Patents Examined by Toan Vu
  • Patent number: 9853557
    Abstract: A power conversion apparatus includes a primary side circuit, a secondary side circuit magnetically coupled to the primary side circuit through a transformer, and a control unit that adjusts transmitted power transmitted between the primary side circuit and the secondary side circuit by changing a phase difference between switching of the primary side circuit and switching of the secondary side circuit. The control unit suppresses a fluctuation in the transmitted power by suppressing a change in a duty ratio of the switching of the primary side circuit to the switching of the secondary side circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takahiro Hirano
  • Patent number: 9846532
    Abstract: A controller for controlling a display device that displays secondary digital content displayed in an overlay above a primary video stream. The controller includes a touch interface device, a processor, and a memory storing non-transitory instructions. These instructions, when executed, can include (i) detecting a first input gesture by a user on the touch interface device, (ii) in response to detecting the first input gesture, selecting an application for display on the display screen, (iii) detecting a second input gesture by the user on the touch interface device, (iv) in response to detecting the second input gesture, scrolling through a currently-displayed layer of the selected application displayed on the display screen, (v) detecting a third input gesture by the user on the touch interface device, and (vi) in response to detecting the third input gesture, scrolling between layers of the selected application in a simulated Z-space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SEESPACE LTD.
    Inventors: Dale Alan Herigstad, Nam Hoai Do, Nhan Minh Dang, Hieu Trung Tran, Quang Sy Dinh, Thang Viet Nguyen, Long Hai Nguyen, Linh Chi Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9847641
    Abstract: Featured are methods for regulating the AC frequency of the electrical power be supplied on an electrical distribution system or grid. Such a method includes electrically coupling an energy storage sub-system to the electrical distribution network, where the energy storage sub-system includes one or more flywheel energy storage systems. Also featured as devices, systems and apparatuses embodying such methodologies or for use in implementing such methodologies of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: Beacon Power, LLC.
    Inventors: F. William Capp, Matthew L. Lazarewicz, A. James Arseneaux, Paul Dresens, Hernan Alex Rojas
  • Patent number: 9847813
    Abstract: A feed unit includes: a power transmission section configured to perform power transmission with use of a magnetic field or an electronic field; a power limiting section provided on a power supply line from an external power source to the power transmission section; and a control section provided on a side closer to the external power source than the power limiting section, and including a power transmission control section, the power transmission control section being configured to control the power transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Haseno, Yoichi Uramoto
  • Patent number: 9841878
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are described comprising a device configured to: present a first window of the first application in a first application region of a presentation space of the display; detect first user input in connection with the first window of the first application; in response to the detection of the first user input in connection with the first window of the first application, present a representation of a second window of the second application in a menu, in a first particular region of the presentation space of the display, for displaying the second window of the second application, in a second application region in the presentation space of the display, the first particular region: located in a first location adjacent to a second location of the first application region, operable for being at least one of re-sized or moved in response to the first application region being at least one of re-sized or moved, and operable for being hidden in response to the first applicatio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Cypress Lake Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Paul Morris
  • Patent number: 9834101
    Abstract: While a drive battery (11) is charged, the output voltage of a DC-DC converter (20) is set to a first predetermined voltage (e.g. 14.4 V) at which thermal runaway does not occur even if the temperature of an auxiliary battery (19) is high and at which the auxiliary battery (19) can be charged even if the temperature thereof is low. During warm-up operation of the auxiliary battery (19), the output voltage of the DC-DC converter (20) is set to a second predetermined voltage (e.g. 14.3 V) lower than the first predetermined voltage. While the vehicle (10) is traveling, the output voltage of the DC-DC converter (20) is set to a third predetermined voltage (e.g. 14.2 V) lower than the second predetermined voltage. If lamps (17) are lit, the output voltage of the DC-DC converter (20) is set to a fourth predetermined voltage (e.g. 13.9 V).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuyuki Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9837854
    Abstract: Disclosed is an uninterruptible power supply system, including a sub power supply device configured to supply or cut off sub input power to a load device; a battery configured to supply or cut off battery input power to the load device; and an uninterruptible power supply device that is electrically connected to the sub power supply device and the battery, and when main input power is selectively received and supplied to the load device or the battery input power is selectively received and supplied to the load device, determines whether the main input power and the battery input power are within a predetermined reference main input power range and reference battery input power range, and when the main input power and the battery input power are outside of the reference main input power range and the reference battery input power range, receives the sub input power and supplies the power to the load device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Jun-Su Kim, Byeong Gwon Park, Hyun Seong Kim, Tae Yeol Kwon
