Patents Examined by Thai Pham
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Patent number: 11930575Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a lamp lighting assembly and lighting fixture. The lamp lighting assembly includes an anti-lightning-strike rectifier module, a high-voltage linear drive module, and a lighting module. The anti-lightning-strike rectifier module includes a first input terminal and a first output terminal, to convert an input current/input voltage of the first input terminal into a safe current/safe voltage and output the safe current/safe voltage to the first output terminal, and the anti-lightning-strike rectifier module is soldered to a pluggable fiberglass board. The high-voltage linear drive module includes a second input terminal and a second output terminal, the second input terminal is electrically connected to the first output terminal, and the second output terminal is electrically connected with the lighting module to drive the lighting module to work, and the high-voltage linear drive module and the lighting module are arranged on a substrate outside the fiberglass board.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignees: OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD., SUZHOU OPPLE LIGHTING CO., LTD.Inventor: Xianjiang Diao
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Patent number: 11920760Abstract: Systems and methods for adaptive energy storage in an illumination system are disclosed herein. An example method includes (1) obtaining, by one or more processors, data stored at a memory of a illumination unit; (2) obtaining, by one or more processors, a temperature value from a temperature sensor; (3) analyzing, by one or more processors, the obtained data and the temperature value to determine a minimum capacitor voltage to operate LEDs in accordance with an illumination cycle; and (4) control, by one or more processors, a voltage controller to convert an input voltage to the voltage controller to the determined minimum capacitor voltage, wherein the voltage controller is configured to apply the determined minimum capacitor voltage to a capacitor.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Zebra Technologies CorporationInventors: Joseph S. Slowik, Christopher P. Klicpera
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Patent number: 11924940Abstract: The present application provides a lighting apparatus, including a lighting apparatus body and a control circuit built in the lighting apparatus body, where the lighting apparatus body includes a plurality of LED lamps; the control circuit includes a motor drive sub-circuit and an LED drive sub-circuit, and the LED drive sub-circuit is connected to the LED lamps, and configured to provide an LED drive signal for the LED lamps; and the motor drive sub-circuit is configured to be connected to a load motor outside the lighting apparatus body, so as to provide a motor drive signal for the load motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Star Mount Enterprise LimitedInventors: Xiang Hua Huang, Shou Cheng Wu, Aaron O'Brien
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Patent number: 11923720Abstract: An emergency light includes a lighting module configured for emitting lights, an input unit configured for receiving a power supply voltage from a home power supply, a normal driving module connected to the input unit to receive the power supply voltage and configured to output a first driving signal to drive the lighting module emit lights when the home power supply is normal; and an emergency control and battery module connected to the two input terminals and the lighting module. The emergency control and battery module is configured for detecting the alternating voltage of the input unit and a resistance value between the two input terminals to determine whether the home power supply failure occurs. When the home power supply failure occurs, the emergency control and battery module provides a second driving signal to drive the lighting module emit lights.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventor: Xiaoli Liu
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Patent number: 11917734Abstract: An example circuit includes a substrate having a plurality of scan lines substantially orthogonal to a virtual centerline of the substrate. The circuit also includes a first driver integrated circuit (IC) on the substrate, the first driver IC including: a set of line switches coupled to a first set of the plurality of scan lines along a side of the first driver IC nearest the virtual centerline; a data output and a register. The circuit also includes a second driver IC on the substrate, the second driver IC including: a set of line switches coupled to a second set of the plurality of scan lines along a side of the second IC nearest the virtual centerline; and a data input coupled to the data output of the first driver IC.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Shang Ding, Huibo Zhong, Bin Hu
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Patent number: 11915916Abstract: A high temperature plasma generating system has a magnetron joined to a frustoconical waveguide reflector. An antenna is set on a cavity magnetron tube and extends the length of the antenna. Applying electrical power to the magnetron creates multipactor in the frustoconical waveguide reflector, generating plasma focused at the tip of the extended magnetron antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventor: Eric Benjamin Frederick Gilbert
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Patent number: 11909104Abstract: The disclosure relates to antennas for use in satellite positioning systems and other wireless bands. An antenna may include a UV resistance treated Polymethylpentene housing having enhanced dielectric properties.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SeeScan, Inc.Inventors: Stephanie M. Bench, Mark S. Olsson
