Patents Issued in February 20, 2024
  • Patent number: 11908585
    Abstract: A method and system for modeling behavior and depression state of an individual, the method comprising: receiving a log of use dataset associated with communication behavior of the individual during a time period; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing activity of the individual during the time period; receiving a survey dataset including responses, to at least one of a set of depression-assessment surveys, associated with a set of time points of the time period; generating a predictive analysis of a depression-risk state of the individual associated with at least a portion of the time period, from at least one of the log of use dataset, the supplementary dataset, and the survey dataset; and generating an alert upon detection that a set of parameters from the predictive analysis of the depression-risk state satisfy a threshold condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: OrangeDot, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Moturu, Anmol Madan, Shishir Dash, Karim Wahba, Gourab De
  • Patent number: 11908586
    Abstract: A model-assisted system for extracting patient information. A processor may be programmed to access a database storing one or more medical records associated with a patient and determine, using a first machine learning model and based on unstructured information included in the one or more medical records, whether the patient is associated with a condition. The processor may further be programmed to identify a date associated with the patient and determine, using a second machine learning model and based on the unstructured information, whether the patient is associated with the condition relative to the date. The processor may generate an output indicating whether the patient is associated with the condition and whether the patient is associated with the condition relative to the date.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Flatiron Health, Inc.
    Inventors: James Gippetti, Sharang Phadke, Guy Amster, Nisha Singh, Suganya Sridharma, Melissa Estevez, John Ritten, Sankeerth Garapati, Aaron Cohen
  • Patent number: 11908587
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for responding to a query. In some implementations, a computer obtains a query. The computer determines a meaning for each term in the query. The computer determines user data for the user that submitted the query. The computer identifies one or more ontologies based on the meanings for at least some of the terms. The computer identifies a knowledge graph based on the identified ontologies and the user data. The computer generates a response to the query by traversing a path of the identified knowledge graph to identify items in the knowledge graph based on the determined meaning for each of the terms. The computer generates path data that represents the path taken by the computer through the identified knowledge graph. The computer provides the generated response and the path data to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Josephson, Gary Shorter
  • Patent number: 11908588
    Abstract: Contemplated systems and methods use identification and classification of somatic single nucleotide variants found in a primary tumor and metastases to determine phylogeny of the metastases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NantOmics LLC
    Inventor: John Zachary Sanborn
  • Patent number: 11908589
    Abstract: A method of supporting an expert meeting of medical specialists to interpret genetic information, may include: accepting a test request for genetic information on a patient; extracting test progress information that is stored in association with the accepted test request and indicates progress of a test for the test request, and schedule information on a schedule of the expert meeting to interpret the genetic information obtained in the test for the test request; and displaying the extracted test progress information and the extracted schedule information on terminal devices of the medical specialists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SYSMEX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Takahata, Tatsuru Wakimoto, Yusaku Matsuo
  • Patent number: 11908590
    Abstract: A shielding apparatus for a radioisotope production system is provided. The shielding apparatus is capable of being retro-fitted to the housing of preinstalled radioisotope production systems. The shielding apparatus comprises a plurality of shield layers removably stacked on top of a base that is mounted to the top of the housing via spacers defining space or air gap between the base and housing. The shield layers and base are positioned above and extending between the interface between moveable shields and a moveable base of the radioisotope production system, such that the shielding apparatus is positioned within the trajectory of a radioisotope production system beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
    Inventor: Erol Bars
  • Patent number: 11908591
    Abstract: A combined enrichment and radioisotope production apparatus comprising an electron source arranged to provide an electron beam, the electron source comprising an electron injector and an accelerator, an undulator configured to generate a radiation beam using the electron beam, a molecular stream generator configured to provide a stream of molecules which is intersected by the radiation beam, a receptacle configured to receive molecules or ions selectively received from the stream of molecules, and a target support structure configured to hold a target upon which the electron beam is incident in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Pieter Willem Herman De Jager, Antonius Theodorus Anna Maria Derksen
