With Housing Or Chassis Patents (Class 361/752)
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Patent number: 11687680Abstract: A technique includes providing a security monitor to at least detect a penetration attack on a circuit assembly that contains the security monitor. The technique includes inhibiting success of the penetration attack, including flexibly mounting the security monitor to the circuit assembly to allow the security monitor to move in response to the security monitor being contacted during the penetration attack.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Utimaco Inc.Inventor: John M. Lewis
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Patent number: 11683905Abstract: A connection mechanism is provided with a circuit board that replaces internal chassis cabling to multiple electronic devices. In use, the motion of a lever of the connection mechanism drives a carrier of the circuit board in one direction to make an electrical connection at a side of the circuit board. Continued motion of the lever drives the carrier downward to make an additional electrical connections at the bottom of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ZT Group Int'l, Inc.Inventors: Chen An, Mahesh Kumar Varrey
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Patent number: 11681174Abstract: A display device is provided, and the display device includes: a display module, including a first outer surface, a second outer surface and a side surface; a tape, including a first part and a second part, wherein the first part is bonded to an edge of the first outer surface of the display module, and the second part is bonded to the side surface of the display module; a cover component, wherein the cover component and the display module are arranged oppositely and spaced apart; and a tape holder between the cover component and the display module, wherein the tape holder includes a main body portion and at least one through hole formed in the main body portion. A method for manufacturing the display device is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.Inventors: Kaiwen Wang, Haifeng Xu, Hui Dong, Qiang Zhang, Aixia Sang
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Patent number: 11675137Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a device and system of devices including: a connector comprising a housing comprising a groove lengthwise in a surface of the housing and a push-pull tab comprising a protrusion, a widthwise recess on the connector housing accepting protrusions on a removable anchor device that retains the connector in a port, wherein the push-pull tab releases the connector from the port using protrusions on the anchor device and the receiver device comprising one or more ports for receiving one or more connector types; and the receiver device comprising one or more ports without an anchor; said port secures a second connector type comprising a latch release mechanism; and the receiver device ports are opposite one another; wherein the opposite ports can accept a first connector and a second connector; wherein the first connector release mechanism and differs from the second connector release mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Senko Advanced Components, Inc.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Takano, Jeffrey Gniadek, Kim Man Wong, Siu Kei Ma
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Patent number: 11678538Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a highly reliable display device. In particular, a display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. Further, a bendable display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. The display device includes, over a flexible substrate, a display portion, a plurality of connection terminals to which a signal from an outside can be input, and a plurality of wirings. One of the plurality of wirings electrically connects one of the plurality of connection terminals to the display portion. The one of the plurality of wirings includes a first portion including a plurality of separate lines and a second portion in which the plurality of lines converge.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kensuke Yoshizumi
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Patent number: 11677291Abstract: A motor includes a motor main body including a rotor and a stator, a housing that houses the motor main body, a controller that is located above the motor main body o controls rotation of the rotor, and a cover that surrounds the controller from a radially outer side. The housing includes a cover joint that is annular and surrounds the controller when viewed in an axial direction. The cover includes a cylindrical portion that surrounds the cover joint from an outside in a radial direction. The cover joint includes a contact portion that contacts a surface of the cylindrical portion in the radial direction and an adhesive joint that is bonded with the cylindrical portion via an adhesive in the radial direction. The contact portion and the adhesive joint are adjacent each other in a circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATIONInventors: Takashi Hattori, Yuichi Nishikawa, Takao Atarashi, Yuki Hamada, Yu Kuwamoto
