Patents Assigned to CO
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Patent number: 9983257Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a substrate having test line letters that are used to identify a test line on an integrated chip, while avoiding contamination of high-k metal gate processes, and a method of formation. In some embodiments, an integrated chip is disclosed. The integrated chip has a semiconductor substrate. A test line letter is arranged over the semiconductor substrate. The test line letter comprises a positive relief that protrudes outward from the semiconductor substrate in the shape of an alpha-numeric character. One or more dummy structures are arranged over the semiconductor substrate. The one or more dummy structures are proximate to a boundary of the test line letter.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wei Cheng Wu, Jui-Tsung Lien, Fang-Lan Chu, Hong-Da Lin, Ku-Ning Chang, Yu-Chen Wang
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Patent number: 9984996Abstract: The present invention discloses a three-dimensional package structure which can achieve a relatively high utilization of an internal space thereof, so that a size of electronic package structure can be reduced. The three-dimensional package structure comprises a first electronic component, a plurality of second electronic components and a plurality of conductive patterns. The first electronic component has a top surface and a bottom surface. The plurality of second electronic components are disposed over the top surface of the first electronic component. The plurality of conductive patterns are disposed over the plurality of second electronic components to electrically connect the plurality of second electronic components and the first electronic component.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: CYNTEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Bau-Ru Lu, Ming-Chia Wu, Shao Wei Lu
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Patent number: 9985056Abstract: In a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor, a change in electrical characteristics is suppressed and reliability is improved. A miniaturized transistor including an oxide semiconductor is provided. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film includes the following steps: forming an oxide semiconductor film; forming an insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film; forming a conductive film over the insulating film; forming a first protective film over the conductive film; and forming a second protective film over the first protective film. The first protective film, the conductive film, and the insulating film are processed using the second protective film as a mask. After the second protective film is removed, the conductive film and the insulating film are processed using the first protective film as a mask to have a smaller area than that of the second protective film.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Takahiro Sato, Masami Jintyou
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Patent number: 9983145Abstract: A test probe card detection system includes a linear scanning lens module, a CCD microscope module, a CCD image adjustment module, and a computer. The CCD microscope module adjusts and confirms a scanning optical focal length of a test probe card to be tested. The linear scanning lens module scans all areas data of the test probe card and stores the scanned all areas data in a database. The all areas data is compared with a coordinate file in order to detect defected pins of the test probe card. The CCD microscope module confirms and obtains data of the detected defected pins of the test probe card. The data of the detected defected pins is sent to the CCD image adjustment module and are shown on the computer. The defected pins include pins having surface oxidation, wear, damage, and breaking; lacking of pins; and deflected pins.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: GLTTEK CO., LTDInventor: Chiung Nan Chen
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Patent number: 9983720Abstract: A disclosed touchscreen display device includes a display panel with data lines, gate lines, and N×M subpixels arranged in a matrix of N subpixel rows and M subpixel columns, and respectively connected to the corresponding data lines and the corresponding gate lines, where N and M are each a natural number greater than or equal to 2. The display device also includes touch electrodes. The display device is configured to provide a scanning signal to the gate lines connected to the N subpixel rows in a first sequence during an ith frame and in a second sequence different from the first sequence during an (i+1)th frame, where i is a positive integer. Each of the ith frame and the (i+1)th frame is configured to include at least one display driving mode section and at least one touch driving mode section.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: SeungRok Shin, Sangkyu Kim, Jeonghoon Lee, Jeonghoon Lee
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Patent number: 9983767Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method for providing a user interface are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a sensor module configured to detect sensor data, a touch screen configured to display a control menu related to content that is displayed, and a control module configured to determine a hand-held position of the electronic apparatus, based on the sensor data, to configure the control menu, based on the determined hand-held position, and to display the configured control menu, based on the determined hand-held position.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ho Kim, Zion Kwon, Hyewon Kim, Jungeui Seo, Changmo Yang, Hayoung Jeon, Jinkyo Chung, Bonghak Choi, Joonhyuk Choi
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Patent number: 9982591Abstract: An object is to provide an engine in which the exhaust manifolds capable of switching a dynamic pressure supercharging method and a static pressure supercharging method can be easily changed to the exhaust manifolds only of the dynamic pressure supercharging method or only of the static pressure supercharging method without replacing exhaust manifolds themselves. In an engine in which a plurality of independent exhaust manifolds is respectively connected to a supercharger, end parts of the exhaust manifolds are coupled to each other by one or more coupling pipes, an on/off valve that brings the exhaust manifolds into an independent state is provided each of in the coupling pipes, and the coupling pipe is configured such that a part including the on/off valve or the on/off valve is detachable from the exhaust manifolds.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2014Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takaaki Nishioka, Hirofumi Yukawa, Hiroki Tanaka, Kenya Onishi