  • Patent number: 11908592
    Abstract: A flexible electrode and a fabrication method therefor are provided. The flexible electrode is formed by mixing organic-soft-matrix with inorganic-hard-material. The inorganic-hard-material is composed of silicate lamellar blocks and electrochemically active materials. Each of the silicate lamellar blocks is formed by multiple stacked nano-scaled sheet-like silicate lamellae. The organic-soft-matrix includes conductive polymer and binder. The binder is water-soluble and ionically conductive. The flexible electrode has a floor-ramp like opened-perforated layer structure formed by hierarchically aggregated inorganic silicate lamellar blocks, and pores of the opened-perforated layer structure are filled with the organic-soft-matrix, so as to form a network channel structure having organic phase and inorganic phase interlaced with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NATIONAL SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH CENTER
    Inventors: Wei-Tsung Chuang, Rong-Hao Guo, Ming-Jay Deng
  • Patent number: 11908593
    Abstract: A conductor assembly for transmitting power includes a former that defines a shape, a superconductor material disposed around the former, and a thermally insulating jacket (TIJ) disposed around and spaced apart from the superconductor material. An outer surface of the superconductor material and an inner surface of the TIJ can define an annulus through which a coolant can flow. The conductor assembly can also include an external layer, disposed around an outside surface of the TIJ, to provide structural support to the conductor assembly. The conductor assembly can also include an electrical insulation layer disposed around the outside surface of the TIJ or around the superconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: VEIR, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Paul Ashworth, Franco Moriconi, Timothy David Heidel
  • Patent number: 11908594
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an electrical cable accessory system for covering an electrical cable and/or cable connection. The electrical cable accessory system includes a pre-expanded cable accessory unit and a time-temperature indicator associated with the pre-expanded cable accessory unit. The pre-expanded cable accessory unit includes a pre-expanded cable accessory formed of an elastomeric material and a removable holdout mounted within the elastomeric cable accessory, wherein the holdout is operative to maintain the elastomeric cable accessory in an expanded state and to permit the elastomeric cable accessory to elastically contract when the holdout is removed from the elastomeric cable accessory. The time-temperature indicator is configured to undergo a visible change in appearance in response to a cumulative heat exposure and signal to a viewer when the elastomeric material of the pre-expanded elastomeric cable accessory unit has experienced a threshold cumulative heat exposure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Harry George Yaworski, Kavitha Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 11908595
    Abstract: The invention relates to a silicone rubber composition having specific dielectric properties which can be used as insulator material in high voltage direct current applications and a method for the manufacture of cable accessories like cable joints. The invention comprises as well a method for the determination of the optimum dielectric properties and the related amount of dielectric active additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials GmbH
    Inventors: Beatrice Grau, Lada Bemert, Harry Zumaque, Oliver Safarowsky
  • Patent number: 11908596
    Abstract: A transparent conductive layer 3 includes a first main surface 5 exposed to the outside, and a second main surface 6 opposite to the first main surface 5 in a thickness direction. The transparent conductive layer 3 is single layer extending in a plane direction. The transparent conductive layer 3 has a first grain boundary 7 in which two end edges 23 in a cross-sectional view are open to the first main surface 5, and an intermediate region 25 between both end edges 23 is not in contact with the second main surface 6, and has a first crystal grain 31 partitioned by the first grain boundary 7 and facing only the first main surface 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Nozomi Fujino
  • Patent number: 11908597
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a flat electric wire and a method for manufacturing a flat electric wire. The flat electric wire includes a plurality of conductors arranged in parallel in a width direction and having substantially a same cross-sectional area with each other, resin films provided on one side and the other side of the plurality of conductors in a thickness direction orthogonal to the width direction, and an insulator covering the plurality of conductors together with the resin films. Each of the resin films have a Young's modulus of 2 GPa or more and a film thickness of 200 ?m or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Mizuki Shirai
