Patents Assigned to E
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Patent number: 9595486Abstract: A metal oxide semiconductor structure, the structure including: a substrate; a gate electrode, deposited on the substrate; a gate insulation layer, deposited over the gate electrode and the substrate; an IGZO layer, deposited on the gate insulation layer and functioning as a channel; a source electrode, deposited on the gate insulation layer and being at one side of the IGZO layer; a drain electrode, deposited on the gate insulation layer and being at another side of the IGZO layer; a first passivation layer, deposited over the source electrode, the IGZO layer, and the drain electrode; a second passivation layer, deposited over the first passivation layer; and an opaque resin layer, deposited over the source electrode, the second passivation layer, and the drain electrode.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: E INK HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Chin-Wen Lin, Chuan-I Huang, Chung-Chin Huang, Ted-Hong Shinn
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Patent number: 9593741Abstract: The present teachings provide for a torsional damper and a transmission having a torsional damper. The torsional damper can include first and second members. The first member can include a first hub, a first outer portion, and a plurality of first spokes. The first hub can be non-rotatably coupled to an input member of the transmission. The first spokes can extend radially between the first hub and the first outer portion. The first spokes can couple the first outer portion to the first hub. The second member can include a second hub and a second outer portion. The second hub can be non-rotatably coupled to an output member of the transmission. The second outer portion can be radially outward of the second hub and can be fixedly coupled to the second hub and to the first outer portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: e-AAM Driveline Systems ABInventors: Magnus Hederstad, Erik J. Sten
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Patent number: 9593721Abstract: The present teachings provide for a vehicle drive module including a housing, an electric motor, a transmission gear set, a differential assembly, and a pair of output members. The transmission gear set can transmit rotary power between a motor output shaft and an output of the transmission gear set. The differential assembly can include a case, a pair of pinion gears, and a pair of side gears. Each of the side gears can be meshingly engaged with the pair of pinion gears. Each output member can include a driven body and an outer flange. The driven body can have a first end drivingly coupled to one of the side gears. The outer flange can have a first side that is releasably coupled to the second end of the driven body, and a second side that is adapted to be releasably coupled to a constant velocity joint.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: e-AAM Driveline Systems ABInventor: Mats Strandberg
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Patent number: 9595094Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and method for determining changes in the shape of a substrate parallel to its substrate surface. The device comprises at least one detection apparatus for detecting images of structures which are located on the substrate surface, and optics comprised of at least two optics apparatus with at least two different beam paths for imaging of the structures on the detection apparatus. The device is able to determine distances (dx1, dy1, dx2, dy2, dxn, dyn) of images of the structures and/or changes of the distances (dx1, dy1, dx2, dy2, dxn, dyn).Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2011Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: EV Group E. Thallner GmbHInventor: Thomas Wagenleitner
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Patent number: 9593784Abstract: A knit fabric suitable as a reinforcement for elastomeric articles comprises a plurality of reinforcement yarns wherein each course of the fabric comprises either a first or second yarn, the modulus of the first yarn being different from the modulus of the second yarn, and the courses comprising the first and second yarns are arranged in one of the following sequences, (a) alternating courses comprise first and second yarns respectively, (b) the courses form a repeat pattern of, in order, a course comprising a first yarn, two courses comprising a second yarn and a course comprising a first yarn or (c) the courses form a repeat pattern of, in order, a course comprising a second yarn, two courses comprising a first yarn and a course comprising a second yarn.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventors: David William Litchfield, Carlo Fiorella
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Patent number: 9592117Abstract: The present invention relates to devices used in the management of bodily airways including tracheostomy tubes, laryngectomy tubes, bronchial stents, bronchial Y-tubes, bronchial TY-tubes, and nasal stents. The devices may comprise a protective coating to prevent the accumulation of mucus, crusting and granulation on or around airway management devices, as well as prevent adhesion to tissues which can cause bleeding upon removal, and prevent build-up of blood, or blood clots, to the stent.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: E. BENSON HOOD LABORATORIESInventors: Lewis H. Marten, Dennis Creedon
