Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
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Patent number: 12068556Abstract: An arrangement for charging of electric vehicles includes a charging connector and a charging cable. The connector includes a connector body with first and second zones, the two zones being separate from each other. The first zone hosts a mating interface with electrical contacts for mating the connector with a corresponding socket of an electric vehicle. The electrical contacts are electrically coupled to the cable. The second zone includes a tube in which the cable is guided from an opening of the tube, which is arranged on that side of the second zone that faces away from the first zone to the electrical contacts, which are located in the first zone, and a handle for grabbing the connector with a human hand, the handle being separate from the tube. The second zone is Y-shaped where the tube is formed by one upper leg and the lower of the Y.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ABB E-mobility B.V.Inventors: Francisco Garcia-Ferre, Moritz Boehm, Emmanuel Logakis, Jaroslav Hemrle, Jean-marc Oppliger
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Patent number: 12068557Abstract: A modular plug system including a plug housing including a top surface, bottom surface and two opposing side surfaces, a front end and an opening opposite the front end, and a cavity extending from the front end to the opening in the back end, a load bar sized to engage the cavity in the modular plug, the load bar including two extensions on an upper surface of the load bar, the extensions sized to engage two openings in the top surface of the plug housing when the load bar is inserted into the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Sentinel Connector Systems, IncInventors: Robert Brennan, Randy Schwartz
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Patent number: 12068558Abstract: A plug connector housing has receptacles for fastening at least two contact carriers. The plug connector housing has a substantially rectangular cross-section, having two opposite narrow sides and two opposite long sides. The receptacles are integrally formed on the interior within the plug connector housing. In each of the corner regions, a first receptacle is arranged. On each of the long sides, at least one second receptacle is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Florian Hackemeier
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Patent number: 12068559Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of satisfactorily holding a board even in a high-temperature and high-humidity atmosphere. A connector is provided with a connector housing including a board accommodation space, a terminal fitting mounted in the connector housing to face the board accommodation space, and a retainer for sandwiching and holding a flexible board arranged in the board accommodation space between the terminal fitting and the retainer. A state of the retainer changes to a pressing state for pressing the flexible board toward the terminal fitting and a non-pressing state for releasing pressing to the flexible board. The retainer is made of metal.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventor: Shinji Nozaki
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Patent number: 12068560Abstract: A coradial connector is disclosed. The coradial connector system includes a plug and socket. The plug has a plug housing, a plug process conductor, a plug signal conductor disposed coaxially with the plug process conductor, and a plug insulator disposed coaxially with the plug process conductor, between the plug process conductor and signal conductor. The socket includes a socket housing, a socket process conductor, a socket signal conductor disposed coaxially with the socket process conductor, and a socket insulator disposed coaxially with the socket process conductor, between the socket process conductor and signal conductor.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: THE ESAB GROUP INC.Inventor: Andrew Raymond
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Patent number: 12068561Abstract: Disclosed is a cable adaptor which is connected to a cable including an outer conductor. The adaptor includes a contact pin which comes into contact with a signal pin of the cable, a first member which is conductive and disposed inside and coupled to the contact pin, a second member disposed outside and coupled to the contact pin, and a third member which is conductive and disposed outside the second member. Here, the contact pin includes a first body coupled to the second member, a first contact portion which is conductive and extends from one side of the first body to come into contact with the signal pin, and a second contact portion which extends from the other side of the first body and comes into contact with an object being tested. The third member includes a second body coupled to the second member and a third contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: SENSORVIEW CO., LTD., OKINS ELECTRONICS CO., LTDInventors: Byoung Nam Kim, Kyoung Il Kang, Jin Woo Lee, Jin Kook Jun, Sung Gyu Park, Hyun Duk Kim, Jong Wook Ham, Sang Woo Han
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Patent number: 12068562Abstract: Methods and systems for monitoring a brush holder assembly and/or detecting wear of a brush in a brush holder assembly are disclosed. One method includes sending data from a plurality of remote monitoring locations to a central control unit, where the data may be evaluated in order to monitor states of brushes at a plurality of remote electrical facilities. For example, multiple images of a marker tracking longitudinal movement of the brush may be acquired. A comparison of the images, for example, a comparative imaging technique, such as pixel-by-pixel comparison, may then be performed in order to evaluate a condition of the brush, such as the wear rate, wear state, or life expectancy of the brush.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CUTSFORTH, INC.Inventor: Robert S. Cutsforth
