Patents Issued in April 1, 2025
  • Patent number: 12266866
    Abstract: An adaptive frequency sweeping method and an adaptive frequency sweeping system for frequency point sampling, and related devices, related to a technical field of wireless communication are provided, the adaptive frequency sweeping method is applied to simulation of radio frequency (RF) components. The adaptive frequency sweeping method for the frequency point sampling does not hinge upon specific numerical values and enables precise simulation at positions where frequency responses rapidly change while performing coarse simulation in areas that are not concerned about, thereby improving precision and efficiency of a design process for the RF components. Moreover, aiming at characteristics of Y parameters and S parameters in the frequency responses, different evaluation metrics are provided to reduce sampling points required for frequency sweeping and increasing a frequency sweeping speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: LANSUS TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Yuquan Zhu, Peng Guan, Wenhan Zhou, Ruizhi Yang, Jinzhao Hu, Jiashuai Guo
  • Patent number: 12266867
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to multi-beam forming networks using an antenna array. A matrix circuit for feeding elements of an antenna array to produce multiple beams is provided. To address beam squint issues, beam squint is mitigated by using a series of phase shifters with specific phase-delay performances between the matrix circuit and the antenna array elements. A linearly increasing or decreasing phase difference in the signals fed into adjacent antenna array elements across the array mitigates or eliminates beam squint in the resulting multiple beams. The phase shifters are programmed to provide this increasing or decreasing phase differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Galtronics USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Kejia Ding, Sadegh Farzaneh, Minya Gavrilovic
  • Patent number: 12266868
    Abstract: An omni-directional small cell base station antenna includes at least one array of a first frequency on a lower portion of the antenna, at least one second array of a second frequency on an upper portion of the antenna, and at least one third array of a third frequency on the upper portion of the antenna. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency, and the third frequency is higher than the second frequency. The at least one second array at a second frequency includes a plurality of reflector plates with antenna elements of the second frequency thereon, and the at least one third array at a third frequency includes a plurality of reflector plates with antenna elements of the third frequency thereon. The reflector plates of the at least one second array are interspersed between the reflector plates of the at least one third array such that the reflector plates of the second and third arrays alternate around the circumference of the upper portion of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Communication Components Antenna Inc.
    Inventors: Nasrin Hojjat, Paul Clarke, Zouhair Briqech
  • Patent number: 12266869
    Abstract: An antenna assembly includes a tool mandrel having a tool axis; a first coil antenna including a first plurality of windings wrapped about the tool mandrel, wherein the first coil antenna is arranged in a first orientation and wherein portions of the first plurality of windings are wrapped about the tool mandrel at a first winding angle defined with respect to the tool axis; and a second coil antenna co-located with the first coil antenna and including a second plurality of windings wrapped about the tool mandrel, wherein the second coil antenna is arranged in a second orientation opposite the first orientation, wherein portions of the second plurality of windings are wrapped about the tool mandrel at a second winding angle defined with respect to the tool axis and wherein a difference between a loop area of the first coil antenna and a loop area of the second coil antenna is less than 25%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Anand Prakash, Matthew Chase Griffing
  • Patent number: 12266870
    Abstract: A stacked patch antenna is disclosed that provides desirable performance in a cost effective and space efficient manner. A frame system is used to support a first patch and a second patch and a director plate that can be positioned between the first patch and the second patch. The design of the system allows for the first patch and the second patch to have a lower effective dielectric constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Cheikh Thiam, Ahmad M. Yacoub, Mohamed O. H. Khalifa, Mohammad Alrefai
  • Patent number: 12266871
    Abstract: A compact antenna design is provide with a carrier arm having a first end and a second end; a resonating arm, connected at the second end of the carrier arm and extending perpendicularly from the carrier arm in a first direction; a capacitive tuning arm, having a third end and a fourth end, connected at the third end to a portion of the carrier arm between to the first end and the second end, and extending perpendicularly from the carrier arm in the first direction; and a shorting arm, connected at the fourth end of the capacitive tuning arm and extending perpendicularly from the capacitive tuning arm in a second direction, away from the resonating arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Yu Mu, Prince Wang, N. F. Casazzone
