Patents by Inventor Jose Luis Tenorio CORREA

Jose Luis Tenorio CORREA 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).

  • Oil pan with integrated capacitive sensor for measuring oil level
    Patent number: 9587534
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an oil pan that includes an oil pan having a reservoir configured to hold oil and defined by one or more oil pan walls and an oil pan bottom. The oil pan includes one or more capacitance sensors coupled to a portion of the oil pan walls and configured to sense a capacitance. The oil pan includes a capacitance measuring unit electrically connected to the one or more sensors via one or more conductors and configured to receive each of the sensed capacitances via the one or more conductors and determine capacitance values for each of the sensed capacitances. The oil pan also includes a processor configured to receive the capacitance values and determine the oil level in the oil pan based on the capacitance values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Flextronics AP, LLC
    Inventors: Curtis Vance Bradford, Brian Wayne Holmes, Rajagopalan Dhesikan, Mei Ho Stinson, Dung Dang Huynh, Jose Luis Tenorio Correa, Shaily Deva, John Nashed Hanna
  • OIL PAN WITH INTEGRATED CAPACITIVE SENSOR FOR MEASURING OIL LEVEL
    Publication number: 20160230625
    Abstract: Embodiments provide an oil pan that includes an oil pan having a reservoir configured to hold oil and defined by one or more oil pan walls and an oil pan bottom. The oil pan includes one or more capacitance sensors coupled to a portion of the oil pan walls and configured to sense a capacitance. The oil pan includes a capacitance measuring unit electrically connected to the one or more sensors via one or more conductors and configured to receive each of the sensed capacitances via the one or more conductors and determine capacitance values for each of the sensed capacitances. The oil pan also includes a processor configured to receive the capacitance values and determine the oil level in the oil pan based on the capacitance values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: FLEXTRONICS AP, LLC
    Inventors: Curtis Vance BRADFORD, Brian Wayne HOLMES, Rajagopalan DHESIKAN, Mei Ho STINSON, Dung Dang HUYNH, Jose Luis Tenorio CORREA, Shaily DEVA, John Nashed HANNA