Patents Examined by Nader J Alhawamdeh
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Patent number: 12377739Abstract: A charging inlet apparatus includes an inlet box and one or more electrical components. The inlet box is provided at a charging opening of a vehicle. A charging inlet is disposed in the inlet box. One or more electrical components are mounted on a mounting surface of the inlet box from a vehicle cabin side of the vehicle and have a waterproof object area. The mounting surface is inclined toward the vehicle cabin side with respect to a vertical direction. The inlet box includes one or more canopy portions that project from the inlet box so as to be located over the one or more electrical components.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Masaru Sasaki
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Patent number: 12381356Abstract: A connector set includes a right angle type inner connector and a relay connector. First external-side contact portions and second external-side contact portions are disposed at different positions in a substrate perpendicular direction. However, first inner-side contact portions and second inner-side contact portions are disposed at the same position in the substrate perpendicular direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiaki Sugiki, Nagisa Asai, Katsumasa Sato
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Patent number: 12368263Abstract: An electrical connector includes a first electrical connector body, a second electrical connector body, a first outer connector and a second outer connector. The first electrical connector body includes an insulating isolation ring, a negative terminal connector and a live terminal connector mounted on two opposite sides of the insulating isolation ring, an insulating protective ring mounted inside the first electrical connector body and the insulating isolation ring, an annular negative terminal, an insulating spring accommodated in the annular negative terminal, and an annular positive terminal received in the annular negative terminal and physically separated by the insulating spring. The second electrical connector body includes a connecting member, a connecting column, a negative terminal member and a live terminal member.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: July 22, 2025Inventor: Huawang Liu
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Patent number: 12362507Abstract: A fixing member 40 includes a housing mounting portion 60 to be mounted into a housing 20 and a board locking portion 70 projecting from the housing mounting portion 60 and to be locked to a circuit board 12. The board locking portion 70 includes a resiliently deformable spring portion 71 formed by bending a part protruding in a width direction intersecting a projecting direction from the housing mounting portion 60 and a board contact portion 71 disposed on a side closer to a tip than the spring portion 71 in a projecting direction of the board locking portion 70 and configured to contact the circuit board. The spring portion 71 is arranged inwardly in the width direction of both end parts on outer sides in the width direction of the housing mounting portion 60 in a developed state of the spring portion 71.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Kentaro Hirai
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Patent number: 12362509Abstract: A multi-piece connector is provided. The multi-piece connector includes a jumper conductor for electrically interconnecting parts of conductive terminals of the connector, without having to use any additional jumper, such that an electronic device having such a connector can be made more compact in size.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: TARNG YU ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.Inventors: Ying-Chung Chen, Mu-Jung Huang
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Patent number: 12355064Abstract: Provided is a cathode that is configured to decrease battery resistance when it is used in an all-solid-state battery, and a method for producing the cathode. Disclosed is a cathode comprising a cathode layer for all-solid-state batteries, wherein the cathode layer contains cathode active material particles and solid electrolyte particles; wherein at least one of the cathode active material particles and the solid electrolyte particles contain a phosphorus element; and wherein, in a photoelectron spectrum by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement of the cathode layer, a P peak intensity ratio (A/B), which is derived from the phosphorus element, of a signal intensity A at a binding energy of 131.6 eV to a signal intensity B at a binding energy of 133.1 eV, is larger than 0.58.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nariaki Miki
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Patent number: 12355065Abstract: Provided is a cathode that is configured to decrease battery resistance when it is used in an all-solid-state battery, and a method for producing the cathode. Disclosed is a cathode comprising a cathode layer for all-solid-state batteries, wherein the cathode layer contains cathode active material particles and solid electrolyte particles; wherein at least one of the cathode active material particles and the solid electrolyte particles contain a phosphorus element; and wherein, in a photoelectron spectrum by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement of the cathode layer, a P peak intensity ratio (A/B), which is derived from the phosphorus element, of a signal intensity A at a binding energy of 131.6 eV to a signal intensity B at a binding energy of 133.1 eV, is larger than 0.58.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2024Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nariaki Miki
