Patents Represented by Attorney Blackwell Sanders LLP
  • Patent number: 7871936
    Abstract: A reduction in contaminating impurities in a TFT, and a TFT which is reliable, is obtained in a semiconductor device which uses the TFT. By removing contaminating impurities residing in a film interface of the TFT using a solution containing fluorine, a reliable TFT can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaya Kadono, Shunpei Yamazaki, Yukio Yamauchi, Hidehito Kitakado
  • Patent number: 7846013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a combine with a cleaning device (1), having a screening device (2) with at least one screen (2A, 2B) in which the harvested products conveyed to the thresher and to the separation device are cleaned and at least one adjustable blower (3) for exposing the screening device (3) to an air flow. The width of the openings of the sifting device (2) and the revolutions of the blower (3) can be mechanically regulated by at least one regulation organ. According to the invention, at least one sensor (4) is provided whose measuring signal (S/4) directly or indirectly indicates a quantity of harvested products loaded on the combine, especially on the cleaning device. Optimal regulation of the cleaning device, especially the width of the openings of the screen, is performed by an adjusting organ (20A, 20B) depending on the signal (S/4) of the sensor (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Claas Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Norbert Diekhans
  • Patent number: 7821065
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having high operation characteristic and reliability. The measures taken are: A pixel capacitor is formed between an electrode comprising anodic capable material over an organic resin film, an anodic oxide film of the electrode and a pixel electrode above. Since the anodic oxide film is anodically oxidized by applied voltage per unit time at 15 V/min, there is no wrap around on the electrode, and film peeling can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Shunpei Yamazaki, Jun Koyama, Mitsuaki Osame, Yukio Tanaka, Yoshiharu Hirakata
  • Patent number: 7807483
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device that can be manufactured by improvement of use efficiency of a material and simplification of a manufacturing process. A light absorbing layer is formed, an insulating layer is formed over the light absorbing layer, the light absorbing layer and the insulating layer are selectively irradiated with laser light, an irradiated region in the insulating layer is removed to form an opening in the insulating layer, and a conductive film is formed in the opening so as to be in contact with the light absorbing layer. The conductive film is formed in the opening so as to be in contact with the light absorbing layer, which is exposed, so that the light absorbing layer and the conductive layer can be electrically connected with the insulating layer interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Koichiro Tanaka, Hironobu Shoji, Hirotada Oishi
  • Patent number: 7804467
    Abstract: In an active matrix EL display device, pixels which are suitable for a constant current drive are structured. The pixel includes a first switch which has one end connected to a source signal line and the other end connected to a current-voltage conversion element, a second switch which has one end connected to the current-voltage conversion element and the other end connected to a voltage holding capacitor and to a voltage-current conversion element, and a pixel electrode connected to the current-voltage conversion element and to the voltage-current conversion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Koyama
  • Patent number: 7803545
    Abstract: Heteroduplex band resolution is found to be improved by modifying the induced heteroduplex generator (IHG) molecule such that the identifier is spaced apart from the nucleotide position immediately adjacent to the site of the polymorphism which is to be genotyped. Unexpectedly, it is found that, when such modified IHG molecules are used, the resolution of the induced heteroduplexes is significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: IHG Pharmaco Limited
    Inventor: Louise Anne Tilley
  • Patent number: 7804552
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a pixel structure capable of shielding light between a TFT and a pixel without using a light shielding mask (black matrix) in an electro-optical display device. The present invention has a feature in that, as one of means for shielding light, a lamination film consisting of two colored layers (a lamination layer of a red-colored layer and a blue-colored layer) is formed on an opposing substrate as a light shielding portion so as to overlap with a TFT formed on a device electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yuugo Goto, Hideki Katsura
  • Patent number: 7801892
    Abstract: Provided is a keyword advertising system extracting search listings in response to a search request, the system comprising: an interface receiving bid price information corresponding to a keyword from an advertiser; a search information database storing search listings associated with the advertisers in association with each of the received bid price information; a ranking module generating a search result list by referring to the search information database, in response to a search request from a searcher; and a search results providing module providing the searcher with the generated search result list; wherein the ranking module generates the search result list by performing the steps of: identifying a keyword received from the searcher in association with the search request; selecting N of search listings from the at least one search result listing corresponding to the identified keyword, based on the bid price information; and ordering the selected search listings in order of click through rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: NHN Business Platform Corporation
    Inventors: Woo Sung Lee, Ra Young Yang
  • Patent number: 7800114
    Abstract: Manufacture of TFTs corresponding to various circuits makes structures thereof complex, which involves a larger number of manufacturing steps. Such an increase in the number of the manufacturing steps leads to a higher manufacturing cost and a lower manufacturing yield. In the invention, a high concentration of impurities is doped by using as masks a tapered resist that is used for the manufacture of a tapered gate electrode, and the tapered gate electrode, and then the tapered gate electrode is etched in the perpendicular direction using the resist as a mask. A semiconductor layer under the thusly removed tapered portion of the gate electrode is doped with a low concentration of impurities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Okamoto
  • Patent number: 7795154
    Abstract: To provide a manufacturing apparatus of a semiconductor device, which does not use a stepper in a manufacturing process in the case where mass production of semiconductor devices is carried out by using a large-sized substrate. A thin film formed over a substrate having an insulating surface is selectively irradiated with a laser beam through light control means, specifically through an electro-optical device to cause ablation; accordingly, the thin film is partially removed, thereby processing the thin film in a remaining region into a desired shape. The electro-optical device functions as a variable mask by inputting an electrical signal based on design CAD data of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichiro Tanaka, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7793742
    Abstract: A ground engaged vehicle includes a front portion and a rear portion joined by an articulation. The articulation rotates around a longitudinal axis. An engine drives a hydrostatic pump which drives four hydrostatic motors, each of the hydrostatic motors in operative engagement with one of four wheels. The wheels are on wheel mounts, each of the wheel mounts having a vertical axis around which one of the four wheels with one of the hydrostatic motors is turnable. A steering system turns the two wheels of the front portion in a first direction and the two wheels of the rear portion in an opposite direction. The steering system is powered by the hydrostatic pump. A pedal control system has a first pedal controlling driving the vehicle in a forward direction and a second pedal controlling driving the vehicle in a rearward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cool2, Inc.
