Patents Assigned to INSTITUTE
  • Patent number: 9166171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel methanofullerene derivative applicable as an organic semiconductor material in electronics devices such as organic FETs and electroluminescence devices and solar cells, represented by formula (I) wherein the average value of 13C-NMR chemical shift values of carbons C2 and C2? on FL, bonded to C1 is 80.10 ppm or greater, wherein FL represents fullerenes, X1 and X2 are each an aromatic hydrocarbon, an alkyl group or the like, C2 and C2? are carbon atoms on FL, bonded to C1, and n is an integer of 1 to 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Osaka Municipal Technical Research Institute, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinobu Ohno, Yuko Takao, Kazuyuki Moriwaki, Fukashi Matsumoto, Souichi Uchida, Satoru Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9162264
    Abstract: A system and a method for remediation of organic contaminated soil are provided, which comprises M*N electrodes to form an electrode matrix of symmetrical electric field structure. The field intensity is uniform in those points that are equidistant from each electrode in remediation area. The electrodes arrayed in mesh style in remediation area are carried out electrokinetic remediation. To exchange between positive polarity and negative polarity of the electrodes periodically is to make each electrode be a state of anode intermittently which has preferable remediation efficiency, by operation mode of reversing row/column electrode groups in manner of electrical scanning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Shuhai Guo, Tingting Li, Wang Yanhua, Liu Kunpeng, Li Fengmei, Li Gang
  • Patent number: 9166011
    Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor device having a stable gate structure, and a manufacturing method thereof, in which a gate structure is stabilized by additionally including a plurality of gate feet under a gate head in a width direction of the gate head so as to serve as supporters in a gate structure including a fine gate foot having a length of 0.2 ?m or smaller, and the gate head having a predetermined size. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent the gate electrode of the semiconductor device from collapsing, and improve reliability of the semiconductor device during or after the process of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Seong Il Kim, Dong Min Kang, Sang Heung Lee, Ho Kyun Ahn, Hyung Sup Yoon, Byoung Gue Min, Jong Won Lim
  • Patent number: 9164887
    Abstract: A memory storage system includes multiple flash memory storage devices, multiple transmission interfaces and a central control device. The central control device has a cache and respectively coupled to the flash memory storage devices through the transmission interfaces. The central control device is for maintaining a block map table (BMT) to record a mapping relationship between multiple logical blocks and the physical blocks of the flash memory storage devices and the BMT is temporarily stored in the cache. In addition, the central control device uses the communication commands to access the physical blocks of the flash memory storage devices, in which the communication commands are transmitted to multiple controllers in the flash memory storage devices through the transmission interfaces and the controllers access the physical blocks according to communication commands. In this way, the system can effectively manage multiple flash memory storage devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Tzi-Cker Chiueh, Ting-Fang Chien, Shih-Chiang Tsao, Chien-Yung Lee
  • Patent number: 9163218
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the efficiency of inducing pluripotent stem cells by utilizing genes Jhdm1a that modify histone. By utilizing Jhdm1a, and a stem cell inducing factor, the present invention increases the efficiency of inducing pluripotent stem cells and increases the quality of induced pluripotent stem cells. The stem cell inducing factor is a combination of Oct4 and Klf4, or a combination of Sox2, Oct4, and Klf4, or a combination of Oct4 and Sox2, and Oct4 alone. The method further comprises exposing the cells to vitamin C, which further increases the efficiency of inducing pluripotent stem cells as compared with the case where no vitamin C is used. By using less stem cell reducing factors, the method of the present invention reduces the potential carcinogenicity, obtains a high inducing efficiency, and provides high-quality induced pluripotent stem cells capable of germ-line transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTES OF BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTH CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Duanqing Pei, Tao Wang
  • Patent number: 9165971
    Abstract: High-quality surface coatings, and techniques combining the atomic precision of molecular beam epitaxy and atomic layer deposition, to fabricate such high-quality surface coatings are provided. The coatings made in accordance with the techniques set forth by the invention are shown to be capable of forming silicon CCD detectors that demonstrate world record detector quantum efficiency (>50%) in the near and far ultraviolet (155 nm-300 nm). The surface engineering approaches used demonstrate the robustness of detector performance that is obtained by achieving atomic level precision at all steps in the coating fabrication process. As proof of concept, the characterization, materials, and exemplary devices produced are presented along with a comparison to other approaches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Frank Greer, Todd J. Jones, Shouleh Nikzad, Michael E. Hoenk
  • Patent number: 9163182
