Electrical Speed Measuring Patents (Class 324/160)
  • Patent number: 11714119
    Abstract: An earth fault detection apparatus includes a switch group configured to switch between a first measurement path including a battery and a capacitor, and a second and third measurement paths including the battery, a positive/negative-side insulation resistance, and the capacitor; a reference resistance and a test switch; and a control unit calculating a first reference value based on each charging voltage in a case where the test switch is opened and the capacitor is charged, and calculating the insulation resistance with reference to a conversion map created to correspond to an electrostatic capacitance between a power supply line and ground, wherein the control unit calculates a second reference value based on each charging voltage in a case where the test switch is closed and the capacitor is charged for a shorter time, and estimates the electrostatic capacitance with reference to a predetermined test conversion map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Mochizuki, Norio Sudo, Haruhiko Yoshida, Ryosuke Arigaya
  • Patent number: 11700105
    Abstract: A communication device includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive, from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network, downlink signals on a downlink via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications network. The transmitter is configured to transmit, to the infrastructure equipment, uplink signals on an uplink via the wireless access interface. The control circuit is configured to control the receiver to receive the downlink signals and control the transmitter to transmit the uplink signals. The control circuit is further configured to delay a reception period for the receiver to receive the downlink signals after a transmission period in which the transmitter transmits the uplink signals when a duration of the transmission period exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Basuki Priyanto
  • Patent number: 11660505
    Abstract: A stabilizing ability, so-called stability, according to a change in body motion of a wearer is to be appropriately evaluated to achieve effective training, coaching, and fitting of athletic equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: LEOMO, Inc.
    Inventor: Kunihiko Kaji
  • Patent number: 11650325
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a health coaching message are disclosed. The method may include processing an electronic audio file to generate audio pace data, storing the audio pace data, receiving the electronic audio file and pace data, collecting electronic fitness data during a fitness activity; generating activity pace data; and playing the electronic audio file based on a comparison of the audio pace data and the activity pace data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Andrew J. Graham, Alan R. Lee, Jon H. Werner
  • Patent number: 11548529
    Abstract: A control device controlling the movement route of a transportation vehicle calculates a movement route to a target position of the transportation vehicle and, in a case where an obstacle exists on the calculated movement route, counts the number of detours indicating the magnitude of an influence of the obstacle on movement route calculation, and calculates the movement route again so as to avoid the obstacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihito Kohiga, Yasuhiko Tanabe, Masataka Matoba, Yuichi Yano
  • Patent number: 11442121
    Abstract: Magnetic field sensors and sensing methods are provided. A magnetic sensor module is configured to measure a magnetic field whose magnitude oscillates between a first extrema and a second extrema. The magnetic sensor module includes a magnetic sensor configured to generate measurement values in response to sensing the magnetic field, and a sensor circuit. The sensor circuit is configured to generate a measurement signal based on the measurement values, adjust an offset of the measurement signal according to an offset update algorithm and a first characteristic of the measurement signal, generate a pulsed output signal having pulses that are generated based on the adjusted measurement signal crossing the switching threshold, and selectively enable and disable the offset update algorithm based on a second characteristic of the measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Simone Fontanesi, Klaus Grambichler, Tobias Werth
  • Patent number: 11394418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a wearable device comprising a mechanical watch movement located within a watch housing, and first and second straps connected to the watch housing, such that the device is suitable for wearing on a user's wrist. The first strap has a coin cell located in a cavity, and the second strap has a first electronic communication device located in a cavity. The coin cell and the electronic communication device are connected by a flexible circuit board. Advantageously, this may provide a wearable device having the functionality to interact with a remote security system of a vehicle, such as a keyless entry system or a keyless go system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Armour Surveillance Security Equipment and Technology LTD
    Inventors: Richard Dinan, Patrick James Fawcett
  • Patent number: 11285375
