Patents Represented by Attorney Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP
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Patent number: 8349650Abstract: A multi-layered semiconductor apparatus capable of producing at least 500 W of continuous power includes at least two device substrates arranged in a stack. Each of the at least two device substrates has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and each of the at least two device substrates is configured to produce an average power density higher than 100 W/cm2. A plurality of active devices are provided on the first side of each of the at least two device substrates. The plurality of active devices are radiatively coupled among the at least two device substrates. At least one of the at least two device substrates is structured to provide a plurality of cavities on its second side to receive corresponding ones of the plurality of active devices on the first side of an adjacent one of the at least two device substrates.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLCInventors: Peter D. Brewer, Keith V. Guinn, Jonathan J. Lynch
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Patent number: 8349040Abstract: The present invention relates to polycrystalline ultra hard material cutting elements, and more particularly to a method of forming a polycrystalline ultra hard material cutting element with a thicker ultra hard layer than cutting elements formed by prior art methods. In an exemplary embodiment, such a method includes pre-sintering the ultra hard material powder to form an ultra hard material layer that is partially or fully densified prior to HPHT sintering, so that the ultra hard layer is pre-shrunk. This pre-sintering in an exemplary embodiment is achieved by means of a spark plasma process, or in another exemplary embodiment by a microwave sintering process.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Smith International, Inc.Inventor: Federico Bellin
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Patent number: 8349416Abstract: A donor film and a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting device using the donor film. The donor film having a stack structure includes: a first layer comprising first transfer portions comprising a light emitting material of a first color, and first opening portions; a second layer that is formed on the first layer and comprising second transfer portions corresponding to the first opening portion and further comprising a light emitting material of a second color, and second opening portions; and a third layer that is formed on the second layer and comprising third transfer portions corresponding to the first and second opening portions and further comprising a light emitting material of a third color, and third opening portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sang-Woo Pyo, Jin-Woo Park, Myung-Jong Jung, Sok-Won Noh, Beom-Joon Kim
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Patent number: 8349482Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrode assembly and a secondary battery with the same, more particularly to the electrode assembly which includes an anode plate, a cathode plate, and a separator disposed between the anode plate and the cathode plate, wherein the separator includes a ceramic separator including a ceramic filler which is formed by mixing two groups of particles of the same material, but with a different diameter. The particles with the comparatively smaller diameter are disposed between the particles with the comparatively greater diameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Sangok Lee, Myungro Lee, Cheolhee Hwang
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Patent number: 8349190Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method for cleaning circulation water, which reduces the cost of operation and maintenance as much as possible, without a cumbersome cleaning operation such as by detaching electrode plates from an electrolysis cleaning tank and removing scale from inside the tank, and to provide a device used in this method.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Koganei CorporationInventors: Yoshiyuki Taguchi, Takayuki Nakano, Masahito Kato
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Patent number: 8350464Abstract: An organic light-emitting display device having improved extraction efficiency and viewing angle characteristics includes a sub-pixel having a resonating region in which light generated by an emission layer resonates and is emitted, and a non-resonating region in which light does not resonate and is emitted.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hee-Seong Jeong, Soon-Ryong Park
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Patent number: 8348888Abstract: The present invention provides a bi-directional catheter with nearly double the throw in its catheter tip deflection. In particular, the travel path of each the puller wire includes a U-turn or doubling-back around a pulley which minimizes the offset angle between the puller wire and the longitudinal axis of the control handle while maximizing the travel distance of that puller wire for any given distance traveled by the pulley drawing the puller wire. In one embodiment, the catheter has an elongated catheter body, a catheter tip section with first and second diametrically-opposed off-axis lumens, and a control handle which includes a steering assembly having a lever structure carrying a pair of pulleys for simultaneously drawing and releasing corresponding puller wires to deflect the tip section of the catheter.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Biosense Webster, Inc.Inventor: Thomas V. Selkee
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Patent number: 8349488Abstract: A secondary battery has a bare cell including a can, an electrode assembly in the can and a cap assembly sealing the can. A protective circuit module is on the bare cell, the protective circuit module including a metal protective circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyungwon Seo, Youngcheol Jang
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Patent number: 8350528Abstract: A balancing method for a battery pack includes balancing battery cells near an end of discharge. A deep discharge of the battery cells can be prevented without using an overdischarge control unit. One battery cell balancing method includes: a balancing check condition determination step for determining whether or not a maximum voltage out of voltages of the battery cells is smaller than a reference voltage; a balancing start condition determination step for determining whether or not a residual capacity difference or voltage difference between the individual battery cells exceeds a reference value; a balancing time calculation step for calculating a balancing time for discharging the battery cell that exceeds the reference value; and a balancing operation step for discharging the selected battery cell when the battery cells are under charge or are at rest or when a discharge current of the battery cells is smaller than a reference current.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jongwoon Yang, Segawa Susumu, Inkyu Park, Yonguk Kim
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Patent number: 8348062Abstract: A packaging box, which is easily disassembled to easily remove a product therefrom. A packaging box including an external box having a receiving space therein, the external box including a receiving part and a cover removably coupleable to the receiving part; an internal box receivable in the receiving space of the external box, the internal box having a receiving space therein; and a slide pad slidably coupleable to a lower portion of the internal box.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: SB LiMotive Co., Ltd.Inventor: Minhyung Guen