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Patent number: 11678453Abstract: A socket which holds an IC package and is to be mounted on a circuit board is described that includes: a housing with a bottom portion, two pairs of side wall portions and an opening accommodating the IC package, contacts and holders. The bottom portion is provided with penetration holes. The two pairs of side wall portions face each other across the opening and one pair of side wall portions are provided with ribs protruding outward. The contacts are supported by the housing so as to pass through the penetration holes and are exposed on an opposite side of the opening. The holders have first support holes and are fixed to side surfaces of the housing with the ribs passing through the first support holes.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshiyasu Ito, Hui Zhang, Jie Zhang, Xiaohui Li
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Patent number: 11672097Abstract: An electronic device for an aircraft includes: a casing; a first boss projecting from a bottom wall of the casing toward an opening of the casing; a second boss projecting from the bottom wall of the casing toward the opening of the casing by a larger amount than the first boss; a first circuit board fixed to the first boss; and a second circuit board fixed to the second boss. The first circuit board includes cutouts penetrated by the second boss when the first circuit board is fixed to the first boss.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: NABTESCO CORPORATIONInventor: Hisanobu Kimura
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Patent number: 11660890Abstract: A printing apparatus includes: a housing having a discharge port through which a printing medium being allowed to be discharged; an installation part to which a unit being removably installable to the installation part, the unit being configured to surround at least a part of the discharge port in a case the unit is installed, the unit being configured to perform specific processing on the printing medium; and a lid member removably installed to the installation part, the lid member being installable to the installation part in a case the unit is not installed to the installation part.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke Ikemoto, Yushi Kato, Sho Asai, Shotaro Watanabe, Takehiko Inaba
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Patent number: 11659675Abstract: An electronic device comprising: a first case in which a groove is arranged along an outer circumference; a second case that overlaps with the first case and that has a rib extending toward a bottom face of the groove; and a seal member that is sandwiched between the bottom face and the rib, wherein the groove includes: a first side wall that is arranged on one end portion of the bottom face; and a second side wall that is arranged on other end portion of the bottom face, a height of the first side wall from the bottom face is lower than a height of the second side wall, and the first side wall does not come into contact with the second case.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Takafumi Satou, Takeyuki Dohda, Kenji Ishibashi
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Patent number: 11658446Abstract: A relay connector connects a plurality of front female terminals that are fitted from a front side in a front-rear direction and a plurality of rear female terminals that are fitted from a rear side in the front-rear direction together. The relay connector includes a housing and a busbar. The housing includes a front insertion recess portion, a rear insertion recess portion, an intermediate wall portion, and a busbar holding portion disposed at the intermediate wall portion. The busbar includes a base portion, a rear tab, an extension portion extending from the base portion to the same side in an up-down direction, and a front tab extending from an extension end of the extension portion to the front-insertion-recess-portion side. The rear tab includes a rear held portion adjacent to the base portion and a rear male terminal portion housed in the rear insertion recess portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventors: Shozaburo Koyama, Yuto Mantani
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Patent number: 11638575Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnosis and therapy apparatus according to an embodiment may include an ultrasound output unit including a plurality of ultrasound output elements, a circuit board that can be attached and detached through a connecting board connected to the ultrasound output unit to determine a function of the ultrasound output unit, and a control unit configured to control a setting value of each of the plurality of ultrasound output elements, wherein therapy and diagnosis functions are selectively or simultaneously implemented by changing the circuit board. With the ultrasonic diagnosis and therapy apparatus, it is possible to selectively or simultaneously implement the therapy and diagnosis functions by selectively mounting different types of circuit boards that determine the type and function of ultrasound outputted from the ultrasonic transducers.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYInventors: Byung Chui Lee, Hyung Min Kim, Ki Joo Pahk, Hyunsu Lee, Nakwon Choi, Hong Nam Kim
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Patent number: 11641716Abstract: A method for manufacturing a printed circuit board according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a step of forming a resist pattern, and a step of forming a conductive pattern by using the resist pattern. The resist pattern has an acute angle portion in which an outer edge of a resist is bent to form an acute angle in a plan view. In a corner portion of the acute angle portion, an outer-side outer edge of the resist is rounded, and a radius of curvature of the outer-side outer edge is more than or equal to a distance from the outer-side outer edge to another outer edge adjacent thereto in a direction away from a center of curvature of the outer-side outer edge.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, INC.Inventors: Kou Noguchi, Hiroshi Ueda