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Patent number: 12068563Abstract: A 360-degree rotary electrical connector may include a male connector and a female connector that are inserted in and match each other. The male connector includes a male connector base, a first electrical connection component fixed at the axis of the male connector base, and a second electrical connection component inserted in the male connector base. The female connector includes a female connector base that is cased in the male connector base by rotating, as well as a third electrical connection component and a fourth electrical connection component that are inserted in the female connector base, the third electrical connection component abuts the first electrical connection component frictionally and the fourth electrical connection component abuts the second electrical connection component frictionally. The male connector and the female connector maintain circuit flow during relative rotation.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Junhao Cai
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Patent number: 12068564Abstract: A structure for connecting an aluminum cable and a terminal includes an aluminum cable and a terminal. The aluminum cable includes a cable core. The cable core is constructed with a cable welding portion. The terminal is welded to the cable welding portion. A nominal cross-sectional area of the cable core is M, and a welding area S between the cable welding portion and the terminal meets 5*M?S?6*M.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Hai Xiao, Jinlong Quan, Haidong Kang, Jiye Huang, Ye Yuan
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Patent number: 12068565Abstract: Electrical wiring devices that incorporate clamp-type wire terminal connections are described. The electrical wiring devices include for example, single and duplex blade-type electrical receptacles, blade-type locking electrical receptacles, single or multi-pole electrical switches, combination switches and blade-type receptacles, blade-type plugs for electrical cords and blade-type connectors for electrical cords. The electrical wiring devices include a plurality of contact assemblies. Each contact assembly includes a wire terminal and a plunger.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev
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Patent number: 12068566Abstract: The electrical wiring device includes a cover and a base. The base has a wire chamber supporting a wire termination assembly. The wire termination assembly includes a wire fastening member and a conductive member. The wire fastening member has a cam surface and is rotatable between an open position and a securing position. The conductive member is positioned in close proximity to the wire fastening member such that a gap is provided between the wire fastening member and the conductive member when the wire fastening member is in the open position. When the wire fastening member is rotated from the open position to the securing position, the cam surface rotates to reduce the size of the gap between the wire fastening member and the conductive member.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATEDInventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Matthew Jared Varney, Thomas Joseph Conti, Connor Thomas Grant
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Patent number: 12068567Abstract: An electrically connecting device (1) includes a linking part defining an internal channel (12) that opens onto the exterior of the linking part. The internal channel (12) is able to receive two end segments of two superconducting wires (2, 3) that lie parallel in the internal channel (12) over a segment of common length; and an aperture (13) in the external jacket of the linking part. The aperture (13) is in communication with the internal channel (12) in order to allow a brazing material in liquid form to be inserted into the internal channel (12) around the two end segments of the two superconducting wires (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NEXANSInventors: Nicolas Lallouet, Loïc Legrand, Sébastien Delplace
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Patent number: 12068568Abstract: A cable feed device for feeding a cable to a cable processing machine includes a first rotatable roller and a second rotatable roller for guiding the cable such that the cable can be arranged in a loop around the first roller and the second roller, and a cable drive for transporting the cable. The first roller is arranged stationary, wherein the second roller can be pushed or pulled away from the first roller with a force, wherein the second roller has a first state and a second state, wherein the second roller is locked in a first position in the first state and is moved in the second state by the force such that the distance between the first roller and the second roller changes depending on the length of the cable between the two rollers.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: KOMAX HOLDING AGInventors: Bruno Weber, Ivan Addario
