonged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: SHENZHEN ESPIRIT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING HAIKE ZHIDONG TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPI
    Inventors: Jiefu Zhang, Tianxiang Guo
  • Patent number: 10135213
    Abstract: A wearable sensor system has an article of clothing and an electronics module. The electronics module includes a housing, a circuit board, and a contact element. The article of clothing includes a glove, an operational element, and a holder for attaching the electronics module having a receiving space and a mating contact. The guide being configured such that the contact element performs one of a linear movement and a pivoting movement toward the bottom when moving to the final position with respect to the mating contact. Further, an article of clothing and an electronics module for the wearable sensor system are shown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: WORKAROUND GMBH
    Inventors: Konstantin Brunnbauer, Hans Christian Sittig, Paul Guenther, Tobias Gutmann, Jonas Girardet
  • Patent number: 10135087
    Abstract: A method of operating a redox flow battery string including at least first and second redox flow batteries and an outside power source includes: providing a least first and second redox flow batteries in a string electrically connected in a string, and each redox flow battery having a state-or-charge (SOC) and an electrical load, wherein the electrical load for at least one of the first and second redox flow batteries in the string is powered by the outside power source; obtaining an SOC value for each redox flow battery in the string; identifying a target SOC value in the string; and adjusting the SOC value for at least one of the first and second redox flow batteries to correspond to the target SOC value by using a portion of stored energy in the at least one first or second redox flow battery to supply power to the electrical load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: UniEnergy Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chenxi Sun, Jinfeng Wu, Liyu Li, Jacob Parks, David Ridley
  • Patent number: 10135180
    Abstract: A contact element comprises at least two strips and a row of webs, which are arranged between the strips and are contiguous with the strips, wherein the webs are connected resiliently to one of the strips via torsion sections and are inclined with respect to the strips in the deformed state, with the result that a first contact section extends above the strip and a second contact section extends below the strip, wherein the webs each have a front web rim and a rear web rim, which front web rim has a bulge, and which rear web rim has an indentation, which fits or is complementary to the bulge of a directly adjacent web rim, wherein the bulge provides said front contact section, and wherein the webs, to the side of the indentation, have two rear web sections, which provide the second contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Stäubli Electrical Connectors AG
    Inventors: Mark Sturgess, Falk Blumenroth, Tom Ledermann, Lucas Wirz
  • Patent number: 10122123
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a plug and receptacle. The receptacle may be configured to receive power and may include two or more sockets configured to electrically couple to two or more pins of the plug. A shorting contact included in the receptacle may be configured to contact two sockets of the two or more sockets. Further, shielding ribs included in the receptacle may be configured to block the shorting contact from contacting the two sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Arkadiy Tsfasman, John Werner, Byron Green, Jeffrey A. Newcomer, Robert Mullady, William Brodsky
  • Patent number: 10116084
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing that holds a plurality of terminals and a mating housing that holds a plurality of mating terminals to be connected to the terminals. The mating housing is fitted into the housing to connect the mating terminals to the terminals. The housing comprises a partition wall portion which projects ahead of the terminals and separates adjacent ones of the terminals from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Saitoh, Dacheng Jin
  • Patent number: 10109957
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a connector head and a conductive shield arranged to at least partially encase the connector head. The conductive shield includes a first plurality of contact members. A conductive shell is arranged to at least partially encase the connector head and the conductive shield. Each of the first plurality of contact members extends outwardly from the conductive shield toward the conductive shell to electrically couple the conductive shield to the conductive shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: David Johnson
  • Patent number: 10103369
    Abstract: The invention relates to a battery retaining device, comprising a guide device which is designed to receive a vehicle battery; at least one retaining element which is designed to rigidly retain a vehicle battery received in the guide device in a mechanical manner up to a first maximum retaining force value in a first operating state and to rigidly retain the vehicle battery received in the guide device in a mechanical manner up to a second maximum retaining force value in a second operating state; and an actuator system with at least one actuator which is designed to bring the at least one retaining element from the first operating state to the second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Loosen, Armin Schuelke, Steffen Derhardt, Anton Paweletz, Gian Antonio D'Addetta, Niluefer Baba, Remigius Has
  • Patent number: 10102983