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Publication number: 20170069483Abstract: A method for the surface treatment of a substrate surface of a substrate with the following steps: arrangement of the substrate surface in a process chamber, bombardment of the substrate surface with an ion beam, generated by an ion beam source and aimed at the substrate surface, to remove impurities from the substrate surface, whereby the ion beam has a first component, introduction of a second component into the process chamber to bind the removed impurities. A device for the surface treatment of a substrate surface of a substrate with: a process chamber for receiving the substrate, an ion beam source for generating an ion beam that has a first component and is aimed at the substrate surface to remove impurities from the substrate surface, means to introduce a second component into the process chamber to bind the removed impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2014Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: EV GROUP E. THALLNER GMBHInventor: Nasser RAZEK
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Publication number: 20170066796Abstract: Novel compositions and methods for engineering wireframe architectures and scaffolds of increasing complexity by creating gridiron-like DNA structures (FIG. 1). A series of four-arm junctions are used as vertices within a network of double-helical DNA fragments. Deliberate distortion of the junctions from their most relaxed conformations ensures that a scaffold strand can traverse through individual vertices in multiple directions. DNA gridirons, ranging from two-dimensional arrays with reconfigurability to multilayer and three-dimensional structures and curved objects, can be assembled according the methods presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona Stat e UniversityInventors: Dongran Han, Hao Yan
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Patent number: 9589984Abstract: A pixel structure located on a periphery of a display module includes a substrate, a flexible circuit board and a plurality of LED chips. The substrate has at least one scribing tolerance reserving zone and a display unit mounting zone. The flexible circuit board is disposed on the display unit mounting zone of the substrate. The LED chips are mounted on the flexible circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Yung-Sheng Chang, Chia-Chun Yeh
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Patent number: 9590036Abstract: The present disclosure provides a contact window structure. In the contact window structure, a first insulating layer, having a first opening, is positioned on a first metal layer, wherein the first opening exposes a part of the first metal layer. A second metal layer covers the first opening and contacts with the first metal layer via the first opening. A second insulating layer, having a second opening, is positioned on the first insulating layer, wherein the second opening exposes a part of the second layer and the first insulating layer. The projection area of the second opening on the first metal layer covers the projection area of the first opening on the first metal layer. A pixel structure containing the contact window structure and a manufacturing method thereof are also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Kuan-Yi Lin, Fang-An Shu, Tzung-Wei Yu, Chi-Liang Wu
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Patent number: 9588728Abstract: A mobile display system includes a first mobile display device and a second mobile display device. The first mobile display device includes a first power storage module, a first screen, and a wireless power transmitter. The first screen is configured to display a first image by using the power stored in the first power storage module. The second mobile display device includes a second power storage module, a second screen, and a wireless power receiver. The second screen is configured to display a second image by using the power stored in the second power storage module. During a period when the first power storage module is charged, the wireless power transmitter provides a first wireless power signal to the wireless power receiver, so as to charge the second power storage module by the first wireless power signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: E Ink Holdings Inc.Inventors: Chin-Wen Lin, Chien-Chung Huang, Wei-Juin Chen
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Patent number: 9590382Abstract: An enhancement resonator (20) being configured for generating intra-resonator laser light (1) by coherent superposition of input laser light, comprises at least three resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) spanning a ring resonator path in one common resonator plane, said resonator path being free of a laser light amplifying medium, wherein the at least three resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) include at least two toroidal mirrors and/or at least one cylindrical mirror. Furthermore, a laser device (100) comprising the enhancement resonator (20) and a method of generating intra-resonator laser light (1) are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignees: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaften e. V., Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet MuenchenInventors: Ioachim Pupeza, Henning Carstens, Simon Holzberger, Ernst Fill, Ferenc Krausz
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Patent number: 9586685Abstract: A modular potable water distribution manifold for an aircraft water supply and drainage system includes a tubular element with a first manifold quick connector adapted to mate with a flexible hose connector and having a flow control poppet, a second manifold quick connector having a flow control poppet, the second manifold quick connector adapteded mate with a terminating self-venting/self-draining device, and a rotating ferrule that mates the second manifold with the self-venting/self-draining device.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2016Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: B/E Aerospace, Inc.Inventor: Peter John Leslie Burd
