Patents by Inventor Bouziane Yebka

Bouziane Yebka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11455008
    Abstract: A system can include a first housing that includes a processor and memory accessible to the processor; a second housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor; a hinge Fassembly that rotatably couples the first housing and the second housing, where the hinge assembly includes permanent magnets that generate a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field orientable with respect to each other via rotation of the second housing with respect to the first housing, where the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field include an aligned orientation, generate a clockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation in a first rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and generate a counterclockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation in a second, opposite rotational direction from the aligned orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Kenneth Scott Seethaler
  • Patent number: 11429167
    Abstract: In one aspect a device includes at least one processor, a battery that powers the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The device also includes circuitry to, responsive to a user command to decommission the battery, discharge the battery to render the battery inoperable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Philip John Jakes, Jeremy Robert Carlson, Larry Glenn Estes, Bouziane Yebka
  • Patent number: 11424489
    Abstract: A device can include a processor; memory accessible by the processor; a housing that includes a battery bay that includes a first surface and a second, opposing surface; a battery package disposed in the battery bay and operatively coupled to the processor; and a resilient material disposed between the battery package and at least one of the first surface and the second surface of the battery bay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Patent number: 11422592
    Abstract: A system can include a housing that defines a first plane; a base that defines a second plane; and an adjustable hinge assembly that rotatably couples the base and the housing about an axis, where the hinge assembly includes permanent magnets that generate a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field orientable with respect to each other via rotation of the housing with respect to the base, where the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field include an aligned orientation, generate a clockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation of the housing in a first rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and generate a counterclockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation of the housing in a second, opposite rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and where the aligned orientation is adjustable to correspond to a selected angle between the first plane and the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Joseph David Plunkett
  • Patent number: 11394227
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, devices, and methods for power management during system startup at low temperatures are disclosed. An apparatus includes a battery for an electronic device. The battery includes one or more cells. The apparatus includes a thermal insulation element configured to insulate heat that the battery. The thermal insulation element is coupled to the battery to prevent at least a portion of the heat that the battery generates from being dissipated from the battery during startup of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Jeremy R. Carlson, Philip Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Patent number: 11363742
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, devices, and methods for variable temperature heat exchange switch are disclosed. An apparatus includes a heat exchanger coupled to an electronic component to dissipate heat from the electronic component. The apparatus includes a heat pipe connected to the heat exchanger and configured to dissipate heat. An apparatus includes a thermal-activated switch located at the connection between the heat exchanger and the heat pipe. The thermal-activated switch may be configured to allow heat transfer from the heat exchanger to the heat pipe in response to a temperature satisfying a threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Philip Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Publication number: 20220154748
    Abstract: For screw release, an apparatus includes a boss, a screw secured to the boss, and a force release component connected to one of the boss and the screw. The force release component releases a portion of the screw from the boss in response to a specified force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip Jakes
  • Publication number: 20220131062
    Abstract: For thermoelectric heat transfer, a thermoelectric device includes a planar p-type semiconductor that is planar within a first plane, a planar n-type semiconductor that is coplanar with the planar p-type semiconductor within the first plane, a cold side conductor that is coplanar with the planar p-type semiconductor and the planar n-type semiconductor within the first plane and that connects to the planar p-type semiconductor and to the planar n-type semiconductor, and a hot side conductor that is coplanar with the planar p-type semiconductor and the planar n-type semiconductor within the first plane and that connects to the planar p-type semiconductor and to the planar n-type semiconductor. The thermoelectric device further includes a hot side substrate, a hot side thermal insulator, a cold side substrate, and a cold side thermal insulator. The cold side conductor draws heat from the cold side substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Joseph David Plunkett, Philip Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Tadashi Kosuga
  • Patent number: 11256302
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; memory accessible by the processor; a display operatively coupled to the processor; a hinge assembly that includes an axle and leaves where at least one of the leaves includes a leaf magnet that includes north poles and south poles; and a first housing and a second housing that include leaf receptacles that, in a coupled state, receive the leaves of the hinge assembly to pivotably couple the first housing and the second housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Tin-Lup Wong, Joseph David Plunkett, Ritchie Alan Russ, Philip John Jakes, Bouziane Yebka
  • Publication number: 20220037941
    Abstract: An assembly can include a rotor that defines a rotor axis and that includes a number of permanent magnets; a stator that defines a stator axis, coaxially aligned with the rotor axis, and that includes a number of electropermanent magnets; and a controller that controls polarity of the electropermanent magnets to rotate the rotor about the rotor axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Joseph David Plunkett
  • Publication number: 20220035418
