Patents by Inventor Thomas Eriksson

Thomas Eriksson 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: 8674966
    Abstract: A controller including a chip package coupled with a light-based touch screen, emitter driver circuitry inside the chip package for selectively activating photoemitters that are outside of the chip package, detector driver circuitry inside the chip package for selectively activating photo detectors that are outside of the chip package, detector signal processing circuitry for generating detection signals representing amounts of light detected on the photo detectors, signal conducting pins for connecting the photoemitters to the emitter driver circuitry, signal conducting pins for connecting the photo detectors to the detector driver circuitry and to the detector signal processing circuitry, controller circuitry inside the chip package for controlling the emitter driver circuitry and the detector driver circuitry, and at least one input/output pin for outputting the detection signals to a host processor, for the host processor to identify one or more locations on the touch screen that are being touched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Jansson, Magnus Goertz, Thomas Eriksson, Joseph Shain, Niklas Kvist, Robert Pettersson, Lars Sparf, John Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8676007
    Abstract: A light-based touch-sensitive surface, including a housing, a surface attached to the housing for receiving touch input, a plurality of light sources in the housing for emitting light that crosses the surface, a plurality of light receivers in the housing for detecting the light emitted by the light sources, a curved lens adjacent to the surface through which the light emitted by the light sources passes, including two substantially similarly curved exterior panels, one of which forms a curved rim for the surface, and a calculating unit in said housing, connected to the light receivers, for calculating a touch location based on an absence of light expected to be received by the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Holmgren, Lars Sparf, John Karlsson, Anders Jansson, Thomas Eriksson, Joseph Shain, Niklas Kvist, Robert Pettersson
  • Publication number: 20140071094
    Abstract: A method for use by a touch screen in which light transmitted inside the screen is scattered by an object touching the screen from outside the screen, the method including activating emitter-receiver pairs for a plurality of emitters and receivers while an object is touching a screen from outside the screen, wherein light emitted by each emitter is transmitted inside the screen, wherein each emitter is associated with a limited number of receivers that detect significant light from such emitter while no object is touching the screen, and wherein the activated emitter-receiver pairs include pairs for which the receiver is not associated with the emitter in the pair, determining that receivers not associated with emitters detect significant light due to the object scattering the light emitted by the emitters, and deriving the location where the object is touching the screen from the determining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Holmgren, Lars Sparf, Remo Behdasht, Thomas Eriksson, Michael Lawrence Elyan, Joseph Shain, Anders Jansson, Robert Pettersson, John Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8643628
    Abstract: An electronic device, including a housing, a display mounted in the housing, a plurality of proximity sensors mounted in the housing near the edges of the display and directed outward from the display, for detecting presence of an object outside the display and near the edges of the display, and a processor mounted in the housing and coupled with the display and with the proximity sensors, for operating the device responsive to user activation of elements of a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI including a displayed portion that is rendered by the processor on the display, and a virtual non-displayed portion that extends beyond the edges of the display, wherein the processor operates the device responsive to user activation of elements of the virtual portion of the GUI, based on the proximity sensors detecting presence of an object in the non-displayed portion of the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Stefan Holmgren
  • Publication number: 20130306368
    Abstract: A bushing including a bottom contact, and a tubular conductor, having a lower part having an end in electrical and mechanical contact with the bottom contact, and a draw rod arrangement, inside the conductor, arranged to exert sufficient contact pressure between the bottom contact and the conductor, and the draw rod arrangement includes a member in mechanical contact with the conductor and draw rod having a second end, fixedly connected to the bottom contact, and a first end in connection to the member and clamping means, the clamping means is adapted to apply a force, urging the member in the direction of the bottom contact to generate sufficient contact pressure between the bottom contact and the conductor. The member of the draw rod arrangement is arranged to apply the force to the lower part of the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Peter Sjoberg
  • Patent number: 8587562
    Abstract: A touch screen system, including a housing, a display mounted in the housing, a plurality of light pulse emitters mounted in the housing below the display, a plurality of light pulse receivers mounted in the housing below the display, a first light guide, mounted in the housing along a first edge of the display, including a first substantially parabolic reflective surface for reflecting light pulses transmitted by the emitters, and a first substantially elliptical refractive surface, positioned substantially above the first substantially parabolic reflective surface, for refracting the reflected light pulses over the display, a second light guide, mounted in the housing along an opposite edge of the display, including a second substantially elliptical refractive surface for further refracting the light pulse refracted by the first substantially elliptical refractive surface, and a second substantially parabolic reflective surface, positioned substantially below the second substantially elliptical refractive s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Magnus Goertz, Thomas Eriksson, Joseph Shain, Anders Jansson, Niklas Kvist, Robert Pettersson, Lars Sparf, John Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8553014
