Patents Represented by Attorney Rabin & Berdo, P.C.

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  • Semiconductor device with compact package
    Patent number: 6815829
    Abstract: In a semiconductor device having a structure in which a semiconductor chip is bonded to a surface of a solid device (a semiconductor chip, a wiring substrate or the like), the semiconductor device is thinned. A primary chip 31 and a secondary chip 32 are bonded together with the active surfaces thereof being opposed to each other to form a chip-on-chip structure. The primary chip 31 has bumps BE for outer connection on the outer side of the secondary chip 32. The bumps BE are connected to a surface of an interposed substrate 33. In the inner region of the interposed substrate 33, a through hole 40 for containing the secondary chip 32 is provided. A heat radiating plate 45 is bonded to the inert surface of the primary chip 31. The primary chip 31 and the secondary chip 32 can be well heat-radiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazutaka Shibata
  • Upstream peripheral device serving as a USB host
    Patent number: 6816931
    Abstract: A scanner, which can be a USB host, includes a hub, a scanner component, a virtual printer component and an internal host. The hub is connected to a computer host and the scanner. The scanner component stores the basic setting data of the scanner, while the virtual printer component stores the basic setting data of a printer, and both the scanner component and the virtual printer component are connected to the hub. The internal host is respectively connected to the scanner component, the virtual printer component and the printer. With the virtual printer component and the internal host, the scanner can be the USB host, which directly controls the printer to print.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Avision Inc.
    Inventor: Po-Sheng Shih
  • Mirror diagonal and method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 6814455
    Abstract: A mirror diagonal made with reduced material to achieve the same reflection effect is manufactured by (a) preparing an extruded aluminum tube having a bottom and two slant faces; (b) cutting the extruded aluminum tube to provide a plurality of short sections having a desired length and two open lateral sides, so that each short section forms a housing for the mirror diagonal; (c) processing each housing in predetermined manners; (d) adhering a reflection mirror to the bottom in each housing; (e) sealing the two open lateral sides of each housing with two sealing covers; and (f) mounting first and second tubes in two tube mounting holes separately provided on the two slant faces of each housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Inventor: William T. Yang
  • Packet communication apparatus with first and second processing circuits which access a storage circuit during first and second time periods, respectively
    Patent number: 6816928
    Abstract: A packet communication apparatus processes consecutively transmitted fixed-length packets. The apparatus includes a storage circuit, a first processing circuit which accesses the storage circuit for processing data obtained from each of the packets, and a second processing circuit which accesses the storage circuit for processing data stored in the storage circuit. The apparatus further includes an allocation circuit for executing access time allocation with respect to a packet processing time allowed for processing each of the packets. Specifically, the allocation circuit allocates a first time of the packet processing time to the first processing circuit for accessing the storage circuit and a second time of the packet processing time to the second processing circuit for accessing the storage circuit. The first time and the second time are prevented from overlapping with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Nobuyuki Yoshii
  • Notebook computer
    Patent number: 6816366
    Abstract: A notebook computer includes a main portion, a detachable display portion, a display base, and a main portion cover. The main portion includes a detachable operating panel. The display portion is rotatably attached to the main portion in order that the display portion can be opened and closed relative to the main portion. The display base is combined with the display portion to be a desktop monitor as the display portion is detached from the main portion, which can be further connected to another computer main portion. The main portion cover is combined with the main portion to be a desktop computer main portion, which can be further connected to another monitor, as the display portion and the operating panel are detached from the main portion. Therefore, the user will have more options and be able to use the main portion and the display portion with high brightness and high efficiency more effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Quanta Computer, Inc.
