Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Welsh & Katz
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Patent number: 7918934Abstract: A single crystal semiconductor manufacturing apparatus in which the concentration of oxygen in a single crystal semiconductor is controlled while pulling up a single crystal semiconductor such as single crystal silicon by the CZ method, a single crystal semiconductor manufacturing method, and a single crystal ingot manufactured by the method are disclosed. The natural convection (20) in the melt (5) in a quartz crucible (3) is controlled by regulating the temperatures at a plurality of parts of the melt (5). A single crystal semiconductor (6) can have a desired diameter by regulating the amount of heat produced by heating means (9a) on the upper side. Further the ratio between the amount of heat produced by the upper-side heating means (9a) and that by the lower-side heating means (9b) is adjusted to vary the process condition. In the adjustment, the amount of heat produced by the lower-side heating means (9b) is controlled to a relatively large proportion.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2006Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Sumco Techxiv CorporationInventors: Yutaka Shiraishi, Jyunsuke Tomioka, Takuji Okumura, Tadayuki Hanamoto, Takehiro Komatsu, Shigeo Morimoto
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Patent number: 7915241Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of 24-alkyl analogs of cholecalcyferol of Formula 1 having a (5E) or (5Z) configuration, wherein X represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group or an OR1 group, where R1, R2 and R3 may be the same or different and represent groups suitable for hydroxyl protection, and R4 is a C1-6 alkyl chain or a C1-6 cykloalkyl group, optionally substituted with C1-3 alkyl groups, especially for calcipotriol. The invention also provides new intermediates and non-racemic compounds being valuable synthones for the synthesis of pharmacologically active substances.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2004Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Instytut FarmaceutycznyInventors: Andrzej Kutner, Jacek Martynow, Michal Chodynski, Wieslaw Szelejewski, Hanna Fitek, Malgorzata Krupa
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Patent number: 7888094Abstract: Peptides including HisGlyTrpSerTyrGlyGlyPheLeu; LeuAspGluAsnValHisPhePhe; GluArgHisSerIleArg and PheValIleGlnGluGluPhe which show peptidase ability and have substrate specificity for at least one of the compounds H-Ala-Pro-pNA, H-Gly-Pro-pNA and H-Arg-Pro-pNA are disclosed. Nucleic acids, vectors, antibodies and hybridoma cells are also claimed with reference to the above sequences and their abilities.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Inventors: Catherine Anne Abbott, Mark Douglas Gorrell
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Patent number: 7879693Abstract: The invention provides a method for activating impurity element added to a semiconductor and performing gettering process in shirt time, and a thermal treatment equipment enabling to perform such the heat-treating.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7881568Abstract: An interconnect element incorporates a plurality of smaller, substantially identical, interconnect modules. Multiple identical elements can in turn be combined to form larger interconnect networks. Signal paths in the elements can be implemented with optical fibers or electrical conductors.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Tellabs Operations, Inc.Inventor: Philip J. Lin
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Patent number: 7879257Abstract: An organic-inorganic hybrid material comprising a metal oxide and a chelating ligand is synthesized. The function of a coloring property, a light-emitting property, or semiconductivity of the organic-inorganic hybrid material can be controlled by chelating ligand. The organic-inorganic hybrid material is prepared by sol-gel method using sol which includes a metal alkoxide and/or a metal salt and a functional chelating agent.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Harue Nakashima, Ryoji Nomura
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Patent number: 7881939Abstract: A system for monitoring conditions associated with an individual in a region includes at least one speech input transducer and speech processing software coupled thereto. Results of the speech processing can initiate communications with a displaced communications device such as a telephone or a computer to provide a source of feedback.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Lee D. Tice
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Patent number: 7880019Abstract: It is an object to provide a noble anthracene derivative, a light emitting element with a high luminous efficiency, and further a light emitting element with a long lifetime. It is another object to provide a light emitting device and electronic device with a long lifetime by using the light emitting element. An anthracene derivative represented by General Formula (1) is provided. Since the anthracene derivative represented by General Formula (1) has a high luminous efficiency, when the anthracene derivative is used for a light emitting element, the light emitting element can have a high luminous efficiency. Further, when the anthracene derivative represented by General Formula (1) is used for a light emitting element, the light emitting element can have a long lifetime.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2007Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masakazu Egawa, Harue Osaka, Sachiko Kawakami, Satoko Shitagaki
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Patent number: 7876859Abstract: The invention provides a semiconductor device with high yield by reducing an effect of variations in characteristics of a semiconductor element. Further, by reducing an effect of variations in characteristics of a semiconductor element to improve productivity, an inexpensive semiconductor device can be provided. Further, an inexpensive semiconductor device can be provided by forming a semiconductor device in a large amount over a large substrate such as a glass substrate and a flexible substrate. A semiconductor device of the invention includes a demodulation signal generating circuit and an antenna or a wire for connecting the antenna. The demodulation signal generating circuit includes a demodulation circuit and a correction circuit. The correction circuit corrects a first demodulation signal generated from the demodulation circuit and generates a second demodulation signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kiyoshi Kato, Yutaka Shionoiri
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Patent number: 7875116Abstract: A method in which SSDs are reliably reduced while reducing void defects other than the SSDs on a wafer surface, which is essential for an annealed wafer, and ensuring that BMDs serving as gettering source in a bulk are generated, in order to stabilize the quality of the annealed wafer. Considering that annealing a silicon wafer leads to an increase of density (quantity) of deposits associated with oxygen and nitrogen and forming a core of the SSDs, SSDs are decreased by reducing the density (quantity) of the deposits associated with oxygen and nitrogen by controlling three parameters of oxygen concentration, nitrogen concentration and cooling concentration during the process of pulling and growing the silicon single crystal 6 before annealing. Alternatively, SSD is reduced by polishing after annealing.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Sumco Techxiv CorporationInventors: Shinya Sadohara, Ryota Suewaka, Shiro Yoshino, Kozo Nakamura, Yutaka Shiraishi, Syunji Nonaka
