Patents Issued in December 15, 2015
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Patent number: 9214236Abstract: A memory includes an array of memory cells including rows and columns. The memory includes circuitry coupled to the word lines applying a first bias voltage to a first set of spaced-apart locations on a word line or word lines in the array, while applying a second bias voltage different than the first bias voltage, to a second set of spaced-apart locations on the word line or word lines, locations in the first set of spaced-apart locations being interleaved among locations in the second set of spaced-apart locations, whereby current flow is induced between locations in the first and second sets of locations that cause heating of the word line or word lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Macronix International Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hang-Ting Lue, Chun Hsiung Hung
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Patent number: 9214237Abstract: A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a control circuit configured to control a soft program operation of setting nonvolatile memory cells to a first threshold voltage distribution state of the nonvolatile memory cells. When a characteristic of the nonvolatile memory cells is in a first state, the control circuit executes the soft program operation by applying a first voltage for setting the nonvolatile memory cells to the first threshold voltage distribution state to first word lines, and applying a second voltage higher than the first voltage to a second word line. When the characteristic of the nonvolatile memory cells is in a second state, the control circuit executes the soft program operation by applying a third voltage equal to or lower than the first voltage to the first word lines and applying a fourth voltage lower than the second voltage to the second word line.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Yasuhiro Shiino, Eietsu Takahashi
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Patent number: 9214238Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes first to fourth memory cells that are stacked above a semiconductor substrate, first to fourth word lines that are connected to gates of the first to fourth memory cells, respectively, and a row decoder that applies voltages to the first to fourth word lines. The row decoder applies a first programming voltage to the first word line during a write operation performed on the first memory cell, applies the first programming voltage to the second word line during a write operation performed on the second memory cell, applies a second programming voltage to the third word line during a write operation performed on the third memory cell, and applies the second programming voltage to the fourth word line during a write operation performed on the fourth memory cell. The second programming voltage is higher than the first programming voltage.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Takuya Futatsuyama, Masanobu Shirakawa, Kenichi Abe
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Patent number: 9214239Abstract: A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit suitable for generating program and erase voltages and applying the program and erase voltages to the plurality of memory cells when program and erase operations are performed on the plurality of memory cells, and a control logic suitable for controlling the peripheral circuit unit during the program and erase operations and counting a pulse number of the program and erase voltages to store a resultant count number as status data.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SK Hynix Inc.Inventor: Sung Hyun Jung
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Patent number: 9214240Abstract: Improving endurance for non-volatile memory by dynamic erase depth is disclosed. A group of memory cells are erased. Then, at least some of the erased memory cells are programmed. Programming the memory cells typically impacts the erase threshold distribution of those memory cells that were intended to stay erased. The erase depth of the next erase can be adjusted based on how the program operation affects the erase threshold distribution. As one example, the upper tail of the erase distribution is measured after programming. The higher the upper tail, the shallower the next erase, in one embodiment. This helps to improve endurance. In one embodiment, the erase depth is adjusted by determining a suitable erase verify level. Rather than (or in addition to) adjusting the erase verify level, the number of erase pulses that are performed after erase verify passes can be adjusted to adjust the erase depth.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SanDisk Technologies Inc.Inventors: Deepanshu Dutta, Chun-Hung Lai, Shih-Chung Lee, Ken Oowada, Masaaki Higashitani
