Patents Examined by Stacy A. Whitmore
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Patent number: 11453301Abstract: An electric vehicle charging system includes an interleaved DC-DC control system configured to facilitate providing electric charge to an electric vehicle battery and includes a controller communicatively coupled to the interleaved DC-DC control system. The interleaved DC-DC control system includes an inrush current limiting circuit, three parallel boost converters that are each configured to operate in a discrete phase, and unidirectional current circuitry. The controller includes electronic control circuitry configured to control the interleaved DC-DC control system and vehicle communication circuitry configured to establish charging protocols between the interleaved DC-DC control system and the electric vehicle battery.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: SPARKCHARGE, INC.Inventors: Christopher R. Ellis, Richard Whitney
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Patent number: 11448705Abstract: It is difficult to know the remaining amount and the degradation state of a power storage device, and it is also difficult to estimate how long the power storage device can be used. Data obtained through midway discharge and mid-to-full charge is used as the learning data to calculate the degradation state and the capacity. In other words, the learning data includes both a discharge curve of midway discharge and a charge curve of mid-to-full charge, and neural network processing is performed with the use of the learned data.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryota Tajima, Toshiyuki Isa, Akihiro Chida
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Patent number: 11444485Abstract: An inductive charger where the charging surface or coil is separated from the drive or control electronics is described.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: MOJO MOBILITY, INC.Inventor: Afshin Partovi
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Patent number: 11440422Abstract: The embodiment relates to a charging control device for an electric vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyoung Dong Kim
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Patent number: 11444339Abstract: Provided is a rechargeable battery comprising an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte disposed between the anode and the cathode, a protective housing that at least partially encloses the anode, the cathode and the electrolyte, a heat-spreader element disposed at least partially inside the protective housing and configured to receive heat from an external heat source at a desired heating temperature Th to heat up the battery to a desired temperature Tc for battery charging. Preferably, the heat-spreader element does not receive an electrical current from an external circuit (e.g. battery charger) to generate heat for resistance heating of the battery. Charging the battery at Tc enables completion of the battery in less than 15 minutes, typically less than 10 minutes, and more typically less than 5 minutes without adversely impacting the battery structure and performance.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Global Graphene Group, Inc.Inventors: Yu-Sheng Su, Yu-Ming Chen, Hao-Hsun Chang, Bor Z. Jang
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Patent number: 11444472Abstract: A portable power bank with card storage function include a portable power bank module and a card case module; the portable power bank module and the card case module are slidably connected via a connector; the portable power bank module is provided with a guiding mounting rod; the guiding mounting rod is mounted in a sliding slot of the connector; the sliding slot is recessed inwards with an opening at each end thereof; the portable power bank module is assembled to the sliding slot via the guiding mounting rod; one side of the card case module is provided with a connecting strap which is hollow inside and opens at both ends; the connecting strap is connected to the connector via a connecting shaft. This invention has the advantages of providing users with the convenience of card storage and serving as a contingency power supply for supplying power to electronic devices. It serves multiple functions and is convenient for actual use.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventor: Yin Ping Pierre Yu
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Patent number: 11433776Abstract: A vehicle provided with a rechargeable battery, a charging port connected to a charging cable for supplying the battery with electric power of an outside power source, a CO2 recovery device for recovering CO2, a CO2 collection port connected to a collection hose for collecting CO2 from the CO2 recovery device, and a single openable lid covering both the charging port and the CO2 collection port.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroshi Otsuki, Daiki Yokoyama, Takahiro Suzuki, Harumi Gotou, Shingo Korenaga
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Patent number: 11437867Abstract: A wireless receiver system, configured to receive both electrical data signals and electrical energy, includes a first receiver antenna, configured to receive one or both of the electrical data signals and the electrical energy, and a power conditioning system in electrical connection with the first receiver antenna, configured to receive electrical energy from the first receiver antenna. The wireless receiver system further includes a second receiver antenna configured to receive the electrical data signals and a receiver controller operatively associated with the first receiver antenna and the second receiver antenna and configured to determine switching instructions. The wireless receiver system further includes a switch operatively associated with the receiver controller and configured to switch receiving operations between the first and second receiver antennas based, at least in part, on the switching instructions.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: NuCurrent, Inc.Inventors: Jason Luzinski, Alberto Peralta, Pavel Shostak, Jacob Babcock