    Abstract: An apparatus may include a user interface configured to allow a user input, wherein the user input is associated with a configuration of a plurality of configurations of a sports board. The apparatus may also include a communication interface configured to communicate information associated with the configuration for delivery to the sports board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Bryan Marc Failing
  • Patent number: 11120901
    Abstract: The method for calculating the activity of a user, said method being implemented by a personal activity monitor intended to be securely associated with the body of the user, and by a smartphone equipped with a geolocation function, exchanging data over a wireless connection, the method comprising the steps of: -a- the activity monitor detects and counts the steps of the user, -b- the smartphone determines a first geolocation at a first time, -c- the smartphone determines a second geolocation at a second time, -d- one of the two devices calculates a distance traveled between the two geolocations, -e- one of the two devices calculates, based on the distance traveled and the number of steps taken between the two geolocations, the average stride and/or average step of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: WITHINGS
    Inventors: Rachid Saadi, Nadine Buard, Cedric Hutchings
  • Patent number: 11009520
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that determines an estimated rotational speed of a rotating component of a machine in the absence of a reliable tachometer signal to indicate an actual rotational speed. The apparatus includes a processor that produces a spectral plot of the vibrational data, locates peaks in the spectral plot, and scans the spectral plot in predetermined rotational speed increments to provide candidate rotational speeds. For each candidate rotational speed, associated harmonics are identified, closest peaks in the spectral plot to the candidate rotational speed and its harmonics are located, gaps between the closest peaks and the candidate rotational speed and its harmonics are measured, and a sum of the gaps is recorded. The estimated rotational speed is the candidate rotational speed associated with a minimum sum of the gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Computational Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony J. Hayzen, Stewart V. Bowers, III
  • Patent number: 10854097
    Abstract: An anti-collision device of an aircraft including a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors including at least two separate sensors, each sensor being configured to respectively deliver its own set of captured data as a function of the proximity of at least one obstruction, the anti-collision device including: at least one data homogenization module configured to transform at least one set of captured data in a corresponding set of unmarked data, each set of unmarked data respectively associated with at least one sensor being made up of a plurality of identical data types from one set of unmarked data to another, and a data processing module configured to generate, from said sets of unmarked data, at least one piece of information representative of the presence or absence of obstruction(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Laurent Flotte, Ronan Demoment, Stéphane Fleury, Xavier Rueff, Daniel Maulet
  • Patent number: 10826514
    Abstract: A noise-shaping enhanced (NSE) gated ring oscillator (GRO)-based ADC includes a delay which delays and feedbacks an error signal to an input of the NSE GRO-based ADC. The feedback error signal provides an order of noise-shaping and the error signal is generated at the input of the NSE GRO-based ADC from an input signal, the feedback error signal, and a front-end output. A voltage-to-time converter converts the error signal to the time domain. A GRO outputs phase signals from the time domain error signal by oscillating when the error signal is high and inhibiting oscillation otherwise. A quantization device quantizes the phase signals to generate the front-end output. A quantization extraction device determines a quantization error from the quantized phase signals. A time-to-digital converter digitizes the quantization error to generate a back-end output. An output device generates a second order noise-shaped output based on the front-end and the back-end outputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Mohammad Honarparvar, Soheyl Ziabakhsh Shalmani, Naim Ben-Hamida, Sadok Aouini
  • Patent number: 10756633
    Abstract: A switch mode power supply (SMPS) system includes a rectifying circuit for coupling to an AC input voltage and a transformer having a primary winding for coupling to the rectifying circuit and a secondary winding coupled to the primary winding. The system also has a power switch coupled to the primary winding and a control circuit coupled to the power switch. The control circuit is configured to control current flow in the primary winding such that an envelope waveform formed by peak points of current pulses is in phase with the magnitude of the AC input voltage. Moreover, the SMPS system is configured to provide a constant average output current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: DIODES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shihai Zhu, Zeqiang Chen, Xuegang Ren, Yajiang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10604896