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Patent number: 11638359Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for a module electronics package. The modular electronics package includes a main circuit. The first main circuit board is configured to provide electrical interconnections to form an electric circuit. The modular electronics package includes a first power module. The first power module includes a first power device card and a first expansion slot. The first power device card is configured to be inserted into the first expansion slot and to be electrically coupled to the main circuit board via the first expansion slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Danny Lohan, Shailesh N. Joshi
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Patent number: 11624888Abstract: A high density fiber enclosure system includes a chassis, cassette trays, an optional unification clip, cassettes, and an optional trunk cable management system. The chassis, cassette trays, and cassettes are configured such that individual cassettes may be installed, removed, and otherwise positioned for easy access by a user. The unification clip allows two adjacent cassette trays to be connected to one other such that cassette trays move as one unit. The trunk cable management system is designed to organize trunk cables and trunk cable furcation legs as well as relieve strain on the trunk cables and trunk cable furcation legs.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Panduit Corp.Inventors: Jerry A. Wiltjer, Shaun P. Brouwer, Gregory L. Kuffel, Joel D. Kwasny, Kai C. Lui, Benjamin S. Novak, Joseph E. Sanders
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Patent number: 11626357Abstract: 3D electrical integration is provided by connecting several component carriers to a single substrate using contacts at the edges of the component carriers making contact to a 2D contact array (e.g., a ball grid array or the like) on the substrate. The resulting integration of components on the component carriers is 3D, thereby providing much higher integration density than in 2D approaches.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: FormFactor, Inc.Inventors: Roy J. Henson, Shawn O. Powell
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Patent number: 11619980Abstract: In an example, an electronic device chassis may include a back panel and an expansion card bracket which may be attached or attachable to the back panel. The expansion card bracket may include a bracket body, a lock feature to engage with an expansion card of the electronic device, and a retention loop extending from the bracket body to receive a portion of a peripheral device to lock the peripheral device to the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Tien Liang Chung
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Patent number: 11622214Abstract: An eartip includes a compliant portion that forms at least a portion of a sound channel, and a wax guard that is supported in the compliant portion and is disposed within the sound channel. The wax guard includes a porous, planar body that permits the passage of acoustic energy but inhibits the passage of cerumen therethrough, and a retention member. The retention member is arranged along an outer edge of the planar body and in direct contact with the compliant portion. The retention member includes a plurality of openings. A compliant material that forms the compliant portion permeates the openings in the retention member to assist in retaining the wax guard in the compliant portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: BOSE CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew D. Dominijanni, Christopher R. Paetsch, Ryan Joseph Wexler, Richard Lionel Lanoue
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Patent number: 11621469Abstract: Power-combining devices, and more particularly spatial power-combining devices with increased output power are disclosed. Increased output power may be realized by increasing a number of transmission paths for amplification that are associated with each amplifier assembly of a spatial power-combining device. Each transmission path may include an input antenna structure, an amplifier, and an output antenna structure for providing amplification of signals that pass therethrough. In this manner, a total number of transmission paths for amplification may be increased without having to increase a total number of amplifier assemblies. Further improvements to electrical separation and stability between neighboring amplifier assemblies may be provided by electrically grounded conductive sheets that are arranged between neighboring amplifier assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.Inventors: John Kitt, Dylan Murdock
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Patent number: 11622477Abstract: An apparatus comprising an ac/dc power supply for providing power to power consumers in an internet data center or to a stand-alone server includes power-handling circuitry and a passive heat-dissipation system that passively dissipates heat generated by the power-handling circuitry. The passive heat-dissipation system comprises a housing that encloses that power-handling circuitry and a thermal network that provides thermal communication between the power-handling circuitry and faces of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: AA Power Inc.Inventor: Qun Lu
