Patents Examined by Pete T Lee
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Patent number: 11258239Abstract: The present invention relates to a cable tray section which allows being successively coupled to another tray section (1) having similar features, without needing accessories or angle requirements on the horizontal plane, comprising longitudinal metal wires (10); U-shaped transverse metal wires (20); at least one anchoring element (30) installed between the longitudinal wires (10), attached to the last and next to last transverse wires (20), and comprising a single metal wire (31) close to the next to last transverse wire (20); and a pair of straight sections (32, 32?) parallel to one another; where the straight sections (32, 32?) project with respect to the last transverse wire (20), forming a rectangular section (33) perpendicular to the straight sections (32, 32?), such that there is established a free space (40) between the last transverse wire (20) and said rectangular section (33); said space (40) having a dimension corresponding to the thickness of a transverse wire (20).Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: VALDINOX, S.L.Inventor: Justo Manuel Valdés Colina
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Patent number: 11252851Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device comprises: a connector comprising a conductive shell and at least one terminal arranged inside the conductive shell; a capacitor; and a circuit board comprising a first board layer at least partially facing the connector, a second board layer formed beneath the first board layer, and at least one third board layer formed between the first board layer and the second board layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Heiseong Kwak, Woohee Park, Min Cho, Byoungil Son, Youngjin Kang, Myeonggeun Kim, Ungryeol Lee
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Patent number: 11244582Abstract: A flexible display device and a method for changing shape of the flexible display device are provided. The flexible display device includes a flexible display panel and a shape memory structure on the flexible display panel and including a shape memory component. The shape memory component includes a first memory layer, a first thermal insulation layer and a second memory layer stacked sequentially in a direction away from the flexible display panel, the first and second memory layers each have shape memory function, the first memory layer has a first memory shape and the second memory layer has a second memory shape different from the first memory shape. The shape memory structure is configured to switch shape of the shape memory component between the first and second memory shapes by controlling temperatures of the first and second memory layers, thereby driving the flexible display panel to change shape.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yangpeng Wang, Song Wang
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Patent number: 11240908Abstract: Disclosed herein is a thin film capacitor that includes a capacitive insulating film, a first metal film formed on one surface of the capacitive insulating film, and a second metal film formed on other surface of the capacitive insulating film and made of a metal material different from that of the first metal film. The thin film capacitor has an opening penetrating the capacitive insulating film, first metal film, and second metal film. The second metal film is thicker than the first metal film. A first size of a part of the opening that penetrates the first metal film is larger than a second size of a part of the opening that penetrates the second metal film.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Yoshikawa, Yuuki Aburakawa, Tatsuo Namikawa, Kenichi Yoshida, Hitoshi Saita
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Patent number: 11233383Abstract: Bushings and methods for supporting electrical wiring extending through a hole in a support structure, and aircraft including such bushings are provided. In one example, the bushing includes a grommet. The grommet includes a grommet body portion surrounding an opening that extends through the hole. A grommet collar portion extends from the grommet body portion about the opening. The grommet collar covers an interior edge surrounding the hole of the support structure. An attachment flange extends from the grommet away from the opening. The attachment flange is attached to the support structure adjacent to the hole. A shelf extends from the grommet adjacent to the opening to help support the electrical wiring extending through the opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Robertson, Mai Trinh Le, Fadi Khoury, Nizar Mouna
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Patent number: 11216403Abstract: A computing system comprising a portable computer and a reader are disclosed. The portable computer is pocket-sized and comprises flash memory, and optionally a processor and a GPS chip. The reader includes a monitor, a keyboard with docking port and an optional processor and at least one input/output USB connector. A user cannot interact with the portable computer without the reader. The reader is a non-functioning “shell” without the portable computer, however, when they are connected the system becomes a fully functional personal computer. To log on, a user provides security information, for example, a password or biometrics, such as fingerprints. The credit card size and capabilities of the portable computer allows a user to easily carry virtually their entire computer in a pocket for use anywhere there is a reader. In addition, the portable computer provides security against unauthorized use, even if lost or stolen.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Arnouse Digital Devices CorporationInventor: Michael Arnouse
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Patent number: 11212911Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for a non-contactive sensor having an ESD protection structure, and an apparatus for a non-contactive sensor having an ESD protection structure according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a sensing member that acquires sense information emitted from a detection target object; a circuit board that is separately positioned below the sensing member and includes a sensor IC and one or more grounds; and an ESD protection element that is positioned on the circuit board and encloses a part of the sensor IC protruding on the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: MANDO CORPORATIONInventors: Nam Gyun Kim, Jong Hak Jin, Doo Jin Lee