  • Patent number: 9835133
    Abstract: The electrical power generation system using renewable energy is particularly adapted to provide electrical power to an independent or remotely situated electrical device such as a street light, emergency call box, or illuminated road sign. The system includes a pivotally mounted venturi with vanes assuring that the venturi is oriented into the prevailing wind. A vertical axis wind turbine is installed in the venturi throat, and drives a shaft extending through the column upon which the venturi is installed to a generator at the base of the column. The venturi and vanes may include photovoltaic cells thereon for further electrical power. The venturi may be heated from a geothermal source, and may include a variable diameter internal wall to adjust the cross-sectional area of the throat of the venturi. The use of functionally graded materials and other phase change materials may also improve the performance of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Ahmed Z. Al-Garni, Mohammed Aves
  • Patent number: 9830249
    Abstract: One or more problems may be detected in an executing application by retrieving runtime execution information from the application executing on one or more computers. The runtime information is transformed into a temporal sequence of events. A knowledgebase is searched for a dialog that has nodes in an order that match the temporal sequence of events according to a threshold degree. Responsive to finding the dialog in the knowledgebase, the dialog is launched on a user interface to interact with a user and guide the user through a problem identification and solution. Responsive to not finding the dialog, additional instrumenter is enabled in the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rangachari Anand, Juhnyoung Lee, Feng Li, Qi C. Li, Shao C. Li, Lijun Mei
  • Patent number: 9821736
    Abstract: A device for ventilating and electrically powering a computer of an engine of an aircraft, the device including a feed mechanism feeding air to a proximity of the computer and a fan connected to a drive mechanism and configured to generate a stream of air for ventilating the computer. The fan is mounted in the air feed mechanism, and the drive mechanism includes an electrical machine configured to operate as a motor for driving the fan, and as a generator for powering the computer, a rotor of the machine when operating as a generator being driven by the fan, which is itself driven by a stream of air flowing in or leaving the air feed mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Thomas Lepage, Bruno Robert Gaully
  • Patent number: 9823993
    Abstract: One or more problems may be detected in an executing application by retrieving runtime execution information from the application executing on one or more computers. The runtime information is transformed into a temporal sequence of events. A knowledgebase is searched for a dialog that has nodes in an order that match the temporal sequence of events according to a threshold degree. Responsive to finding the dialog in the knowledgebase, the dialog is launched on a user interface to interact with a user and guide the user through a problem identification and solution. Responsive to not finding the dialog, additional instrumenter is enabled in the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Rangachari Anand, Juhnyoung Lee, Feng Li, Qi C. Li, Shao C. Li, Lijun Mei
  • Patent number: 9823721
    Abstract: A switchgear controller device that generates commands to a switchgear apparatus that selectively routes power from one of two or more feeds to an electrical load of a power distribution system based upon the commands includes a user interface that displays graphical representations of various portions of the power distribution system. The switchgear controller device can receive data from components included in respective upstream portions and downstream portions of the power distribution system and generates graphical representations of present configurations of the components based at least in part upon the received data. Graphical representations of components included in the downstream portion of the system may be non-interactive, and graphical representations of components included in the upstream portion may be interactive based at least in part upon the present operating mode of the switchgear controller device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nigel Martin McGee, Martin John O'Grady, Patrick Hughes
  • Patent number: 9819182
    Abstract: A photovoltaic system may include a first photovoltaic component having local power optimization functionality to process power at a first level, a second photovoltaic component to process power at a second level, and optimization logic to command the first photovoltaic component to accommodate system-level power optimization. The first component may be reconfigurable to accommodate the system-level optimization. The entire system may be dynamically reconfigured to continuously operate at the highest overall level of system efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: SunPower Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Batten, Ravindranath Naiknaware
  • Patent number: 9819225
    Abstract: A Network Distributed High Voltage Direct Current Power Supply Management Method, includes the following steps: multiple high voltage direct current power supply devices are deployed in parallel connected, ensuring that at least one high voltage direct current power supply device not needs to connect with load; there are four power supply modes pre-set in each high voltage direct current power supply device, and the first detection node and the second detection node are set in each device; detect the status of the first detection node and the second detection node, and adopt the predetermined method to change the power supply mode of the high voltage direct current power supply device as per the predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: GCCAlliance Inc.
