Patents Examined by Patrick Assouad
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Patent number: 12038417Abstract: A liquid sending system includes a plurality of liquid sending pumps that operate independently from one another and send a mobile phase into a common flow path, a pressure sensor for detecting a liquid sending pressure in the flow path, and a liquid sending failure detector configured to detect a liquid sending failure caused by any of the plurality of liquid sending pumps by periodically acquiring a liquid sending pressure detected by the pressure sensor and detecting a fluctuation of the liquid sending pressure associated with a driving period of each of the plurality of liquid sending pumps.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiro Gomi
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Patent number: 12013312Abstract: A sensor tube according to the present invention comprises: a tubular body for connecting two connection pipes to each other, wherein the two connection pipes are connected to a humidity sensor, so that the connection pipes transfer steam to the humidity sensor by using circulating air or air discharged from the humidity sensor flow in the connection pipes; and a cover surrounding at least a part of the outer surface of the body to prevent foreign substances having a predetermined size or larger from passing, wherein the body is formed as a porous sintered body which allows stream to be introduced from the outside of the body into the body and be transferred by the circulating air.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: KOREA ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventors: Yeon Sik Kim, Tae Soon Kwon, Dong Jin Euh, Hae Seob Choi, Woo Shik Kim
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Patent number: 11994565Abstract: A potential difference early-warning circuit, comprising: a sensing resistor (R2), (PCB GND); a first MOS (M1), a drain of the first MOS being connected to the sensing resistor (R2), and a source of the first MOS (M1) being connected to a safety ground (GND); an operational amplifier (U1A), a positive input end of the operational amplifier being connected to one end of the sensing resistor (R2), and a negative input end of the operational amplifier (U1A) being connected to the other end of the sensing resistor (R2); a second MOS (M2), a gate of the second MOS (M2) being connected to an output end of the operational amplifier (U1A), and a source of the second MOS (M2) being connected to the signal ground; and a controller, a first input end of the controller being connected to the drain of the second MOS (M2), and an output end of the controller being connected to the gate of the second MOS (M2).Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: INSPUR SUZHOU INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Jie Cui, Lemei Bao
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Patent number: 11990867Abstract: An apparatus for predicting useful life of a photovoltaic module includes an input and an output. The input receives first information indicating an amount of hygrothermal stress that a photovoltaic module undergoes from a start until an end of a period during which the photovoltaic module outputs predetermined electric power. The input further receives second information indicating an amount of hygrothermal stress that the photovoltaic module undergoes per a predetermined time in a field where the photovoltaic module is deployed. The second information is generated based on information about daily maximum temperatures of the photovoltaic module in the field where the photovoltaic module is deployed. The output outputs result information about a predicted period during which the photovoltaic module is expected to output the predetermined electric power when the photovoltaic module is deployed in the field.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventors: Koichiro Niira, Shinsuke Uchida, Takuya Kurose, Shinji Yada, Kyosuke Fujiwara, Hidetaka Takato, Katsuhiko Shirasawa, Yuji Ino
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Patent number: 11965818Abstract: A system for monitoring an underground propane tank, comprising a controller; a moisture sensor coupled in communication with the controller, wherein the controller is configured to measure a moisture associated with the tank; a voltage probe coupled in communication with the controller, wherein voltage probe is adapted to be disposed at least partially underground, and wherein the controller is configured to measure a potential difference between the tank and soil surrounding the tank, when the moisture associated with the tank is measured to be above a predetermined threshold; and an anode sensor coupled to an anode of the tank and coupled in communication with the controller, wherein the controller is configured to monitor the anode using the anode sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Mopeka Products LLCInventors: Joel Reese Moore, Jonathan Louis Kaufmann, Jason Duane Peck
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Patent number: 11959958Abstract: A method includes providing a detector disposed above a semiconductor structure; identifying a portion of the semiconductor structure at a temperature substantially greater than a predetermined threshold by the detector; rotating the stage; and deriving a position of the portion of the semiconductor structure based upon the rotation of the stage.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Yi Min Liu, Chien-Yi Chen, Yian-Liang Kuo