  • Patent number: 12266872
    Abstract: An antenna is provided for operation across multiple frequency bands. The antenna includes, in order, a ground plane and a first conductive member separated from the ground plane. The antenna also includes a pair of second conductive members forming, with the first conductive member, a resonant structure sized to resonate at a higher frequency band of the multiple frequency bands. The antenna further includes a pair of third conductive members forming a resonant structure sized to resonate at a higher frequency band of the multiple frequency bands. The first conductive member is sized to resonate at a lower frequency band of the multiple frequency bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Alfonso Fernandez Duran, Eva Rajo Iglesias, Tomas Sanjuan Flores, Matilde Pilar Sánchez Fernández
  • Patent number: 12266873
    Abstract: A quick-locking piston-type floating power supply connector includes a housing assembly, a contact assembly, and a base assembly, wherein the housing assembly is sleeved on an outer wall of one end of the base assembly, one end of the contact assembly is fixed in the base assembly, the other end of the contact assembly extends from the base assembly, the other end of the contact assembly extends outwards to be partially embedded into a cover plate assembly, a floating contact member of a piston-type structure is vertically arranged at the terminal of the other end of the contact assembly, the floating contact member is mounted in the cover plate assembly, a mounting opening of the floating contact member extends outwards to the cover plate assembly, and the floating contact member is used for meeting the electrical assembly requirements of PCBs with different heights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: GUIZHOU SPACE APPLIANCE CO., LTD, SHANGHAI⋅AEROSPACE⋅SCIENCE & INDUSTRY⋅APPLIANCE⋅CO. LTD, SUZHOU HUAZHAN SPACE APPLIANCE CO.
    Inventors: Hongji Wang, Xu Wang, Zuotao Zou, Qifeng Xu, Liangtao Zhu
  • Patent number: 12266874
    Abstract: A control unit having a connection structure for connecting components of the control unit to a base plate which is cost effective, and facilitates heat transfer from a printed circuit board (PCB) to the base plate. The control unit includes circuitry mounted to a PCB, and the PCB is mounted to a base plate. The circuitry is over molded with epoxy material during manufacturing. The epoxy material flows between the PCB and the base plate, such that a layer of the epoxy is disposed between the PCB and the base plate. This layer of epoxy functions as a heat transfer layer, and a connection structure to connect the PCB to the base plate. The epoxy material transfers heat from the surface of the PCB in contact with the layer of epoxy to the surface of the base plate in contact with the layer of epoxy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies USA, LLC
    Inventors: Uwe Stephan, Donald J. Zito
  • Patent number: 12266875
    Abstract: Shown is an assembly or securing a printed circuit board to a plug body, having a contact element with a holding face facing against a plugging direction of the contact element, and a securing member, that can be transferred into a securing position, in which the printed circuit board is secured by the securing member in a positive fit manner against the plug direction at the holding face. Further shown is a method of securing a printed circuit board at the plug body, wherein a holding face of a contact element facing against a plug direction is inserted through an opening in the printed circuit board and subsequently a securing member is transferred to a securing position, in which the printed circuit board is secured by the securing member in a positive fit manner against the plug direction at the holding face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Schwan
  • Patent number: 12266876
    Abstract: First terminals and second terminals are alternately arranged in the pitch direction. The first terminal has a first mount portion, and the second terminal has a second mount portion. Each of the supporting portions is resiliently deformable at least in part and extends from the first contact portion to support the second contact portion. The second contact portion of each of the first terminals and the second terminals faces the first contact portion in a width direction and is movable in the width direction due to resilient deformation of the supporting portion. In the second terminal, the extension portion extends from the second contact portion, and the second mount portion is formed in a part of the extension portion. The second mount portion is located apart from the first mount portion in the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Keisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 12266877
    Abstract: An interface apparatus for installing memory modules to an information handling system includes a riser card and an adapter. The riser card includes a first card-edge connector on a first edge of the riser card, and a second card-edge connector on a second edge of the riser card. The first card-edge connector is associated with a first interface and the second card-edge connector is associated with a second interface. The adapter includes a first socket on a first side of the adapter, and a second socket on a second side of the adapter opposite to the first side. The first socket and the second socket are associated with the second interface. The first socket is configured to receive the second card-edge connector of the riser card. The second socket is configured to receive a memory module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Isaac Q. Wang, Jordan Chin, James L. Petivan, III
