Patents Issued in December 14, 2004
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Patent number: 6831788Abstract: There is provided a projection display apparatus using a polarization beam splitter having two splitting surfaces, which can simplify its structure and reduce its cost. The projection display apparatus includes the polarization beam splitter that has a first splitting surface for transmitting or reflecting a red light and a second splitting surface for transmitting or reflecting a green light and a blue light. A polarization state converter that is provided in the polarization beam splitter converts the polarization states of the green and blue lights and applies the converted green and blue lights to the polarization beam splitter.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Ho Joong Kang
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Patent number: 6831789Abstract: A rotating periodic color-regulating module of the image display device is disclosed to improve the usage of light. The rotating periodic color-regulating module comprises a color separating light guide and a color-regulating processor. By using a grating element installed in front of the color separating light guide, the incident light is interleaved into three parts of different wavelengths, red (R), green (G) and blue (B), propagating toward the corresponding color filters. Part of the light is reflected by the color filters, then reflected by the mirror around the grating element, and goes back to the color filters. The incident light is divided into three uniform beams of light, R, G and B, to the color-regulating processor. The color-regulating processor changes the outgoing position and order of the light beams periodically and rapidly for displaying image.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.Inventor: Sean Chang
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Patent number: 6831790Abstract: An optical element having a substrate formed by an optical material and able to improve mechanical strength, wherein the substrate has a convex part functioning as a convex lens, a flat part positioned around the convex part, and an outer circumference part positioned around the flat part. The thickness of the substrate at the outer circumference part is greater than that of the substrate at the flat part.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koichiro Kishima, Akira Kouchiyama
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Patent number: 6831791Abstract: An optical system for optical communications is composed of a transparent material having a refractive index distribution formed by changing the molar ratio of metal oxide with valence of 2 or more. The metal oxide with valence of 2 or more includes, for example, Fe2O3. Using such an optical system for optical communications, optical communication components such as an optical fiber collimator and an optical isolator are composed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Mitsuru Namiki, Hirofumi Tsuchida
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Patent number: 6831792Abstract: The reference objective lens includes an objective lens and an index member provided with an index that indicates a reference position. The index member is disposed on the front-side focal position of the objective lens or in its vicinity. Upon the reference objective lens thus configured being mounted on an apparatus having an image sensor, an image of the index that indicates a reference position is captured with the image sensor, and a position of the index in the captured image is calculated out and stored. Then, upon a predetermined optical system being mounted on the apparatus having the image sensor in place of the reference objective lens, aberrations of the optical system are measured, and the optical system is adjusted so that aberrations at a position that corresponds to the stored position satisfy a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Nishida
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Patent number: 6831793Abstract: An optical apparatus capable of reducing processing burden on the controller and achieving high-speed driving and improvement of the resolution of stop positions of an optical element. The optical apparatus includes a drive unit that drives the optical element, an operation member manually operated to instruct driving of the optical element and a signal output unit that outputs a signal that varies periodically according to the operation of the operation member. The controller determines the operation speed of the operation member based on the signal from the signal output unit, and chooses whether to control the drive unit according to the operation speed based on a count of periodic variations of the signal from the signal output unit, or to control the drive unit based on a value of the signal from the signal output unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hidekazu Nakamura
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Patent number: 6831794Abstract: A lens has at least one aspheric lens surface, an objective with at least one aspheric lens surface, and a projection exposure device for microlithography and a method for the production of microstructured components with an objective having at least one aspheric lens surface. The object of the invention is to provide a method by which new designs with aspheric lens surfaces can be generated without consultation with manufacturing, with this object attained by the measure of describing the aspheric lens surfaces by Zernike polynomials, which makes it is possible to undertake a classification of aspheric lens surfaces such that the respective aspheric lens surface can be polished and tested at a justifiable cost when at least two of three, or all three, of certain conditions are present.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT AGInventors: Karl-Heinz Schuster, Frank Schillke, Franz-Josef Stickel, Alexander Epple
