Patents Represented by Attorney Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC
  • Patent number: 8344392
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting stack includes: a first semiconductor layer; an active layer formed on the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer formed on the active layer; a recess structure formed through the second semiconductor layer, the active layer, and extended in the first semiconductor layer, wherein the first semiconductor layer includes a contact region defined by the recess structure; a first electrode structure including a first contact portion on the contact region of the first semiconductor layer, and a second contact portion laterally extended from the first contact portion into the first semiconductor layer; and a dielectric layer formed on side surfaces of the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to insulate the second semiconductor layer and the active layer from the first contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Jui Hung Yeh, Chun Kai Wang, Wei Yu Yen, Yu Yao Lin, Chien Fu Shen, De Shan Kuo, Ting Chia Ko
  • Patent number: 8346385
    Abstract: An early-warning apparatus for health detection of a servo motor and a method for operating the same are applied to estimate vibration phenomenon of a CNC tool machine. First, a vibration signal is produced through a vibration detecting unit. Afterward, the vibration signal is sequentially sent to a data buffer. Afterward, the vibration signal is transformed in time and frequency domains through a time-frequency transforming unit. Finally, a deterioration index is calculated through a deterioration index calculating unit to obtain a health index which is calculated through a health index calculating unit. Therefore, the build-in vibration detecting unit is provided to dispense with additional external sensors. Furthermore, the vibration phenomenon of the servo motor of the CNC tool machine is estimated according to the health index, thus analyzing non-linear and non-stationary characteristics of the estimated vibration phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Shiong Tsai, Meng-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 8346085
    Abstract: A network interface unit includes an input for receiving downstream signals from an optical fiber, an optical pathway leading from the input, a laser connected to the optical pathway for transmitting upstream signals in a first wavelength band, and a receiver for receiving downstream signals in a second wavelength band that doesn't overlap with the first wavelength band. A first filter is provided for filtering signals in a third wavelength band from the optical pathway before signals in the third wavelength band reach the receiver, and a second filter is provided between the input and the laser for filtering signals in a fourth wavelength band from the optical pathway, the fourth wavelength band not overlapping with the first wavelength band or the third wavelength band, and an arrangement is also provided for preventing processing of the fourth wavelength band downstream of the second filter. Also a filtering method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventor: Mark Vogel
  • Patent number: 8343783
    Abstract: A LED module and a packing method of the same include plural boards defined with a positive line and a negative line. The positive line connects to at least one positive joint, and the negative line connects to at least one negative joint. Some LEDs are respectively disposed on each board, and conducting ends of the LEDs are separately connected to the positive line and the negative line. A number of electronic elements are individually installed on each board, and conducting ends of the electronic elements are separately connected to the positive line and the negative line disposed on the board. A positive guiding line connects to the positive joint of each board, and a negative guiding line connects to the negative joint of each board. The LED module achieved in accordance with above-mentioned construction contributes to the flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Long Jing International Technology Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hao-An Lee
  • Patent number: 8344412
    Abstract: The application discloses a light-emitting diode chip level package structure including: a permanent substrate having a first surface and a second surface; a first electrode on the first surface; a second electrode on the second surface; an adhesive layer on where the first surface of the permanent substrate is not covered by the first electrode; a growth substrate on the adhesive layer; a patterned semiconductor structure on the growth substrate; a third electrode and a fourth electrode on the patterned semiconductor structure and electrically connect with the patterned semiconductor structure; an electrical connecting structure on the sidewall of the patterned semiconductor structure electrically connecting the third electrode and the fourth electrode with the first electrode; and an insulation layer located on the side wall of the patterned semiconductor structure and between the electrical connecting structure for electrically insulating the patterned semiconductor structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Chia-Liang Hsu, Shu-Ting Hsu, Min-Hsun Hsieh, Chih-Chiang Lu, Alexander Wang
  • Patent number: 8344784