  • Patent number: 12266878
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising an interconnect comprising a conductive core; a first conductive layer connected to the conductive core and extending parallel to the conductive core towards a first end of the conductive core; a second conductive layer connected to the conductive core and extending parallel to the conductive core towards a second end of the conductive core; a first non-conductive layer between the conductive core and the first conductive layer; and a second non-conductive layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daqiao Du, Zhen Zhou, Ismael Franco Núñez, Gordon P. Melz
  • Patent number: 12266879
    Abstract: An arrangement for connecting electrical connections, in particular through a housing, for a device for driving a compressor with a connection arrangement with at least one electrically conductive connecting element and at least one contact device, fixed in a PCB, for mounting the connecting element in an axial direction. The contact device exhibits at least one spring contact element with elastically de-formable lamellar contact springs that are in electrically conductive contact with the connecting element. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for mounting the arrangement for connecting electrical connections, a device for driving a compressor of a vaporous fluid, in particular an electric motor, with the arrangement and a use of the device according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HANON SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Bernd Gunermann, Eric Rooks, Oliver Gormanns, Senol Gecgel
  • Patent number: 12266880
    Abstract: A contact insulator for use with high speed cable with differential pairs of contacts. A contact receiving portion has contact receiving slots which open from a first side of the contact insulator. A conductor receiving portion has conductor receiving slots which open from a second side of the contact insulator. A transition portion is positioned between the contact receiving portion and the conductor receiving portion. The transition portion has a contact receiving opening which extends through the contact insulator. The contact receiving opening is dimensioned to allow the contacts to be inserted therethrough. The contact insulator is rotated about the contacts and signal conductors of the high speed cable to position the contacts in the contact receiving slots through the first side of the contact insulator and position the signal conductor in the conductor receiving slots through the second side of the contact insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Paul Ruffini, Lynn Robert Sipe, Samantha K Heisey, Kyle Gary Annis
  • Patent number: 12266881
    Abstract: A safety shield assembly for a power receptacle includes a frame having openings corresponding to socket holes of the power receptacle, and a sliding block assembly and a resilient member disposed in the frame. The sliding block assembly include a sliding block body with two inclined surfaces, at least one of which having a slot to receive a wear-resistant block. In the initial state, the resilient member urges the sliding block assembly to cover the openings. The frame further includes a position limiting member and a balancing support member. When an inserted object pushes on only one of the two inclined surfaces, the position limiting member limits a sliding motion of the sliding block assembly; when two inserted objects simultaneously push on the two inclined surfaces, the sliding block assembly is balanced on the balancing support member and slides along the frame to expose the openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Chengli Li
  • Patent number: 12266882
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a connector and a manufacturing method or a connector. The connector includes: a terminal fitting; and a housing holding the terminal fitting. The housing includes a first resin molded body in which at least a part of the terminal fitting is embedded, the first resin molded body being made of a first material, and a second resin molded body in which at least a part of the first resin molded body is embedded, the second resin molded body being made of a second material. The first material has a linear thermal expansion coefficient smaller than that of the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Toru Suzuki, Noboru Hayasaka, Kazuya Takeda, Tatsuya Hosono, Jun Sugioka
  • Patent number: 12266883
    Abstract: A modular high-current connector (1) has a first housing part (7) and a second housing part (8) connected thereto. The high-current connector (1) has a pin contact (9), the pin contact (9) being substantially cylindrical and having a connection region (A?) and a contact region (K?) for making electrical contact with a device socket or a mating connector. The contact region (K?) of the pin contact (9) projects out of the high-current connector (1) on the plug-in side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventors: Nando Hoppe, Benjamin Krüger
  • Patent number: 12266884