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Patent number: 11909132Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) adopting an edge antenna which designs an antenna pattern in an edge region of the PCB to generate a beam pattern generated from the antenna pattern not in a vertical direction to an antenna plane but in a lateral direction of the PCB, thereby enabling face-to-face communication between large-area battery packs laterally adjacent to each other, and a battery including battery packs having the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventor: Changjoo Lee
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Patent number: 11909130Abstract: An antenna structure includes a first antenna radiator, a second antenna radiator, and a first impedance matching circuit. The first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator are disposed in a laminated or opposite manner, and a gap exists between the first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator. The length of the first antenna radiator is greater than that of the second antenna radiator, and the resonant frequency band of the first antenna radiator is smaller than that of the second antenna radiator. The first end of the first antenna radiator is grounded, a first feeding point is provided on the first antenna radiator. The first end of the second antenna radiator is grounded, a second feeding point is provided on the second antenna radiator, and the second feeding point is connected to a second signal source.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.Inventor: Rihui Li
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Patent number: 11901621Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a power transmission coil and a power transmission circuit that performs wireless power transmission to another communication apparatus at a predetermined power transmission frequency via the power transmission coil. The other communication apparatus includes a power reception coil coupled to the power transmission coil with at least either of an electric field or a magnetic field. In addition, the communication apparatus includes a receiving antenna and a receiving circuit that receives via the receiving antenna a signal transmitted from the other communication apparatus via a transmitting antenna of the other communication apparatus. Furthermore, the communication apparatus includes a filter circuit that suppresses a signal of the power transmission frequency, which is to be input from the receiving antenna to the receiving circuit due to the wireless power transmission by the power transmission circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yuki Shoji
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Patent number: 11901617Abstract: Provided is a miniaturized ultra-low frequency antenna, including upper layer positive and negative electrodes, middle layer positive and negative electrodes and lower layer positive and negative electrodes, and a polyvinylidene fluoride column. The polyvinylidene fluoride column is respectively connected with the upper layer positive and negative electrodes, the middle layer positive and negative electrodes and the lower layer positive and negative electrodes. The polyvinylidene fluoride column is coated with stress electromagnetic conversion material layers. The upper layer positive and negative electrodes, the middle layer positive and negative electrodes and the lower layer positive and negative electrodes drive the polyvinylidene fluoride column to generate a deflection force through a voltage, and the stress electromagnetic conversion material layers are prompted to radiate electromagnetic waves and radiate under an action of the deflection force.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: ANHUI UNIVERSITYInventors: Yingsong Li, Zhixiang Huang
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Patent number: 11901622Abstract: An example antenna monitoring device according to the disclosed principles is provided with an intermodulation distortion mitigation component. An example intermodulation distortion mitigation component may include a backplate for the antenna monitoring device. The back plate may be made of a substance such as aluminum and may be relatively thin (e.g., in the order of 0.5 mm thickness). When the antenna receives signals, the backplate may block signals with intermodulation distortions from reaching the antenna. When the antenna is to transmit signals, the backplate may block the transmitted signals passing through the antenna monitoring device thereby avoiding the introduction of intermodulation distortion.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Thomas Sevilla
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Patent number: 11903321Abstract: A device for producing a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma and a method for operating a piezoelectric transformer are disclosed. In an embodiment a device includes a piezoelectric transformer, a driver circuit configured to apply an input signal to the piezoelectric transformer and a field probe configured to measure a field strength of an electric field produced by the piezoelectric transformer at a measurement point, wherein the driver circuit is configured to adapt the input signal while taking into account measurement results of the field probe, and wherein the device is configured to produce a non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TDK Electronics AGInventor: Goran Miskovic
