Patents Represented by Attorney Rabin & Berdo, P.C.
  • Patent number: 8004006
    Abstract: Provided are a nitride semiconductor light emitting element which does not suffer a damage on a light emitting region and has a high luminance without deterioration, even though the nitride semiconductor light emitting element is one in which electrodes are disposed opposite to each other and an isolation trench for chip separation and laser lift-off is formed by etching; and a manufacturing method thereof. An n-type nitride semiconductor layer 2 has a step, formed in a position beyond an active layer 3 when viewed from a p side. Up to the position of this step A, a protective insulating film 6 covers a part of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, the active layer 3, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 4, the side of a p electrode 5 and a part of the top side of the p electrode 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Nakahara, Atsushi Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 8004569
    Abstract: A method for obtaining a still image frame with anti-vibration clearness includes the following steps. Multiple raw image frames are captured during a capturing period according to a capturing instruction. The raw image frames are compressed respectively, according to a predetermined compression rule, into multiple compressed image frames each of which has a data length after such compression. The compressed image frames are stored according to a predetermined sequence. The data lengths of the compressed image frames stored are compared according to the predetermined sequence. The desired still image frame is obtained through the compressed image frame of which the data length has a unique feature among all the compressed image frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Alpha Imaging Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Shih Yu, Chun-Yu Chen, Chih-Ying Tu
  • Patent number: 8002670
    Abstract: A resistance training device effectively training the muscular force of a desired muscle includes a saddle for a user to sit on, a robot arm adjustable to the length of a limb of the user, a fastener for securing the robot arm to the limb, a controller for controlling the torque of a driving source driving a joint of the robot arm, and an input operating unit for the user to input a driving condition. When the user inputs a training load and an output direction of the distal end of the limb to be trained, the value of a torque necessary for generating the training load is calculated. The robot arm generates the torque of the calculated magnitude acting in a direction opposite to the output direction in such a manner that a constant training load is exerted to the user without dependency on the position of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Kadota
  • Patent number: 8004512
    Abstract: A power-on screen pattern correcting apparatus is for correcting start output data of output terminals of a source driver such that a power-on screen pattern of a display is substantially uniform. The correcting apparatus comprises a flip-flop, a first logic unit and a second logic unit. The flip-flop controls a level of an inner signal to be substantially equal to a low signal level in response to a low level of a power start signal. The first logic unit enables a first signal in response to the low level of the inner signal or a low level of a high-impedance control signal. The second logic unit enables a second signal such that the output terminals are coupled to a charge sharing line and the power-on screen pattern is uniform in response to the low level of the inner signal or a low level of a charge-sharing control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Raydium Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Yong-Nien Rao, Ko-Yang Tso, Hui-Wen Miao, Chin-Chieh Chao
  • Patent number: 8005381
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearing body that bears a latent image, a charging member applied with a charging voltage and configured to charge a surface of the latent image bearing body, a developer bearing body applied with a developing voltage and configured to develop the latent image with a developer, a developer regulating member applied with a regulating-member-application voltage and configured to form a layer of the developer on the developer bearing body, and a voltage switching unit configured to switch the regulating-member-application voltage. In a non-image-forming period, the voltage switching unit switches the regulating-member-application voltage from a voltage set for an image forming period to a different voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Oki Data Corporation
    Inventor: Takatoku Shimizu
  • Patent number: 7999317
    Abstract: A p-type body region and an n-type buffer region are formed on an n? drift region. An n++ emitter region and a p++ contact region are formed on the p-type body region in contact with each other. A p++ collector region is formed on the n-type buffer region. An insulating film is formed on the n? drift region, and a gate insulating film is formed on the n++ emitter region, the p-type body region, and the n drift region. A gate electrode is formed on the insulating film and the gate insulating film. A p+ low-resistivity region is formed in the p-type body region and surrounding the interface between the n++ emitter region and between the p-type body region and the p++ contact region. The p-type body region has two local maxima of an impurity concentration profile at the interface between the body region and the gate insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Electric Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Fei Lu, Mizushima Tomonori