    Abstract: A system can include a housing that defines a first plane; a base that defines a second plane; and an adjustable hinge assembly that rotatably couples the base and the housing about an axis, where the hinge assembly includes permanent magnets that generate a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field orientable with respect to each other via rotation of the housing with respect to the base, where the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field include an aligned orientation, generate a clockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation of the housing in a first rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and generate a counterclockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation of the housing in a second, opposite rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and where the aligned orientation is adjustable to correspond to a selected angle between the first plane and the second plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Joseph David Plunkett
  • Publication number: 20220020517
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to transmit an electrical pulse to an electropermanent magnet; transmitting, responsive to the receiving and using a pulse transmitter, the electrical pulse to the electropermanent magnet; and affecting a magnetic field associated with the electropermanent magnet responsive to receiving the electrical pulse. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Joseph David Plunkett, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Publication number: 20220019273
    Abstract: In one aspect a device includes at least one processor, a battery that powers the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The device also includes circuitry to, responsive to a user command to decommission the battery, discharge the battery to render the battery inoperable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Philip John Jakes, Jeremy Robert Carlson, Larry Glenn Estes, Bouziane Yebka
  • Publication number: 20220018606
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include a housing, at least one processor within the housing, storage accessible to the at least one processor and within the housing, and plural heat absorbers within the housing that may be spherical. Each heat absorber may include an outer shell and inner material. The outer shell may include a shape-memory material. The inner material may include phase-change material different from the shape-memory material. The melting point of the phase-change material may be lower than the melting point of the shape-memory material. The heat absorbers may be juxtaposed with one or more other components of the device to absorb heat from the one or more other components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Joseph Anthony Holung, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip John Jakes
  • Patent number: 11215519
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an electronic device, including: a device component; a pressure sensor integrated into a surface lining of the device component; and at least one adaptive gap-filling component situated between the surface lining of the device component and a wall of the electronic device that at least partially surrounds the device component. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip John Jakes
  • Patent number: 11216043
    Abstract: A system can include a housing; a hinge assembly operatively coupled to the housing for rotation of the housing about a hinge axis, where the hinge assembly includes permanent magnets that generate a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field orientable with respect to each other via rotation of the housing, where the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field include an aligned orientation, generate a clockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation of the housing in a first rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and generate a counterclockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation of the housing in a second, opposite rotational direction from the aligned orientation; and an electromagnetic mover operatively coupled to the housing for rotation of the housing about the hinge axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Joseph David Plunkett
  • Publication number: 20210405693
    Abstract: A system can include a first housing that includes a processor and memory accessible to the processor; a second housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor; a hinge assembly that rotatably couples the first housing and the second housing, where the hinge assembly includes permanent magnets that generate a first magnetic field and a second magnetic field orientable with respect to each other via rotation of the second housing with respect to the first housing, where the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field include an aligned orientation, generate a clockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation in a first rotational direction from the aligned orientation, and generate a counterclockwise restoring torque responsive to rotation in a second, opposite rotational direction from the aligned orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Kenneth Scott Seethaler
  • Publication number: 20210344213
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, devices, and methods for power management during system startup at low temperatures are disclosed. An apparatus includes a battery for an electronic device. The battery includes one or more cells. The apparatus includes a thermal insulation element configured to insulate heat that the battery. The thermal insulation element is coupled to the battery to prevent at least a portion of the heat that the battery generates from being dissipated from the battery during startup of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Jeremy R. Carlson, Philip Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Publication number: 20210345524
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, devices, and methods for variable temperature heat exchange switch are disclosed. An apparatus includes a heat exchanger coupled to an electronic component to dissipate heat from the electronic component. The apparatus includes a heat pipe connected to the heat exchanger and configured to dissipate heat. An apparatus includes a thermal-activated switch located at the connection between the heat exchanger and the heat pipe. The thermal-activated switch may be configured to allow heat transfer from the heat exchanger to the heat pipe in response to a temperature satisfying a threshold temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Bouziane Yebka, Philip Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Patent number: 11157088
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, an indication to transmit an electrical pulse to an electropermanent magnet; transmitting, responsive to the receiving and using a pulse transmitter, the electrical pulse to the electropermanent magnet; and affecting a movement of a keyboard of the information handling device based on the received electrical pulse. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Anthony Holung, Bouziane Yebka, Joseph David Plunkett, Philip John Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong