Patents Examined by Ryan
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Patent number: 11994101Abstract: A wind turbine rotor blade has a first rotor blade segment with a first connection end and a second rotor blade segment with a second connection end assigned to the first end. The first segment has first mounting sleeves at the first end. The first mounting sleeves each have a first internal thread. The second rotor blade segment has second mounting sleeves at the second connection end. Each of the second sleeves define a longitudinal axis and has a second internal thread arranged therein. Each of the second internal threads is displaceable axially with respect to the corresponding longitudinal axes. The rotor blade further has a plurality of connecting bolts threadably engaging a pair of first and second sleeves via corresponding internal threads such that the first segment and the second segment are mechanically interconnected at the first end and the second end.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Nordex Energy SE & Co. KGInventors: Gerald Festner, Torsten Wackrow, Nils Toenissen
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Patent number: 11991953Abstract: A control system for use with a turf maintenance vehicle. In one embodiment, the control system may provide a discrete engine speed input that may provide one engine speed command upon actuation, but result in additional engine speed commands depending on an actuation time of the input. In other embodiments, the vehicle may include an electronic controller (EC) providing resettable property statistics for one or more properties. In still another embodiment, the EC may provide a maintenance monitor onboard the vehicle that indicates maintenance status, when maintenance tasks are due or past due, and permanently records historical information regarding maintenance tasks. The maintenance monitor may further adjust a maintenance interval before the maintenance task is again due based upon inputs to the maintenance monitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: EXMARK MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: Christian S. C. Bryant, Trevor M. Porter
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Patent number: 11993185Abstract: The vehicle seat includes an integral child carrier that deploys and unfolds for use as either a child seat or an infant cradle for safely transporting infants while being conveniently stowed when not in use. The child carrier includes a folding seat/cradle that in certain embodiments doubles as both an upright child seat and reclined infant cradle. The folding seat/cradle rides on its own carrier sub-frame that is mounted to the main seat back frame. The carrier sub-frame allows the seat/cradle movement between a stowed position where the folded seat/cradle lies flat within or against the seat back frame and a deployed position where the unfolded seat/cradle extends outward from the seat back frame. The carrier sub-frame includes one or more slide rails, slide blocks, a linkage member and a latch assembly. The seat/cradle includes a seat panel hinged to a back panel that unfold to form a secure seat or cradle from a flat stowed package.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: E.V.S. Ltd.Inventors: Stewart E. Gardner, Thomas A. Downey, Thomas Rumler
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Patent number: 11993245Abstract: A method tar operating a vehicle where at least one comfort function is offered to at least one vehicle user for activation. The at least one comfort function is offered to the at least one vehicle user for activation after a start of an electrical charging process of at least one energy storage device of the vehicle. The comfort function is offered to the vehicle user depending on an expected necessary charging time of the electrical charging process of the energy storage device of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Daimler AGInventor: Gudrun Schoenherr
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Patent number: 11994146Abstract: A fan device includes a hub and a plurality of fan blades. Each of the fan blades includes a driving surface, and the driving surface includes a first tooth column and a second tooth column. The first tooth column includes a plurality of first skin-tooth units. Each of the first skin-tooth units includes a first body. A first middle ridge and two first side ridges protrude from a surface of the first body, and a groove is formed between two adjacent first skin-tooth units. The second tooth column includes a plurality of second skin-tooth units. Each of the second skin-tooth units includes a second body and an extension element. A second middle ridge and two second side ridges protrude from a surface of the second body, and the extension element is located in the groove and includes an extension rib.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Shun-Chih Huang, Tai-Chuan Mao, Huan-Zhong Chen, Chun-Liang Guo
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Patent number: 11996686Abstract: In a described example, a circuit includes a synchronization control circuit having a sync input and a sync control output, in which the sync input is coupled to a sync terminal configured to receive an external clock signal. An internal clock generator circuit has a control input and an output. The control input is coupled to the sync control output. An output circuit has first and second signal inputs, a mode control input and a clock output. The first signal input is coupled to the sync input, and the second signal input of the output circuit is coupled to the output of the internal clock generator circuit. The mode control input is coupled to the sync control output, and the clock output adapted to be coupled to a controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Chung San Roger Chan, John Mitchell Perry, Ari Arie Levy, Nghia Trong Tang