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Patent number: 11210970Abstract: A foldable display device is provided. The foldable display device includes: a supporting plate and a flexible display screen arranged on the supporting plate. The supporting plate includes at least two supporting sub-plates and at least one restraining structure, in which the restraining structure is configured to connect target side surfaces of adjacent supporting sub-plates, and the target side surfaces are lateral surfaces at edges of the flexible display screen. The restraining structure includes at least two sub restraining structures and a first flexible strap configured to connect adjacent inward-bend restraining structures. When the flexible display screen is bent away from the supporting plate, the at least two sub restraining structures are capable of restraining relative positions of the adjacent supporting sub-plates. The damages to the flexible display screen may be reduced by restraining the positions through the at least two sub restraining structures.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Desheng Xiang, Jiaqiang Wang, Yanming Wang, Shuainan Liu, Yadong Zhang, Jianye Tang
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Patent number: 11211778Abstract: A telecommunication system powers and distributes a signal within a telecommunication network. The system includes a cable distribution assembly includes a housing defining an interior. The housing includes a body and a cover configured to provide access to the interior. The cover includes at least two connectors. The cable distribution assembly includes a splitter coupled to the cover. At least two distribution cables each extend between a first end and a second end. Each of the first ends are coupled to the splitter. Each of the second ends of the distribution cables individually correspond to, and are connected to, the connectors. The splitter, the at least two distribution cables, and the at least two connectors are continuously coupled to the cover when mounted to and removed from the body. A trunk cable assembly includes a power cable connected to the splitter and communication cables connected to the connectors.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: North American Interconnect L.L.C.Inventors: Ivan Alejandro Casillas Enriquez, Kain Haamed Hali Abdala Mendez, Felix Eugenio Norzagaray Mora
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Patent number: 11205529Abstract: An insulator for a bracket arm of a stanchion that supports an electrical or other cable has a combination of tab pairs with lips that grip a flange portion of the arm, to hold the insulator against vertical upward force, a base preferably comprised of special ribbing to carry vertical load, and downwardly extending leg pairs that slidably engage vertical surfaces of the arm, to resist lateral and twisting loads.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Inventor: Cameron Rogerson
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Patent number: 11206739Abstract: A method of potting e.g. a stack of printed circuit boards, the method comprising applying a first potting material to selected regions of the circuit to be potted and then applying a second, different, potting material over the circuit to be potted.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: GOODRICH ACTUATION SYSTEMS LIMITEDInventors: David Abraham, Stuart Waller
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Patent number: 11199882Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel and a flexible printed wiring substrate. The display panel is provided with a binding structure. The binding structure includes a plurality of first connection terminals arranged along a width direction of the display panel; and a flexible printed wiring substrate is electrically connected to the bonding structure of the display panel. Each of the first connection terminals is obliquely disposed along a lateral edge of the width direction of the display panel, and adjacent lateral edges of two of the adjacent first connection terminals along the width direction of the display panel are parallel to each other.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Min Chen, Chaoyu Yuan
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Patent number: 11202379Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a flexible printed circuit board having a main body on which wiring pattern is formed, a connector having a connection terminal connected to the wiring constituting the wiring pattern, and a base body on which the connection terminal is fixed, and a casing. The main body is attached to the casing to be movable, the flexible printed circuit board has an extension part protruding from the main body and extending along with a ground included in the wiring pattern, the extension part bends in the middle of extending to be capable of expansion and contraction, and has a mounting part fixed to the casing on the tip side thereof, the mounting part is provided with a ground terminal connected to the ground extended, and the ground terminal is electrically connected to the casing in the state that the mounting part is fixed to the casing.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keita Endo, Junichi Hasegawa, Noriyuki Maki, Takamitsu Suzuki, Naoki Hoshika, Kazuki Zusho, Riho Fukagawa
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Patent number: 11202370Abstract: The present application discloses an integrated circuit chip. The integrated circuit chip includes an integrated circuit; a bonding pad on the integrated circuit and electrically connected to the integrated circuit; a first insulating layer on a side of the bonding pad distal to the integrated circuit; and a solder bump on a side of the first insulating layer distal to the bonding pad, and electrically connected to the bonding pad. An orthographic projection of the first insulating layer on a plane containing a surface of the integrated circuit substantially covers an orthographic projection of the solder bump on the plane containing the surface of the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.Inventor: Liqiang Chen