    Inventor: Min-Hsiung Ko
  • Light-electricity converting apparatus using non-volatile memory and image apparatus using the same
    Patent number: 6816198
    Abstract: A light-electricity converting apparatus having a light-electricity converting device and a non-volatile storage device connected to the light-electricity converting device. The light-electricity converting device may be a photosensitive device for generating an electric signal in response to light. The non-volatile storage device may store the electric signal generated by the photosensitive device. Further, the light-electricity converting device may be a light emitting device for converting an electric signal into light. In this case, the non-volatile storage device may store the electric signal to be fed to the light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Suzuki
  • Image forming apparatus
    Patent number: 6816685
    Abstract: An image recording apparatus includes an image forming section, a transportbelt, a fixing roller, a discharge roller, and a controller. The image forming section forms a toner image on a print paper. The transport belt transports the print paper onto which the toner image has been transferred. The fixing roller is disposed downstream of the transport belt with respect to a direction of travel of the print paper, and then cooperates with the discharge roller to further advance the paper toward the stacker. The controller controls the speeds of the transport belt, the fixing roller, and discharge roller. The speed of the fixing roller and discharge roller are changed relative to the speed of the transport belt in accordance with a distance from a reference position over which the print paper advanced by the fixing roller and discharge roller toward the paper stacker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Noriyuki Eda
  • Cold cathode fluorescent lamp with a double-tube construction
    Patent number: 6815883
    Abstract: A cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) comprises an inner fluorescent tube and an outer glass tube which is sheathed on the outside of said inner tube, characterized in that said inner fluorescent tube and said outer glass tube is separately disposed, and there is a space therebetween. Said CCFL further comprises electrodes sealed at the ends of said inner fluorescent tube and said outer glass tube. The CCFL of the present invention has a double-tube construction, as a result, the inner fluorescent tube is not so much affected by a change in the environmental temperature. Further, the inner fluorescent tube and the outer glass tube are separately disposed so that the end of the inner fluorescent tube and the end of the outer glass tube are not integrally joined, so that a rate of the breakage caused by the temperature difference between two ends is dramatically reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignees: Dongguan Nam Kwong Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shing Cheung Chow, Lap Lee Chow
  • Image sensing module outputting color signals or monochrome signals depending on mode of operation
    Patent number: 6812957
    Abstract: An image preprocessing apparatus, which processes image signals of an image of a scanned object, includes an image sensing module, a multiplexing unit and an analog signal processor. The image sensing module includes a number of monochrome image sensors, as well as a black-and-white (B/W) image sensor, outputting a number of monochrome analog image signals and a B/W analog image signal respectively. The multiplexing unit receives the B/W analog image signal and some of the monochrome analog image signals and then selects either the B/W analog image signal or these monochrome analog image signals as the output of the multiplexing unit. The analog signal processor receives the output of the multiplexing unit and the monochrome analog image signals that are not received by the multiplexing unit, and outputs a digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Avision Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • IPS-LCD with a compensation structure for reducing transmittance difference
    Patent number: 6812987
    Abstract: An IPS-LCD with a compensation structure for reducing transmittance difference. The IPS-LCD panel includes a plurality of pixels wherein each pixel has parallel pixel electrodes and parallel common electrodes positioned such that a respective pixel electrode is disposed adjacent and parallel to a respective common electrode. This panel is characterized in that each spacing between any adjacent common electrode and pixel electrode in one pixel is the same, and such spacing is different from the spacing between any between any adjacent common electrode and pixel electrode in the adjacent pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Hannstar Display Corp.
    Inventor: Deuk Su Lee
  • Fuel-efficient vehicle and control method thereof
    Patent number: 6813550
    Abstract: The vehicle comprises an engine (1), a transmission (8) connected to the engine (1), a detecting device (23) for detecting the current vehicle speed, a detecting device (26) for detecting the current gear position of the transmission (8), and a controller (10). The controller (10) functions to set the difference between the maximum drive force of the vehicle at the current vehicle speed and transmission gear position, and the running resistance at the current speed as the spare drive force; to set the difference between the current drive force of the vehicle and the running resistance at the current vehicle speed as the excess drive force; and to control the engine (1) or the transmission (8) so as to reduce the ratio of the excess drive force to the spare drive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Miyama, Inc.
    Inventor: Katsuaki Minami
  • Auxiliary coupling disk for miniature vibration voice-coil motors
    Patent number: 6812607
    Abstract: An auxiliary coupling disk for miniature vibration voice-coil motors aims to couple with a magnetic weight element to change the relative position of the auxiliary disk eccentric from the rotational center of the motor so that the magnetic weight element can generate vibration during rotation. The auxiliary coupling disk further can alter the vibration of the motor. The auxiliary coupling disk has at least one removable member located in the eccentric direction opposite to the magnetic weight element. The removable member may be selectively removed according to requirements to reduce the weight that offsets vibration to increase vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Risun Expanse Corp.