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Patent number: 11606658Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a privacy blocking device configured to prevent receipt, by a listening device, of video and/or audio data until a trigger occurs. A blocker may be configured to prevent receipt of video and/or audio data by one or more microphones and/or one or more cameras of a listening device. The blocker may use the one or more microphones, the one or more cameras, and/or one or more second microphones and/or one or more second cameras to monitor for a trigger. The blocker may process the data. Upon detecting the trigger, the blocker may transmit data to the listening device. For example, the blocker may transmit all or a part of a spoken phrase to the listening device.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Inventor: Thomas Stachura
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Patent number: 11599143Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display, a middle plate, an adhesive layer, a support layer, and a coating layer. The housing includes a front plate facing a direction, a rear plate facing an opposite direction, and a lateral member surrounding a space between the front and rear plate. The display is configured to be seen through the front plate, and includes a first and second surface. The middle plate is disposed between the display and the rear plate, and includes a surface facing the display, and a recess. The adhesive layer is attached to the display, and the support layer is disposed between the adhesive layer and the middle plate. The coating layer is disposed between the support layer and the adhesive layer and is disposed in a first portion overlapped with the recess when viewed from the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jonghwan Choi
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Patent number: 11586251Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Scott A. Myers
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Patent number: 11585359Abstract: A fixing device includes a substrate, a slot, a fixing bracket. The slot is disposed on the substrate, and a first end of an expansion unit is inserted in the slot. The fixing bracket is disposed on the substrate, in which the fixing bracket includes a force receiving upper portion and a supporting lower portion. An accommodating space is defined between the force receiving upper portion and the supporting lower portion. When a force is applied to or released from the force receiving upper portion, the force receiving upper portion elastically deforms or elastically recovers. Therefore, the fixing bracket switches between an open state and a fixing state for enabling the accommodating space to selectively accommodate a second end of the expansion unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignees: Inventec (Pudong) Technology Corporation, INVENTEC CORPORATIONInventor: Kuo-Jui Lu
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Patent number: 11581516Abstract: A heat radiation member for a flexible display having a bending panel fixing member is disclosed, and an electronic device using the same is disclosed, wherein the heat radiation member includes a heat radiation sheet portion including a metal layer; a bending panel fixing member attached to a first area in one surface of the heat radiation sheet portion; a spacer attached to a second area in the one surface of the heat radiation sheet portion; a dummy double sided tape attached to the spacer; an upper delamination film covering an entire area of the other surface of the heat radiation sheet portion; and a lower delamination film covering an entire area of the dummy double sided tape and an entire area of the bending panel fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kou Choi, Junjae Lee, JongHyuk Kim, Kwangju Lee, Junho Yun, Myeongah Shin
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Patent number: 11582881Abstract: A cabinet and a server having the cabinet are disclosed, the cabinet includes a housing, two trays, an elastic piece, and a limiting piece. The trays are arranged in parallel and capable of sliding out of an opening or retracting in the housing. The elastic piece is connected to the housing and arranged between the trays. The limiting piece is connected to the elastic piece and arranged between the trays, each of the trays defines a hole corresponding to the limiting piece, each of the trays includes a protrusion. When one of the trays slides out of the opening, the protrusion slides to the limiting piece and pushes the limiting piece into the hole of the other tray; when the tray retracts in the housing, the protrusion slides away from the limiting piece, the elastic piece elastically recover the limiting piece to separate from the hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co., LTD.Inventors: Han-Yu Li, Gong-Wen Zhang, Yang Li, Jin-Xing Zhang, San-Long Zhou, Jun Li
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Patent number: 11573612Abstract: A type of portable computer with interchangeable components is provided. The chassis of the portable computer includes an upper part, a lower part, and an edge part. The edge part can be equipped with removable input and output (I/O) plates. The motherboards and batteries of this type of portable computer are standardized with or without optional components such as optical drives and/or 2.5 inch hard drives. Motherboards, batteries and other components can be mounted in the chassis of the portable computer through fixed mounting stands and/or removable mounting standoffs. The portable computer allows the I/O plates and/or the edge part to be replaced. Therefore, a motherboard with different I/Os, a motherboard and other components with different heights, and an auxiliary cooling system can be installed in the chassis. In the portable computer, mounting stands and standoffs can be shared by multiple components.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Inventors: Zhonghong Liang, Benjamin Liang