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Patent number: 6831795Abstract: A data recording system for providing tamper proof recording has a housing; means to receive power to the system; an input port; at least one recording device; at least one storage device; a single cover with a locking means; a handling means to receive the storage devices following recording, stamp protective bags with indicia, seal the storage devices in the bags, and dispense the bags containing the storage devices through an output receptacle; an open button to unlock the cover only when no storage devices are in the system; input code keys and display for stamping indicia on the bags; a start key to lock the cover and activate recording; an off/eject key to stop the recording process and transfer the storage devices to the handling means.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventor: Timothy D. Burns
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Patent number: 6831796Abstract: The present invention is directed to detecting amplitude modulation on the written signal as a result of head movement along the z-axis during the write operation, before the head has had sufficient time to stabilize after seeking from a different track.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: YeongHeng Tan, Siew Kin Chow
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Patent number: 6831797Abstract: A programmable write equalization circuit includes a first digital clock that is used as a reference to indicate data rate, a second digital clock used to indicate write equalization quantization, a look-up table used to store waveforms used in equalizing the input from the first digital clock domain to the second digital clock domain, a counter used to indicate the number of bits within the look-up table that are to be used for each translation, a polarity detector used to detect the current state of the input data, a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) filter used to indicate the placement of data transitions and non-transitions, and a software interface including programmable registers to control each one of the parameters within the equalization circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Quantum CorporationInventors: Justin J. Koller, Ben Sembera
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Patent number: 6831798Abstract: A storage device stores a plurality of information, each having first and second partial information. A reading device reads the first partial information of one arbitrarily selected information to be reproduced, and the corresponding first partial information is reproduced. Also, a reading device reads the second partial information of the arbitrarily selected information during the reproduction of the first partial information.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Pioneer CorporationInventor: Kazuhiro Hayashi
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Patent number: 6831799Abstract: A differential amplifier circuit for amplifying an input signal and for providing an output signal representative of the input signal includes first and second amplifier circuits, and first and second coupling circuits. The first and second amplifier circuits each include first and second transistors, a resistor, and a current generator. The first coupling circuit includes a transistor, a capacitor, and a current generator, and couples a first input signal node to the first transistor of the second amplifier circuit. The second coupling circuit includes a transistor, a capacitor, and a current generator, and couples a second input signal node to the first transistor of the first amplifier circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2000Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Elango Pakriswamy, Jong K. Kim, Michael P. Straub
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Patent number: 6831800Abstract: A system and method enable boosting a bias applied to a load so as to facilitate reversing the direction of the bias applied relative to the load. The amount of boosting provided to facilitate reversing the bias polarity, depends on a substantially fixed boost voltage, which can be programmable. Thus, by setting the boost voltage to a predetermined voltage improved performance can be achieved, including, for example, improving the rise and/or fall times of bias current applied to an inductive load.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Indumini Ranmuthu
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Patent number: 6831801Abstract: A control system compensates for web tension variation caused by a first spool, (A) determines rotational frequency of the first spool; (B) determines variation in rotational velocity at the second spool which occurs at the (A) first spool frequency; (C) determines the rotational position at the first spool corresponding to the (B) variation in rotational velocity at the second spool; (D) calculates a drive motor profile for the first spool which tends to cancel the (B) variation in rotational velocity at the second spool; and (E) superimposes the (D) drive motor profile on a first spool drive motor at the (C) determined rotational position of the first spool.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alex Chliwnyj, David Michael Davis, David Lee Swanson
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Patent number: 6831802Abstract: A method of thermally bonding lubricant over a surface of a magnetic disk in a disk drive involves providing a heat source at an air bearing surface (ABS) of a magnetic head; causing the heat source to be energized to produce heat; and causing the magnetic head to be moved across a surface portion of a magnetic disk so that lubricant is thermally bonded over the surface portion from the heat produced by the heat source. Preferably, this lubricant bonding mode of operation is performed on a regular or periodic basis. Alternatively, the mode is activated based on a predetermined environmental condition (e.g. temperature or humidity) or from an external signal. In one example, the heat source is comprised of first and/or second pole pieces of the magnetic head through which an electrical current is passed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage TechnologiesInventors: Donald Ray Gillis, Andrei Khurshudov
