Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Publication number: 20160218313
    Abstract: A light emitting element is disclosed, including a substrate layer, a first metal layer and a second metal layer stacked sequentially on the substrate layer, and an organic material layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The first metal layer includes a first metal portion and a second metal portion that cover a surface of the substrate layer, and an opening portion disposed between the first metal portion and the second metal portion and exposes a portion of the surface. The organic material layer emits light having a wavelength within a first range. A first coupling generated between the first metal portion and the second metal layer shifts the light from the first range to a second range. A second coupling generated between the second metal portion and the second metal layer shifts the light from the first range to a third range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yi-Ping Lin, Jung-Yu Li, Guan-Yu Chen, Shih-Pu Chen, Jin-Han Wu, Cheng-Chang Chen
  • Publication number: 20160218979
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication path control technology, and more specifically, to technology for selecting a network and scheduling packets for multi-homing based transmission. The objective of the present disclosure is to reduce a packet loss by determining the number of packets to be transmitted based on the degree of congestion on each network path for a multi-homing based transmission technology. A packet transmission apparatus selects a network path to be used to transmit a packet based on congestion information, which is calculated based on state information of each network path, and then allocates the number of packets to be transmitted and sequence numbers of the packets to the selected network path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Hyun Suk ROH
  • Publication number: 20160218376
    Abstract: A bipolar plate and a fuel cell module using the same are provided. The bipolar plate includes a plate body and a temperature management component. The plate body has a plurality of reactive gas channels located on two opposite surfaces of the plate body, and the material of the plate body has a first thermal conductivity. The temperature management component is embedded within the plate body, and the material of the temperature management component has a second thermal conductivity. The first thermal conductivity is smaller than the second thermal conductivity. The temperature management component includes a plurality of tubes and a plurality of connecting elements, and the tubes communicate with each other through the connecting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Cheng-Hong LIU, Cheng-Hao YANG, Ching-Ying HUANG, Wen-Lin WANG
  • Publication number: 20160216188
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring rheological properties of a multi-phase fluid is provided. The apparatus includes a static chamber configured to contain a multi-phase fluid having at least a first phase and a second phase. The apparatus also includes a rotor member submersed in the multi-phase fluid in the static chamber. The rotor member is rotatable about a horizontal rotational axis within the static chamber and the static chamber and the rotor member are oriented in a substantially horizontal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
    Inventors: Chirag KHALDE, Jitendra SANGWAI
  • Publication number: 20160215363
    Abstract: Provided is a backflow cascade novel process for producing a lithium-7 isotope. The process comprises an upper backflow section, an extraction section, an enrichment section, a lower backflow section, and a product acquiring section. Upper backflow phase-conversion liquid and lower backflow phase-conversion liquid are respectively added to the upper backflow section and the lower backflow section, and upper backflow phase-conversion liquid and lower backflow phase-conversion liquid of the lithium material are controlled; the product is precisely acquired in the product acquiring section; an organic phase is added to the upper backflow section, and is recycled in the lower backflow section. By means of cascade connection with a high-performance liquid separator, environmental protection, high efficiency, and multi-level enrichment of the lithium-7 isotope are achieved, and a high-abundance lithium-7 isotope product is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Jinbo Hu, Wei Zhang, Weiqin Zheng, Guanghua Chen, Xiao Shi, Yongchang Xu, Honggui Lv, Chengye Yuan
  • Patent number: 9400402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a technology related to an optical waveguide which is insensitive to an ambient temperature and is capable of adjusting a wavelength error due to a manufacturing processing deviation. The optical waveguide includes: a clad layer positioned on a substrate; a core layer positioned between the substrate and the clad layer, and including patterns positioned in a first region and a second region; and a wavelength adjusting unit positioned in the first region between the substrate and the clad layer, and configured to adjust a wavelength of an optical signal propagated through patterns passing through the first region based on received electric energy, in which the clad layer includes a material having a Thermo-Optic Coefficient (TOC) with an opposite sign to that of a material included in the core layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jong Moo Lee, Min Su Kim
  • Patent number: 9401433
