Patents Examined by Neil Abrams
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Patent number: 12357031Abstract: An aerosol provision device for generating aerosol from a plurality of aerosol generating areas each configured to receive an aerosol precursor material can include a power source for providing power to a first atomizing element configured to generate aerosol from a first aerosol precursor material present in a first aerosol generating area and to a second atomizing element configured to generate aerosol from a second aerosol precursor material present in a second aerosol generating area; and power distribution circuitry configured to distribute power between the first atomizing element and the second atomizing element based on at least one parameter of the aerosol precursor material currently present in the first aerosol generating areas and the second aerosol generating area, respectively, wherein the at least one parameter is at least one of a presence of a first aerosol generating component including the first aerosol precursor material in the first aerosol generating area or a presence of a second aerosoType: GrantFiled: October 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Nicoventures Trading LimitedInventors: Connor Bruton, Colin Dickens, Patrick Moloney, Anton Korus, Alfred Vincent Spencer, Kevin David Blick, Lisa Harvey, Anna Azzopardi
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Patent number: 12362517Abstract: A lock portion (19) projects on an outer surface of a receptacle (12). A housing (61) is fit into the receptacle (12). A lock arm (77) deflectably and deformably projects on an outer surface of the housing (61). The lock arm (77) locks the lock portion (19) while being in contact with an outer surface on an opening end side of the receptacle (12). A tip-side restricting portion (31) configured to come into contact with or proximately face a tip part (88) of the lock arm (77) is provided on the outer surface of the receptacle (12). A sealing member (90) is held in close contact with an inner surface on the opening end side of the receptacle (12).Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Yuta Inoue
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Patent number: 12343471Abstract: An aerosol delivery device and a substrate tablet for use with an inductively-heated aerosol delivery device are provided. The aerosol delivery device comprises a control body having a housing, a mouthpiece portion located proximate the housing, a resonant transmitter located in the control body, a control component configured to drive the resonant transmitter, and a substrate tablet receivable in the device. The substrate tablet may comprise a granular substrate material and a susceptor component, the substrate material and the susceptor component may be configured to be formed together, and the susceptor component may be configured to be heated by the resonant transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Billy T. Conner, Karen H. Cleckley, Thaddeus Jackson, Cortney Rasheen Jackson
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Patent number: 12336568Abstract: A heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the heater assembly including: a fluid-permeable heating element configured to vaporise a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; and a transport material configured to transport liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the fluid-permeable heating element, the transport material having a thickness defined between a first surface of the transport material and an opposing second surface of the transport material, the first surface being arranged in fluid communication with the fluid-permeable heating element and the second surface being arranged to receive liquid aerosol-forming substrate, the second surface of the transport material being provided with at least one hole that extends into the transport material to a depth corresponding to at least a part of the thickness of the transport material to define a formed fluid channel for the liquid aerosol-forming substrate, and the first surface of the transport material being convex.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2024Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Guillame Frederick, Patrick Charles Silvestrini, Jean-Marc Widmer, Ihar Nikolaevich Zinovik
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Patent number: 12334659Abstract: A connection body comprises a body having upper and lower surfaces, a first path and a second path. The first path has a first wired portion configured to be connected to a first core wire of a cable structure and a first terminal portion coupled to the first wired portion by a first coupling portion. The first wired portion, the first terminal portion and the first coupling portion are formed on the upper surface of the body. The second path has a second wired portion configured to be connected to a second core wire of the cable structure and a second terminal portion coupled to the second wired portion by a second coupling portion. The second wired portion is formed on the upper surface of the body. The second terminal portion is formed on the lower surface of the body.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 17, 2025Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Kentaro Toda
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Patent number: 12327963Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing in the metallic shell, a plurality of terminals at the insulated housing, and a metallic plate at the insulated housing. The terminals include two first terminal groups and two second terminal groups arranged in two rows, and the two rows are respectively arranged on the two faces of a tongue portion of the insulated housing. A length of each contact portion of each second terminal group is greater than a length of each contact portion of each first terminal group. The metallic plate is between the first terminal groups and the second terminal groups. The metallic plate has one or more extension portion between the contact portions of at least two adjacent terminals of one or more of the second terminal groups. The structural strength of the tongue portion can be improved by the extension portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Shu-Fen Wang, Yu-Chai Yeh, Guan-Lin Chen
