Patents Examined by Peter DungBa Vo
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Patent number: 11412647Abstract: An electronic component mounting machine including a component supply device to supply a radial lead component to a supply position by feeding a carrier tape holding multiple radial lead components; and a component transfer device to collect the radial lead component supplied to the supply position and mount the radial lead component to a predetermined mounting position. The component supply device includes a locking section engageable with the feed holes of the carrier tape, and a tape feed section for feeding the carrier tape by sliding the locking section in engagement with the feed hole. The component transfer device includes a component holding section to hold the component main body of the radial lead component held by the carrier tape, and a position control section to control the position of the component holding section when holding the component main body.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Jo Ikeyama, Motoshi Mizuno
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Patent number: 11411477Abstract: A coil insertion method includes winding U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase coils; inserting the U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase coils into a transfer block, such that the U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase coils are held in a plurality of holding grooves of the transfer block so as to spirally overlap, the transfer block having a columnar shape, and the holding grooves being formed in radial fashion around the transfer block so as to open from a center part of the transfer block toward an outer periphery thereof; inserting the transfer block into an inner periphery of the stator core; and pushing a side part of the coils held in the holding grooves radially outward toward predetermined slots of the stator core so that the coils are inserted from the inner peripheral side of the stator core into the slots.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Inventor: Yoshio Kato
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Patent number: 11411168Abstract: A method of forming a piezoelectric thin film can be provided by heating a substrate in a process chamber to a temperature between about 350 degrees Centigrade and about 850 degrees Centigrade to provide a sputtering temperature of the substrate and sputtering a Group III element from a target in the process chamber onto the substrate at the sputtering temperature to provide the piezoelectric thin film including a nitride of the Group III element on the substrate to have a crystallinity of less than about 1.0 degree at Full Width Half Maximum (FWHM) to about 10 arcseconds at FWHM measured using X-ray diffraction (XRD).Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Akoustis, Inc.Inventors: Craig Moe, Jeffrey B. Shealy, Mary Winters
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Patent number: 11406023Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for manufacturing a plurality of electronic circuits, each electronic circuit comprising a respective flexible first portion, comprising a respective group of contact pads (contacts), and a respective flexible integrated circuit, IC, comprising a respective group of terminals and mounted on the respective group of contact pads with each terminal in electrical contact with a respective contact pad, the method comprising: providing (e.g. manufacturing) a flexible first structure comprising the plurality of first portions; providing (e.g.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: PRAGMATIC PRINTING LTD.Inventors: Richard Price, Stephen Devenport, Brian Cobb
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Patent number: 11404183Abstract: Apparatus for robot motion control and wire dispensing during automated routing of wires onto harness form boards. The robot includes a manipulator arm and a wire-routing end effector mounted to a distal end of the manipulator arm. The wire-routing end effector is configured for dispensing and routing a wire along a path through form board devices mounted to a harness form board. The wire-routing end effector is moved along a planned path under the control of a robot controller. An end effector path is provided with a set of processes that enable rapid, even fully automatic, development of robot motion controls for routing wires on harness form boards. The system uses a measurement encoder on the end effector that is routing individual wires on a wire harness form board to learn the length of each wire and its length variation.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Bradley J. Mitchell, Lars E. Blacken, Damien O. Martin
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Patent number: 11404943Abstract: A method of manufacturing an armature coil includes the steps of: stacking multiple armature coils to generate a stack of armature coils in a stacking direction as a first step; securing first and second ends of the stack of armature coils with a pair of clamping dies, respectively, as a second step after completing the first step; and sandwiching and depressing the stack of armature coils with pressing die in a given direction intersecting the stacking direction as a third step after completing the second step. The pressing die includes a pair of sandwiching dies to sandwich and depress the stack of armature coils in the given direction. The pair of sandwiching dies has a narrower interval at a position closer to a first end of the stack than that at another position closer to a second end thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: DENSO CORPORATIONInventor: Tomohiko Hamada