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Patent number: 12347975Abstract: An electrical connector, for being mounted on a circuit board, includes a metal shell and a terminal module. The metal shell includes a mounting surface to be matched with the circuit board. The terminal module includes a number of conductive terminals, an insulating block, a ground shielding piece and a number of cables. The conductive terminals include a number of pairs of differential signal terminals, a number of first ground terminals, and a number of second ground terminals. The ground shielding piece connects the first ground terminals and the second ground terminals in series. Each conductive terminal includes a mating elastic arm extending beyond the mounting surface. The mating elastic arm includes a contact portion for pressing against a conductive pad of the circuit board, thereby improving the installation convenience of the electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDInventors: Kunlin Yao, Rongzhe Guo
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Patent number: 12341168Abstract: There is provided a method for collecting and reusing an active material from positive electrode scrap. The positive electrode active material reuse method of the present disclosure includes (a) thermally treating positive electrode scrap comprising a lithium composite transition metal oxide positive electrode active material layer on a current collector in air at 300 to 650° C. for 1 hour or less for thermal decomposition of a binder and a conductive material in the active material layer, to separate the current collector from the active material layer, and collecting an active material in the active material layer, and (b) annealing the collected active material with an addition of a lithium precursor to obtain a reusable active material.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Se-Ho Park, Min-Seo Kim, Doo-Kyung Yang
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Patent number: 12334600Abstract: A battery module including a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; a module frame that houses the battery cell stack; a busbar frame that covers front and rear surfaces of the battery cell stack; an insulating member that includes an upper surface part and both side surface parts, and is formed so as to wrap the upper surface and both side surfaces of the battery cell stack between the battery cell stack and the module frame; and a fixing member that couples the upper surface part of the insulating member and both side upper end parts of the busbar frame.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventors: Sunghwan Jang, Junyeob Seong, Gwan Woo Kim
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Patent number: 12327950Abstract: Provided is a male connector capable of easily engaging with a female connector. A male connector 10 includes a hood portion 13 with a cylindrical shape that is fit into, from a projecting end 13A side, an engagement cylindrical portion 23 formed as an opening of a female connector 20, wherein the hood portion 13 is provided with the at least one guide projection portion 31 projecting forward beyond the projecting end 13A with an annular shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Kohei Kawai, Akihiro Kon
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Patent number: 12327939Abstract: A connector of the present invention includes a fixed housing, a movable housing, a plurality of terminals, and a metal movement restricting member to be attached to the fixed housing. The movable housing includes a main body portion for insertion in a loose fit state into an insertion hole of the fixed housing, and a protrusion portion projecting from the main body portion. In the state where the main body portion has been inserted into the insertion hole, the protrusion portion projects from the main body portion along a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to both the insertion direction and the width direction. When the main body portion becomes displaced in a direction opposite to the insertion direction, the movement restricting member restricts the amount of displacement of the movable housing by abutting against the protrusion portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoru Shindo, Hiroshi Kitamura, Teppei Uetsuji
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Patent number: 12322912Abstract: A cable connector for counting a number of plug-in events and preventing further plug in attempts after a threshold number of plug-in events have occurred. An inner sleeve is located inside an outer sleeve, and is designed to move relative to the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve further includes a tab on an outer surface of the inner sleeve. A gear wheel is located inside the outer sleeve and perpendicular to the inner sleeve and has a number of gear teeth. A toggle plug counter rotates the gear wheel one tooth in response to a plug-in action of the cable counter. When the gear wheel rotates to a point where the tab aligns with a notch in the gear wheel an inner spring at the opposite end of the inner sleeve causes the inner sleeve to move through the gear wheel such that further plugging action becomes difficult.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Kevin O'Connell, Timothy Clyde Buchholtz, George Russell Zettles, IV, Karl Erickson, George Paulik, Jarrett Betke, Timothy Lindquist, Daniel Ramirez