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Patent number: 12327952Abstract: A connector includes a retaining member that is held by the terminal housing portion at an assembly completed position to the terminal housing portion to lock movement of the terminal fitting with respect to the terminal housing portion in a terminal extraction direction opposite the terminal insertion direction at the assembly completed position. The retaining member includes a terminal locking portion disposed facing a locked portion of the terminal fitting at the assembly completed position in the terminal extraction direction to lock movement of the locked portion in the terminal extraction direction. The terminal fitting includes a retainer housing portion that accommodates the terminal locking portion of the retaining member at the assembly completed position and allows relative movement of the terminal fitting in the alignment direction with respect to the terminal locking portion and orthogonal to the terminal insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Katsuya Nakano, Takashi Sone
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Patent number: 12328836Abstract: A field-replaceable unit (FRU) includes a self-actuating protective cover device that includes: a protective cover, a housing component that includes a slot, a driving link component attached to the protective cover and the housing component, a supporting link component attached to the protective cover and the housing component, and an engagement component attached to the driving link component, wherein the engagement component is to be engaged by an actuation component of a mating connector and caused to move within the slot of the housing component, and the engagement component is to cause the driving link component, the supporting link component, and the protective cover to move when the engagement component moves within the slot of the housing component. The protective cover is to be positioned over one or more connectors of the FRU when the engagement component is positioned at an unengaged position within the slot of the housing component.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Jimmy Chun-Chuen Leung, Franklin Demick Boyden, Sean Kim
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Patent number: 12322890Abstract: An electrical connector for transmitting electrical power includes at least one power pin with an ablative tip. The power pin has a body oriented in a direction of a longitudinal axis, and the ablative tip is at a terminal end along the longitudinal axis. The ablative tip includes a terminal edge and a support material positioned on a transverse side of the terminal edge that provides structural support to the terminal edge.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lawrence Dale Cannon, Michele Falcon, John Joseph Siegler, Shaun L. Harris, Brandon Aaron Rubenstein
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Patent number: 12322915Abstract: An electric signal adapting device includes at least one first adapting interface and at least one first adaptor. The at least one first adapting interface comprises a magnetic component and a magnetic sensing component. The first adaptor is placed in correspondence with the first adapting interface. The first adaptor is electrically connected to each of the corresponding at least one first adapting interface for transferring the DC electric signal and connecting the DC electric signal to an external device. The magnetic component is configured to attract the at least one first adaptor. The magnetic sensing component is configured to determine whether the at least one first adaptor is correctly placed. When the magnetic sensing component determines that the at least one first adaptor is correctly placed, the at least one first adapting interface transfers the DC electric signal to the at least one first adaptor.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: ENERGY FULL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hsu-Shen Chin
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Patent number: 12288945Abstract: The clamping connector includes first and second shell members, each including a tab and a protrusion extending from a first side, and a hinge aperture on a second side. The protrusion of the first shell member extends into a tab aperture of the tab of the second shell member and when the first shell member is secured to the second shell member the protrusion of the second shell member extends into a tab aperture of the tab of the first shell member. The clamping connector includes a hinge pin received by the hinge apertures of the first and second shell members to rotatably couple the first and second shell members. The clamping connector also includes a seal and a plurality of seal apertures extending from an interior of the clamping connector, the at least one seal extending partially through the plurality of seal apertures.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LPInventors: Kyle Koseck, Brian L. Counts
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Patent number: 12288953Abstract: A connection assembly, a connector and a connector assembly are disclosed. The connection assembly is used to connect a high-voltage cable and comprises: a threaded fastener for fixedly connecting the high-voltage cable to a mating connection part, the threaded fastener comprising an insulation member; and a conductive plug connected with the insulation member to allow the threaded fastener to be tightened or loosened by rotating the conductive plug. In the present invention, the conductive plug arranged in the mounting hole of the conductive housing can realize the electromagnetic shielding function, and the elastic sealing sleeve sleeved on the conductive plug seals the gap between the conductive plug and the inner wall of the mounting hole and can realize the waterproof function. The insulation member serves to electrically isolate the threaded connecting member from the high voltage cable.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuchen Yang, Xiao (Nichee) Zhou