  • Patent number: 7997786
    Abstract: A heating and cooling cup includes a cup body, a stirring device, a heating and cooling chip, and a heat sink module. A heat conductive block is disposed under the cup body, the heat conductive block abuts against the heating and cooling chip, the stirring device has a stirring rod disposed in the cup body, and a bottom surface of the heating and cooling chip abuts against a heat conductive block of the heat sink module. A temperature of the cup body is changed through the heating and cooling chip, for cooling or heating liquid food in the cup body, and the liquid food is forced to generate convection through the stirring rod for accelerating a temperature variation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignees: Teck-Huat Chua
    Inventor: Pei-Chuan Liu
  • Patent number: 7998771
    Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a light emitting diode using a nitride semiconductor, which including the steps of: forming n- and p-type current spreading layers using a hetero-junction structure; forming trenches by dry-etching the n- and p-type current spreading layers; forming an n-type metal electrode layer in the trench of the n-type current spreading layer; forming a p-type metal electrode layer in the trench of the p-type current spreading layer; and forming a transparent electrode layer on the p-type metal electrode layer, thereby improving current spreading characteristics as compared with the conventional method of manufacturing the light emitting diode, and enhancing operating characteristics of the light emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Sung Bum Bae
  • Patent number: 7998764
    Abstract: A solid-state light emitting display and a fabrication method thereof are proposed. The light emitting display includes a metallic board formed with conductive circuits, and a plurality of luminous microcrystals disposed on a surface of the metallic board and electrically connected to the conductive circuits. The metallic board provides the features of lightness and thinness, and flexibility, and the luminous microcrystals are in the form of light emitting components, so as to improve the luminous efficiency of display and attain the effect of environmental protection and energy saving, thereby providing display technology with performance satisfactory for various display requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Hung, Chia-Chiang Chang, Chun-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 7999286
    Abstract: The MIS field-effect transistor includes: a substrate; a nitride semiconductor multilayer structure portion formed on the substrate, including a first group III-V nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second group III-V nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type stacked thereon and a third group III-V nitride semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type stacked thereon; a gate insulating film formed on a wall surface formed over the first, second and third group III-V nitride semiconductor layers to extend over these first, second and third group III-V nitride semiconductor layers; a gate electrode made of a conductive material formed as being opposed to the second group III-V nitride semiconductor layer via the gate insulating film; a drawn portion electrically connected to the first group III-V nitride semiconductor layer and drawn from the nitride semiconductor multilayer structure portion in a direction parallel to the substrate; a drain electrode formed in conta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ohta, Hidemi Takasu
  • Patent number: 8000546
    Abstract: An adaptive scan method for image/video coding in accordance with the present invention comprises acts of calculating an average power of the transformed coefficients vector and acts rearranging the powers of the transformed coefficients with descending order in the data block according to the power of transformed coefficients; Therefore, the adaptive scan method is dependent on different prediction mode witch has been coded in H.264 standard, and provides better rate-distortion performance in entropy coding to the conventional zig-zag scan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: National Cheng Kung University
    Inventors: Jar-Ferr Yang, Yung-Chiang Wei
  • Patent number: 7999195
    Abstract: The present invention provides a circuit board having an isolation cover and an assembling method thereof. The circuit board of the present invention comprises a main body and an isolation cover disposed on the circuit board main body. The main body and the isolation cover have a plurality of corresponding first and second positioning portions, and a ground portion is disposed on at least one side of each first positioning portion. The isolation cover is disposed on a first surface of the main body, and each second positioning portion passes through a second surface of the main body and each first positioning portion. An end of each second positioning portion is connected to each ground portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Askey Computer Corp.
