Patents Examined by Toan Vu
  • Patent number: 10080107
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a computer apparatus for displaying the topology of a timely organized ad hoc network, the apparatus including a processor, a memory, a computer-readable medium, an input device coupled to the processor, a radio frequency transceiver coupled to the processor; a communications interface coupled to the memory, a display coupled to the processor, and software copied from the computer-readable medium into the memory by the processor that, when executed, causes the processor to obtain a diagram of the network location from the input device or computer readable medium, obtain the identities of the devices comprising the network from the input device or computer readable medium, determine the communication links between the network devices, and graphically represent on the display the devices and the connection links on the diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: INTECH 21, INC.
    Inventors: Marat Kats, Igor Tchibirev, Victor Zelmanovich, George Bilenko, Helena Zelmanovich
  • Patent number: 10053034
    Abstract: A power supply system comprises an electricity storage device provided at a vehicle's front portion, a front relay device provided at the vehicle's front portion and distributing power to a first electric load including electric loads arranged at the vehicle's front portion, a central relay device provided in a vehicle compartment and distributing power to a second electric load including electric loads arranged in the vehicle compartment, a rear relay device provided at a rear portion of the vehicle and distributing power to a third electric load including electric loads arranged at the vehicle's rear portion, a first power line connecting the electricity storage device and the front relay device, a second power line connecting the front relay device and the central relay device, and a third power line connecting the front relay device and the rear relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuichiro Tokumaru, Masaaki Shimizu, Osamu Michihira, Kenji Okada
  • Patent number: 10042538
    Abstract: A method and system are provided. The method includes cataloging a plurality of user interface elements belonging to a plurality of user interfaces on a plurality of devices included in an ambient computing environment. The method further includes estimating a current cognitive state of a user. The method also includes modifying at least one of the plurality of interface elements to align current cognitive demands of the ambient computing environment on the user with the current cognitive state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Rick A. Hamilton, II, James R. Kozloski
  • Patent number: 10044220
    Abstract: When the power is normally supplied from the commercial power supply, the storage battery is charged by reducing the DC voltage by the charge/discharge chopper. The switching unit is provided in the previous stage of the converter. When the commercial power supply is in an abnormal state, the three-phase AC converter is operated as three discharge choppers connected in parallel by supplying the power of the storage battery to the converter and boosting the power by the switching element included in the converter. The power of the storage battery is boosted by the charge/discharge chopper, and a part of the discharging power is supplied. One three-phase AC reactor is provided in the previous stage of the converter, and the three-phase AC reactor has three coils, magnetic leg iron cores having the coils winding around them, and one leg without a coil winding around it connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichiro Konishi, Atsuo Nishihara, Keisuke Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 10030917
    Abstract: Systems according to the present disclosure provide one or more surfaces that function as heat or power radiating surfaces for which at least a portion of the radiating surface includes or is composed of “fractal cells” placed sufficiently closed close together to one another so that a surface (plasmonic) wave causes near replication of current present in one fractal cell in an adjacent fractal cell. A fractal of such a fractal cell can be of any suitable fractal shape and may have two or more iterations. The fractal cells may lie on a flat or curved sheet or layer and be composed in layers for wide bandwidth or multibandwidth transmission. The area of a surface and its number of fractals determines the gain relative to a single fractal cell. The boundary edges of the surface may be terminated resistively so as to not degrade the cell performance at the edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Fractal Antenna Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Cohen
  • Patent number: 10032203
    Abstract: A computing system comprises, in one example, a display system configured to generate user interface displays and a property surfacing system configured to detect a request to access properties corresponding to a selected unit and to access a unit-property association store that stores one or more association entities. Each association entity associates a property entity with the selected unit. The property surfacing system obtains the properties based on the associated property entity. The computing system comprises a display system controller configured to control the display system to generate a user interface property display with a representation of the properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shaleen Sharma, Prabhat Kumar Pandey, Ashish Kothari, Anirban Saha, Hemant Raj, Kartheek Reddy Naini, Ashwinderjit Kaur
