Patents Examined by Nguyen Ha
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Patent number: 9978533Abstract: An energy storage device includes a middle section (610) including a plurality of double-sided porous structures (500), each of which contain multiple channels (511) in two opposing surfaces (515, 525) thereof, an upper section (620) comprising a single-sided porous structure (621) containing multiple channels (622) in a surface (625) thereof, and a lower section (630) including a single-sided porous structure (631) containing multiple channels (632) in a surface (635) thereof.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2012Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Donald S. Gardner, Tomm V. Aldridge, Charles W. Holzwarth, Cary L. Pint, Zhaohui Chen, Wei C. Jin, Yang Liu, John L. Gustafson
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Patent number: 9978525Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a capacitor set including a plurality of multilayer ceramic capacitors connected in series and accommodated in an insulation case while exposing external electrodes provided on both end portions thereof; and a pair of metal terminals connected to the external electrodes exposed outside of the insulation case, respectively. One end portion of the capacitor set is elastically supported by one of the pair of metal terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Heung Kil Park
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Patent number: 9977404Abstract: Method for testing the water resistance of at least one timepiece, wherein it comprises the following stages: E1—Measuring the rate of the timepiece when subjected to a first external pressure, in particular atmospheric pressure, in order to obtain a first reference rate value; E2—Measuring the rate of a timepiece when subjected to a second external pressure inside a pressurization chamber, in order to obtain a second rate value under pressure; E3—Comparing the rate value under pressure and the reference rate value in order to deduce therefrom the presence or otherwise of a deficiency in the water resistance in the event of a variation in excess of a predefined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: ROLEX SAInventor: Jean-Samuel Dupertuis
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Patent number: 9972443Abstract: A tantalum capacitor includes a capacitor body containing tantalum powder, having a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and including a plurality of tantalum wires spaced apart from each other in a long axis direction of the rectangular parallelepiped shape and protruding from one side surface thereof perpendicular to the long axis direction; a conductive layer provided on one side surface of the capacitor body to be spaced apart from the tantalum wires; a sealing part enclosing the tantalum wires, the conductive layer, and the capacitor body and allowing end portions of the tantalum wires and a surface of the conductive layer to be exposed by the sealing part; an anode terminal provided on one side surface of the sealing part; and a cathode terminal provided on one side surface of the sealing part.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Bum Cho, Hee Sung Choi, Hong Kyu Shin
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Patent number: 9972442Abstract: A wet electrolytic capacitor that contains electrodes (i.e., anode and cathode) and a working electrolyte is provided. The anode and optionally the cathode include a wire assembly containing two or more individual wires. A particulate material is also disposed in contact with at least a portion of the wire assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: AVX CorporationInventors: Mitchell D. Weaver, Zebbie Lynn Sebald
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Patent number: 9972451Abstract: A new multifunctional polyelectrolyte, particularly suitable for a solid-state supercapacitor, is obtainable or obtained by reacting an effective amount of vinyl hybrid silica nanoparticles (VSNPs) and a compound having a structural unit based on acrylic acid or a structural unit derived therefrom in the presence of a polymerization initiator. The polyelectrolyte allows for an advantageous tunable ionic conductivity, exceptional self-healability and super-stretchability. An energy storage device, in particular a solid-state supercapacitor, includes the polyelectrolyte. A method for manufacturing a solid-state supercapacitor as well as for repairing a solid-state supercapacitor having cracks is also disclosed. Benefiting from the superior properties of the polyelectrolyte, the energy storage devices based thereon exhibit highly advantageous stretchability and self-healability and an exceptional performance compared to conventionally known devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: City University of Hong KongInventors: Chunyi Zhi, Yan Huang
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Patent number: 9972445Abstract: Provided are an electrolytic capacitor with high withstand voltage capable of preventing deterioration of withstand voltage characteristics caused by lead-free reflow or the like and improving ESR characteristics, and a manufacturing method thereof. The electrolytic capacitor is obtained by impregnating a capacitor element in which an anode electrode foil and a cathode electrode foil are wound with a separator interposed, with a dispersion containing: particles of a conductive polymer; sorbitol or sorbitol and polyalcohol; and a solvent so as to form a solid electrolyte layer containing 60 to 92 wt % of the sorbitol or the sorbitol and polyalcohol, and by filling an electrolytic solution containing ethylene glycol in a gap portion in the capacitor element on which the solid electrolyte layer is formed.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: NIPPON CHEMI-CON CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Koseki, Kouichi Kuroda, Masao Sakakura, Tomohiro Matsuzaki, Takayuki Nakaji