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Patent number: 6831803Abstract: A repeatable runout (RRO) identification device for use with a disc drive having a rotatable disc is provided. The RRO identification device determines RRO values for servo fields of a first track of the disc as a function of received position error signal (PES) values for the servo fields independent of averaging the PES values for each servo field. The RRO identification device compares, in real-time, each determined RRO value for each servo field with a threshold repeatable runout value.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventor: Yi-Ping Hsin
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Patent number: 6831804Abstract: A method of handling resonance effects on disc drives includes the steps of monitoring a position error signal (PES) for an actuator arm of a disc drive, generating a feedforward compensation signal from the PES using a bandpass filter, and applying the compensation signal to a servo control signal. The bandpass filter has a center frequency set to a known resonance frequency. A disc drive includes an actuator assembly including an arm for carrying a head in a transducing relation with respect to a disc in response to a control signal, and a controller that monitors a PES for the arm and generates the control signal. The controller includes a servo controller that generates a servo control signal from the PES, and a feedforward compensation element which bandpass filters the PES to generate a compensation signal which is combined with the servo control signal to generate the control signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Kian Keong Ooi, Ming Zhong Ding, Lee Ling Tan, Wing Kong Chiang, Beng Wee Quak, Yang Quan Chen
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Patent number: 6831805Abstract: An apparatus and method to read and/or write information from and/or to a moving magnetic tape comprising one or more servo edges using a tape head comprising (N) servo sensors. Bach servo edge comprises an interface between a first recorded signal and a second recorded signal, where each of the (N) servo sensors detects that first recorded signal and that second recorded signal. The method calculates (N) target PES signals and provides (N) measured PES signals. Using the target and the measured PES signals, the method forms (N) weighted PES signals and averages those (N) weighted PES signals to form a Composite PES signal. That Composite PES signal is used to position the tape head.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alex Chliwnyj, David L. Swanson, Steven C. Wills
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Patent number: 6831806Abstract: A method to calibrate a servo sensor disposed on a magnetic tape head disposed adjacent a magnetic tape moving along a tape path. The method measures a maximum and a minimum servo signal ratio, establishes target maximum and minimum servo signal ratios, and determines if the measured servo signal ratios include the target ratios. If the measured servo signal ratios include the target servo signal ratios, then the method forms a filtered servo signal waveform using the measured servo signal waveform. The method then uses the filtered servo signal waveform to calculate a transfer function which is saved for subsequent track following.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Alex Chliwnyj, David L. Swanson, Steven C. Wills
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Patent number: 6831807Abstract: A head positioner comprises a degradation detecting unit for detecting degradation of a fine motion actuator based on current flowing through a piezo element constituting the fine motion actuator and a performance recovering unit for repairing the degradation when the degradation is detected. A fine motion driver has a function of generating a fine motion driving signal, a function of generating a predetermined voltage used for detecting the degradation, and a function of outputting a high voltage signal used for repairing the degradation. Therefore, the present invention can provide a head positioner for realizing stable positioning control for a long time even when degradation of the positioning performance is generated by an electric short circuit or the like, and provide a disk drive.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Koso, Hideki Kuwajima
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Patent number: 6831808Abstract: A disk for a disk drive data storage device contains embedded track identifying fields which identify a track within a range of tracks, the range being less than the full range of tracks on the disk surface. The full identity of a track during a track seek operation is determined by iteratively assuming a track identity and estimating acceleration of the transducer based on the assumed track identity, until a track identity is found for which estimated acceleration meets some pre-determined threshold. Preferably, embedded servo fields are recorded at angularly spaced intervals on the disk surface, and every Nth servo field contains a Gray code full track identifier, while all servo fields in between contain abbreviated Gray code fields which identify a track within a range of tracks.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Hal Hjalmar Ottesen, Gordon James Smith