    Abstract: There is provided a connector including: a housing including a cylindrical wall portion; and a hollow annular front holder attached to the cylindrical wall portion to surround an outer periphery thereof. The front holder includes: a pair of first locking portions and a pair of operating portions arranged that are arranged to face with each other in a radial direction of the front holder. The connecter is configured such that: in a state where the front holder is fitted externally on the cylindrical wall portion, the pair of first locking portions is engaged with the cylindrical wall portion; and in response to an operation of displacing the pair of operating portions to approach with each other in the radial direction, the pair of first locking portions is displaced to release an engagement between the front holder and the cylindrical wall portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hamai, Takatoshi Suzuki, Junya Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 12266885
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a connector housing defining a plurality of terminal cavities in which electrical terminals attached to wire cables are received, a mat seal formed of a compliant material and having a plurality of seal apertures through which the electrical terminals are inserted into the plurality of terminal cavities, and a seal retainer. The mat seal is disposed between the seal retainer and the connector housing and wherein the seal retainer is connected to the connector housing by a flexible member configured to urge the mat seal into contact with the connector housing and allow longitudinal movement of the seal retainer relative to the connector housing. A method of assembling such an electrical connector is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Carlos Armando Gonzalez Delgadillo, Pedro Yabur Pacheco
  • Patent number: 12266886
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a connector, a housing having an insertion port, and a waterproof cap detachably attached to the housing to close the insertion port, the waterproof cap having a cap body, a first protruding portion continuously surrounding an entire periphery of an outer peripheral surface of the cap body, and a second protruding portion disposed on a front end side of the cap body in a fitting direction from a position at which the first protruding portion is disposed, when the waterproof cap is attached to the housing, the first protruding portion being press-fitted to the insertion port and contacting an entire periphery of an inner peripheral surface of the insertion port while being elastically compressed, the second protruding portion being inserted into the connector and contacting at least two inner surfaces of the connector facing each other while being elastically compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yuta Shimomaki
  • Patent number: 12266887
    Abstract: The sealing element of the waterproof connector has a shape in which a family seal portion that waterproofs the peripheries of electric wires which are sandwiched between an inner housing and an outer housing 40, and which are not illustrated, and a seal ring portion that performs waterproofing between the seal ring portion and a mating housing are integrated. The standing board portions of the inner housing penetrate the long openings of the sealing element, and the portion to be caught of the outer housing is caught by catch protrusion portions that are formed in upper portions of the standing board portions and each have a hook shape, whereby the inner housing and the outer housing are assembled in a state in which the family seal portion of the sealing element is sandwiched between the inner housing and the outer housing. The mating housing comes into contact with the third waterproof portion of the sealing element, which acts as the seal ring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Akiguchi
  • Patent number: 12266888
    Abstract: A wetmate connector includes a plug and receptacle. The plug includes a plug body and the receptacle includes a receptacle body. The plug includes a recess circumscribing its forward end, adjacent to a coarse alignment feature and rearward of a front surface of the plug body. The coarse alignment feature includes a series of three truncated cones, the first and third of the cones including substantially congruent faces, the first and second cones being joined at their maximum diameter and the second and third cones being joined at their minimum diameter. The receptacle body includes a fastener adapted to cooperate with the recess in the forward end of the plug, to latch the plug and receptacle together when mated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Kelly Turner
  • Patent number: 12266889
    Abstract: A receptacle assembly includes a receptacle cage having a channel separator received in the cavity between the side walls separating the cavity into upper and lower module channels receiving corresponding pluggable modules. The receptable assembly includes a thermal transport assembly coupled to the receptacle cage having an upper cooling module, a lower cooling module and a cold plate at the rear of the receptacle cage. The upper cooling module is located in a top opening of the cage to thermally couple to the upper pluggable module. The lower cooling module is loaded into the separator chamber to thermally coupled to the lower pluggable module plugged into the lower module chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH et al.
