Patents Examined by T. Dinh
  • Patent number: 12015094
    Abstract: To provide a sealing material sheet for a solar-cell module that has high productivity without performing crosslinking processing, and has a high tensile shear adhesion force at normal temperature at a high level in addition to heat resistance and molding characteristics. A sealing material sheet is a multi-layer sheet using a polyethylene-based resin as a base resin, a core layer has a density of 0.880 g/cm3 to 0.895 g/cm3 and a melting point of 70° C. or higher, a skin layer has a density of 0.880 g/cm3 to 0.910 g/cm3 and a melting point of 90° C. or lower and contains a silane-modified polyethylene-based resin, a weight average molecular weight of the silane-modified polyethylene-based resin contained in the skin layer 11 in terms of polystyrene is 70000 to 120000, and a polymerized silane amount of the skin layer in the whole resin component is 300 ppm to 2000 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kosuke Saeki, Shinya Yoneda, Jun Tanaka, Hiroaki Tamaki, Shinsuke Nagino, Naohiro Obonai
  • Patent number: 12009763
    Abstract: The technologies described and recited herein pertain to a permanent magnet motor having multiple voltage taps so that the motor may run in multiple configurations, e.g., a low-range and a high-range, and have multiple optimal operating points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Sykora, Petri J. Mäki-Ontto, James W. Ziemer, Matthew A. Shepeck
  • Patent number: 12009058
    Abstract: Disclosed are an address latch, an address control circuit, and a semiconductor apparatus including the address control circuit. The address latch includes a first address processing unit and a second address processing unit. The first address processing unit latches an external address signals to output first latched signals through an output node based on a read command and a write command. The second address processing unit latches the external address signals based on the read command with a burst length set to a first value and outputs second latched signals through the output node based on an internal read command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventor: Ji Eun Kim
  • Patent number: 12007903
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for dual address encoding for logical-to-physical mapping are described. A memory device may identify a first physical address corresponding to a first logical block address generated by a host device and a second physical address corresponding to a second (consecutive) logical block address generated by a host device. The memory device may store the first physical address and second physical address in a single entry of a logical-to-physical mapping table that corresponds to the first logical block address. The memory device may transmit the logical-to-physical table to the host device for storage at the host device. The host device may subsequently transmit a single read command to the memory device that includes the first physical address and the second physical address based on the logical-to-physical table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventors: Giuseppe Cariello, Jonathan S. Parry
  • Patent number: 12002795
    Abstract: A pluggable processor module includes a microprocessor package, a voltage regulator including a capacitor board, and contacts that each include a first side in contact with the microprocessor package and a second side in contact with the capacitor board. An assembly includes the pluggable processor module and a printed circuit board assembly (“PCBA”) including a module aperture that is large enough to receive the power board and narrower than the capacitor board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Houle Gan, Richard Stuart Roy, Yujeong Shim, William F. Edwards, Jr., Chenhao Nan
  • Patent number: 12003199
    Abstract: A mobility assistance device and a driving method thereof are provided. The mobility assistance device includes at least one bracket and a driving device which drives the at least one bracket. The driving device includes a brushless direct current (DC) motor, a rotor angle sensor, and a sensing driver. The rotor angle sensor senses the angle of the brushless DC motor. The sensing driver uses a corresponding algorithm to estimate a corresponding angle corresponding to an angle velocity switching of the brushless DC motor. The corresponding angle is used as an angle of the brushless DC motor. The sensing driver drives the brushless DC motor according to the corresponding angle, so that the brushless DC motor provides supporting force to the at least one bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Fu-Nen Lo, Ke-Yu Lan
  • Patent number: 11998760
    Abstract: An emission enhancement structure having at least one energy augmentation structure; and an energy converter capable of receiving energy from an energy source, converting the energy and emitting therefrom a light of a different energy than the received energy. The energy converter is disposed in a vicinity of the at least one energy augmentation structure such that the emitted light is emitted with an intensity larger than if the converter were remote from the at least one energy augmentation structure. Also described are various uses for the energy emitters, energy augmentation structures and energy collectors in a wide array of fields, especially in the field of solar cells and other energy conversion devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: IMMUNOLIGHT, LLC
    Inventors: Frederic A. Bourke, Jr., Harold Walder, Zakaryae Fathi, Wayne F. Beyer, Ronald A. Rudder, Daniel I. Becker, Joseph H. Simmons