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Patent number: 12280682Abstract: An ejector for electric vehicle charging connectors is provided. An ejector can be configured to be secured on the inside of the charging port of an EV and to automatically eject or push the charging connector from the charging port. The ejector may include a pusher assembly that can be selectively retracted to allow a charging connector to be plugged into the charging port and can be selectively released to eject the charging connector from the charging port. The ejector can include a retracting assembly for selectively retracting the pusher assembly and a locking assembly for retaining the pusher assembly in the retracted position until it is desired to eject the charging connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: EVject, Inc.Inventors: Erick Vega, Preston Ruff, Kreg Peeler
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Patent number: 12278440Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a number of first conductive terminals and a number of second conductive terminals. Each first conductive terminal includes a first mating arm. Each second conductive terminal includes a second mating arm and a second press-fit portion for being mounted to a circuit board. Among the second conductive terminals, the second press-fit portions corresponding to any two adjacent second mating arms are arranged in a staggered manner with each other along a second arrangement direction of the second mating arms. Therefore, it effectively avoids the mutual influence between the second press-fit portions, and facilitates the realization of the installation with the circuit board. The present disclosure also discloses an electrical connector assembly having the electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDInventors: Bin Huang, Rongzhe Guo, Hongji Chen, Huanhuan Shen
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Patent number: 12268243Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes an open first end, a chamber side wall, and a base at a second end of the chamber side wall opposite the open first end. The base includes a platform extending from a portion of the base towards the open first end from an interior surface of the base. The platform is formed of a series of protrusions positioned at an edge of the base.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: JT International S.A.Inventor: Tony Reevell
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Patent number: 12272894Abstract: A connector 10 is provided with an inner conductor 13 to be connected to a wire 18, a dielectric 14 for accommodating the inner conductor 13, and an electrically conductive impedance adjusting member 12 to be mounted on the wire. The inner conductor 13 includes a base portion 33 and an insulation barrel piece 35 rising from the base portion 33 and to be crimped to a coating 23 of the wire 18. The insulation barrel piece 35 includes an inclined portion 39 inclined toward the impedance adjusting member 12 with distance from the base portion 33 on an end edge on a side facing the impedance adjusting member 12.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Matsuda, Kazuki Hiramatsu, Taiga Kadoyama, Maika Ido, Masanao Yamashita
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Patent number: 12262752Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generation device that supplies electric power to a load that generates aerosol including a sensor that is in an operating state among a normal state and a plurality of abnormal states, and detects an aerosol generation request while the power supply unit is in an active state, a control unit that detects a state of the sensor, and generates an error signal capable of distinguishing between a first and second abnormal states when the sensor is in at least one of the first and second abnormal states included in the plurality of abnormal states, and a notification unit that makes a notification in a different mode for each type of the error signal, wherein the control unit causes the power supply unit to undergo a transition from the active state to a sleep state after generating the error signal, and the plurality of abnormal states include a state in which supply of electric power to the load is unnecessary for detection by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Manabu Yamada, Hiroshi Tezuka
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Patent number: 12257384Abstract: A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction. The housing includes a sidewall, a transverse wall at the first end of the sidewall, and an inner tube integrally formed with the housing. The sidewall is generally cylindrical and a first end and a second end. The transverse wall includes at least one outlet therein. The inner tube extends in the longitudinal direction. The inner tube is concentrically positioned with respect to the sidewall. The inner tube communicates with the at least one outlet. The cartridge also includes a reservoir between the sidewall and the inner tube. The reservoir is configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Travis Martin Garthaffner, Peter J. Lipowicz
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Patent number: 12249781Abstract: An axially resilient press-in contact pin includes a metal body and an electrically conductive, elastic element. The metal body includes a pin-shaped section and a press-in spring. The press-in spring is on a first end of the pin-shaped section. The elastic element surrounds at least portions of the pin-shaped section and extends beyond a second end (i.e., free end region) of the pin-shaped section.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Andresen, Ralf Ostermann, Heike Skutta, Frank Kunert, Matthias Seifert, Edward Ziebko
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Patent number: 12244092Abstract: A connector C is provided with a housing 30 formed with a through hole 39, a rubber plug 60 to be arranged inside the housing 30 and formed with a sealing hole 61, and a dummy plug 10 to be arranged from the through hole 39 to the sealing hole 61. The housing 30 includes recesses 43 open in an inner surface of the through hole 39. The dummy plug 10 includes a plug body 11 to be arranged in the sealing hole 61, an extending portion 12 continuously extending from the plug body 11 and to be arranged in the through hole 39, and protrusions 16 projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the extending portion 12 and arranged to be press-fit into the recesses 43.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Takuma Yonezu