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Patent number: 9214241Abstract: A reliable semiconductor memory device and an erasing method for erasing data in a reliable manner are provided. The erasing method is applied to erase a semiconductor memory device having a memory array, and the memory array has an NAND string. A predetermined voltage is applied to a gate of a select transistor of the NAND string, and the predetermined voltage is applied to a word line of a memory cell of the NAND string. An erasing voltage is applied to a substrate region at a first timing, and the substrate region has the NAND string. The gate of the select transistor is floated at a second timing. Here, there is a fixed time interval between the first timing and the second timing, and the second timing is later than the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Winbond Electronics Corp.Inventor: Makoto Senoo
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Patent number: 9214242Abstract: In a programming method for a NAND flash memory device, a self-boosting scheme is used to eliminate excess electrons in the channel of an inhibit cell string that would otherwise cause programming disturb. The elimination is enabled by applying a negative voltage to word lines connected to the inhibit cell string before boosting the channel, and this leads to bringing high program immunity. A row decoder circuitry to achieve the programming operation and a file system architecture based on the programming scheme to improve the efficiency of file management are also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: POWERCHIP CORPORATION, POWERCHIP TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Miida, Riichiro Shirota, Hideki Arakawa, Ching Sung Yang, Tzung Ling Lin
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Patent number: 9214243Abstract: A three-dimensional memory is provided that includes a first memory level and a second memory level monolithically formed above the first memory level. The first memory level includes a first steering element coupled in series with and vertically stacked above or below a first non-volatile state change element. The second memory level includes a second steering element coupled in series with and vertically stacked above or below a second non-volatile state change element. Other aspects are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SanDisk 3D LLCInventors: Mark G. Johnson, Thomas H. Lee, Vivek Subramanian, Paul Michael Farmwald, James M. Cleeves
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Patent number: 9214244Abstract: A method for reading data stored in a fuse device included in a memory device including a memory cell array is provided. The method comprises reading trimming data of the fuse device, wherein the trimming data is related to trimming a level of voltage or a level of current used for an operation of the memory device; and after the reading the trimming data, reading defective cell address data of the fuse device, wherein the defective cell address data is related to defective cells in the memory cell array.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Gil Su Kim, Jong Min Oh, Sung Min Seo, Seong Jin Jang
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Patent number: 9214245Abstract: Provided is an e-fuse structure of a semiconductor device having improved fusing performance so as to enable a program operation at a low voltage. The e-fuse structure includes a first metal pattern formed at a first vertical level, the first metal pattern including a first part extending in a first direction and a second part extending in the first direction and positioned to be adjacent to the first part, and a third part adjacent to the second part, the second part being positioned between the first part and the third part, the first part and the second part being electrically connected to each other, and the third part being electrically disconnected from the second part; and a second metal pattern electrically connected to the first metal pattern and formed at a second vertical level different from the first vertical level.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyun-Min Choi
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Patent number: 9214246Abstract: Illustrative embodiments provide modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors and methods for their operation. Illustrative embodiments and aspects include, without limitation, modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactors, modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactor modules, methods of operating a modular nuclear fission deflagration wave reactor, and the like.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TerraPower, LLCInventors: Charles E. Ahlfeld, John Rogers Gilleland, Roderick A. Hyde, Muriel Y. Ishikawa, David G. McAlees, Nathan P. Myhrvold, Charles Whitmer, Lowell L. Wood, Jr., Ashok Odedra
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Patent number: 9214247Abstract: A water filling system for a reactor water level gauge is provided for filling a reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe in a reactor building with water and filling the reactor water level gauge with water even in an unexpected abnormal event where the reactor building is brought into a highly radioactive environment. The water filling system for a reactor water level gauge includes a water filling instrumentation pipe guided from the reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe in the reactor building to an outside of the reactor building and filling the reactor water level gauge instrumentation pipe in the reactor building with water even in an unexpected abnormal event of a nuclear power plant.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Fujio Shiraishi, Hisayoshi Fukai
