Patents Examined by Nguyen Q Ha
  • Patent number: 10866162
    Abstract: Provided in the present disclosure is an online fault detection device installed in a train car and used for a high-speed train running component comprising a GPS module (1), a noise sensor (2), a 3G module (5), a solid-state drive (6), a microprocessor (4), a status indicator (3), and a buzzer (7). Input ends of the microprocessor (4) are connected to an output end of the GPS module (1) and an output end of the noise sensor (2) respectively. Output ends of the microprocessor (4) are connected to an input end of the status indicator (3) and an input end of the buzzer (7) respectively. The microprocessor (4) is interactively connected to the 3G module (5) and the solid-state drive (6) respectively. The device above is reliable and easy to be installed and maintained; and the components and sensor thereof are not prone to be damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignees: HEFEI GOCOM INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Zhen Wei, Jian Chen, Lei Cheng, Qingxin Hu, Jiazhu Li, Pin Chen, Yunan Cheng
  • Patent number: 10866165
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for automatic sampling and detection of on-line gas by high-temperature and high-pressure simulator and a detection method thereof. A vacuum manifold I is successively connected to a pressure controller, a gas-liquid separator, a gas automatic metering collector, a first trace quantitative gas collector, and a mechanical pump. On a vacuum manifold II, a high-low pressure convertor, a second trace quantitative gas collector, a gas transferring device, a heavy oil trap, a filtering trap, and a pressure gage head are connected successively. In the present invention, discharged simulation products, enter an empty gas chromatograph at a normal temperature and a normal pressure after treatment, completing on-line detection of an accumulated gas and a stage gas, and improving accuracy of gas composition measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF ECO-ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Long Su, Yuhong Yuan, Gongcheng Zhang, Dongwei Zhang, Shengrong Tang, Jihui Lin
  • Patent number: 10859460
    Abstract: A coupling for use with a blower unit for detecting leaks in a structure, wherein the coupling is constructed and arranged to attach to a surface of the structure defining an opening and to the blower unit, and to allow air flow through the coupling when the blower unit is attached to the coupling and to prevent air flow through the coupling when the blower unit is not attached to the coupling, and wherein the coupling further includes a pressure port defined within a surface of the coupling constructed and arranged to accommodate at least one of a differential pressure gauge fitting or a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Sealtech Manufacturing USA
    Inventor: Scott A. DeLadurantaye
  • Patent number: 10861354
    Abstract: A receipt and label roll comprises a core and a web having a longitudinally-extending axis and wound on the core along the axis. The web includes (i) a substrate having a front side and a back side opposite the front side, (ii) a thermally-sensitive coating disposed on the front side of the substrate, (iii) adhesive disposed on a portion of the back side of the substrate along the web axis, and (iv) a release coating disposed on the front side of the substrate along the web axis to prevent the adhesive from sticking to the front side of the substrate when the web is wound on the core. The web further includes (v) a longitudinal weakened structure extending along a direction parallel to the web axis and dividing the web into a first web portion on which the adhesive is disposed and a second web portion which is substantially devoid of adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Iconex LLC
    Inventors: Steven Nahm, Robert McDaniel
  • Patent number: 10850389
    Abstract: A multi-axis robotic platform for studying neuromechanics comprises a bottom plate, a middle plate, and a top plate is disclosed herein. The middle plate is movably coupled between the bottom plate and the top plate. The top plate comprises a support surface for receiving an ankle. A first actuator is disposed upon the bottom plate and is connected to the middle plate via a first coupling such that a shaft of the first actuator rotates the middle plate along a dorsiflexion-plantarflexion (DP) axis of the ankle. A second actuator is disposed upon the middle plate and is connected to the top plate via a second coupling such that a shaft of the second actuator rotates the top plate along an inversion-eversion (IE) axis of the ankle. The multi-axis robotic platform can analyze ankle impedance and reflex characteristics in two degrees-of-freedom (DP movement and IE movement) during postural and locomotion tasks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State University
    Inventors: Varun Nalam, Hyunglae Lee
  • Patent number: 10851947
    Abstract: A method and system for assessing the condition of a pipeline in a pipeline system is disclosed. The method includes generating a pressure wave in the fluid being carried along the pipeline system at a generation location along the pipeline system, detecting a first pressure wave interaction signal at a first measurement location along the pipeline system resulting from an interaction of the pressure wave with localised variations in the pipeline and then detecting synchronously a second pressure wave interaction signal at a second measurement location along the pipeline system resulting from the interaction of the pressure wave with localised variations in the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: The University of Adelaide
    Inventors: Jinzhe Gong, Martin F. Lambert, Angus R. Simpson, Aaron C. Zecchin, Nicole S. Arbon
  • Patent number: 10845281
    Abstract: In the specification and drawings a method for testing a proppant is described and shown that involves: obtaining a proppant sample; separating the proppant sample into a plurality of sub-samples according to grain size; subjecting each sub-sample to a pressure that is sufficient to crush at least a portion of the proppant within at least one of the plurality of sub-samples; and independently analyzing each sub-sample to determine at least one of: i) the amount of proppant that was crushed within each sub-sample; and ii) the amount of proppant that was not crushed within each sub-sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventor: Matthew D. Bryant
  • Patent number: 10836521
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flow wrapper which comprises a form and/or film tube, which forms the planar film into a film tube and/or fills the film tube with a packaging item and which comprises means to provide a longitudinal- and/or cross-seal to the film tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS WEERT B.V.