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Patent number: 11575234Abstract: A male connector (100) includes a contact pad substrate (101) and a connector shell (102). The contact pad substrate (101) includes a linear array of contact pads (103a, 103b, 103c, 103d) that are adapted for aligning with corresponding contacts (103?a, 103?b, 103?c, 103?d) of a contact-bearing tongue (104?) of a corresponding female connector (100?) that conforms to a USB Series A receptacle contact pad pitch specification. The two outermost contact pads (103a, 103d) of the linear array are electrically connected together. The connector shell (102) is formed from an insulating material and comprises a tubular portion (102a) for insertion into the corresponding female connector (100?), and a handling portion (102b) for handling during insertion.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Robert Willem Bosma, Johannes Antonius Van Rooij, Willem-Jan Arend De Wijs, Jan Harm De Boer, Mustafa Hakan Gokgurler
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Patent number: 11570924Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board. The apparatus also includes a first connector coupled to the printed circuit board. The first connector is configured to couple the apparatus to a computing device. The apparatus further includes a second connector coupled to the printed circuit board. The second connector is configured to couple the apparatus to a data storage device. The apparatus further includes a securement mechanism comprising a first portion and a second portion. The securement mechanism is movable about the apparatus between a first position and a second position. The first portion is configured to maintain the securement mechanism at the first position. The second portion is configured to secure the data storage device to the apparatus when the securement mechanism is in the first position.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Everett Lyons, Daniel Linnen, Randy Gillespie
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Patent number: 11565638Abstract: An electric connection box that has a function of relaying power of power supply supplied from an input-side power supply line and supplying the relayed power of power supply to an output-side load on a vehicle, that includes a first circuit unit, a second circuit unit, and an air blower configured to blow air to the first circuit unit, and in which the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit are arranged in a state of being close to each other, the electric connection box includes: a gap portion that is a space formed on a boundary between the first circuit unit and the second circuit unit; and an airflow guide portion configured to guide an airflow blown by the air blower to both the first circuit unit and the gap portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Minoru Kubota
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Patent number: 11570887Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) and a method of manufacturing the same is described. The PCB includes a substrate defining a major plane and an integrated electromagnetic interference and compatibility (EMC/EMI) shielding enclosure configured to enclose the substrate. The shielding enclosure includes a metallic top layer deposited on top of the major plane of the substrate so as to envelop an uppermost layer of the substrate, a metallic bottom layer deposited on bottom of the major plane of the substrate so as to envelop a bottommost layer of the substrate, and a metallic side layer formed along a length of one or more edges of the substrate to electrically connect the metallic top layer and the metallic bottom layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.Inventors: Shaowu Huang, Dance Wu
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Patent number: 11562970Abstract: A semiconductor device, including a semiconductor module, a positioning member and a printed board. The semiconductor module includes a case that stores a semiconductor chip, a plurality of external terminals electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and extending upward from a front surface of the case, and a reference pin extending upward from the front surface of the case. The positioning member has a reference hole and a plurality of supporting holes penetrating therethrough. The printed board including a plurality of terminal holes that respectively correspond to the plurality of external terminals. The printed board is disposed on the front surface of the case via the positioning member. The plurality of external terminals of the semiconductor module are respectively attached to the plurality of terminal holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Tadahiko Sato
