Patents Examined by Tho D. Ta
  • Patent number: 12170431
    Abstract: An assembly is provided. The assembly includes a component, a solder pin arranged on the component, an electrical structural unit, and a soldering point which is arranged on the electrical structural unit and forms an opening, into which the solder pin is insertable along an insertion direction in order to produce a soldered joint. The solder pin has an insertion portion which, on sides of the solder pin that face away from each other, forms insertion walls which are arranged at an acute angle to one another in such a way that the insertion portion tapers in the insertion direction. A part of the insertion portion is arranged outside the opening in such a way that one or more portions of the insertion walls extend inside the opening and one or more portions of the insertion walls extend outside the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Geske, Simon Follmann, Frank Karger
  • Patent number: 12167751
    Abstract: A smoking substitute apparatus is disclosed, having: an air inlet; an outlet; and a flow passage formed between the air inlet and the outlet. A vaporization chamber is in communication with the flow passage, the vaporization chamber having an aerosol generator configured to generate an aerosol from an aerosol precursor by heating. The aerosol generator comprises a vaporizer element loaded with aerosol precursor, the vaporizer element being heatable by a heater and presenting a vaporizer element surface to air in the vaporization chamber. The air inlet, flow passage, outlet and the vaporization chamber are configured so that the cooling rate of the vapor is such that the time taken to cool to 50° C. is not less than 16 ms under certain conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Imperial Tobacco Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Illidge, Huanghai Lu, Benjamin Astbury, Nikhil Aggarwal, John Mckeon, Stephen Jones
  • Patent number: 12166301
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of stably holding terminal fittings in a housing. A connector is provided with a housing and terminal fittings to be held in the housing. The housing includes a plurality of holes arranged in a lateral direction, the terminal fittings being arranged inside the holes, an upper wall surface and a lower wall surface constituting upper and lower regions above and below the plurality of holes arranged in the lateral direction on a rear surface of the housing, and interpolar walls partitioning between the holes adjacent in the lateral direction. Rear surfaces of the interpolar walls are located forward of the upper wall surface and the lower wall surface. The housing includes recesses, the rear surfaces of the interpolar walls serving as back surfaces of the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroko Nishii
  • Patent number: 12166315
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided including a housing retaining a plurality of terminals. The housing is mated with a mating electrical connector along a mating direction. The housing includes a receiving region receiving the mating electrical connector, a sound path adjacent to the receiving region, and a partition wall dividing the receiving region and the sound path from each other. The sound path includes an open end on a first end and a closed end on a second end along the mating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS JAPAN G.K.
    Inventor: Toshiaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 12166305
    Abstract: A female terminal is provided with a pair of connecting portions arranged to face each other across a male terminal insertion gap, a spring member held on the pair of connecting portions while sandwiching the pair of connecting portions and configured to bias the pair of connecting portions in mutually approaching directions along a facing direction, and a stopper protrusion projecting on at least one of the pair of connecting portions and configured to come into contact with the other of the pair of connecting portions to hold the male terminal insertion gap by restricting displacements of the pair of connecting portions in the approaching directions. Displacements in separating directions of the pair of connecting portions are allowed against a biasing force of the spring member, whereby a male terminal is press-fit into the male terminal insertion gap and disposed between the pair of connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Seido Nishijima
  • Patent number: 12158616
    Abstract: A composite connector includes modular data connectors, electrical power connectors, a fluid exchange connector, an alignment feature, and a housing. The modular data connectors include electrical data connectors and optical data connectors and are configured to carry data. The electrical power connectors are configured to carry electrical power, and the fluid exchange connector is configured to carry cooling fluid. The composite connector includes an alignment feature to align the composite connector with a complementary connector. The housing of the composite connector is configured to contain the modular data connectors, the electrical power connectors, the fluid exchange connector, and the alignment feature in a confined physical space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Anant Thakar, Bidyut Kanti Sen, Jayaprakash Balachandran, D. Brice Achkir, Joel Richard Goergen
  • Patent number: 12160072
    Abstract: An assembly for supporting a power strip is provided and includes a housing. The housing extends between an upper end and a lower end. The housing includes front and rear enclosures. The front enclosure includes a front wall and an interior wall. The front wall defines a front aperture. The interior wall extends from the front wall and at least partially defines an interior receptacle that is configured to receive a body of a power strip. The interior wall and the rear enclosure cooperate to enclose a body of a power strip within the interior receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Leisure Time Products, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel R. Whyman, Randall L. Day
  • Patent number: 12160944
