Patents Examined by T. Dinh
  • Patent number: 11263508
    Abstract: An assembly for a solid-state drive (SSD) includes a base printed circuit board having a PCIe adapter form factor, and at least one U.2 connector that is capable of being connected to a NGSFF device. The NGSFF device includes an NGSFF PCB, a first PCIe connector and a second PCIe connector. The NGSFF PCB is capable of receiving at least one SSD device and includes a first end and a second end in which the first end is opposite the second end. The first PCIe connector is at an edge of the first end of the NGSFF PCB and is capable of physical insertion into the at least one U.2 connector on the base PCB, and the second PCIe connector is at an edge of the second end of the NGSFF PCB and is capable of receiving a first PCIe connector of another NGSFF PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Inventor: Zhan Ping
  • Patent number: 11261647
    Abstract: A movable barrier opener system having a brushless DC motor is provided. The movable barrier opener system may have a power supply unit with a drive circuit power module and a storage bank. The storage bank may be chargeable by the drive circuit power module and may be connectable to the drive assembly to provide electrical power to the drive assembly to move the movable barrier. The drive circuit power module may be selectably turned on and off to improve efficiency of power consumption by turning off during periods of lowered demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GMI HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Greg Matias, Brent Buescher, Jr., Dan Punchak
  • Patent number: 11258395
    Abstract: A voltage comparator and a programmable counter coupled to a high-speed clock are used to provide a near constant delay time for use in a closed-loop system. The voltage comparator input-output time delay is characterized at a certain temperature and operating voltage then variances in the voltage comparator delay times over a range of operating temperatures and voltages are measured and/or extrapolated. A number of clock pulses used for a delay time count are programmed into the programmable counter to provide for a near constant delay time from a change at the input of the voltage comparator to a change at the output of the programmable counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Incorporated
    Inventor: Ajay Kumar
  • Patent number: 11258381
    Abstract: A motor driving circuit for a single phase motor and a motor driving method for the same are provided. The motor driving circuit includes a motor driver, a Hall sensor, a Hall commutation detection circuit, a period recording circuit, a motor current detection circuit, a cut-off angle adjustment circuit, an angle calculation circuit and a control circuit. The motor current detection circuit detects a motor current value at a commutation point after the single phase motor operates normally. The cut-off angle adjustment circuit generates a cut-off angle adjustment signal indicating a cut-off adjustment angle according to the motor current value when the single phase motor passes the commutation point. The control circuit processes the commutation signal and the cut-off signal generated by the angle calculation circuit to generate a control signal group to control the motor driver to generate an output signal group to drive the motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: ANPEC ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kun-Min Chen, Ching-Shan Lu
  • Patent number: 11259407
    Abstract: According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a first electrical structure disposed in an internal space of the electronic device; and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) comprising a first fastening area and an extension area extended from the first fastening area, the first fastening area electrically connected to the first electrical structure, wherein the FPCB further comprises: a dielectric substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface facing in a direction opposite to that of the first surface and facing the first electrical structure; a first conductive layer disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate; and a first protective layer stacked on the first conductive layer, in the extension area and terminating in the first fastening area; wherein the first fastening area comprises a screw through hole for screw fastening, and at least one conductive via disposed at a periphery of the screw through hole extending from the dielectric substrate to the first co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jongwan Shim, Bumhee Bae, Younho Kim
  • Patent number: 11257547
    Abstract: Provided is an operation method for a memory device, the operation method comprising: performing an erase operation; performing a verify-read operation on a memory cell to generate a cell current, the memory cell including a first transistor and a second transistor; checking whether the cell current is lower than a first cell current threshold; when the cell current is not lower than the first cell current threshold, increasing a memory gate voltage until the cell current is lower than the first cell current threshold, wherein the memory gate voltage is applied to the first transistor; fixing the memory gate voltage and increasing a drain voltage; checking whether the cell current is lower than a second cell current threshold; and if the cell current is not lower than the second cell current threshold, increasing the drain voltage until the cell current is lower than the second cell current threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tzu-Hsuan Hsu, Po-Kai Hsu, Teng-Hao Yeh, Hang-Ting Lue