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Patent number: 11418058Abstract: The disclosure relates to a wireless charging system, a determining method and device for a charging region, and an electronic device. The wireless charging system can include a wireless charging base and an electronic device. The wireless charging base includes a cylindrical magnet disposed axially along a thickness of the wireless charging base. The electronic device includes a charging coil component, a compass sensor which is configured to detect magnetic field intensities of a magnetic field generated by the cylindrical magnet in a first direction and in a second direction. The first direction is an axial direction of the cylindrical magnet and is perpendicular to the second direction. The electronic device further includes a processor configured to determine, according to the magnetic field intensities in the first direction and in the second direction, a charging region formed by the cylindrical magnet and adapted to the charging coil component.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Chaoxi Chen
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Patent number: 11411431Abstract: In a pad for wireless charging and a manufacturing method thereof, the pad includes: a carrier sheet, a coil and a first and second pad layers. The coil is secured on the carrier sheet and jointly forms an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is clamped and secured between the first and second pad layers. The first and second pad layers with the intermediate layer clamped therebetween are arranged opposite from each other and attached onto each other to form a pad main body. The manufacturing method includes: a securement step for securing the coil, a clamping step for clamping the intermediate layer and a thermoforming step for thermoforming into the pad main body. Accordingly, the effect of successfully clamping and securing the carrier sheet together with the coil between the first and second pad layers before the thermoforming thereof can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: E-CENTURY TECHNICAL & INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONInventor: I-Kuang Lai
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Patent number: 11409930Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating functional safety data for a design of an electronic component includes receiving attribute data for elements in an electronic component. The attribute data include element data for the elements, wherein element data for a given element include an identity of the given element and a failure rate characteristic for the given element. The attribute data include functionality data for element functionalities, wherein functionality data for a given element functionality include an identity of a use case, an identity of an element, an identity of a fault characterization for providing information about one or more fault models and a configurable data for controlling selection and use of the given functionality data when generating the functional safety data. The method also includes generating the functional safety data using the attribute data and storing a report including the functional safety data.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Agostino Cefalo, Ricardo Vincelli
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Patent number: 11404729Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a battery; a charging module; at least one sensor configured to sense a temperature of the battery; and a controller configured to control the charging module not to charge the battery when the sensed temperature is outside a predetermined temperature range, and when the sensed temperature is within the predetermined temperature range, control the charging module to charge the battery according to a set end of charge (EoC) current value of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Seungyon Kim, Gihong Lim, Jeongwoo Kim, Seokmin Hong, Heejoon Moon, Hyeyeong Kang
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Patent number: 11404920Abstract: A wireless charging receiver includes a controller configured to determine that a first overvoltage threshold is met and based thereon enable a first switch to couple an output of a rectifier to electrical ground through a first resistor, to determine that a second overvoltage threshold is met and based thereon enable receive resonant circuit switches to short circuit a receive resonant circuit, to determine that a hysteresis threshold is met and based thereon disable the receive resonant circuit switches to open circuit the receive resonant circuit, and to determine that a hysteresis cycle threshold is met and that the receive resonant circuit switches are disabled and based thereon enable the second switch to couple the second resistor to the electrical ground and to communicate to wireless charging transmitter to decrease the power level on wireless charging receiver side.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS DESIGN AND APPLICATION S.R.O.Inventor: Michal Toula
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Patent number: 11392746Abstract: The method for creating integrated circuits (IC) protects the design of a manufactured IC from being copied or counterfeited. This method protects the design of an IC chip from deliberate copying and counterfeiting by reverse engineering to gain access to the critical points in the IC chip and to siphon its functions and design. The method makes the copying, counterfeiting, and controlling by addition of Trojan circuits during manufacturing almost impossible task. It also allows chip designers to outsource the final bonding of the tiers without any fears that their design may get compromised.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: University of Louisiana LafayetteInventors: Siroos Madani, Mohammad R. Madani, Magdy Bayoumi