    Abstract: A p-type metal oxide semiconductor material is provided, which is composed of AlxGe(1-x)Oy, wherein 0<x?0.6, and 1.0?y?2.0. The p-type metal oxide semiconductor material can be applied in a transistor. The transistor may include a gate electrode, a channel layer separated from the gate electrode by a gate insulation layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode contacting two sides of the channel layer, wherein the channel layer is the p-type metal oxide semiconductor material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shan-Haw Chiou, Tzu-Chi Chou, Wen-Hsuan Chao, Hsin-Ming Cheng, Mu-Tung Chang, Tien-Heng Huang, Ren-Fong Cai
  • Patent number: 9400433
    Abstract: A lithography illumination system, along the transmission direction of the laser light, successively having a laser light source, a collimating and expanding unit, a pupil shaping unit, a first micro-lens array, a micro-integrator rod array, a micro-scanning slit array, a second micro-lens array, a condenser lens group, a mask, and and a motion control unit for controlling the motion of the micro scanning slit array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Shanghai Institute of Optics And Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Aijun Zeng, Linglin Zhu, Ruifang Fang, Huijie Huang
  • Patent number: 9401824
    Abstract: The presently claimed invention provides a method of channel estimation in a multi-user massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output system. Candidate pilots are selected for each user equipment based on their spatial correlation matrices. Through determining the similarity of spatial correlation matrices among different user equipments, shared pilots among them can be found, and a base station can transmit a union set of pilots for channel estimation. The present invention is able to provide high channel estimation accuracy and reduce training signal resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Yuxian Zhang, Man Wai Kwan, Eric Kong Chau Tsang
  • Patent number: 9399463
    Abstract: An automatic tracking collision avoidance method has following steps: taking images in front of an origin vehicle by at least two photograph units; the images delivering to a calculation assembly, to transform the images from three primary colors images to grey images; having a relative vehicle speed of the front vehicle corresponded to the original vehicle according to the grey images; and according to the grey images the calculation assembly having a relative vehicle speed that the front vehicle corresponded to the original vehicle; the calculation assembly having a safe distance according to the relative vehicle speed, if the safe distance is great than a distance that between the original vehicle and the front vehicle, an alarm module generating an alert signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Long-Der Chen, Dau-Chen Huang, Pai-Wei Cheng, Ke-Horng Chen, Shin-Chi Lai, Kuo-Chen Kao, Sheau-Fang Lei
  • Patent number: 9399762
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to the fields of synthetic organic chemistry. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods and systems for the imidation of sulfides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Christopher C. Farwell, John A. McIntosh, Frances H. Arnold
  • Patent number: 9400220
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting focus plane based on Hartmann wavefront detection principle, the function of which is to detect the position of a silicon wafer in a photolithograph machine in real time so as to accomplish adjustment of the leveling and focus of the silicon wafer. By utilizing microlens array to detect the wavefront carrying information about the position of the silicon wafer based on the Hartmann wavefront detection principle, the spherical wavefront is divided by the respective subunits of the microlens array and is imaged on the respective focus planes of the subunits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Institute of Optics and Electronics, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Inventors: Xianchang Zhu, Song Hu, Lixin Zhao
  • Patent number: 9401268
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a mass spectrometer device comprising a source of ions, an electrostatic sector, a non-scanning magnetic sector arranged downstream of the electrostatic sector, for separating ions originating at the source of ions according to their mass-to-charge ratios, and a detection means. A magnetic shunt is arranged in the drift space between the electrostatic sector and the magnetic sector. The proposed position of the magnetic shunt enhances the resolving power of the mass spectrometer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)
    Inventors: Hung Quang Hoang, David Dowsett, Tom Wirtz
  • Patent number: 9400224
    Abstract: A pressure sensor and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The pressure sensor includes a substrate, a dielectric oxide layer, a first electrode, a dielectric connection layer, and a second electrode. The dielectric oxide layer is formed on the substrate. The first electrode is formed on the dielectric oxide layer. The dielectric connection layer is formed on the first electrode. The second electrode is formed on the dielectric connection layer. The second electrode comprises a patterned conductive layer and a dielectric layer. The patterned conductive layer has a plurality of holes, and the dielectric layer is formed on the patterned conductive layer and covers the inner walls of the plurality of holes. The first electrode, the dielectric connection layer, and the second electrode define a first chamber between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Jien-Ming Chen, Chin-Wen Huang, Chin-Hung Wang, Jing-Yuan Lin, Yu-Sheng Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9401240