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Patent number: 9214248Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of capturing radioactive species in an aqueous solution and removing the radioactive species for disposal. The method includes the steps of providing a macroporous bead form sequestration resin including a sequestration ligand coupled to a sulfonic acid based polymer resin, subjecting the bead form sequestration resin to radioactive species contained in the aqueous solution to allow the bead form sequestration resin to capture the radioactive species; using an acid to lower a pH of the resin to release the radioactive species; and disposing the radioactive species in a radioactive storage facility.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Paul L. Frattini, Roger Howard Asay, Keith Paul Fruzzetti, Susan Elaine Garcia, Leon Yengoyan, Lisa Maxine Edwards
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Patent number: 9214249Abstract: A multi-leaf collimator for a radiotherapy apparatus comprises at least one array of laterally-spaced elongate leaves, each leaf being driven by an associated motor connected to the leaf via a drive means so as to extend or retract the leaf in its longitudinal direction, the drive means comprising a sub-frame on which at least a subset of the motors are mounted, the sub-frame being mounted at a location spaced from the leaf array in a direction transverse to the lateral and longitudinal directions, and including a plurality of threaded drives disposed longitudinally, each being driven by a motor and being operatively connected to a leaf thereby to drive that leaf.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Elekta AB (publ)Inventors: Duncan Neil Bourne, Ryan David Wightwick
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Patent number: 9214250Abstract: A heat-treated polymer particle comprising an addition polymer core particle which has had swollen and polymerized therein a blend of an aromatic alcohol with an aldehyde or a blend of an aromatic amine or urea with an aldehyde and which has been subsequently heat treated, e.g. to a temperature of at least 150° C.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Conpart ASInventors: Keith Redford, Helge Kristiansen, Heidi Johnsen, Ruth Schmid, Justyna Justynska
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Patent number: 9214251Abstract: An aluminum alloy conductor, containing: 0.01 to 0.4 mass % of Fe, 0.1 to 0.3 mass % of Mg, 0.04 to 0.3 mass % of Si, 0.1 to 0.5 mass % of Cu, and 0.001 to 0.01 mass % of Ti and V in total, with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein the conductor contains three kinds of intermetallic compounds A, B, and C, in which the intermetallic compounds A, B, and C have a particle size of 0.1 ?m or more but 2 ?m or less, 0.03 ?m or more but less than 0.1 ?m, and 0.001 ?m or more but less than 0.03 ?m, respectively, and area ratios a, b, and c of the intermetallic compounds A, B, and C, in an arbitrary region in the conductor, satisfy: 0.1%?a?2.5%, 0.1%?b?3%, and 1%?c?10%.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Shigeki Sekiya, Kuniteru Mihara, Kyota Susai
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Patent number: 9214252Abstract: [Technical Problem] The invention is to provide a method for manufacture of an ultrafine conductor having sufficient electrical conductivity, and enhanced strength and stretch properties while suppressing manufacture cost, the same ultrafine conductor, as well as a material suited for the same ultrafine conductor. [Solution to Problem] To solve the above problem, there is provided a material for an ultrafine conductor, which includes a matrix formed of copper, chromium particles contained in the matrix, and tin contained in the matrix. The tin is present as a solid solution in the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Tsuyoshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 9214253Abstract: A sintered indium oxide comprising niobium as an additive, wherein the ratio of the number of niobium atoms relative to the total number of atoms of all metal elements contained in the sintered compact is within a range of 1 to 4%, the relative density is 98% or higher, and the bulk resistance is 0.9 m?·cm or less. Provided are a sintered compact of indium oxide system and a transparent conductive film of indium oxide system, which have characteristics of high transmittance in the short wavelength and long wavelength ranges since the carrier concentration is not too high even though the resistivity thereof is low.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: JX Nippon Mining & Metals CorporationInventors: Masakatsu Ikisawa, Hideo Takami
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Patent number: 9214254Abstract: An electrical conductor includes an ultra-thin layer of aluminum-doped zinc-oxide and a nano-layer of alumina in contact and conformal with a surface of the ultra-thin aluminum-doped zinc-oxide layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Mitchell Stewart Burberry, Lee William Tutt