  • Patent number: 10033183
    Abstract: Diffraction of a noise may be reduced in an inexpensive manner without reducing power generation efficiency. A power generation control apparatus (10) includes a plurality of combinations of DC input terminals (101) and (102) for inputting DC power and a noise filter (11) connected to the DC input terminals (101) and (102), wherein each of the plurality of combinations has a different extreme value of frequency characteristics of the noise filter (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10027124
    Abstract: A controller has a predicting section which computes a predicted electric energy predicted to be supplied from a power distribution grid to the load during an assessment period which is a predetermined period. The controller has a supply electric energy computing section which computes a supply electric power based on the predicted electric energy, the supply electric energy being an electric energy to be supplied to the load from the electric power converter during the assessment period. The controller has a time computing section which computes a discharge time by dividing the supply electric energy by a rated power of the electric power converter. The controller has a control section which controls the electric power converter so that an electric power corresponding to the rated power is supplied to the load only for the discharge time within the assessment period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akira Ito
  • Patent number: 10027113
    Abstract: A high-voltage DC voltage unit with a first DC voltage apparatus providing a first high-voltage DC voltage between a first output connection and a second output connection of the DC voltage apparatus or can be fed with a first high-voltage DC voltage. A second DC voltage apparatus provides a second high-voltage DC voltage or can be fed with a second high-voltage DC voltage. A first DC voltage connection is coupled with the first output connection of the first DC voltage apparatus. A second DC voltage connection is coupled with the second output connection of the second DC voltage apparatus. A reference potential connection is coupled with the second output connection of the first DC voltage apparatus, with the first output connection of the second DC voltage apparatus and with an earth potential, the first and second high-voltage DC voltages realizing a bipolar power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: Airbus Operations GmbH, Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Wangemann, Jens Schult
  • Patent number: 10014687
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a grid-tied photovoltaic power generation system, and particularly, to a grid-tied photovoltaic power generation system including a power maintaining unit configured to maintain power of a controller during an corresponding operation time of a photovoltaic system when power supply is stopped due to a fault generated in a grid, whereby power may be stably supplied to the controller and power of the controller may be maintained, designing of the photovoltaic system and setting of a connection to the grid may be simply and easily performed, a corresponding operation of the photovoltaic system may be controlled regarding the fault generated in the grid, and the fault generated in the grid may be accurately, appropriately, and effectively handled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kwangsoo Koh
  • Patent number: 9997291
    Abstract: A wireless power supply apparatus includes a power reception coil, an actual load and an auxiliary load. The power reception coil functions as a repeater for receiving electric power in a non-contact manner by magnetic resonance with a power transmission coil to which electric power is supplied from a power supply unit and relaying transfer of the electric power from the power transmission coil. The actual load is connected to the power reception coil and is powered by the electric power received by the power reception coil. The auxiliary load is inserted parallel to the power reception coil and the actual load and forms a closed circuit with the power reception coil when supply of the electric power to the actual load is interrupted to be in an open state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi Sugino, Katsumi Yuasa, Keisuke Hamasaki, Hiroshi Kondoh, Shigeru Takeda, Yasuyuki Haseo
  • Patent number: 9994173
    Abstract: A driver assistance system of a vehicle includes: at least one ultrasonic sensor for ascertaining the distance of the vehicle from an obstacle, the sensor being supplied with electrical energy by an onboard electrical system of the vehicle; and an undervoltage detector for detecting an undervoltage in the onboard electrical system, in the event of which the power requirement of the ultrasonic sensor is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Rapps, Michael Hering, Albrecht Klotz
  • Patent number: 9996239
    Abstract: A method and system are provided. The method includes cataloging a plurality of user interface elements belonging to a plurality of user interfaces on a plurality of devices included in an ambient computing environment. The method further includes estimating a current cognitive state of a user. The method also includes modifying at least one of the plurality of interface elements to align current cognitive demands of the ambient computing environment on the user with the current cognitive state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron K. Baughman, Rick A. Hamilton, II, James R. Kozloski
  • Patent number: 9977595