    Abstract: The invention embodies the application of different combinations of the monitoring and data processing aspects as a means to develop an early warning chatter alarming system. Configuring an early warning chatter alarming system can be as simple as using n? alarm settings to develop an alarming strategy from different trend conditions such as overall RMS, selected vibration frequencies, slope analysis, and wavelet analysis. A higher level of alarming is provided by using a time integrated approach to account for both intensity of the alarm variable and duration. Combining these different aspects with a predictive model incorporates process-operating conditions to enhance the alarming sensitivity for earlier detection and reduce false positives. Finally, combining the different alarming aspects with a rule-based decision making approach such as fuzzy logic allows alarming based on qualitative analysis of different data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
    Inventors: William A. Von Drasek, Gary S. Furman, Jr., Sammy L. Archer
  • Patent number: 10598680
    Abstract: A pulser ring mounting structure includes: a wheel provided with a hub, the hub being journaled to a rear wheel axle; and a pulser ring, the pulser ring being mounted with respect to the wheel, the pulser ring being provided with an annular detected portion detected by a wheel speed sensor. In the pulser ring mounting structure, the pulser ring is provided with a rib, the rib extending to be located close to a receiving portion, the receiving portion being provided with respect to an outer surface of the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kineo Tomura, Yotaro Mori
  • Patent number: 10590796
    Abstract: A drive system of a gas turbine engine includes at least one drive shaft operable to rotate within the gas turbine engine, a phonic wheel coupled to the at least one drive shaft, a speed sensor operable to detect rotation of the phonic wheel indicative of rotation of the at least one drive shaft, and a processing system coupled to the speed sensor. The processing system is operable to detect a phonic wheel pulse train indicative of rotation of the at least one drive shaft via the speed sensor, determine a torsional mode of the at least one drive shaft based on the phonic wheel pulse train, and record one or more trends of the torsional mode indicative of a health status of the drive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Sheridon Everette Haye
  • Patent number: 10562340
    Abstract: In order to improve a wheel unit for a bicycle, comprising a hub and a wheel rim, which is arranged rotatably about an axis of rotation, wherein the hub and the wheel rim are connected to one another by spokes, it is proposed to arrange a brake disc and a sensor ring, which comprises a sensing region, on the hub and to position the sensing region between the brake disc and the spokes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Gustav Magenwirth GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christian Neutsch
  • Patent number: 10495700
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for providing information about a target based on pulse widths. The information can be provided in a formatted output signal which uses a pulse width protocol to code information by varying amplitudes and widths of successive pulses in an output signal pulse train portion. The method includes detecting a first feature of the target and in response to detecting the first feature, generating an output signal pulse train portion comprising two or more pulses with at least two of the pulses having different amplitudes and each of the two or more pulses having a width corresponding to a logic value. The widths of the two or more pulses in the output signal pulse train portion can be measured in response to the detected first feature reaching a first amplitude threshold, whereby the widths can correspond to different logic values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Seth Prentice, Andrea Foletto, Marcus Hagn
  • Patent number: 10410371
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe tracking the location and orientation of a target in a digital image. In an embodiment, this tracking can be used to control navigation for a vehicle. In an embodiment, a digital image can be captured by a visual sensor is received. A first array including a plurality of binary values related to the pixel velocity of a first plurality of pixels in the digital image as compared to corresponding pixels in a first one or more prior digital images can be generated. A second array including a plurality of values related to the standard deviation of pixel intensity of the first plurality of pixels in the digital image as compared to corresponding pixels in a second one or more prior digital images can be further generated. A plurality of thresholds relating to the values in the second array can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: David K. Lee, David L. Caballero, Thomas P. Weismuller
  • Patent number: 10315073
    Abstract: Method for operating a bicycle trainer, and such a bicycle trainer comprising a stand with a seat, handlebars and rotatable pedals, or such a bicycle trainer comprising a stand for mounting a bicycle frame with a seat, handlebars and rotatable pedals, wherein the stand incorporates an electronically variable brake acting directly or indirectly on the rotatable pedals with a braking resistance that depends on a computer-controlled predetermined setting, wherein the pre-determined setting is variable and wherein said setting depends on selected parameters to reflect a simulated surface condition of a road.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Tacx roerend en onroerend goed B.V.
