Patents Assigned to CO
  • Patent number: 9991333
    Abstract: A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor structure and a method for forming the MIM capacitor are provided. The MIM capacitor structure includes a substrate. A MIM capacitor is formed on the substrate. The MIM capacitor includes a U-shaped electrode having a first portion. The MIM capacitor also includes an inverted U-shaped electrode. The first portion of the U-shaped electrode is clamped by the inverted U-shaped electrode. The MIM capacitor further includes an insulating film between the U-shaped electrode and the inverted U-shaped electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Chyi Liu, Shih-Chang Liu
  • Patent number: 9991449
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel anthracene derivative, for an organic light-emitting device, and an organic light-emitting device comprising same, the anthracene derivative enabling excellent device characteristics when used as a light-emitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SFC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon-Wook Cha, Sang-woo Park, Seok-Bae Park, Yoona Shin, Hee-Dae Kim
  • Patent number: 9991647
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a dielectric body having a docking surface, a circuit board mounted to a rear of the dielectric body, a plurality of first terminals and a second terminal. The plurality of the first terminals are fastened to the dielectric body. Top surfaces of front ends of the plurality of the first terminals are exposed to the docking surface of the dielectric body. Rear ends of the plurality of the first terminals project beyond a rear surface of the dielectric body and are soldered to the circuit board. The second terminal is fastened to the dielectric body. A front end of the second terminal elastically projects beyond the docking surface of the dielectric body, and a rear end of the second terminal projects beyond the rear surface of the dielectric body and is soldered to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yu-Lin Yang, Feng-Tian Liu
  • Patent number: 9991903
    Abstract: A level shifter, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and a buffer amplifier, and a source driver and an electronic device including the same are provided. The source driver includes a level shifter configured to receive digital bits and provide a level-shifted output signal; a DAC including a resistor string configured to provide a plurality of gradation voltages formed by an upper limit voltage and a lower limit voltage being received through one end and the other end, and an N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) switch and a P-type MOS (PMOS) switch configured to be controlled by the level-shifted output signal and output a gradation voltage corresponding to the level-shifted output signal; and an amplifier configured to amplify a signal provided by the digital-to-analog converter, and the lower limit voltage is provided to a body electrode of the NMOS switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: INNOAXIS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hwi-Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 9992351
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a recharging method for a virtual identity module, and a device. A first recharge request that is sent by user equipment and carries user account information and recharge information is received; a to-be-recharged virtual identity module and a recharge amount are determined according to the recharge information; a second recharge request is sent to an operations support system of the to-be-recharged virtual identity module, where the second recharge request carries the recharge amount and the user account information, so that the operations support system of the to-be-recharged virtual identity module deducts the recharge amount from an account corresponding to the user account information, and recharges the to-be-recharged virtual identity module. Recharging manners are diversified, and a recharging process is more flexible and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zijun Li, Guoqiang Rong
  • Patent number: 9992893
    Abstract: An electronic device including a waterproof structure is provided. The electronic device includes a housing that includes a first face, a second face that faces in a direction substantially opposite to the first face, and a side surface that at least partially encloses a space between the first face and the second face, a middle plate arranged between the first face and the second face inside the housing to be substantially parallel to the first face, extending from the side surface, and including at least one opening, a printed circuit board arranged between the middle plate and the second face, a display arranged between the middle plate and the first face, and including a face directed toward the second face, and a seal member configured to hermetically seal the at least one opening of the middle plate, and arranged between the face of the display and the middle plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Min Choi, Woong-Chan Kim, Daehyeong Park, Sung-Gun Cho, Sung-Joo Cho, Young-Sik Choi, Kwang-Hwan Kim, Soonwoong Yang, Min-Sung Lee, Seungjoon Lee, Yuchul Chang
  • Patent number: 9987259
    Abstract: A pyridone derivative compound and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, isomer, solvate or hydrate thereof, and a preventive or therapeutic pharmaceutical composition for cognitive disorders that includes the pyridone derivative compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, isomer, solvate or hydrate thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SK BIOPHARMACEUTICALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheol Young Maeng, Young Koo Jang, Su Bong Cha, Hye Won Shin, Chan Mi Joung, Eun Jung Yi
  • Patent number: 9988632
    Abstract: Provided are a composition for stimulating DNA damage in cells, the composition including a p53 induced non-coding transcript (PINT) gene expression inhibitor or a PINT activity inhibitor, a method of killing senescent cells in a subject, and a method of monitoring DNA damage in cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyojei Choi, Myoungsoon Kim, Youngsam Lee
  • Patent number: 9989807
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix shape. Each pixel includes a first subpixel electrode and a second subpixel electrode. Two data lines are positioned between two adjacent pixel columns of the plurality of pixels. First subpixel electrodes in a first pixel row and a second pixel row are connected to a first gate line. Second subpixel electrodes in the second pixel row and a third pixel row are connected to a second gate line. A first data voltage applied to the first subpixel electrodes is higher than a second data voltage applied to the second subpixel electrodes. First duration of a first gate signal applied to the first gate line is shorter than second duration of a second gate signal applied to the second gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Haeng Won Park
  • Patent number: 9990742
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a medical image includes an image processor including a plurality of processors, the plurality of processors configured to reconstruct a cross-sectional image of an object by performing a first operation having a first priority and a second operation having a second priority that is lower than the first priority, and a controller configured to monitor whether a malfunction occurs among the plurality of processors, and configured to assign, to at least one of the plurality of processors, at least one of the first operation and the second operation to be performed, based on a result of monitoring of the plurality of processors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun-young Park, Nasir Desai, Yeon-mo Jeong, Abhinav Mehrotra