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Patent number: 9964458Abstract: The voltage output span and sensitivity from a MEMS pressure sensor are increased and pressure nonlinearity is reduced by thinning a diaphragm and forming the diaphragm to include anchors that are not connected to or joined to diaphragm-stiffening beams or thickened regions of the diaphragm.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jen-Huang Albert Chiou, Shiuh-Hui Steven Chen
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Patent number: 9959973Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor that includes a layered body in which dielectric layers and internal electrode layers are layered alternately, an external electrode on a surface of the layered body and a plating layer on a surface of the external electrode. The external electrode contains Cu, and a protective layer containing Cu2O is provided at a joining portion between the external electrode and the plating layer. When heat is applied to the layered body after the external electrode is removed, a ratio of an arithmetic mean value Xa of a quantity of hydrogen generated per unit temperature in a range higher than or equal to 350° C. with respect to an arithmetic mean value Y of a quantity of hydrogen generated per unit temperature in a range higher than or equal to 230° C. and lower than or equal to 250° C. (Xa/Y) is less than or equal to 0.66.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshito Saito, Yasuhiro Nishisaka, Makoto Ogawa, Akihiro Tsuru
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Patent number: 9958373Abstract: A protocol adaptive, computer controlled target-analyte permeation testing instrument, capable of self-adaptive adjustments to measurement interval, rezero frequency and independent zero go-no-go.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: MOCON, INC.Inventors: Timothy A Ascheman, Stephen D. Tuomela
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Patent number: 9958353Abstract: In various embodiments, the present invention provides an improved apparatus and method for quantification of fluid loss from a nominally closed system using a pressure decay with mass point leak rate analysis methodology, which avoids the need for repetitive testing due to test configuration incompatibilities and allows for real time analysis and test control based upon desired results. The novel apparatus and methods of the present invention utilize a control system to maintain a desired pressure differential across the test article throughout the test by automatically raising or lowering the downstream pressure as the fluid leaks through the test article. In various embodiments, the apparatus and method of the present invention improves the efficiency of existing test methods by shortening otherwise long test durations, right-sizing the amount of data collected, providing quantifiable and controllable measurement uncertainty, reducing statistical variance, and eliminating post-process data analysis.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: The University of AkronInventor: Christopher Daniels
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Patent number: 9947475Abstract: A ceramic capacitor includes first and second first internal electrodes respectively including first and second extended portions that respectively include a plurality of ceramic columns penetrating the first and the second extended portions, respectively, in a thickness direction. The first extended portion includes a first high ceramic-column density portion in which ceramic columns are provided at intervals of about 20 ?m or less along the length direction of the extended portion. The second extended portion includes a second high ceramic-column density portion in which ceramic columns are provided at intervals of about 20 ?m or less along the length direction of the extended portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toru Nakanishi
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Patent number: 9948801Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit, an image forming unit, a discharge unit, and a discharge tray. The image reading unit is configured to read a document placed on a document placement table by moving and scanning of a scanning body in a sub-scanning direction. The image forming unit is configured to form an image read by the image reading unit on a paper sheet. The discharge unit is configured to discharge the paper sheet on which an image is formed by the image forming unit to a direction perpendicular to the sub-scanning direction. The discharge tray is on which the paper sheet from the discharge unit is to be placed with a space portion at a lower side of the image reading unit. A bottom surface of a housing of the image reading unit facing the discharge tray is constituted of a first surface and a second surface. The first surface is a surface at a front side of the discharge unit in a discharging direction and high with respect to the discharge tray.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kenji Nakanishi, Masahiro Imoto, Yasuhiro Suto, Shohichi Fukutome, Hisashi Yamanaka, Mitsuharu Yoshimoto
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Patent number: 9944095Abstract: An apparel printing system for printing on regions of tubular fabrics with repeating patterns includes a textile printer having a print head and a tubular platen that includes features on the platen surface to retain and register the tubular fabric on the platen surface during printing.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventor: David Turner