    Inventor: Martin Smits
  • Patent number: 10307642
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a training method for operating a training system including a pedal-crank input unit drivingly connected in freewheeling relationship to a flywheel machine with inertial load of at least (0.5) kg·m2, an ergometer to determine power, a processor, a profile module, and a session management module, wherein the processor determines a minimum acceptable threshold value of maximum power output for a maximum power period, duration of the maximum power period, and increments the minimum acceptable threshold value of maximum power output for a next maximum power period where the minimum acceptable threshold value of maximum power output for a maximum power period is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Sports Texas Nutrition Training Fitness, Inc.
    Inventor: Edward F. Coyle
  • Patent number: 10306036
    Abstract: Head-mounted display systems and methods of operation that allow users to couple and decouple a portable electronic device such as a handheld portable electronic device with a separate head-mounted device (e.g., temporarily integrates the separate devices into a single unit) are disclosed. The portable electronic may be physically coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device can be worn on the user's head. The portable electronic device may be operatively coupled to the head-mounted device such that the portable electronic device and head mounted device can communicate and operate with one another. Each device may be allowed to extend its features and/or services to the other device for the purpose of enhancing, increasing and/or eliminating redundant functions between the head-mounted device and the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Quin C. Hoellwarth
  • Patent number: 10294959
    Abstract: A synchronous motor, motor stator, pump and cleaning apparatus are provided. The motor stator includes a stator core and two stator windings. The stator core includes two opposing poles and a yoke having a bottom and two branches. The stator windings are respectively wound around the branches. The two stator windings are respectively formed by winding two separate electric wires. Each electric wire has an incoming terminal and an outgoing terminal. The two incoming terminals of the two stator windings are disposed at inner layers of the stator windings, and the two outgoing terminals are disposed at outer layers of the stator windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Min Li, Moola Mallikarjuna Reddy, Xiao Lin Zhang
  • Patent number: 10288443
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to determine a route based at least partly on a thematic map database and a current location of the apparatus, present the determined route as a suggested route to a first user, and responsive to the first user approving the suggested route, initiate an activity session based on the suggested route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Amer Sports Digital Services Oy
    Inventors: Heikki Nieminen, Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 10281257
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods to extract information about the size and shape of an object by observing variations of the radiation pattern caused by illuminating the object with coherent radiation sources and changing the wavelengths of the source. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are described for recovering the image of an object utilizing projected and transparent reference points and radiation sources such as tunable lasers. Sensing and image-reconstruction systems and methods are also described for rapid sensing of such radiation patterns. A computational system and method is also described for sensing and reconstructing the image from its autocorrelation. This computational approach uses the fact that the autocorrelation is the weighted sum of shifted copies of an image, where the shifts are obtained by sequentially placing each individual scattering cell of the object at the origin of the autocorrelation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Inventor: Lyle G. Shirley
  • Patent number: 10267819
    Abstract: A device for monitoring a resolver disposed on a rotatable member is described herein, and includes a controller including a microprocessor circuit and an interface circuit connected to the resolver, wherein the microprocessor circuit includes a dual-core central processing unit (CPU), a pulse generator, a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (SDADC), a global memory device, an internal communication bus and a direct memory access device (DMA). The microprocessor circuit is disposed to control the pulse generator to generate an excitation pulse transferable to the excitation winding of the resolver, and control the SDADC to capture data from the secondary windings of the resolver and store the captured data in the memory buffer. A control routine is executed to detect an envelope for the captured data, and a rotor position for the resolver is determined based upon the detected envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Yo Chan Son, Rachel L. Hoener, Milan Ashok Vadera