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Patent number: 12068569Abstract: An arrangement includes an electric cable having a first electric conductor and a contact device having a crimp barrel and a contact element mechanically and electrically connected to the crimp barrel. The crimp barrel extends along an axis and has a first inner circumferential side and a first outer circumferential side. A first impress and a second impress are stamped into a first sub-portion of the crimp barrel, the second impress is offset circumferentially from the first impress with respect to the axis. The first inner circumferential side is shaped by the first impress and the second impress in such a manner that the first inner circumferential side is pressed against a second outer circumferential side of the first electric conductor and electrically contacts the second outer circumferential side, with the first inner circumferential side fitting against the second outer circumferential side.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Michael Haspel, Uwe Bluemmel, Erik Glombitza
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Patent number: 12068570Abstract: A optical path structure and a cross line laser comprising the same are provided. The optical path structure comprises a laser emitter (1) for emitting laser light, and the following devices arranged sequentially along the direction of the optical path of the laser light: an aspherical mirror (2), a first beamsplitter (31) and a second beamsplitter (32), a wedge-shaped mirror (4), and a cylindrical mirror (5). The advantages of the present invention are that: 1) the angle of the incident surface (41) of the wedge-shaped mirror (4) is reasonably set such that the light ray reflected by the incident surface (41) of the wedge-shaped mirror (4) cannot emit onto the beamsplitters (31, 32), or even if it emits onto the beamsplitters (31, 32), there is no interference with the reflected light rays (61, 63) by the beamsplitters (31, 32), avoiding the multiple-point phenomenon; 2) the structure of the wedge-shaped mirror (4) is reasonably set such that the breakpoints in the projected laser light line are eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Changzhou Huada Kejie Opto-Electro Instrument Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ou Zhang, Kai Fei
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Patent number: 12068571Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for applying laser energy having desired pulse characteristics, including a sufficiently short duration and/or a sufficiently high energy for the photomechanical treatment of skin pigmentations and pigmented lesions, both naturally-occurring (e.g., birthmarks), as well as artificial (e.g., tattoos). The laser energy may be generated with an apparatus having a resonator with the capability of switching between a modelocked pulse operating mode and an amplification operating mode. The operating modes are carried out through the application of a time-dependent bias voltage, having waveforms as described herein, to an electro-optical device positioned along the optical axis of the resonator.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Cynosure, LLCInventors: Rafael Armando Sierra, Mirko Georgiev Mirkov
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Patent number: 12068572Abstract: A narrowed-line gas laser apparatus includes a laser chamber that accommodates a pair of electrodes disposed so as to face each other, an output coupling mirror, and a line narrowing apparatus that forms an optical resonator along with the output coupling mirror, the line narrowing apparatus including an optical system having a first region and a second region on which a first portion and a second portion of a light beam that exits out of the laser chamber are incident, the first and second portions passing through different positions in a direction in which the pair of electrodes face each other, the optical system being configured to suppress an increase in the distance between the optical path axis of the first portion and the optical path axis of the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Gigaphoton Inc.Inventor: Yosuke Fujimaki
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Patent number: 12068573Abstract: An article of manufacture including a fiber optic termination of a small core optical fiber for use with a surgical laser apparatus (the output from which may be characterized by a high M2 factor) or other high-power or high-energy laser (including an appropriate fiber laser) is configured for safe and efficient coupling of light at a large laser focal point and/or to enable the process of coupling of radiant intensities exceeding the silica fiber damage thresholds and/or those ionizing the air if fully focused therein. The termination may include a glass cylinder structured to include a core region and a glass cladding region the ratio of dimensions of which is substantially equal to the ratio of respectively-corresponding dimensions of the employed optical fiber. A method of propagating light through such article of manufacture.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CYCLONE BIOSCIENCES, LLCInventor: Stephen E. Griffin
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Patent number: 12068574Abstract: In various embodiments, a laser emitter such as a diode bar is cooled during operation via jets of cooling fluid formed by ports in a cooler on which the laser emitter is positioned. The jets strike an impingement surface of the cooler that is thermally coupled to the laser emitter but prevents direct contact between the cooling fluid and the laser emitter itself.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION OF NORTH AMERICAInventors: Bryan Lochman, Matthew Sauter, Bien Chann, Michael Deutsch