    Inventors: Stone Tseng, Zhi Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Ning Li
  • Patent number: 9813118
    Abstract: A method of configuring a network of a power transmitting unit (PTU) includes determining whether a neighboring PTU is operating in a master mode; determining an operation mode of a PTU based on a result of the determining; and setting a network between the PTU and the neighboring PTU based on the operation mode of the PTU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nam Yun Kim, Hyuk Choon Kwon, Sang Wook Kwon, Chi Hyung An, Soo Yeon Jung, Hee Won Jung
  • Patent number: 9809118
    Abstract: A system and a method for parallel power supply control for auxiliary converters of a motor train unit in the presence of interconnecting lines. The system comprises multiple three-phase inverter modules. The multiple three-phase inverter modules are in parallel connection with each other. Any two-phase circuit of a three-phase inverter module is separately in parallel connection with a corresponding two-phase circuit of a three-phase inverter module adjacent to the three-phase inverter module by using a connecting line module. The connecting line module is connected to a control system. The three-phase inverter modules are also connected to the control system. The three-phase lines of the three-phase inverter modules are all provided with switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: CRRC QINGDAO SIFANG ROLLING STOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongjun Yang, Bo Li, Junlei Wei, Bo Zhang, Zhaoping Li, Xiaoming Zhang, Zheng Xie, Yang Zhou, Lijun Zhang, Yanfang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9806597
    Abstract: For operating multi-axis drive assemblies more reliably even in a field weakening range, a current conversion device is proposed which includes a voltage-source DC link, a plurality of inverters having each a DC input side connected to the voltage-source DC link and AC output-side terminals for connection to an electric motor, and a control device configured to short-circuit each of the inverters. A measurement device measures an electrical variable at each of the inverters. The control device determines based on the measured electrical variables independently for each of the inverters directly or indirectly whether a particular inverter is feeding energy into the voltage-source DC link, and short-circuits, when this is the case, the particular inverter independently of the other inverters. A corresponding operating method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Herrmann, Harald Wiessmann
  • Patent number: 9807195
    Abstract: A system for presenting a clinical process of a patient in a clinical facility having a network, a system backend communicable with the network, and at least one mobile device communicable with the system backend, the mobile device comprising a mobile processor and a display, the mobile processor configured to operate in at least one first user interface mode and at least one second user interface mode, where the mobile processor is configured to enable the operation of at least one built-in function when operating in the at least one first user interface mode and where the mobile processor is configured to disable the operation of the at least one built-in function when operating in the at least one second user interface mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: MOBILE HEARTBEAT, LLC
    Inventor: Jacob Mark
  • Patent number: 9802560
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a regulator circuit including at least one regulator configured to supply a predetermined voltage by receiving a power supply from a main power source circuit, a functional circuit configured to operate on the voltage supplied from the regulator and perform a predetermined function, and a monitor circuit connected to at least one of the regulators and configured to monitor operation mode information inputted to the regulator. When detecting that the operation mode information contains sleep transition information to make a transition from a normal mode as a normal operation state to a sleep mode as an operation state where power consumption is smaller than that in the normal mode, the monitor circuit outputs a voltage output maintaining signal to the regulator connected to the monitor circuit to supply the voltage capable of causing the functional circuit to operate in the normal mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nobuo Umegaki, Susumu Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 9804627
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices relating to the use of multiple DC power generation sources with DC/DC converters to thereby provide AC power suitable for provision to a power grid. Multiple DC power generation sources are each coupled to an input stage with a DC/DC converter. All the DC/DC converters in the multiple input stages are controlled by a single digital controller. Within the single digital controller are controller sub-blocks, each of which generates control signals for a specific DC/DC converter. Each controller sub-block provides multiple functions for improving the performance of the system as a whole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SPARQ SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Shangzhi Pan, Majid Pahlevaninezhad, Praveen Jain