Patents Examined by Thiem Phan
  • Patent number: 9934908
    Abstract: In an aligning device, in plan view, a first recess of a first transfer jig allows an entire region of a second recess of the first transfer jig to be situated within the first recess of the first transfer jig by a predetermined interval. When the first transfer jig and the second transfer jig overlap each other, the first recess of the second transfer jig allows the entire region of the second recess of the first transfer jig to be situated within the first recess of the second transfer jig by a predetermined interval. With the alignment object being transferred into a cavity of the first transfer jig, by causing the first transfer jig and the second transfer jig to overlap each other, the alignment object is transferred from the cavity of the first transfer jig to a cavity of the second transfer jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kotaro Shimizu, Masaharu Sano
  • Patent number: 9921085
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing a fiber optic sensor by properly clocking or rotationally orienting a window with a fiber optic focuser. This method may include shining light through the focuser into the window and receiving with a reflectometer a first reflection from a first surface of the window and a second reflection from a second surface of the window. Next, the method may include calculating a delta of intensities between the first and second reflections, and then rotating an orientation of the window to a next rotational orientation. The steps of rotating the orientation of the window, receiving reflections, and calculating their delta may be repeated any plurality of times to solve for a plurality of deltas. Then, the method may include the steps of determining which one of the deltas is the largest and fixing the window to the focuser at a rotational orientation associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ryand Jeremy Ferguson Tucker
  • Patent number: 9918783
    Abstract: An end effector assembly for use with an electrosurgical instrument is provided. The end effector assembly has a pair of opposing jaw members. One or more of the jaw members includes a support base, an electrical jaw lead, and a sealing plate coupled to the electrical jaw lead. The sealing plate has a stainless steel layer and one or more piezo electric sensors. The jaw member also includes an insulative plate disposed between the support base and the sealing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Glenn A. Horner, Christina A. Oliver, Kim V. Brandt
  • Patent number: 9923273
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing and turning a near field communication antenna is provided. A method for manufacturing and tuning a near field communication antenna comprising loading one or more ferrite substrates onto a workstation, loading an antenna biscuit onto the workstation, the antenna biscuit comprising one or more interconnected antennas, stamping the antenna biscuit to form one or more individual antennas, applying the one or more individual antennas to the one or more ferrite substrates to form one or more antenna assemblies, and adjusting placement of the one or more individual antennas relative to the ferrite substrates to adjust functional properties of the one or more antenna assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: A.K. Stamping Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Kurz, Bernard Duetsch
  • Patent number: 9921619
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a component bay having an operational height and an expanded height. The component bay is moveable between the operational height and the expanded height. A thermal element divides the component bay into one or more compartments, each compartment configured to receive a system component. The component bay at the operational height provides thermal contact between the received system component and the thermal element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bret P. Elison, Phillip V. Mann, Arden L. Moore, Arvind K. Sinha
  • Patent number: 9917493
    Abstract: A molding apparatus and method for fixing permanent magnets in a rotor core during production of drive motors for environmental vehicles, in which the permanent magnets, which are inserted into magnet insertion apertures of the rotor core, are aligned at identical positions with respect to the axial direction of the rotor core, thus contributing to an improvement in the performance of the drive motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jae Young Kie, Kwang Kyeong Sung
  • Patent number: 9908486
    Abstract: An objective is to provide a manufacturing method and a manufacturing device for a wire harness, and the wire harness and a retention component manufactured thereby, the wire harness including a wiring bundle, a retention portion configured to retain the wiring bundle, and an engagement portion to be attached to a vehicle body, the manufacturing method and the manufacturing device being capable of efficiently manufacturing the wire harness and being applicable to engagement portions having different shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: DAIWA KASEI INDUSTRY CO., LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Suzuki, Yuusuke Ito, Yousuke Ogino, Kentaro Furuki
  • Patent number: 9904385