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Patent number: 11989399Abstract: A display method and an electronic device are provided and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by an electronic device, a first input from a user in a case that a first image in a first type of image is displayed; in response to the first input, displaying, by the electronic device, a second image in a second type of image, where a type of the first type of image is different from that of the second type of image; receiving, by the electronic device, a second input from the user; and in response to the second input, displaying a third image by the electronic device, where the third image is an image, adjacent to the second image, in the second type of image.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Sheng Ji
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Patent number: 11989002Abstract: An environmental temperature change prediction device includes an environmental temperature acquisition unit, an outside temperature acquisition unit, a plant environment pattern setting unit, a prediction model generating unit, and an environmental temperature change prediction unit. The environmental temperature acquisition unit measures a machine body temperature. The plant environment pattern setting unit defines in advance a classification rule for classifying change trends of the environmental temperature into a plurality of patterns based on data of the environmental temperature and the plant outside temperature and environmental temperature prediction models. The prediction model generating unit selects the applicable plant environment pattern and determines a parameter of the environmental temperature prediction model corresponding to the selected plant environment pattern.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Okuma CorporationInventor: Yuji Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11989008Abstract: This present disclosure provides a method for regulating a rated outlet pressure of a gate station compressor for smart gas, which is implemented based on an Internet of Things system for regulating a rated outlet pressure of a gate station compressor for smart gas. The method includes: obtaining user features of a downstream gas usage based on the smart gas object platform, the user features including at least a user type and at least one of downstream flow prediction values of a plurality of future moments, wherein the downstream flow prediction values are obtained by a downstream flow prediction model based on a historical downstream flow sequence; obtaining operation parameters of a compressor, the operation parameters including at least a rated outlet pressure set by the compressor; and determining a rated outlet pressure adjustment amount of the compressor based on the user features and the operation parameters.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: CHENGDU QINCHUAN IOT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zehua Shao, Yaqiang Quan, Guanghua Huang, Haitang Xiang, Yuefei Wu
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Patent number: 11989388Abstract: A page element display method and an electronic device (100 or 1500) are provided. The method includes: The electronic device (100 or 1500) displays a first interface, where the first interface includes a first page element (1401); the electronic device (100 or 1500) detects a first operation performed by a user on the first page element (1402); the electronic device (100 or 1500) adjusts a size of the first page element in response to the first operation (1403); and the electronic device (100 or 1500) automatically displays a second interface after adjusting the size of the first page element.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: HONOR DEVICE CO., LTD.Inventors: Feng Dong, Jiawei Weng
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Patent number: 11989397Abstract: A method of updating a display of a symbol representative of changes in price during a time period, the method includes generating and displaying a first symbol comprising an intra-body fill area for each intra-time period of a first plurality of equal intra-time periods in the time period, receiving an input event, and in response to the received input event, generating and displaying a second symbol in place of the first symbol, the second symbol comprising an intra-body fill area for each intra-time period of a second plurality of equal intra-time periods in the time period wherein a number of the second plurality of equal intra-time periods is different from a number of the first plurality of equal intra-time periods.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Inventor: Eric Schneider
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Patent number: 11988939Abstract: The present invention relates to producing an electro-optical phase shifter such that it may be integrated into a front-end of line of an electronic-photonic integrated circuit. A conducting bottom layer with a first refractive index is provided. A center layer including a ferroelectric material and with a second refractive index is provided on top of a first region of the conducting bottom layer, such that the center layer is not on top of a second region of the conducting bottom layer. A conducting top layer with a third refractive index is provided on top of the center layer. The second refractive index is lower than the first refractive index and lower than the third refractive index, such that the conducting bottom layer, the center layer, and the conducting top layer form a slot waveguide. A first electrical connector which connects the second region of the conducting bottom layer with an upper layer is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: IHP GMBH—INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROELECTRONICS / LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FÜR INNOVATIVE MIKROELEKTRONIKInventors: Andreas Mai, Patrick Steglich, Christian Mai
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Patent number: 11989845Abstract: The present disclosure describes techniques of implementing augmented reality. The techniques comprise obtaining a target object image in a real-time scene image captured by an image acquisition unit in response to an instruction from a user; generates a virtual image corresponding to a target object based on the target object image and an animation material; and displays the virtual image corresponding to the target object in the real-time scene.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhixiong Lu, Zhili Chen, Jingcong Zhang, Zihao Chen