    Inventors: Sven Müller, Andreas Steffen
  • Patent number: 10838097
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus pertaining to determining shape and size of a borehole at a depth within a subterranean formation using ultrasonic measurements obtained by a downhole tool at four different azimuthal locations corresponding to four mutually orthogonal directions extending radially from a central axis of the downhole tool. The measurements are indicative of a distance between a wall of the borehole and the downhole tool at each azimuthal location. The borehole shape and size are determined by estimating an ellipse approximating the borehole shape and size using the ultrasonic measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hadrien Dollfus, Henri-Pierre Valero, Jean-Christophe Auchere
  • Patent number: 10837818
    Abstract: An example printing cartridge includes a fluid container, a sensing die including a plurality of sensing locations in thermal contact with the fluid container, and a voltage comparator to output time-based information by comparing a sensed voltage generated at a selected sensing location of the plurality of sensing locations to a threshold voltage, the time-based information representative of whether a fluid is present at the sensing location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Daryl E. Anderson, James Michael Gardner, Berkeley Fisher, Michael W. Cumbie
  • Patent number: 10823568
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a capacitive micromechanical accelerometer with at least a first sensor which comprises a rotor which is a two-sided seesaw frame. The rotor comprises one or more first damping plates on the first side of its rotation axis and one or more first damping plates on the second side of its rotation axis. One or more second damping plates are fixed to the inner package plane above or below at least some of the one or more first damping plates, so that at least one first damping plate overlaps with the projection of a second damping plate on each side of the axis. The frame-shaped rotor may surround second and third acceleration sensors located in the substrate plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matti Liukku, Ville-Pekka Rytkönen
  • Patent number: 10814857
    Abstract: A system comprises a plurality of handheld devices including a plurality of transceivers. A control unit may be coupled to a handheld device of the plurality of handheld devices. The system may further include a plurality of end-of-train air devices coupled to a plurality of air brakes. An air manifold may be coupled to the plurality of air brakes. The system may include a controller coupled to the control unit and to the air manifold. A processor may be coupled to the controller and the control unit, and a non-transitory computer readable medium may be coupled to the processor. The non-transitory computer readable medium may include instructions executable to receive information from the control unit corresponding to an air brake test performed on the plurality of end-of-train air devices, determine a status of the air brake test, generate an inspection form based on the received information and the determined status, and transmit the generated inspection form for printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventors: Klaus Buchberger, Steven Novak
  • Patent number: 10816424
    Abstract: A transmitter for measuring a process pressure includes a pressure sensor and a temperature sensor providing an input temperature signal. A first remote pressure sensitive diaphragm couples to the transmitter by a first capillary tube filled with a fill fluid having a density as a function of fill fluid temperature. An input circuit is operably connected to at least the pressure sensor and provides an intermediate pressure signal at least roughly representative of the process pressure. A correcting circuit is coupled to the temperature sensor and to the input circuit. The correcting circuit processes the intermediate pressure signal by compensating for the fill fluid density as a function of the temperature and provides a compensated output more closely representative of the process pressure. The correction circuit further performs an initial height determination based upon a pressure measurement made while no pressure is applied to the first diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.