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a film substrate defined by a touch active area and a non-touch active area and the touch area is arranged outside the touch active area. The touch screen panel includes a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged in the touch active area on an upper surface and a lower surface of the film substrate, and outer lines arranged in the non-touch active area on the upper and the lower surfaces of the film substrate. The outer lines are connected to the sensing electrodes along one of a first direction and a second direction, and the outer lines include a transparent electrode layer and a plating layer on the transparent electrode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Hirai, Mikiya Itakura, Dong Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 9907167
    Abstract: A printed circuit board with high-capacity copper circuit includes a conductive trace, a first protecting layer, and a second protecting layer formed on opposite sides of the conductive trace. The conductive trace includes a base conductive trace pattern, a first conductive trace pattern, and a second conductive trace pattern. The first and second conductive trace patterns are directly formed on opposite surfaces of the base copper conductive trace pattern. A trace width of the first conductive trace pattern is the same as a line width of the second conductive trace pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignees: Avary Holding (Shenzhen) Co., Limited., HongQiSheng Precision Electronics (QinHuangDao) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Bo Xu, Peng Wu, Jian-Quan Shen, Ke-Jian Wu
  • Patent number: 9886112
    Abstract: A pressing pad for assembling a display module by applying a pressure to a flexible display panel to attach the flexible display panel to a window member and a method of assembling a display module, the pressing pad including a first pressing part that applies a first pressure onto a display area of the flexible display panel; a second pressing part that applies a second pressure onto a pad area of the flexible display panel, the second pressure being less than the first pressure and the pad area of the flexible display panel being adjacent to the display area of the flexible display panel; and a support part that supports the first and second pressing parts, wherein the second pressing part has a height from the support part that is less than a height of the first pressing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Namkung, Yonghoon Won, Yonghoon Chun
  • Patent number: 9887056
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a relay for an electric vehicle and a method of manufacturing the same, and more particularly, a relay for an electric vehicle where a permanent magnet is integrally formed with a housing formed of a ceramic chamber, and a method of manufacturing the same. The relay, capable of rapidly executing current interruption includes: a fixed contact; a movable contact formed to contact or to be separated from the fixed contact; a shaft connected to the movable contact, and configured to move the movable contact; a housing configured to accommodate therein the fixed contact and the movable contact; an actuator configured to drive the shaft; and a permanent magnet integrally formed with the housing, and configured to extend an arc generated between the fixed contact and the movable contact. The permanent magnet includes an alnico-based material or a neodymium-based material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kwangsik Lee
  • Patent number: 9876306
    Abstract: A method for producing a modular electrical connector assembly for a vehicle control unit, the connector assembly having a module carrier and at least two connector modules disposed side-by-side on the carrier. Each connector module has a connector housing collar and a plurality of contact elements disposed in a contact area within the connector housing collar. First, one of the connector modules is placed in an opening in the module carrier and positioned precisely relative to the module carrier. The connector module is pressed with a hold-down device against the module carrier retained in a holding device. In this state, the connector module is laser-welded to the carrier in an attachment region with a laser beam. Laser welding permits a reliably stable and fluid-tight, material-locking connection between the components, and an advantageous, space-saving placement of the attachment region laterally within the collar, with higher manufacturing precision and small manufacturing tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer Kaesser, Dieter Ludwig, Hubert Hickl, Guido Bernd Finnah
  • Patent number: 9876291
    Abstract: A method for the tension proof closing of the end of an energy cable in which an energy cable is used whose center axis containing the electrical transmission elements is surrounded by a tension proof reinforcement of metal wires. Initially, the reinforcement at the end of the energy cable is removed over a predetermined length. Subsequently, a pipe piece of metal, which tightly surrounds the end of the remaining reinforcement, is placed onto the end of the remaining reinforcement. Finally, a cup shaped tubular elongated sleeve of metal is pushed onto the end of the energy cable and is connected in a tension proof manner to the pipe piece which has, at its free end facing away from the pipe piece, a device suitable for mounting a tension element. In addition, a device manufactured by the method is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Volker Aue, Eduard Schramm
  • Patent number: 9875827