    Abstract: A computing device is described that includes a presence-sensitive display component, at least one processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that when executed cause the at least one processor to output, for display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys and a search element, and determine, based at least in part on a selection of one or more keys from the plurality of keys, a query suggestion. The instructions, when executed, further cause the at least one processor to receive an indication of input selecting the search element, and responsive to receiving the indication of input, output, for display, an updated graphical keyboard that includes a selectable link associated with the query suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Min-sang Choi
  • Patent number: 9971492
    Abstract: Systems, interfaces, and methods for implementing the systems and interfaces include a dynamic environment generation subsystem that changes objects and subobjects based on locations of the motion sensors and/or the nature, time and/or location of sensed motion and include selection attractive movement as the selection protocol, where a selection object is used to discriminate between selectable objects and attract a target object toward the selection objects, where the direction and speed of the motion controls, discriminates, attracts, and activates the selected objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Quantum Interface, LLC
    Inventors: Damon Chandler, Jonathan Josephson
  • Patent number: 9972434
    Abstract: An apparatus, a system and a method for wireless power transfer are disclosed. A method of forming a physical core of a wireless power transfer device includes positioning two or more electromagnetically permeable members adjacent to one another and applying longitudinal pressure to an end of the electromagnetically permeable members, the electromagnetically permeable members at least partially encapsulated in retaining compound. A wireless power transfer device includes a casing in which is housed an induction coil, a plurality of electromagnetically permeable members arranged in a line and a retaining compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Nicholas Athol Keeling, Edward Van Boheemen, Michael Le Gallais Kissin, Jonathan Beaver
  • Patent number: 9965013
    Abstract: A power distribution system that distributes power to electrical loads includes a switchgear apparatus that selectively routes power from one of two or more feeds to downstream portions of the system based upon commands received from a separate external switchgear controller device that receives data from various portions of the power distribution system. The switchgear controller device can operate in one or more separate operating modes, where commands to the switchgear apparatus are generated based upon user inputs or determinations made by an internal switchgear control module based at least in part upon the selected operating mode of the switchgear controller device. The operating mode can be set based upon user interaction with an operating mode interface. The switchgear control module may generate switchgear operation commands based at least in part upon data received from the switchgear apparatus and various portions of the power distribution system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel Martin McGee, Martin John O'Grady, Patrick Hughes
  • Patent number: 9952751
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for combining user communications are described herein. In some embodiments, indicators corresponding to online participants accessing an online event are provided on a user interface. An input selecting one of the indicators may be detected from an online participant, and a merged display of the selected indicator and the indicator of the online participant who made the selection may be presented on the user interface. In response to the input, a communications link between the online participants of the merged display may be created. The communication link may allow transmission of reception of prioritized communication between the online participants of the merged display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SHINDIG, INC.
    Inventor: Steven M. Gottlieb
  • Patent number: 9946230
    Abstract: A system for controlling electrical loads in a house, apartment, office or any other living environment, comprising the following units: Smart load control unit (LCU), Remote control unit (RCU), Sensors unit (SU), Computer interface unit (CIU), Infrared control unit (IRU) and Keypad unit (KU). Each LCU is so devised as to replace a wall switch or other electrical load power control device and comprises means for controlling an electric power delivered to the load responsive to a user's commands. Each RCU comprises means for activating LCU units, and each SU comprises sensor means. Each unit further includes means for connecting by wireless to the other units to exchange data or commands therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Inventors: Ronen Apelker, Allon Apelker
  • Patent number: 9941690
    Abstract: A disconnector for high voltage, including columnar supporting elements which are electrically isolating and are adapted to support electromechanical elements of opening and closing a circuit or an electrical line. At least one columnar supporting element, which is tubular, supports an optical current transformer, the optical fiber of which, surrounded by protection elements, extends inside the tubular columnar supporting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Francesco Rosin, Vincenzo Girlando