Patents Examined by Stanley Tso
  • Printed wiring
    Patent number: 10754485
    Abstract: In printed wiring that is formed, on a surface of a base member. by a film of cured electrically conductive ink and that includes: a wavy line; a first wiring element located at one side of both sides sandwiching the wavy line in a width direction; and a second wiring element located at the other side of the both sides and adjacently to the wavy line; a surplus wavy line is provided which is another wavy line, which extends along the wavy line adjacently to the wavy line between the wavy line and the first wiring element, and which is connected to the wavy line to have the same potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akitoshi Sakaue
  • Conduit guide for guiding at least one conduit section between two elements
    Patent number: 10753510
    Abstract: A conduit guide for guiding at least one conduit section between a first element and a second element with an insert part, having a tubular guiding element and arrangeable at the first element, and a tubular receiving part, arrangeable at the second element, wherein the guiding element of the insert part is arranged so as to be axially movable in the receiving part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Binder GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Hafner, Patrick Efinger, Jochen Bollaender
  • Underwater electrical connection system
    Patent number: 10756529
    Abstract: An undersea connection system for connecting together at least three high voltage or very high voltage undersea electric cables comprises an outer cage defining a connection space; and a connection fitting comprising a conductive connection electrode that presents a junction node from which there extend at least three branches. Each of the at least three branches of the conductive electrode includes a male terminal portion that is connected to a respective one of the electric cables in a connection zone about which there is mounted a connection sleeve made of pre-molded insulating material that receives, via its ends, firstly the male terminal portion of one of the branches of the conductive electrode, and secondly the connection end of one of the electric cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: SUPERGRID INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Aymeric Andre
  • Selectively adjustable junction box
    Patent number: 10756522
    Abstract: An adjustable junction box is provided that allows a technician to selectively adjust the distance between an outer surface of the junction box and an outer surface of a stud to which the junction box is interconnected. A selectively-removable cover is also provided that allows an outlet, for example, to be interconnected to a power supply and later removed for inspection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Inventor: Monte Roger Losaw
  • Wire harness
    Patent number: 10749328
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a conductor that flexibly connects a vehicle body side of a vehicle and a moving body that is mounted in the vehicle and slides with respect to the vehicle body, a regulation member that is configured by stacking a plurality of flexible plate members, extends along the conductor, and regulates a path of the conductor, and a pair of holding members that hold ends of the plurality of plate members. In the ends of the plurality of plate members, long holes are formed that extend along a longitudinal direction of the plate member at positions facing each other. The holding member includes a convex portion that is inserted in the long hole. The convex portion allows one plate member to relatively move along the longitudinal direction with respect to another plate member in a state where the convex portion is inserted in the long hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Tomosada, Naoto Kogure, Katsumi Sato
  • Display device and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 10749139
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device includes preparing a base substrate including a first area, a second area, and a bending area disposed between the first and second areas, the base substrate having a coating film pattern formed on a first surface thereof in the bending area; disposing a support plate, which includes an adhesive film and a support film, on the first surface of the base substrate to cover the coating film pattern; and separating the support plate and the coating film pattern, which overlap with each other in a thickness direction, from the base substrate, wherein the disposing the support plate includes disposing the support plate in such a manner that the adhesive film is in contact with the coating film pattern and the first surface of the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Seung Hoon Lee
  • Distribution panel with wire locking frame and method of using same
    Patent number: 10720763
    Abstract: A distribution panel contains a housing defining a hollow interior having a back panel with a plate configured to be mounted thereto, where the frame is either slidable relative to the back panel and has an open position and a closed position, or includes a portion of a wire-holding mechanism and is configured to be coupled to the back panel, which includes another portion of the wire-holding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Furrion Property Holding Limited
    Inventor: Steven Neill Bell
  • Electric connection structure and electric connection member
    Patent number: 10721822
