Patents Assigned to "A" Co.
  • Patent number: 9153602
    Abstract: An object is to improve reliability of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device including a driver circuit portion and a display portion (also referred to as a pixel portion) over the same substrate is provided. The driver circuit portion and the display portion include thin film transistors in which a semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor; a first wiring; and a second wiring. The thin film transistors each include a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer. In the thin film transistor in the driver circuit portion, the semiconductor layer is sandwiched between a gate electrode layer and a conductive layer. The first wiring and the second wiring are electrically connected to each other in an opening provided in a gate insulating film through an oxide conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Junichiro Sakata, Masayuki Sakakura, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Kenichi Okazaki, Hotaka Maruyama, Masashi Tsubuku
  • Patent number: 9154341
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting and receiving encoded data. A codeword is generated by encoding an information word. Some parity bits are punctured in the generated codeword. A frame including the punctured codeword is transmitted. Additional parity bits for decoding the information word are transmitted in one or more other frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Sil Jeong, Sung-Ryul Yun, Jae-Yoel Kim, Hyun-Koo Yang, Hak-Ju Lee, Se-Ho Myung, Jin-Hee Jeong
  • Patent number: 9154998
    Abstract: When a resource of an access network is changed, receiving, by an application network, resource information sent by the access network, where the resource information is information that indicates a current resource status of the access network; and adjusting, by the application network, a service request related to a current service according to the resource information and sending the adjusted service request to the access network; or negotiating, by the application network, a current service parameter with a User Equipment UE according to the resource information, so that the UE modifies the parameter related to the current service according to a result of the negotiation. In the embodiments of the present invention the service parameter or the service request related to the current service matches the changed access network resource, thereby improving the QoS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fenqin Zhu, Liping Yuan, Junxing Cao
  • Patent number: 9149887
    Abstract: A laser processing apparatus includes worktable for loading a workpiece, a laser emitter, a user interface, a detecting unit, and a controller. The user interface allows inputting a thickness value of the workpiece. The detecting unit includes a signal emitter, a signal receiver for receiving signals emitted by the signal emitter, and a lifting unit. The workpiece is positioned between the signal emitter and the signal receiver. The controller controls the lifting device to adjust a height of the signal emitter and signal receiver relative to the worktable to be equal to a sum of the input thickness value and a focal length of the laser emitter. The controller controls the driving device to adjust a height of the laser emitter relative to the worktable if the signal receiver receives the signals and stop to adjust the laser emitter if the signal receiver does not receive the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Chou Chen
  • Patent number: 9153197
    Abstract: There is provided a storage apparatus for providing an effective memory addressing method. The storage apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one controller coupled to the at least one memory to provide address information. Each of the controllers includes a first controller for providing on/off information of subfields included in one frame for driving pixels in a display panel, a third controller for horizontal position information corresponding to a selected scan line from scan lines of a display panel, and a second controller for providing vertical position information corresponding to a pixel on the selected scan line. On/off information of subfields for at least two pixels is stored in a cell located at the vertical position and the horizontal position in the at least one memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jeong-Keun Ahn
  • Patent number: 9150131
    Abstract: Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: TS TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuichi Shimizu, Yuji Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9151093
    Abstract: A latch assembly (10) is mounted to a follower door (275) of a double door (257) and includes a latch (231) and a pressing board (453) pivotably received in a cutout (411) of the latch (231). When the follower door (275) moves from an open position to a closed position, a pressing side (457) of the pressing board (453) is pressed by a top beam (35) of a door frame (31). The pressing board (453) pivots and presses against a bottom face (413) of the cutout (411) of the latch (231), moving the latch (231) from an unlatching position to the latching position until the pressing side (457) of the pressing board (453) completely enters the cutout (411), and then a slant face (236) of the latch (231) presses against the door frame (31), causing movement of the latch (231) from the latching position to the unlatching position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: I-Tek Metal Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsi-Ting Lin
  • Patent number: 9149649
    Abstract: A semiconductor laser blood oxygen therapeutic apparatus comprising a host (32); a terminal being an oxygen output terminal, a laser irradiating terminal and an ozone output terminal (48), a laser generator located in a therapeutic terminal (34); the oxygen output terminal includes an oxygen absorbing device (25) and a laser-oxygen two-in-one therapeutic device (27); the laser-oxygen two-in-one therapeutic device (27) is provided with a two-in-one nasal clip (31); the oxygen absorbing device (25) is provided with a detachable atomization pressure decreasing device (24), while the host (32) is provided with a security identifying device which identifies the external atomization pressure decreasing device automatically; and an ozone generating cabin (36) is connected between a relief pressure valve (20) and a humidifying bottle (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: WUHAN HNC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yonghua Feng
  • Patent number: 9154657
    Abstract: A duplex scanning apparatus includes a scan case including a platen glass, a first scanning module disposed inside the scan case, a scanning module moving unit that is disposed inside the scan case perpendicular to the first scanning module and guides a movement of the first scanning module, and an automatic document feeding apparatus disposed on a top side of the scan case to cover the platen glass including a feeding frame in which a document moving route is formed, a scanning module opening formed on an upper side of the document moving route in the feeding frame, a second scanning module disposed in the scanning module opening, and a scanning module adjusting unit formed to rotate the second scanning module by a predetermined angle based on a point of the feeding frame with respect to the scanning module opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-il Lee, Dong-hun Lee, Myung-hee Jang