  • Patent number: 11908598
    Abstract: An insulated electric wire with a water-stopping portion has excellent water stopping performance and forms quickly, and a wire harness includes the insulated electric wire. An insulated electric wire includes: a conductor wherein multiple metal material elemental wires are twisted together; and an insulation covering covers an outer circumference of the conductor. The insulated electric wire includes an exposed portion wherein the insulation covering is removed; a covered portion wherein the insulation covering covers the conductor, the exposed and covered portions are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal axis direction; and a water-stopping portion wherein gaps between the wires in the exposed portion are filled with a water-stopping agent. At least a portion of the water-stopping agent contacting the wires is made of a resin material that cures upon contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Araki, Toyoki Furukawa
  • Patent number: 11908599
    Abstract: A varistor includes a sintered body, an internal electrode, an insulating layer, and an external electrode. The internal electrode is disposed in an interior of the sintered body. The insulating layer covers at least part of the sintered body and includes Zn2SiO4. The external electrode is electrically connected to the internal electrode, covers part of the sintered body and part of the insulating layer, and is in contact with the part of the insulating layer. The insulating layer has a region being in contact with the external electrode, the region having a greater average thickness than a region of the insulating layer which is out of contact with the external electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiji Kawajiri, Naoki Mutou, Hironori Motomitsu, Michiya Watanabe, Yuji Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 11908600
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a preparation device and method of forming a ceramic coating on a sintered type NdFeB permanent magnet. The preparation device comprises a holding barrel, a pump body, a spraying system, and a fixture mechanism. The pump body is connected with the holding barrel and the spraying system and the spraying system is located above the fixture mechanism and there is a distance between the spraying system and the fixture mechanism. The fixture mechanism is connected with a recovery bucket through a pipeline, and the recovery bucket is connected with the holding barrel through the pipeline. The spraying system comprises a nozzle, wherein the inlet of the nozzle is connected with the pipeline of the pump body. The fixture mechanism comprises a support plate, an upper recovery trough plate and a lower recovery trough plate, wherein the lower recovery trough plate is located above the support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Yantai Dongxing Magnetic Materials Inc
    Inventors: Chuanshen Wang, Kunkun Yang, Zhongjie Peng, Daoning Jia, Kaihong Ding
  • Patent number: 11908601
    Abstract: There is provided a magnetic responsiveness composite material capable of increasing viscosity by applying a magnetic field when compounded together with a liquid in a composition. The magnetic responsive composite material comprises first particles as core particles composed of a nonmagnetic inorganic material and second particles composed of a magnetic material adhering to at least a part of surfaces of the first particles. A lipophilic treatment agent is applied to at least a part of surfaces of the second particles. The second particles satisfy a relationship of having a smaller average particle diameter than that of the first particles. A lipophilic treatment agent is preferably at least one kind selected from coupling agents and surfactants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SOMAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hirohisa Ishizaki, Akira Ochiai
  • Patent number: 11908602
    Abstract: Provided is a static electric induction arrangement including: a static electric induction device arranged in a static electric induction device tank; an accessory tank including at least one opening configured to receive an accessory therein; the static electric induction device tank and the accessory tank are intended to be filled with dielectric fluid and are connected via a fluid connection, an upper portion of a cross section of the fluid connection, is located at a first height, the arrangement comprises a heat exchanger connected to the device tank, the device tank includes an outlet that is arranged to lead the dielectric fluid to the heat exchanger and an inlet that is arranged to return the dielectric fluid from the heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY LTD
    Inventors: Nils Lavesson, Tor Laneryd, Jan Czyzewski, Johan Dahlgren, Sebastian Seier
  • Patent number: 11908603
    Abstract: An inductor which avoids heat generation and heat dissipation problems, and has a reduced resistance component, when used in a voltage converter. An inductor is configured with a pair of outer electrodes disposed on both end portions of an element assembly and electrically connected to end portions of conductors. The conductors are made of a flat-type wire having a rectangular cross section, are placed side by side between the end portions, and include cylindrical winding sections, respectively, in which the flat-type wire in a long side direction of the rectangular cross section is wound the number of turns less than one about a thickness direction intersecting with a length direction connecting the pair of end portions along the thickness direction. A heat-dissipating member includes a portion being a partition between the conductors and a portion exposed on the top of an outer surface of the element assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norimichi Onozaki