    Inventors: Alan Weir Bucher, WenYu Liu
  • Patent number: 12266890
    Abstract: A connector fitting structure including: a first connector; and a second connector. The first connector includes a guide groove provided in a first housing. The guide groove includes: a first groove portion extending along a connector fitting direction; a second groove portion formed to gradually increase in width from a side of the first groove portion toward a side of the second connector; and a connection portion that connects the first groove portion and the second groove portion. The second connector includes a projection portion provided on a second housing and inserted into the guide groove. The projection portion has a recessed portion formed on a front end side of the projection portion and on at least one side surface of the projection portion that faces groove side surfaces of the guide groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiji Kozono, Yoshitaka Tsushima, Masaya Okamoto
  • Patent number: 12266891
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical connector housing configured to retain an electrical terminal. The first electrical connector housing has a first shroud surrounding the electrical terminal. The electrical connector assembly also includes a second electrical connector housing configured to retain a mating electrical terminal. The second electrical connector housing has a second shroud surrounding the mating electrical terminal that is configured to be received within the first shroud. The second electrical connector housing includes a circular band in which the first shroud is received. The circular band defines a gap therein and is configured to apply a circumferential clamping force to the first shroud when the gap is narrowed by a lateral force applied to the second electrical connector housing, thereby decreasing an effective internal diameter of the circular band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: John Morello, James M. Rainey
  • Patent number: 12266892
    Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a connector. The connector is suited to connectorizing exactly two conductors. The connector includes a forward connector body, a rear connector body, a metal frame and exactly two electrical contacts. The rear connector body interfaces with the forward connector body. Further, the metal frame, which includes a shielding interface, surrounds at least a portion of both the forward and rear connector bodies. The electrical contacts extend from the rear connector body into the forward connector body. A first of the electrical contacts is electrically coupled to a first conductor of a shielded cable and the second of the electrical contacts is electrically coupled to a second conductor of the shielded cable. The shield interface of the metal frame is electrically coupled to the shield of the shielded cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Shawn Phillip Tobey, Paul John Pepe, Scott Martin Keith, Jeffrey A. Oberski
  • Patent number: 12266893
    Abstract: A connection assembly including a receptacle connector having a first and a second end, including: a shell, including a first outer surface and a second outer surface; a shield surrounding the shell, the shield including: a first portion including a first cam flange, the first portion rotatable about a first spring hinge; a second portion including a second cam flange, the second portion rotatable about a second spring hinge; a mating connector removable coupleable to the receptacle connector, including: an adjustment member, wherein, when a positioning of the adjustment member is adjusted to decrease a distance between the adjustment member and the second end of the receptacle connector, the adjustment member adjusts a distance between the first cam flange and the second cam flange to rotate the first portion of the shield about the first spring hinge and rotate the second portion of the shield about the second spring hinge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Bhyrav M. Mutnury, Mark A. Smith, Sandor Farkas
  • Patent number: 12266894
    Abstract: A female connector module to be connected to a male terminal module is provided with a tubular female shield member, a tubular housing arranged on an outer periphery of the female shield member, a front mask provided on a tip portion of the housing, and an electrically conductive rubber for conduction between a male shield member of the male terminal module and the female shield member. The front mask has an end wall for facing an end surface of the housing and a side wall for covering an outer peripheral surface of the tip portion. The end wall has a through hole into which the male terminal module being inserted. The electrically conductive rubber is so arranged inside the through hole as to contact an end surface of the female shield member while being held in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the male shield member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuma Hibino, Jumpei Kawahara, Harald Michael Lutsch
  • Patent number: 12266895
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulation body, a plurality of terminal groups which are disposed in a rows, and a shielding structure. Each terminal group includes a signal terminal and at least two ground terminals, the signal terminal and the ground terminals are each connected to the insulation body, the signal terminal in the each terminal group is disposed between the two ground terminals in the each terminal group, and the shielding structure is disposed between two adjacent terminal groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bin Huang, Rongzhe Guo, Chenhui Zeng
  • Patent number: 12266896