    Inventor: Chien-Chung Sun
  • Pipe pliers with auxiliary pressurizing mechanism
    Patent number: 6810775
    Abstract: An improved structure of a pair of pipe pliers with an auxiliary pressurizing mechanism, to drive both of a movable jaw at the inner side of a curved, movable block provided with a toothed section and a fixed jaw at the output of a handle to execute firmly holding a work object by pressurizing in opposite direction characterized by that the auxiliary pressurizing mechanism includes an additional auxiliary handle, or alternatively, a lateral adjusting screw structure to achieve the function by pressurizing to hold the work object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Agricultural and gardening fertilizer applicator
    Patent number: 6810822
    Abstract: An agricultural and gardening fertilizer applicator comprised of a container filled with a granular, the container having sloping surfaces at the bottom; a worm gear feed rod, a container output port, the worm gear feed rod subjected to the rotational force of a drive mechanism, the pliant delivery hose conjoined to a long pipe; and a manual switch for starting and stopping the drive mechanism. The drive mechanism is connected to a controller, it consisting of power off, intermittent on, and a continuous on. When the long pipe sharp scoop tip is moved to the root section, pressing the switch causes the drive mechanism to start the rotation of the worm gear feed rod, forcing the fertilizer downward under pressure through the output opening to the worm gear feed rod and into the pliant delivery hose, the long pipe, the sharp scoop tip, and onto the root section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Inventor: Yao-Pang Chan
  • Semiconductor memory device having full depletion type logic transistors and partial depletion type memory transistors
    Patent number: 6809381
    Abstract: A simiconductor device includes a simiconductor substrate, an insulating layer, a silicon layer, full depletion type transistors, and partial deletion type transistors. The insulating layer is formed on the simiconductor substrate. The silicon layer has a first region and a second region. The silicon layer is formed on the insulating layer. The full depletion type transistors are used for a logical circuit and are formed on the silicon layer at the first region. The partial depletion type transistors are used for a memory cell circuit and are formed on the silicon layer at the second region. The second region of the silicon layer is maintained at a fixed potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masahiro Yoshida
  • Recording material cutting device
    Patent number: 6807888
    Abstract: There is provided a recording material cutting device having a mechanism for cutting a recording material by the whole edge of a cutter blade so as to prolong the service life of the cutter blade, while allowing to simplify the structure of the device, to downsize the device, and to improve the straightness of the cut portion of the recording material. Upon starting the cutting, the cutting-in depth of the cutter blade 130 is the deepest, and the recording material 113 is cut by the near-root portion of the cutter blade 130. As the whole of the cutter unit 112 moves in the direction C while the seizing member 123 abuts onto the cammed surface of the cammed portion 132, the cutter holder 122 is gradually lifted up so that the cutting-in depth of the cutter blade 130 into the recording material 113 is gradually shallowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Canon Finetech Inc.
    Inventors: Naoki Kiyohara, Yousuke Tatsumi, Kazutaka Miyamoto
  • Method for improving a high-speed edge-coupled photodetector
    Patent number: 6808957
    Abstract: An edge-coupled photodetector, especially a compound semiconductor edge-coupled photodetectors, has a light funnel integrated right in front of the coupling aperture for enhancing the optical coupling efficiency. The light funnel is formed utilizing either a wet etched, crystallographically defined semiconductor slope or a dry etched, resist-profile-defined semiconductor slope covered by the planarized dielectrics. The funnel internals can be partially or fully metallized for total mirror reflection. The lightwave entering the funnel and propagating along the optical axis converges through mirror reflection or total internal reflection. Through such an invention, the edge-coupled photodetector can have both high operation speed and high quantum efficiency with enlarged alignment tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong-Long Ho, Gong-Cheng Lin, I-Ming Liu, Chia-Ju Lin, Yao-Shing Chen, Wen-Jeng Ho, Jy-Wang Liaw
  • Connection-converting device for an expansion card in a portable electronic product
    Patent number: 6808423
    Abstract: A connection-converting device (300) is used to connect an expansion card (110) to a portable electronic product (20), for example, a personal digital assistant which has a circuit board (100) and a card socket (120) mounted on the board. The expansion card is implemented with an M number of signal terminals (415), and the card socket is implemented with an N number of pins (150), wherein, the number of signal terminals is greater than the number of pins. The board is provided a P number of contact pads (250) thereon, wherein P is equal to M minus N. The connection-converting device (300) has an M number of signal pins (315) electrically engaging with the signal terminals (415), an N number of receptacle terminals (335) electrically connecting with the pins (150) and a P number of external contact terminals (350) electrically connecting with the contact pads (250).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: High Tech Computer Corp.
    Inventors: Yao-Chung Lin, Rung-Lung Wu, Wan-Hsieh Liu
  • Testing apparatus embedded in scribe line and a method thereof
    Patent number: 6809541
    Abstract: A testing method and a testing a voltages apparatus embedded in the scribe line on a wafer are disclosed, for testing the to be measured from a die on a wafer. The testing apparatus includes a multiplexer and a comparator. The multiplexer receives the voltages to be measured and outputs a multiplexing or selected voltage according to a selection signal. The comparator receives a reference voltage and the multiplexing voltage and then outputs a digital result by comparing the reference voltage, and the multiplexing voltage. The digital result can be applied to a digital testing machine, such that testing speed is increased and testing cost is decreased. Moreover, the testing apparatus embedded in the scribe lines has the capability to compensate for the comparator's offset, and accordingly, the testing reliability is also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Himax Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Lin-Kai Bu, Kun-Cheng Hung
  • Chain cover for an exercise bike
    Patent number: D497654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Inventor: Ping Chen