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Patent number: 11953560Abstract: A wiring harness testing assembly for testing a wiring harness for wiring faults includes a puck that is positionable on a female coupler of a wiring harness on a semi-truck and the puck is foraminous. A plurality of testing lights is provided and each of the testing lights has a contact that is insertable through a respective foramen in the puck to electrically engage the female coupler of the wiring harness when the puck is positioned on the female coupler. Furthermore, respective ones of the testing lights are turned on when the contact on the respective testing light completes a circuit with a respective wire on the wiring harness thereby facilitating the respective wire to be tested for continuity.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Inventor: Bobby Tagle
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Patent number: 11953561Abstract: Example embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic relaxometry measurement apparatus, comprising: a magnetizing system configured to supply a pulsed magnetic fields to a sample; a sensor system configured to detect magnetic fields produced by induced magnetization of the sample after a magnetic field pulse from the magnetizing system; one or more compensating coils configured to suppress generation of eddy currents in an environment surrounding the apparatus due to the pulsed magnetic fields.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Imagion Biosystems, Inc.Inventors: Todor Karaulanov, Giulio D Paciotti
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Patent number: 11955607Abstract: The invention relates to an energy storage comprising a plurality of series connectable energy modules connected to a string via a plurality of switches. Wherein a string controller controls which of the energy modules that are part of a current path through the string by control of the status of the switches. An energy storage monitoring system is monitoring an energy storage element operating parameter of an energy module, the energy storage monitoring system comprises: a current sensor and a plurality of energy module print. The plurality of energy module prints establishes an energy module operating parameter of the associated energy module. The current sensor establishes the current in the current path. The string controller is configured for by-passing an energy module based on information of status of the switches, the measured current in the current path and the battery operating parameter measured at the energy modules.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: KK WIND SOLUTIONS A/SInventors: Anders Eggert Maarbjerg, Lóránd Bede
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Patent number: 11946977Abstract: An electronic device and a method performed in an electronic device for managing the power limit of a battery of a vehicle. The method including obtaining a first State of Health value of the battery at a first time, obtaining a second State of Health value of the battery at a second time, determining a rate of change of State of Health value of the battery, determining a power value by calculating a function that is dependent on the rate of change of State of Health of the battery and adjusting the power limit of the battery to the determined power value for managing the life time of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bengt Axelsson, Sri Vishnu Gorantla Narayana Murthy, Sandeep David, Nareerat Plylahan
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Patent number: 11946894Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods that can improve the SNR of nanopore measurements by mitigating the effect of parasitic capacitance between the sense electrode and the counter electrode. In some embodiments, a feedback circuit is used to inject a charge into the sense electrode to at least partially cancel the parasitic capacitance between the sense electrode and the counter electrode. In some embodiments, bootstrapping of a signal from the amplifier output or from the sense electrode is used to inject a charge on the counter electrode to substantially cancel the parasitic capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Bedau
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Patent number: 11946976Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an insulation resistance according to the present invention includes: a first distribution resistor connected to a positive terminal of a battery and a ground; a first switch connected to the positive terminal of the battery and the first distribution resistor; a second distribution resistor connected to a negative terminal of the battery and the ground; a second switch connected to the negative terminal of the battery and the second distribution resistor; and an insulation resistance measurement unit measuring a resistance value of a negative electrode insulation resistor of the battery using a first voltage applied to the first distribution resistor and measuring a resistance value of a positive electrode insulation resistor of the battery using a second voltage applied to the second distribution resistor.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SK ON CO., LTD.Inventors: Ho Sang Jang, Seon Yong Kim, Byoung Kyu Park, Yong Sug Choi
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Patent number: 11940478Abstract: Electronic device characterization platforms, systems, devices, and methods for use in testing instruments, devices, and sensors that is portable, modular, multiplexed, and automated are disclosed. The system includes a substrate, a chip adapter, such as a chip socket, and an optional housing. Chip samples to be tested can be disposed in the chip adapter and various environmental modules designed to supply different environmental conditions to the chip sample can be disposed over the chip adapter, enabling testing of the chip samples to be performed in the different environment conditions. The system can further include various connectors that allow for add-on modules to be included as part of the system. Methods of characterizing electronic devices and sensors are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Duke UniversityInventors: Aaron D. Franklin, Steven G. Noyce, James L Doherty