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Patent number: 11894618Abstract: An antenna device includes a strip conductor layer, a radiation conductor layer continuous from the strip conductor layer, a ground conductor layer facing the strip conductor layer and the radiation conductor layer, a liquid crystal layer between the strip conductor layer and the ground conductor layer, and the radiation conductor layer and the ground conductor layer, and an alignment film between the strip conductor layer and the liquid crystal layer, and the radiation conductor layer and the liquid crystal layer. The alignment film includes a first region overlapping the strip conductor layer and a second region overlapping the radiation conductor layer, and the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the first region is different from the alignment state of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Daiichi Suzuki, Mitsutaka Okita, Emi Higano
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Patent number: 11888244Abstract: A microstrip antenna includes a first metal layer that constitutes an antenna element, a second metal layer that constitutes a ground, and a flexible member that separates the first metal layer and the second metal layer by a predetermined distance. The first metal layer and the second metal layer each are made of a metal or a metal foil. At least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer is not adhered to the flexible member but is in close contact with the flexible member by a close contact unit. The close contact unit is a clamping mechanism including a first plate, a second plate, and a connecting member. The first plate and the second plate are connected to each other by the connecting member. The connecting member is an elastic body.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Kanai, Yuki Tanaka, Ryosuke Hasaba, Haruo Hayakawa, Yoshio Koyanagi
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Patent number: 11881623Abstract: A wireless device with a slot antenna includes one or more heat spreaders, a PCB with vias to allow current to flow through the PCB, various components disposed on the PCB, and a slot antenna compliment. By layering the components, e.g., heat spreaders, PCB, slot antenna compliment, etc. one or more slot antennas are formed from these components as to integrate the slot antennas into the existing structure. The formed slot antenna is a spiraled shape as to reduce the overall footprint of the slot antenna while keeping the required quarter-wavelength total effective length of an open-slot antenna. The formed slot antenna is wide enough to allow the antenna to accommodate a wide bandwidth and may include a plurality of steps to further allow for tuning of the length of the slot antenna. The wireless device can further include a housing enclosing the internal components.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventors: Miroslav Samardzija, Arthur Tung, Ming-Tsung Su, Liem Hieu Dinh Vo
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Patent number: 11875958Abstract: A method of connecting an electric element (20) to a switch part (10) provided with a fixed contact (11a), i.e., an example of a first contact, a first terminal (12) connected to the fixed contact (11a) and exposed out of the switch part (10), a movable contact (11b), i.e., an example of a second contact, capable of moving to a position at which the movable contact (11b) is in contact with the fixed contact (11a) and a position at which the movable contact (11b) is spaced apart from the fixed contact (11a), and a second terminal (13) connected to the movable contact (11b) and exposed out of the switch part (10) includes: connecting the electric element (20) in parallel to the fixed contact (11a) and the movable contact (11b) between the first terminal (12) and the second terminal (13).Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Uchiya Thermostat Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hideaki Takeda
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Patent number: 11876306Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to an antenna formed in a chassis of a device. One example provides a wireless device comprising a chassis and a chassis antenna formed at least in part by a dielectric gap between a body of the chassis and the chassis antenna, where a first end of the chassis antenna is defined by a cut-out in the chassis and where a second end of the chassis antenna being conductively connected to a body of the chassis. The wireless device further comprises a modem, and a coupled feed connected to the modem and capacitively coupled to the chassis antenna.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Marc Harper
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Patent number: 11870131Abstract: An electronic device is provided, including: a plurality of antennas, a switch, a sensor, a wireless communication transceiver, and a processor, electrically connected to antennas, the switch, the sensor, and the wireless communication transceiver, and configured to execute an antenna selection procedure according to a scenario of the electronic device, to connect at least one of the antennas to the sensor or the wireless communication transceiver through the switch.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC.Inventors: Zhi-Hua Feng, Wei-Shao Su, Pin-Tang Chiu
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Patent number: 11870130Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die comprising a radio frequency (RF) circuit, a first dielectric layer disposed over a first surface of the semiconductor die, an antenna layer disposed over a surface of the first dielectric layer, and an antenna feeding structure coupling the antenna layer to the RF circuit of the semiconductor die, wherein the semiconductor die comprises a via, and the antenna feeding structure comprises a first portion arranged within the opening of the semiconductor die and extending to the first surface of the semiconductor die, and a second portion arranged through the first dielectric layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Eung San Cho, Ashutosh Baheti, Saverio Trotta