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Patent number: 11549834Abstract: A multifunctional environmental sensor device is connectable to a terminal of an electronic device for use. The sensor device includes a substrate, a plurality of different types of components mounted on the substrate and including at least a light emitter and an illuminance sensor, and a wiring pattern located on a surface of the substrate and including a contact to be in contact with the terminal of the electronic device. The light emitter is mounted on a surface of the substrate opposite to a surface of the substrate on which the illuminance sensor is mounted.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Mino, Kayo Nakamura, Ryusuke Sakai, Yuhei Motoki, Naotsugu Ueda
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Patent number: 11550313Abstract: There is provided an equipment element maintenance analysis system including: a history information acquirer that is attached with at least one equipment element and acquires, at a predetermined timing, operation history information on a piece of manufacturing equipment for manufacturing a product; an error rate calculator that calculates an error rate based on the number of errors related to each of the at least one equipment element, included in the operation history information; a maintenance determiner that determines maintenance necessity of each of the at least one equipment element; and a notifier that notifies an information item on an equipment element determined to require maintenance among the at least one equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Yuji Nakajima, Hitoshi Komatsu, Manabu Ohuchi, Kazuyuki Yoshidomi, Noritada Kawamoto, Hirofumi Koga
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Patent number: 11539448Abstract: In an optical network having a terrestrial terminal and an open cable interface (OCI) connecting a submarine cable to a terrestrial cable, the OCI may include a filter positioned on an optical path between the terrestrial cable and the submarine cable and configured to pass first communication signals of a first frequency band, and filter out secondary signals of a second frequency band that does not overlap with the first frequency band. The secondary signals may be looped back to the terrestrial terminal. The terrestrial terminal may detect the looped back secondary signals, and in response, determine the presence of the OCI and that the supervisory signals were rerouted by the OCI.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Inventors: Massimiliano Salsi, Shuang Yin
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Patent number: 11532902Abstract: Provided are terminal-free connectors for flexible interconnect circuits. A connector comprises a housing chamber defined by at least a first side wall and a second side wall oppositely positioned about the base. An edge support is positioned at each of the first side wall and the second side wall. The edge supports allow for precise placement of the flexible interconnect circuit inside the housing chamber. A cover piece is coupled to the base via a first hinge, and is configured to move between a released position and a clamped position. The cover piece includes a clamp portion securing the flexible interconnect circuit against the edge supports in the clamped position. A slider may be configured to move between an extended position and an inserted position within the housing chamber, and may include a convex upper surface configured to urge the flexible interconnect circuit upwards in the inserted position.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: CelLink CorporationInventors: Kevin Michael Coakley, Malcolm Parker Brown, Mark Terlaak, Will Findlay
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Patent number: 11528816Abstract: An electronic control module, particularly for a transmission, includes a first circuit board element and a sensor unit carrier fastened to the first circuit board element. The sensor unit carrier has a sensor unit receptacle configured to receive a sensor unit. The sensor unit has a sensor element fastened and electrically connected to a second circuit board element so as to detect at least one measured value. The sensor unit is fastened in the sensor unit receptacle. The second circuit board element has a flexible region that separates a first sub-region of the second circuit board element from a second sub-region of the second circuit board element. The first sub-region has a predetermined angle to the second sub-region. The sensor element is electrically connected to the first circuit board element by the second sub-region of the second circuit board element.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventor: Matthias Kraus
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Patent number: 11519800Abstract: Disclosed are pressure sensors including a die and an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mounted on a top surface of a substrate. The pressure sensor can define an inner volume and a bottom opening configured to abut the substrate. The die and ASIC are mounted on the top surface of the substrate within the inner volume. The substrate defines a first aperture therethrough and the die defines a second aperture therethrough in a direction along an axis perpendicular to the substrate, the first aperture and the second aperture being aligned. Metallic barrier(s) disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate, circumferentially about the first aperture, can be at least partially coated with solder mask to reduce or prevent flow of unwanted materials past the metallic barriers and through the first aperture. The substrate can include electrical connection pads on the bottom surface configured to be in communication with a daughter board.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Manjesh Kumar B, Alistair David Bradley, Josh M. Fribley, Sudheer Beligere Sreeramu, Sathish Vadlamudi