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Patent number: 11404839Abstract: Crimping pliers for pressing cable shoes or the like onto electrical conductors, have two crimping jaws which can be pivoted towards each other, a crimping die being mounted rotatably in each crimping jaw, the crimping die being formed with multiple different crimping depressions over a circumference in relation to a rotation axis, and a crimping die held between two jaw plates in relation to the rotation axis. The crimping dies can be shifted relative to the jaw plates into a clamping position and a release position when the crimping pliers are assembled ready for use.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: GUSTAV KLAUKE GMBHInventor: Egbert Frenken
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Patent number: 11404820Abstract: A connector position assurance (CPA) member for assuring the engagement of a female housing with a male housing. The CPA member includes arms designed to stably and securely fit with apertures formed by the female housing. Also, the female housing includes a connector latch which engages with the CPA member and which used to securely hold together the female housing and the male housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATIONInventors: Vikas Azad, Ping Chen
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Patent number: 11394184Abstract: A method of forming a wire bundle, the method includes removably coupling a plurality of wire bundle mounting structures to a wire bundle form board, the plurality of wire bundles mounting structures being coupled to the wire bundle form board in a predetermined pattern corresponding to a configuration of the wire bundle. The method also includes inserting one or more wires, of the wire bundle, into the plurality of wire bundle mounting structures, coupling the one or more wires to the plurality of wire bundle mounting structures with a respective wire bundle retention strap of each of the plurality of wire bundle mounting structures so as to form the wire bundle, and removing the one or more wires and the plurality of wire bundle mounting structures from the wire bundle form board as a singular unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Jesse A. Laplante, Robert T. Johnson, Jin-Seog Seo, Jacky-Vy C. Chau
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Patent number: 11395449Abstract: The three-dimensional mounting device includes a supporting section capable of fixing a processing target, an application section for applying a viscous fluid to the processing target, a mounting section for arranging a component on the processing target, an imaging section for imaging the processing target, and a control section for controlling the processing section including the supporting section, the application section, the mounting section, and the imaging section. One or more of the supporting section, the application section, the mounting section, and the imaging section has multiple tilt axes and is capable of tilting the processing target and/or the processing section in multiple directions. The control section performs coordinate correction using the circuit pattern on the forming surface as a reference position, and arranges the component on the mounting section.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventor: Noriaki Iwaki
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Patent number: 11395448Abstract: Provided is a method for the throughput-optimised production of printed circuit boards on least two assembly lines, wherein: the printed circuit boards are divided into clusters; each cluster is produced using a set-up system that is carried out by changeover tables that can be attached to the assembly line, each changeover table having at least one feed device for keeping ready stocks of components; and a changeover table set and an empty changeover table set comprises changeover tables with feed devices that are empty.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Alexander Pfaffinger, Christian Royer
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Patent number: 11393611Abstract: A wire harness production supporting device configured to produce a wire harness by in turn laying out a plurality of electric wires on a wire laying out drawing. This wire harness production supporting device is composed of a time recording section configured to, each time one of the plurality of electric wires is laid out, store a time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out, in a storing section, and a progress status administrating section configured to obtain a progress status of the production of the wire harness based on the time at which the one of the plurality of electric wires has been laid out having been stored in the storing section.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Kenji Kawase, Katsuju Aoki, Raifu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 11390737Abstract: The disclosure provides a cross-linkable polymer composition, a core layer for an information carrying card comprising such cross-linked composition, resulting information carrying card, and methods of making the same. A crosslinkable polymer composition comprises a curable base polymer resin in a liquid or paste form, and a particulate thermoplastic filler. The base polymer resin is selected from the group consisting of urethane acrylate, silicone acrylate, epoxy acrylate, urethane, acrylate, silicone and epoxy. The particulate thermoplastic filler may be polyolefin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a copolymer of vinyl chloride and at least another monomer, or a polyester such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a compound or blend thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: X-Card Holdings, LLCInventor: Mark A. Cox
