Patents Issued in August 1, 2017
  • Patent number: 9723763
    Abstract: A computing device having a housing; a temperature monitor to monitor a temperature within the housing; a cooling fluid drawing mechanism to draw cooling fluid into the housing; a cooling fluid drawing controller, when the computing device is installed within an enclosure as one of plural computing devices, to obtain a value representing the temperature, and if the value is within a predetermined range, to select an operating state for the mechanism from among a first state in which the mechanism draws fluid into the housing at a first rate, and a second state in which the mechanism draws cooling fluid into the housing at a second rate lower than the first rate, and to run the mechanism in the selected state; where the selection of the state is based on demand for cooling from other computing devices from among the plurality of computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Sven Van Den Berghe
  • Patent number: 9723764
    Abstract: With respect to a stack unit in which a plurality of power cards and a plurality of coolers are stacked, each of the plurality of power cards housing semiconductor element, a technique for improving the fitting of a stack unit to a housing is taught. A stack unit is a unit that coolers and power cards are stacked. An outer frame binds a stack of the power cards and the coolers. The outer frame pressurizes the stack along with the stacked direction. Each of the coolers comprises a main body and a metal plate. The main body includes a flow channel of coolant and an opening provided at a position facing the power card. The metal plate has one surface closing the opening. A seal between the opening and the metal plate is secured by pressure of the outer frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Masayuki Sugita
  • Patent number: 9723765
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments herein provide an electronic display assembly having an electronic display surrounded by a front panel and a housing. An ingestion gap may be placed near a portion of the perimeter of the front panel while an exhaustion gap may be placed near an opposing portion of the perimeter of the front panel. A buffer zone may be defined between the ingestion gap and the exhaustion gap. A fan may be positioned to draw open loop fluid into the ingestion gap, through a channel behind the electronic display, and out of the exhaustion gap. This fan may also draw open loop fluid through an optional heat exchanger. A circulating fan may force circulating air through an optional heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventor: Ryan DeMars
  • Patent number: 9723766
    Abstract: An embodiment of a power-supply module includes a package having sides, a first power-supply component disposed in the package, and an electromagnetic-interference (EMI) shield disposed adjacent to two sides of the package. For example, such a module may include component-mounting platforms (e.g., a lead frame or printed circuit board) on the top and bottom sides of the module, and these platforms may provide a level of EMI shielding specified for a particular application. Consequently, such a module may provide better EMI shielding than modules with shielding along only one side (e.g., the bottom) of the module. Moreover, if the module components are mounted to, or otherwise thermally coupled to, the shielding platforms, then the module may provide multi-side cooling of the components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: INTERSIL AMERICAS LLC
    Inventors: Jian Yin, Nikhil Vishwanath Kelkar, Michael Althar
  • Patent number: 9723767
    Abstract: On a circuit board configured to transmit a signal, a pulse transformer is provided on a path used for transmitting the signal of the circuit board. A shield member is provided on the circuit board to prevent noise, which is generated due to noise current flowing in a noise line pattern, from entering the pulse transformer. The shield member covers a part of a surface of at least one pulse transformer, the part intersecting concentric circles (which represent a magnetic field generated by the noise current) whose central axis extends along the direction in which the noise current flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Kojima, Megumu Asano
  • Patent number: 9723768
    Abstract: A multicore shielded cable includes a first core wire group composed of a plurality of assembled core wires, a first binding tape wound around an outer circumference of the first core wire group, a first braided shield provided around an outer circumference of the first binding tape, a second binding tape wound around an outer circumference of the first braided shield, a second core wire group composed of a plurality of core wires arranged around an outer circumference of the second binding tape, a third binding tape wound around an outer circumference of the second core wire group, a second braided shield provided around an outer circumference of the third binding tape, and a jacket provided around an outer circumference of the second braided shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Detian Huang, Takanobu Watanabe, Kimika Kudo, Haruyuki Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9723769
    Abstract: An alignment film includes a first pre-tilt functional group, a second pre-tilt functional group and a first vertical alignment functional group, which are linked to polysiloxane on a substrate. The first vertical alignment functional group includes a cyclic compound and is aligned substantially perpendicularly to the substrate. The first pre-tilt functional group is cross-linked to the second pre-tilt functional group and tilted with respect to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taek-Joon Lee, Keun-Chan Oh, Jun-Hyup Lee, Sang-Gyun Kim, Jang-Hyun Kim, Tae-Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 9723770
    Abstract: A second tape feeding mechanism 20B can deal with a plurality of types of carrier tapes and has a biasing mechanism 25 that brings a biasing member 30 in which a recess portion 30b is provided in an abutment surface 30a into abutment with a carrier tape so as to bring the carrier tape into engagement with an outer circumferential surface of a sprocket 21B, and with a preceding tape kept in engagement with the sprocket 21B, a leading end portion of a following tape is inserted between the sprocket 21B and the preceding tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazunori Kanai, Junkei Shimizu, Tatsuo Yamamura