Patents Examined by Trinh Vo Dinh
  • Patent number: 7327090
    Abstract: An electronic module includes an EL section; a first substrate on which the EL section is formed; a second substrate attached to the first substrate; an integrated circuit chip mounted on the second substrate; a plurality of first power supply interconnects formed on the first substrate, extending through a pair of regions located on both sides of the EL section; and a plurality of second power supply interconnects formed on the second substrate, extending through a pair of regions located on both sides of the integrated circuit chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Takaaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 7327321
    Abstract: An electromagnetic radiation assembly is described and which includes a reflector having discrete first and second surfaces; a first electromagnetic radiation emitter positioned adjacent to the first surface; and a second electromagnetic radiation emitter positioned adjacent to the second surface, and wherein, when energized, the first and second electromagnetic radiation emitters emit visibly discernible electromagnetic radiation which is reflected by the reflector in a fashion so as to be visible at locations forward of the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: K.W. Muth Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel R. Todd, Daniel J. Mathieu, Allen A. Bukosky
  • Patent number: 7324059
    Abstract: A stub printed antenna (SPDA) and a method of designing the same are provided. The SPDA include: a substrate; dipole arms disposed at both surfaces of the substrate for transmitting/receiving a signal; a parallel metal strip line disposed at both surfaces of the substrate, and each having one end connected to each of the dipole arms; a stub disposed at both surfaces of the substrate, and connected to the other end of the parallel metal strip line; a coaxial probe connected to the junction of the parallel metal strip line and the stub for feeding signals; a hole for inserting an inner conductor of the coaxial probe; and a contact for connecting to an outer conductor of the coaxial probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institiute
    Inventors: Sung-Jun Lee, Kwang-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 7324064
    Abstract: System and method for improving the interference resistance of an radio frequency (RF) antenna system through passive prescreening of the RF energy incident upon the antenna. The invention physically partitions the RF environment into two or more sectors with respect to the direction of arrival of incident energy. The power level of the RF frequencies of interest incident upon each sector is determined such that whenever the power level exceeds a given threshold, the received signal from energy incident on that sector is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Science Applications International Corporation
    Inventors: Cordell Fox, Kevin Wing, Robert A. Murphy, David C. Priester
  • Patent number: 7324053
    Abstract: A recording/playback apparatus accommodates a recording medium in a cassette shell and performs recording and/or playback with respect to the recording medium cassette provided with a cassette-side antenna connected to an in-cassette memory. The playback apparatus includes a recording/playback mechanism, a cassette holding member, a cassette passing member and an apparatus side antenna. The apparatus side antenna effects communication through the in-cassette memory and the cassette-side antenna. An electric wave transmission portion is formed in a portion of the cassette holding member opposed to the cassette-side antenna. The apparatus-side antenna is arranged in correspondence with the electric wave transmission portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shuichi Ota, Takashi Katoku, Masayasu Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7319446
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device includes a gate line receiving a gate signal, a data line crossing the gate line, the data line receiving a data signal, a switching thin film transistor switching the data signal according to the gate signal, a driving thin film transistor connected to the switching thin film transistor and receiving the data signal, a power line supplying a current to the driving thin film transistor, an organic electroluminescent diode connected to the driving thin film transistor, and a pre-charge element inputting a pre-charge voltage to the data line before the data line receives the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Du-Hwan Oh, Hoon-Ju Chung
  • Patent number: 7317420
    Abstract: Omni-directional antenna devices are formed of a conductive loaded resin-based material. The conductive loaded resin-based material comprises micron conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination of conductive powder and conductive fibers in a base resin host. The percentage by weight of the conductive powder(s), conductive fiber(s), or a combination thereof is between about 20% and 50% of the weight of the conductive loaded resin-based material. The micron conductive powders are formed from non-metals, such as carbon, graphite, that may also be metallic plated, or the like, or from metals such as stainless steel, nickel, copper, silver, that may also be metallic plated, or the like, or from a combination of non-metal, plated, or in combination with, metal powders. The micron conductor fibers preferably are of nickel plated carbon fiber, stainless steel fiber, copper fiber, silver fiber, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2008