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Patent number: 11940580Abstract: A system for near-surface geophysical subsurface imaging for detecting and characterizing subsurface heterogeneities comprises an instrument that outputs probing electromagnetic signals through a ground surface that interact and are affected by scattered signals of acoustic waves that travel through the ground surface and further senses vibrational modes of a subsurface below the ground surface; an imaging device that dynamically generates a time sequence of images of properties of the acoustic waves and maps elastic wave fields of the acoustic waves; and a processor that analyzes dynamic multi-wave data of the images to quantify spatial variations in the mechanical and viscoelastic properties of the subsurface.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Trustees of Boston UniversityInventors: Stephen Brown, Thomas Szabo, Daniel R. Burns, Michael Fehler
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Patent number: 11936324Abstract: A method for positioning a magnetic device providing an impulse ring forming a coder and at least three magnetic detection cells forming a magnetic sensor. The impulse ring being provided with a target having pairs of magnetic poles. The number of pair of magnetic poles being counted. The magnetic detection cells are positioned around the target of the impulse ring according to the number of pair of magnetic poles and according to the number of detection cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Aktiebolaget SKFInventor: Benedicte Thomas
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Patent number: 11933853Abstract: A battery management system and method are provided, where the battery management system includes a monitoring IC including at least one channel for simultaneously measuring voltages of a battery cell, a busbar connected to the battery cell, and an auxiliary channel configured to measure a reverse voltage of the busbar, wherein the monitoring IC is configured to determine a voltage of the battery cell using a channel voltage measured through the at least one channel and the reverse voltage.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.Inventor: Seulkirom Kim
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Patent number: 11936207Abstract: A method of foreign object detection by a wireless power delivery system is disclosed. A decaying coil voltage signal of a transmitting coil of the wireless power delivery system is detected. A first comparator is used to trigger a cycle count of the decaying coil voltage signal. When the first comparator triggers the cycle count, a second comparator is used to count a number of cycles of the decaying coil voltage signal. A quality factor (Q-factor) of the transmitting coil is determined based on the number of cycles of the decaying coil voltage signal, a reference signal of the first comparator, and a reference signal of the second comparator. Whether a foreign object is present is determined based on the Q-factor and a foreign object detection (FOD) threshold level.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Prasanna Venkateswaran Vijayakumar, Vishwas Kedilaya, Jeevith Kumar Nagamangala Muninarayanappa, Tudu Rushika Banam Balia
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Patent number: 11921138Abstract: An insulation resistance detection device detects a voltage at a connection point between a coupling capacitor and a resistance in the case where a frequency signal is outputted to the resistance, and detects an insulation resistance between a ground portion and a power supply path based on a moving average value of a detection voltage. The insulation resistance detection device includes a first determination unit, a resistance detection unit, and a second determination unit. In response to a determination that the pulsation of the detection voltage is attenuated, the resistance detection unit detects the insulation resistance based on, instead of a first moving average value, a second moving average value calculated by using the detection voltage in a second range including a smaller number of detection voltages than in the first range.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Masakazu Kouda, Ryota Kubokawa, Yusuke Shindo, Toru Wakimoto
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Patent number: 11912158Abstract: A battery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a memory to store a charging sequence table that records a correspondence relationship between first to mth temperature ranges, first to mth SOC lists and first to mth current lists, a sensing unit to detect a voltage, a current and a temperature of a battery, and a control unit. Each of the SOC lists defines first to nth SOC ranges. The control unit determines a current SOC of the battery based on the detected voltage and the detected current. The control unit determines a temperature range of interest, a SOC list of interest and a current list of interest based on the detected temperature. The control unit determines a remaining charging time required to charge the battery to a target SOC based on the detected current, the current SOC, the SOC list of interest and the current list of interest.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.Inventor: Bo-Kyung Seo
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Patent number: 11906548Abstract: A test carrier carried in a state of accommodating a device under test (DUT) includes: a carrier body that holds the DUT; a lid member that covers the DUT and is attached to the carrier body; and an identifier for identifying an individual of the test carrier.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: ADVANTEST CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Kiyokawa, Kazuya Ohtani