    Abstract: A novel process for cracking olefins including contacting a hydrocarbon oil with a catalyst in a riser reactor having multiple reaction zones under cracking reaction conditions; separating reaction products and the catalyst; regenerating at least a part of spent catalyst obtained, contacting a part of the regenerated catalyst with the hydrocarbon in the first reaction zone; contacting the other part of the spent catalyst and/or regenerated catalyst in at least one reaction zone after the first reaction zone with the products obtained in previous reaction zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, Sinopec
    Inventors: Jun Long, Yuxia Zhu, Huiping Tian, Yujian Liu, Zhenyu Chen, Yaoqing Guo, Zhijian Da, Jiushun Zhang, Mingyuan He
  • Patent number: 9163995
    Abstract: Sub-arrays such as tiles or chips having pixel elements arranged on a routing layer or carrier to form a larger array. Through-chip vias or the like to the backside of the chip are used for connecting with the pixel elements. Edge features of the tiles may provide for physical alignment, mechanical attachment and chip-to-chip communication. Edge damage tolerance with minimal loss of function may be achieved by moving unit cell circuitry and the electrically active portions of a pixel element away from the tile edge(s) while leaving the optically active portion closer to the edge(s) if minor damage will not cause a complete failure of the pixel. The pixel elements may be thermal emitter elements for IR image projectors, thermal detector elements for microbolometers, LED-based emitters, or quantum photon detectors such as those found in visible, infrared and ultraviolet FPAs (focal plane arrays), and the like. Various architectures are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc., Research Triangle Institute, Indiana Integrated Circuits
    Inventors: Joseph Donald LaVeigne, John LaƱnon, Scott Goodwin, Jason Kulick
  • Patent number: 9165960
    Abstract: A pixel circuit, an active sensing array, a sensing device, and a driving method thereof are provided. The pixel circuit includes a sensing transistor, a reset transistor, and a storage capacitor. The sensing transistor is electrically connected to a sensing element and a data line. The reset transistor is electrically connected to a first scan line and the sensing transistor. The storage capacitor is electrically connected to the sensing transistor and a second scan line. During a compensation period, the reset transistor is turned on in response to a first scanning pulse from the first scan line, so that the sensing transistor is connected into a diode configuration, and the storage capacitor charges and discharges to a threshold voltage of the sensing transistor through the sensing transistor having the diode configuration in response to switching of a level of the data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Ya-Hsiang Tai, Bo-Cheng Chen, Lu-Sheng Chou, Bo-Wen Xiao, Heng-Yin Chen
  • Patent number: 9162200
    Abstract: Disclosed is provided a method of injecting and reacting super-critical phase CO2 without pressure loss. The method includes preparing gas phase CO2, producing liquid phase CO2 by pressurizing the prepared gas phase CO2, producing super-critical phase CO2 by adjusting a temperature of the produced liquid phase CO2, filling incompressible fluid in a reactor and an injection line from an injection unit and pressurizing the incompressible fluid, injecting the produced super-critical phase CO2 into the reactor, and controlling a pressure of the injected super-critical phase CO2 by a pressure regulating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources
    Inventors: Jun-Ho Oh, Kue-Young Kim, Tae-Hee Kim, Kwon-Gyu Park
  • Patent number: 9167544
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device to device (D2D) synchronization method that is applicable to a user equipment and a user equipment (UE) using the same method. In one of the exemplary embodiments, the D2D synchronization method includes receiving detected signals from a receiver, obtaining from the detected signals a first signal having a first timing information and a second signal having a second timing information, determining whether to forward the first timing information or the second timing information based on an upper bound power restriction of the first signal and the second signal and a power difference between the first signal and the second signal, and determining whether to transmit a third timing information that is inherent of the UE based on whether the first signal and the second signal are below power thresholds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: Industrial Technology Research Institute, National Taipei University
    Inventors: Yan-Xiu Zheng, Chun-Yi Wei
  • Patent number: 9166370
    Abstract: A vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes a first semiconductor multilayer reflector, a resonator, and a second semiconductor multilayer reflector. The first semiconductor multilayer reflector is formed on a substrate and is configured by stacking a high refractive index layer having a relatively high refractive index and a low refractive index layer having a relatively low refractive index. The resonator includes an active layer formed on the first semiconductor multilayer reflector. The second semiconductor multilayer reflector is configured by stacking the high refractive index layer and the low refractive index layer. The resonator includes a pair of spacer layers disposed vertically on the active layer and a resonator extension area formed at one side of the pair of spacer layers. The resonator extension area contains a material in which an energy level with a crystal defect is higher than a general energy level without the crystal defect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Takashi Kondo, Hideo Nakayama, Kazutaka Takeda, Fumio Koyama
  • Patent number: 9165896
