Patents Examined by Shawntina T Fuqua
  • Engraving system and method of operation thereof
    Patent number: 10654127
    Abstract: An engraving system using a laser as a tool includes a laser cabinet with a three-point suspension system for mounting the cabinet on a surface such as a table. The three suspension points are arranged in a triangle with at least one of the suspension points being either in the front center or rear center of the field of translation of the engraving tool in the xy plane. While the other two suspension points are mounted in either the left and right front corners of the field or the left and right rear corners of the field or close to those locations. Using the three triangularly arranged suspension points, at least two of which are independently adjustable in elevation, the laser cabinet can be elevated and oriented so as to maintain the plane of the tool translation field parallel to the target surface of the workpiece during an engraving operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Inventor: Tong Li
  • Steering wheel grip detection device
    Patent number: 10640138
    Abstract: A steering wheel grip detection device includes a series circuit including an inductance element, a thermostat incorporated into a steering wheel, and a heater incorporated into the steering wheel; an electrostatic sensor circuit that detects a grip of the steering wheel by means of an electric or electromagnetic field; and a voltage detecting circuit that detects an open/closed state of the thermostat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinji Fujikawa, Yuta Okazaki, Hiroshi Naitou, Tsuyoshi Nishio, Nobuharu Katsuki
  • Transparent pane with heated coating
    Patent number: 10645761
    Abstract: A transparent pane having at least one heatable, electrically conductive coating is presented. Application of a supply voltage causes a heating current to flow over a heating field. The heating field contains at least one coating-free zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Guenther Schall, Bernhard Reul, Dang Cuong Phan
  • Pane with an electrical heating region
    Patent number: 10638550
    Abstract: A pane with an electrical heating region is presented. The pane has a substantially trapezoidal first pane, an electrically conductive coating applied on part of a surface of the first pane, a substantially trapezoidal electrical heating region that is electrically divided from the electrically conductive coating by a separating line, and two collecting conductors connected to the electrically conductive coating in the electrical heating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Guenther Schall, Valentin Schulz
  • Oven bottom with cooking surface
    Patent number: 10634362
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a cooking compartment with an oven bottom. The oven bottom includes a cooking surface. A cooking member may include the cooking surface. The cooking member may extend from the cooking compartment to the heating compartment. A bottom cover of the oven bottom may include a carrier and the cooking member. The oven bottom with cooking surface may be used in a variety of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Trice, Vern Neal
  • Electrically heatable pane with switch region
    Patent number: 10638549
    Abstract: An electrically heatable pane with a switch region is presented. The pane has a transparent substrate, with at least one transparent electrically conductive layer that is, at least partially, arranged on a surface of the pane. At least one separating line electrically divides the layer into a heating region and a switch region. At least two busbars are provided for connection to a voltage source. The busbars being connected to the heating region, form a current path between the busbars. A heating current can therefore flow through the current path. Furthermore, the switch region has at least one contact region, a feed line region, and a connection region, where the connection region can be connected to sensor electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Hans-Georg Esser, Jens Bondkowski
  • Planar heating device and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10638546
    Abstract: A planar heating device includes a substrate, first and second electrodes disposed on both ends of the substrate, a heating layer disposed on the substrate and configured to contact the first and second electrodes, a first additional heating layer disposed on one end of the heating layer, and a second additional heating layer disposed on the other end of the heating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doyoon Kim, Haengdeog Koh, Seyun Kim, Jinhong Kim, Hajin Kim, Soichiro Mizusaki, Minjong Bae, Hiesang Sohn, Changsoo Lee
  • Heated windshield indicator
    Patent number: 10631373
    Abstract: A windshield assembly is provided herein. The windshield assembly includes a windshield having a frit and an indicator thermally coupled to the windshield to visually coincide with the frit and operable to illuminate in order to indicate a relative temperature of the windshield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Jennifer Ann Gauthier, Cornel Lewis Gardner
  • Process for sintering material
    Patent number: 10619926
    Abstract: A method for processing material includes sintering a portion of a sheet of material at a location on the sheet, moving the sintering location along the sheet of material at a first rate, and pulling the sintered material away from the sintering location at a second rate that is greater than the first rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, Daniel Warren Hawtof, Archit Lal, Xinghua Li, Daniel L Maurey, Kevin William Uhlig
  • Electric pressure cooker with auxiliary heater
    Patent number: 10617252
    Abstract: It discloses an electric pressure cooker with auxiliary heater, comprising pot cover subassembly, pot body subassembly, built-in heating plate subassembly and inner pot subassembly, characterized in that the said inner pot subassembly comprises inner pot, auxiliary heater and connector plug corresponding to auxiliary heater, the pot body is provided with connector socket corresponding to connector plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Foshan Shunde Aide Industry
    Inventors: Zhigang He, Hui Zheng
  • Window glass heating apparatus
    Patent number: 10604116
    Abstract: The invention relates to a window glass heating apparatus comprising an electric heating wire for heating a window glass of a vehicle. The apparatus continues to stop an energization of the wire until a predetermined energization standby time has elapsed after an energization permission condition becomes satisfied. The apparatus starts the energization of the wire when the predetermined energization standby time has elapsed after the energization permission condition becomes satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hajime Nagae
  • Aerosol provision system
    Patent number: 10602777
    Abstract: An aerosol provision system comprises a liquid storage area comprising a liquid formulation; an aerosol generating area; and a membrane disposed between the liquid storage area and the aerosol generating area, the membrane fluidly communicating the liquid storage area with the aerosol generating area, wherein the liquid formulation has a water content of at least 18% w/w.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES HOLDINGS LIMITED