    Abstract: A method and circuit arrangement is provided for controlling switching transistors of an integrated circuit, with a bridge circuit and with a control unit, which is designed and/or has a program so that the control unit is designed as a measuring device and measures a bridge voltage of the bridge circuit, outputs an adjusting signal for adjusting a component of a bridge circuit, and outputs a control signal for activating the switching transistors. When the bridge circuit) has a branch with a resistor network and a transistor connected in series, and the control unit is designed and/or has a program so that the adjusting signal for adjusting a resistance value of the resistor network is switchable as the component dependent on the bridge voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Micronas GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Czech, Ulrich Theus
  • Patent number: 8342716
    Abstract: A LED head sink module includes a LED module, which comprises a circuit substrate, a LED chip installed in the circuit substrate, a packing cup molded on the circuit substrate around the LED chip and a lens molded on the packing cup over the LED chip, a heat sink, which has a base and a flat mounting block located on the bottom side of the base for stopping against the circuit substrate of the LED module for absorbing waste heat, a bracket, which has a center opening that receives the circuit substrate of the LED module, first retaining members for fastening to a retaining portion at the periphery of the packing cup and second retaining members for fastening to the flat mounting block of the heat sink, and a water seal sandwiched between the LED module and the bracket to seal off outside moisture and dust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: KWO GER Metal Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Hsuan-Chih Lin
  • Patent number: 8345055
    Abstract: An image display device includes a timing controller capable of overdriving. The timing controller has three line buffers, an image reverse processing unit, and an overdrive unit. The first line buffer buffers first line data of a second frame, wherein the second frame is generated later than a first frame. The second line buffer buffers first compressed data. The image reverse processing unit estimates first and second line data of the first frame according to the first compressed data. According to the first and second line data of the first and second frames, the overdrive unit outputs first and second lines of interleaving data for an interleaving frame. The interleaving frame is inserted between the first and second frames. With the third line buffer, the timing controller outputs the first and second lines of interleaving data at different time point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Princeton Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Ming-Hsun Lu
  • Patent number: 8345360
    Abstract: A camera unit is provided, including a camera lens and a macro lens coupled with the camera lens module along an optical axis. The macro lens comprises a plane substrate and a plano-convex lens structure formed on the plane substrate by wafer level processing, wherein the effective focal length of the macro lens is between 80-150 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignees: Visera Technologies Company Limited, Omnivision Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yun-Chiang Hsu
  • Patent number: 8339290
    Abstract: A control method of an alterable key is applied in a portable electronic device including switch a plurality of function modes. The portable electronic device has an opaque key portion, a pattern template layer, and a plurality of light emitting portions. A pattern template layer has many groups of operating patterns. Light emitting portions are corresponding to the operating patterns and emit the specific light, and the operating patterns are corresponding to the function modes. The control method includes the following steps of receiving a first command to switch the corresponding function mode, brightening the light emitting portion corresponding to the function mode to show the corresponding operating patterns on the opaque key portion, receiving a second command to switch another corresponding function mode, and brightening the light emitting portion corresponding to another function mode to show another corresponding operating patterns on the opaque key portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Mao
  • Patent number: 8339806
    Abstract: A network communication component includes a case, a plurality of channels and at least one shielding. The channels are formed in the case. The shielding is disposed between two adjacent channels. Through the shielding between the channels, mutual interferences between the channels are avoided to enhance the signal communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Yuan Cheng, Chen-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 8339527
    Abstract: A thin touch panel includes a transparent substrate with a black bordering around the inner surface of the transparent substrate. A plurality of metal connecting structures, metal guiding lines, transparent insulating structures and a transparent sensing layer are formed on the inner surface, so that the transparent substrate not only provides a touch surface, but also has the touch sensing ability, to decrease the manufacture material and increase the transmittance of the touch panel. Besides, the manufacture of the thin touch panel may not use any optical adhesive to decrease the manufacture cost and improve the yield. Further, the thin touch panel may satisfy the trend of thin design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Buwon Advanced Coating Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sheng-Feng Lee, Ching-Hsien Wen