    Inventors: David Donaldson, John LaReau
  • Patent number: 7793953
    Abstract: A boot for covering a steering knuckle of an amphibious vehicle comprising a flexible tube having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end comprises a molded groove for seating a first clamp, and wherein the second end comprises a straight cuff for clamping with a second clamp onto a flange of the steering mechanism of the amphibious vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Ride the Ducks International, LLC
    Inventor: Robert McDowell
  • Patent number: 7797016
    Abstract: A method for mobile communication includes arranging a plurality of access points in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate over the air with a mobile station using a common basic service set identification (BSSID) for all the access points. Upon receiving at one or more of the access points an uplink signal transmitted over the WLAN by the mobile station using the common BSSID, messages are sent and received over a communication medium linking the access points in order to select one of the access points to respond to the uplink signal. The selected one of the access points transmits a response to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Extricom Ltd.
    Inventors: Shpak Eran, Oren Dvir
  • Patent number: 7796240
    Abstract: The present invention provides an evaluation method for evaluating whether a light-emitting element material to be evaluated is suitable for a host material or a guest material. By carrying out a first step of measuring absorption intensity of a light-emitting element material and a second step of irradiating the light-emitting element material with light for a predetermined period of time, repeatedly; thereby a change in absorption intensity with time is evaluated so that whether the light-emitting material is suitable for a host material or a guest material can be distinguished. The light emitted to the light-emitting element material preferably has a wavelength component which is absorbed by a skeleton which contributes to excitation of the light-emitting element material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoji Nomura, Satoshi Seo, Kumi Kojima, Nobuharu Ohsawa
  • Patent number: 7793397
    Abstract: A portable, fold-over post for use in fencing systems on both outdoor and indoor surfaces includes a vertical member; a first spring removably connected to the vertical member, the spring having a mounting spike integrally formed therewith for insertion into a soft, outdoor surface, and the spring allowing the post to fold over upon impact; and a foot assembly interchangeable with the spring and suitable for supporting the post on a hard surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: FlexMedia Partnership, LLC
    Inventor: Dennis E. Penning
  • Patent number: 7791117
    Abstract: To fabricate an active matrix type display device integrated with an image sensor at a low cost and without complicating process, an image sensor laminated with TFT and a light receiving unit is formed on a light receiving matrix, a display matrix is arranged with TFT and pixel electrodes on a matrix and formed with an electrode layer functioning as a black matrix, a lower electrode of the light receiving unit is formed by a starting film the same as that of the black matrix, a terminal for fixing potential of an upper electrode is formed by starting films the same as those of a signal line, the electrode layer or pixel electrodes and the terminals function also as shield electrodes for a side face of the light receiving unit since potential thereof is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyong Zhang, Masayuki Sakakura, Yurika Satou
  • Patent number: 7792176
    Abstract: A narrow-band laser device for exposure apparatus that allows to reduce damage to, and to hence extend the life of, optical elements such as chamber windows, output coupling mirrors or the like. A ring resonator is provided in an amplification stage laser of the narrow-band laser device for exposure apparatus that comprises an oscillation stage laser and an amplification stage laser. An OC, a high reflection mirror and a high reflection mirror are arranged to be offset, for instance, relative to a longitudinal direction axis of discharge electrodes. As a result, the beam width of laser light injected through the OC of the amplification stage laser becomes wider as the beam shifts inside the ring resonator, in each round trip within the ring resonator. The energy density of laser light in the optical elements of the amplification stage laser becomes reduced thereby, thus prolonging the life of the optical elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignees: Komatsu Ltd., Ushio Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 7786958
    Abstract: In an EL display device in which color purity of each of red, blue and green is different, the EL display device displaying an image of a desired balance of red, blue and green is provided. A video signal supplied to each EL element is gamma (?)-corrected by a correction circuit, the color purity of each of blue luminescence, green luminescence, and red luminescence is suitably controlled in accordance with the voltage and current of the corrected video signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Koyama
  • Patent number: D623117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Inventor: Robert Farber
  • Patent number: D631195
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Tenacta Group S.p.A.
    Inventor: Pier Giorgio A. Tedioli