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Patent number: 9587471Abstract: Controlling microbial growth and activity during Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery processes is disclosed. Specific control of microbial growth and activity in this process results in prevention of nutrient loss in transit and allows better targeting of microbial activity to the desired subsurface location(s).Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Robert D Fallon
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Patent number: 9587244Abstract: The invention relates to gene expression regulatory sequences from soybean, specifically to the promoter of a soybean predicted allergen Gly m Bd 28K peptide gene and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in a tissue-specific manner in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Zhongsen Li
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Patent number: 9587132Abstract: This invention is directed to a polymer thick film transparent conductive composition that may be used in applications where thermoforming of the base substrate occurs, e.g., as in capacitive switches. Polycarbonate substrates are often used as the substrate and the polymer thick film conductive composition may be used without any barrier layer. Depending on the specific design, the thermoformable transparent conductor may be below or on top of a thermoformable silver conductor. Thermoformable electric circuits benefit from the presence of an encapsulant layer over the dried polymer thick film conductive composition. The electrical circuit is subsequently subjected to a injection molding process.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANYInventor: Jay Robert Dorfman
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Publication number: 20170062246Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wafer leveling device which comprises a carrier module, a fixture module and a dynamic module. A wafer, which is conveyed to and stays above a claw component of the carrier module by a robotic arm, is further carried by the lifted claw component for a continuous ascent until the wafer is contacted by a ring component of the fixture module; the clamp component of the fixture module releases the ring component; the claw component, the ring component and the wafer, all of which keep stabilized mutual positions, are lowered so that several protrudent structures on a base component of the carrier module contact the wafer; the claw component, the ring component and the wafer which completes a manufacturing process are lifted; the carrier module and the wafer are lowered with the clamp components stabilizing the ring component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: E&R Engineering Corp.Inventors: Wen Ren WU, Cho Chun CHUNG
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Publication number: 20170062252Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a laser marking device and a method thereof. The laser marking device comprises a laser system, a wafer leveling system, a first imaging system and a mobile system: the wafer leveling system carries and levels a warped wafer to be processed; the mobile system underneath properly adjusts a position of the wafer; the first imaging system detects the wafer to recognize a product category and positioning status; the laser system underneath labels laser marks on the wafer; all wafers are marked in the cyclic process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: E&R Engineering Corp.Inventors: Wen Ren WU, Cho Chun CHUNG
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Publication number: 20170058366Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods of detecting HIV-2 nucleic acids in a sample (such as from a sample infected with or suspected to be infected with HIV-2). In some examples, the methods include LAMP or RT-LAMP, while in other examples, the methods include hybridization of a probe to an HIV-2 nucleic acid, including, but not limited to real-time PCR. Sets of LAMP primers for detection of HIV-2 Group A and Group B nucleic acids are provided herein. Sets of probes and primers for real-time PCR detection of HIV-2 nucleic acids are also provided herein. Finally, primers for amplification of HIV-2 nucleic acids are provided. Also disclosed are isolated HIV-2 nucleic acids, vectors including the HIV-2 nucleic acids, and cells transformed with vectors including HIV-2 nucleic acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by th e Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Kelly A. Curtis, Ae S. Youngpairoj, Sherry M. Owen, Chou-Pong Pau, Timothy C. Granade, Philip Niedzwiedz, Donna L. Rudolph
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Publication number: 20170056847Abstract: A system and method of micro dosing containers on a conveying system is disclosed. The system includes a mixing tank to maintain suspended solids in a mixture; a dosing assembly to inject micro-doses of the mixture into bottles; a recirculation assembly to circulate the mixture from the supply tank to the dosing assembly and back to the supply tank; a power and controls operation assembly to supply the system with power, to provide the system with electromechanical control and/or to provide a user interface; and a stand to hold at least the supply tank, the portable dosing assembly, the recirculation assembly and/or the power and/or controls operation assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Applicant: E. & J. Gallo WineryInventors: Jeff Miller, Leland Fleming, Lewis Stern, Satish Puran, Richard Branscombe