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Patent number: 12300928Abstract: A connector retainer attached to a connector device includes a cover, a locking arm, an engagement arm, and an engagement claw. The cover has a surface being flat and extending in a direction parallel to an engagement direction in which a first and second connectors of the connector device are engaged. The cover is configured to cover an outer surface of an engagement maintaining mechanism for maintaining the engagement state of the connectors. The locking arm projects from the surface of the cover in a direction crossing the engagement direction. The engagement arm projects from the surface of the cover in the direction crossing the engagement direction. The engagement claw is disposed at a tip end of the engagement arm, and is configured to engaged with a projection of the second connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Imaizumi, Yujiro Kondo
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Patent number: 12300803Abstract: A doping system dopes an active material with an alkali metal, the active material being contained in a layer of a strip-shaped electrode. The doping system includes a doping bath, a conveyor unit, a counter electrode unit, a connection unit, and a recovery unit. The doping bath stores a solution containing alkali metal ions. The conveyor unit conveys the electrode along a path passing through the doping bath. The counter electrode unit is housed in the doping bath. The connection unit electrically connects a conveyor roller provided in the conveyor unit with the counter electrode unit. The recovery unit collects in the doping bath the solution adhered to the electrode having passed through the doping bath.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: MUSASHI ENERGY SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masaya Naoi, Kenji Kojima, Kazunari Aita
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Patent number: 12300923Abstract: A connector includes a connector terminal having a flat connection surface that faces a counter connector terminal, at least one spherical ball disposed on the connection surface, at least a surface of the ball having electrical conductivity, a ball retaining portion retaining the ball such that the ball is rotatable, a ball guiding portion fixed to the connector terminal and holding the ball retaining portion such that the ball retaining portion is movable in a two-dimensional manner along the connection surface, and a terminal spring pressing the counter connector terminal or the connection surface of the connector terminal in such a direction that the counter connector terminal and the connection surface approach each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kenta Ashibu
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Patent number: 12300819Abstract: A negative electrode for a secondary battery including a negative electrode active material capable of absorbing and releasing lithium ions. The negative electrode active material includes a first carbon material as a main component, and includes a second carbon material and a silicon-containing material which are present between particles of the first carbon material. The first carbon material has an average particle diameter A, the second carbon material has an average particle diameter B, and the silicon-containing material has an average particle diameter C, satisfying A>C?B.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Masahiro Soga, Masaki Hasegawa, Takahiro Fukuoka
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Patent number: 12288857Abstract: A energy storage system includes at least one storage cell. The storage cell is provided at least in sections with a casing. The casing consists of plastic and is provided with a material for increasing a thermal conductivity. The material is configured such that a thermal runaway in the event of a fault is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KGInventors: Peter Kritzer, Mark Boggasch, Daniela Woll, Thomas Kramer, Tanja Heislitz, Armin Striefler, Bjoern Hellbach, Tim Leichner
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Patent number: 12286721Abstract: In a method for chromium upgrading of interconnects made of ferritic steel to be used in solid oxide cell stacks, comprising the steps of shaping the interconnect, depositing a coating comprising Cr on at least one surface of the shaped interconnect and performing one or more thermal treatments at a temperature below 1000° C., the resulting Cr concentration near the surface of the interconnect is higher than the Cr concentration in the ferritic steel before shaping. Specifically, the average Cr concentration of the shaped interconnect is increased to 26 wt % Cr or higher.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: HALDOR TOPSØE A/SInventors: Tobias Holt Nørby, Rainer Küngas, Bengt Peter Gustav Blennow, Jeppe Rass-Hansen, Thomas Heiredal-Clausen
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Patent number: 12283704Abstract: A secondary battery unit includes a first secondary battery module disposed at at least either one of a front part or a back part of a body of a humanoid robot, a second secondary battery module disposed around the body in a direction intersecting with a front-and-rear direction of the body, and a base coupling the first secondary battery module to the second secondary battery module. The base is detachably attached to the body, together with the first secondary battery module and the second secondary battery module.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masayuki Kamon, So Yukizaki, Junichi Karasuyama, Yuki Tanaka