    Assignee: Integral Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Aisenbrey
  • Patent number: 7315287
    Abstract: An antenna device includes a rectangular parallelepiped base member made of a dielectric or magnetic material, a band-shaped first radiation conductor, including a plurality of divided first radiation conductor portions, spirally wound around the base member, a plurality of variable capacitance elements connected between pairs of adjacent portions and disposed on a upper surface of the base member, and a feeding conductor for supplying a tuning voltage to the variable capacitance elements. The first radiation conductor has first radiation conductor parts respectively formed on upper, lower, and rear side surfaces of the base member and first connecting through-holes passing through the upper and lower surfaces are provided in the base member, and the first radiation conductor part on the upper surface and the first radiation conductor part on the lower surface are connected to each another by the first through-holes, and the feeding conductor is disposed on the front surface of the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: ALPS Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Makoto Shigihara
  • Patent number: 7309964
    Abstract: A floating driving device for illumination includes a illumination unit having a first terminal and a second terminal. A first driver is electrically coupled to the first terminal of the illumination unit, for applying AC voltages to the first terminal. A second driver is electrically coupled to the second terminal of the illumination unit, for applying AC voltages to the second terminal in such a manner that the AC voltages at the first terminal and the second terminal are out of phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2007
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Chin-Der Wey, Kuei-Lin Chen, Chia-Hung Sun, Hsien-Jen Li
  • Patent number: 7307390
    Abstract: A lower-cost and more precise control methodology of regulating the output voltage of a Flyback converter from the primary side is provided, which works accurately in either continuous voltage mode (CCM) or discontinuous mode (DCM). The methodology can be applied to most small, medium and high power applications such as cell phone chargers, power management in desktop computers and networking equipment, and, generally, to a wide spectrum of power management applications. Two highly integrated semiconductor chips based on this control methodology are also described that require very few components to build a constant voltage Flyback converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Active-Semi International, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Huynh, Mingliang Chen, Chuan Xiao, Mingfan Yu
  • Patent number: 7298096
    Abstract: A circuit for sensing an open-circuit lamp is provided. The circuit includes a reference voltage output unit, a voltage sensor, and a comparator. The reference voltage output unit provides a reference voltage. The voltage sensor detects a sensed voltage corresponding to a status of a lamp. The status of the lamp includes an open-circuit status and a closed-circuit status. The comparator compares the sensed voltage with the reference voltage and outputs a result indicating the status of the lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: LG.Philips LCD Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Il Shin, Jae Ho Lee, Chang-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 7295168
    Abstract: An antenna coil has a simple structure and a high sensitivity and can be thinner. The antenna coil includes an X Y coil unit having an X axis coil and a Y axis coil wound around a core, a Z axis coil wound around the X Y coil unit, and a resin portion insert molded around the X Y coil unit and the Z axis coil. In the antenna coil, the X axis coil, the Y axis coil, and the Z axis coil are arranged so that the three coils have an axis in a direction orthogonal to each other, and the X Y coil unit and the Z axis are integrated by the resin portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Yonezawa Electric Wire Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Saegusa, Hitoki Nakaya, Takayuki Ochi, Shigeyoshi Seino
  • Patent number: 7292202
    Abstract: Range limited antenna includes first and second pair of antenna elements, and an RF signal processing network connected to both pair of antenna elements. The network has a function, F(?,x)??A(x)??B(x), where x is a signal, ?A(x) is the phase angle of signal x at the first element pair, ?B(x) is the phase angle of signal x at the second element pair, and ? contains all additional parameters which bear on the system. The network is configured to pass a signal for which F(?,x)>?, where ? is a threshold amount, such that the antenna has gain to signals within a radius and has attenuation outside the radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the National Security Agency
