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  • Double patterning method using metallic compound mask layer
    Patent number: 8313889
    Abstract: A hard mask layer and a developable bottom anti-reflective coating (dBARC) layer are formed over a dielectric layer of a substrate. A first photosensitive layer is formed above the dBARC layer, exposed, and developed to form a first pattern. The dBARC layer is developed. The first pattern is etched into the hard mask layer to form a first pattern of openings in the hard mask layer. Following removal of the first photosensitive layer, a second photosensitive layer is formed within the first pattern of openings. The second photosensitive layer is exposed and developed to form a second pattern. The dBARC layer is developed. The second pattern is etched into the hard mask layer to form a second pattern of openings in the hard mask layer. Following the removal of the second photosensitive layer and the dBARC layer, the first and the second patterns are etched into the dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Vincent Yu, Chih-Yang Yeh, Hung Chang Hsieh
  • Method for filtrating gases
    Patent number: 8313564
    Abstract: A gas filtration system includes a liquid filtering system and a gas transferring system. The liquid filtering system has multiple tanks connected to each which contains a gas scrubbing liquid through which the gas is bubbled. The gas transferring system includes pipes coupled with the tanks for transferring gases. The tanks include a dry tank that is used for storing one or more of pumps, filters and a gas flow buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Inventor: Sam Yung Kwack
  • Polarizing film, optical film laminate comprising polarizing film, and stretched laminate for manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 8314987
    Abstract: A polarizing film includes a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) type resin having a dichroic material impregnated therein. The polarizing film is formed by stretching the PVA type resin, such that the thickness of the polarizing film is decreased to 10 ?m or less, and. The polarizing film has optical properties which satisfy conditions represented by formulae: P>?(100.929T-42.4?1)×100 (where T<42.3); and P?99.9 (where T?42.3) where T represents a single layer transmittance and P a polarization rate. The polarizing film can be made by providing a laminate comprising a PVA type resin layer formed on a non-crystallizable ester type thermoplastic resin substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Shusaku Goto, Takeharu Kitagawa, Minoru Miyatake, Tomohiro Mori, Takashi Kamijo
  • Method, display system, and computer software for controlling icon appearance
    Patent number: 8316312
    Abstract: A method, display system, computer software product for controlling an icon appearance are disclosed. A display controller of the display system displays an icon control window on a display screen of the display system for changing an icon appearance of the display system conveniently. The control window includes at least one sample icon for a user's preview, and the sample icon's appearance is automatically updated upon receiving inputs for a new icon appearance from a user. When the user is satisfied with the updated sample icon's appearance and enters an execution command, the display controller finally changes the icon appearance of the display system by changing corresponding display properties according to the user inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hong-Ki Kim, Seok-Hwa Jeong, Ju-Ho Yun
  • Contents delivery system and method using object redirection, and GSLB switch thereof
    Patent number: 8316085
    Abstract: A contents delivery system and method using object redirection, and a GSLB switch thereof are provided. When a client requests a web server to provide a page embedded object, the web server embeds the URL representing the position of the object in an HTTP 302 redirection message and transmits the HTTP 302 redirection message including the URL to the client. A GSLB switch corresponding to the URL transmits the IP address of a specific host server selected from at least one host server storing the object to the client. Accordingly, load of the web server decreases and flexibility in change of a CDN solution is secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Sic Jeon, Kyong Hwan Kim
  • Sense amplifier scheme for low voltage SRAM and register files
    Patent number: 8315119
    Abstract: A sense amplifier scheme for SRAM is disclosed. In accordance with one of the embodiments of the present application, a sense amplifier circuit includes a bit line, a sense amplifier output, a power supply node having a power supply voltage, a keeper circuit including an NMOS transistor, and a noise threshold control circuit. The keeper circuit is sized to supply sufficient current to compensate a leakage current of the bit line and maintains a voltage level of the bit line and the noise threshold control circuit lowers a trip point of the sense amplifier output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Bharath Upputuri
  • Lighting device
    Patent number: 8308319