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Patent number: 11383280Abstract: Devices and methods for performing shear-assisted extrusion processes for forming extrusions of a desired composition from a feedstock material are provided. The processes can use a device having a scroll face having an inner diameter portion bounded by an outer diameter portion, and a member extending from the inner diameter portion beyond a surface of the outer diameter portion. Extrusion feedstocks and extrusion processes are provided for forming extrusions of a desired composition from a feedstock. The processes can include providing a feedstock having at least two different materials and engaging the materials with one another within a feedstock container. Methods for preparing metal sheets are provided that can include preparing a metal tube via shear assisted processing and extrusion; opening the metal tube to form a sheet having a first thickness; and rolling the sheet to a second thickness that is less than the first thickness.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Battelle Memorial InstituteInventors: Scott A. Whalen, Md. Reza-E-Rabby, Curt A. Lavender, Brandon Scott Taysom
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Patent number: 11387721Abstract: An example of a positioning apparatus has a base member configured to support a stator core, a positioning tool disposed on its upper surface, and a driving mechanism for driving it. The positioning tool has a first plate and a second plate. The first plate has an inner side ring and an annular plate body fixed to the upper surface thereof, and the second plate has an outer side ring and a plate body fixed to the upper surface thereof. Insertion holes each configured to accept insertion of one of distal end pairs are formed on the plate bodies, respectively, and positioning is performed by rotating these plate bodies in opposite directions. Positions of the distal end pairs are aligned in the radial direction without the positioning tool, and then the positioning tool is set.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: ODAWARA ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventors: Noburo Miyawaki, Ryo Honda
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Patent number: 11388849Abstract: A component mounting machine includes multiple component supplying devices, a head, a head moving device, and a nozzle lifting and lowering device. The component supplying device feeds out a component to a component supply position. The head includes multiple nozzles configured to suction a component. The head moving device moves the head to cause the nozzles to face the respective component supply positions with two or more thereof. The nozzle lifting and lowering device lifts and lowers the nozzle located to face the component supply positions. In positioning the nozzles to face the respective component supply positions, the head is moved so as to prioritize a positional correction of a nozzle facing a smallest sized component over positional corrections of the other nozzles, and in this state, the nozzles facing the respective component supply positions are lifted and lowered simultaneously to suction corresponding components.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: FUJI CORPORATIONInventors: Hidetoshi Kawai, Jun Iisaka, Hidetoshi Ito
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Patent number: 11376053Abstract: A system and method for bending a surgical rod using an automated bending system includes receiving an indication of a plurality of line segments defined on the rod and an indication of an angle measurement to be formed between at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of line segments. Bending parameters to perform on the rod to form the angle measurement between the at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of line segments are determined and operation of the automated bending system is controlled using the bending parameters to create an angle having the angle measurement between the at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of line segments.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Dignity HealthInventors: Neil R. Crawford, Nicholas Theodore
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Patent number: 11382248Abstract: A dispensing head comprises: a body structure including a first z-axis motor attachment location, a second z-axis motor attachment location, a first linear track and a second linear track; a first z-axis motor attached to the body structure at the first z-axis motor attachment location; a second z-axis motor attached to the body structure at the second z-axis motor attachment location; a first body attached to the first linear track and operably connected to the first z-axis motor such that the first body moves along the first linear track when the first z-axis motor is actuated; a second body attached to the second linear track and operably connected to the second z-axis motor such that the second body moves along the second linear track; a first theta motor operably connected to the first body; and a second theta motor operably connected to the second body.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: UNIVERSAL INSTRUMENTS CORPORATIONInventors: John Danek, Peter Joseph Dionne
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Patent number: 11381142Abstract: A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a cylindrical rotor core, a set of posts extending radially outward from the rotor core defining a set of slots between adjacent posts, a set of windings formed by conductive wire wound in the set of slots having end turns extending axially beyond the rotor core, and a retention case overlying the end turns.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: John S. Mears, Austin Michael Cobert, Todd Eric Rook
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Patent number: 11374356Abstract: A connector position assurance (CPA) member for assuring the engagement of a female housing with a male housing. The CPA member includes arms designed to stably and securely fit with apertures formed by the female housing. Also, the female housing includes a connector latch which engages with the CPA member and which used to securely hold together the female housing and the male housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATIONInventors: Vikas Azad, Ping Chen