  • Patent number: 11908604
    Abstract: Provided is a composite material molded article including soft magnetic powder and resin containing the soft magnetic powder in a dispersed state. The composite material molded article is provided with a roughened region having an arithmetic average roughness Ra of 3.0 ?m or more on at least a portion of its surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shintaro Nanbara, Takashi Takada, Kazushi Kusawake
  • Patent number: 11908605
    Abstract: Integrated magnetics techniques for incorporating inductor, coupled inductor, and/or transformer functions of power electronics and high frequency circuits onto small, integrated structures, while maintaining a high quality factor and a high inductance density. The integrated magnetics techniques include incorporating magnetic vias into the inductive elements to form closed magnetic loops for reducing the reluctance to magnetic flux, while increasing the inductance of the inductive elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SG MICRO (SUZHOU) LIMITED
    Inventor: Jerry Zhijun Zhai
  • Patent number: 11908606
    Abstract: An inductor array component including an element body and a first straight wiring line and a second straight wiring line that are arranged on the same plane inside the element body. The element body includes a first region that is located on a first side of the first straight wiring line or the second straight wiring line in a normal direction that is normal to the plane, a second region that is located on a second side of the first straight wiring line or the second straight wiring line in the normal direction that is normal to the plane, and a third region that is located between the first straight wiring line and the second straight wiring line. The greater one out of the magnetoresistance of the first region and the magnetoresistance of the second region is greater than or equal to the magnetoresistance of the third region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Yoshioka, Naoya Noo
  • Patent number: 11908607
    Abstract: A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body that includes insulating layers that are stacked; a coil disposed in the multilayer body; and outer electrodes disposed on surfaces of the multilayer body and electrically connected to the coil. The coil includes at least two coil conductor groups that each include at least two coil conductors connected to each other in parallel through two coupling conductors. The at least two coil conductor groups are connected to each other in series through a connecting conductor. The connecting conductor connects the coil conductor between the two coupling conductors in one of the at least two coil conductor groups to the coil conductor between the two coupling conductors in another one of the at least two coil conductor groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Hiraki, Ryohei Kawabata, Katsuhisa Imada
  • Patent number: 11908608
    Abstract: A coil component includes a frame-shaped magnetic core including wound sections facing each other, cylindrical coil conductors, and a holder made of an insulating material and holding the coil conductors and the magnetic core. The magnetic core extends through the coil conductors such that the coil conductors and the wound sections are associated with each other. The holder includes a first partition disposed between the magnetic core and a first winding wire end of each of the coil conductors, a second partition disposed between the magnetic core and a second winding wire end of each of the coil conductors, and a third partition disposed between the coil conductors. The first to third partitions are integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichiro Maki
  • Patent number: 11908609
    Abstract: A conductive winding arrangement for generating a varying magnetic field in the neighborhood of the winding arrangement, comprising a plurality of coil pairs arranged one after another along a sequence axis with a virtual coil pair winding axis oriented transversely to the sequence axis, of which each coil pair exhibits a first coil and a second coil, each with a coil winding axis parallel or collinear respectively to the coil pair winding axis, where the first and the second coil are arranged axially adjacent to each other relative to the coil pair winding axis in such a way that turns of the first and of the second coil are axially adjacent to each other and that eye regions of the first coil and of the second coil are axially adjacent to each other while forming a common coil-pair eye region, where the coil pair winding axis penetrates through the coil-pair eye region; at least one coil pair being configured as a single conductor coil pair, in which the first and the second coil each exhibit a connecting s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Intrasys GmbH Innovative Transportsysteme
    Inventors: Arnulf Grimm, Tobias Hollmer
  • Patent number: 11908610
