Patents Examined by Timothy J Thompson
  • Patent number: 12211629
    Abstract: A contact system includes a support body, a heat sink configured to contact the support body in an electrically insulated and/or heat-conducting manner, and an electrically insulating layer arranged between the heat sink and the support body. The heat sink has a first surface which is embodied substantially as a flat area and formed with a recess in a region intended for contacting a periphery of a contact area of the support body. The recess forms an unbroken track on the first surface of the heat sink. The contact area of the support body is located on the heat sink in such a way that the recess extends completely along the periphery of the contact area. The insulating layer between the heat sink and the support body is configured to cover the recess in such a way that a closed channel is formed by the recess and the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Volker Müller, Stephan Neugebauer
  • Patent number: 12211630
    Abstract: Provided are stretchable electronics and a method for manufacturing the same. The stretchable electronics may include a substrate, a plurality of electronic elements disposed to be spaced apart from each other on the substrate, and a wire structure disposed on the substrate to connect the plurality of electronic elements to each other. The wire structure may include an insulator extending from one of the electronic elements to the other of the adjacent electronic elements and a metal wire configured to cover a top surface and side surfaces of the insulator. The insulator may include at least one bent part in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Ji Hun Choi, Chan Woo Park, Ji-Young Oh, Seung Youl Kang, Yong Hae Kim, Hee-ok Kim, Jeho Na, Jaehyun Moon, Jong-Heon Yang, Himchan Oh, Seong-Mok Cho, Sung Haeng Cho, Jae-Eun Pi, Chi-Sun Hwang
  • Patent number: 12212128
    Abstract: A support for electrical boxes can include a body plate, first and second mounting arms, and first and second side flanges. The body plate can include mounting features configured to secure an electrical box to the body plate. The first and second mounting arms can extend from the body plate and receive a threaded rod to support the body plate in a horizontal orientation. The first and second side flange extend from opposing sides of the body and include an aperture to receive a threaded rod that can support the body plate in a vertical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: BRICO International Corporation
    Inventor: Scott Ernest Anderson
  • Patent number: 12211631
    Abstract: A wiring member includes a base member, a wire-like transmission member fixed to the base member, and a plurality of attaching members provided to the base member to be attached to an attaching target member. One attaching member is provided to only one lateral side of the wire-like transmission member in a first position along an extension direction of the wire-like transmission member in the base member. Another attaching member is provided to only another lateral side of the wire-like transmission member in a second position along the extension direction of the wire-like transmission member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Nishimura, Takuya Kaba
  • Patent number: 12207400
    Abstract: A columnar metal component includes a first main surface, and a second main surface on an opposite side to the first main surface. The first main surface includes a first groove. The metal component includes a through-hole penetrating the metal component from the first main surface to the second main surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ayako Sakai, Yuichi Nakamura, Keita Sato
  • Patent number: 12207393
    Abstract: A sample holder includes a base comprising a support structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) in contact with the base. The PCB includes: a dielectric; a front-surface ground (GND) formed on a front surface of the dielectric; a back-surface GND formed on a back surface of the dielectric; a through hole penetrating from the front-surface GND to the back-surface GND, the through hole in which a chip is disposed, and a conductor that electrically connects the front-surface GND and the back-surface GND on an end face of the through hole. At least a part of the base below the through hole has a cavity. The support structure that supports a surface of the chip and is electrically connected to the base. The support structure is disposed in the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihito Hashimoto, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kohei Matsuura
  • Patent number: 12207429
    Abstract: A power conversion device having a temperature determination function is provided. The power conversion device is disposed on a light fixture and includes a housing, a power converter, and at least one temperature determination component. The power converter and the temperature determination component are disposed within the housing, and the temperature determination component is a temperature fuse. When an ambient temperature of the power converter reaches a preset temperature, the temperature determination component melts to indicate that the power converter is used under the abnormal ambient temperature. Accordingly, the ambient temperature of the power converter can be determined to be abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ELEMENTS PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Jerryson Lee, Ethan Lee, Yu-Jia Huang, Kuo-Sung Huang
  • Patent number: 12206336