    Abstract: A connector device includes a connector housing including a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, a plurality of terminals accommodated in the plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, and a plurality of electric wires configured to be welded to the respective one of the plurality of terminals. A laser radiation through hole is formed in side walls, each forming the terminal accommodating chambers, the laser radiation through hole being configured to allow the plurality of terminals and the plurality of electric wires to be welded with each other inside the terminal accommodating chambers, and the laser radiation through hole is configured to allow laser light emitted from a laser welding machine disposed outside the connector housing to enter one of the plurality of terminal accommodating chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syuji Kimura, Sadaharu Okuda, Yasuhiro Kominato
  • Patent number: 12266897
    Abstract: A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a wire in an extending direction is provided with a terminal body for sandwiching the wire, and a slide member slidable with respect to the terminal body along the extending direction of the wire. The terminal body is formed by a worked metal plate material and includes a sandwiching portion for sandwiching the wire. The sandwiching portion includes a first holding protrusion formed by folding the metal plate material on a side edge intersecting the extending direction of the wire, projecting toward the wire and configured to contact the wire and a second holding protrusion formed to be located forward of the first holding protrusion in the extending direction of the wire by folding the metal plate material on a side edge along the extending direction of the wire, projecting toward the wire and configured to contact the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shunya Takeuchi, Hajime Kawase
  • Patent number: 12266898
    Abstract: A coherent fiber array laser power projection system scalable to large number of subapertures and includes sensors that produce signals dependent upon beam characteristics, and controllers configured to control beam characteristics to achieve either phasing of outgoing beams at transmitter plane or coherent beam combining at a remote target or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Mikhail A Vorontsov
  • Patent number: 12266899
    Abstract: A fiber applied to an optical amplifier, where the fiber includes a rare earth-doped core and a cladding. The core includes a gain equalization unit. The core is configured to separately amplify optical signals of all wavelengths in a received multiplexing wave. The gain equalization unit is configured to equalize gains of the optical signals of all the wavelengths, such that gains of optical signals that are of all the wavelengths and that are transmitted from an egress port of the fiber all fall within a preset range. The gain of the optical signal of each wavelength in the optical signals of all the wavelengths is determined based on a ratio of power of an amplified optical signal to power of the unamplified optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Wu, Kai Zhang
  • Patent number: 12266900
    Abstract: To provide a light source device for a fiber optic gyroscope capable of broadening the bandwidth of the laser light and improving stability of a scale factor. A light source device for a fiber optic gyroscope configured to drive a fiber optic gyroscope includes: a laser light source 10, a stabilizing part 20, and a bandwidth broadening part 30. The laser light source 10 emits a laser light of a predetermined frequency. The stabilizing part 20 stabilizes the predetermined frequency of the laser light emitted from the laser light source 10. The bandwidth broadening part 30 makes the laser light stabilized by the stabilizing part 20 into a light having a continuous broadband spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO
    Inventor: Mikio Kozuma
  • Patent number: 12266901
    Abstract: The invention relates to a laser device comprising a laser source (1), which is configured to emit pulsed laser radiation (2) with a spectrum in the form of a frequency comb having a plurality of equidistant spectral lines, an optical modulator (3), which is configured to shift the frequency of the laser radiation (2), and a control unit (10), which is configured to control the modulator (3) by means of a control signal (6). It is the object of the present invention to demonstrate an improved way, compared to the prior art, of generating an optical frequency comb that is stabilized in terms of the CEO frequency, in which the CE phase is also adjustable. To this end, the invention proposes that the laser radiation (2) emitted by the laser source (1) is stabilized in terms of the carrier-envelope frequency. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method of generating an optical frequency comb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Toptica Photonics AG
    Inventors: Thomas A. Puppe, Christoph Tresp, Max Eisele, Christoph Skrobol
  • Patent number: 12266902
    Abstract: An optical chip may include a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) structure. The optical chip may include a capacitor over at least a portion of an active layer of the VCSEL structure that is outside of an active region of the VCSEL structure. The capacitor may include a first metal layer over the portion of the active layer, a dielectric layer on the first metal layer, and a second metal layer on the dielectric layer. The optical chip may include an isolation region between a substrate of the VCSEL and a portion of the capacitor outside of the VCSEL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Lumentum Operations LLC