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Patent number: 9214255Abstract: Disclosed are a p-doped conjugated polymer electrolyte and an organic electronic device using the same. The p-doped conjugated polymer electrolyte according to the present invention not only has an outstanding hole-transport capability but can also act as an electron-blocking layer and hence can be used in organic electronic devices, such as organic light-emitting devices or organic solar cells, in order to improve the light-emitting efficiency of the organic light-emitting device or the energy-conversion efficiency of the organic solar cell. Also, because the charge on the p-doped conjugated polymer electrolyte is almost completely neutral, the present invention can solve the problem of anode corrosion and make a positive contribution to increased life-cycle of the device.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: GWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Kwang Hee Lee, Sung Heum Park, Young Eup Jin, Byoung Hoon Lee
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Patent number: 9214256Abstract: An optically transparent, electrically conductive hybrid film includes a carbon nanotubes network deposited on a substrate, and a population of transparent conductive inorganic nanoparticles distributed throughout the carbon nanotubes network to provide a conductive transparent hybrid film.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Nano-C, Inc.Inventors: Ramesh Sivarajan, Henning Richter, Viktor Vejins
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Patent number: 9214257Abstract: An organic electrolyte for magnesium batteries including an ether solvent; a magnesium compound represented by Formula 1 dissolved in the ether solvent; and a Lewis acid: wherein CY1 is an optionally substituted C6-C50 aromatic ring, X1 is, each independently, an electron withdrawing group, X2 is a halogen, n is an integer of 1 to 10, and an angle between a CY1-X1 bond and a CY1-Mg bond is 150 degrees or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Young-gyoon Ryu, Seok-soo Lee, Dong-jun Lee, Myung-jin Lee, In-sun Jung
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Patent number: 9214258Abstract: A semiconductor composition includes a semiconducting polymer containing a diketopyrrolopyrrole (DKPP) moiety and carbon nanotubes dispersed into the semiconducting polymer. An electronic device contains a semiconductor layer including a semiconductor composition having a semiconducting polymer including a diketopyrrolopyrrole (DKPP) moiety and carbon nanotubes dispersed into the semiconducting polymer. A semiconductor composition contains a semiconducting polymer including a diketopyrrolopyrrole (DKPP) moiety, a solvent selected from the group consisting of tetrachloroethane, dichlorobenzene, chlorobenzene, chlorotoluene, and a mixture thereof, and a carbon nanotube.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Yiliang Wu, Anthony James Wigglesworth, Ping Liu
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Patent number: 9214259Abstract: A composite laminated ceramic electronic component that includes co-fired low dielectric-constant ceramic layers and high dielectric-constant ceramic layers. The low dielectric-constant ceramic layers and the high dielectric-constant ceramic layers are each composed of a glass ceramic containing: a first ceramic composed of MgAl2O4 and/or Mg2SiO4; a second ceramic composed of BaO, RE2O3 (where RE is a rare-earth element), and TiO2; glass containing each of 44.0 to 69.0 weight % of RO (where R is an alkaline-earth metal), 14.2 to 30.0 weight % of SiO2, 10.0 to 20.0 weight % of B2O3, 0.5 to 4.0 weight % of Al2O3, 0.3 to 7.5 weight % of Li2O, and 0.1 to 5.5 weight % of MgO; and MnO. The content ratios of the glass, etc. are varied between the low dielectric-constant ceramic layers and the high dielectric-constant ceramic layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroshige Adachi, Seiji Fujita, Kazuhiro Kaneko, Satoru Adachi, Sadaaki Sakamoto
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Patent number: 9214260Abstract: A differential signal transmission cable includes first and second signal lines arranged parallel to each other, a conductive layer made of a conductor in which a current is induced when signals propagate through the first and second signal lines, and a dielectric disposed between the first and second signal lines and the conductive layer. The conductive layer has a signal attenuating structure including a non-continuous section in which the conductor is non-continuous, the non-continuous section being located such that, among differential signal components and common-mode signal components included in the signals propagating through the first and second signal lines, the common-mode signal components are attenuated by an attenuation factor greater than an attenuation factor of the differential signal components.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Takahiro Sugiyama, Takashi Kumakura
