Patents Examined by Natalie F Huls
  • Patent number: 10167869
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an online monitoring system, comprising a self-priming pump, a first sample pipe and a container containing a sample to be tested, and the first sample pipe connects the self-priming pump and the container, and the self-priming pump transports the ample to be tested in the container to the first sample pipe; the online monitoring system further comprises a fluid supplementation device connected with the first sample pipe, and a default level value is preset in the fluid supplementation device, and the fluid supplementation device monitors a level of the sample to be tested in the first sample pipe, and extracts the sample to be tested from the container to supplement to the first sample pipe as the level value of the sample to be tested in the first sample pipe is lower than the default level value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yanping Yin
  • Patent number: 10168303
    Abstract: A method for monitoring transportation of a package, as well as the apparatus for monitoring transportation, that uses an environmental monitoring device electrically connected to a vibration-to-electricity converter. The vibration-to-electricity converter is electrically attached to the environmental monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Budy D. Notohardjono, Arkadiy O. Tsfasman, John S. Werner
  • Patent number: 10168350
    Abstract: A physical quantity sensor includes an element piece, in which the element piece includes a support portion that includes a first support portion, a second support portion, and a third support portion that links the first and second support portions, and is connected to a base substrate at the third support portion, a movable electrode portion that is positioned between the first and second support portions, and includes a movable electrode finger, an elastic portion that links the movable electrode portion and the support portion and has elasticity, and a fixed electrode portions having fixed electrode fingers that are arranged facing the movable electrode finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Satoru Tanaka