    Inventors: Paul Ryan Fadell, Scott Robert Thompson, Nathan Darrel Stokes
  • Patent number: 10809279
    Abstract: A micromechanical accelerometer comprises a sensor for measuring acceleration along a vertical axis perpendicular to a substrate plane, and an accelerometer package with at least one inner package plane adjacent and parallel to the substrate plane. The first sensor comprises a rotor which is mobile in relation to the substrate, a rotor suspender and one or more stators which are immobile in relation to the substrate. The rotor is a seesaw frame where longitudinal rotor bar comprise one or more first deflection electrodes, and second deflection electrodes are fixed to the inner package plane above or below each of the one or more first deflection electrodes, so that they overlap. The accelerometer can perform a self-test by applying a test voltage to at least one first deflection electrode and at least one second deflection electrode. A self-test response signal can be read with a measurement between rotor and stator electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Matti Liukku, Ville-Pekka Rytkönen
  • Patent number: 10801907
    Abstract: The invention refers to a pressure-measuring device for converting a mechanical or hydraulic pressurization in a measuring signal and for forwarding the measuring signal to a remote evaluation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Biond Solution AG
    Inventor: Holger Blum
  • Patent number: 10801942
    Abstract: A multi-functional multi-field coupling seepage experiment device includes a device body, a stress field control system, a temperature field control system, a fluid loading control system and a fluid seepage measurement system. The present invention further discloses seepage experiments performed on tight gas, shale gas, tight oil, shale oil, natural gas hydrate and geothermal heat in a multi-field coupling state of a temperature field, a stress field, a pore pressure field and a seepage field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTHWEST PETROLEUM UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chenghua Ou, Haiyan Zhu, Qingyou Liu, Chaochun Li
  • Patent number: 10794409
    Abstract: A turbulence generation system includes a vane assembly to direct airflow from a nozzle. The vane assembly includes at least two vertically oriented nozzle contraction vanes, a pair of vertically oriented nozzle exit vanes, and at least one horizontally oriented vane. The nozzle contraction vanes are located within the nozzle upstream of a nozzle air outlet. Each nozzle contraction vane rotationally moves independent of the other nozzle contraction vane to generate airflow pressure loss, turbulence and/or flow vectoring. The nozzle exit vanes are downstream of the air outlet and rotationally move to generate higher angles of dynamic yaw or a quick yaw input. The nozzle exit vanes are positioned laterally inward from first and second sidewalls of the nozzle. The horizontally oriented vane is positioned downstream of nozzle contraction vanes and upstream of the nozzle exit vanes and rotationally moves to generate up-wash or downwash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: James T. McKillen, Matthew L. Metka, Craig Kline, Ann Boh Stockburger, Shujiro Yano, Atsushi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 10794885
    Abstract: An olfactometer or “electronic nose” is able to vary a plurality of operating parameters during a test cycle in parallel, in accordance with a measurement protocol. This measurement protocol, and correspondingly the operating parameters to be varied, the values to be set for those parameters, and the timing of the variation in these values is tailored to most effectively distinguish between likely candidates in a particular testing scenario. A characterisation library is then used to match the results of the measurement protocol to the best target in the characterisation library. Test protocols and/or characterisation libraries may be downloaded from a remote server on demand, and certain activities may be carried out either locally or remotely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ALPHA M.O.S.
    Inventors: Chang-Hyun Shim, Jean-Christophe Mifsud, François Loubet
  • Patent number: 10788385
    Abstract: Provided is a physical quantity measurement device in which a bonding temperature of a bonding layer is lowered to a temperature not affecting an operation of a semiconductor chip and an insulating property of the semiconductor chip and a base is secured. The physical quantity measurement device includes a base (diaphragm), a semiconductor chip (strain detection element) to measure a physical quantity on the basis of stress acting on the base, and a bonding layer to bond the semiconductor chip to the base. The bonding layer has a first bonding layer bonded to the semiconductor chip, a second bonding layer bonded to the base, and an insulating base material disposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The first and second bonding layers and contain glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takuya Aoyagi, Takashi Naitou, Tatsuya Miyake, Mizuki Shibata, Hiroshi Onuki, Daisuke Terada, Shigenobu Komatsu
  • Patent number: 10782314
    Abstract: A probe assembly is provided, which is applied to an electrical testing device. The probe assembly includes a probe body, which includes a testing end configured to contact with a to-be-tested device and a connection end opposite to the testing end; an elastic connection structure configured to be deformed when the probe body is subjected to a pressure; and a fixing base. The connection end is fixedly connected to the fixing base via the elastic connection structure. A testing device is further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pijian Cheng, Jing Xue, Hongyan Xing, Yanyan Yin, Yue Gu, Yubing Song