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Patent number: 6831809Abstract: A control arrangement having a feedforward system and a feedback system, a control model for generating reference position data from a feedforward control signal is separated into an original control model and a compensation filter. Gain of the feedforward control signal is compensated by a gain compensation circuit to form a feedforward control signal after compensation. The reference position data is input to a feedback controller, and a feedback control signal and feedforward control signal are input to a control object. Coefficients of the compensation filter and the gain compensation circuit are compensated on the basis of a head position trajectory obtained by actual seek operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Naoyuki Kagami, Kenji Okada, Tetsuo Semba, Akira Tokizono, Hiroshi Uchida, Akinori Yuba
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Patent number: 6831810Abstract: A disk drive has an enclosure that includes a first portion and a second portion that is configured to mate with the first portion. A spindle motor is attached to the first portion and a disk is mounted to the spindle motor. A head stack assembly is pivotally coupled to the second portion prior to the first and second portions being mated to one another. The head stack assembly includes a read write head that is configured to read from and write to the recording surface of the disk after the first and second portions are mated to one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Walter W. Butler, Robert E. Lloyd
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Patent number: 6831811Abstract: A disk drive having a fluid evacuation/fill valve is disclosed for allowing for the removal of a fluid from an enclosed space within a disk drive housing, for allowing for the introduction of a fluid into this enclosed space, or both. The valve assembly utilizes a sealing member that may be biased into sealing engagement with a portion of an external surface of the disk drive housing to at least substantially isolate the enclosed space from the external environment to the disk drive. These biasing forces may be reduced and/or overcome to allow the valve assembly to “open” and allow for a fluid flow out of and/or into the enclosed space, utilizing a port that extends through a wall of the disk drive housing and a space between a sealing member of the valve assembly and the external surface of the disk drive housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Maxtor CorporationInventors: Thomas G. Andrikowich, Kimberly C. Mann, Michael C. Strzepa
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Patent number: 6831812Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thrust plate for a dynamic pressure bearing in which the upper and lower end surfaces thereof have a highly precise perpendicular angle relative to the central axis thereof. The thrust plate has an annular shape, and a central hole is formed therein in which is fitted a shaft body. Thrust surfaces that form a portion of thrust bearing units are formed at both end surfaces of the thrust plate. The method of manufacturing the thrust plate includes a blanking step in which a plate-like work piece is press-cut to obtain an annular blank intermediate, an end surface polishing step in which both end surfaces of the blank intermediate are polished, and a shaving step in which an inner hole and an outer periphery of the polished blank intermediate are simultaneously press-cut to shave off surfaces thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Nidec CorporationInventors: Takayuki Sode, Kenji Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 6831813Abstract: A disc cartridge according to the present invention includes a cartridge body, a shutter and a disc holding portion. The cartridge body includes a disc storage portion, a chucking opening and a head opening. The disc storage portion stores a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable in the disc storage portion. The shutter is supported to, and movable with respect to, the cartridge body between the disc and the bottom of the disc storage portion so as to expose or cover the chucking opening and the head opening. The disc holding portion is provided at a portion of the shutter for fixing the disc onto the shutter or the cartridge body synchronously with a movement of the shutter, by pressing the disc toward the bottom of the disc storage portion when the shutter covers the chucking opening and the head opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventors: Teruyuki Takizawa, Yoshito Sazi, Kuniko Nakata, Hironori Okazawa
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Patent number: 6831814Abstract: A flexure design is provided that can focus the lifting force on a slider device at its leading edge. For sub-ambient pressure sliders, this results in an rapid increase in pressure in the sub-ambient pressure area causing the slider device to quickly lift off from the disk surface in a ramp unload disk drive. In one embodiment, first and second outriggers are provided in the flexure that each include a section that extends distally and a section that extends proximally. The sections of the outriggers that extend proximally can be joined and coupled to a tab section slider which would be located at the leading edge of the slider.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1998Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.Inventor: Ellis T. Cha
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Patent number: 6831815Abstract: A precise positioning actuator to be fixed to a head slider provided with at least one head element and to a support, for precisely positioning the at least one head element includes a pair of movable arms and a base section. Each movable arm is formed by a plate member including a first metal plate to be substantially in parallel with a side surface of the head slider. Top end sections of the pair of movable arms are capable of displacing in response to a drive signal applied to the actuator along a direction crossing planes of the metal plates. The base section is connected between rear end sections of the pair of movable arms and formed by a plate member including a second metal plate. The base section and the pair of movable arms are formed by adhering the first metal plates and the second metal plate that are individually formed.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.Inventors: Tamon Kasajima, Masashi Shiraishi