  • Patent number: 8337376
    Abstract: A post-press apparatus which advances paper once to accomplish processing of cotton boxes, includes a sheet feeder unit, a hot foil stamping unit, a die-cutting unit, a waste stripping unit, a blank separation unit, a waste conveying unit, a gripper bar and a gripper bar chain. The advantages are that works to be done by multiple apparatuses are accomplished on one apparatus, reducing a number of times of paper advancing to improve a production efficiency and decreasing staffs to reduce a labor cost; inaccuracy of repetitive positioning by multiple times of paper advancing is avoided, improving a processing quality and reducing a defect rate to decrease a loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Inventor: Tian-Sheng Liu
  • Patent number: 8336386
    Abstract: An air pump pressure gauge includes a casing, an inner tube coaxially affixed to the casing and defining with the casing an accommodation chamber, a movable member movable back and forth in the accommodation chamber, an end cap end cap set between the inner tube and the casing to seal one end of the accommodation space, a spring member stopped between the end cap and the movable member, at least one seal member mounted on the movable member to define a first airtight structure between the outer surface of the inner tube and the at least one seal member and a second airtight structure between the inside wall of the casing and the at least one seal member, an air hole in communication between the axial hole of the inner tube and the accommodation space, a longitudinal sliding slot located on the movable member, a rack extending along one side of the longitudinal sliding slot, a rotating axle inserted through the longitudinal sliding slot and having its inner end pivoted to the inner tube and its outer end exten
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Beto Engineering and Marketing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lopin Wang
  • Patent number: 8337560
    Abstract: An intervertebral disk prosthesis, having a rigid top plate, a rigid bottom plate, and an elastically deformable intermediate cushion housed between the two inner surfaces of the plates. The cushion, at rest, possesses a wedge-shape possessing at least one front notch open into the larger end of the wedge and one rear notch open into the narrower end. The faces of the notches co-operate by contact over an area of magnitude that varies as a function of the intensity and/or direction of the load to which the prosthesis is subjected. The bottoms of the notches are spaced apart from each other and situated in the narrower half of the prosthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Inventors: Vincent Pointillart, Richard Assaker
  • Patent number: 8340420
    Abstract: A method for recognizing objects in images is disclosed. The method of the present invention comprises the following steps. First, acquire a digital image. Then, select one or more objects from the image according to a certain characteristic. Next, generate an x-axis histogram and/or a y-axis histogram from the segmented image. Then, find the zeroes and maxima for the x-axis histogram and/or the y-axis histogram and use the polynomial regression analysis to determine the shape, shape and location of each of the objects in the segmented image according to the zeroes and maxima. If the two curves linking two zeroes and one maximum in the x-axis histogram and the y-axis histogram are two sloped line, the corresponding object may be determined to be a triangle. If each of the four curves linking two zeroes and two maxima is a line, the corresponding object may be determined to be a rectangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Gregory C. Smith, Shana S. Smith
  • Patent number: 8333282
    Abstract: A device for dewatering bulk or free-flowing input material by compacting it is provided. The device has a housing arranged along an axis of rotation, which has an input area and a feed and compaction area following axially within a jacket pipe. In the housing, a coaxial drive shaft with circumferentially extending coils rotates, compacting the input material during transport from the input area through the feed and compaction area. In this process the residual water present in the input material is conducted through radial openings in the jacket pipe from the device. According to the invention it is provided that at least in a partial region the jacket pipe is provided with passages and inside the jacket pipe an inner pipe is arranged, which lies at least partially with its external circumference against the inner circumference of the outer jacket pipe and which at least in the area of the passages has passage openings that are several fold smaller than the passages in the jacket pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Pallmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hartmut Pallmann
  • Patent number: D673309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mu-Chiao Tsai, Ming-Cheng Lee
  • Patent number: D673458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventor: Andreas Schill
  • Patent number: D673699
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Epistar Corporation
    Inventors: Chiu-Lin Yao, Been-Yu Liaw, Ming-Chi Hsu