Patents Represented by Attorney Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risle
  • Patent number: 7012971
    Abstract: A channel quality assessment with short assessment time and good frequency resolution is disclosed. Some channels are grouped and their detecting results are collected as whale to determine the channel quality. The channel quality is determined by interference collision ratio, which is the ratio of the number of interference events to the sum of the number of interference events and interference-free events. Interfered channels are disabled form the group. The Channel quality of each of plurality of channels is determined from detection results of each of plurality of groups so as to have a short assessment time and meanwhile a good frequency resolution may be retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Hung-Kun Chen, Kwang-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 7004614
    Abstract: A backlight module includes a bezel and a reflective shell. The bezel includes a bezel base, a bezel side plate connected to the bezel base, and an engagement structure mounted on an external side surface of the bezel side plate. The reflective shell includes a reflective shell top plate and a reflective shell side plate, which is connected to the reflective shell top plate and has an engagement hole to be engaged with the engagement structure such that the reflective shell is tightly combined with the bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Yi-Shiuan Tsai, Ming-Fa Wang
  • Patent number: 6998790
    Abstract: A current-driven display device that comprises a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines formed generally orthogonal with the plurality of data lines, an array of pixels driven by a current, each of the pixels being formed near a crossing of one of the data lines and one of the scan lines, and at least one power supply line coupled to the pixels, wherein a maximum average current density at a cross section of the power supply line is no greater than approximately 105 ampere per square centimeter (A/cm2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Wein-Town Sun
  • Patent number: 6999144
    Abstract: A transflective liquid crystal device capable of balancing a color difference between a reflective region and a transmissive region. The arrangement conditions of optical elements in the transflective LCD are as follows. The twist angle of the liquid crystal is about 40°˜80°. The angles ?up, ?down, ?up and ?down are about ?20°˜?60°, ?20°˜20°, 60°˜110°, ?30°˜20° respectively. The angle between the retardation axes of the upper ?/2 plate and the upper ?/4 plate is about 30°˜100°, and the angle between the retardation axes of the lower ?/2 plate and the lower ?/4 plate is about 30°˜80°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Yang-En Wu, Po-Lun Chen
  • Patent number: 6995411
    Abstract: An image sensor has a vertically integrated thin-film photodiode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dun-Nian Yaung, Sou-Kuo Wu, Ho-Ching Chien
  • Patent number: 6988812
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus. The lighting apparatus comprises a light source, a hollow hollow module, and a rectangular lens. The hollow module has a concave, a opening, and an inner reflective surface. The light source is disposed in the concave. The rectangular lens with a semi-translucent incident surface and a display surface is seated in the opening. Light rays emitted from the light source are reflected by the inner surface. Subsequently, the light rays enter the incident surface and exit the lens through the display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: BenQ Corporation
    Inventor: Shih-Lung Hsu
  • Patent number: 6987303
    Abstract: A method to form a SCR device in the manufacture of an integrated circuit device is achieved. The method comprises providing a SOI substrate comprising a silicon layer overlying a buried oxide layer. The silicon layer further comprises a first well of a first type and a second well of a second type. A first heavily doped region of the first type is formed in the second well to form an anode terminal. A second heavily doped region of the second type is formed in the first well to form a cathode terminal and to complete the SCR device. A gate isolation method is described. A salicide method is described. LVT-SCR methods, including a floating-well, LVT-SCR method, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Taiwan Semicondcutor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ta Lee Yu
  • Patent number: 6985063
    Abstract: A transformer core that can realize a winding having a fractional number of turns. At least one of the two side posts of the transformer core has a trench or a through hole. The winding on the side post passes through the trench or the through hole. For a POT-type transformer core, the trench or the through hole is formed on the bobbin, and winding passes through the trench or the through hole on the bobbin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Delta Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Chen, Jun Zhang, Yue Quan Hu
  • Patent number: 6966674
    Abstract: A backlight module and heat dissipation structure thereof. The heat dissipation structure is used for a backlight module which comprises a circuit board having a through hole with a light emitting diode (LED) corresponding thereto and disposed on one side of the circuit board. The heat dissipation structure comprises a heat conducting portion thermo-conductively connected to the LED and positioned in the through hole, a thermal conductive element disposed between the heat conducting portion and the LED, and a heat dissipating portion thermo-conductively connected to the heat conducting portion. Heat from the LED is conducted through the thermal conductive element and the heat conducting portion to the heat dissipation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Yi-Shiuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 6656032
    Abstract: A leg part cutter (1) skins and cuts poultry leg parts, in particular thighbones (P), which parts are provided with a bone. A frame (2, 3) and skinning rolls (19) arranged on the frame for skinning the leg part. Knives (24, 25) are arranged on the frame for cutting through the leg part along the bone. A conveyor (4) conveys the leg part past the skinning rolls and after that past the knives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Systemate Group, B.V.
    Inventors: Jacobus Eliza Hazenbroek, Hendrik De Bonte
  • Patent number: 6017662
    Abstract: A method of reducing laser mark peeling depends on what sort of layer lies over the laser mark. If a structure formed on the laser mark is a conductive layer, an adhesion layer or a passivation layer, the conductive layer, adhesion layer or passivation layer is removed from the laser mark. If a structure formed on a laser mark is a dielectric layer, the dielectric layer is left on the laser mark. The area removed from the upper layer is equal to or bigger than the area removed from the lower layer in order to avoid contacts between the conductive layers. In addition to being used for a laser mark, the method mentioned above can be also used for a wafer edge and an alignment mark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: United Microelectronics Corp.
    Inventor: Tzung-Han Lee
  • Patent number: D519952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Hannspree Inc.
    Inventors: Holger Hoehn, Reinier Bloem