    Abstract: An inductor includes: a magnetic core; a conduction path penetrating the magnetic core; a pedestal portion including a core holding portion that holds the magnetic core, and support portions that support, when placed on a circuit board, electronic components at a height at which the electronic components can be accommodated on the circuit board side with respect to the core holding portion; and a shield portion that is provided on the circuit board side with respect to the magnetic core, and that shields a magnetic field generated by flow of electricity in the conduction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Tsuchida, Shigeki Yamane, Junya Aichi
  • Patent number: 11908611
    Abstract: A formed body incorporating a coil by using: a coil formed by winding a conductive wire, and a formed body incorporating the coil, the formed body being formed with a sealing material containing a resin and a magnetic material. The coil is formed by winding the conductive wire so that lead-out ends are positioned at an outer periphery of a wound portion. The formed body is formed so that surfaces of the coil are partially exposed on four side surfaces of the formed body which are parallel to a winding axis of the coil, and the area of a portion of the formed body outside the outer periphery of the wound portion is almost equal to or smaller than the area of a portion of the formed body inside an inner periphery of the wound portion of the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshitoshi Shoda, Kozo Sato, Makoto Murakami, Kunio Sasamori, Naoto Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11908612
    Abstract: A coil component includes an insulating substrate; a coil portion disposed on at least one surface of the insulating substrate; and a body embedding the insulating substrate and the coil portion and having an active portion in which the coil portion is disposed, and a cover portion disposed on the active portion. A ratio of a thickness (T2) of the cover portion to a thickness (T1) of the insulating substrate satisfies 3<T2/T1<6, and the thickness (T2) of the cover portion satisfies 90 ?m<T2<120 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Seob Lee, Jong Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11908613
    Abstract: A reactor includes: a coil; a magnetic core arranged inside of the wound portion and an outer core portion arranged outside of the wound portion; and a resin molded portion. An interval between the wound portion and the inner core portion differs in a peripheral direction of the wound portion. The reactor includes an electrically insulating material that is interposed in a location at which the interval is the narrowest, and a thick portion that is interposed in a location at which the interval is the widest and forms a portion of the inner resin portion. The proportion of the interval of the narrowest location with respect to the thermal conductivity is less than the proportion of the interval with respect to the thermal conductivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Yamamoto, Kohei Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 11908614
    Abstract: This application relates to an active current compensation device which actively compensates for a noise occurring in a common mode in each of two or more high-current paths. In one aspect, the active current compensation device includes a sensing unit configured to generate an output signal corresponding to a common-mode noise current on each of the two or more high-current paths, and an amplification unit configured to amplify the output signal to generate an amplified current. The device may also include a compensation unit configured to generate a compensation current on the basis of the amplified current and allow the compensation current to flow to each of the two or more high-current paths, and a malfunction detection unit configured to detect a malfunction of the amplification unit. The malfunction detection unit and at least a portion of the amplification unit may be embedded in one integrated circuit (IC) chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
    Inventors: Jin Gook Kim, Sang Yeong Jeong
  • Patent number: 11908615
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a common or differential mode inductor for connection to a printed circuit board. The inductor includes a core, a first coil including a first insulated wire wound with a number of turns around the core, and a supporting device for supporting the core and the first coil. The supporting device includes a base element having a PCB contacting surface, and a first alignment element having a proximal end connected to the base element and a distal end provided at a distance from the PCB contacting surface, wherein the distal end is defining an alignment plane. The core has a first end plane facing the alignment plane and a second end plane, wherein the first end plane is facing the alignment plane. The second end plane is facing the base element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Delta Electronics (Norway) AS
    Inventors: Christine Amer, HÃ¥kon Hafnor, Jan Tore Brastad, Kjetil Hagen
  • Patent number: 11908616
    Abstract: A coil unit for inductively charging a vehicle is provided. The coil unit includes a coil, wherein the coil includes multiple windings of at least two electric lines. The electric lines are connected in parallel. Each of the electric lines has a respective winding part, in which the windings are formed, and an additional part, in which an additional inductor unit having a predefined electric inductance is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Josef Krammer, Florian Niedermeier
