Patents Examined by Pete T Lee
  • Patent number: 11373784
    Abstract: A conductor assembly for transmitting power includes a former that defines a shape, a superconductor material disposed around the former, and a thermally insulating jacket (TIJ) disposed around and spaced apart from the superconductor material. An outer surface of the superconductor material and an inner surface of the TIJ can define an annulus through which a coolant can flow. The conductor assembly can also include an external layer, disposed around an outside surface of the TIJ, to provide structural support to the conductor assembly. The conductor assembly can also include an electrical insulation layer disposed around the outside surface of the TIJ or around the superconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Veir, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Paul Ashworth, Franco Moriconi, Timothy David Heidel
  • Patent number: 11365576
    Abstract: An adjustment drive of a motor vehicle, in particular for an electromotively operated tailgate, having an adjustable part. A drive unit has a first drive train and a second drive train. Each drive train has a variable-length actuation part attached to the adjustable part. The actuation part is driven by an electric motor of the respective drive train. The first drive train has at least one sensor for detection of a position of a rotating part, and the second drive train has no more than one sensor for detection of a position of a rotating part. We also describe a drive unit of an adjustment drive of a motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bamberg
    Inventors: Bernd Herthan, Bertram Bopp, Reinhold Hopf
  • Patent number: 11361682
    Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible display device, including a casing, a stretching member, a roller assembly, a stretch resistant layer, a disposing member, and a flexible display screen. The stretching member and the roller assembly are disposed in an accommodating chamber in the casing and do not contact with each other. A first end of the stretch resistant layer is connected to the stretching member, and a second end thereof is wrapped around the roller assembly, extends out of the casing, and is connected to a counterweight assembly. The flexible display screen is disposed on the stretch resistant layer. The present invention mitigates a phenomenon of rupture of the flexible display screen when curling and forced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen Han, Zhuo Zhang, Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 11361681
    Abstract: The invention provides a display device including a flexible display screen and a support base. The support base has a support surface, and the flexible display screen is positioned on the support surface. The support base includes a first support and a second support, and the first support and the second support slidable relative to each other along a first direction. A first end of the flexible display screen is coupled to the first support, a second end of the flexible display screen is coupled to the second support, and the first support and the second support are provided with a winding mechanism for winding the flexible display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zikang Feng
  • Patent number: 11357100
    Abstract: A data transmission circuit board, a mobile industry processor interface and a device are provided. The data transmission circuit board includes: a wiring substrate; a plurality of data transmission line pairs on one side of the wiring substrate; and a plurality of transient voltage suppression diodes on the one side of the wiring substrate. Data transmission lines of the data transmission line pairs are coupled to the transient voltage suppression diodes in a one-to-one correspondence, the line width of at least one data transmission line is within a line width threshold range; and the transient voltage suppression diode is configured to discharge when a voltage to ground on the corresponding data transmission line is greater than a discharge voltage threshold, wherein the discharge voltage threshold is not less than a maximum voltage value of the differential signal transmitted on the data transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Na An, Quan Long, Guochun Wang, Zuoxin Yu, Dianzhong Liu, Xinfeng Gong, Gang Ci, Baolei Guo, Bin Xu, Shaopeng Xu, Xuzhong Liu, Zongwei Luo, Jinzhao Zhou, Xiao Ma, Zhenhua Luo, Qingzhu Guan, Zheng Zhang, Wei Su
  • Patent number: 11357096