    Abstract: Disclosed is a heating element for use with an apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material. The heating element is formed from heating material that is heatable by penetration with a varying magnetic field. First and second portions of the heating element have different respective thermal masses. Also disclosed is an apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilise at least one component of the smokable material, the apparatus including such a heating element. Further disclosed is an article for use with an apparatus for heating smokable material to volatilize at least one component of the smokable material, wherein the article includes such a heating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew P. Wilke, Benjamin J. Paprocki, Duane A. Kaufman, Thomas P. Blandino
  • Patent number: 12160066
    Abstract: A connector module, including: a housing, a connector, which is arranged in the housing, at least in part, and which has a longitudinal axis in a connecting direction to a mating connector, wherein an axial outer face of the connector with respect to the longitudinal axis is radially spaced from an opposing axial inner face of the housing, at least in part, and a sealing element, in which the sealing element is arranged in the radial clearance formed between the axial outer face of the connector and the opposing axial inner face of the housing and forms a sealing face with the axial outer face of the connector and the opposing axial inner face of the housing in each case. A related connector and method are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventor: Martin Krahl
  • Patent number: 12150481
    Abstract: An aerosol generating device includes a planar heating element including a mesh of electrically conductive fibres, a heating rod in contact with a central portion of the planar heating element to provide a central region of high current density, thereby providing a temperature gradient across the planar heating element during use, a liquid store, and a liquid transport element arranged between the liquid store and the planar heating element and configured to transport liquid from the liquid store to the planar heating element under capillary action during use, wherein the liquid transport element is arranged in contact with an edge portion of the mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: JT International S.A.
    Inventor: Claude Zominy
  • Patent number: 12152766
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for connecting a lighting unit driver (3) to a voltage supply, having a plug (1) comprising: an electric connection terminal (12) for a current supply cable; a housing (11) for receiving the electric connection terminal (12); a plug element (14) on one side of the housing (11) for producing a plug connection, wherein the plug element (14) is electrically connected to the electric connection terminal (12); and a corresponding plug element (2) which is formed directly on a housing (4) of the lighting unit driver (3) and corresponds to the plug element (14) in order to allow a form-fitting and electrically conductive plug connection between the plug element (14) of the plug (1) and the corresponding plug element (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Brandstätter, Ka Yue Anthony Wong, Simone Wagenseil
  • Patent number: 12150749
    Abstract: An accessory kit is provided for interventional procedures using a magnetic resonance imaging scanner. The accessory kit includes a patient support and an electrical connection adapter. The patient support has a first end proximal and a second end distal to the scanner. The distal end is configured to create a space to accommodate a clinician, such as narrowing of the distal end or at least one cutout on a side of the distal end. The electrical connection adapter interfaces with the scanner and a scanner table. The accessory kit is configured so that when the proximal end is extended into the scanner bore, the distal end extends outside the bore. The narrowed width and/or cutout(s) of the exposed distal end and the extended gap between the scanner and scanner table create space on at least one side of the patient support that a clinician may use to access a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel D. Coppens, Enrico Pannicke, Oliver Speck, Frank Wacker, Bennet Hensen
  • Patent number: 12142989
    Abstract: An electrical connector arrangement for a turbomachine includes a support structure and a terminal with a terminal post projecting from the support structure along an axis. The electrical connector arrangement includes a connection stack that is supported by the terminal and arranged along the axis of the terminal post. The connection stack includes a bus bar that is electrically connected to the terminal post and that extends from the terminal post and the support structure. The connection stack includes a first deformable seal member and a second deformable seal member. The first deformable seal member is deformed against the terminal post to define an inner radial seal within the connection stack. The second deformable seal member is deformed against the support structure to define an outer radial seal within the connection stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: GARRETT TRANSPORTATION I INC
    Inventors: Milan Nejedly, Petr Koplik, Vit Houst
  • Patent number: 12136789
    Abstract: Embodiments of an electrical outlet of the present invention generally include one or more sockets which include, in addition to positive, negative, and optionally, grounding electrical connections, at least one coupling/communication component, wherein AC electrical current flows through the outlet only when a plug comprising a complementary coupling/communication component is engaged with the socket, whereby the proximity of the coupling/communication component and the complementary coupling/communication component actuates the outlet to provide electrical current therethrough. In one embodiment, in lieu of a complementary coupling/communication component, a wireless transmission device is used to send a signal to the coupling/communication component to actuate the outlet. In other embodiments, an electrical outlet of the present invention includes a mechanism for maintaining engagement between the outlet and a receptacle/plug that provides for safe disengagement when they are inadvertently separated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: Stephen Saxon Fuller, II