    Abstract: What is provided is an arrangement for electrically contacting electrically conductive elements, comprising a first element, at least a portion of which is electrically conductive, at least one second element, at least a portion of which is electrically conductive, for electrically contacting the first element, comprising a contact area in at least one end region thereof, the contact area having a radius at least at predefined contact points. The first electrically conductive element has at least one area that is designed to receive at least a portion of the contact area of the second electrically conductive element such that an electrical contact is created between the first electrically conductive element and the contact points of the second electrically conductive element. Furthermore, a corresponding first and second element is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein Werke KG
    Inventors: Christian Steininger, Thomas Haunberger
  • Patent number: 10096930
    Abstract: A connector includes a shell that has a cylindrical shape and includes a body portion and a leg portion, the body portion being connected to a shell of the other connector, a ground plate that is a conductor plate, a claw that has a structure in which part of the ground plate is raised in a connector connection direction so as to have a strip-shaped tip and the tip supports the leg portion of the shell, and a case made of an insulator, the case to which the shell and the ground plate are to be attached. The case includes a plate-like base portion, a slit that is provided in one surface of the base portion, the slit into which the leg portion is to be inserted, and a groove that is provided in the other surface of the base portion, the groove into which the claw is to be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Kondo, Masakazu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10090614
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes male and female connector bodies formed with a plurality of terminal cavities in which electrical cables are disposed with the terminals secured against removal from the cavities by flexible lances engaging walls within the terminal cavities. A seal on the cables closes and seals the cavities in which they are installed. At least one of the cavities is unoccupied by a cable and is closed by a non-electrically conductive locking cavity plug. The locking cavity plug has a flexible lance that engages a wall within the unoccupied cavity in which it is installed to secure the plug against removal and carries a seal which engages and seals the unoccupied cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Duane L. Brantingham, Christopher Adrian Margrave
  • Patent number: 10084254
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing an insulative housing enclosing two row of conductive terminals. Each of the terminals includes a front contacting section, a front spring section behind the front contacting section, a middle retaining section and a rear tail section along the front-to-back direction. In each row, the terminals include a pair of outer grounding terminals, a pair inner power terminals respectively beside the pair of outer grounding terminals, and a plurality of other terminals between the pair of power terminals in the transverse direction wherein for each of the pair of outer grounding terminals and the pair of inner power terminals, the front contacting section, the middle retaining section and the rear tails section are wider than the front contacting section in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming-Qi Ge
  • Patent number: 10084275
    Abstract: The invention is a system for simultaneously, yet safely, suspending and powering objects through connectors on a wall. The system includes one or more connectors, preferably pins, mounted to a wall. Each connector has a groove and a lip that houses an electrical conductor, which may be a metal rod. One or more suspendable objects, which may be storage bins or electrical appliances, are designed to engage with the connectors. Each suspendable object has at least one horizontal track that guides the lip of each connector into one or more openings in the track. When the lip engages an opening, the object is suspended from the wall. Each opening also contains an electrical conductor that engages with the electrical conductor within the connector, thereby providing power to the suspendable object. The connectors may be attached to rails, and the system may be utilized within an automated storage and retrieval system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, Andrew Priddis, Braquel Burnett, Johnathan Conley
  • Patent number: 10079408
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for measuring an electric current of a battery (10) with multiple battery modules (11), having the step of measuring a temperature related to the battery module (11). According to the method, the temperature of a connector is first determined for at least one battery module (11) using the measured temperature and a temperature model, and the electric resistance of the connector is determined using a resistance model and the temperature of the connector. The electric voltage which drops at the connector is then measured, and the electric current flowing through the connector is calculated from the voltage. The invention additionally relates to a corresponding device and to a battery comprising such a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Chrysanthos Tzivanopoulos, Joerg Schneider, Lisa Lorenz, Sven Bergmann
  • Patent number: 10058128
    Abstract: A system, method, and device to integrate electronic vapor devices and electronic communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: LunaTech, LLC
    Inventors: John Cameron, Dean Becker, Gene Fein
  • Patent number: 10058122
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette with inlet air constructed and arranged to contact a delivery substance and minimize airflow over electronic components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Steingraber, Danielle Steingraber, Michael Murray