Patents Represented by Attorney Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP
  • Patent number: 7173288
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting device including a light emitting diode and a diode formed on a single substrate, in which the light emitting diode and the diode use a common electrode. According to the present invention, an active layer and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer are each divided into a first region and a second region by an insulative isolation layer, and an ohmic contact layer is formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer contained in the first region. A p-type electrode is formed on the ohmic contact layer and is extended to the p-type nitride semiconductor layer contained in the second region. An n-type electrode is formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer contained in the second region, passes through the p-type nitride semiconductor layer and the active layer contained in the second region, and is connected to the first n-type nitride semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyu Han Lee, Hyun Kyung Kim, Je Won Kim, Dong Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 7173308
    Abstract: A lateral short-channel DMOS includes an epitaxial layer formed on a semiconductor substrate. A first conductivity-type well is formed in the epitaxial layer. A second conductivity-type well is formed in the first conductivity-type well and includes a channel forming region. A source region is formed in the second conductivity-type well. A first conductivity-type ON resistance lowering well is formed in the epitaxial layer so as to contact the first conductivity-type well but not the second conductivity-type well, and includes a higher concentration of a first conductivity-type dopant than the first conductivity-type well. A drain region is formed in the first conductivity-type ON resistance lowering well. A gate electrode is formed above and insulated from at least the channel forming region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Shindengen Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Kitaguchi
  • Patent number: 7171728
    Abstract: A knob includes a hub to be fixed in a seat open at the front of an electrical household appliance, a grip, which can slide axially, against the action of an elastic element, on a first end of the hub. Between the grip and the hub there is defined a closed chamber having a variable volume that is a function of the axial position of the grip on the hub. A sliding seal is provided for sealing the closed chamber. A calibrated restriction connects the inside of the chamber with the external environment in such a way as to bring about a negative pressure in the chamber as a result of the axial movement of the grip away from the hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: ITW Industrial Components S.R.L.
    Inventor: Dino Chirumbolo
  • Patent number: 7172673
    Abstract: A peeling device 11 includes an adsorber 15 having an adsorbing face 20A that adsorbs and retains a wafer W, and a peeling element 17 that holds a protective sheet H stuck to the wafer W, and peels off the protective sheet H from the wafer W through moving relatively to the adsorber 15. The adsorber 15 and the peeling element 17 are arranged so as to peel off the protective sheet H from the wafer W intermittently through moving relatively to each other while a peeling operation and a counter-peeling operation are performed alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kurosawa, Masahisa Otsuka
  • Patent number: 7173324
    Abstract: A wafer level package includes a device wafer having a micro device, and bonding pads which are connected to the micro device, and formed at one surface of the device wafer, via connectors extending from the bonding pads to the other surface of the device wafer, external bonding pads formed at the other surface of the device wafer and connected to the bonding pads through the via connectors, and a cap structure bonded to one surface of the device wafer so as to allow the micro device to be insulated and hermetically sealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joo Ho Lee, Jea Shik Shin
  • Patent number: 7172583
    Abstract: A disposable pull-on wearing article includes front and rear waist regions, a crotch region extending between the waist regions, a chassis and an absorbent panel. The article has first and second tuckable side zones folded along first and second imaginary tuckable guide lines and tucked the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Patent number: 7172325
    Abstract: A backlight unit of a liquid crystal display includes a plurality of light emitting diode packages arranged in a matrix while being spaced a uniform distance apart from each other. Each light emitting diode package includes one or more light emitting diode chips and is structured such that light generated from the light emitting chips is emitted in the horizontal direction. A reflector consists of a plurality of reflection cells connected to each other in a matrix. Each of the reflection cells of a unit size has each of the light generating packages positioned at the center thereof, and reflects the light, emitted from the light emitting diode at the center thereof in the horizontal direction, in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung Suk Kim, Young Sam Park, Hun Joo Hahm, Jung Kyu Park, Young June Jeong
  • Patent number: 7173355
    Abstract: A bar-type vibration motor has a stator unit including a body and a magnet attached in the body; a rotor unit including a rotary shaft having one end fixed to an eccentric weight and the other end fixed to a stationary member, a portion of the rotary shall adjacent to the eccentric weight being rotatably supported by the body like a cantilever, a commutator having several segments attached on one side of the stationary member, and an armature fixed to the stationary member spaced apart from the magnet, and electrically connected with the commutator; and a power supply unit including a fixing cap faxed to the body and a brush mounted on the fixing cap to supply voltage to the armature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Gil An, Jae Woon Park, Hyun Gi Yang
  • Patent number: 7173545
    Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft navigation aid method. It comprises the following steps of defining an area to be sensed to the right and to the left of a first hypothetical path of the aircraft, sensing, for each of the two areas to be sensed to the right and to the left, a corresponding predefined underlying relief, in order to identify dangerous sub-zones to the right and/or to the left, computing, for each of the dangerous sub-zones to the right and/or to the left, a time ?T remaining to begin an avoidance maneuver before a point of no return, and determining for the dangerous sub-zones to the right a minimum ?T denoted ?T right and/or for the dangerous sub-zones to the left a minimum ?T denoted ?T left, establishing a navigation aid from ?T right and/or ?T left.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventor: BenoƮt Berthe
  • Patent number: 7170518