    Inventors: Chung-Shao Huang, Ching-Feng Hsieh, Jen-Huan Yu, Cheng-Wen Dai, Kuo-Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 8000867
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a system for automatically landing an aircraft using image signals and a method of controlling the system. The system includes an altimeter installed on the aircraft; a landing mark placed at a landing location on a landing runway; a camera installed on the aircraft, oriented toward the front of the aircraft, and configured to detect the shape of the landing mark in image information form; and a FCC configured to calculate the angle between the aircraft and the ground, the ground range and the slant range between the aircraft and the landing location using the altitude information measured by the altimeter, the image information of the landing mark captured by the camera, angle information composed of the pitch, roll and yaw angles of the aircraft, and the angle of entry into the landing runway, and configured to control the automatic landing of the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Korea Aerospace Research Institute
    Inventor: Hyeon-Cheol Lee
  • Patent number: 7998789
    Abstract: A method and a system for forming a copper indium gallium sulfur selenide (CIGSSe) absorption layer and a cadmium sulfide (CdS) buffer layer under non-vacuum condition is disclosed. A coating layer is formed on the back electrode layer on the substrate by mixing the slurry on the back electrode layer, and the coating layer formed on the back electrode layer is densified by a densification device after initially dried, and then a primary selenization/sulfurization reaction process is carried out to form a primary CIGSSe layer, and then a thermal process is carried out to improve the lattice match of the primary CIGSSe layer, and then an impurity cleaning process is carried out by using potassium cyanide or bromide to remove the impurities of cuprous selenide and copper sulfide, and then a rear-stage selenization/sulfurization reaction process is carried out to produce the required rear-stage CIGSSe absorption layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Jenn Feng New Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chuan-Lung Chuang
  • Patent number: 8000537
    Abstract: Provided are an optical vision chip (OVC) and an image recognition method using the OVC. The OVC includes: a first display displaying an object image; a second display displaying a standard model image; and an optical sensor optically or electrically coupling the object image and the standard model image respectively displayed on the first and second displays and outputting a difference between the object image and the standard model image as an electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sahnggi Park, Won Pil Yu, Kwang Ryong Oh
  • Patent number: 7998083
    Abstract: A method and device for automatically detecting heart valve damage for four heart valves are proposed. The automatic determination method makes use of three or more heart tone microphones to simultaneously record heart tones of a patient's heart, and then separates the heart tones into four heart tone signals of the aortic valve, the pulmonary valve, the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve of the heart based on the timing characteristics and related techniques. Next, these four heart tone signals are digitally processed into sampling signals. Subsequently, the convolution method is used to process the sampling signals for producing system transfer functions. Finally, the system transfer functions and the reference database are compared to verify and determine damage for the four heart valves. The automatic determination method can judge heart valve damage to enhance the quality and convenience of medical treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tsung-Ter Kuo, Mao-Shun Su, Yu-Kon Chou, Ming-Kaan Liang
  • Patent number: 7996984
    Abstract: A duplexer includes an FBAR band pass filter that can be easily embodied in single chip. A method for manufacturing the same includes the steps of forming a plurality of recesses in a substrate, forming an insulation layer on the substrate, and forming a plurality of filling-up layers that fill the recesses. The method also includes the step of forming a transmitting bandpass filter and forming a receiving bandpass filter on an upper side of the membrane, with each bandpass filter including at least two film bulk acoustic resonators (FBARs). In addition, the method includes the step of forming a circuit that connects the bandpass filters to an antenna terminal, with this circuit including at least one inductor and capacitor. The method also includes a step of removing the filling-up layers from the recesses in the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: MEMS Solution Inc.
    Inventor: Jaemyoung Jhung
  • Patent number: 7997514
    Abstract: A wet ball mill method for fabricating copper/indium/gallium/selenium (CIGS) nanoparticles, comprising an individual milling process, a homogeneously mixing process, a primary milling process, and an advanced milling process, wherein in the individual milling process, the individual particles or compound particles including copper, indium, gallium and/or selenium are milled to the individual milled materials with a particle size 500 nm to 600 nm; in the homogeneously mixing process, the individual milled materials are mixed to a mixed homogenate; in the primary milling process, the mixed homogenate is milled to the primary milled materials with particle size 100 nm to 200 nm; and in the advanced milling process, the primary milled materials are milled to the advanced milled materials with particle size less than 50 nm which are the CIGS nanoparticles for fabricating the absorption layer of CIGS solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Jenn Feng New Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi-Lang Yang
  • Patent number: 7994948
    Abstract: Provided is a table generation method of decoding a variable-length code. The table generation method includes receiving a variable-length code table and a search width N, generating a K-ary tree from the variable-length code table and the search width N, and generating an N-bit code table from the K-ary tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Hyun Cho, Moo Kyoung Chung, Kyung Su Kim, Jae Jin Lee, Jun Young Lee, Seong Mo Park, Nak Woong Eum
  • Patent number: 7993565
    Abstract: Disclosed is a folding and shape-forming apparatus for a prepreg which includes a vacuum chamber which can generate a vacuum pressure in the inside thereof, an expanding portion disposed inside the vacuum chamber, provided with a prepreg thereon, and expanding because of the vacuum pressure inside the vacuum chamber, a heating portion disposed inside the vacuum chamber for heating the prepreg, a mandrel loaded at a portion of an upper surface of the prepreg, a first pressing portion which is brought into contact with an upper surface of the mandrel to press the mandrel, and a second pressing portion which simultaneously presses both another portion of the upper surface of the prepreg and the expanding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Korean Air Lines Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Hak Kim, Joong Won Han, Jae Hwan Lee, Do Young Lee, Jin Hyun Kim