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a light source unit having a substrate and a light emitting diode disposed on the substrate, a heat sink having an inner surface on which the light source unit is disposed and at least one opening, and a top plate being disposed on the heat sink and having a reflective surface which reflects light from the light source unit in a particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyung Il Kong, Michael Castelli
  • System for maintaining the broadcasting information in USIM unlock environment and method thereof
    Patent number: 8311516
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and a method for maintaining broadcasting chip information regardless of device replacement in a USIM unlock environment where broadcast information can be automatically modified in response to device replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jong Ho Kim, Kwang Young Kim, Chang Il Kim, Byung Seok Hwang, Min Seok Kim
  • Parallel link robot
    Patent number: 8307732
    Abstract: A parallel link robot (10) provided with a base (11), a moving part (12), three links (20a to 20c) coupling the base and the moving part and having respectively single degrees of freedom with respect to the base, and three actuators (13a to 13c) respectively driving the links, each of the links comprised of a drive link (21a to 21c) coupled with the base and two driven links (22a to 22c, 23a to 23c) coupling the drive link and the moving part and parallel to each other, and further provided with a posture changing mechanism (15) which changes a posture of an element (19) attached to the moving part, an additional actuator (13d to 13f) arranged between the two driven links of at least one link in parallel to these driven links, and a power transmission shaft (39) which extends coaxially from the additional actuator and transmits rotational drive force to the posture changing mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Fanuc Ltd
    Inventors: Satoshi Kinoshita, Tomoaki Nagayama, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hidenori Kurebayashi, Katsumi Fujimoto, Tokitaka Uemura
  • Over-drive circuit having stacked transistors
    Patent number: 8310283
    Abstract: In a first pair of stacked PMOS devices comprising a first PMOS device and a second PMOS device, a first pumping circuit is coupled between a gate of the first PMOS device and a P pre-driver signal. In a second pair of stacked NMOS devices comprising a first NMOS device and a second NMOS device, a second pumping circuit is coupled between a gate of the first NMOS device and an N pre-driver signal. The pumping circuits recognizing the transition from the pre-driver signals provide a voltage to the gate of the first PMOS device and of the first NMOS device so that the first PMOS and NMOS devices are turned on better. As a result, their voltage Vds peaks are suppressed to a safe level; the devices avoid hot-carrier degradations; and their lifetimes are prolonged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Hui Chen, Guang-Cheng Wang
  • Biodegradable copolymer and thermosensitive material
    Patent number: 8309623
    Abstract: The disclosed is a biodegradable copolymer, an amphiphilic diblock copolymer, composed of a hydrophilic segment and a hydrophobic segment. The hydrophilic segment is an endcapped PEG or derivatives thereof. The hydrophilic segment is a random polymer polymerized of lactone or cyclic C3-C6 molecule and lactic acid/glycolic acid. There is no coupling agent between the hydrophilic and hydrophobic segments, and the biodegradable copolymer is formed by one-pot ring-opening polymerization. The biodegradable copolymer can be dissolved in water to form a thermosensitive material having a phase transfer temperature of 25 to 50° C., thereby being applied to biological activity factor delivery, tissue engineering, cell culture and biological glue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ya-Jen Yu, Chin-Fu Chen, Tsai-Yu Lin, Shao-Jen Yeh, Shian-Yih Wang, Po-Liang Lai
  • Method of strong images and corresponding storage medium
    Patent number: 8310512
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of storing images on a medium able to be etched on the basis of a writing procedure using a laser beam, in which a substrate, preferably flexible, comprises a multiplicity of expanses of lateral dimensions less than 10 millimeters, each reserved for an image, and an expanse reserved for an image comprises as many elementary zones as there are image pixels to be stored, the image stored in an expanse being able to be read by optical magnification means. Each elementary zone comprises an engraved pattern whose diameter represents one respective grey level out of n possible levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
    Inventor: Christophe Martinez
  • Devices and methods for filtering terrain and obstacle anti-collision alerts for aircraft
