Patents Examined by Timothy J Thompson
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Patent number: 11974395Abstract: A security element intended to be electrically connected to an electronic card. The security element includes: a metal portion, called a dome; a conductive assembly including conductive tracks which are not connected to each other including an outer track and a central track, each having a conductive tab intended to connect them to the electronic card; and a non-conductive support having lumens via which the conductive tabs extend from the conductive tracks to the electronic card. The ends of the conductive tabs are intended to be in contact with the electronic card and do not extend beyond the non-conductive assembly such that the connections between the tracks and the electronic card are located under a lower face of the non-conductive assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: BANKS AND ACQUIRERS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGInventors: Stéphane Pavageau, Eric Bonnet
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Patent number: 11974502Abstract: Soft motherboards having rigid plugin modules are described herein. In one aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device can include a polymeric substrate having: a plurality of slots, each configured for receiving an electronic module; one or more electrical junctions including a stretchable conductive interconnect electronically coupling a slot to another slot of the plurality of slots; and at least one electronic module including: a film configured to: support other components of the electronic module; and be inserted, and be partially housed in, one of the plurality of slots of the polymeric substrate; and at least one electrode coupled to the film and positioned to be in contact with a corresponding electrical junction of the polymeric substrate when the film is partially housed in the polymeric substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of ColoradoInventors: Jianliang Xiao, Yan Sun, Wei Ren
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Patent number: 11974032Abstract: A display screen and a display device are disclosed. The display screen includes: a first camera area including a first pixel unit and a first light-transmitting area; a second camera area including a second pixel unit and a second light-transmitting area; and a display area surrounding the first camera area and the second camera area, wherein a position of the first pixel unit in the first camera area corresponds to a position of the second light-transmitting area in the second camera area, and a position of the second pixel unit in the second camera area corresponds to a position of the first light-transmitting area in the first camera area.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Weixin Ma
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Patent number: 11972881Abstract: A magnetized cable in which the magnetic force of the cable is configured to aid in aligning and maintaining alignment of the cable while the cable is being looped for storage and, when the cable is rolled or looped, the magnetic force will aid in keeping the cable coiled. Embodiments of the magnetized cable include an elongated flexible magnetic component (EFMC) of a pliable polymer such as rubber and/or one or more other suitable materials in combination with magnetic particles comprising iron, neodymium, ferrite, cobalt, nickel, and/or other suitable magnetic elements or compounds. The EFMC may be exposed to a strong magnetic field to produce a permanent magnet. The EFMC may be enclosed within a sheathing material of braided textile yarns or another suitable material.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventor: John Nashed Hanna
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Patent number: 11968812Abstract: A display device and an electronic device are provided. The display device includes: a display screen; an electrically heated glass layer stacked onto the display screen, which includes a first transparent glass layer and a transparent conductive film layer, the transparent conductive film layer and the first transparent glass layer being stacked onto the display screen; a thermistor disposed adjacent to the display screen, for detecting a temperature of the display screen or a temperature at a position adjacent to the display screen; and a flexible circuit board, wherein an electrical connection terminal is provided on the transparent conductive film layer, the electrical connection terminal is electrically connected with the flexible circuit board, and the thermistor is electrically connected with the flexible circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Chao Ma
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Patent number: 11967806Abstract: A system for pulling wire behind a wall is provided. One embodiment comprises a cylindrical weight defined by an outside diameter and a first length, and a tubular body with a hollow cavity defined by an inside diameter that is greater than the outside diameter of the cylindrical weight and a second length that is greater than the first length. A distal end of the tubular body includes a tip configured to penetrate a material that is behind the wall, wherein when oriented in a vertical position behind the wall, and wherein in response to drawing the cylindrical weight upward through the tubular body and then releasing the cylindrical weight, the cylindrical weight travels downward towards the distal end of the tubular body and impacts the tip such that momentum of the downward travelling cylindrical weight is transferred to the tip, thereby driving the tubular body downward through the material.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: PROMETHEAN INNOVATIONS, LLCInventor: Christopher Kaleshnik