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Patent number: 11522307Abstract: A removal mechanism of the daughter board includes a fixed frame, a moving frame, a moved frame and a handle. The fixed frame has a pushed portion. The moving frame is movably coupled to the fixed frame and has an oblique tapered edge. The moved frame is fixed to the daughter board and has a corresponding oblique edge. The handle is rotatably connected to the moving frame and has a pushing portion, and the pushed portion is on a rotation path that the pushing portion rotates with the handle. When the handle is operated, the pushing portion pushes the pushed portion, the moving frame moves relative to the fixed frame to push the corresponding oblique edge by the oblique tapered edge. The moved frame drives the daughter board to be removed from the connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: AIC INC.Inventors: Siang-An Jhou, Wei-Shih Wu
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Patent number: 11512494Abstract: A case includes a first member and a second member configured in such a way that a closed space is formed between the first and second members in a state where the first and second members abut against each other. The first member includes a shaft portion extending toward the second member. The second member includes a shaft support portion including a circumferential wall portion that surrounds one end portion of the shaft portion. The shaft portion includes an enlarged-diameter portion that is the one end portion melted in such a way as to be enlarged in diameter.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: AISIN CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuya Inuzuka, Takeshi Maeda, Yasuo Kidena
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Patent number: 11515835Abstract: An apparatus and system for flexibly mounting a power module to a photovoltaic (PV) module. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a plurality of distributed mounting points adapted to be adhered to a face of the PV module for mechanically coupling the power module to the PV module, wherein the plurality of distributed mounting points flexibly retain the power module such that the PV module is able to flex without subjecting the power module to stress from flexure of the PV module.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Enphase Energy, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Charles Martin, Martin Fornage, Ho Gene Choi
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Patent number: 11515501Abstract: A display device includes: a frame that includes a plurality of protrusions; a display panel disposed on the frame that includes a planar portion and a curved portion; a pressure sensing unit disposed between the frame and the display panel that overlaps the curved portion and that includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes disposed in a different layer; and a pressure sensing drive unit connected to the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes. Any one of the plurality of second electrodes at least partially overlaps any one of the plurality of first electrodes. At least one of the plurality of protrusions overlaps a region where one of the plurality of first electrodes and one of the plurality of second electrodes overlap each other.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Taehee Lee, Wonki Hong
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Patent number: 11510325Abstract: An optical transceiver includes a circuit board having a first side and a first edge; a thermal conductive member configured to be attached on the first side of the circuit board; the thermal conductive member having a first thermal conductive face inclined with respect to the first side of the circuit board and parallel to the first direction; a filling material having a thermal conductivity; and a housing having an inner face and an inner space, the housing being configured to house the circuit board, the circuit component, the thermal conductive member, and the filling material, and configured to hold the electrical connector at an end thereof in the first direction, the housing having a second thermal conductive face facing the first thermal conductive face with a spacing. The filling material adheres to the first thermal conductive face and the second thermal conductive face.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Kuniyuki Ishii, Hiromi Kurashima
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Patent number: 11500427Abstract: An information handling system may include a battery, a circuit board, an enclosure, and a control circuit. The circuit board may include at least one electric component, a first electrically conductive pad, and a second electrically conductive pad in proximity to the first electrically conductive pad. The enclosure may be configured to house components of the information handling system including the battery and the circuit board, and the enclosure may include a first member, a second member configured to be mechanically coupled to the first member, and a mechanical component comprising conductive material and configured to electrically short the first electrically conductive pad to the second electrically conductive pad when the first member is mechanically coupled to the second member, and cause electrical isolation of the first electrically conductive pad from the second electrically conductive pad when the first member is mechanically decoupled from the second member.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Isaac Q. Wang, Anthony W. Howard