  • Patent number: 11248301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a photo-electrochemical device for production of a gas, liquid or solid using concentrated electromagnetic irradiation. The device comprises a photovoltaic component configured to generate charge carriers from the concentrated electromagnetic irradiation; and an electrochemical component configured to carry out electrolysis of a reactant. The photovoltaic component contacts the electrochemical component at a solid interface to form an integrated photo-electrochemical device; and further includes at least one reactant channel or a plurality of reactant channels extending between the photovoltaic component and the electrochemical component to transfer heat and the reactant from the photovoltaic component to the electrochemical component. The integrated photo-electrochemical device and auxiliary devices (such as concentrator, flow controllers) build a system which can flexibly react to changes in operating condition and guarantee best performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
    Inventors: Saurabh Tembhurne, Meng Lin, Sophia Haussener
  • Patent number: 11250909
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes memory cells coupled to a word line and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to read, from the memory cells, data including at least one partial data; determine whether or not the partial data includes an error; output, if it is determined that the partial data includes an error, the data to a memory controller; further determine, if it is determined that the partial data does not include an error, whether or not the partial data satisfies a condition; output, if it is determined that the partial data satisfies the condition, the partial data to the memory controller; and not output, if it is determined that the partial data does not satisfy the condition, the partial data to the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Tomoya Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11251727
    Abstract: The electric motor control device includes a rotation angle correction amount calculation unit that, based on a rotation angle signal for an alternating current electric motor output from an angle sensor and a current detection signal for the alternating current electric motor output from a detector, calculates a rotation angle correction amount to correct a rotation angle error between the rotation angle signal and a magnetic pole position of the alternating current electric motor, wherein the rotation angle correction amount calculation unit, based on a current detection signal when a short circuit is caused between winding terminals of the alternating current electric motor, calculates at least either one rotation angle correction amount of a direct current component rotation angle correction amount and an alternating current component rotation angle correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Iezawa, Yasufumi Ogawa, Yoshihiko Kimpara, Daiki Matsuura, Jun Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11250925
    Abstract: A ground bounce generator includes a resistor and at least one switch coupled in parallel with the resistor. The ground bounce generator is in a device under test circuit including a source, at least one ground bounce generator, at least one device under test, and a ground. The device under test is coupled in series between the source and the ground bounce generator. The device under test and the ground bounce generator are coupled in series between the source and the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wu-Der Yang
  • Patent number: 11244708
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a connector, a volatile semiconductor memory element, multiple nonvolatile semiconductor memory elements, and a controller. A wiring pattern includes a signal line that is formed between the connector and the controller and that connects the connector to the controller. On the opposite side of the controller to the signal line, the multiple nonvolatile semiconductor memory elements are aligned along the longitudinal direction of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Sugita, Naoki Kimura, Daisuke Kimura
  • Patent number: 11244736
    Abstract: Provided herein is a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device may include a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to verify a program operation on the plurality of memory cells using a first verify voltage; and a control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to suspend the program operation in response to a suspend command and verify the program operation on the plurality of memory cells using a second verify voltage in response to a resume command input after the suspend command. The second verify voltage may have a lower voltage level than the first verify voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Hwang, Kyu Sub Yoon
  • Patent number: 11241689
    Abstract: Devices and methods are provided for the separation and dispensing of material using a microfluidic electrophoresis column, sheath liquid pump, and exit channel, all on the same monolithic chip. Material is separated in the electrophoresis column and passed into the exit chamber in response to a voltage potential between a first electrode within the electrophoresis column and a terminating electrode integrated into the chip. The terminating electrode can be in the sheath liquid pump chamber, the sheath liquid reservoir, or a separate flow channel that intersects the exit channel along with the electrophoresis column and sheath liquid pump chamber. The flow of sheath liquid into the exit chamber entrains separated analytes into an effluent that is dispensed out of the exit chamber via a discharge outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: LI-COR, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Furtaw, Donald T. Lamb
  • Patent number: 11244740