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Patent number: 11988106Abstract: Described is a heat-protection element (50) for a gas turbine (10), in particular an aircraft gas turbine, the heat-protection element (50) being adapted to at least partially surround a bearing chamber (60) of the gas turbine (10) and having at least one connecting portion (52) which is disposed in an axially forward region (VB) and connectable or connected by a material-to-material bond to a protective element (54) of a seal carrier, in particular a seal carrier with a carbon seal, at least one supporting portion (58) which is disposed in an axially central region (MB) and adapted to support the heat-protection element (50) radially on the bearing chamber (60), an end portion (64) which is disposed in an axially rearward region (HB) and forms a free end (66) of the heat-protection element (50) and which is configured such that the end portion surrounds (64) the bearing chamber (60) in a contactless manner.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: MTU Aero Engines AGInventors: Florian Neuberger, Kaspar Wolf
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Patent number: 11989050Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for clock delay compensation in a multiple chiplet system. Techniques disclosed include distributing, by a clock generator, a clock signal across distribution trees of respective chiplets; measuring phases, by phase detectors, where each phase measurement is associated with a chiplet of the chiplets and is indicative of a propagation speed of the clock signal through the distribution tree of the chiplet. Then, for each chiplet, techniques are further disclosed that determine, by a microcontroller, based on the phase measurements associated with the chiplet, a delay offset, and that delay, based on the delay offset, the propagation of the clock signal through the distribution tree of the chiplet using a delay unit associated with the chiplet.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Inventors: Anwar Kashem, Craig Daniel Eaton, Pouya Najafi Ashtiani, Deepesh John
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Patent number: 11988877Abstract: A fiber optic adapter block is disclosed. The fiber optic adapter block includes at least three fiber optic adapters provided in a stacked arrangement extending widthwise in a longitudinal direction, wherein every other adapter of the at least three fiber optic adapters is staggered in a front to back direction with respect to an adjacent adapter such that front ends of the every other adapter of the at least three fiber optic adapters are aligned at a first depth and a front end of the adjacent adapter is at a second depth that is different than the first depth.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventor: Matthew Holmberg
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Patent number: 11988932Abstract: According to one embodiment, an imaging device includes a housing, an illumination device, an optical system that has at least one lens, a liquid crystal panel, and an imaging element that constitutes a camera together with the optical system. The incident light control area of the liquid crystal panel has a first region, a second region located so as to be shifted from the first region, and a third region other than the first region and the second region.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hirondo Nakatogawa
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Patent number: 11988881Abstract: A first portion of incoming light and a second portion of incoming light travel in opposite directions within a first optical waveguide. A ring resonator in-couples the first portion of incoming light and the second portion of incoming light from the first optical waveguide, such that the first portion of incoming light and the second portion of incoming light travel in opposite directions within the ring resonator. A second optical waveguide is disposed to in-couple the first portion of incoming light and the second portion of incoming light couple from the ring resonator, such that the first portion of incoming light and the second portion of incoming light travel in opposite directions within the second optical waveguide away from the ring resonator. One or more photodetector(s) are optically connected to receive the first portion of incoming light and the second portion of incoming light from the second optical waveguide.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Ayar Labs, Inc.Inventors: John Fini, Anatol Khilo, Chen Sun, Pavan Bhargava, Chandarasekaran Ramamurthy
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Patent number: 11989481Abstract: A display device, a method of manufacturing the same and a tiled display device including the same are provided. The display device includes a substrate including a first contact hole, a laser absorption layer on the substrate and containing amorphous silicon, a first barrier insulating layer on the laser absorption layer, a fan-out line on the first barrier insulating layer as a first metal layer and including a pad portion in a second contact hole located in the first barrier insulating layer and the laser absorption layer, a display layer on the fan-out line, and a flexible film under the substrate and in the first contact hole and electrically connected to the pad portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Dong Sung Lee
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Patent number: 11988914Abstract: Disclosed is a display device. The display device of the present disclosure includes a display panel; a module cover located at a rear of the display panel; a back cover located at a rear of the module cover, and coupled to the module cover; a board coupled to the module cover between the module cover and the back cover, and having a plurality of input/output units; and a bracket covering a portion of the board adjacent to the plurality of input/output units, wherein a distal end of the back cover is adjacent to the bracket.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventor: Hyoungkyu Kim