  • Patent number: 10265579
    Abstract: Determining pace or speed based on sensor data may include determining an amount of contact time a user's foot has with a workout surface such as the ground. Contact time may be determined by identifying samples in the sensor data that correspond to various events such as a heelstrike, a toe-off and a subsequent heelstrike. In one example, these events may be identified by determining a sequence of three sample values (e.g., a triplet) that exceeds corresponding thresholds. The validity of an identified triplet (e.g., heelstrike, toe-off and heelstrike) may be confirmed by determining whether a difference between a last event sample and a middle event sample is greater than a difference between the middle event sample and an initial event sample. Once confirmed, a contact time may be determined from the triplet. A linear or non-linear relationship may then be applied to the contact time to determine a speed or pace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron B. Weast, James M. Mullin
  • Patent number: 10215792
    Abstract: A position-measuring device for determining the position of two objects movable relative to each other, which during operation, generates data in the form of measured position values, and which is to be connected to a processing unit via a data-transmission channel in order to transmit data, the position-measuring device being able to be connected to the processing unit via a first pair of lines, or alternatively, via a first pair of lines and at least one further pair of lines. The position-measuring device is assigned a detection unit with which the presence or non-presence of at least one further pair of lines is detectable, when the position-measuring device is connected to the processing unit via the data-transmission channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH
    Inventor: Erich Strasser
  • Patent number: 10192763
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methodology to match and calibrate processing chamber performance in a processing chamber. In one embodiment, a method for calibrating a processing chamber for semiconductor manufacturing process includes performing a first predetermined process in a processing chamber, collecting a first set of signals transmitted from a first group of sensors disposed in the processing chamber to a controller while performing the predetermined process, analyzing the collected first set of signals, comparing the collected first set of signals with database stored in the controller to check sensor responses from the first group of sensors, calibrating sensors based on the collected first set of signals when a mismatch sensor response is found, subsequently performing a first series of processes in the processing chamber, and collecting a second set of signals transmitted from the sensors to the controller while performing the series of processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Xuesong Lu, Lin Zhang, Andy Le
  • Patent number: 10077992
    Abstract: A tip clearance probe includes at least one anti-rotation feature within the probe housing that prevents a sensor component from rotating when the tip clearance probe fails due to extraordinary wear and tear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Eli Cole Warren
  • Patent number: 10073128
    Abstract: A leak detection device includes a pulse signal outputting portion that outputs predetermined pulse signals to a positive connecting wire connected to a positive side of a battery and a negative connecting wire connected to a negative side of the battery. A response waveform detecting portion of the leak detection device detects a positive response waveform for the pulse signal output to the positive connecting wire and a negative response waveform for the pulse signal output to the negative connecting wire. An amplitude ratio calculating portion calculates an amplitude ratio based on the positive response waveform and the negative response waveform, and a leak detecting portion detects a leak between the battery and a ground based on the amplitude ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yoshioka, Tsuyoshi Kai, Akihiko Kudo, Masahiro Ueda
  • Patent number: 10059398
    Abstract: An axle extends in an axial direction. A front wheel is rotatable around a wheel rotational axis. A front wheel supporting arm rotatably supports the axle. A front fork swingably supports the front wheel supporting arm such that the front wheel supporting arm is rotatable in a first direction about the wheel rotational axis. A rotary member is rotatable together with the axle around the wheel rotational axis. An axle rotation detector is supported on the axle opposite to the rotary member in the axial direction to be rotatable around the wheel rotational axis to detect a difference between rotational speeds of the axle rotation detector and the rotary member. A link mechanism is provided between the axle rotation detector and the front fork to turn the axle rotation detector in a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction about the wheel rotational axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kaneta, Kazunari Iguchi, Shunichi Miyagishi, Yotaro Mori, Yuichi Uebayashi