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Patent number: 7875879Abstract: A substrate including a semiconductor layer, where characteristics of an element can be evaluated with high reliability, and an evaluating method thereof are provided. A substrate including a semiconductor layer of the invention has a closed-loop circuit in which an antenna coil and a semiconductor element are connected in series, and a surface of an area over which the circuit is formed is covered with an insulating film. By using such a circuit, a contactless inspection can be carried out. Further, a ring oscillator can be substituted for the closed-loop circuit.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo, Sachiko Kawakami
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Patent number: 7874527Abstract: A rail fastening apparatus fastens an inner stock rail in a railway slide chair assembly. The apparatus includes a base plate. The base plate has on one face a rail seat region on which the inner stock rail sits when the slide chair assembly is in use. A resilient rail fastening clip restrains the inner stock rail. A locating means locates the rail fastening clip in a first position. A loading means vertically deflects the clip so as to produce a load in a toe portion of the clip.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2005Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignees: Pandrol Limited, VAE Eisenbahnsysteme GmbH, VAE GmbH, BWG GmbH & Co. KGInventors: John Phillip Porrill, David Ronald Seeley, Heinz Ossberger, Josef Leitner, Hans-Ulrich Dietze, Hubertus Höhne
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Patent number: 7876361Abstract: To calibrate images from an overhead camera, two equal-length reference lines at different heights relative to the floor plane are imaged. By comparing the resultant image-width of each of these lines in the view provided by the camera, the effective focal point of the camera is determined. In a preferred embodiment, a doorframe is used to provide equal-length lines at different heights parallel to the floor. The threshold of the doorway at the floor plane is used as a reference plane, and a parallel calibration line at a known/measured height in the doorway is defined. The image produced by a vertically oriented camera of these two equal length lines will show a longer line at the elevated position, the different widths of the images of these lines being dependent upon the camera's effective focal point. From these two projections of the equal-length lines at different heights, the camera's focal point distance from the reference floor plane is determined.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Yun-Ting Lin, Tomas Brodsky, Mi-Suen Lee
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Patent number: 7875853Abstract: A passive infrared sensor (PIR) for detecting infrared radiation which includes a lens positioned in a sensor housing, and a pyroelectric element electrically connected to a circuit board within a filter housing positioned in the sensor housing. A microprocessor is electrically connected to a main circuit board and controls a liquid crystal display (LCD) attached to the sensor housing. The lens overlaps the LCD. The LCD has LCD regions corresponding to lens regions of the lens. Using the microprocessor, the LCD regions selectively prevent radiation energy from passing to the pyroelectric element, and the LCD regions selectively allow radiation energy to pass to the pyroelectric element. A signaling device communicates an alarm signal indicating when radiation energy within a specified wavelength band reaches the pyroelectric element.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventor: Lewin A. Edwards
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Patent number: 7875852Abstract: A passive infrared detector assembly including a detector housing comprising a window transparent to far infrared radiation, at least one sensor sensitive to the far infrared radiation and disposed within the detector housing and an anti-masking subassembly, including at least one light guide having a serrated light aperture, the light aperture defining a plurality of teeth like portions and a plurality of grooves and being disposed close to the outside of the window, at least one infrared light emitter operative to emit near infrared radiation via the light aperture of the at least one light guide and a near infrared radiation receiver operative to receive radiation emitted by the at least one near infrared light emitter and to measure the level of received near infrared radiation and to provide a masking alarm signal upon detection of a predetermined change in the level of the received near infrared radiation.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Visonic LtdInventors: Boris Zhevelev, Yaacov Kotlicki
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Patent number: 7875542Abstract: It is required that a line width of a wiring is prevented from being wider to be miniaturized when the wiring or the like is formed by a dropping method typified by an ink-jetting method. The invention provides a method for narrowing (miniaturizing) a line width according to a method different from a conventional method. One feature of the invention is that a plasma treatment is performed before forming a wiring or the like by a dropping method typified by an ink-jetting method. As the result of the plasma treatment, a surface for forming a conductive film is modified to be liquid-repellent. Consequently, a wiring or the like formed by a dropping method can be miniaturized.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinji Maekawa, Koji Muranaka
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Patent number: 7876413Abstract: A height difference under a sealant is reduced in a case where lines are present under the sealant. There is provided a substrate having an active matrix display circuit and peripheral driving circuits, a counter substrate having a counter electrode provided on the substrate in a face-to-face relationship therewith, a sealant provided between the substrate and the counter substrate such that it surrounds the active matrix display circuit and peripheral driving circuits, a liquid crystal material provided inside the sealant, a plurality of external connection lines provided on the substrate under the sealant with a resin inter-layer film interposed therebetween for electrically connecting the active matrix display circuit- and peripheral driving circuits to circuits present outside the sealant and an adjustment layer provided in the same layer as the plurality of external connection lines.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata, Shunpei Yamazaki
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Patent number: D631217Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Inventor: Danny Lavy
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Patent number: D631237Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2010Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Inventors: Roger Genuin, Alessandro Genuin
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Patent number: D632654Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Curtis Davidson, Bojana Vojinovic, Luis Arturo Quevedo Sierra