Patents Assigned to CO
  • Patent number: 9989735
    Abstract: A four-piece optical lens for capturing image and a five-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: ABILITY OPTO-ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Hsun Lai, Nai-Yuan Tang, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9990021
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method for controlling the display apparatus thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a communicator configured to receive a power-on command from an external apparatus to perform a Wake On LAN (WOL) function and a controller configured to determine whether the WOL function is turned either on or off according to a network setting state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seung-sook Joo
  • Patent number: 9991068
    Abstract: A side-push push-button switch is provided in which the strength of a rear surface side of a housing to which a load is particularly applied by outside force caused by the switching operation of a push-button member is increased to stably mount the housing on a circuit board and ensure reliable and secure switching operation. The push-button switch includes a housing, a push-button member, and a holding frame. The housing accommodates a switch contact. The push-button member is disposed on a front-surface center portion of the housing and configured to press the switch contact. The holding frame of a channel shape covers outer surfaces of the housing. Both ends of the holding frame are secured to front-surface side portions of the housing on both sides of the push-button member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: CITIZEN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toyohiko Amano, Mitsunori Miura
  • Patent number: 9988068
    Abstract: A steering wheel input device includes a first steering switch disposed on a front face of a steering wheel and a second steering switch disposed on a rear face of the steering wheel. When the second steering switch is operated, an icon corresponding to the second steering switch is displayed on the first steering switch. The steering wheel input device allows various operations to be implemented. Furthermore, an operator can intuitively operate the steering wheel input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sho Sonoda, Hitokazu Shitanaka, Tsuyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9986956
    Abstract: The present invention provides an X-ray image sensor comprising: a sensor panel which is bendable, generates an electrical signal by detecting an X-ray, and has a first elasticity; a printed circuit board which transmits the electrical signal to the outside, has a second elasticity that is smaller than the first elasticity, and has a flexible property; and an elastic adjustment member which is made of an elastic material having a third elasticity that is larger than the first elasticity, and which adjusts the elasticity of the sensor panel and the printed circuit board so as to be greater than or equal to the third elasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: Rayence Co., Ltd., VATECH EWOO Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung-Kyn Heo
  • Patent number: 9989734
    Abstract: An optical image capturing system, sequentially including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element from an object side to an image side, is provided. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second through third lens elements have refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. At least one of the image side surface and the object side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens elements can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yao-Wei Liu, Yeong-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9991368
    Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to a memory device. The memory device includes a collector region having a first conductivity type and which is coupled to a source line of the memory device. A base region is formed over the collector region and has a second conductivity type. A gate structure is coupled to the base region and acts as a shared word line for first and second neighboring memory cells of the memory device. First and second emitter regions are formed over the base region and have the first conductivity type. The first and second emitter regions are arranged on opposite sides of the gate structure. First and second contacts extend upwardly from the first and second emitter regions, respectively, and couple the first and second emitter regions to first and second data storage elements, respectively, of the first and second neighboring memory cells, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Wei Ting, Chun-Yang Tsai, Kuo-Ching Huang
  • Patent number: 9988299
    Abstract: The invention provides a glass composition with stronger bending strength and excellent transmission property in the visible range, containing the following cations with a total weight of over 90%: P5+, Al3+, B3+, R1+, R2+ and Cu2+, wherein the content of Cu2+ is 0.1-15%; the ratio of Cu2+/(P5++Al3+) is 0.01-0.15; the content of the anion O2? contained in the glass composition is up to over 97%; the bending strength of the glass composition is over 110 MPa; when the thickness of the glass composition is 0.3 mm, the spectral transmittance is more than or equal to 80% at a wavelength of 400 nm, the spectral transmittance is less than or equal to 25% at a wavelength of 700 nm, and the spectral transmittance is less than or equal to 25% at a wavelength of 1200 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CDGM GLASS CO., LTD
    Inventor: Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 9990346
    Abstract: A user terminal device is provided that includes a display part configured to display a document preparation window, an input part configured to receive a selection command for selecting a text in a document displayed in the document preparation window, a communication part configured to connect to a server, and a controller configured to control displaying of an activated search button in a region of the document preparation window when the text is selected, and to search for, when the search button is selected, at least one image corresponding to the selected text using the communication part, wherein the controller is further configured to control displaying of images searched for from at least one of the server and a storage part of the user terminal device, and to, when one of the searched images is selected, insert the selected image at a predetermined position of the document preparation window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-cheol Kang
  • Patent number: 9990384
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for automatically storing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) by calculating a content stay value are provided. The method includes detecting a weight value of contents displayed, calculating a stay value using the detected weight value, and when the calculated stay value is greater than a set value, storing the URL of the contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin-Wook Chun
  • Patent number: 9989421
    Abstract: A surface temperature sensor, including: an NTC or PTC thermistor; and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) or flexible flat cable (FFC) or conducting wire including at least two rows of single calendaring copper wires. The NTC or PTC thermistor and the FPC or FFC or conducting wire are welded together to form welding points. The thermistor and the welding points are packed inside a thin film by hot pressing. The thin film is a polyimide, a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, an aramid fiber, an aromatic polyamide, a polyether ether ketone, or a silicone rubber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Minjie Electronic Technology Co., LTD.