  • Patent number: 9155128
    Abstract: A connective transmission device of the invention may include a first interface configured to connect to a first device; a second interface configured to connect to a second device; and a control module connected to the first interface and the second interface. When the first interface is connected to the first device and the second interface is connected to the second device, the control module is configured to connect the first device and the second device for data transmission or power transmission, or configured to receive a media message from the first device or the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignees: INVENTEC APPLIANCES (PUDONG) CORPORATION, INVENTEC APPLIANCES CORP., INVENTEC APPLIANCES (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiu-Ping Lin, Wen-Ching Chang
  • Patent number: 9152266
    Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display includes a display panel including a touch screen having touch sensors, a data driving circuit for driving data lines of the display panel, and a timing controller for generating a control signal for controlling a potential of an output terminal of the data driving circuit in vertical blank periods between adjacent vertical periods. The control signal selectively floats source output channels of the data driving circuit or selectively sets a potential of the source output channels to a predetermined voltage in the vertical blank periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keunchoul Kim, Suhyeon Jo
  • Patent number: 9153037
    Abstract: An image decoding device which decodes, by pipeline processing which includes plural processes, an encoded image obtained by encoding plural blocks of at least two sizes divided from the image includes: a first storage unit having a capacity for storing two or more blocks having a largest size of the at least two sizes; a first process unit which performs a first process among the plural processes on the plural blocks sequentially, and sequentially stores the plural blocks on which the first process has been performed into the first storage unit; and a second process unit sequentially extracts the plural blocks from the first storage unit, and performs a second process among the plural processes on the extracted plural blocks sequentially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Amano, Takeshi Tanaka, Kenji Oga
  • Patent number: 9153795
    Abstract: A thin film encapsulation manufacturing apparatus includes a first cluster configured to form a first inorganic layer on a first substrate, on which an emission unit is formed, by a sputtering process; a second cluster configured to form a first organic layer on the first inorganic layer on the first substrate conveyed from the first cluster by an organic deposition process; a first connection module configured to connect the first cluster and the second cluster, configured to convey the first substrate on which the first inorganic layer is formed from the first cluster to the second cluster, and configured to cool the first substrate in a non-contact manner; and a third cluster configured to form a second inorganic layer on the first organic layer on the first substrate conveyed from the second cluster by a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process or a plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Myung-Soo Huh, Tae-Seung Yoon, Jeong-Ho Yi
  • Patent number: 9153963
    Abstract: An electric power control apparatus enables a surplus electric power from a distributed power source to be stored in a storage battery in a consumer unit provided with a distributed power source and a storage battery. The electric power control apparatus is characterized in being provided with a compensation calculating unit which calculates the compensation of electric power by using a unit price of electricity for sale when charging the storage battery and a unit price of electricity for purchase when discharging from the storage battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Baba, Kiyotaka Takehara, Akiko Takamiya
  • Patent number: 9151501
    Abstract: A gas-turbine combustion chamber arrangement includes at least one centrifugal compressor as well as one centripetal annular combustion chamber, with a stator vane arrangement being provided between the centrifugal compressor and the annular combustion chamber. The stator vane arrangement for diverting the air flowing out of the centrifugal compressor is designed at an angle ? of 20° to 30°, preferably 25°, relative to the engine axis, so the airflow is passed at essentially this angle ? to the combustion chamber. The inflow area into the combustion chamber for supplying air is designed at an angle of 20° to 30°, preferably 25°, relative to the meridional plane, and the center axes of the burners or of the injection nozzles of the combustion chamber are arranged inclined at an angle ? of 30° to 40°, preferably 35°, relative to a meridional plane passing through the engine axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventor: Dimitrie Negulescu
  • Patent number: 9152315
    Abstract: A touch device is provided that allows users to easily select text in an Electronic Book (e-book), based on a touch interaction. A method is also provided that operates an e-book function in the touch device which includes displaying e-book content, receiving an anchor interaction at a location in text of the e-book content, displaying a number of candidate anchors, based on the location where the anchor interaction is input, determining two selected candidate anchors as definite anchors, and forming a block of text in the definite anchors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Ki Cheol Jeon
  • Patent number: 9155115
    Abstract: A method and a device for generating a CID for D2D communication are provided. A transmitting device transmits a request for direct communication between the transmitting device and a receiving device on a resource unit of a first resource index determined based upon at least one of a device ID of the transmitting device or of the receiving device during a first period, receives information about at least one used CID being used by at least one surrounding device from the peripheral device during a second period, transmits information including at least one available CID acquired during the second period on a resource unit of a second resource index being identical to the first resource index during a third period, and determines at least one CID to be used for D2D communication between the transmitting device and the receiving device based on the transmitted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-Woo Lim, Kyung-Kyu Kim, Seung-Hoon Park
  • Patent number: 9152298
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a displaying method thereof are provided. A storage unit stores installed items, a UI generator generates a UI including a first area to display the installed items and a second area to display installable items, a display unit displays the generated UI, and, if one of the items displayed on the second area is selected, a controller displays a process of moving the selected item moved to the first area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hye-young Seong, Bo-kyung Shim, Jong-chan Park, Jin-ho Yim
  • Patent number: D740324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Hyung Kim, Joosun Moon, PillKyoung Moon
  • Patent number: D740432
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: AZUNI INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Li-Lan Wu