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Patent number: 9982189Abstract: A wavelength conversion member which is a resin-molded article made of at least one type of thermoplastic resin selected from polyolefins, polystyrene, styrene copolymers, fluorocarbon resins, acrylic resins, nylons, polyester resins, polycarbonate resins, vinyl chloride resins, and polyether resins. The thermoplastic resin contains less than or equal to 30 mass % of a complex fluoride fluorophore represented by A2(M1-xMnx)F6 (M is at least one type of tetravalent element selected from Si, Ti, Zr, Hf, Ge, and Sn; A is at least one type of alkali metal selected from Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs and including at least Na and/or K; and x is from 0.001 to 0.3) and having a particle diameter D50, which is the median diameter at a cumulative volume of 50% in particle size distribution, of from 2 ?m to 200 ?m inclusive. The complex fluoride fluorophore being dispersed in the thermoplasticresin.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2013Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Toshihiro Tsumori, Masami Kaneyoshi, Masatoshi Ishii, Takehisa Minowa
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Patent number: 9983475Abstract: Non-ionic photo-acid generating (PAG) compounds were prepared that contain an aryl ketone group having a perfluorinated substituent alpha to the ketone carbonyl. The non-polymeric PAGs release a sulfonic acid when exposed to high energy radiation such as deep UV or extreme UV light. The photo-generated sulfonic acid has a low diffusion rate in an exposed resist layer subjected to a post-exposure bake (PEB) at 100° C. to 150° C., resulting in formation of good line patterns after development. At higher temperatures, the PAGs can also undergo a thermal reaction to form a sulfonic acid. The perfluorinated substituent provides improved thermal stability and hydrolytic/nucleophilic stability.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Central Glass Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takehisa Ishimaru, Satoru Narizuka, Daniel P. Sanders, Ratnam Sooriyakumaran, Hoa D. Truong, Rudy J. Wojtecki
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Patent number: 9983435Abstract: A backlight module and a display device are disclosed. The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, whereby the technical problem of dark spots existing at the corners of the liquid crystal display device in the prior art can be solved. The backlight module comprises a reflective sheet and a plurality of light sources that are arranged on said reflective sheet, wherein the reflective sheet at edges and corners of said backlight module has a certain slope or curvature; and adjusting members, arranged at corners of said backlight module, so that the slope or curvature of the reflective sheet at the corners of said backlight module matches the slope or curvature of the reflective sheet at the edges of said backlight module.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Qian Cao, Jianyu Chang
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Patent number: 9986005Abstract: A media playback method and apparatus, and a recording medium for storing program sources of the method, and the media playback method of playing media in a media device in sync with at least one other media device are provided. The method includes determining a media playback time based on a communication delay time with each of other media devices with which a communication channel is established, generating a media playback command message for each of the other media devices based on the determined media playback time and the communication delay time with each of the other media devices, transmitting the media playback command message to the other corresponding media device, and performing media playback at the media playback time. The present invention has an advantage of playing back the same media in multiple media devices, synchronously.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sang-Man Sim
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Patent number: 9986127Abstract: An image processing apparatus for a printing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a recording position acquiring device for acquiring recording positions of a reference image printed by a reference print head and a target image printed by a target print head, a positional deviation amount calculating device for calculating a deviation amount due to a skew with respect to the recording positions of the reference image and the target image, and a positional deviation interpolation image converting device, when there is a remainder of the deviation amount and the predetermined intervals, for adding a weight based on the remainder, and adding a smaller weight than the weight to the reference image or the target image without a remainder and adjoining the reference image or the target image with the remainder, thereby converting the image into a width direction positional deviation interpolation image.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SCREEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD.Inventors: Kazuki Fukui, Katsuyuki Hisaoka, Kunio Muraji
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Patent number: 9982744Abstract: A liquid-sealed vibration damping device is provided that allows an outer cylindrical member to have a substantially uniform interference margin in the circumferential direction, while improving an assembling property. A second mounting member mounted on a non-vibration source includes: a first frame in a cylindrical shape that is connected to a lower portion of an insulator; a second frame in a cylindrical shape that holds a partition member arranged below the insulator; and a connector that connects the first frame with the second frame. The connector includes: engaging parts that are arranged on the first frame; and elastic hook parts that are arranged on the second frame. The elastic hook parts are arranged at intervals on each of main frame parts in the circumferential direction thereof, and the elastic hook parts arranged on corners have lower rigidity than those arranged on the main frame parts.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Yamashita Rubber Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hirokazu Kadowaki
