Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Fish and Richardson
  • Light emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 7492012
    Abstract: A light emitting device is provided which has a structure for preventing degradation of a light emitting element due to water and oxygen contained in an interlayer insulating film formed between a TFT and the light emitting element. A TFT is formed on a substrate, an inorganic insulating film is formed on the TFT from an inorganic material and serves as a first insulating film, an organic insulating film is formed on the first insulating film from an organic material and serves as a second insulating film, and an inorganic insulating film is formed on the second insulating film from an inorganic material and serves as a third insulating film. Thus obtained is a structure for preventing the second insulating film from releasing moisture and oxygen. In order to avoid defect in forming the film, a portion of the third insulating film where a contact hole is formed is removed alone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Murakami, Toru Takayama, Kengo Akimoto
  • Voltage controlled oscillator having improved phase noise
    Patent number: 7492228
    Abstract: An apparatus for compensating for variations in loop gain of a phase locked loop as a function of frequency, comprising a correction calculator for introducing a loop gain correction as a function of target frequency of a oscillator controlled by the phase locked loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: MediaTek Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Richard Strange
  • Computer aided design file processing
    Patent number: 7492374
    Abstract: One implementation provides a method for processing a first representation of a geometry of a component that is stored in a computer file. In this implementation, the method includes analyzing the first representation of the geometry of the component, and, upon analysis, generating a second, non-invertible representation of the geometry of the component from the first representation, the second representation being at least partially independent of a rotation or a translation of the component in space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Abir Ziyad Qamhiyah, Donald Flugrad
  • Brushless motor drive control circuit and brushless motor device using the same
    Patent number: 7492113
    Abstract: There is provided a brushless motor drive control circuit capable of assuring an S/N ratio of a predetermined counter electromotive voltage and suppressing lowering of efficiency of a brushless motor at a high-speed rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Norihiro Maeda
  • Semiconductor module, method for manufacturing semiconductor modules and mobile device
    Patent number: 7492045
    Abstract: Connection reliability in electrode portions of a semiconductor module is improved. A semiconductor wafer is prepared where a plurality of semiconductor substrates each having an electrode and a protective film at the surface is formed in a matrix shape. Next, at the surface of the semiconductor wafer (semiconductor substrate) a insulation layer is held between the semiconductor substrate and a copper sheet (metal sheet) formed integrally with a bump containing a plastic region on a tip part. With the insulating held between them, the semiconductor substrate, the insulating layer and the copper sheet are press-formed by a press machine into a single block. The bump penetrates the insulating layer, and the plastic region on the tip part is plastic deformed at a contact surface with an electrode, so that the bump and the electrode are electrically connected together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okayama, Ryosuke Usui, Yasunori Inoue
  • Formation of conductive templates employing indium tin oxide
    Patent number: 7491637
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method forming conductive templates that includes providing a substrate; forming a mesa on the substrate; and forming a plurality of recessions and projections on the mesa with a nadir of the recessions comprising electrically conductive material and the projections comprising electrically insulative material. It is desired that the mesa be substantially transparent to a predetermined wavelength of radiation, for example ultraviolet radiation. As a result, it is desired to form the electrically conductive material from a material that allows ultraviolet radiation to propagate therethrough. In the present invention indium tin oxide is a suitable material from which to form the electrical conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Molecular Imprints, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, Ian M. McMackin, Byung-Jin Choi, Ronald D. Voisin
  • Vaporizer that vaporizes a liquid to generate vapor
    Patent number: 7490580
    Abstract: A vaporizer generates vapor by vaporizing a liquid. In particular, a vaporizer generates fuel vapor that is used for reforming fuel by vaporizing a liquid fuel that contains a hydrocarbon. This vaporizer includes a heating gas direct movement flow path along which a heating gas flows by moving directly in a horizontal direction; vaporization flow paths that are positioned such that they can exchange heat with the heating gas direct movement flow path, and that vaporizes liquid fuel; a fuel supply pipe that supplies the liquid fuel to the vaporization flow paths; and a vapor flow path that is positioned in an upstream portion on the heating gas direct movement flow path from the vaporization flow paths and that heat fuel vapor that is discharged from the vaporization flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Hanai, Kiyoshi Kasahara, Yuuji Asano
  • Implicit population of access control lists
    Patent number: 7490238
    Abstract: Communication applications may include lists of users with which a user of the application communicates. If two users of a communications application each include the other user on their user lists, an implicit trust may be established between the users. For example, if user A includes user B in her list and user B includes user A in his list, then it may be determined that each user knows and/or trusts the other user. As a result, a connection or communications pathway may be automatically created between the client devices of the users to facilitate communications between the users based on the implicit trust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: AOL LLC, a Deleware Limited Liability Company
    Inventor: James A. Roskind
  • Perimeter detection using fiber optic sensors
    Patent number: 7488929