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a GaN transistor, and a method of fabricating the same, in which a structure of a bonding pad is improved by forming an ohmic metal layer at edges of the bonding pad of a source, a drain, and a gate so as to be appropriate to wire-bonding or a back-side via-hole forming process. Accordingly, adhesive force between a metal layer of the bonding pad and a GaN substrate is enhanced by forming the ohmic metal at the edges of the bonding pad during manufacturing of the GaN transistor, thereby minimizing a separation phenomenon of a pad layer during the wire-bonding or back-side via-hole forming process, and improving reliability of a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hae Cheon Kim, Ho Kyun Ahn, Byoung Gue Min, Hyung Sup Yoon, Jong Won Lim
  • Patent number: 9165382
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for providing traffic information using augmented reality, and comprises: an AR server for providing a virtual image which is obtained by processing transfer information on transfer locations at stops for transportation means and information according to the transportation means, using characters and graphics; and a personal portable communication device which displays the virtual image received from the AR server while overlapping the virtual image on a real-captured image of a transfer location obtained through a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Railroad Research Institute
    Inventors: Yong-Soo Song, Yong-Ki Yoon, Seung-Kwon Shin, Seog-Moon Oh
  • Patent number: 9163054
    Abstract: The present invention establishes a fast and simple [F-18] FLT synthesis process. Solid extraction units are used for purification to achieve an equally high and constant radiochemical yield and purity in a short period of time. By using a separation method, the impurities are reduced successfully while the total synthesis time is shortened. The radiochemical purity and the corrected radiochemical yield are both high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH, ATOMIC ENERGY COUNCIL, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.
    Inventors: Li-Yuan Huang, Yen-Hung Tu, Wen-Chin Su, Jenn-Tzong Chen, Ting-Shien Duh, Wuu-Jyh Lin
  • Patent number: 9164369
    Abstract: An optical material system for nanopatterning is provided that includes one or more material systems having spectrally selective reversible and irreversible transitions by saturating one of the spectrally selective reversible transitions with an optical node retaining a single molecule in a configuration and exposing the single molecule to its spectrally irreversible transitions to form a pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Massachusettes Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Rajesh Menon, Trisha L. Andrew, Francesco Stellacci
  • Patent number: 9166249
    Abstract: A lithium-free, anion based charge transport electrochemical system that uses fluoride ion transporting electrolytes, including ionic liquids, with and without various additives to improve performance, is described. The fluoride ion transporting electrolyte can be wholly or partly an ionic liquid that is typically liquid at temperatures less than 200 degrees Celsius. In other embodiments, electrolytes that remain liquid at less than 100 degrees Celsius are useful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Isabelle Darolles, Cedric M. Weiss, Maksudul M. Alam, Arunkumar Tiruvannamalai, Simon Christopher Jones
  • Patent number: 9167299
    Abstract: A method for managing a broadcast receiving apparatus standby mode according to external signaling is provided. The method includes: generating a power management descriptor that a broadcast receiving apparatus refers to in order to perform a standby mode; and transmitting the generated power management descriptor to the broadcast receiving apparatus. Accordingly, since the broadcast receiving apparatus manages the standby mode more effectively, standby power consumed in the standby mode is further reduced and thus power saving effect can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: KOREA ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jung Mee Yun, Sang Hak Lee, Jang Kyu Lee, Jong Chul Weon, Young Min Chae, Jeong Ku Lee
  • Patent number: 9166698
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to electronic dispersion compensation (EDC). The interaction between the frequency chirp and the fiber dispersion is newly analyzed. The linear and nonlinear properties of the chirp-dispersion are separately analyzed. A pre-compensating transmitter may consist of a phase interpolator (PI), a 2 tap data generator, a pulse widening CLK generator, a rising pattern detector, 4:1 Mux and an output driver. A post-compensating receiver may consist of linear equalizer for the rabbit ear compensation, nonlinear equalizer for tilting compensation, typical high frequency boosting equalizer (EQ) and limiting amp (LA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: HyeonMin Bae, KyeongHa Kwon, JongHyeok Yoon
  • Patent number: 9162207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluidized bed reactor and a hydrogenation method thereof. The fluidized bed reactor (7) comprises a reactor shell (103) vertical to the ground and a phase separator (111) at the upper part of the shell (103). An inner circulation zone is provided under the phase separator (111), and comprises a cylinder (114), a tapered diffusion section (115) and a guiding structure (104). In the hydrogenation method using the fluidized bed reactor (7), an expanded bed reactor (3) is used to further hydrogenate part of the product from the fluidized bed reactor (7), and supply catalyst without influencing on the stable operation of the fluidized bed reactor (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignees: China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum & Petrochemicals Sinopec
    Inventors: Li Jia, Yongzhong Jia, Hailong Ge