    Abstract: A first sequence of operations corresponding to an error recovery process of a memory sub-system is determined. A value corresponding to an operating characteristic of the memory sub-system is determined. The value is compared to a threshold level corresponding to the first sequence of operations to determine whether a condition is satisfied. In response to satisfying the first condition, a second sequence of operations corresponding to the error recovery process is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhongguang Xu, Murong Lang, Zhenming Zhou
  • Patent number: 11239788
    Abstract: A motor driving device includes an inverter to supply an alternating current, a switch unit that switches the number of at least one permanent magnet synchronous motor to which the alternating current is supplied from the inverter, a detector to detect a detection value corresponding to the alternating current supplied to the at least one permanent magnet synchronous motor, and a control device to control the inverter and the switch unit. The control device sets an overcurrent interruption threshold value at a value based on the number. When the detection value is greater than or equal to the overcurrent interruption threshold value, the control device makes the inverter stop the supplying of the alternating current to the at least one permanent magnet synchronous motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Tsuchiya, Keisuke Uemura, Kazunori Hatakeyama, Yuichi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11238945
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices that support techniques for programming self-selecting memory are described. Received data may include a first group of bits that each have a first logic value and a second group of bits that each have a second logic value. The first and second group of bits may be stored in a first set of memory cells and a second set of memory cells, respectively. A first programming operation for writing the second logic value to both the first and second set of memory cells and verifying whether the second logic value is written to each of the first set of memory cells, the second set of memory cells, or both may be performed. A second programming operation may write the first logic value to either the first set of memory cells or the second set of memory cells based on a result of the verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Umberto Di Vincenzo
  • Patent number: 11239792
    Abstract: The deployable solar tracker system comprises a single-axis solar tracker (1) including a plurality of foldable panel array sections (10, 10a). Each foldable panel array section (10, 10a) comprises a shaft section (11), a plurality of support ribs (12) hinged to the shaft section (11), a plurality of solar panels (13) attached to the support ribs (12) and a handling element (28) attached on top of the shaft section (11). The handling element (28) has one or more handle openings (29, 30) dimensioned for receiving one or more lift members oriented in a transversal direction perpendicular to the shaft section (11). The handle openings (29, 30) of the handling elements (28) of the plurality of the foldable panel array sections (10, 10a) are mutually aligned when the plurality of foldable panel array sections (10, 10a) are arranged in a shipping arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas McGregor James Grant
  • Patent number: 11240921
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to a display device and an electronic device including the same, and for example, to a display device with a filler flow restricting structure for preventing and/or reducing part of a filler from projecting to the outside of the display device in the process of manufacturing the display device and an electronic device including the same. According to an embodiment, a display device comprises a window, a first substrate spaced apart from the window member to define a space, an optical adhesive disposed between the window and the first substrate and configured to attach the window with the first substrate, and a filler flow restricting structure disposed in the space between the window member and the first substrate and formed in a specified area of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seongju Cho, Jooyoung Kang, Jonghwa Kim
  • Patent number: 11231434
    Abstract: A sensor unit includes a circuit board including, on a first surface, a plurality of electrode pads to which a plurality of mounting terminals of an inertial sensor are respectively attached via connecting members. The first surface of the circuit board includes an insulating layer provided on the outer side of the plurality of electrode pads in a plan view, includes, in a portion overlapping a center region further on the inner side than the mounting terminals of the inertial sensor in the plan view, a first region where the insulating layer is not provided, and includes, from the first region to the outer side of the inertial sensor in the plan view, a second region where the insulating layer is not provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventors: Taketo Chino, Yoshikuni Saito
  • Patent number: 11233474
    Abstract: A rotating machine drive system includes: a rotating machine that includes a plurality of windings; a phase current detecting circuit that detects a phase current to be supplied to the rotating machine; an inverter device that includes an inverter circuit that converts DC power from a DC power supply into AC power, and a control device that controls power conversion being performed by an inverter main circuit on the basis of the phase current detected by the phase current detecting circuit, the inverter device operating the rotating machine at a variable speed; and a winding switching device that switches connections of the plurality of windings in accordance with a command from the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akeshi Takahashi, Yoshitaka Iwaji, Shinji Sugimoto