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Patent number: 9214261Abstract: A cable for a high-voltage electronic device having a small diameter and an excellent voltage resistance characteristic. The cable includes an inner semiconducting layer, a high-voltage insulator, an outer semiconducting layer, a shielding layer, and a sheath on an outer periphery of a cable core portion, wherein the high-voltage insulator is formed of an insulating composition containing 0.5 to 5 parts by mass of an inorganic filler with respect to 100 parts by mass of an olefin-based polymer, and the inorganic filler has an average dispersed-particle diameter of 1 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.Inventors: Mariko Saito, Masahiro Minowa, Junichi Nishioka, Nahoko Tanaka
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Patent number: 9214262Abstract: A star-quad cable for transmitting electrical signals, having at least two pairs of conductors, each conductor having one wire made of an electrically conductive material and a conductor sheath radially enclosing the wire and made of an electrically insulating material, the conductors being arranged on the corners of a square in a cross-section, with the conductors of a pair arranged on diagonally opposite corners of the square, wherein four conductors are twisted at a predetermined stranding factor; and a shield made of an electrically conductive material and enclosing the two pairs of conductors is arranged radially on the outside, constructed from a weave of individual shield wires. At least one shield wire or at least one shield wire bundle is stranded radially enclosing the conductors such that they run in the axial direction substantially parallel to a wire of a conductor.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Gunnar Armbrecht, Helmut Reiter
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Patent number: 9214263Abstract: This disclosure provides a magnetic material-containing resin to be used for coating and forming cores. A magnetite-containing resin of the present invention includes a magnetite having a residual magnetic flux density of less than 15 Am2/kg and a coercive force of less than 12 kA/m. A coil is provided that has a structure in which by coating a winding with the magnetite-containing resin, a magnetite-containing resin layer is formed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Marusawa, Akio Hagiya
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Patent number: 9214264Abstract: A magnetic device and power converter employing the same. In one embodiment, the magnetic device includes a first L-core segment including a first leg and a second leg extending therefrom, and an opposing second L-core segment including a first leg and a second leg extending therefrom. The magnetic device also includes a winding formed around at least one of the first leg and the second leg of the first L-core segment or the second L-core segment.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Power systems Technologies, Ltd.Inventor: Sriram Chandrasekaran
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Patent number: 9214265Abstract: A single- or multi-phase dry-type transformer includes at least two coils. A barrier between phases made of an electrically insulating material is arranged in the intermediate space between the individual coils.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: ABB TECHNOLOGY AGInventors: Benjamin Weber, Bhavesh Patel, Burak Esenlik, Frank Cornelius, Marcos Bockholt, Jens Tepper, Rafael Murillo, Carlos Roy
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Patent number: 9214266Abstract: An electromagnetic force driving device having reduced size and weight, and easily changeable electromagnetic characteristics and holding force, is provided. The device includes: a first housing; a second housing installed under the first housing; a partitioning wall partitioning the first and second housings; a first mover installed on a top of the first housing; a coil unit installed at a lower portion of the second housing to be movable according to a direction of current supplied; a second mover including one end combined with the coil unit, and another end passing through the partitioning wall and connected to the first mover to operate the first mover according to a movement of the coil unit; an upper magnet installed in the first housing to maintain a predetermined position of the first mover; and a lower magnet arranged in the second housing to form a magnetic field at the coil unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Soonchunyang University Industry Academy Cooperation FoundationInventors: HeeJoon Lee, HakMin Kim
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Patent number: 9214267Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator device, comprising a coil unit, which surrounds a first yoke section of a stationary yoke unit and is activated by energizing the coil unit, and armature elements, which are guided so as to be movable relative to the yoke unit and which interact with an output-side actuating partner and are driven in order to perform an actuating movement, the armature elements interact with at least one second yoke section of the yoke unit to form an air gap lying outside of the first yoke section for a magnetic flux produced by the activated coil unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: ETO Magnetic GmbHInventors: Raphael Bory, Jonas Boll, Daniela Haerter, Robert Steyer, Philipp Terhorst, Thomas Schiepp, Markus Laufenberg