    Inventor: Mark L. G. Althouse
  • Patent number: 7291987
    Abstract: A power supply system for powering backlight lamps in a flat panel display with reduced dimensions and increased power efficiency. The power supply system includes a converter circuit for converting an alternating current (AC) signal from an AC power source to a high direct current (DC) signal, and a high voltage (HV) inverter system that includes a power stage circuit, a transformer circuit, and a current balance circuit. The HV inverter system is coupled to the converter circuit and specifically configured to convert the high DC signal into an AC output signal to power the backlight lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: A-Jung Chang, Wen-Lin Chen, Chen-An Chiang, Hui-Chen Chou, Yi-Cheng Liu
  • Patent number: 7292204
    Abstract: A dielectric resonator antenna is a dielectric resonator mounted on a feed-in/feed-out component. The dielectric resonator is a rectangular parallelepiped made of a dielectric, and has a caved well passing through from the top surface to the bottom surface thereof. The feed-in/feed-out component includes a dielectric substrate, a ground metal layer and a strip metal layer coated on the top surface and the bottom surface, respectively, of the dielectric substrate. An etched part is provided on the ground metal layer. Wherein, the dielectric resonator with the caved well is mounted on the ground metal layer of the feed-in/feed-out component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: National Taiwan University
    Inventors: Tze-Hsuan Chang, Jean-Fu Kiang
  • Patent number: 7289067
    Abstract: In a wireless tag gate reader that includes a plurality of antenna pairs that is disposed oppositely to each other so as to form a path space where a recognition target with a wireless tag goes through and a wireless tag reader connected to each of the antenna pairs, antenna pairs disposed at both ends of the path space of the wireless tag gate reader are disposed with a tilt angle so as to expand the width at the both ends of the path space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation
    Inventor: Satoshi Ohishi
  • Patent number: 7285925
    Abstract: A backlight module control circuit of a multi-lamp display device includes a control unit, multiple lamp driving circuits and a fault detection unit. The control unit includes multiple signal output terminals. Input terminals of the lamp driving circuits are respectively coupled to a signal output terminal of the control unit and output terminals of the lamp driving circuits are respectively coupled to a terminal of a lamp. A fault detection unit includes multiple signal detection input terminals, which are respectively coupled to multiple lamp driving circuits and lamps. The fault detection unit can detect whether any one of the lamps is out of order and then output a signal to the control unit, so as to make the control unit shut down the driving circuit of the failure lamp and continue to maintain an operation of other normal lamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Chuntex Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sy-Shang Chen, Alex Leng, Allen Lee, Hsien-Min Yeh Liang
  • Patent number: 7285918
    Abstract: Organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The OLED display comprises a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area. An array of pixels is disposed in the display area. Column and row control circuits are disposed in the peripheral area. At least one thermal dissipation element is disposed in the peripheral area connecting each pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventor: Yi-Cheng Chang
  • Patent number: 7286091
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing antenna configurations with substantially co-located axes are disclosed. A method for constructing co-located antennas includes winding a first antenna on a support, the first antenna having a first magnetic dipole in a first orientation; and winding a second antenna on the support through a first set of openings in the support, the second antenna having a second magnetic dipole in a second orientation, wherein the first orientation is different from the second orientation, and wherein a center of the first magnetic dipole substantially co-locates with a center of the second magnetic dipole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kuo-Chiang Chen, Thomas D. Barber
  • Patent number: 7282867
    Abstract: An inductor for performing a chopper operation by turning on or off a first switching element MOSFET Q1 and obtaining an increased voltage is arranged on the secondary side of a transformer 112 and on the basis of the turn ratio of the transformer 112, a high voltage at the time of stable lighting can be obtained from a DC power source 111 at a low voltage Vin. Further, when the on-duties of the first and second switching elements MOSFET Q1 and Q2 constituting an inverter circuit are made almost similar, the timings of application of the power to both ends of a lamp 144 can be made similar, so that the life span of the lamp can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Harison Toshiba Lighting Corporation
    Inventors: Syouhei Maeda, Yoshito Kato