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Patent number: 11967794Abstract: The invention relates to a method of connecting electrical wires, conductors, or connections together by rotating the connector ends in an enclosure to tightly twist the wire ends together and also includes a clamping mechanism to prevent the wires from untwisting, becoming loose, or falling out of the enclosure. The present invention increases the holding ability of current rotating tools for electrical wires and connections.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Inventors: Joel Douglas, Shem Lachhman
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Patent number: 11958420Abstract: A wire harness includes a wiring member, an exterior member through which the wiring member is inserted, and a protector that is fixed to a vehicle and holds the exterior member. The protector includes a holding member that holds the exterior member, a fixing member that is fixed to the vehicle, and a tubular member that is formed in a tubular shape and on which the holding member and the fixing member are disposed. At least one of the holding member or the fixing member includes a columnar structure that is formed in a columnar shape and is slidingly fittable into the tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Satoshi Enomoto, Tomokazu Kato, Yoshio Shionome, Shinichi Tadokoro
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Patent number: 11955254Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods of manufacture and implementations of hybrid separators for data cables having conductive and non-conductive or metallic and non-metallic portions, and data cables including such hybrid separators. A hybrid separator comprising one or more conductive portions and one or more non-conductive portions may be positioned within a data cable between adjacent pairs of twisted insulated and shielded or unshielded conductors so as to provide physical and electrical separation of the conductors. The position and extent (laterally and longitudinally) of each conductive portion and each non-conductive portion may be selected for optimum performance of the data cable, including attenuation or rejection of cross talk, reduction of return loss, increase of stability, and control of impedance.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Belden, Inc.Inventors: Roy Kusuma, Bill Clark, Alice Albrinck
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Patent number: 11955290Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes disposed with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; first and second connection electrodes penetrating the body in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer and connected to the first internal electrode; third and fourth connection electrodes penetrating the body in a in a direction perpendicular to the dielectric layer and connected to the second internal electrode; first and second external electrodes disposed on both surfaces of the body, and connected to the first and second connection electrodes; and third and fourth external electrodes connected to the third and fourth connection electrodes, and at least a portion of the first and second connection electrodes is exposed to the surface of the body.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Min Gon Lee, Taek Jung Lee, Jin Man Jung, Ji Hong Jo, Jin Kyung Joo
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Patent number: 11951916Abstract: The invention relates to a reinforcement part (1) for reinforcing a vehicle component, comprising a structural wall (3) enclosing walls of a ribbing structure (5), the reinforcement part having a first side region (6) allowing a first load portion to pass through and a second side region (7) allowing a second load portion to pass through, wherein the first load portion represents the largest load portion, characterized in that at the second side region, the walls of the ribbing structure are provided with cut-outs (8), the structural wall at the second side region being shaped to at least partially cover the contours (9) of the cut-outs, wherein a continuously shaped cut-out (10) is formed in the structural wall for cabling (11), whereas the walls of the ribbing structure at the first side region are free from cut-outs.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.Inventors: Davy Wilhelmus Anna Brands, Ilona Maria Francois Grond-Soons
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Patent number: 11953953Abstract: An avionics unit assembly for an aircraft can include an avionics unit (e.g., an underwater locator device, “ULD”), and a battery to power the avionics unit. The avionics unit assembly can further include a housing that encases the avionics unit and the battery. The housing includes a vent port for exhausting an emission from the housing during a failure of the avionics unit. The avionics unit assembly can further include one or more of a suppressor that filters the emission, a shield element that is resistant to chemical and/or thermal effects of the emission, and a bracket for mounting the avionics unit to a surface. A method integrating the avionics unit assembly onto a forward aircraft bulkhead at a mount location under an aircraft radome and for manufacturing the avionics unit, and an aircraft including the avionics unit are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Ramon L. Cuenca, Shellini P. Dowell, Thomas A. Jessett, Fadl I. Khalil, Warren S. Ng, Scott B. Vacknitz, Collis M. Walker, Archibald A. Gray, James C. Russell, Charles O. Adler
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Patent number: 11955755Abstract: Provided are an electric appliance and a method of manufacturing the same, the electric appliance having a smaller size and a reduced overall weight by preventing a fluid from flowing into a space unrelated to a heating component in a state where the fluid fills its case. The electric appliance includes: a case including a first space and a second space communicated to each other; a first component disposed in the first space; a second component disposed in the second space; a connection portion electrically connecting the first component and the second component to each other; and a potting pattern including a resin material and formed in the first space.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SOLUM CO., LTD.Inventors: Young Jun Jang, Hyun Su Kim, Jun Kyu Lee, Pill Ju Kim, Sang Keun Ji, Dong Kyun Ryu