  • Patent number: 11908617
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method of a low cost, reliable novel broadband inductor that can be used with a capacitor to form a broadband filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: 3D GLASS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeb H. Flemming, Reddy R. Vangala
  • Patent number: 11908618
    Abstract: A thermoelectric assembly for powering one or more electromagnetic valves of a cooking appliance. According to one embodiment the assembly includes a main current circuit that includes a thermocouple, a cable configured for electrically connecting the thermocouple with an electromagnetic valve, and a transistor connected to the cable and configured for de-energizing the electromagnetic valve. The main current circuit also includes a connection module that includes a power supply connected to the transistor, the power supply having input terminals configured for being connected to an external energy source, a rectifier, and a resistive block connected between one of the input terminals and the rectifier, the resistive block being configured for minimizing the current circulating through the power supply to a value equivalent to the galvanic isolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: ORKLI, S. COOP.
    Inventors: Mikel Arizmendi Zurutuza, Marcos Pablo Curto
  • Patent number: 11908619
    Abstract: An electromagnetic protection device is proposed to prevent adhesion of paraffin and other impurities dissolved in a hydrocarbon liquid to the inner surface of a metal pipeline. The device includes a power supply (battery or industrial electric grid), microprocessor unit, radiating antenna, antenna amplifier including solenoid, MOSFET transistor, capacitors, current and voltage sensors. A virtual capacitor, participating in generating electromagnetic waves preventing the adhesion, is formed between surfaces of the pipeline and a conductive part of the radiating antenna. The microprocessor allows setting an optimal operating mode of the device. The device is preferably furnished with two mount units including extendable rotatable spacers and flexible bands, adjustably fixing the device and radiating antenna to the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: Leonid Mikhaylovich Kovalev, Evgeniy Leonidovich Kovalev, Evgeny Sokryukin, Kirill Sokryukin, Egor Sokryukin
  • Patent number: 11908620
    Abstract: A solenoid includes a coil portion and a yoke having a side surface portion along an axial direction so as to accommodate the coil portion. A gap in a radial direction that communicates a radial outside of a first magnetic flux transfer portion with an outside of the solenoid is formed between an inner surface of the side surface portion and an outer surface of the coil portion, and a protrusion is formed on at least one of an inner surface and an outer surface and protrudes in the radial direction to reduce a size of at least a part of the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Syodai Tomita
  • Patent number: 11908621
    Abstract: An inductive-load control circuit includes a circuit board on or in which a controller and a driving circuit are disposed, an inductive load disposed at a location apart from the circuit board and connected to the driving circuit of the circuit board, a detection resistor group included in the driving circuit and connected in series with the inductive load, and a temperature measuring element. The detection resistor group includes resistors. The temperature measuring element is disposed between the resistors. The controller and the driving circuit are supplied with electric power by a power supply. The driving circuit controls the electric power supplied by the power supply and applies the electric power to the inductive load. The circuit board has a signal ground connected to the controller and a power ground connected to the detection resistor group of the driving circuit. The temperature measuring element is connected to the power ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Kinemura
  • Patent number: 11908622
    Abstract: Capacitor includes a capacitor element unit and a case that is made of a metal and houses the capacitor element unit. The capacitor element unit includes a capacitor element, a first bus bar and a second bus bar that are connected to the capacitor element, and an insulating member disposed between the first bus bar and the second bus bar. The insulating member includes a first mounting portion, and the case includes a second mounting portion to which the first mounting portion is attached so that the capacitor element unit is located at a predetermined position with respect to the case while the first bus bar and the second bus bar are not in contact with the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Motohiro Kawahata, Eiji Koba
  • Patent number: 11908623