    Abstract: A converter includes a diode module including a diode bridge disposed inside a module case; and a body case including an opening in a placement face. The module case includes a counter face facing the placement face and a noncounter face, with a breakage prevention structure being disposed on at least one of the counter face or the noncounter face. When the counter face is where the breakage prevention structure is disposed, the breakage prevention structure entirely covers the counter face. When the noncounter face is where the breakage prevention structure is disposed, the noncounter face where the breakage prevention structure is disposed is a noncounter placement face with a largest area among exterior wall faces of the module case, and the noncounter placement face including an area farther from the placement face than a middle of the noncounter placement face is as a nonplacement area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Kushida, Masahiro Katsumura, Yoshio Mizoguchi
  • Patent number: 12200864
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a first electric element a second electric element, and a circuit board. The circuit board is configured to deliver a signal between the first electric element and the second electric element. The circuit board includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The second and third portions extend from the first portion with the first portion therebetween. The circuit board also includes at least one signal line extending from the second portion to the third portion, a plurality of ground patterns extending from the second portion to the third portion, a plurality of first conductive vias positioned at the second portion and electrically connecting the plurality of ground patterns, and a plurality of second conductive vias positioned at the third portion and electrically connecting the plurality of ground patterns. The plurality of ground patterns include a meander form at the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bumhee Bae, Sungsoo Kim, Kwangmo Yang
  • Patent number: 12198835
    Abstract: A method of forming a flexible circuit, including providing a flexible flat cable with a first surface and a second surface. The first surface of the flexible flat cable is diametrically opposed to the second surface. A dispensing apparatus including a nozzle is further provided, and an extruded material is dispensed through the nozzle onto the first surface of the flexible flat cable. The extruded material is shaped into a pattern and cured onto the first surface of the flexible flat cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: David R. Peterson, Joseph Sudik, Jr., Jesse Braun, David Siegfried
  • Patent number: 12200859
    Abstract: A circuit board having excellent reliability of connection between layers while being capable of achieving a compact and low-profile electronic device. In the circuit board has an LC circuit built therein with the use of a glass core having a through hole, a conductor layer formed in the through hole is connected to a wiring pattern formed on one surface of the glass core, and connected to a wiring pattern formed on the other surface of the glass core, with the conduction layer projected from the surface of the glass core. Thus, the area of contact between the conduction layer and the through hole is increased, thus making it possible to prevent the reliability of connection between layers in the through hole from being decreased, even when the glass core is reduced in thickness for achieving a low-profile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TOPPAN INC.
    Inventor: Jun Onohara
  • Patent number: 12200854
    Abstract: An electronic assembly may include a chassis having electronic module mounting positions. Each mounting position may have associated therewith a chassis liquid dual-flow connector. A respective electronic module may be received in each electronic module mounting position and include a circuit board, a liquid cooling path associated with the circuit board, and a module liquid dual-flow connector coupled to the liquid cooling path and configured to be mateable with the chassis liquid dual-flow connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Voi Nguyen, Charles Weirick
  • Patent number: 12200865
    Abstract: A circuit board includes an insulating substrate layer, a ground layer, an insulating layer, insulating through holes, a signal transmission layer and a polymer conductive member. The ground layer is disposed between the insulating layer and the insulating substrate layer. The signal transmission layer is disposed on one side of the insulating layer opposite to the ground layer. The insulating through holes penetrate through the signal transmission layer and the insulation layer to connect to the ground layer. The polymer conductive member is disposed within the insulating through holes, and one part thereof is electrically connected to the ground layer, and another part thereof extends outwards from the signal transmission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: BIZLINK INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Shi-Jung Chen, Jui-Hung Chien, Yen-Chun Chen
  • Patent number: 12191242
    Abstract: A contact arrangement includes a plurality of contact groups. At least one of the contact groups includes a plurality of shared contacts, a plurality of dedicated contacts, and a plurality of ground contacts. The shared contacts in a first mode or a second mode transmit signals corresponding to the first mode or the second mode. The dedicated contacts transmit the signals corresponding to the first mode and do not transmit the signals corresponding to the second mode. The ground contacts surround the shared contacts and the dedicated contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: VIA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nai-Shung Chang, Yun-Han Chen, Tsai-Sheng Chen, Chang-Li Tan, Sheng-Bang Ou Yang