    Inventors: Siu Kwan Cheung, Matthew Glenn Peters, Mohammad Ali Shirazi Hosseini Dokht, Hao Huang, Lijun Zhu
  • Patent number: 12266903
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes: a substrate that is provided with at least a part of a resonant circuit in which resonance occurs; and a light emitting element that emits light in a case where a current in the resonant circuit is supplied, in which the substrate has an electric accumulation layer provided in the resonant circuit and accumulating electric charge, and the resonant circuit is not provided with an electric accumulation element having a thickness larger than a thickness of the electric accumulation layer and accumulating electric charge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventor: Daisuke Iguchi
  • Patent number: 12266904
    Abstract: A laser device for use with a display including a plurality of pixels is disclosed. The laser device includes a gain section and a modulator. The gain section is electrically coupled with a first current or voltage source. The gain section is configured to selectively amplify an optical power of light reflecting within the gain section based on a first drive current or voltage supplied from the first current or voltage source to the gain section. The modulator is optically coupled with the gain section. The modulator is electrically coupled with a second current or voltage source. The modulator is configured to selectively attenuate or amplify an optical power of light received from the gain section based on a second drive current or voltage supplied from the second current or voltage source to the modulator. Light emitted from the modulator is provided to the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shiva Shahin, Dale Eugene Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 12266905
    Abstract: A pulsed laser diode array driver includes an inductor having a first terminal configured to receive a source voltage, a source capacitor coupled between the first terminal of the inductor and ground, a bypass capacitor connected between a second terminal of the inductor and ground, a bypass switch connected between the second terminal of the inductor and ground, a laser diode array with one or more rows of laser diodes, and one or more laser diode switches, each being connected between a respective row node of the laser diode array and ground. The laser diode switches and the bypass switch are configured to control a current flow through the inductor to produce respective high-current pulses through each row of the laser diode array, each of the high-current pulses corresponding to a peak current of a resonant waveform developed at that row of the laser diode array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Silanna Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Joseph H. Colles, Steven E. Rosenbaum, Stuart B. Molin
  • Patent number: 12266906
    Abstract: A vertical cavity surface emitting device includes a substrate, a first multilayer film reflecting mirror, a light-emitting structure layer with a light-emitting layer, and a second multilayer film reflecting mirror. The second multilayer film reflecting mirror constitutes a resonator between the first and second multilayer film reflecting mirrors. The second multilayer film reflecting mirror includes a first multilayer film, an intermediate film, and a second multilayer film. The first and second multilayer films have low refractive index films and high refractive index films that are alternately stacked. The intermediate film covers an upper surface of the first multilayer film and film has a translucency to a light emitted from the light-emitting layer. The second multilayer film partially covers an upper surface of the intermediate film. The intermediate film has a film thickness based on ½ of a wavelength inside the intermediate film of light emitted from the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: STANLEY ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaru Kuramoto, Seiichiro Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12266907
    Abstract: Provided are a laser element and a method for manufacturing the same, in which the laser element includes a first clad layer, an optical waveguide disposed on the first clad layer, a second clad layer disposed on the optical waveguide, a first electrode disposed on the second clad layer, and a dummy clad disposed on the optical waveguide and apart from the second clad layer and the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: OE Solutions Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ki Hong Yoon, Seon Jae Choi
  • Patent number: 12266908
    Abstract: A device includes a multiple-wavelength (e.g., dual wavelength) vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) array including a first VCSEL set including one or more first VCSEL to emit first VCSEL radiation at a first wavelength, and a second VCSEL set including one or more second VCSEL to emit second VCSEL radiation at a second wavelength different than the first wavelength. The device includes upstream optics to upstream optics to (a) collimate the first VCSEL radiation emitted by the first VCSEL set and (b) collimate the second VCSEL radiation emitted by the second VCSEL set. The device also includes a vapor cell to receive the collimated first VCSEL radiation and the collimated second VCSEL radiation and to provide an output beam as a function of the received collimated first VCSEL radiation and collimated second VCSEL radiation, and measurement circuitry to analyze the output beam provided by the vapor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Microchip Technology Caldicot Limited, NPL Management Limited