    Abstract: Embodiments include a microelectronic device package structure having an inductor within a portion of a substrate, wherein a surface of the inductor is substantially coplanar with a surface of the substrate. One or more thermal interconnect structures are on the surface of the inductor. A conductive feature is embedded within a board, where a surface of the conductive feature is substantially coplanar with a surface of the board. One or more thermal interconnect structures are on the surface of the conductive feature of the board, where the thermal interconnect structures provide a thermal pathway for cooling for the inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Hill, Huong T. Do, Anne Augustine
  • Patent number: 11350537
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to an electrical feedthrough assembly an elongate conductor and a collar at least partially surrounding the elongate conductor along a portion of a length of the elongate conductor. The collar can be composed of a material having a thermal conductivity of at least 170 W/(m-K). A shell can be disposed around the collar. At one or more operating frequencies, at least a portion of a length of the electrical feedthrough assembly can be selected to provide at least one quarter wave transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam T. Winter, Edward James Burg
  • Patent number: 11349233
    Abstract: A connection structure includes: a circuit body including a flexible printed circuit having a wiring pattern; and a conductive body connected to a mounting surface of the circuit body using a solder. The conductive body has a pair of connection portions opposed to each other and extending along the mounting surface. The solder forms solder fillets located around the pair of connection portions and extending along the mounting surface. A first fillet width of one solder fillet among the solder fillets located in an inside region between the pair of connection portions is larger than a second fillet width of another solder among the solder fillets located in an outside region of one of the pair of connection portions, which is on a side opposite to the inside region across the one of the pair of connection portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Ichikawa, Tatsuya Oga, Mariko Nakagawa, Tomoji Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11340667
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate including an input terminal arranged a plurality of terminals, a wiring substrate having a flexibility connected to the input terminal part. The wiring substrate includes a base film, a cover film covering the base film, a plurality of wirings between the base film and the cover film, a connection part, and a first region bent in a first the one side and a second region adjacent to the first region. The second region of the connection part includes a first connection terminal group connected to the plurality of wirings, a second connection terminal group, and a dummy terminal group between the first connection terminal group. The first region is provided with an opening through the base film and the cover film, the second region overlaps the input terminal part, and the dummy terminal group and the opening are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Keisuke Asada, Hideaki Abe, Kota Uogishi, Kazuyuki Yamada
  • Patent number: 11341286
    Abstract: A tamper sensor assembly that includes a substrate with a protective bulk section including tamper circuitry and a hardware section configured to receive hardware circuitry and extending from the protective bulk section; the hardware circuitry electrically connected to the tamper circuitry to alter operation of the hardware circuitry responsive to modification of the tamper circuitry. The substrate additionally includes an attachment section extending from the hardware section. The tamper sensor assembly also includes a first fold in the substrate to position a first portion of the hardware section to extend along the protective bulk section, and a second fold in the substrate to position a second portion of the hardware section to extend along the first portion of the hardware section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Kenneth Jermstad, Michael Ritchie, Marcus Updyke, Anthony Ball
  • Patent number: 11343908
    Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section (11) having flexibility; and a bending control section (12a, 12b) configured to limit a movable shaft in bending the display section (11) to one direction in a display surface and allowed to maintain the display section (11) in an arbitrary bending state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Gen Yukawa
  • Patent number: 11329404
    Abstract: A post insulator, a post insulator keeper, and a method of securing a conductor on a post insulator are provided. A post insulator includes: an electrically insulative case including an abutment surface defining a recess; and a keeper rotatably coupled to the case between an open position in which a conductor is receivable into the recess, and a closed position to maintain the conductor in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: LINDSEY MANUFACTURING CO.