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Patent number: 9214268Abstract: Method, system, and apparatus for optimizing kinematics of a magnetic latch having a magnetic element is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John C. DiFonzo, Fabio T. Campos, Jonathan E. Borkowski, Chee How Chong, Matthew W. Blum, William A. Tashman, Michelle R. Goldberg, Stefano Tizianel, Noemi Novello
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Patent number: 9214269Abstract: An inductive device is provided, which includes a substrate, a layer having a plurality of conductive metal traces and a metal shield layer. The conductive trace has an input port, a first portion, a second portion, a third portion and an output port. The metal shield layer is disposed between the substrate and the conductive trace. Each of the plurality of conductive metal traces has a respective length and a respective width. Each of the plurality of conductive metal traces are separated from one another. Each of the plurality of conductive metal traces are disposed perpendicularly with the first portion and the third portion. The metal shield layer provides spaced shield traces substantially perpendicular with the conductive metal traces.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Sreekiran Samala, Daryl Barry
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Patent number: 9214270Abstract: An electronic component includes a first conductor layer including a first conductor pattern P1, a first insulating layer covering the first conductor layer, a first opening h1 passing through the first insulting layer to expose top and side surfaces of the first conductor pattern P1 therethrough, and a second conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer and including a second conductor pattern P2 connected to the first conductor pattern P1 through the first opening h1. A first opening region which is a planar region inside the first opening h1 includes a first region in which the first conductor pattern P1 is formed and a second region in which the first conductor pattern P1 is not formed. The second conductor pattern P2 is embedded in both the first and second regions of the first opening h1.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventors: Fumio Watanabe, Naozumi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Kamiyama
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Patent number: 9214271Abstract: Arc resistant enclosures for dry-type transformers. More particularly, transformer enclosures having one or more arc-resistant features, including arc channels, arc fault dampers, and arc fault plenums, and methods for providing same.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: ABB Inc.Inventors: Robert C. Ballard, Nathan T. Sigman, Edgar A. Wimmer, Jr., Rafael Gutierrez, Jr.
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Patent number: 9214272Abstract: A three-phase-two-phase transformer including a magnetic circuit, three-phase windings, and two-phase windings, wherein the magnetic circuit includes a first column, a second column, and a third column that are magnetically connected together, the three-phase windings including a first winding, a second winding, and a third winding. The two-phase windings include a fourth winding around the first column, a fifth winding around the first column, a sixth winding around the third column, and a seventh winding around the third column, the fourth winding and the seventh winding being connected in series and forming a first two-phase phase, and the fifth winding and the sixth winding being connected in series and forming a second two-phase phase.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: LABINAL POWER SYSTEMSInventor: Cedric Duval
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Patent number: 9214273Abstract: A method provides a radial drop winding for an open wound transformer. A plurality of non-electrically conductive posts are arranged to define an interior space. Each post is of generally L-shape having a main body and a leg extending from a bottom end of the main body. During an open winding process, conductive wire is dropped to build up lengthwise along the posts to define at least one generally cylindrical winding segment supported by the legs of the posts.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Robert C. Ballard, Josiah Levi Vandervelde, William Edward Pauley, Jr., Joseph Leo Tedesco
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Patent number: 9214274Abstract: A method for transmitting a signal between a wall and a leaf hinged to the wall around an articulation axis includes providing a first signal transmission coil comprising a face side on the wall or on the leaf. A second signal transmission coil comprising a face side is provided on the wall or on the leaf. A carrier voltage is modulated via the signal to be transmitted so as to obtain a modulated carrier voltage. The modulated carrier voltage is applied to the first signal transmission coil so as to generate a secondary voltage modulated by the signal to be transmitted in the second signal transmission coil via an inductive coupling. The first signal transmission coil and the second signal transmission coil are arranged symmetrically with respect to the articulation axis and to face each another on their respective face sides.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: DR. HAHN GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Tibor Herglotz, Ingo Steinfeld, Wolfgang Staude