    Inventors: Tracy Wotherspoon, Daniel Graham, Robert Bowen, Mohsin Haji
  • Patent number: 12266909
    Abstract: Motor control centers have units or buckets with an extendable/retractable power connection (stab) assembly and one or more operating lever interlocks that include a unit latch to latch to a cabinet and a power connection position interlock that blocks the handle of the units or buckets based on position of the power connection assembly, optionally also including a shutter cam that slides a shutter right and left.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Boyd Kroushl, Alfred Gregory Beard, Edgar Yee
  • Patent number: 12266910
    Abstract: A wiring member includes: a main wire including a plurality of wire-like transmission members; a branch wire in which some of the wire-like transmission members are branched from the main wire; a fixing sheet having one main surface to which the main wire is fixed; and a cover sheet, at least a part of which is provided in a position overlapped with the branch wire in another main surface of the fixing sheet, wherein a fusion position where the fixing sheet and the cover sheet are fused is provided on at least a lateral side of the main wire in a longitudinal direction, and is provided in a position away from the branch wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryusuke Kudo, Tetsuya Nishimura, Masaki Mizushita, Haruka Nakano, Kenta Arai
  • Patent number: 12266911
    Abstract: An inverter junction box is provided that includes a cover plate and a knockout pin. The cover plate is detachably connected with a top part of a casing; the knockout pin has one end that is detachably connected with a bottom part of the cover plate, and another end that can abut against a protection device on an inverter. One side of the casing has a connecting part that is connected with an external cable. A bottom part of the casing is a hollow structure and abuts against an incoming terminal of the inverter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: JING-JIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Zhao, Hao Zhang, Gabriel Gallegos Lopez
  • Patent number: 12266912
    Abstract: Inter-array cable (IAC) assemblies, systems, and methods are disclosed in which a conductive cable between two floating platforms, e.g., floating wind turbine platforms, is suspended below the sea surface and above the seabed. One or more buoyancy sections are included in the cable, which reduces the static tension on the connection at the floating platform by reducing the suspended cable weight, and which provides geometric flexibility, allowing the IAC to comply with platform motions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Principle Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Cyril Gilles Emile Godreau, Aurélien Lorenzo Edy, Moustafa Wagdy Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 12266913
    Abstract: An abnormal current protection device includes an overcurrent protector and a controller, and the overcurrent protector includes a short-circuit detection unit and an overcurrent detection unit. The short-circuit detection unit is configured to detect whether there is a short-circuit event within a period of debounce time of a protection cycle. The overcurrent detection unit is configured to detect whether there is an overcurrent event after the period of debounce time within the protection cycle. The controller is configured to disable a converter when the short-circuit event is detected, and disable a power stage when the overcurrent event is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Elite Semiconductor Microelectronics Technology Inc.
    Inventor: Isaac Y. Chen
  • Patent number: 12266914
    Abstract: A method for processing an interphase short circuit is provided, including: when a two-phase or three-phase interphase short circuit occurs in a line, maintaining a fault phase of the line to be conducted and tripping off the remaining fault phases, and artificially grounding another fault phase connected to the fault phase or directly utilizing an existing grounding point; connecting a neutral point or a charged phase of a three-phase ineffectively grounded power supply system other than the fault phase to the ground, so as to form a closed loop with the fault phase and generate a current, and detecting a current duration by a controlled switch. When a certain controlled switch reaches a trigger condition and cuts off the line, a fault is cleared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BAODING YUXIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhanyu Xue, Jinchun Xing
  • Patent number: 12266915
    Abstract: A series Z-source circuit breaker including a semiconductor switch that breaks source power being provided to a load in response to overcurrent. An electromechanical switch is electrically coupled in parallel with the semiconductor switch, a first capacitor is electrically coupled to an output side of the semiconductor switch, a second capacitor is electrically coupled in parallel with the semiconductor switch, and a delay circuit is electrically coupled in series with the first capacitor. The semiconductor switch is in an open position and the electromechanical switch is in a closed position when overcurrent is not present. Upon detection of overcurrent the semiconductor switch is closed, the electromechanical switch is opened and the delay circuit is controlled to delay when reverse bias current is provided from the first capacitor to the semiconductor switch to prevent source power from being provided to the load to give the electromechanical switch time to open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: S&C Electric Company
    Inventors: Konstantin Lakirovich, John French, William Yadusky