    Abstract: A magnetic apparatus having at least one magnetic shim situated between faces of two permanent magnets. The magnetic shim helps to make the magnetic field that is accessible between the two permanent magnets a more uniform field. The magnetic shim is constructed on a thinned semiconductor wafer, such as silicon, by photolithographically defining locations on the wafer where magnetic material, such as iron or iron-nickel materials, are deposited. The shim can additional have photolihographically defined coil regions, in which conductive material such as copper can be deposited. Current contacts are provided to allow currents to be passed through the coil regions. Protective layers can be deposited to protect the deposited metals from mechanical or environmental damage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Axel Scherer, Michael David Henry
  • Patent number: 9401788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reference signal generation method and apparatus. In the reference signal generation method, cyclic shift values of a reference signal for a channel, output in a single frame, are calculated for respective slots constituting the single frame. The calculated cyclic shift values are stored. Base signal sequence phases of the reference signal for the channel, output in the single frame, are calculated for respective slots. The calculated base signal sequence phases are stored. A total phase of the reference signal is calculated based on the cyclic shift values and the base signal sequence phases previously stored for respective slots. A reference signal sequence is generated based on the calculated total phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Ki-Hyuk Park, Bon-Tae Koo
  • Patent number: 9399580
    Abstract: Granules of graphene oxide may be produced from a dispersion of nanoscale graphene oxide sheets by a spray drying method. Such granules have a three-dimensional corrugated morphology. The complexity of the corrugations, and the size distribution of the granules can be varied through selection of the spray-drying equipment used, and variation of the composition of the dispersion and the spray-drying parameters. Structural modifiers may be included in the graphene oxide dispersion to control the ultimate morphology of the granules. The granules of graphene oxide may be thermally reduced at a moderate temperature of 220° C. to increase the granules' electrical conductivity. The reduced granules may be used to fabricate electrodes for supercapacitors. The power and energy density of such an electrode material is comparable to those of conventional/commercial activated carbon-based electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hongwei Qiu, Thomas A. Bechtold, Lihn Tung Le, Woo Young Lee
  • Patent number: 9400924
    Abstract: An object recognition method and an object recognition apparatus using the same are provided. In one or more embodiments, a real-time image including a first object is acquired, and a chamfer distance transform is performed on the first object of the real-time image to produce a chamfer image including a first modified object. Preset image templates each including a second object are acquired, and the chamfer distance transform is performed on the second object of each preset image template to produce a chamfer template including a second modified object. When the difference between the first modified object and the second modified object is less than a first preset error threshold, the object recognition apparatus may operate according to a control command corresponding to the preset image template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiang Yu, Shys-Fan Yang Mao, Wen-Wei Peng, Tzuan-Ren Jeng, Hsien-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 9401825
    Abstract: A channel estimation apparatus includes a de-map circuit to map multiple preambles corresponding to multiple channels into real part (I) and imaginary part (Q) in QPSK coordinate. The costas channel estimation circuit receives the real part (I) and the imaginary part (Q) to operate corresponding to one of the BPSK structure and the QPSK structure to proceed calculation of (Q?I)*Sign (I+Q) or Q*Sign (I)?I*Sign (Q) for outputting an output value, wherein Sign(x) represents a sign circuit taking a sign of the x value. The loop filter circuit filters the output value under time domain. The smooth circuit receives the output of the loop filter circuit to perform smooth processing under frequency domain and then feeds back the same to the de-map circuit to continue channel estimation of a next loop, wherein the phases of the preambles are adjusted according to a direction of the output value approaching to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ming-Ho Lu, Chi-Tien Sun
  • Patent number: 9401438
    Abstract: A solar cell module includes a first solar cell, a second solar cell and an electrically connecting member. The first solar cell has a first connecting side having at least one first protruding portion and at least one first recess portion that are adjacent to each other. The second solar cell has a second connecting side having at least one second protruding portion and at least one second recess portion that are adjacent to each other. The shape of the first protruding portion matches the shape of the second recess portion while the shape of the first recess portion matches the shape of the second protruding portion. The electrically connecting member electrically connects the first upper electrode layer of the first solar cell and the second lower electrode layer of the second solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventor: Chien-Rong Huang