    Abstract: A method of selectively providing cartographic features on a video display of a navigation system for improved rendering is provided. The method includes the steps of determining an operational mode of the navigation system, selecting a desired cartographic entity for a cartographic feature based upon the operational mode, and displaying the desired cartographic entity on the video display. For example, less detailed cartographic entities are selected for display when the navigation system is in an operational mode that requires the video display to be updated frequently ore a mode in which it is desirable to focus the user's attention on a different cartographic entity. The less detailed cartographic entity may have a lower intensity than or contrast less with surrounding cartographic entities. In this manner, the user may be provided the desired level of map details with the video display regenerated rapidly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Magellan Dis, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Millington, Chandiran Palanisamy
  • Patent number: 7169137
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a chassis defining front and rear waist regions, an absorbent panel laid on the inner surface of the chassis and a decorative element adapted to be seen through the chassis and interposed between an intermediate zone of the chassis and the absorbent panel. An optical transmittance exhibited by the intermediate zone of the chassis in which the decorative element is laid is higher than an optical transmittance exhibited by opposite lateral zones of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaaki Shimada
  • Patent number: 7169256
    Abstract: A plasma processor processing a workpiece includes sources having frequencies 2 MHz, 27 MHz, and 60 MHz, applied by three matching networks to an electrode in a vacuum chamber including the workpiece. Alternatively 60 MHz is applied to a second electrode by a fourth matching network. The matching networks, substantially tuned to the frequencies of the sources driving them, include series inductances so the 2 MHz inductance exceeds the 27 MHz network inductance, and the 27 MHz network inductance exceeds the inductances of the 60 MHz networks. The matching networks attenuate by at least 26 DB the frequencies of the sources that do not drive them. Shunt inductors between the 27 and 60 MHz sources decouple 2 MHz from the 27 and 60 MHz sources. A series resonant circuit (resonant to about 5 MHz) shunts the 2 MHz network and the electrode to help match the 2 MHz source to the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: LAM Research Corporation
    Inventors: Raj Dhindsa, Felix Kozakevich, David Douglas Trussell
  • Patent number: 7170634
    Abstract: In an image display device, which performs a desired image processing for inputted image data and displays an image, a desired color correction is performed for the inputted image data by a first color corrector (110) on the basis of a characteristic value of the image display device and by reference to a three-dimensional color correction table. The three-dimensional color correction table is configured for matching color characteristics of the image display device to reference color characteristics. Further, a desired color correction is performed for the inputted image data by a second color corrector by reference to a one-dimensional color correction table which is configured for performing a color correction according to an external environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Masashi Kanai
  • Patent number: 7169136
    Abstract: A pull-on disposable diaper is composed of a front waist region, a rear waist region, a crotch region extending between these waist regions and a body fluid absorbing component formed on an inner side of these regions. The absorbing component is formed in the crotch region with a V-shaped first folding guide, a V-shaped second folding guide and a third folding guide extending in a transverse direction between the first and second folding guides. The absorbing component is folded along the third folding guide so that a core forming a part of the component may have its outer surface sections facing each other and along the first and second folding guides so that the core may have its inner surface sections facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Otsubo, Shunsuke Takino
  • Patent number: 7168476
    Abstract: A cordless activating device for a venetian blind has a central reeling device, two string-guides and a main string. The central reeling device has a U-shaped mounting bracket, a resilient coiling device and a clutch. The resilient coiling device comprises a spring spool, a take-up reel and a specifically designed S-shaped recoiling spring. The clutch selectively locks the resilient coiling device in place and activates the resilient coiling device. The string-guides are mounted on opposite ends of the central reeling device. The main string is attached to and controlled by the central reeling device, is wound around the two string-guides and the resilient coiling device and is connected to two draw strings that extend down through the venetian blind. When the clutch activates the resilient coiling device, the resilient coiling device winds the main string onto the take-up reel, and the venetian blind automatically rises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Inventor: Chin-Fu Chen
  • Patent number: 7170205
    Abstract: Disclosed is an internal weight type vertical vibrator including: a housing; a magnetic circuit unit placed in the internal space of the housing, and comprising a magnet perpendicularly placed and a yoke for fixedly receiving the magnet therein for generating a magnetic field; spring members provided with upper ends fixed to the housing and lower ends fixed to the magnetic circuit unit for vertically; a vibrating unit placed in the yoke so that the outer surface of the vibrating unit is surrounded by the yoke, comprising the weight having a hollow cylindrical structure provided with a central hole, into which the magnet is inserted; and a vibration-generating coil placed just below the magnetic circuit unit so that the vibration-generating coil is interlinked with the magnetic field of the magnet for allowing current supplied from the outside to flow in one direction therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung Hong Won, Joon Choi, Il Oung Park, Ju Ho Kim, Hwa Young Oh
  • Patent number: 7168772
    Abstract: An engaging device of a handle for a modularized casing is composed of a modularized casing; a handle; an outer sleeve; a side of casing being provided with a positioning hole for emplacing the hook; a shaft pin which is loosely connected to the pivoting holes of casing and handle, with the handle being rotated against the shaft pin. The handle can be firmly locked to the modularized casing without being loosened and dislocated, and the engaging device can be rapidly released from the positioning hole, while most of a volume of the handle will not protrude out of the modularized casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Super Micro Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Chien-Fa Liang
  • Patent number: 7168222
    Abstract: A wrapping device includes a base body which is connected with support elements and a holding arm. The holding arm has rotatably connected thereto a wrapping arm. The wrapping arm carries a roll holder. At the roll holders a rotatably supported film roll is arranged for being displaced in a predetermined direction for wrapping up objects arranged on a pallet. For transporting the wrapping device, the support elements serve as fastening elements and are of hollow configuration such that support elements of a lift truck can be inserted therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Ralf Spaniel
  • Pen
    Patent number: D535695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Shanghai Sino-Korean ChengGuang Stationary Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Huxiong Chen
  • Patent number: D535948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Inventor: Yuh-Cheng Lee