Patents Assigned to CO
  • Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
    Patent number: 9177811
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for forming a uniform silicide film using a crystalline semiconductor film in which orientation of crystal planes is controlled, and a method for manufacturing a thin film transistor with less variation in electric characteristics, which is formed over an insulating substrate using the silicide film. A semiconductor film over which a cap film is formed is irradiated with a laser to be crystallized under the predetermined condition, so that a crystalline semiconductor film including large grain crystals in which orientation of crystal planes is controlled in one direction is formed. The crystalline semiconductor film is used for silicide, whereby a uniform silicide film can be formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoaki Moriwaka
  • Fabrication method of semiconductor package having electrical connecting structures
    Patent number: 9177837
    Abstract: A semiconductor package having electrical connecting structures includes: a conductive layer having a die pad and traces surrounding the die pad; a chip; bonding wires; an encapsulant with a plurality of cavities having a depth greater than the thickness of the die pad and traces for embedding the die pad and the traces therein, and the cavities exposing the die pad and the traces; a solder mask layer formed in the cavities and having a plurality of openings for exposing the trace ends and a portion of the die pad; and solder balls formed in the openings and electrically connected to the trace ends. Engaging the solder mask layer with the encapsulant enhances adhesion strength of the solder mask layer so as to prolong the moisture permeation path and enhance package reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pang-Chun Lin, Chun-Yuan Li, Fu-Di Tang, Chien-Ping Huang, Chun-Chi Ke
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: 9179568
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a housing having a concave portion in the first surface of the housing; a lid made of a semiconductor material containing an impurity material; a first metal film formed in a metal film formation region on the first surface of the housing, wherein the metal film formation region is defined as a region surrounding the concave portion on the first surface of the housing; a second metal film formed on the first surface of the lid to overlap with the metal film formation region in a top view of the electronic device; a third metal film formed on the second surface of the lid to overlap with the metal film formation region in the top view; and an electronic component disposed in the concave portion. The lid is bonded onto the housing via the first and second metal films to cover the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kei Murayama
  • Electric vehicle
    Patent number: 9174520
    Abstract: An electric vehicle wherein at least part of a cell unit is provided along an inclined part of a rear dividing wall. A bottom end of the cell unit is positioned lower than the hip point of a passenger. As seen from the vehicle-width direction, motor mounts are positioned so that the top part of the cell unit and part of the motor mounts overlap in the vertical direction of the electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Goichi Katayama, Daijiro Takizawa
  • Photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same
    Patent number: 9179094
    Abstract: A method of controlling a photographing apparatus having a voice call function is described. A determination of whether the voice call function is being performed is made upon an input of a shutter release signal of the photographing apparatus. A distance between the photographing apparatus and an object is sensed when the voice call function is being performed upon the input of the shutter release signal. A barrel driving mode is disabled based on the shutter release signal when the sensed distance is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-sin Lee
  • Upright vacuum cleaner
    Patent number: 9173533
    Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner with one or more features, such as a top opening rigid container, a headlight, a replaceable power cord a motor housing suspended within the vacuum to reduce noise and/or vibration a clutch assembly with a RPM sensor, and/or one or more filter plates to improve airflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: EMERSON ELECTRIC CO.
    Inventor: John L. Theising
  • Screw
    Patent number: 9175708
    Abstract: A screw with a polygonal cross section comprises a threaded section and a non-threaded section that extends from the threaded section to a front, rounded screw tip. The sideline of the non-threaded section runs smoothly and without interruption from the threaded section to the tip at a constant curvature. The screw is used to attach an element to a panel component, wherein the screw itself produces the hole in the panel component and forms the threads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Arnold Umformtechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Bernd Werthwein
  • Organic semiconductor thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 9178169
    Abstract: A substrate having a thin film transistor includes a buffer layer on a substrate, source and drain electrodes on the buffer layer, a portion of the buffer layer exposed between the source and drain electrodes, a small organic semiconductor layer on the source electrode and the drain electrode, the organic semiconductor layer contacting the exposed portion of the buffer layer, a gate insulating layer on the organic semiconductor layer, the gate insulating layer having substantially the same size as the organic semiconductor layer, a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer, a passivation layer over the surface of the substrate including the gate electrode; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer, the pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Wook Han
  • Method and apparatus for managing sounding reference signal resource in wireless communication system
    Patent number: 9179450
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for managing Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of a base station for managing SRS resources includes receiving an allocation of SRS resources from a system controller, allocating SRS resources to connected terminals that are connected to the BS, determining a number of residual SRS resources varying according to the number of connected terminals, and transmitting one of an additional SRS resource allocation request and an allocated SRS resource return request to the system controller according to the number of residual SRS resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bong-Chan Kim, Ki-Young Han