    Patent number: 8306678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and methods for filtering anti-collision alerts for aircraft having a locating system charting the position of the aircraft and estimating the precision of its position. A navigation system of the aircraft calculates at least the actual speed of the aircraft, the speed instruction and a first deviation between the instruction and the actual speed, and the deviation being compared with a first reference overshoot threshold. An anti-collision system generates alerts. An alarms manager of the aircraft centralizes the alerts transmitted by the terrain anti-collision equipment of the aircraft to the crew. The alerts each posses a coding of the danger level, and the danger levels form part of a first predetermined set. The alert filter according to the invention filters sets of alerts according to the coding of their danger level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Thales
    Inventors: Stéphane Fleury, Nicolas Marty, Julia Percier
  • Electrical anti-fuse and related applications
    Patent number: 8305790
    Abstract: A first terminal and a second terminal of a FinFET transistor are used as two terminals of an anti-fuse. To program the anti-fuse, a gate of the FinFET transistor is controlled, and a voltage having a predetermined amplitude and a predetermined duration is applied to the first terminal to cause the first terminal to be electrically shorted to the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao-Wen Chung, Po-Yao Ke, Shine Chung, Fu-Lung Hsueh
  • Spacer structures of a semiconductor device
    Patent number: 8304840
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to spacer structures of a semiconductor device. An exemplary structure for a semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a first active region and a second active region; a plurality of first gate electrodes having a gate pitch over the first active region, wherein each first gate electrode has a first width; a plurality of first spacers adjoining the plurality of first gate electrodes, wherein each first spacer has a third width; a plurality of second gate electrodes having the same gate pitch as the plurality of first gate electrodes over the second active region, wherein each second gate electrode has a second width greater than the first width; and a plurality of second spacers adjoining the plurality of second gate electrodes, wherein each second spacer has a fourth width less than the third width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Lee-Wee Teo, Ming Zhu, Hui-Wen Lin, Bao-Ru Young, Harry-Hak-Lay Chuang
  • Dendritic polymers and magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent employing the same
    Patent number: 8303937
    Abstract: A dendritic polymer and a magnetic resonance imaging contrast agent employing the same. The magnetic resonance contrast agent includes the dendritic polymer according to the structure of SP-DZ-L)i)j or SP-DX-Z-L)i)j, wherein, S is cyclosilane moiety with j silicon oxygen residual groups, and j is not less than 2; P is and l is not less than 1; D is a C3-30 dendritic moiety having n oxygen residue, and n is not less than 3; X is C3-30 moiety having bi-functional groups; Z is a C3-20 moiety having a plurality of functional group; and L is a metal cation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Dhakshanamurthy Thirumalai, Chin-I Lin, Shian-Jy Wang
  • Disposable diaper
    Patent number: 8303559
    Abstract: A disposable diaper is provided with a skin-contactable sheet piece above a liquid-pervious topsheet. The skin-contactable sheet piece is formed with openings extending in a back-and-forth direction through which body waste is guided toward the topsheet and both lateral zones of the sheet piece on both sides of these openings as viewed in a transverse direction are provided with elastic members attached under tension. Outside the skin-contactable sheet piece as viewed in the transverse direction, leak-barriers are provided and the lateral zones of the skin-contactable sheet piece are bonded to the leak-barriers along regions defined between proximal edges and free edges of the respective leak-barriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Hironao Minato, Kaiyo Nakajima, Naoko Takada
  • Mobile device and area-specific processing executing method
    Patent number: 8305365
    Abstract: A mobile device includes a control unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a displacement detecting unit that detects displacement of a physical value caused when the mobile device moves, wherein the control unit includes an icon displaying unit that displays the icon in the display area, an icon moving unit that moves the icon displayed, in the display area and based on the displacement of the physical value, an area determining unit that compares coordinates of the icon moved and displayed in the display area to the specific area to thereby determine whether the icon is in the specific area, and an area-specific processing executing unit that retrieves the area-specific processing corresponding to the specific area and executes the area-specific processing when the area determining unit determines that the icon is in the specific area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: PFU Limited
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takata
  • Injector for spray coating device
    Patent number: D670786
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Felix Mauchle, Marco Sanwald
  • LED bulb lamp
    Patent number: D671238
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheng Hsiu Du, Chun Min Huang, Chang Hung Chiang