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Patent number: 12068575Abstract: A laser device includes a substrate, a first waveguiding layer, an active layer, a second waveguiding layer, a contact layer, an insulating layer, a light-transmissive conducting layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The first waveguiding layer, the active layer, the second waveguiding layer, and the contact layer form an epitaxy structure having a first platform and a second platform. The first platform has multiple holes to form a photonic crystal structure. The insulating layer is over an upper surface and a sidewall surface of the first platform, and over an upper surface of the second platform. The sidewall surface passes through the contact layer, the second waveguiding layer, and the active layer. The light-transmissive conducting layer connects to the photonic crystal structure through an aperture of the insulating layer. The first electrode has an opening corresponding to the aperture. The second electrode is under the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PHOSERTEK CORPORATIONInventors: Yu-Chen Chen, Chien-Hung Lin, Bo-Tsun Chou, Chih-Yuan Weng, Kuo-Jui Lin
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Patent number: 12068576Abstract: Provided are an optical waveguide device and a laser apparatus including the same. The optical waveguide device includes a peripheral part disposed on an edge region of a substrate, an air pocket disposed on a central region of the substrate within the peripheral part, an optical waveguide comprising a core layer, which is disposed on an upper portion of the substrate within the air pocket to extend in a first direction, and an electrode on the core layer, and a plurality of hinges disposed on the air pocket to connect the optical waveguide to the peripheral part in a second direction crossing the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Oh Kee Kwon, Su Hwan Oh, Chul-Wook Lee, Kisoo Kim
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Patent number: 12068577Abstract: A surface emitting laser includes a substrate, a plurality of surface emitting laser elements on a first surface of the substrate, a first electrode electrically connected to a first conductive semiconductor of the surface emitting laser elements; and a second electrode electrically connected to a second conductive semiconductor of the surface emitting laser elements. Each of the surface emitting laser elements includes a first reflecting mirror on the substrate; an active layer on the first reflecting mirror; and a second reflecting mirror on the active layer. When a first contact region in which the first electrode and the first conductive semiconductor are connected to each other is on the first surface or in the first conductive semiconductor of the surface emitting laser elements. The first electrode is electrically connected to the light emitting units. The second electrode is electrically connected to each of the light emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventor: Katsunari Hanaoka
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Patent number: 12068578Abstract: A light-emitting module including: a laser element; a converting member; a sense wiring; an electric potential determining circuit configured to output a first value when an electric potential at a first end of the sense wiring is in a predetermined range, and to output a second value when the electric potential at the first end of the sense wiring is out of the predetermined range; a first switching element electrically connected in series to the laser element, the first switching element configured to become conductive when the output is the first value, and to become non-conductive when the output is the second value; and a second switching element electrically connected in parallel to a circuit comprising the laser element and the first switching element, the second switching element configured to become conductive when the output is the second value, and to become non-conductive when the output is the first value.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NICHIA CORPORATIONInventor: Takuya Suzuki
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Patent number: 12068579Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes an active region, a first distributed-Bragg-reflector region disposed contiguously with the active region, and a second distributed-Bragg-reflector region. The first distributed-Bragg-reflector region is formed contiguously with one side of the active region in a waveguide direction and includes a first diffraction grating. The second distributed-Bragg-reflector region is formed contiguously with to the other side of the active region in the waveguide direction and includes a second diffraction grating. The first diffraction grating includes recessed portions formed through a diffraction grating layer formed in the first distributed-Bragg-reflector region and convex portions adjacent to the recessed portions. The diffraction grating layer is made of a dielectric material.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Erina Kanno, Koji Takeda, Takaaki Kakitsuka, Shinji Matsuo
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Patent number: 12068580Abstract: A high-contrast grating (HCG) structure and method of fabrication. The grating of the HCG is formed over a structural spacer layer, allowing a wider range of grating patterns, such as post and other forms which are lack structural support when fabricated over an air spacing beneath the grating elements. The technique involves etching the HCG grating, followed by oxidizing through this HCG grating into an oxide spacer layer beneath it creating a low-index area beneath the grating. This form of HCG reflector can be utilizes as upper and/or lower reflectors in fabricating vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs).Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Constance J. Chang-Hasnain, Kevin T. Cook, Jipeng Qi, Jiaxing Wang