  • Patent number: 9989642
    Abstract: A method of acquiring a depth image and an image acquiring apparatus. The method of acquiring the depth image includes receiving a plurality of phase images with respect to a subject, the plurality of phase images having phases different from one another, eliminating noise from the plurality of phase images, and acquiring the depth image with respect to the subject utilizing the plurality of phase images from which noise has been eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byongmin Kang, Dokyoon Kim, Keechang Lee
  • Patent number: 9990369
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for scanning files, wherein the method comprises: during the traversing of a directory, performing first processing on the traversed directory, the first processing comprising: acquiring a directory attribute of the traversed directory, and determining whether the traversed directory is a remapped directory according to the acquired directory attribute, and if so, performing no scanning processing on the traversed directory, and if not, performing scanning processing on the traversed directory, with the scanning processing comprising: scanning various files in the traversed directory to acquire a scanning result, and/or, performing second processing on various sub-directories in the traversed directory; and the second processing comprises: traversing the various sub-directories, and performing the same processing as the first processing on the traversed sub-directories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: BAIDU ONLINE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) CO., LTD
    Inventors: Mingqiang Guo, Yongcheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 9989211
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp has a housing for holding a circuit board, and a gasket mounted on the housing to waterproof the circuit board. A fastening portion is provided on the gasket to fasten the circuit board to the housing. A lid member is provided which is connected to the housing to fasten the gasket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: KOITO MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruhito Takahashi, Shigehiko Kazaoka
  • Patent number: 9989995
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a window panel having a front area and a curved area extending from the front area, a display panel disposed beneath the window panel, and a fixed part which supports a curved area of the display panel. The display panel includes a front display area, a side display area extending from the front display area so as to be curved, and a wiring area extending from the side display area, and the fixed part supports a curved shape of the side display area or the wiring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Woon Geun Kwak, Jung Sik Park, Do Hun Cha
  • Patent number: 9990338
    Abstract: A display device, including: a storage unit in which page image data including a figure or a photograph and figure photo information are stored so as to be associated with each other for each page, the figure photo information corresponding to a figure or a photograph included in a page, being information for individually displaying the figure or the photograph and including area information which indicates an area occupied by the figure or the photograph in page image data corresponding to the page; a display unit; an operation unit; an identification unit; and a display control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Tamura
  • Patent number: 9991888
    Abstract: A driving circuit includes a first switching element operating in a turned-on state or a turned-off state depending on a control voltage; a second switching element operating complementarily to the first switching element depending on the control voltage; a constant voltage circuit unit turning on depending on a source-gate voltage of the first switching element to maintain a constant voltage; a current adjusting circuit operating in a turned-on state or a turned-off state depending on the control voltage, and adjusting an operating current flowing to a ground depending on a current control signal in the turned-on state of the current adjusting circuit; a current control circuit controlling the operating current by providing the current control signal to the current adjusting circuit in a turned-on state of the constant voltage circuit unit; and a signal transfer circuit providing the control voltage to a gate of the second switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang Jae Heo, Sung Man Pang
  • Patent number: 9989794
    Abstract: A back plate of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes a first region as an appearance of the entire LCD device, in which a plurality of first and second reinforcing ribs crossing each other are disposed, the plurality of first reinforcing ribs are arranged to be spaced apart from each other in a horizontal direction, and an angle ? between the first reinforcing rib and a vertical direction ranges from 40° to 50°. The plurality of second reinforcing ribs are arranged to be spaced apart from each other in the horizontal direction, and an angle ? between the second reinforcing rib and the vertical direction ranges from 40° to 50°. Each of the first reinforcing ribs at least crosses one of the second reinforcing ribs. A liquid crystal display device including the back plate as described above is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chengling Lv
  • Patent number: 9989971
    Abstract: A vehicle management system for managing vehicles used by users has a usage managing unit configured to accept a user's request for using to use one of the vehicles, and manage the vehicles and parking spaces in which the vehicles are parked, an acquisition unit configured to acquire energy information from the vehicles, the energy information indicating a remaining amount of energy used for traveling of the vehicle, a determination unit configured to compare the remaining amount acquired by the acquisition unit with a remaining amount threshold that represents a shortage of energy, determine that the vehicle needs supply of energy when the remaining amount is lower than the remaining amount threshold, and specify a recovery vehicle that has been determined as needing supply of energy as a recovery vehicle, and a command outputting unit configured to output a recovery command for recovering the recovery vehicle from the parking space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Chinomi, Kayoko Hara
  • Patent number: 9990065
    Abstract: A color filter substrate (2), a liquid crystal module and a display device are disclosed. The color filter substrate includes a touch flexible printed circuit binding area (3) for binding a touch flexible printed circuit; and a black matrix area (4) light shielding; the touch flexible printed circuit binding area (3) and the black matrix area (4) are two areas separate from each other and have no overlapping or partially overlapping parts therebetween; and a bottom of the touch flexible printed circuit binding area (3) is transparent. The color filter substrate (2), the liquid crystal module and the display device enable the binding conditions and the state of conducting particles to be monitored from backside, so that product yield is improved and accident rate is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BOE (HEBEI) MOBILE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dapeng Wang
  • Patent number: D819498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Zhejiang Doohan Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guande Li