Patents Represented by Attorney Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

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  • Organic light emitting diode display
    Patent number: 8283688
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes a display substrate assembly including an organic light emitting structure, an encapsulation substrate assembly disposed facing the display substrate assembly, a sealant disposed between the display substrate assembly and the encapsulation substrate assembly to seal the display substrate assembly and the encapsulation substrate assembly with each other, and a substrate deformation protection body disposed between the sealant and the organic light emitting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Ryong Park, Tae-Kyu Kim
  • Organic light emitting display device and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 8283860
    Abstract: A method of fabricating an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. According to the method, a first electrode overlaps a scan line, a common power supply line and/or a data line. A pixel defining layer (PDL) is etched by backside exposure so that an aperture ratio of the OLED may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sang-Hun Oh
  • Fixture for aligning an electronic component
    Patent number: 8281483
    Abstract: An align fixture for aligning an electronic component having a receptacle adapted to receive the electronic component, the receptacle having a first abutting section and a second abutting section, the align fixture further having an elastic unit, one of the first abutting section and the second abutting section is flexibly mounted via the elastic unit, and the other one of the first abutting section and the second abutting section is fixedly mounted; the first abutting section and the second abutting section each form a stiff member and are adapted to engage the electronic component, the elastic unit is adapted to exert two force components on one of the first abutting section and the second abutting section, the force components being angled relatively to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Multitest Elektronische Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Hofmann, Johann Poetzinger, Necati Efe Varol
  • Method of preparing a nanofiber and a fuel cell including the nanofiber
    Patent number: 8283091
    Abstract: Provided is a carbon nanofiber, wherein the carbon nanofiber has a surface oxygen content of at least 0.03 calculated by the formula: Oxygen content=[atomic percentage of oxygen/atomic percentage of carbon] using atomic percentages of oxygen and carbon, respectively calculated from an area of an oxygen peak having a binding energy of 524 to 540 eV, an area of a nitrogen peak having a binding energy of 392 to 404 eV, and an area of a carbon peak having a binding energy of 282 to 290 eV in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The nanofibers have high surface oxygen content and may have metal catalyst nano particles densely and uniformly distributed on the outer wall of the carbon nanofibers, thereby having high electrochemical efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-hee Lee, Jae-young Choi, Chan-ho Pak, Eun-ju Ra, Young-hee Lee, Kay-hyeok An
  • Fuel cell system including fuel supply apparatus
    Patent number: 8283080
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes at least one electricity generating unit for generating electric energy through an electrochemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen, a reformer for reforming fuel to generate hydrogen gas to be supplied to the electricity generating unit, a fuel supply apparatus for absorbing a liquid fuel stored in a fuel reservoir and supplying the fuel to the reformer and an oxygen supply source for supplying oxygen to the electricity generating unit. The fuel supply apparatus employs an absorber with capillary channels in which osmotic pressure is produced due to a concentration differential caused by thermal energy. The osmotic pressure allows the fuel to flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dong-Hun Lee, Kyu-Nam Han, Ho-Jin Kweon
  • Protection circuit for battery pack and battery pack including the same
    Patent number: 8283893
    Abstract: A protection circuit for a battery pack including a rechargeable battery cell having a positive electrode and a negative electrode is disclosed. The protection circuit includes a self-discharge switching device electrically connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the battery cell, and a control unit electrically connected to the battery cell and the self-discharge switching device to turn-on or turn-off the self-discharge switching device according to a temperature of the battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woojin Lee, Jonghwa Hur
  • Camera-steadying device
    Patent number: 8280242
    Abstract: A portable camera steady device for use with a camera, having a retractable tensile member whose distal end can be stepped on by a user or hooked to her body or clothing. The device has a swivel mounting member providing two independent and generally perpendicular axes of rotation such that the tensile member extends tangentially from the reel and housing whether the camera is used in the landscape or portrait orientation. A switch is provided to control extension and retraction of the tensile member from a biased reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: West Coast Chain Mfg. Co.