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Patent number: 12068581Abstract: A surface-emitting semiconductor laser includes a substrate, a first electrode in contact with the substrate, a first light reflection layer over the substrate, a second light reflection layer over the substrate, with the first light reflection layer between the second light reflection layer and the substrate, an active layer between the second light reflection layer and the first light reflection layer, a current confining layer between the active layer and the second light reflection layer and includes a current injection region, a second electrode over the substrate, with the second light reflection layer between the second electrode and the substrate, at least a portion of the second electrode is at a position overlapping the current injection region, and a contact layer between the second electrode and the second light reflection layer and includes a contact region in contact with the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiaki Watanabe, Takayuki Kawasumi
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Patent number: 12068582Abstract: A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) including a substrate including a plurality of emitters forming an array region, a lower mirror, an upper mirror, an active layer interposed between the lower mirror and the upper mirror, an aperture forming layer interposed between the upper mirror and the active layer and including an oxidation region and a window region, a connector disposed on the upper mirror, a plurality of oxidation holes passing through the upper mirror and the aperture forming layer, an upper insulation layer covering the plurality of oxidation holes, and a pad electrically connected to the connector, in which at least a portion of the connector is disposed in the plurality of oxidation holes, and the plurality of emitters is disposed in substantially a honeycomb shape on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ki Hwang Lee, Jeong Rae Ro, Byueng Su Yoo, Yoon Sang Jeon, Gong Hee Choi
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Patent number: 12068583Abstract: An embodiment relates to a surface emitting laser device and a light emitting device including the same. A surface emitting laser device according to the embodiment may include a first reflective layer; an active layer disposed on the first reflective layer; an aperture area disposed on the active layer and including an aperture and an insulating region; and a second reflective layer disposed in the aperture area. The active layer may comprise a plurality of quantum wells, quantum barriers, and intermediate layers disposed between the quantum wells and the quantum barriers. The quantum wells and the quantum barriers may include a ternary material, and the intermediate layers may comprise a binary material.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SUZHOU LEKIN SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Keun Uk Park, Jeong Sik Lee
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Patent number: 12068584Abstract: A semiconductor-fiber-laser assembly is provided that includes a pumping module, an active optical fiber and an assembling board. The active optical fiber is provided on an upper surface of the assembling board, the pumping module is provided on a surface of the assembling board that is the same as or opposite to the upper surface; and input-side and output-side optical-fiber gratings are provided at two ends of the active optical fiber, to form a laser resonator between the input-side and output-side optical-fiber gratings. The pumping module includes a plurality of semiconductor-laser single emitters, a collimating-lens group and a mirror group that are sequentially arranged, and light beams from the semiconductor-laser single emitters pass through the mirror group to realize beam combination.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BWT BEIJING LTD.Inventors: Xiaohua Chen, Weirong Guo, Baohua Wang
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Patent number: 12068585Abstract: The present invention discloses a VCSEL array that is divided into at least a first and a second area. The first area covers the center of the array and is surrounded by the second area. The first area would experience higher temperature than the second area after the VCSELs in both areas are turned on for a given time period. VCSELs in the first area are electrically connected to a first metal layer portion. VCSELs in the second area are electrically connected to a second metal layer portion. The first and second metal layer portions are electrically insulated from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventors: Yang Wang, Yongxiang He, Siva Lanka, Dongseok Kang
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Patent number: 12068586Abstract: A switch cabinet having a frame and a sidewall element mounted thereon, wherein the sidewall element is mounted on the frame via at least one latch lock, the latch lock having a latch and a latch receptacle one of which is fixed to the frame and the other of which is fixed to the sidewall element and which are accommodated in a volume which is open towards an outer side of the frame and which is delimited on the one hand by a folded profile edge of the frame and on the other hand, adjoining the folded profile edge on the outer side, by the sidewall element.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Rebecca Zapletal, Carsten Bäumer