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Patent number: 9947479Abstract: A wet electrolytic surface mount capacitor has a body defining an interior area and having a fill port formed through a wall of the body. A capacitive element is positioned in an interior of the body and is isolated from the body. A surface mount anode termination is in electrical communication with the capacitive element and isolated from the body. A surface mount cathode termination is in electrical communication with the body. An electrolyte is contained in the interior area of the body, and is introduced into the interior area of the body through the fill port. A fill port plug is positioned adjacent the fill port. A fill port cover compresses the fill port plug against the fill port to seal the fill port, and may be welded in place. A method of forming the capacitor is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: VISHAY SPRAGUE, INC.Inventors: Alex Eidelman, Pavel Vaisman, Gabi Shilo, Evgeny Petukhov, Andrey Mitiagin
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Patent number: 9947468Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes; with external electrodes disposed on the capacitor body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the capacitor body includes an active region in which internal electrodes having different polarities from each other overlap each other to form capacitance, and a margin part defined as region except for the active region. A concentration of an additive element in the margin part is higher than the concentration of the additive element in the active region, and the margin part has a concentration gradient of the additive element from a surface of the capacitor body toward the active region.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jin Seong Kim, Chang Hoon Kim, Doo Young Kim, Tae Young Kim, Seok Hyun Yoon, Jae Yeol Choi, Jae Sung Park
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Patent number: 9943249Abstract: A respiratory gas monitor testing system having a respiratory gas monitor coupled to a system for detecting a leak, wherein the system for detecting a leak has a flowmeter in fluid communication with both an inlet and an outlet of the respiratory gas monitor, with the exhaust of the flowmeter venting to atmosphere; a restriction valve, a sample pressure sensor, a flowmeter valve configured to allow the flowmeter to either measure sample flow rate or leak rate, a flow-smoothing buffer configured to improve flow measurement accuracy, and a system for simulating human breath; wherein the system for simulating human breath at elevated airway pressure has an air source, a calibration gas source, a breath simulation valve, a calibration gas valve, a sample pressure sensor, an air reservoir, a pressurized bottle with a pressure regulator and an orifice, and an air pump.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Inventors: Darryl Zitting, Joseph A. Orr, Brent Weight
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Patent number: 9939342Abstract: A leak detection system for detecting leaks in pressurized containers, the system comprising a leak test conveyor for moving each container and an accumulation tunnel through which the leak test conveyer extends, wherein the accumulation tunnel and the leak test conveyer together define at least one enclosed accumulation volume, each enclosed accumulation volume being sized to accommodate only a single container, thereby to allow gas leaking from the single container to accumulate, and a gas sensor for sensing accumulated leaked gas from the single container.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: CASCADE TECHNOLOGIES HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventors: Iain Howieson, Paul Miller, Stephen Waldron
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Patent number: 9941058Abstract: A method of making a supercapacitor from waste tires, includes the steps of providing rubber pieces and contacting the rubber pieces with a sulfonation bath to produce sulfonated rubber; pyrolyzing the sulfonated rubber to produce a tire-derived carbon composite comprising carbon black embedded in rubber-derived carbon matrix comprising graphitized interface portions; activating the tire-derived carbon composite by contacting the tire-derived carbon composite with a specific surface area-increasing composition to increase the specific surface area of the carbon composite to provide an activated tire-derived carbon composite; and, mixing the activated tire-derived carbon composite with a monomer and polymerizing the monomer to produce a redox-active polymer coated, activated tire-derived carbon composite. The redox-active polymer coated, activated tire-derived carbon composite can be formed into a film. An electrode and a supercapacitor are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignees: UT-BATTELLE, LLC, DREXEL UNIVERSITYInventors: Amit K Naskar, Mariappan Parans Paranthaman, Muhammad Boota, Yury Gogotsi
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Patent number: 9939341Abstract: A pipeline apparatus comprising a flexible pipe body and a detection apparatus. The flexible pipe body includes an optical fiber extending at least partially along the length of the flexible pipe body, the optical fiber being encased in a metal tube. The detection apparatus comprises an optical sensor and an electrical sensor. The optical sensor is coupled to a first end of the optical fiber, the optical sensor being arranged to inject optical pulses into the optical fiber and to detect scattered or reflected light. The electrical sensor is coupled to a first end of the metal tube and to detect variation of an electrical impedance between the first end of the metal tube and a separate terminal. Variation of the scattered or reflected light, or impedance variation, is indicative of a potential pipe body defect.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: GE Oil & Gas UK LimitedInventors: John Cross McNab, Geoffrey Stephen Graham, Philip Michael Hunter Nott