    Inventors: Stanfield Young, Boake Paugh
  • Thin film transistor, method of fabricating the same, and a display device including the thin film transistor
    Patent number: 8278159
    Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT), a method of fabricating the same, and a display device including the TFT, are provided. The method includes forming an edge region that is doped with impurities of a conductivity type opposite to a conductivity type of impurities doped into source and drain regions. The edge region is in contact with a channel region and an edge portion of the source region. The method also includes forming contact holes for source and drain electrodes to expose a portion of the drain region and expose respective portions of the source region and the edge region contacting the edge portion of the source region; and forming source and drain electrodes. Thus, a source-body contact is automatically formed so that an edge effect can be reduced and a kink effect can be reduced or removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Byoung-Keon Park
  • Touch screen panel
    Patent number: 8279195
    Abstract: A touch screen panel for an image display device or the like. The touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate; a plurality of first sensing patterns on the transparent substrate; an insulating layer on the first sensing patterns; a plurality of second sensing patterns on the insulating layer; and a plurality of metal patterns on the insulating layer and coupled to the first and second sensing patterns at edge portions of a region in which the first and second sensing patterns are formed. The metal patterns electrically couple the first and second sensing patterns to position detecting lines on the transparent substrate. The touch screen panel further includes first conductive patterns below the metal patterns positioned on edge portions of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Ku Kang, Dong-Wook Kang, Chang-Yong Lee, Seong-Je Huang
  • 3D graphics processor and autostereoscopic display device using the same
    Patent number: 8279221
    Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device displays a stereoscopic image by generating stereoscopic image data based on 3D graphics data. The stereoscopic image display device includes a display unit for displaying an image, a driver, and a controller. The controller receives a synchronization signal, the 3D graphics data, and a user selection parameter for modifying a stereoscopic effect level, and outputs a control signal based on the synchronization signal and a stereoscopic image data signal, which is generated by combining left eye image data and right eye image data generated through performing matrix operations on the 3D graphics data and the user selection parameter, to the driver. The driver drives the display unit based on the control signal and the stereoscopic image data signal to display the stereoscopic image on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myoung-Seop Song, Jang-Doo Lee, Hyoung-Wook Jang, Hui Nam, Beom-Shik Kim
  • Touch screen panel and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 8279201
    Abstract: A touch screen panel having an improved reflectance difference between sensing patterns. The touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate; a plurality of first sensing patterns on the transparent substrate and connected along a first direction; a first insulating layer on the first sensing patterns; and a plurality of second sensing patterns on the first insulating layer and connected along a second direction. The second sensing patterns are alternately disposed with the first sensing patterns and not overlapped with the first sensing patterns. The touch screen panel further includes a plurality of dummy patterns in at least one of first dummy regions between the first sensing patterns and second dummy regions between the second sensing patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Ku Kang, Tae-Hyeog Jung, Jin-Guen Kim, Gi-Min Kim
  • Digital circuits with adaptive resistance to single event upset
    Patent number: 8278979
    Abstract: A digital circuit with adaptive resistance to single event upset. A novel transient filter is placed within the feedback loop of each latch in the digital circuit to reject pulses having a width less than T, where T is the longest anticipated duration of transients. The transient filter includes a first logic element having a controllable inertial delay and a second logic element coupled to an output of the first logic element. A first controller provides a control voltage VcR to each first logic element to control a rise time of the first logic element to be equal to T. A second controller provides a control voltage VcF to each first logic element to control a fall time of the first logic element to be equal to T.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: William D. Farwell
  • Power supply and organic light emitting display using the same
    Patent number: 8279212
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display includes a first power block for receiving a first input voltage to output a first output voltage and configured to be driven in a normal operation mode corresponding to an enable signal, a second power block for receiving a second input voltage to output a second output voltage and configured to be driven in an alternate operation mode corresponding to the enable signal, and a voltage input unit for transmitting the first input voltage to the first power block in the normal operation mode, and for transmitting the second input voltage to the second power block and stopping the transmitting of the first input voltage to the first power block in the alternate operation mode, corresponding to the enable signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Cheol Kim
  • Membrane electrode assembly for fuel cell, and fuel cell system including the same
    Patent number: 8278012