    Abstract: A multilayer capacitor includes a body including dielectric layers and internal electrodes and external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the body and connected to the internal electrodes. The body includes a first surface and a second surface to which the internal electrodes are exposed, the first surface and the second surface opposing each other in a first direction, a third surface and a fourth surface opposing each other in a second direction which is a direction in which the dielectric layers are stacked, and a fifth surface and a sixth surface opposing each other in a third direction. At least one of the internal electrodes include a first bottleneck structure having a first directional length of a third-directional outer region smaller than an inner region thereof and a second bottleneck structure having a third directional length of a first directional outer region smaller than an inner region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Ho Lee, Myung Chan Son, Sim Chung Kang, Eun Jin Shim, Sun Hwa Kim, Byung Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 11908624
    Abstract: Disclosed is a broadband capacitor in which an electrode unit comprises a main electrode and a plurality of side electrodes so as to facilitate changing of capacitance value. The disclosed broadband capacitor is formed by alternately stacking a first electrode set, which comprises a first main electrode and a plurality of side electrodes spaced apart from the first main electrode, and a second electrode set, which comprises a second main electrode and a plurality of side electrodes spaced apart from the second main electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Byungguk Lim
  • Patent number: 11908625
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body including stacked ceramic layers, internal conductive layers stacked on the ceramic layers, first and second main surfaces opposing each other in a height direction, first and second side surfaces opposing each other in a width direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the height direction, and first and second end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the height direction and the width direction, and external electrodes connected to the internal conductive layers. The internal conductive layers include holes having a different area equivalent diameter. When an area equivalent diameter in which a cumulative value in a cumulative distribution of area equivalent diameters of the holes in each of the internal conductive layers becomes about 99% is defined as an area equivalent diameter D99, the area equivalent diameter D99 is about 8.0 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Hirai
  • Patent number: 11908626
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a laminate body including first and second surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, third and fourth surfaces opposing each other in a second direction, and fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other in a third direction, and including a dielectric layer, and a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode stacked in the third direction with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween, a first and a second margin portion; a first connection portion and a second connection portion. The first connection portion includes a first lead electrode connected to the first internal electrode, and the second connection portion includes a second lead electrode connected to the second internal electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Eun Noh, Ji Hyuk Lim, Jong Yun Kim, Eun Jung Lee
  • Patent number: 11908627
    Abstract: A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, an external electrode disposed outside the body, and an insulating layer disposed on the external electrode. The external electrode is disposed to cover an exposed surface of an outermost surface of the electrode layer, and is formed to have a thickness, equal to or less than a thickness of the body, and the insulating layer is disposed to cover an end of the external electrode, to improve moisture resistance reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Ghyu Ahn, Soo Hwan Son, Young Key Kim
  • Patent number: 11908628
    Abstract: A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes an external electrode including an underlying electrode layer, a lower plating layer on the underlying electrode layer at a first end surface and a second end surface, and an upper plating layer on the lower plating layer. The underlying electrode layer is a thin film electrode including at least one selected from Ni, Cr, Cu, and Ti. The lower plating layer is a Cu plating layer including a lower layer region located closer to the multilayer body and an upper layer region located between the lower layer region and the upper plating layer, and the Cu plating layer in the lower layer region has a metal grain diameter smaller than that of the Cu plating layer located in the upper layer region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Muramatsu, Ken Tominaga
  • Patent number: 11908629
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electret sheet that has excellent durability against a pressing force that is repetitively applied, that is, excellent compression recovery properties, and can suppress stuffiness even when used by attaching it to the skin of a human body. The electret sheet of the present invention has an air permeability of 10 to 1,000 sec/100 mL. Thus, the electret sheet has excellent durability against a pressing force that is repetitively applied, that is, excellent compression recovery properties, and can suppress stuffiness even when used by attaching it to the skin of a human body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuhiro Kato, Nobuto Kamiya, Yasuyuki Shirasaka, Yuuta Katsurayama, Ryousuke Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11908630