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Patent number: 12068587Abstract: Embodiments of the presently disclosed invention may enable electrical components and connections to be monitored within electrical distribution equipment cabinets having a blanking panel. Such an IR/UV-permitting panel may replace the pre-existing blanking panel in order to monitor the adjacent area having the targeted components and connections to be monitored. NFC tags may be utilized in connection with an IR/UV-permitting panel to enable data acquisition and management systems for the monitoring of electrical components in a cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: IRISS Holdings, Inc.Inventor: Martin Robinson
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Patent number: 12068588Abstract: A pushing tool for propelling cable into a duct. The pushing tool includes a drive wheel that is coupled with a base and a rotatable handle. A first cable guide and a second cable guide are configured to hold the cable. A duct guide is configured to hold the duct. Furthermore, a tension wheel is configured to interact with the drive wheel such that an orifice is formed between the tension wheel and the drive wheel, the orifice being configured to receive the cable. Upon rotation of the rotatable handle, the drive wheel interacts with the tension wheel to propel the cable into the duct.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: PPC BROADBAND FIBER LTD.Inventors: Kim Leeson, Shaun Trezise, Harvey Etheridge
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Patent number: 12068589Abstract: A system or method for monitoring an electric power lightning arrester including an arrester current sensor providing an arrester current measurement, and an arrester voltage sensor providing an arrester voltage measurement. The system detects a switching signature based on the arrester current measurement or the arrester voltage measurement distinguished from background noise and lightning signatures and computes a measured arrester impedance based on the arrester current and arrester voltage measurements. The system then compares the measured arrester impedance to a nominal or historical arrester impedance, determines that the arrester is faltering based on the comparison of the measured arrester impedance to the nominal or historical arrester impedance, and places an order for replacement of the arrester based on the determination that the arrester is faltering.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SOUTHERN STATES, LLCInventors: Joseph R Rostron, Rajesh Anand, Jiyuan Fan
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Patent number: 12068590Abstract: Disclosed are a wiring device for a circuit breaker and a circuit breaker having same. The wiring device comprises: a wire holder having a plurality of busbar slots distributed in the height direction; a plurality of wiring busbars correspondingly inserted into the plurality of busbar slots, the wiring busbars being provided with first busbar parts which are vertically arranged; a plurality of first conductive elements arranged on the wire holder at intervals in the width direction, the first conductive elements being provided with first connecting plates which are arranged in the vertical direction; and a first fastening structure which is used for fixedly connecting the first busbar parts and the first connecting plates.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: YUEQING GAOKE ENVIRONMENTAL ELECTRIC CO., LTDInventors: Xiangrong Liu, Jing Li
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Patent number: 12068591Abstract: There is provided a utility junction box including a plurality of sidewalls forming a housing having an open bottom opening into an interior volume for receiving one or more utility lines from a first location, one or more apertures formed in at least one sidewall of the housing, a weather guard disposed on an exterior of the at least one sidewall having a downwardly sloping front face having formed therein one aperture corresponding to each of the one or more apertures formed in the at least one sidewall of the housing and disposed directly opposite therefrom. Each aperture formed in the sidewall of the housing is configured to allow a utility line to pass from within the interior volume of the housing through the aperture and direct the utility line through the corresponding aperture formed in the weather guard to a second location exterior to the utility junction box.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventor: Michael M. Bogart
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Patent number: 12068592Abstract: Enclosure assemblies with integrating flashing for protecting an accessory on a rooftop. The enclosure assemblies can include a base configured to protect the rooftop from water intrusion and a cover configured to be joined to the raised portion of the base. The base can include a bottom wall and a raised portion extending from the bottom wall. The base can include an uphill portion configured to be positioned beneath at least one full course of roof shingle on the rooftop, without having to cut the roof shingle. The raised portion can be disposed off-center relative to the central transverse axis of the bottom wall, leaving the uphill portion of the bottom wall uncovered.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Hoffman Enclosures Inc.Inventors: Alex Cheng-Chi Yang, Byron James Madden, Ryan Mac McClister
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Patent number: 12068593Abstract: An example busway system is provided that includes a first busway, a second busway, and a joint seal coupling the first busway to the second busway. The first busway includes a first end and an opposing second end, and the second busway includes a third end and an opposing fourth end. The joint seal includes panels configured to at least partially slide over the first or the opposing second end of the first busway, and at least partially slide over the third or the opposing fourth end of the second busway to couple the first busway to the second busway. The joint seal creates a seal at a joint formed by the first busway, the second busway, and the joint seal.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Starline Holdings, LLCInventors: Frank Joseph Stifter, Jr., Douglas Raymond Moore, David Philip Marple, John Donald Berenbrok, Lucas Anthony Andrews, Timothy Russell Fox, Edward James Schultz