    Abstract: A membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell, which includes an anode and a cathode facing each other; and a polymer electrolyte membrane disposed between the anode and cathode. The cathode includes a first catalyst layer that includes catalyst particles, and a second catalyst layer that includes the catalyst particles and a pore-forming agent. The membrane-electrode assembly efficiently performs mass transfer and release, due to pores in the second catalyst layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatyana Reshetenko, Hee-Tak Kim, Ho-Jin Kweon
  • Transverse device phase shifter
    Patent number: 8279129
    Abstract: A phase shifter operable at microwave or millimeter-wave frequencies includes a dielectric substrate with a bottom surface having a conductive ground plane layer and a conductive patterned layer formed on a top surface to define a conductor pattern. A series of active tuning elements is mounted on the top surface and cascaded along a propagation direction in a spaced arrangement along a longitudinal extent. A housing structure includes a bottom housing structure with a planar conductive bottom surface for contacting the ground plane layer, and a top housing structure fabricated with a channel which extend along the longitudinal extent and provide clearance for the active tuning elements. A bias circuit is connected to the respective series of active tuning elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Robert T. Lewis, Ralston S. Robertson, William H. Henderson
  • Undermount drawer slide
    Patent number: 8277003
    Abstract: A drawer slide for coupling a drawer to a cabinet includes an intermediate rail partially housed within the drawer rail and web and first and second legs which are connected to the web. A flange extends from the first leg toward the second leg. Bearings housed in bearing cages placed between the rails allow sliding movement therebetween. A cabinet rail partially housed within the intermediate rail includes an upright wall and a flange extending away from the upright wall and toward the first leg. Ball and roller bearings housed in bearing cages couple the flanges. Grooves in the flanges are engaged by the ball bearings. Roller bearings housed in bearing cages couple the web of the intermediate rail and the flange of the cabinet rail, and the second leg of the intermediate rail and the upright wall of the cabinet rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Accuride International Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Milligan, Quinn Chi
  • Baby changing station
    Patent number: 8276229
    Abstract: A baby supporting device is provided which includes a frame. The frame includes a first portion for mounting onto a wall and a second portion pivotally coupled to the first portion and rotatable between a first position and a second position. A first stop member extends from the first portion, and a second stop member extends from the second portion, such that when the second stop member engages the first stop member it stops the second portion at the second position. A first surface covers at least a portion of the first portion, and a second surface covers at least a portion of the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc.
    Inventors: Dikran Babikian, Branko Bem
  • Method and system for signal distortion characterization and predistortion compensation using mutual coupling in a radio frequency transmit/receive system
    Patent number: 8280312
    Abstract: A method and system use the mutual coupling property of multiple antenna elements for characterizing signal waveform distortion introduced by items in the signal path, including the antenna elements, of a radio frequency transmit/receive system. The method and system alleviate the need for external test equipment by using the same hardware used in standard operation of the transmit/receive system for performing waveform distortion characterization through the generation, mutual coupling, and acquisition of a reference signal. In an embodiment involving application of complementary inverse predistortion to generation of an operational signal and/or to processing of a received operational signal, the signal as received and processed during standard system operation is compensated for distortion contributed by system hardware, improving impulse response and system performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Eric N. Boe, William L. Lewis, John Fraschilla
  • Drilling quick connectors
    Patent number: RE43697
    Abstract: A quick connector fitting assembly is provided which includes a fitting which releasably connects to a well casing for providing an interface for the attachment of various types of well related equipment. The quick connector fitting connects using fasteners to a lip or groove formed on the casing. The fasteners can easily connect or disconnect from the groove or lip facilitating the quick connection and disconnection of the fitting from the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Seaboard International Inc.
    Inventor: Rex E. Duhn
  • Electrolyte for lithium ion rechargeable battery and lithium ion rechargeable battery including the same
    Patent number: RE43724
    Abstract: The present invention is an electrolyte for a lithium ion rechargeable battery and a lithium ion rechargeable battery that includes the same. More particularly, the present invention discloses an electrolyte for a lithium ion rechargeable battery that provides excellent cycle life characteristics and high-temperatures storage stability and prevents a drop in discharge capacity of a battery at low temperature, and a lithium ion rechargeable battery including the same. The lithium ion rechargeable battery including the electrolyte provides improved cycle life characteristics and prevents the problems of a drop in discharge capacity at low temperature and high-temperature swelling through the formation of a stable SEI film at the initial charge cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Hee Kim, Jin Sung Kim, Yong Shik Kim