    Inventors: Colin Dickens, Marina Trani
  • Heating jacket
    Patent number: 10602570
    Abstract: A jacket heater placed in adjacent to an object to be heated so as to heat and keep warm said object, which comprises: a heating element, an outer covering member that envelops and accommodates the heating element, wherein the outer covering member is configured to comprise a first shaped body that is provided on a side thereof facing the object, and a second shaped body that is provided on a side opposite from said side facing the object, the second shaped body is a resin shaped body that has a porous structure, and the second shaped body has larger thickness than the first shaped body has. Provided is a jacket heater capable of efficiently keeping warm an object heated by this configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: NICHIAS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Iida, Akira Sasaki, Keiichi Fukuda
  • Apparatus for thermal control of tubing assembly and associated methods
    Patent number: 10591182
    Abstract: Tubing structures are connected to each other to form a tubing assembly having one or more fluid pathways from a fluid entrance to a fluid exit. A heating device is bonded to the tubing structures along a length of the tubing assembly. The heating device has a flexibility to follow along one or more bends present along the length of the tubing assembly. The heating device includes one or more heater traces embedded within an encasing material. The encasing material is thermally conductive and electrically insulative. The one or more heater traces are formed of a material that generates heat in the presence of an electrical current. The heating device has a continuous and unbroken structure along the length of the tubing assembly. An encapsulation layer of thermal insulating material is disposed over the tubing assembly and covers the heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventor: Karl F. Leeser
  • Heated mechanism for deployable exterior door handle for a vehicle
    Patent number: 10590677
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a door-operating mechanism for selectively releasing a vehicle door from a closed position. A door handle is in communication with the door operating mechanism. The door handle is operable between a flush position, wherein an outer face of the door handle is flush with a portion of an exterior surface of the vehicle door such that only the outer face of the door handle is accessible, and an extended position, wherein the outer face of the door handle is moved away from the exterior surface of the vehicle door such that a rear surface of the door handle is accessible. A heating mechanism is in thermal communication with the outer face of the door handle and the exterior surface of the vehicle door. A remote transmitter is in communication with the heating mechanism, wherein the remote transmitter selectively activates the heating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kosta Papanikolaou, David Manuel Rogers, Rajesh K. Patel, Livianu Dorin Puscas
  • Heating element for a shaving razor
    Patent number: 10583576
    Abstract: A heating element for a shaving razor having an insulating member with a base and at least one electrical terminal. A flexible printed circuit board having a base with at least one electrical terminal electrically and mechanically coupled to the corresponding electrical terminal of the insulating member. A non electrically conductive underfiller encapsulant is positioned between the base of the insulating member and the base of the flexible printed circuit board to provide a water tight seal around the electrical terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Norbert Broemse, Klaus Heubach
  • Window heater system
    Patent number: 10588178
    Abstract: During operation, a facility may utilize many sensors, such as cameras, to generate sensor data. Some of these sensors may be housed within protective enclosures. The enclosures may be inside specially controlled environments, such as refrigerators, freezers, and so forth. During operation of the facility, moisture may accumulate on these enclosures, impairing the ability of the camera to acquire an image through the window. Described are devices to selectively heat a viewable area of the window such that moisture accumulation is reduced with minimal power use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: John Nelson, Heather Anne Ralph, Matthew David Mickelson, Brad Nathaniel Arnold, Matthew Christopher Smith, Daniel Joseph Peters, Kevin Bailey
  • Printed transparent heaters using embedded micro-wires
    Patent number: 10582571
    Abstract: A transparent heater includes a plurality of high aspect ratio micro-wires. A plurality of channels is formed into the surface of a transparent substrate within an active heater region. The channels have a width of between 4 microns and 9 microns to insure that they are invisible to the naked eye, and a depth that is at least 1.5 times the width. Spacing between the channels is preferably at least 100 ?m. Micro-wires are formed by at least partially filling the channels with a conductive material. Power source connections are provided to connect to an electrical power source to supply a current through the plurality of micro-wires. An average optical transmittance of the transparent heater within the active heater region is greater than 50 percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventor: Haoyan Wei
  • Atomizing head, atomizer and electronic cigarette having same
    Patent number: 10568358
    Abstract: An exemplary atomizing head includes a main body, a liquid inlet, an air inlet, an air outlet, an air passage, a connecting electrode, a liquid conducting element in the main body, a heating element in the main body, and a connecting part. The air passage is in communication with the air inlet and the air outlet. The liquid conducting element is configured for absorbing tobacco liquid flowed in through the liquid inlet. The heating element is in contact with the liquid conducting element, and configured for heating the tobacco liquid absorbed in the liquid conducting element to form aerosol. The aerosol is expelled via the air passage. The connecting part is configured for coupling with an atomizer. The atomizing head further includes a temperature sensing element configured for sensing a temperature of the aerosol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN FIRST UNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yonghai Li, Zhongli Xu, Youli Shen
  • Heater for semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
    Patent number: 10566228
    Abstract: A heater for a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus, the heater includes an AlN ceramic substrate and a heating element embedded inside the AlN ceramic substrate. The AlN ceramic substrate contains O, C, Ti, Ca, and Y as impurity elements, includes an yttrium aluminate phase as a crystal phase, and has a Ti/Ca mass ratio of 0.13 or more, and a TiN phase is not detected in an XRD profile measured with Cu K-? radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keita Yamana, Kazuhiro Nobori, Kengo Torii