    Abstract: A touch screen, including a layer of light-transmissive material having an upper surface that is exposed for touch by one or more objects, a plurality of light emitters underneath the upper surface, a first lens assembly for directing light beams emitted by the light emitters into the layer at an angle such that the light beams, when entering the layer, remain confined to the layer by total internal reflection when the light beams are not absorbed by any of the objects touching the upper surface, a plurality of light detectors for detecting light beams and for generating outputs indicating the amounts of light detected, a second lens assembly for directing light beams at a surface of the layer towards the light detectors, and a calculating unit for determining respective one or more locations of the one or more objects touching the upper surface, based on outputs of the light detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Stefan Holmgren, Lars Sparf, Remo Behdasht, Thomas Eriksson, Michael Lawrence Elyan, Joseph Shain, Anders Jansson, Robert Pettersson, John Karlsson
  • Publication number: 20130241886
    Abstract: A light guide for illuminating a display screen, including a vertical cone-shaped entrance surface including an aperture for admitting light beams emitted by an LED, a folding mirror for reflecting the admitted light beams at an angle of approximately 90°, and for horizontally collimating the admitted light beams, a horizontal guide for guiding the reflected light beams to an exit surface, and an exit surface positioned above a perimeter of a display screen for directing the guided light towards a portion of the display screen, the exit surface being tilted vertically from the horizontal at a slight angle to direct the guided light beams towards the display, and being shaped horizontally as a concave lens to spread the guided light beams horizontally over an angular expanse of the display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: NEONODE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Lars Sparf, Bjöm Magnus Jacobsson Le Normand
  • Publication number: 20130229373
    Abstract: A light-based finger gesture user interface for an electronic device including a housing for an electronic device, a display mounted in the housing, a cavity, separated from the display, penetrating two opposite sides of the housing, a detector mounted in the housing operative to detect an object inserted in the cavity, and a processor connected to the detector and to the display for causing the display to render a visual representation in response to output from the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Per Leine, Jochen Laveno Mangelsdorff, Robert Pettersson, Anders Jansson, Magnus Goertz
  • Patent number: 8525535
    Abstract: A test body for use in determining moisture content in a laminated insulation of a power transformer by measuring a dielectric frequency response of the test body. The test body has a laminated structure of the same material as the laminated insulation, and has a shape and a size to obtain moisture content characteristics that resembles the moisture content characteristics of the laminated power transformer insulation. The test body further includes electrodes, which are embedded in the laminated structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Uno Gafvert
  • Patent number: 8510861
    Abstract: A method and system for protecting software products from unauthorized use and distribution is described. The system comprises a client process executed on a client computer coupled to a producer computer over a network. The method comprises the steps of providing to a user a copy of the distributed software, the distributed software comprising an incomplete executable program requiring a security module to be installed prior to execution on the client computer. The user receives a registration code for use with the distributed software. Upon attempted execution of the distributed software the producer computer requests user registration from the user. Upon receipt of the registration information including the registration code from the user, the producer computer validates the registration code and constructing a security module for transmission to the client computer. The security module is integrated with the distributed software to allow execution of the executable program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Resource Consortium Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Jurgen Wenzel, Tobias Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8508233
    Abstract: An arc detector for detecting undesired arcs. The arc detector includes: an antenna for receiving an electromagnetic signal representing an arc; and a discriminator for analyzing a signal from the antenna, the discriminator including a spectrum analyzer arranged to detect whether the signal represents a normal arc or an undesired arc. The discriminator is arranged to detect whether the signal represents a normal arc or an undesired arc by comparing signal levels at frequencies of a spectrum of the signal corresponding to at least one partial reference spectrum, and determining the arc to be a normal arc if a deviation from the reference spectrum is less than a threshold deviation. A corresponding method is also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Stefan Halen, Jonas Hedberg
  • Patent number: 8502102