    Inventor: Guoliang Hua
  • Patent number: 9987940
    Abstract: A method for sending a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) request that includes receiving a V2G request for a specific geographical region; determining which of a plurality of vehicles are in the specific geographic region; determining a subset of the plurality of vehicles located in the specific geographic region that meet at least one criteria to join the V2G request, wherein the at least one criteria uses historical data of the plurality of vehicles to reduce battery degradation of the plurality of vehicles; and sending a signal to the subset of the plurality of vehicles to join the V2G request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Robert Uyeki
  • Patent number: 9987553
    Abstract: A virtual world processing apparatus and method. Sensed information, which is information collected by a sensor is inputted. The sensed information is adapted, based on a sensor capability, which is information on capability of the sensor. Accordingly, interoperability between a real world and a virtual world or interoperability between virtual worlds may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Jae Joon Han, Do Kyoon Kim, Won Chul Bang
  • Patent number: 9989573
    Abstract: In the present invention, the connection between an external power supply and a unit for detecting welding of a relay is disestablished at least when a short circuit is detected, thereby preventing the short circuit from being falsely detected in the event that the short circuit and the welding of the relay can both be detected. A device for detecting welding of a relay detects welding of a relay provided to a path via which a cell is charged by an external power supply. Welding of a power-supply-side relay or a ground-side relay is detected on the basis of a current flowing disproportionately more toward the external power supply than the power-supply-side relay or ground-side relay when a control unit has deactivated the power-supply-side relay or ground-side relay during an interrupting in charging. A disconnecting switch establishes or disestablishes the connection between the external power supply and a weld-detection switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Mochizuki, Shintaro Tazaki
  • Patent number: 9992791
    Abstract: The invention discloses a method for controlling uplink signal transmission, a user equipment, and a base station. The method for controlling uplink signal transmission includes receiving uplink signal configuration information sent by a base station; sending an uplink signal to the base station according to the uplink signal configuration information before a first timer expires; stopping sending an uplink signal to the base station when the first timer expires; receiving trigger information sent by the base station, and restarting the first timer according to the trigger information; and sending an uplink signal to the base station before the restarted first timer expires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Bo Lin, Yuhua Chen
  • Patent number: 9992837
    Abstract: A lighting device includes: a variable voltage source; a transistor which controls a current flowing through a light-emitting element; and a control circuit which causes the transistor to pass a current corresponding to a received instruction for a dimming level through the light-emitting element. When the received instruction instructs at least a predetermined dimming level, the control circuit causes a voltage drop in the transistor to become a first voltage by controlling the variable voltage source, and when the received instruction instructs a dimming level less than the predetermined dimming level, the control circuit causes the voltage drop to become a second voltage higher than the first voltage, by controlling the variable voltage source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichi Murakami, Kazuhiro Kumada, Ryuhei Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9987756
    Abstract: A hand device includes: a hand base (40a); a first finger (40b) which extends from a tip of the hand base (40a) in a longitudinal direction while bending to the hand base (40a); a second finger (40c) attached to the hand base (40a) so as to face a surface of the hand base (40a) side of a tip of the first finger (40b); and a drive mechanism (40e) which actuates the second finger (40c) so that a tip of the second finger (40c) approaches or separates from the first finger (40b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Ishikawa, Susumu Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 9987836
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and device for removing an integrated circuit. The device is used to remove the integrated circuit from a display panel. The device includes a heating unit configured to contact and heat the display panel, and a retractable clamping-taking component configured to clamp and take the integrated circuit on the display panel which has been heated. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the method and device may remove the integrated circuit from the display panel without destroying the display panel and increase efficiency of removing the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yong Sun, Xianzhen Tang, Zhiyu Qian, Long Yan, Jun Zhang, Daocheng Zhu, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 9991271
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a stack of alternating interlayer insulating layers and conductive layers on a substrate. Each of the conductive layers extends in a first direction less than a previous one of the conductive layers to define a landing portion of the previous one of the conductive layers. An insulating plug is in one of the conductive layers under one of the landing portions, and a contact plug extends from an upper surface of the one of the landing portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-hwan Kang, Young-hwan Son, Dong-seog Eun, Chang-sup Lee, Jae-hoon Jang
  • Patent number: D819484
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CROSSFOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hidetaka Dobashi