    Abstract: There is provided an electric connection member having a substrate, an insulating adhesive layer provided on the substrate, and a conductive interconnect, wherein the electric connection member is provided with a recess that opens at a side of the insulating adhesive layer, the conductive interconnect is disposed in the recess, a metal nano-ink is disposed on the conductive interconnect, and all of the metal nano-ink is contained inside the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junya Sato, Ryosuke Mitsui
  • Multilayer ceramic capacitor with decreased high voltage stress defects and board having the same
    Patent number: 10720278
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor with decreased high voltage stress defects and a board having the same may include a body formed by stacking a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes in a width direction, the first and second internal electrodes including body portions overlapping each other and lead portions exposed to a mounting surface of the body and disposed to be spaced apart from each other, respectively; and first to third external electrodes disposed on the mounting surface of the capacitor body to be connected to the lead portions, respectively, wherein the body portions of the first and second internal electrodes have different areas from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Heon Oh, Se Hwan Bong, Young Ha Kim, Dong Gun Kim
  • Vertical cable manager with slam-shut door
    Patent number: 10714915
    Abstract: A vertical cable manager includes a base frame and a door. The base frame has upper and lower support legs and upper and lower crossbars between the support legs. The door has retractable hinge pins at corners of the door. The crossbars have hinge rod receptacles to receive respective hinge pins and elastic latch members having a flexible arm and a catch portion. The catch portions secure the hinge pins in the hinge rod receptacles with the door closed and are deflectable through elastic deformation of the flexible arm to allow travel of the hinge pins through the hinge rod receptacles and past the catch portions when the door is moved from an open to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Joshua A. Valenti, Kevin M. Zumbek, Jason O'Young, Robert L. Fritz, Nathan A. Gleghorn
  • Input apparatus and manufacturing method of input apparatus
    Patent number: 10712890
    Abstract: An input apparatus includes a sensor film having a first curved surface and a second curved surface, the first curved surface being light-transmissive and provided in a detection area in which a sensor is formed, the second curved surface being provided in a non-detection area other than the detection area and having a radius of curvature smaller than a radius of curvature of the first curved surface; a resin layer provided on the sensor film and formed of a material containing a light-transmissive resin; and an extension-suppression layer provided in the detection area in the sensor film, the extension-suppression layer suppressing an extension amount of the detection area in the sensor film to be smaller than an extension amount of the non-detection area in the sensor film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Hashida
  • Laminated electronic component and circuit board for mounting the same
    Patent number: 10714265
    Abstract: A laminated electronic component includes a first capacitor including a first ceramic body, first external electrodes disposed on upper and lower surfaces of the first ceramic body, and second external electrodes disposed apart from the first external electrodes on the upper and lower surfaces of the first ceramic body, and a second capacitor including a second ceramic body, a third external electrode disposed on a lower surface of the second ceramic body, and a fourth external electrode disposed apart from the third external electrode on the lower surface of the second ceramic body, and disposed on the first capacitor and electrically connected to the first capacitor. A current loop passing through the upper surface of the first ceramic body and the lower surface of the second ceramic body is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Soo Hwan Son, Seung Hyun Ra, Kyoung Jin Jun, Sang Soo Park, Young Key Kim, Soon Ju Lee
  • Flat cable winding device and flat cable routing structure
    Patent number: 10707668
    Abstract: A flat cable winding device includes a case, a flat cable guide portion provided in the case and that introduces the flat cables into the case separately, a rotary table that is rotatable around a central shaft portion, a biasing unit that rotates and urges the rotary table in a winding direction of flat cables, a plurality of rollers that are rotatable around the central shaft portion on the rotary table, a separation guide path that guides the flat cables introduced into the case from the flat cable guide portion to the winding start position separately, and a slack absorption unit provided in the separation guide path and that absorbs slack of a flat cable located at an inner peripheral side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hikaru Sano, Goro Nakamura
  • Modular device backbone for a network of user-swappable products
    Patent number: 10700477
    Abstract: A modular device backbone includes two or more backplates configured to be distributed throughout a user space and further configured to couple with swappable devices. Each of the one or more backplates may include a configuration storage device to store configuration information for communicating with additional swappable devices coupled to additional backplates. Each of the one or more backplates may further include a communication unit to provide the configuration information to a coupled swappable device, where the coupled swappable device unit establishes a communication link to the additional swappable devices based on the configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Deako, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Richardson, Patrick Prendergast, Kyle Montgomery