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor according to an aspect includes an anode body made of a valve metal, a dielectric layer formed on the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer formed on the dielectric layer, and a cathode body layer formed on the solid electrolyte layer. The solid electrolyte layer includes a first layer containing a first conductive polymer doped with a monomolecular dopant, and a second conductive polymer composed of a self-doped-type conductive polymer containing a plurality of side chains containing a functional group, the functional group being able to be doped, and a second layer formed on the first layer and containing a third conductive polymer doped with a polymer dopant; and the first conductive polymer is in contact with the third conductive polymer (the second layer).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TOKIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Hoshina, Masami Ishijima, Tadamasa Asami, Yasuhisa Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11908631
    Abstract: A capacitor aging apparatus that includes continuity check pads configured to be electrically connected to positive electrodes of a plurality of capacitors in one-to-one correspondence to check electrical continuity with the plurality of capacitors a plurality of first terminals electrically connected to the plurality of continuity check pads; a plurality of second terminals electrically connected to the plurality of first terminals in one-to-one correspondence; and a plurality of connectors configured to be electrically connected to and disconnected from the plurality of first terminals and the plurality of second terminals, and configured to electrically connect the positive electrodes of the plurality of capacitors, the plurality of connectors each allowing a second terminal corresponding to one capacitor of corresponding two capacitors among the plurality of capacitors to be electrically connected to a first terminal corresponding to another capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiko Sato
  • Patent number: 11908632
    Abstract: A solid electrolytic capacitor (1) includes an anode foil (2a) having formed thereon an oxide film, a cathode foil (2c), and a separator (2d), and is equipped with a solid electrolyte (20) formed of an electroconductive polymer compound in a fine particle form, and a water-soluble compound solution (30) introduced to surround the solid electrolyte (20), the solid electrolyte (20) contains a polyol compound having a molecular weight of less than 200 and a number of hydroxy groups of 4 or more as a first water-soluble compound (2f1), the water-soluble compound solution (30) contains one kind or multiple kinds of a glycol compound in a liquid form as a second water-soluble compound (2f2), and the second water-soluble compound (2f2) has an average molecular weight of less than 400.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: RUBYCON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Sakaguchi, Tetsushi Ogawara, Yoshishige Sakurai, Akira Iijima, Yosuke Nozawa
  • Patent number: 11908633
    Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element, a first current collector, and a case. The capacitor element includes a wound body in which a first electrode foil and a second electrode foil are wound. The first electrode foil and the second electrode foil face each other. The first current collector is connected to the first electrode foil. The case houses the capacitor element and the first current collector. The first electrode foil includes a first facing portion that faces the second electrode foil and a first non-facing portion that does not face the second electrode foil. The first non-facing portion is located at a first end portion in a winding axis of the wound body. The first current collector is disposed in a vicinity of the first end portion of the wound body to be connected to the first non-facing portion of the first electrode foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shumpei Matsushita, Tomoyuki Tashiro, Kenta Chashiro
  • Patent number: 11908634
    Abstract: The electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor body, the capacitor body including: a first end surface; a second end surface opposite to the first end surface; a bottom surface adjacent to the first end surface and the second end surface; a capacitor element including an anode line passing therethrough, a dielectric layer, and a cathode layer on the dielectric layer; and a sealing material covering the capacitor element, wherein the anode line has a first end exposed on the first end surface of the capacitor body, the electrolytic capacitor includes an anode external electrode on the first end surface of the capacitor body, the anode external electrode is connected to the first end of the anode line, the cathode layer is electrically led out to the bottom surface of the capacitor body, the electrolytic capacitor includes a cathode external electrode on the bottom surface of the capacitor body, and the cathode external electrode is electrically connected to the cathode layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN CAPACITOR INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nobuta, Kazumasa Fujimoto