    Inventors: Keith E. Lindsey, Paul Lara, Philip E. Spillane
  • Patent number: 11330729
    Abstract: A quick disconnect system for an accessory electrically coupled to a component of an amusement attraction includes a multi-part electrical enclosure including a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a first opening on the first side, and a relief pass through. The multi-part electrical enclosure is configured to: have a first electrical cable coupled to the accessory pass into the multi-part electrical enclosure via the first opening and have a second electrical cable pass into the second side of the multi-part electrical enclosure to enable the first and second cables to be coupled together within the multi-part electrical enclosure. The relief pass through is configured to provide strain relief to both the first electrical cable and the second electrical cable and to prevent disconnection of the accessory from the multi-part electrical enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL CITY STUDIOS LLC
    Inventors: Martin Evan Graham, Patrick John Goergen, Tomas Manuel Trujillo
  • Patent number: 11328838
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a color-coded cable identification assembly and a cable. The cable identification assembly comprises: a support element including a fixing element adapted to fix the support element to a cable; and a plurality of identification elements, which are detachably mounted on the support element with the cable being located between the support element and the plurality of identification elements. Each identification element has a predetermined color so that the plurality of identification elements are capable of forming a predetermined color code to identify the cable. The cable identification assembly according to the present disclosure can be very easily and rapidly mounted to the cable, thereby greatly saving the installation time of workers and thus reducing the labor cost and the chance of making a mistake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jin Liu, Jianping Wu, Gangping Lei, Jien Zheng, Hongjuan An, Yujun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11322273
    Abstract: A flexible flat cable capable of increasing space utilization in electronic devices by including a folding portion and by forming an independent conducting wire portion. The flexible flat cable includes a base film provided to extend in a first direction and configured to be foldable, a first conducting wire provided to extend in the first direction on the base film and including a first terminal provided at one end thereof and a first folding area terminal provided at the other end thereof, and a second conducting wire disposed next to the first conducting wire in the first direction, and including a second terminal provided at one end thereof and a second folding area terminal provided at the other end thereof, the second folding area terminal arranged spaced apart from the first folding area terminal of the first conducting wire in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumyeong Lee, Joonmok Han, Donghyun Seo
  • Patent number: 11322429
    Abstract: A circuit module includes a circuit board including an insulating layer, first and second signal conductors, a ground conductor, and a ground conductor layer; and an electronic component including first and second signal terminals and a first ground terminal. The ground conductor includes a first strip portion parallel to the first and second signal conductors. When a portion of the first signal conductor parallel to the second signal conductor and the first signal terminal are set as a first signal wiring line and a portion of the second signal conductor parallel to the first signal conductor and the second signal terminal are set as a second signal wiring line, the circuit board includes a first strip portion connection via conductor that connects the first strip portion and the ground conductor layer in a region where the first and second signal wiring lines are parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiro Maeda
  • Patent number: 11322924
    Abstract: Provided is a thunderbolt arrest-type lightning protection device that has a protected area formed to match a structure and a shape of a protected body being protected from thunderbolts, and is capable of effectively protecting the entire protected body from thunderbolts. The device is configured by: a charged body 2 formed of a conductive material provided to cover a protected body B installed on a ground G; an electrical insulation layer 3 that holds the charged body 2 in an electrically-insulated state with respect to the ground G and the protected body B; a capacitor 4 installed on the ground G, and stores an electrical charge by an electrostatic capacity with the ground; and a conductor 5 that electrically connects the charged body 2 and a second electrode body 4b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: LIGHTNING SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshio Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11322272
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a coiled cord capable of increasing the length of a cable while preventing a winding diameter of the coiled cord in a plane orthogonal to the direction in which the coiled cord is extended and contracted in a natural state from increasing. A first exemplary aspect is a coiled cord around which a cable is wound, the cable being capable of being freely extended and contracted, the coiled cord including: a first layer in which the cable is wound from an inner side of the coiled cord to an outer side thereof in a radial direction, and a second layer in which the cable is wound from the outer side of the coiled cord to the inner side thereof in the radial direction, in which the first and the second layers are continuously connected to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuta Itozawa, Hirotaka Komura
  • Patent number: 11311996
    Abstract: A unitary tool that combines a ground rod to a self-hammering mechanism in a trapped configuration. The ground rod has a length ranging between forty-two and fifty-two inches for facilitating the self-hammering functionality. The ground rod is made from copper-bonded steel for more effectively grounding an electrical connection than the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Pine Hill Farm, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Robert Gardikis, Aaron Pereira
  • Patent number: 11317502
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a cavity defined by conductive walls, a printed circuit board (PCB) within the cavity, and shorting posts extending into the cavity to suppress higher order modes generated by operation of the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Thomas V. Sikina, John P. Haven, James E. Benedict, William J. Clark, Channing P. Favreau, Erika Klek, Mikhail Pevzner, Donald G. Hersey, Gregory G. Beninati, Thomas J. Tellinghuisen