  • Electrical power transmission for well construction apparatus
    Patent number: 10699822
    Abstract: The present disclosure introduces apparatus and related methods pertaining to a first electrical power cable, a second electrical power cable, and a set of breakers. The first and second electrical power cables each extend a variable distance between a static system at a wellsite and a movable system at the wellsite. The breakers are operable to select either of the first and second electrical power cables to couple electrical power from a stationary electrical power source at the static system to a load at the movable system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Jacques Orban, Joe Rodney Berry, Joseph Hope
  • Power supply device
    Patent number: 10696245
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a power supply device that suppresses deformation of an exterior member. A power supply device is an apparatus for supplying power from a vehicle body to a sliding door. The power device includes: an exterior member, a vehicle-body-side holding portion for holding one end of the exterior member, and a door-side holding portion for holding the other end of the exterior member. The power supply device further includes: a connecting portion that can connect and disconnect the vehicle-body-side holding portion and the door-side holding portion while bending the exterior member in a state in which the vehicle-body-side holding portion holds the one end of the exterior member and the door-side holding portion holds the other end of the exterior member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mitsunobu Katoh, Masaki Yokoyama
  • Adapter for sealing boot for electrical interconnections
    Patent number: 10690272
    Abstract: An adapter for a sealing boot includes: an annular body having a radially-outward exterior surface; at least one helical thread extending radially inwardly to define a threaded interior surface and defining a plurality of roots and crests, wherein the crests extend radially inwardly a distance A from the roots; and a blocking section that extends axially across the plurality of roots and crests, the blocking section extending radially inwardly at least the distance A from the roots at junctions with the crests, and extending radially inwardly a distance B from the roots in areas between the roots and crests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Vaccaro
  • Cable assembly
    Patent number: 10692630
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a cable, a connector that is provided at an end of the cable in a direction in which the cable extends, a plurality of electric transmission lines configured to transmit an electric signal, and a plurality of optical transmission lines configured to transmit an optical signal. The plurality of electric transmission lines and the plurality of optical transmission lines are provided in the cable assembly so as to extend across the cable and the connector. The plurality of optical transmission lines are provided so that at least one of the plurality of optical transmission lines is provided at each of ends of the cable assembly in a width direction perpendicular to the direction in which the cable extends. The plurality of electric transmission lines are provided inside the plurality of optical transmission lines in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiroh Nishio, Naoshi Usuki, Satoshi Takahashi
  • Component with a ceramic base body having a conduit and a fastening element and method
    Patent number: 10679778
    Abstract: One aspect relates to a component comprising i. a base body having a first component surface and a further component surface, the base body comprising a ceramic at least to an extent of 50 wt %, based on the total weight of the base body; ii. at least one electrical conduction element, the at least one electrical conduction element comprising a metal at least to an extent of 51 wt %, based on the electrical conduction element, and the at least one electrical conduction element passing through the entire base body from the first component surface to the further component surface; iii. at least one fastening element having a contact area, the at least one fastening element comprising a metal at least to an extent of 51 wt %, based on the fastening element, and the fastening element being surrounded at least in part by the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Heraeus Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Troetzschel, Ulrich Hausch
  • Terminal assembly for shielded cable
    Patent number: 10680355
    Abstract: A terminal assembly is configured to terminate a shielded cable having an inner conductor, an inner insulator surrounding the inner conductor, an outer conductor surrounding the inner insulator, and an outer insulator surrounding the outer conductor. This terminal assembly includes a generally cylindrical outer ferrule formed of a plastic conductive material, i.e. a material that is deformed after stress is removed, and a generally cylindrical inner ferrule formed of an elastic dielectric material i.e. a material that recovers after stress is removed, having a plurality of circumferential grooves defined in an outer surface thereof. At least a portion of the inner ferrule is disposed within the outer ferrule. A portion of the outer conductor is disposed intermediate the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule and is in intimate contact therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Durse, Thomas S. Huda, Eric B. Poma, Bruce D. Taylor