  • Patent number: 9941891
    Abstract: A digital phase-locked loop includes a digital loop filter, a digitally controllable oscillator (DCO), and an injection-locked calibration-free time-to-digital converter (TDC) having a ring oscillator connected to the DCO via an input buffer that converts a sinusoidal DCO signal to a differential square wave signal provided to the ring oscillator such that ring oscillator frequency matches DCO frequency. A spur cancellation loop between the TDC and digital loop filter generates a spur cancellation signal based on an estimate of a spurious tone amplitude and phase. The spur cancellation signal is subtracted from TDC output signals prior to input to the digital loop filter. The spur cancellation loop may include a gradient descent strategy, or a feedforward strategy having a high-pass filter, integer delay chain, adaptive fractional delay, and signal averaging logic to cancel multiple internal and external spurs having frequencies that are not related to the reference clock frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: University of Southern California
    Inventors: Shuo-Wei Chen, Cheng-Ru Ho
  • Patent number: 9880188
    Abstract: Sensor arrangement for measuring a rotation speed of a salient member of a rotatable body comprising a first electrode arrangement providing a first input, a second electrode arrangement providing a second input different from the first input, the first and second electrode arrangements configured so noise in the first and second inputs is substantially the same, and wherein variations in the first and second inputs are caused by rotation of the rotatable body and the salient member past the first and second electrode arrangements, an output arrangement for receiving the first and second inputs, and for providing an output proportional to a difference between the first and second inputs, and a retaining member for retaining one or more of the first and second electrode arrangements and output arrangement, the speed of rotation of the salient member measurable from a variation in the output caused by rotation of that salient member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: CUMMINS TURBO TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventor: Calvin Howard Cox
  • Patent number: 9868022
    Abstract: A bicycle trainer with a hill training apparatus is described. The hill training apparatus enables bicyclists to simulate uphill riding (incline), downhill riding (decline), and hill resistance or lack thereof. The hill training apparatus also provides for correct body positioning while riding uphill or downhill, and with or without resistance. Riding on a trainer with correct body positioning provides for improved training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Pro-Climb, LLC
    Inventor: Emily L. Cooper
  • Patent number: 9840300
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an inverted suspension and a wheel speed sensor and a sensor wire. At least a portion of a left wheel speed sensor is disposed inwards of an outer edge of a left front inner tube, and at least a portion thereof is provided between a left front imaginary line and a left rear imaginary line when seen from the direction of the left wheel axis and disposed above a lower end of a left shock absorber. A left sensor wire crosses the left front imaginary line or the left rear imaginary line below either of a lower end of a left front outer tube and a lower end of a left rear outer tube. At least a portion of a left lower restrictor is provided on a left inner connector in a position located ahead of the left front imaginary line or behind the left rear imaginary line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kohsuke Ohno
  • Patent number: 9719366
    Abstract: Systems and methods for blade health monitoring are provided. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a system may include a feature extraction module and an anomaly detection module in communication with the extraction module. The feature extraction module may be configured to continuously receive blade passing signal data associated with clearance of a blade and pre-process the blade passing signal data. Blade clearance feature data may be extracted from the blade passing signal data prior to transmission to the anomaly detection module. The anomaly detection module may be configured to normalize the blade clearance feature data received from the extraction module, analyze the blade clearance feature data to detect a shift in the clearance of the blade, and determine an abnormality of the blade based on the shift exceeding a predetermined shift threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Lijie Yu, Venkatesh Rajagopalan, Sachin Srivastava, Mayank Lalan
  • Patent number: 9705519
    Abstract: A circuit for correcting time encoder errors including a time encoder having a time encoder input, a time encoder output, and a current summing point, and a pulse width modifier coupled to the time encoder output, the pulse width modifier having a current output coupled to the current summing point, and having a corrected output. The pulse width modifier is configured to calibrate duty cycle errors and nonlinearity errors on the time encoder output, to correct the duty cycle errors and the nonlinearity errors on the time encoder output, and to output the corrected output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLC