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Patent number: 11500434Abstract: An air cooling structure of computer chassis includes: a first chassis, a second chassis, a third chassis, a computer motherboard, and a cooling fan; wherein, the first chassis, the second chassis, and the third chassis are provided in turn; the computer motherboard is provided in the first chassis, a CPU is provided on the side surface of the computer motherboard towards the second chassis, a peripheral interface is provided on the side surface of the computer motherboard far away from the second chassis, a cooling hole is provided on the second chassis, the cooling fan is provided in the second chassis, a graphics card is provided in the third chassis. Because of the openness and specific function of the middle-zone cooling system, the disclosure, the cooling becomes more efficient.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: EDAC ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (HANGZHOU) CO., LTDInventor: Huantang Lin
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Patent number: 11488882Abstract: A semiconductor package includes an interposer chip having a frontside, a backside, and a corner area on the backside defined by a first corner edge and a second corner edge of the interposer chip. A die is bonded to the frontside of the interposer chip. At least one dam structure is formed on the corner area of the backside of the interposer chip. The dam structure includes an edge aligned to at least one the first corner edge and the second corner edge of the interposer chip.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Chih-Wei Wu, Szu-Wei Lu, Jing-Cheng Lin
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Patent number: 11485592Abstract: A sheet feeding apparatus includes an upper support portion formed integrally with a side plate and configured to support an electric circuit board; an upper opening portion formed in the side plate near the upper support portion; a lower support portion provided at a separate part mounted to the side plate and configured to support the electric circuit board; and a lower opening portion provided between the side plate and the separate part. All line segments having a length of 50 mm or less, among line segments extending from arbitrary points in a main body portion of a sheet cassette, through arbitrary points in the upper opening portion, to the electric circuit board, form an angle of 45° or more with respect to a vertical line, and the lower opening portion has a dimension of 5 mm or less or a width of 1 mm or less.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Kakeru Takahashi
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Patent number: 11486956Abstract: An object monitoring system including a plurality of location beacons, each location beacon being configured to generate a location broadcast message indicative of a beacon location and a tag associated with a respective object in use. The includes a tag memory configured to store object rules, a tag transceiver configured to transmit or receive messages and a tag processing device configured to determine context data at least partially indicative of a tag context by at least one of determining a tag location in accordance with at least one location broadcast message received via the tag transceiver from at least one of a plurality of location beacons and using stored context data, use the object rules and the context data to identify a trigger event, determine an action associated with the trigger event and cause the action to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Philip Juan Valencia, Nicholas Alexander Heaney
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Patent number: 11487333Abstract: An electronic device and a framework assembly for the same are provided. The electronic device includes a base structure, an antenna module and a first decorative board. The base structure has a first surface and a second surface corresponding in position to the first surface. The base structure includes a base body, a receiving slot disposed on the base body, and a first positioning portion disposed on the receiving slot. The antenna module is disposed in the receiving slot of the base structure and includes a mount element and an antenna disposed on the mount element. The mount element includes a second positioning portion corresponding in position to the first positioning portion. The first decorative board is disposed on the first surface of the base structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Inventor: Tzu-Chiu Huang
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Patent number: 11490186Abstract: Robust microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors and related manufacturing techniques are described. Disclosed MEMS membranes and backplate structures facilitate manufacturing robust MEMS microphones. Exemplary MEMS membranes and backplate structures can comprise edge pattern holes having a length to width ratio greater than one and/or configured in a radial arrangement. Disclosed implementations can facilitate providing robust MEMS membranes and backplate structures, having edge pattern holes with a profile resembling at least one of an oval, an egg, an ellipse, a droplet, a cone, or a capsule or similar suitable configurations according to disclosed embodiments.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignees: INVENSENSE, INC., TDK ELECTRONICS AGInventors: Tsung Lin Tang, Chia-Yu Wu, Chung-Hsien Lin, Dennis Mortensen, Pirmin Rombach