  • Patent number: 11996793
    Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit. The outdoor unit includes a compressor that compresses a refrigerant and a motor drive apparatus that drives the compressor. The motor drive apparatus includes an inverter that converts a direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage and a motor that operates on the alternating-current voltage from the inverter. The motor includes six stator windings that are each openable at both ends. The motor drive apparatus further includes a connection state switching unit that includes a function of switching a connection state of the six stator windings of the motor among at least four types of connection states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichiro Shizu, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Masaki Muramatsu
  • Patent number: 11990866
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device having a perovskite PV cell having reduced aging. The internal temperature of the perovskite PV cell, or a measure thereof, is determined using a measurement of an electrical parameter. In the case that it is detected that the corresponding measured value exceeds a threshold value, i.e., that the internal temperature is too high, the operating conditions of the perovskite PV cell are adjusted to the effect that the internal temperature reduces again. This can be achieved, for example, by an input resistance of power electronics of the perovskite PV cell being adjusted such that lower ohmic losses occur, as a result of the correspondingly altered electric currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Roland Pohle, Elfriede Simon, Oliver von Sicard
  • Patent number: 11990859
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mounting device (MD) for a photovoltaic (PV) module, a connecting element (CE) for a mounting device (MD), a mounting structure (MS) comprising a mounting device (MD) and a photovoltaic (PV) module, an array of mounting structures (MS) comprising two or more mounting structures (MS), a polypropylene copolymer composition for a mounting device (MD) of a photovoltaic (PV) module as well as a polypropylene homopolymer composition for a connecting element (CE) for a mounting device (MD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Borealis AG
    Inventors: Nelson Franco, Marcelo Giorgetti
  • Patent number: 11984171
    Abstract: A memory system configured to dynamically adjust the amount of redundant information stored in memory cells of a wordline on an integrated circuit die based on a bit error rate. For example, in response to a determination that a bit error rate of the wordline is above a threshold, the memory system can store first data items as independent first codewords of an error correction code technique into a first portion of the memory cells of the wordline, generate second data items as redundant information from the first codewords, and store the second data items in a second portion of the memory cells of the wordline. If the bit error rate is below the threshold, third data items can be stored as independent second codewords of the same length as the first codewords in the memory cells of the wordline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: James Fitzpatrick, Phong Sy Nguyen, Dung Viet Nguyen, Sivagnanam Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 11984846
    Abstract: A power conversion circuit is used in a solar array suitable for, e.g., roadside adjacent installation. The power conversion circuit includes an inverter with a first stage electrically coupled to one or more solar panels. A third stage of the circuit has a DC to AC converter that provides less than a 50 VAC load voltage to a load, and a second stage that is coupled between the first and third stages and provides an isolated electrical power coupling therebetween. A sync interface communicatively couples a controller to other controllers dedicated to one or more other respective inverters of the solar array via a sync signal. The controllers synchronize the third stages of the inverters via the sync signal. The third stages of the inverters are coupled in series to provide a load output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: NDSU Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mijia Yang, Dong Cao, Yao Yu
  • Patent number: 11985804
    Abstract: A package that includes a substrate, a first integrated device coupled to the substrate, a first block device coupled to the substrate, a second encapsulation layer encapsulating the first integrated device and the first block device. The first block device includes a first electrical component, a second electrical component, a first encapsulation layer at least partially encapsulating the first electrical component and the second electrical component, and a first metal layer coupled to the first encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Anirudh Bhat, Jay Scott Salmon
  • Patent number: 11984827
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus configured to convert an input power supplied from a power supply to an output alternating-current power having a predetermined voltage and a predetermined frequency is provided. The motor control apparatus includes an inverter circuit configured to supply the output alternating-current power to a motor, and is configured to perform a control to suppress an amplitude of a first harmonic component that occurs synchronously with a rotation rate of the motor in a power input into the motor to be lower than or equal to a predetermined value and to suppress an amplitude of a second harmonic component that occurs in an electromagnetic exciting force of the motor at a same frequency as the first harmonic component to be lower than the amplitude of the second harmonic component in a case of the amplitude of the first harmonic component being suppressed to a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakata, Takayuki Miyajima, Nobuo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11984845