  • Patent number: 12193164
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a storage device including a top panel, a bottom panel, a back panel, a front panel, and two side panels configured to form an enclosed volume. The storage device further includes multiple slots disposed at inner surfaces of the two side panels and configured to hold a substrate, a gas diffuser disposed at an inner surface of the back panel and configured to provide a purge gas to the enclosed volume, an isolation gas device disposed on an inner surface of the top panel and adjacent to a top portion of the front panel, and an isolation gas line configured to connect the isolation gas device to the gas diffuser. The isolation gas device is configured to inject the purge gas into a front portion of the storage device and in a direction from the top panel toward the bottom panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shen-Min Yang, Pu Kuan Fang, Jyh-Shiou Hsu, Mu-Tsang Lin
  • Patent number: 12191642
    Abstract: A dry joint for jointing a cable with a wet or semi-wet/semi-dry design to a cable with a wet, semi-wet/semi-dry or dry design and a method of manufacturing a cable dry joint are provided. A cable with a wet or semi-wet/semi-dry design having an end of cable water barrier is also provided. A dry joint water barrier suitable for rendering a joint dry is also provided, where at least one of the jointed cables is of a wet or semi-wet/semi-dry design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Oyvind Iversen, Torunn Lund Clasen
  • Patent number: 12186837
    Abstract: A universal female welding lead connector collar including a safety cover hingedly connected to a main body of the collar. When engaged on the outer surface of a female welding lead connector, the safety cover can be kept closed to shield a female welding lead receptacle inside the female welding lead connector to prevent electrical arcing or electrocution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Alpha/Omega Energy Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Bradley Lance Pearman, Kenny Lavelle Miller
  • Patent number: 12185463
    Abstract: A wiring circuit board includes an insulating layer having a via penetrating in a thickness direction, a first conductive layer disposed on a one-side surface in the thickness direction of the insulating layer, a second conductive layer disposed on the other-side surface in the thickness direction of the insulating layer, and a conductive portion disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the via and electrically connecting the first and second conductive layers. Length L of 1 ?m-10 ?m inclusive, is measured by: drawing a segment joining first and second connection points from respectively, the one-side surface to the other-side surface in the thickness direction of the insulating layer and the inner peripheral surface in the cross-sectional view; identifying an outermost position farthest outward from the segment on the inner peripheral surface in the cross-sectional view; and measuring the length as the shortest distance from the segment to the outermost position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kanayo Sawashi, Akihito Matsutomi
  • Patent number: 12185464
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first electrical element, a second electrical element, and a rigid flexible printed circuit board electrically connecting the first electrical element and the second electrical element, wherein the rigid flexible printed circuit board includes at least one flexible portion including a first dielectric which has a first dielectric constant and is flexible, at least one rigid portion which extends from the flexible portion and includes a second dielectric which has a second dielectric constant and is less flexible than the first dielectric, a plurality of conductive patterns formed inside the first dielectric and the second dielectric, a plurality of conductive layers formed on the first dielectric and the second dielectric, and a plurality of conductive vias which are formed in the rigid portion and electrically connect the plurality of conductive layers or the plurality of conductive patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Youngsun Lee, Eunseok Hong, Byeongkeol Kim, Jongmin Jeon, Donggon Jang, Kisoo Jung, Seounghyun Hong, Hyunsung Hwang
  • Patent number: 12185462
    Abstract: Multiple designs for a multi-layer circuit may be simulated to determine impedance profiles of each design, allowing a circuit designer to select a design based on the impedance profiles. One feature that can be modified is the structure surrounding the barrels of a differential VIA on layers that are not connected to the differential VIA. Specifically, one antipad can be used that surrounds both barrels or two antipads can be used, with one antipad for each barrel. Additionally, the size of the antipad or antipads can be modified. These modifications affect the impedance of the differential VIA. Additionally, a conductive region may be placed that connects to the VIA barrel even though the circuit on the layer does not connect to the VIA. This unused pad, surrounded by a non-conductive region, also affects the impedance of the differential VIA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Hansel Desmond Dsilva, Sasikala J, Abhishek Jain, Amit Kumar