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Patent number: 9214275Abstract: According to the present invention, a grain oriented electrical steel sheet in which iron loss has been further reduced can be obtained by carrying out decarburization annealing as continuous annealing including: (1) heating the steel sheet to a temperature in the range of 700° C. to 750° C. at heating rate of 50° C./second or higher at least in a temperature range of 500° C. to 700° C. in an atmosphere having oxidation potential P(H2O)/P(H2) equal to or lower than 0.05; (2) then cooling the steel sheet to a temperature range below 700° C. in an atmosphere having oxidation potential P(H2O)/P(H2) equal to or lower than 0.05; and (3) reheating the steel sheet to a temperature in the range of 800° C. to 900° C. and retaining the steel sheet at the temperature for soaking in an atmosphere having oxidation potential P(H2O)/P(H2) equal to or higher than 0.3.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Takeshi Omura, Gou Kijima, Makoto Watanabe
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Patent number: 9214276Abstract: A capacitor is provided having an outer shell. A capacitor film member is disposed within the outer shell. A conductor member is disposed within the outer shell in thermal contact with the capacitor film member. A collet member is slidingly coupled to the conductor member.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand CorporationInventor: Charles Patrick Shepard
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Patent number: 9214277Abstract: A capacitor includes a dielectric layer, a first external electrode layer, a second external electrode layer, a first internal electrode portion, a second internal electrode portion, and a close contact portion. The dielectric layer includes a first surface, a second surface facing the first surface, and a plurality of through-holes communicating between the first surface and the second surface. The first internal electrode portion is provided on a first through-hole portion. The second internal electrode portion is provided on a second through-hole portion. The close contact portion brings at least one of the first external electrode layer and the second external electrode layer into close contact with the dielectric layer, the close contact portion being provided on a third through-hole portion, the third through-hole portion being the remaining portion of the plurality of through-holes.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hidetoshi Masuda, Yoshinari Take
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Patent number: 9214278Abstract: There is provided a multilayered ceramic electronic component including: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and having first and second side surfaces; first and second internal electrodes having an overlapping region provided in the ceramic body, forming a capacitance forming area exposed to the first side surface, the first internal electrode having a first lead-out portion, and the second internal electrode being insulated from the first internal electrode and having a second lead-out portion; a first external electrode connected to the first lead-out portion and a second external electrode connected to the second lead-out portion; and an insulating layer formed on the first side surface, wherein the first and second external electrodes further include non-conductive layers formed on outer surfaces thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Myung Jun Park, Kyu Sik Park, Young Sook Lee, Jae Yeol Choi, Doo Young Kim
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Patent number: 9214279Abstract: An ultrafine metal oxide particle dispersion liquid is prepared by mixing an ultrafine titanium-based composite metal oxide particle dispersion liquid prepared by hydrolysis in a microemulsion containing a hydrophobic dispersion medium, water, and a surfactant and an organic metal compound solution for the same titanium-based composite metal oxide at a ratio of 1:1 to 1:30 in terms of the composite metal oxide contained.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2010Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuhisa Yamashita
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Patent number: 9214280Abstract: Methods are disclosed for creating extremely high permittivity dielectric materials for use in capacitors and energy storage devices. High permittivity materials suspended in an organic non-conductive media matrix with enhanced properties and methods for making the same are disclosed. Organic polymers, shellac, silicone oil, and/or zein formulations are utilized to produce thin film low conductivity dielectric coatings. Transition metal salts as salt or oxide matrices are formed at low temperatures utilizing mild reducing agents.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Carver Scientific, Inc.Inventors: David R. Carver, Robert G. Carver