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Patent number: 11948745Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes: a body including a capacitance region in which at least one first internal electrode and at least one second internal electrode are alternately stacked on each other interposing at least one dielectric layer therebetween in a first direction; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body and spaced apart from each other to be respectively connected to the at least one first internal electrode and the at least one second internal electrode, wherein the body includes a side margin overlapping none of the at least one first internal electrode and the at least one second internal electrode in the first direction, and a center width of the side margin is greater than a minimum width of the side margin.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Won Chul Sim, Soo Hwan Son, Young Ghyu Ahn
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Patent number: 11945392Abstract: A metal-fixing material feedthrough for at least one of an airbag igniter or a belt pre-tensioner includes a main body having a through opening formed therein and at least one metal pin fused into the through opening in a vitreous or glass ceramic fixing material. A surface of the vitreous or glass ceramic fixing material is a freely fused surface and lies in a same plane as an end face of the at least one metal pin.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Schott AGInventors: Reinhard Ranftl, Thomas Pfeiffer-Landshut, Susumu Nishiwaki, Ondrej Rousek
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Patent number: 11946143Abstract: A laminate comprising a substrate; and a plating-forming layer disposed on at least one surface of both surfaces of the substrate and containing a thermoplastic resin and a plating catalyst, wherein the plating-forming layer further satisfies conditions of the following (1) and/or (2), (1) the plating-forming layer contains a dispersing agent for dispersing the plating catalyst (2) an abundance of the plating catalyst on a surface side of the plating-forming layer is higher than an abundance of the plating catalyst on the substrate side of the plating-forming layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Arisawa Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Nakamura, Yoshihiko Konno, Hiroyuki Matsuyama, Makoto Tai, Shuichi Fujita
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Patent number: 11943865Abstract: A transparent conductive film (TCF) and methods for creating the TCF. The TCF includes a substrate having a surface, a metal mesh layer over at least a portion of the surface of the substrate, and a conductive layer over the metal mesh layer. The conductive layer includes carbon nanotubes and a binder.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Chasm Advanced Materials, Inc.Inventors: Richard P. Heroux, Timothy Alan Turner, David Joseph Arthur, Sean Patrick Arthur
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Patent number: 11942241Abstract: An improved electric cable is disclosed herein. The resistance of the electric cable of the present disclosure is surprisingly decreased despite a reduction in the cross-sectional area of the conductor when at least one metal slug is positioned at an end of the cable. Conductor wires, which may or may not be individually insulated, may extend around a metal slug or through an aperture of the slug. In combination with at least one metal slug, the cross-sectional area of individual wires or the amount of wires within a stranded wire cable may be substantially reduced without seeing an expected proportionate increase in electrical resistance, and surprisingly, a decrease in resistance may be observed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Inventor: Lubomir Dostal
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Patent number: 11942658Abstract: A battery system for an electric vehicle includes a fixed cover, and a removable cover arranged over battery modules and a high voltage distribution system. The battery system includes a busbar arranged at least partially over a region of the battery modules and under the removable cover. The busbar includes a fixed section and a movable section, or a hinge, such that the busbar can be repositioned out of the way. The support tray includes a link between the fixed and movable sections. Floating fasteners, allowing at least one of radial float and axial float are used to secure the link to the support tray, thereby avoiding safety hazards and reducing the potential for short circuits in high voltage distribution systems or conductors thereof. The floating fasteners include a head, a neck, an engagement section, and a washer, which prevent removal from a component once installed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Rivian IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Ehsan Baseri, Kyle Butterfield, Luke Rayment Morrow, Akshay Kishor Murkute, Jonathan Verghese
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Patent number: 11939461Abstract: A non-ohmic composition including a base elastomer and a plurality of non-ohmic particles, wherein, in a case of comparing volume resistivities ? for the non-ohmic composition within a range of E?Eth for the non-ohmic composition not elongated, the E being an electric field strength applied to the non-ohmic composition, the ? being the volume resistivity of the non-ohmic composition, and the Eth being a threshold electric field strength at a point where an absolute value of a variation in a slope of log ? with respect to log E is maximum, the volume resistivity ? for the non-ohmic composition uniaxially elongated by 50% is 50 times or less the volume resistivity ? for the non-ohmic composition not elongated.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Shuhei Yasuda, Takanori Yamazaki, Shinya Nishikawa