    Abstract: A fiber optic perimeter detection system includes a receiver to receive output light signals from sensors positioned at different regions, each sensor including a sensing fiber. Each sensor generates an output light signal having a specified wavelength, the output light signal having a property that varies when stress is induced in the sensing fiber. The perimeter detection system includes a memory to store information related to a mapping between the wavelengths of the output light signals and the regions where the sensors are positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Zygo Corporation
    Inventors: Paul A. Townley-Smith, Scott Hellman, John Kondis, Eliseo Romolo Ranalli
  • Ion sources, systems and methods
    Patent number: 7488952
    Abstract: Ion sources, systems and methods are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: ALIS Corporation
    Inventors: Billy W. Ward, John A. Notte, IV, Louis S. Farkas, III, Randall G. Percival, Raymond Hill, Lars Markwort, Dirk Aderhold
  • Audio signal processing
    Patent number: 7490044
    Abstract: An audio system for processing two channels of audio input to provide more than two output channels. The input may be conventional stereo material or compressed audio signal data. The audio processing includes separating the input signals into frequency bands and processing the frequency bands according to processes which may differ from band to band. The audio processing includes no processing of L?R signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventor: Abhijit Kulkarni
  • Benzidine derivative, and light-emitting device and electric appliance using the benzidine derivative as the hole transporting material
    Patent number: 7488849
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a material that can be used as a hole transporting material is provided. Further, a material that is easily kept in a non-crystalline state and can be used as a hole transporting material is also provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a compound represented by a general formula (1). In the general formula (1), R1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms. Further, one embodiment according to the present invention is a hole transporting material containing the compound represented by the general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sachiko Kawakami
  • Shaver cleaning apparatus
    Patent number: 7487786
    Abstract: A lift mechanism for a cleaning device of a dry shaving apparatus includes a base plate with guides and a chassis plate mounting the chassis and arranged for displacement relative to the base plate. Coiled-strip springs arranged on the guides spring-load the chassis plate against the base plate. On actuation of the lift mechanism the coiled-strip springs are untensioned by coiling up along the guides, thereby lifting the chassis plate. The coiled-strip springs reduce the load on the construction and ensure an almost noiseless lift mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Höser, Diana Kappes, Andreas Larscheid, Uwe Ludäscher, Svatopluk Krumnikl
  • Method for optical stimulation of the vestibular system
    Patent number: 7488341
    Abstract: An apparatus to stimulate the vestibular system of an individual. The apparatus comprises an optical stimulator configured to optically stimulate a nerve area affecting a person's balance, and a control module coupled to the optical stimulator, the control module being configured to control the optical stimulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
    Inventor: Daniel M. Merfeld
  • Processing pulse signal in conjunction with accelerometer signal in cardiac resuscitation
    Patent number: 7488293
    Abstract: A cardiac resuscitation device that includes a pulse sensor configured to detect pulse information characterizing the cardiac pulse in the patient, an accelerometer configured to detect chest movements of the patient during chest compressions, and memory and processing circuits configured to process the outputs of the pulse sensor and accelerometer to monitor the effect that chest compressions have on the patient's pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Alan F. Marcovecchio, Frederick Geheb, Donald R. Boucher
  • Component with a piezoelectric functional layer
    Patent number: 7489067
    Abstract: An electrical component includes a substrate, a first electrode layer, a structured growth layer that is thinner than the first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode layer. The growth layer is on the first electrode layer, the growth layer is structured relative to the first electrode layer, and the growth layer has a smaller surface area than the first electrode layer. The growth layer may be selected to support ordered growth relative to the piezoelectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Thomas Metzger, Christian Diekmann, Edgar Schmidhammer
  • V/I source and test system incorporating the same
    Patent number: 7489146
    Abstract: A voltage/current (V/I) source includes circuitry having first, second, third and fourth nodes, a first current source electrically connected to the first node, a second current source electrically connected to the second node, where the third and fourth nodes are between the first and second nodes, and an operational amplifier (op-amp) having an output, an inverting input, and a non-inverting input. The output is electrically connected to the third node, and the non-inverting input is electrically connected to a voltage source. A feedback line is between the fourth node and the inverting input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Teradyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Balke, Cristo da Costa
  • System for dispatching and controlling of generation in large-scale electric power systems
    Patent number: 7489989
    Abstract: A system for dispatching and controlling generation in an electric power system consisting of a plurality of power units comprises a computer with dispatching optimization module connected by communications means to the power units. According to the invention, in the electric power system consisting of a plurality of subsystems each comprising a plurality of power plants provided with power units, said computer is a higher-layer computer and the specified load dispatching optimization module is designed to determine parameters for an optimal interchange of power and energy between subsystems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Inventors: Oleg Alexeevich Sukhanov, Yury Vladimirovich Sharov, Vasily Alexeevich Makeechev
  • Shopping tote
    Patent number: D586555
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Built NY
    Inventors: Aaron Lown, John Roscoe Swartz
  • Tape dispenser
    Patent number: D586857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Velcro Industries B.V.
    Inventors: Derrick Slowikowski, Timothy Byrd, Joseph R. Levesque