    Inventor: Cynthia D. Baringer
  • Patent number: 9669259
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for athletic performance and technique monitoring are disclosed. In one example, a sensor output is received associated with a movement of a user torso during a running motion. The sensor output is analyzed to identify an undesirable torso motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas C. Chuang
  • Patent number: 9560432
    Abstract: A Bluetooth communication bracelet includes a main body and a Bluetooth earphone. The main body includes a wearing member, a charging plate, an USB interface, and an audio jack. The wearing member defines a receiving groove, a positioning portion and a charging electrode. The receiving groove is located on the outer peripheral of the wearing member, the positioning portion. The charging electrode is located on sidewalls of the receiving groove. The charging plate is located in the wearing member. The USB interface is electrically coupled to the charging plate for charging the charging plate. The Bluetooth earphone, which is received in the receiving groove, includes a carrier, an earplug, and a microphone. The carrier sets a matching portion and a contact electrode. The matching portion matches the positioning portion to make the Bluetooth earphone releasably mounted to the wearing member. The contact electrode is in contact with the charging plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: 1More Inc.
    Inventors: Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Boqing Lin, Kun-Chih Hsieh, Kenneth Zhao
  • Patent number: 9488496
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a position of a movable component. One system includes a controllable source of varying magnetic flux. In a particular embodiment, the magnetic flux is directed through a magnetic sensor using a first flux concentrator and a second flux concentrator. The sensor generates a sensor signal that is provided to an electrical circuit designed to demodulate the signal. The demodulated signal is provided to a controller. The controller converts the signal and calculates the position of the second flux concentrator relative to the first flux concentrator. The controller may take a predetermined action based on the calculated position of the second flux concentrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: BOURNS, INC.
    Inventor: James Gregory Stanley
  • Patent number: 9459274
    Abstract: A round-robin sensing device is disclosed. The round-robin sensing device comprises a MEMS device, wherein the MEMS device includes first and second sense electrodes. The round-robin sensing device also comprises a multiplexer coupled to the first and second sense electrodes, at least one sense amplifier coupled to the multiplexer, a demodulator coupled to the at least one sense amplifier, and an integrate and dump circuit coupled to the demodulator. Finally, the round-robin sensing device comprises an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the de-multiplexer, wherein the multiplexer, the at least one sense amplifier and the demodulator provide a continuous time sense path during amplification that is resettable and wherein the integrate and dump circuit and the ADC provide a discrete time processing path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: INVENSENSE, INC.
    Inventors: Derek Shaeffer, Stanley Wang
  • Patent number: 9457775
    Abstract: A control unit of a vehicle brake system has a receive circuit for tapping and processing a digital signal provided by an active speed sensor for speed measurement on a vehicle wheel. The signal includes information concerning the speed of a pole wheel, which is arranged in front of the sensor, spaced therefrom by an air gap, and which rotates along with the wheel. The signal also includes an actual air gap value digitized in stages and comprising several bits. The control unit also has a comparator circuit for comparing the actual air gap value to a reference air gap value and for determining whether the actual air gap value exceeds the reference value by more than a defined tolerance value. An information circuit of the control circuit generates early warning information when the comparator circuit determines that the actual air gap value exceeds the reference value by more than the tolerance value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: WABCO GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Goers, Marco Michel, Otmar Struwe
  • Patent number: 9457782
    Abstract: A brake system and a method of control. An air gap between a brake friction member and a brake pad assembly may be indirectly estimated. The air gap may be adjusted when the estimated air gap exceeds a desired air gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Yixin Yao
  • Patent number: 9454208