    Abstract: A method for producing an insulated electric wire comprises a first step of processing a copper alloy containing a tin and inevitable impurities into a fine wire having a diameter of 0.21 mm±0.008 mm, the tin being 0.30 wt % or more and 0.39 wt % or less, a second step of annealing the fine wire obtained in the first step so as to refine the fine wire to have an extension coefficient of 10% or more and 25% or less and a tensile strength of 300 MPa or more and 400 MPa or less, and a third step of twisting the seven fine wires having undergone the second step with a twist pitch of 15 mm±6 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoru Yoshinaga, Satoshi Yamano
  • Patent number: 9872398
    Abstract: A method and structure are provided for implementing enhanced via creation without creating a via barrel stub. The need to backdrill during printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing is eliminated. After the vias have been drilled, but before plating, a via plug with a specialized geometry and including a capillary is inserted into each via to allow electroplating on only preferred wall surfaces of the vias. Then a board plating process of the PCB manufacturing is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew S. Doyle, Joseph Kuczynski, Phillip V. Mann, Kevin M. O'Connell
  • Patent number: 9871430
    Abstract: Provided are an insertion method and an insertion apparatus for efficiently and reliably inserting a plurality of coil elements aligned in a ring shape into respective slots of a stator core. In an insertion method of inserting, the insertion method includes a coil element alignment process S3 of forming an assembly body 50 by assembling the plurality of coil elements 40 in a ring shape in the state where the turn portions 42 alternately overlap each other, a supporting process S42 of supporting the assembly body 50 by using the turn portions 42, and an insertion process S45 of allowing the assembly body 50 and the stator core 60 to be close to each other and inserting the leg portions 41 of the coil elements 40 of the assembly body 50 into the slots 61.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Kenichi Ohno, Yutaka Matsumoto, Shinichi Kawano, Daisuke Ueno
  • Patent number: 9865396
    Abstract: A capacitor includes: dielectric layers including a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, and at least one intermediate dielectric layer laminated between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer; first interlayer electrode and second interlayer electrode arranged alternately with each other between at least two layers among the dielectric layers; a first external electrode disposed on lateral surfaces of the dielectric layers and coupled to the first interlayer electrode; and a second external electrode disposed on lateral surfaces of the dielectric layers and coupled to the second interlayer electrode, wherein the intermediate dielectric layer includes first internal electrodes coupled to the first interlayer electrode, arranged in a plane direction of the intermediate dielectric layer and spaced apart from each other, and second internal electrodes coupled to the second interlayer electrode, arranged alternately with the first internal electrodes and spaced apart from the fir
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomokazu Nakashima, Masayuki Itoh
  • Patent number: 9867320
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for mounting an electronic component having a plurality of board insert type leads on a board. The apparatus includes a mounting head having a first chuck unit which chucks one of the plurality of leads of the electronic component, a second chuck unit which chucks another one of the plurality of leads and a position adjusting unit which changes relative positions of the first chuck unit and the second chuck unit to hold the electronic component, and a mounting head moving unit which moves the mounting head to insert the leads of the electronic component held by the mounting head respectively into lead insert holes provided in the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Watanabe, Shigeki Imafuku, Toshiyuki Koyama
  • Patent number: 9859775
    Abstract: A method for forming a concentric winding coil in which a coil end portion protruding from an axial end face of a stator core has a plurality of different nonlinear shapes, from a rectangular conductor wound in a predetermined number of turns, the method including forming the coil end portion into the plurality of different nonlinear shapes in one step by causing a die to make a stroke movement in a predetermined direction with respect to the rectangular conductor being set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: AISIN AW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Hashimoto, Masaki Saito, Tokuhisa Mishina, Shinya Shimizu
  • Patent number: 9832920
    Abstract: A method for equipping printed circuit boards on an equipping machine, the printed circuit boards being of a first length, and the equipping machine being realized to equip printed circuit boards of a second length, the second length being more than twice as great as the first length. The equipping machine has an input section (1) and an equipping section (2), the equipping section (2) being disposed after the input section (1) in a direction of conveyance (F) of the printed circuit boards, disposed after the input section (1) in a direction of conveyance of the printed circuit boards, the printed circuit boards of the first length and the printed circuit boards of the second length being transportable, in their longitudinal direction, from the input section (1) into the equipping station (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: ASM ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Franz Heuberger, Rudolf Kiener, Christian Meissner