  • Patent number: 12136606
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a memory card, a sealing portion houses the memory chip and the controller chip and includes a first main surface and a second main surface arranged on an opposite side of the first main surface. A first terminal group includes a plurality of electrode terminals arranged in a first direction inside the first main surface. A second terminal group includes a plurality of electrode terminals arranged in the first direction inside the first main surface. A conductive pattern is arranged between the first terminal group and the second terminal group in the first main surface. A conductive pattern has a longer dimension than that of the electrode terminal in the first terminal group. The conductive pattern has a longer dimension than that of the electrode terminal in the second terminal group. The conductive pattern is in a planar shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Sato
  • Patent number: 12132271
    Abstract: The construction of a medical device having a disposable element is disclosed. Detachable elements comprising a body having a retention feature, an electrical contactor, and sensors are also disclosed. Further disclosed are detachable elements comprising a body having a hole and a retention pocket, an electrical contactor, and a printed circuit board assembly (PCB) in contact with the innermost surface of the body that forms the retention pocket. Further disclosed are detachable elements comprising a body having an opening and a printed film comprising conductive elements, where the conductive elements comprise a sensor configured to be aligned with the opening to expose the sensor. Further disclosed are reusable components having matching retention features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Bruin Biometrics, LLC
    Inventors: Martin F. Burns, Bill Campbell, David M. Giuntoli, Mark Raptis, Graham O. Ross
  • Patent number: 12132298
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for wiring electrical components of an electrical switchgear arranged on a mounting plate, comprising: providing a design of a switchgear comprising at least location information and orientation information about a plurality of electrical components of the switchgear on a mounting plate and wiring information about a plurality of electrical wirings between every two of the electrical components; optically detecting an actual arrangement of the electrical components on the mounting plate and matching the location information and orientation information to the actual arrangement; and automatically wiring the electrical components in a wiring order and according to the wiring information and the matched location information and orientation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Michael Bächler
  • Patent number: 12132286
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector system that provides a sealed and grounded electrical connection for a component of a power management system, like those found in a battery-powered motor vehicle. The connector system includes a male connector assembly and an adaptor assembly. The adaptor assembly includes: (i) a capacitor assembly, (ii) a female terminal assembly, and (iii) a busbar assembly. An internal electrical connection state is defined when: (a) the female terminal assembly is electrically coupled to the capacitor assembly, (b) the capacitor assembly is electrically coupled to the busbar assembly, and (c) the busbar assembly is electrically coupled to an extent of the component of the power management system. In the internal electrical connection state, the electrical couplings are sealed from the external environment which increases the operating life, durability and reliability of the adaptor assembly, the connector system and the power management system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: James Dawson, Jeffrey Chojnacki, Jason Degen, Brantley Natter
  • Patent number: 12121063
    Abstract: A heating chamber for an aerosol generation device includes a chamber side wall and a chamber base. The chamber side wall and chamber base together define an interior volume of the heating chamber. A heater is provided in thermal engagement with the chamber side wall. An insulating member includes an insulating side wall and an insulating base, and is arranged so that a part of the heating chamber including the chamber base is nested inside the insulating member. There is also disclosed an aerosol generation device including an electrical power source, an outer casing, the heating chamber and control circuitry arranged to control the supply of electrical power from the electrical power source to the heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: JT International S.A.
    Inventor: Tony Reevell
  • Patent number: 12121065
    Abstract: A heater assembly for a vaporizer including a heat exchanger with an interior surface having at least one ridge and groove, and a heater positioned in the bore. An air management system for a vaporizer including a valve that allows air to be drawn through a valve inlet and pumped through a valve outlet with a pump or drawn through the valve outlet and inlet with external suction. A system and method for generating a workflow sequence for a vaporizer. The system and method including receiving task selections arranged in a task order, and generating a workflow sequence that is configured to instruct the vaporizer to sequentially perform the tasks associated with the task selections in the task order. A vaporizer that is configured to receive task selections arranged in a task order and sequentially perform the tasks associated with the task selections in the task order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: CANOPY GROWTH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Jaeger, Berthold Maier, Markus Storz