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Patent number: 11394235Abstract: A power conversion system is to be used with an energy source. A plurality of conversion units are used in series via their output with the energy source output. A positive pin of a first converter and the negative pin of a last converter of the series are for connection to an output (14, 16) of the energy source, and for each two neighboring converters in this series a negative pin of an upstream converter is connected to a positive pin of a downstream converter which both pins are decoupled from the energy source except for the positive pin of the first converter and the negative pin of the last converter. A master monitor unit is adapted to monitor the output power of the energy source and to control the input voltage of each conversion unit synchronously in dependence on the monitored output power. In this way, a set of conversion units are configured, with the conversion units sharing the output from the energy source. This provides a scalable system.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Goutam Maji, Priya Ranjan Mishra
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Patent number: 11392748Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving a functional integrated circuit design and generating a plurality of place and route (PnR) layouts based on the received functional integrated circuit design and one or more integrated circuit floorplans may be generated. One or more fuzzy logic rules may be applied to analyze attributes associated with each of the generated PnR layouts, and a PnR layout of the plurality of PnR layouts having an area utilization complying with the one or more fuzzy logic rules may be generated.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Chao Tong, Qingwen Deng
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Patent number: 11379648Abstract: A method for determining an overlapping process window (OPW) of an area of interest on a portion of a design layout for a device manufacturing process for imaging the portion onto a substrate, the method including: obtaining a plurality of features in the area of interest; obtaining a plurality of values of one or more processing parameters of the device manufacturing process; determining existence of defects, probability of the existence of defects, or both in imaging the plurality of features by the device manufacturing process under each of the plurality of values; and determining the OPW of the area of interest from the existence of defects, the probability of the existence of defects, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Frank Gang Chen, Joseph Werner De Vocht, Yuelin Du, Wanyu Li, Yen-Wen Lu
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Patent number: 11376968Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless charging method and device(s) for a transportation equipment and a wireless charging system comprising the devices. A method for receiving wireless power in a wireless power receiving apparatus mounted on a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: establishing a communication connection to wireless power transmission device when a wireless power signal transmitted by the wireless power transmission device is detected to be in an idle state; receiving low-power signals for low-power charging; receiving safety state information collected by a sensing device; and adjusting the strength of the received power on the basis of the safety state information. Therefore, the present invention has the advantage of preventing the harm of electromagnetic waves to passenger when wireless charging the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Scramoge Technology LimitedInventor: Jae Hee Park
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Patent number: 11381097Abstract: The invention discloses a docking device and a charging management method thereof, including a first connection port, a second connection port, at least one peripheral equipment connection port, a power converter, a temperature sensor and a processor. The first connection port and the second connection port are both USB Type-C connectors, connected to a host and an external power respectively. When a real temperature value sensed by the temperature sensor rises to an upper temperature threshold, the processor controls the first connection port, the second connection port, and the peripheral equipment connection port coordinately according to USB-C power delivery protocol, requests an input voltage of the second connection port to be equal to the peripheral device voltage, and transmits the input voltage to the peripheral equipment connection port via the power converter. Neither does the power converter generate conversion loss nor does the docking device increase power loss and heat.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: BIZLINK INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Ming-Tso Hsu
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Patent number: 11367010Abstract: The disclosure describes various aspects of quantum computer simulators. In an aspect, a method for characterizing a quantum computer simulator includes identifying simulator processes supported by the quantum computer simulator, generating, for each simulator process, characteristic curves for different gates or quantum operations, the characteristic curves including information for predicting the time it takes to simulate each of the gates or quantum operations in a respective simulator process, and providing the characteristic curves to select one of the simulator processes to simulate a circuit, quantum program, or quantum algorithm that uses at least some of the gates or quantum operations. In another aspect, a method for optimizing simulations in a quantum computer simulator is described where a simulator process is selected for simulation of a circuit, quantum program, or quantum algorithm based on characteristic curves that predict a time it takes for the simulation to be carried out.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: IONQ, INC.Inventors: Andrew Maps Ducore, Yunseong Nam, Omar Shehab, Matthew Joseph Keesan, Stewart O. Allen