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Patent number: 8350880Abstract: A heat-transfer imaging system and a method of using the same. The heat-transfer imaging system includes a heat-transfer sheet and an activating ink. The heat-transfer sheet and the activating ink are specially formulated so that only the areas of the heat-transfer sheet onto which the ink has been printed become adhesive under heat-transfer conditions. This effect may be achieved by designing the sheet to include an ink-receptive coating whose melting temperature is higher than that typically encountered during normal heat-transfer conditions and by formulating the activating ink to include a plasticizer that, when printed onto the ink-receptive coating, lowers the melting temperature of the ink-receptive coating sufficiently so that the modified melting temperature falls within the temperature range encountered during heat-transfer.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Avery Dennison CorporationInventors: Liviu Dinescu, Kai Li, Dong-Tsai Hseih, Ekaterina Vaskova, Haochuan Wang, Christine Dang, Zhisong Huang, James Johnson
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Patent number: 8351594Abstract: A call center system has a computerized server executing software (SW) from a machine-readable medium, a data collection function of the SW enabled for collecting data regarding incoming transactions, a data processing function coupled to the data collection engine and enabled for processing the data collected against a set of business rules, the data processing function determining a priority level for individual ones of the incoming transactions, and a distribution function enabled for distributing a priority indication determined by the data processing function to one or more presentation interfaces accessible to agents, at or near the time the associated transaction is engaged by the agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Herbert Ristock, Vladimir Mezhibovsky, Nikolay Korolev
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Patent number: 8346598Abstract: Apparatus for personalization and registration of vehicle devices of different types in a road toll system, comprising: for each type of vehicle device, a respective personalization module that is configured to write personalization data into a vehicle device of this type and generate the associated registration data, which contains the personalization data, an interface module common to all personalization modules that is configured to receive their registration data and, following a release request, send it to a registration database of the road toll system, and a testing unit that reads out the personalization data of a personalized but not yet registered vehicle device, checks the registration data generated by the responsible personalization module for agreement of the personalization data contained therein with the read-out personalization data, and if it agrees, sends a release request with respect to this registration data to the interface module.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Kapsch Trafficcom AGInventors: Albert Hafenscher, Jasja Tijink, Oliver Nagy
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Patent number: 8343786Abstract: The described technology relates generally to an OLED display and manufacturing method thereof. The OLED display includes a substrate, a thin film transistor on the substrate and including a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, and an organic light emitting element coupled to the thin film transistor and including a pixel electrode, an organic emission layer, and a common electrode, wherein the semiconductor layer is formed of a polycrystalline silicon layer, and remnants and contaminants at a surface of the polycrystalline silicon layer are reduced or eliminated through an atmospheric pressure plasma treatment. The semiconductor layer is formed of a polycrystalline silicon layer where remnants and contaminants at the surface thereof are reduced or eliminated through an atmospheric pressure plasma treatment.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2011Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sung-Chul Pyo
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Patent number: 8343638Abstract: An organic light emitting diode is disclosed, and includes a light-efficiency-improvement layer containing a compound represented by Formula 1:Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung-Gak Yang, Hee-Yeon Kim, Jae-Yong Lee, Jong-Hyuk Lee
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Patent number: 8344365Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a heterocyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound. The organic light-emitting devices using the heterocyclic compounds have high-efficiency, low driving voltage, high luminance and long lifespan.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2010Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Young-Kook Kim, Seok-Hwan Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Kwak, Hye-Jin Jung, Jong-Hyuk Lee, Jin-O Lim, Hee-Joo Ko
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Patent number: 8347101Abstract: A method for issuing Anonymous Public Key Certificates to Registered Persons in an electronic record system, where pointers for indexing the record system are stored within the Anonymous Public Key Certificates, and where associated Private Keys are controlled by smartcards or similar devices. Electronic records may be identifiably indexed when the smartcard has been activated by its holder correctly entering their secret pass-phrase, or anonymously indexed when only the value of a pointer is known. The only direct linkage between each Anonymous Public Key Certificate and the associated Registered Person is through the associated Private Key as controlled by a smartcard or similar device. Using this invention the retrieval of identifiable records pertaining to a given Registered Person from an electronic record system is normally only possible with the agency of the Person's smartcard or similar device, and therefore normally only possible with the Person's consent.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Lockstep Consulting Pty Ltd.Inventor: Stephen Wilson
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Patent number: 8343191Abstract: A bone anchoring device includes an anchoring element having a shank to be anchored in a bone or a vertebra, a receiving part connected to the shank the receiving part having a first end opposite to the shank and a second end facing the shank, a longitudinal axis passing through the two ends, a bore coaxial with the longitudinal axis extending from the first end through at least a portion of the receiving part and a substantially U-shaped recess for receiving a rod The U-shaped recess forms two free legs extending in the direction of the first end, the legs are provided with an internal thread. A locking device for securing the rod in the receiving part is provided which includes an external thread cooperating with the internal thread.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2007Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Biedermann Technologies GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wilfried Matthis, Lutz Biedermann, Jürgen Harms
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Patent number: D673880Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: CMC Rescue, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Boothby, Joseph Flachman
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Patent number: D673881Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: United States Fire Arms Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventor: Douglas F. Donnelly