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Patent number: 12068594Abstract: Examples provide an adjustable power shelf system. Electrical power is supplied to a power bus running through a shelf support railing. The railing includes a slots for engaging mounting brackets on a shelf. The shelf is removably attached to the railing via the mounting brackets. The mounting bracket includes a plug with a tab sized to fit within the slots when the shelf is mounted on the railing. The tab is guided into position to engage the power bus by a guide formed within nonconducting insulation within the hollow cavity of the shelf support railing. Power flows from the power bus through the tab to wiring on or within the shelf to power peripheral devices. The shelf receives power when it is mounted to the railing and disengages the power bus when removed from the shelf railing without alteration to electrical wiring providing power to peripheral devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: David Balaun
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Patent number: 12068595Abstract: The present disclosure envisages an apparatus for providing protection against an insulation failure in an electrical appliance. A first isolating means is connected in phase line of the AC power source. A second isolating means is connected in the neutral line. At least one TRIAC, having two main terminals and one gate terminal, is connected in parallel to appliance. First main terminal is connected to the phase line between first isolating means and electrical appliance, and second main terminal is connected to the neutral line between second isolating means and electrical appliance. The gate terminal is connected to the body of electrical appliance. In the event of insulation failure, the TRIAC, upon being triggered, blows out the first and second isolating means and thereby electrically isolates the appliance from the AC power source.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: BALA INDUSTRIES AND ENTERTAINMENT PRIVATE LIMITEDInventors: Nitin Langer, Mirza Mohammad Idrees Ul Haq Beigh
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Patent number: 12068596Abstract: A short-circuit mitigation device for use in an electrolytic cell (101) is disclosed. The device comprises a switch (302) connected in parallel with a damping load (502). The switch is disposed between a contact (102) and an electrode (106) of the cell (101) to selectively provide an electrical conduction path between the contact and the electrode. The switch comprises a plurality of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) (402) connected in parallel. The device further comprises a switch controller (306) operably associated with the switch (302) to monitor electric current (308) through the switch and to generate a toggle signal (309) to toggle the switch (302) from a conductive closed state to a non-conductive open state when the electric current exceeds a first threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: David Molenaar, Rueben Rajasingam, David Marcuson, Craig Broadly
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Patent number: 12068597Abstract: The present disclosure provides a power clamp device. The power clamp device includes a delay element, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a gate control circuit. The delay element has an input terminal and an output terminal. The first transistor has a gate electrically connected to the output terminal of the delay element. The second transistor has a source electrically connected to a drain of the first transistor. The gate control circuit has a first terminal electrically connected to the input terminal of the delay element, a second terminal electrically connected to the output terminal of the delay element, and a third terminal electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.Inventors: Pin-Hsin Chang, Hsin-Yu Chen, Tzu-Heng Chang
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Patent number: 12068598Abstract: A power supply circuit is configured to supply power to a display panel. The power supply circuit includes a receiver circuit and a transmitter circuit. The receiver circuit is configured to couple the display panel and output a hot plugging signal. The transmitter circuit is configured to receive the hot plugging signal and couple a power circuit. The transmitter circuit is further configured to communicate the receiver circuit to generate an enable signal. The hot plugging signal and the enable signal are configured to control whether a first voltage signal from the power circuit is transmitted to the receiver circuit and the display panel via the transmitter circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor CorporationInventors: Ching-Lan Yang, Zong-Da Huang, Chun-Yuan Huang
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Patent number: 12068599Abstract: A protection method in a distributed power system including of DC power sources and multiple power modules which include inputs coupled to the DC power sources. The power modules include outputs coupled in series with one or more other power modules to form a serial string. An inverter is coupled to the serial string. The inverter converts power input from the string and produces output power. When the inverter stops production of the output power, each of the power modules is shut down and thereby the power input to the inverter is ceased.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Solaredge Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Meir Adest, Guy Sella, Lior Handelsman, Yoav Galin, Amir Fishelov, Meir Gazit