    Abstract: A data processing device may receive, from an application running on the data processing device, an indication that one or more sensors may be associated with a user input for the application. Based on sensing information collected from the one or more sensors, a characteristic of the user input may be determined by the data processing device. The data processing device may refrain from entering a sleep mode if the characteristic of the user input matches a specific characteristic condition specified by the application. The data processing device may allow entering the sleep mode if the characteristic of the user input does not match the specific characteristic condition for a specific timeout period specified by the application. The data processing device may receive the indication, information on the specific characteristic condition and/or information on the specific timeout period via invoking, by the application, one or more application programming interfaces (APIs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Kenneth Hobbs, Alex Ainslie
  • Patent number: 9332338
    Abstract: A Bluetooth communication bracelet includes a main body and a Bluetooth earphone. The main body includes a wearing member, a charging plate, an USB interface, and an audio jack. The wearing member defines a receiving groove, a positioning portion and a charging electrode. The receiving groove is located on the outer peripheral of the wearing member, the positioning portion. The charging electrode is located on sidewalls of the receiving groove. The charging plate is located in the wearing member. The USB interface is electrically coupled to the charging plate for charging the charging plate. The Bluetooth earphone, which is received in the receiving groove, includes a carrier, an earplug, and a microphone. The carrier sets a matching portion and a contact electrode. The matching portion matches the positioning portion to make the Bluetooth earphone releasably mounted to the wearing member. The contact electrode is in contact with the charging plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: 1More Inc.
    Inventors: Kuan-Hong Hsieh, Boqing Lin, Kun-Chih Hsieh, Kenneth Zhao
  • Patent number: 9291685
    Abstract: A device for evaluating a magnetic field with an integrated circuit with a magnetic field sensor is provided, which has a first connection, a second connection, and a third connection led out from the housing. A signal conditioning circuit is connected to the magnetic field sensor. A control circuit generates a control signal for controlling the signal conditioning circuit based on a detected transmission signal with a detection circuit for detecting the transmission signal. The signal conditioning circuit generates an analog signal based on a sensor signal and based on the control signal. An evaluation circuit evaluates the analog signal and compares the analog signal to a default value to adjust the signal conditioning circuit via the digital transmission signal such that the analog signal corresponds to the default value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Joerg Fink, Martin Bayer
  • Patent number: 9204019
    Abstract: A method for calculating response time of an electronic device is provided. The method includes: obtaining a video file recording a process of change of interface displayed from an original interface to a new interface chosen by a user, the video file comprises a series of video frames; searching for a key video frame among all the video frames of the video file, the image of the key video frame indicates the point of demarcation between the original interface and the new interface displayed; and calculating a time interval from a first video frame of the video file to the key video frame, according to timestamps of the first video frame and of the key video frame, so as to determine the actual response time of the electronic device. A related measuring device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Kai Xiong, Xin Lu, Shih-Fang Wong, Hui-Feng Liu, Dong-Sheng Lv, Xin-Hua Li, Yu-Yong Zhang, Jian-Jian Zhu
  • Patent number: 9030191
    Abstract: A sensor subassembly for a vehicle has at least one sensor unit arranged in a cap-shaped plastic part. The cap-shaped plastic part is carried by a retaining bush and seals off the retaining bush at one end. An associated device is configured to measure rotational movement of a wheel bearing. A resilient sealing and compensating element in pressed in between the-shaped plastic part and the retaining bush, in a first sealing area for sealing off a first leakage path, so that the cap-like plastic part, in conjunction with the sealing and compensating element, seals off the retaining bush tightly at one end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Kenichi Ninomiya, Matthias Waibler, Anwar Hegazi, Andreas Fink, Mirko Scheer
  • Patent number: 9013178
    Abstract: In a resolver for determining the relative angular position between two subassemblies, each subassembly includes a winding, the winding being situated inside a housing made up of two housing shells. The housing shells have tabs which are oriented with an axial directional component and joined in interlocking manner with axial overlap at a mutual offset in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LTN Servotechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Logé, Andreas Hitzer