    Abstract: A light wave (solar) collector apparatus includes a preferably parabolic mirror configured to direct solar energy towards a secondary reflector, then through a gap in the mirror, and towards one or more secondary mirrors, each of the secondary mirrors positioned to direct the solar energy towards a solar collection target. The subsequent diversion achieved by the solar collector apparatus allows collection of solar energy several times denser than natural sunlight, and can be captured using a substantially compact system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventor: Richard Lambrecht
  • Patent number: 11985765
    Abstract: A power adapter includes a circuit board, an electromagnetic interference filter, a shielding element, a power factor correction (PFC) inductor, a transformer and heating elements. The circuit board has a front side and a back side corresponding to each other, and a first long side and a second long side parallel to each other. The front side of the circuit board is divided into a first region, a second region and a third region along an extending direction of the first long side. The electromagnetic interference filter is disposed in the first region and close to the first long side. The shielding element is disposed in the first region and close to the electromagnetic interference filter. The PFC inductor is disposed in the first region of the circuit board and close to the second long side. The PFC inductor has a first long axis. The transformer is disposed in the third region and close to the first long side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: FSP TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Che-Min Lin, Chia-Hua Liu, Ching-Kai Lin
  • Patent number: 11984836
    Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes: an excitation unit configured to excite a plurality of excitation phases of each of a plurality of motors that include first to Nth motors and a control unit configured to control the excitation unit so as to perform detection excitation processing for sequentially exciting the plurality of excitation phases for each excitation cycle during each excitation period, regarding each of the first to Nth motors, and thereby detect rotor positions of the respective first to Nth motors. When detecting rotor positions of the respective first to Nth motors, the control unit delays a start timing of the detection excitation processing of at least one motor out of the first to Nth motors relative to a start timing of the detection excitation processing of another motor by a period shorter than the excitation period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eijiro Ohashi, Takuya Miyashita, Yasukazu Maeda
  • Patent number: 11984844
    Abstract: A solar assembly is provided comprising a frame, a transparent panel mounted within the frame, with the frame forming a boundary about the transparent panel, and at least one solar cell mounted on the transparent panel. At least a portion of the transparent panel forms a boundary between the frame and the solar cell. As such, a visual clear glass boundary may be formed between the solar cell and the frame of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Grouphug, Inc.
    Inventors: Krystal Persaud, Geof Lipman
  • Patent number: 11978510
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to memory devices and methods of forming the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to resistive random-access (ReRAM) memory devices incorporating reference cells for achieving high sensing yield. The present disclosure provides a memory device including a main cell structure including a switching element arranged between a pair of conductors, and a reference cell structure electrically coupled to the main cell structure. The reference cell structure includes a switching element arranged between a pair of conductors, in which the switching element of the reference cell structure has a dimension that is different from a dimension of the switching element of the main cell structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Curtis Chun-I Hsieh, Wei-Hui Hsu, Wanbing Yi, Yi Jiang, Kai Kang, Juan Boon Tan
  • Patent number: 11978971
    Abstract: Toolless Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) installation systems and methods employ a bolster plate with a generally flat, parallelepiped body portion configured to contact one surface of a CAMM Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and provide compression between the CAMM and a z-axis compression connector. The bolster plate body defines (a) ramped keyhole(s), each ramped keyhole converts lateral displacement of the bolster plate into vertical displacement, providing the compression between the CAMM and the z-axis compression connector, by the ramped keyhole(s) sliding along (a) bottom face(s) of (a) head(s) of (a) fixed standoff(s) extending from an information handling system (IHS) PCB, through the z-axis compression connector and the CAMM PCB. The bolster plate may lock in place, laterally displaced, to maintain the compression between the CAMM and the z-axis compression connector. The bolster plate may also have a flange portion extending generally perpendicular from the body portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Glenn Chiappe, Jason Scott Morrison