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Patent number: 9985841Abstract: The present disclosure recites a network address allocation method which including steps: calculating a preset number Npre of the addresses of the network according to a number L of layers of the network; comparing Npre with a maximum number N of the addresses of the network; calculating a maximum available number Cmax of the sub-nodes of each node and a maximum number NA of the network address to be allocated in the network according to the compare result of the Npre and the N; calculating the addresses Cskip(i) of the nodes of the layer i to be allocated according to Cmax and NA, wherein i is in the range of 1˜L; allocating Cskip(i) to each node of the layer i of the network. The present disclosure also provides a Network device for Network address allocation.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: NANNING FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Lu Fan
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Patent number: 9984643Abstract: A data driver includes a first data voltage generator, a data converter and a second data voltage generator. The first data voltage generator is configured to generate a first data voltage based on first pixel data and configured to output the first data voltage to a first data line, the first pixel data being generated based on a first gamma curve. The data converter is configured to convert second pixel data to first converted pixel data, the second pixel data being generated based on the first gamma curve, the first converted pixel data being generated based on a second gamma curve different from the first gamma curve. The second data voltage generator is configured to generate a second data voltage based on the first converted pixel data and configured to output the second data voltage to a second data line.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Young-Il Ban, Sun-Koo Kang, Tae-Gon Kim
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Patent number: 9981814Abstract: A transmission device includes a pickup roller assembly, a feeding roller assembly including a feeding shaft, a paper-out roller assembly including a paper-out shaft, a driving motor, a one-way drive gear module, a first transmission gear module, a second transmission gear module and a one-way clutch. The first transmission gear module includes a plurality of transmission gears disposed to two ends of the feeding shaft and two ends of the paper-out shaft. The second transmission gear module is engaged with one of the transmission gears mounted around one end of the feeding shaft. The one-way clutch disposed between the feeding shaft and the paper-out shaft, includes a first clutch gear, a second clutch gear, a third one-way clutch gear disposed between the first clutch gear and the second clutch gear, and a compression spring disposed to one end of the second clutch gear.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: FOXLINK IMAGE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: I Chuan Hong, Lung Chen
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Patent number: 9985795Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for ONU overall rate limiting. The method includes: receiving a multicast program sent by a multicast program server; making N+M copies of the multicast program; sending N copies of the multicast program to N passive optical network PON ports that request the multicast program on demand; and sending M copies of the multicast program to M ONU rate limiting units corresponding to M ONUs that request the multicast program on demand, discarding the M copies of the multicast program. In the method, after the rate limiting is performed on the multicast program, the multicast program is discarded, so that real-time rate limiting is performed on each ONU without affecting bandwidth of a PON.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: WenJing Wu, Wenming Wang
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Patent number: 9985870Abstract: A network service method based Software Defined Networking (SDN) assigns forwarding devices according to network addresses and identification of a client and provides the client with an optimum route according to user requirements and current network states. A continuous monitoring process is continuously performed for route optimization based on network states, topology variations, and user feedbacks.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: NANNING FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Bo-Run Shao, Shih-Neng Lin, Chia-Wei Yuan
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Patent number: 9983349Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, an accommodating member including a bottom portion and a sidewall extending from the bottom portion, a backlight unit including a light source inside the accommodating member and a light source substrate inside the accommodating member and on which the light source is mounted, and a driving substrate connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member. The driving substrate includes a first extending portion disposed outside the accommodating member, a second extending portion extended from the first extending portion and through the sidewall of the accommodating member to dispose an end portion of the second extending portion inside the accommodating member, and a pad portion disposed on a lower surface of the end portion of the second extending portion and inside the accommodating member. The pad portion is electrically connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Moonshik Kang
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Patent number: 9983344Abstract: A display device includes a display panel and a backlight unit which is disposed below the display panel, provides light to the display panel, and includes a light guide member including a light emission surface, a reflection surface, and a plurality of side surfaces which connect the light emission surface to the reflection surface, where the plurality of side surfaces includes a first side surface which receives light and a second side surface facing the first side surface in a first direction, a light source which provides the light to the first side surface, an optical path adjustment member disposed on the light guide member and including a flat portion, a plurality of protruding portions protruding from the flat portion in a direction of the light guide member, and a light blocking layer disposed on the plurality of protruding portions, and a prism sheet disposed on the flat portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Min-young Song, Eunju Nam, Young-min Park