    Abstract: A DC switching device including a plurality of arc-extinguishing chambers and a plurality of contacting units conductively connected in series to each other, each of the contacting units including a stationary contact and a movable contact movable between a rest position and a working position, an air gap is formed between the contacts when the movable contact is moved from the working position to the rest position and each of the chambers enclosing a contacting unit and including a splitter plate unit including one or more splitter plates arranged for splitting and cooling an arc occurring in the air gap between the contacts. The chambers include a permanent magnet for generating a magnetic field between the contacting unit and the splitter plate unit and the splitter plates are made of non-ferromagnetic material, and the splitter plates of the chambers are made of ferromagnetic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Research Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Lars Banghammar
  • Publication number: 20130093727
    Abstract: A light-based finger gesture user interface for an electronic device including a housing for an electronic device, a display mounted in the housing, a cavity, separated from the display, penetrating two opposite sides of the housing, a detector mounted in the housing operative to detect an object inserted in the cavity, and a processor connected to the detector and to the display for causing the display to render a visual representation in response to output from the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: NEONODE, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Per Leine, Jochen Laveno Mangelsdorff, Robert Pettersson, Anders Jansson, Magnus Goertz
  • Patent number: 8416217
    Abstract: A light-based finger gesture user interface for an electronic device including a housing for an electronic device, a display mounted in the housing, a cavity, separated from the display, penetrating two opposite sides of the housing, a detector mounted in the housing operative to detect an object inserted in the cavity, and a processor connected to the detector and to the display for causing the display to render a visual representation in response to output from the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Neonode Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Per Leine, Jochen Laveno Mangelsdorff, Robert Pettersson, Anders Jansson, Magnus Goertz
  • Publication number: 20130075367
    Abstract: A DC switching device including a plurality of arc-extinguishing chambers and a plurality of contacting units conductively connected in series to each other, each of the contacting units including a stationary contact and a movable contact movable between a rest position and a working position, an air gap is formed between the contacts when the movable contact is moved from the working position to the rest position and each of the chambers enclosing a contacting unit and including a splitter plate unit including one or more splitter plates arranged for splitting and cooling an arc occurring in the air gap between the contacts. The chambers include a permanent magnet for generating a magnetic field between the contacting unit and the splitter plate unit and the splitter plates are made of non-ferromagnetic material, and the splitter plates of the chambers are made of ferromagnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Thomas Eriksson, Lars Banghammar
  • Patent number: 8403203
    Abstract: A method of attaching a component to a substrate, including providing a component guide attached to a substrate, the component guide having a cavity substantially conforming to contours of a portion of a component, attaching a first solder pad to the component, inserting the component into the guide cavity, providing a second solder pad, offset from the first solder pad and near the cavity, and inserting the component, the component guide and the substrate into an oven heating the solder pads, wherein the component is drawn further into the guide cavity by a capillary effect of the heated solder pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Neonoda Inc.
    Inventors: Magnus Goertz, Thomas Eriksson, Joseph Shain, Anders Jansson, Niklas Kvist, Robert Pettersson, Lars Sparf, John Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8389876
    Abstract: A high voltage bushing including a voltage grading shield in two parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: ABB Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: David Emilsson, Thomas Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20130045463
    Abstract: A combination of a dental restoration and a plurality of attachment members is disclosed. The dental restoration includes a plurality of support members configured to be releasably attached to an attachment member. Each attachment member includes a first support surface facing in the coronal direction of the attachment member for supporting a corresponding support member, and a second support surface facing in the apical direction of the attachment member and towards the longitudinal axis of the support member and being configured for engagement with a support surface of a dental fixture. Each attachment member includes an attachment portion at a coronal portion for receiving a fastening member for releasably attaching one of the support members. The first support surface has an angle relative the longitudinal axis of the attachment member measured from its apical towards its coronal end that is larger than a corresponding angle of the second support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: NOBEL BIOCARE SERVICES AG
    Inventors: Hakan Lindstrom, Thomas Eriksson
  • Publication number: 20120326987
    Abstract: A keypad for use in conjunction with a touch-sensitive panel, the keypad including a frame surrounding a touch-sensitive panel, including a plurality of buttons suspended by the frame above the touch-sensitive panel, each of the buttons including a rigid member that is lowered through the frame when pressure is applied from above, and a resilient body attached to the rigid member and to the frame for raising the rigid member when the pressure from above is released, wherein the rigid members are exposed below the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: NEONODE, INC.
    Inventors: Gunnar Martin Fröjdh, Carl Richard Henriksson, Michael Lawrence Elyan, Thomas Eriksson, Anders Jansson, Joseph Shain, Niklas Kvist, Robert Pettersson, Lars Sparf, John Karlsson