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Patent number: 11197365Abstract: A printed circuit board includes: multiple electrically insulating laminate sheets laminated together in a stack; a first electrically conductive layer formed from a superconductor material arranged on a first exterior surface of the stack, the first electrically conductive layer including a signal line and a ground plane; a second electrically conductive layer formed from a superconductor material arranged on a second exterior surface of the stack, the second exterior surface opposing the first exterior surface; a third conductive trace between a first electrically insulating laminate sheet of the stack and a directly adjacent second electrically insulating laminate sheet of the stack; a first via extending through from the signal line through the stack to the third conductive trace, in which the signal line is electrically connected to the third conductive trace through the via.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Erik Anthony Lucero
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Patent number: 11186240Abstract: A first grommet includes a first tube-shaped portion for covering the outer periphery of the wire harness, and an expanded tube portion that expands in diameter and extends from the first tube-shaped portion, and at an end portion on the expanded side, has a seal portion into which the peripheral edge of the attachment hole Pa is to be fit. The covering portion protrudes from the outer peripheral surface of the first tube-shaped portion in a state of being inclined toward the expanded tube portion in the axial direction of the first tube-shaped portion. Also, a first protruding portion that protrudes outward in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface of the first tube-shaped portion and is connected to the side surface on the expanded tube portion side in the axial direction of the covering portion is formed between the covering portion and the expanded tube portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Yusuke Ando
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Patent number: 11189398Abstract: A superconducting electrical power distribution system has a superconducting bus bar and one or more bus bar thermal conductor lines extending in thermal proximity along the bus bar to receive heat from the bus bar over the length of the bus bar. The system further has superconducting cables electrically connected to the bus bar at respective electrical joints distributed along the bus bar. The system further has a cryogenic cooling sub-system. The system further has a network comprising first and second thermal conductor lines, each line comprising a cold end which is cooled by the cryogenic cooling sub-system, and an opposite hot end, whereby heat received by each line is normally conducted along the line in a direction from its hot end to its cold end.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLCInventor: Chloe J. Palmer
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Patent number: 11191156Abstract: The present disclosure disclosed a link loopback device comprising a substrate and a flexible circuit board. The substrate comprises an interface connecting end, a transmitting end, and a receiving end. The interface connecting end is electrically connected to the transmitting end and the receiving end. The flexible circuit board comprises a first electrical connecting end and a second electrical connecting end. The first electrical connecting end of the flexible circuit board is electrically connected to the transmitting end of the substrate, and the second electrical connecting end of the flexible circuit board is electrically connected to the receiving end of the substrate, forming a link between the flexible circuit board and the substrate. Just like testing with a direct attach cable (DAC), the link loopback device of the present disclosure can simulate a complete actual link to improve the accuracy of the test effectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDInventors: QiongNan Chen, ShuangFeng Yuan, XuePing Shen
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Patent number: 11191180Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a circuit board, a shunt busbar; a connector including a first conductive resilient member and a second conductive resilient member, and a controller. The first conductive resilient member and the second conductive resilient member may be disposed substantially between the circuit board and the shunt busbar. The first conductive resilient member and the second conductive resilient member may electrically connect the controller with the shunt busbar.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Antonio Palomo Lorenzo, Antoni Ferré Fàbregas, Carlos Fernández Pueyo, Jose Gabriel Fernández Bañares
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Patent number: 11189400Abstract: Shatter protection for a high voltage apparatus with a ceramic insulator includes at least one electrically insulating tube including a plurality of holes going through an envelope surface. The electrically insulating tube has a diameter such that there is a minimum distance between the tube and the ceramic insulator when arranged concentrically. A method for producing a shatter protection includes winding a first helix shape of the electrically insulating fiber composite material at a first pitch such that there is a first gap between the winding turns, and winding a second helix shape of the electrically insulating fiber composite material onto the first helix shape in the opposite direction and at a second pitch, such that there is a second gap between the winding turns. Thereby forming a first electrically insulating tube with holes formed by the first and second gap between the winding turns.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Hitachi Energy Switzerland AGInventors: Stefan Hortlund, Magnus U. Henriksson, Anders Holmberg, Andre Johansson