  • Braking system for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 9174617
    Abstract: A braking system for motor vehicles. The system comprises a brake pedal, a travel simulator which is coupled via actuating-forces transmitting first mechanical connecting means to the brake pedal. A brake master cylinder having at least one pressure chamber and one piston. The pressure chamber is connected or connectable via a pressure line to at least one hydraulically actuable wheel brake, and an electrically controllable electromechanical drive device with which the piston of the brake master cylinder is actuable via a second mechanical connecting means. The electromechanical drive device is arranged between the brake pedal on one side and the brake master cylinder and the travel simulator on the other side. The first mechanical connecting means extends from the brake pedal through the drive device to the travel simulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventor: Hans-Jorg Feigel
  • Synthesis of high quality carbon single-walled nanotubes
    Patent number: 9174847
    Abstract: Methods and processes for synthesizing high quality carbon single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) are provided. A carbon precursor gas at reduced concentration (pressure) is contacted with a catalyst deposited on a support and at temperature about 10° C. above the SWNT synthesis onset temperature, but below the thermal decomposition temperature of the carbon precursor gas for given growth conditions. The concentration (pressure) of the carbon precursor gas can be controlled by reducing the total pressure of the gas, or by diluting with an inert carrier gas, or both. The methods produce SWNTs with the ratio of G-band to D-band in Raman spectra (IG:ID) of about 5 to about 200.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Avetik R. Harutyunyan, Oleg Kuznetsov
  • Imaging lens assembly, imaging device and vehicle photographing device
    Patent number: 9176300
    Abstract: An imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: LARGAN PRECISION CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuan-Ming Chen, Wei-Yu Chen
  • Magnetic recording medium and a method of manufacturing the same
    Patent number: 9177589
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium having magnetic dots that can achieve high density recording is disclosed. The magnetic recording medium comprises at least an underlayer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protective layer sequentially laminated on a nonmagnetic substrate. The underlayer is composed of ruthenium or an alloy of mainly ruthenium and has an undulating structure formed with ridge lines in a predetermined pitch on the surface of the underlayer. The magnetic recording layer contains at least ferromagnetic crystal grains and a nonmagnetic component. Magnetic dots composed of crystal grains with a grain size not smaller than 4 nm in the magnetic recording layer are aligned on a surface of the underlayer along the ridge line, and each of the magnetic dots s separated by the nonmagnetic component from each other. A simple manufacturing method for this medium also is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sadayuki Watanabe
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 9176355
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to apply a sufficient electrical field to a liquid crystal material in a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display device typified by an FFS type. In a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display, an electrical field is applied to a liquid crystal material right above a common electrode and a pixel electrode using plural pairs of electrodes rather than one pair of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Hideki Uochi
  • Battery module
    Patent number: 9178191
    Abstract: A battery module according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a plurality of rechargeable batteries; a housing configured to house the plurality of rechargeable batteries and having a first fastening portion; a cover configured to couple to the housing and having a second fastening portion configured to couple to the first fastening portion by a tight fitting; and an elastic member configured to fit between the first and second fastening portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd., Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Shi-Dong Park, Tae-Yong Kim
  • Lithium ion battery cathode and lithium ion battery using the same
    Patent number: 9178216
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a lithium ion battery cathode. The lithium ion battery cathode includes a plurality of cathode active material particles and a conductive carrier. The conductive carrier includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The plurality of carbon nanotubes are entangled with each other to form a net structure. The present disclosure also relates to a lithium ion battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignees: Tsinghua University, HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jia-Ping Wang, Shu Luo, Kai-Li Jiang, Shou-Shan Fan
  • Method and apparatus for graphic display of I/Q values of a baseband signal
    Patent number: 9178628
    Abstract: An approach for the graphic display of I/Q values of a baseband signal by means of a constellation diagram is provided. The approach comprises: selecting a subset of I/Q values from a set of I/Q values of a baseband signal, wherein the non-selected I/Q values of the set form a non-selected subset; calculating a frequency of occurrence of each I/Q value of the selected subset; assigning display information to each I/Q value of the selected subset, wherein the display information at least corresponds to the respective frequency of occurrence; and displaying, on a display device, the set of I/Q values of the baseband signal in a constellation diagram, based at least in part on the display information, wherein the I/Q values of the non-selected subset is displayed in a different manner from the I/Q values of the selected subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jochen Kraus
  • Electric connector
    Patent number: D742322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Endo, Jun Mukunoki, Koji Hanaki
  • TV receiver
    Patent number: D742343
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sinwi Moon, Sungjin Ann
  • Flaking machine
    Patent number: D742445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: OOTOYA Holdings Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hidekazu Nozawa