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Patent number: 9214281Abstract: Methods are disclosed for creating extremely high permittivity dielectric materials for use in capacitors and energy storage devices. High permittivity materials suspended in an organic non-conductive media matrix with enhanced properties and methods for making the same are disclosed. Organic polymers, shellac, silicone oil, and/or zein formulations are utilized to produce thin film low conductivity dielectric coatings. Transition metal salts as salt or oxide matrices are formed at low temperatures utilizing mild reducing agents.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Carver Scientific, Inc.Inventors: David R. Carver, Robert G. Carver
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Patent number: 9214282Abstract: A length of a first-side outer electrode is E1, a length of a second-side outer electrode is E3, a length of a center outer electrode is E2, a distance between the first-side outer electrode and the center outer electrode is ME1, a distance between the center outer electrode and the second-side outer electrode is ME2, a length of a capacitor element is L, a width from an edge of the first side second extending portion closer to a third surface to the third surface is M1L, a width from an edge of the first side second extending portion closer to a fourth surface to an edge of the first-side outer electrode on a first surface is M1R, a width from an edge of the first extending portion closer to the third surface to an edge of the center outer electrode on the first surface closer to the third surface is M2L, and a width from an edge of the first extending portion closer to the fourth surface to an edge of the center outer electrode on the first surface closer to the fourth surface is M2R, such that E1+ME1+E2+METype: GrantFiled: December 8, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuru Ikeda, Hirobumi Adachi, Hitoaki Kimura, Takashi Sawada
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Patent number: 9214283Abstract: In a multilayer capacitor 1, burned layers 17A, 17B are formed so as to cover all of lead conductors 12A, 12B drawn from inner electrodes 6A, 6B to end faces of a multilayer body 2. This can keep a plating solution from infiltrating onto the inner electrodes 6A, 6B when forming plating layers 18A, 18B and prevent insulation failures from occurring. Since the burned layers 17A, 17B cover a part of dummy electrodes 13C, 13F, 13G, 13H, the area of the burned layers 17A, 17B can be suppressed. This can inhibit excessive stresses from occurring in the burned layers 17A, 17B and thus can prevent cracks from being generated by stresses in the burned layers 17A, 17B.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TDK CORPORATIONInventor: Masaaki Togashi
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Patent number: 9214284Abstract: A decoupling device including a lead frame and at least one capacitor unit set is provided. The lead frame includes a cathode terminal portion and at least two anode terminal portions disposed at two sides of the cathode terminal portion and opposite to each other. The anode terminal portions are electrically connected through a conductive line. One of the anode terminal portions extends along a first direction to form an extending portion, and the extending portion is bended along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to form an anode side plate. Each capacitor unit set includes a plurality of capacitor units. The capacitor unit sets are connected in parallel on a same plane and disposed on the lead frame. Each capacitor unit has a cathode portion electrically connected to the cathode terminal portion and an anode portion electrically connected to the anode side plate along the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Industrial Technology Research InstituteInventors: Yi-Hsiu Pan, Yu-Ting Cheng, Li-Duan Tsai, Chi-Lun Chen
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Patent number: 9214285Abstract: Described is a capacitor assembly that is thermally and mechanically stable under extreme conditions. Thermal stability is provided by enclosing and hermetically sealing the capacitor element within a housing in the presence of a gaseous atmosphere that contains an inert gas, thereby limiting the amount of oxygen and moisture supplied to the solid electrolyte of the capacitor. To provide good mechanical stability, the assembly contains at least one external termination (e.g., anode and/or cathode termination) extending beyond an outer periphery of a surface of the housing. The degree to which the external termination extends beyond the outer periphery relative to the dimension of the housing is selectively controlled to increase the surface area available for soldering to a circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2013Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: AVX CorporationInventor: Martin Biler