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Patent number: 12068600Abstract: A reconfigurable power circuit (400) includes a single one-way DC to DC power converter (220, 221). The reconfigurable power circuit is configurable by a digital data processor as one of three different power channels (230, 232, and 234). Power channel (230) provides output power conversion. Power channel (232) provides input power conversion. Power channel (234) provides bi-directional power exchange without power conversion.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: GALVION SOLDIER POWER, LLCInventors: David N. Long, Nicholas J. Piela, David J. Butler
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Patent number: 12068601Abstract: A system and apparatus comprise at least one power supply connected to a terminal bloc, an I/O system configured to receive instructions provided to the control system, a control block connected to the I/O system wherein the instructions provided to the I/O system are converted to a serial output; and a puck connected to the serial output and configured to receive power from the terminal block, to process the serial output, and to output a current.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Inventors: David M. Brown, Trevor Shaw, Jorge A. Gomez Martinez
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Patent number: 12068602Abstract: A control system for a power distribution grid including an electrical distribution circuit includes a processor configured to perform operations including constructing a grid model comprising edges and nodes representing assets and transmission paths of the power distribution grid, generating an analysis of an operation of the power distribution grid over a predetermined time duration, determining a plurality of constraint violations based on the analysis of the operation of the power distribution grid within the predetermined time duration, generating a plurality of alterations to the power distribution grid, respective ones of the plurality of alterations resolving at least one of the constraint violations, selecting a first alteration of the plurality of alterations to the power distribution grid responsive to determining that the selected first alteration resolves at least two of the plurality of constraint violations, and autonomously implementing the first alteration to the power distribution grid.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Duke Energy CorporationInventors: W R M Anuja Ratnayake, Daniel Woodall, Andrew Kling, Gerard Rendell, Jacob A. Richardson, Miguel Armando Sanda, Jose Martin Cardenas, John Templeton Pressley, Rakesh Kumar Belchandan
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Patent number: 12068603Abstract: Disclosed are a demand management control method and a demand management control apparatus for inducing dynamic participation of a consumer in an energy consumption load management program. The demand management control method refers to a promotion method for expanding an active participation of a consumer through a dynamic order of charging power of a charging load device with respect to a load having a consumption characteristic in an energy accumulation form in a distribution network management area in which an energy charging supply device is installed, and distributes and manages a demand within an energy supply goal of the consumer through a participation promotion. Also, the demand management control method provides changed cost information to the consumer using an incentive through a demand management contribution weight according to an energy demand and supply status and encourages or promotes the dynamic participation of the consumer.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTEInventor: Seok-jin Lee
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Patent number: 12068604Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical power management device (300) capable of preventing or allowing the passage of current to a power grid (70). The present invention also relates to an electrical power management method (400). Particularly, the device (300) of the present invention is capable of performing electrical data telemetry and reporting it to a control center. The device (300) receives, from a power generation system (50), a source of alternating current through a power grid circuit (80), wherein the device (300) comprises: a control unit (10); a data transmission and reception module (20) configured to receive an external command signal; and at least one switching element (30a, 30b); the control unit (10) being adapted to actuate the at least one switching element (30a, 30b) so as to selectively open and close the power grid circuit (80) upon receipt of the external command signal to enable or prevent the passage of alternating current.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SOLFACIL ENERGIA SOLAR TECNOLOGIA E SERVICOS FINANCEIROS LTDAInventors: Guilherme Dias Borgo, Marcus Vinicius De Souza Alves
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Patent number: 12068605Abstract: Systems and apparatuses include an automatic transfer switch including a source pole coupled with a power source, a first load pole coupled with a first load, a second load pole coupled with a second load, a first switch selectively coupling the first load pole to the source pole, and a second switch selectively coupling the second load pole to the source pole.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Cummins Power Generation IP, Inc.Inventors: Julie M. Delago, Timothy R. Beaucage, Dennis McDonald