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Patent number: 6831816Abstract: A magnetic head assembly includes a read head with a current perpendicular to the planes (CPP) sensor. The CPP sensor includes an AP pinned layer structure, a free layer and a spacer layer which is located between the free layer and the AP pinned layer structure. An in-stack longitudinal biasing structure for longitudinally biasing the free layer includes a pinned layer, an AFM pinning layer for pinning the pinned layer and a chromium spacer layer which is located between the pinned layer and the free layer. The free layer includes first and second free films with the first free film being iron and interfacing the spacer layer. The second free film may be nickel iron for imparting magnetic softness to the first free film. The pinned layer and a second AP pinned layer of the free layer structure may also be iron. The iron content of the layers in the sensor and the chromium spacer layer significantly increase the magnetoresistive coefficient dr/R of the CPP sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Hardayal Singh Gill
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Patent number: 6831817Abstract: A first magnetic layer includes an area which contains an element X (e.g., Cr) and is present in position toward the side of a nonmagnetic intermediate layer from the side near an opposite surface of the first magnetic layer away from an interface between the first magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic intermediate layer, and an area which is partly located in a region from the interface between the first magnetic layer and the nonmagnetic intermediate layer toward the opposite surface of the first magnetic layer and which does not contain the element X. Such an arrangement is able to improve a resistance change rate, to increase a coupling magnetic field based on the RKKY interaction, and to realize satisfactory control of magnetization of a free magnetic layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoya Hasegawa, Eiji Umetsu
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Patent number: 6831818Abstract: A method and apparatus for provision of a power supply that combines the advantages of current regulation with voltage limitation to enable corona chargers that can be run at higher current regulated set points for lower resistance sheets. The voltage limit will protect against arcing when high resistance media is used. This wider operation window can be provided without the need to track sheet types in the process and shift the operating set points, which would result in much more complicated machine control algorithms. The regulation and limit reference controls retain the ability of changing the operating set points of the power supply, such that it can be adapted to alternate physical configurations of the discharging system and the printing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: NexPress Solutions LLCInventors: Andreas Dickhoff, Charles H. Hasenauer
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Patent number: 6831819Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing redundant protection to a fault detection/interruption circuit, thereby ensuring safe operation even in the case of a failure of the primary fault detection/interruption means. Upon the occurrence of a failure in the primary circuit interruption means, a secondary circuit breaker, or in some embodiments, a redundant primary circuit breaker release mechanism, serves to remove power from a protected outlet or output conductors.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventors: David C. Nemir, Stanley Hirsh, Edward Rubio
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Patent number: 6831820Abstract: A device and method is described for safely recognizing a switch position angle of a rotary switch. Two redundantly configured computer units are provided to determine discrete switch positions of the rotary switch by evaluating two actual analog switch position signal values corresponding to the switch position angle, with each computer unit separately checking the actual analog switch position signal values for plausibility. Faulty switch position angles are identified by comparing the switch position angles determined by the first and the second computer unit.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Günter Schwesig, Guido Seeger
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Patent number: 6831821Abstract: A reference current (Iref) that includes a constant component current (Irefc) and a transient component current (Ireft) is fed to the reference FET (QB) such that a source potential (VSA) of the main FET (QA) when a load current (ID) flowing a main FET (QA) is not within the range of an over-current containing a transient component is not lower than a source potential (VSB) of a reference FET (QB). A reference current (Iref) vibrates by detecting that a source potential (VSA) of the main FET is lower than a source potential (VSB) of a reference FET. A vibration number of times is counted up to a predetermined number of times, thereby turning OFF the main FET (QA).Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Shunzou Ohshima
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Patent number: 6831822Abstract: A suppression device for an electronic appliance having a plug-in device which has at least one plug-in element and is designed for attachment to a housing of the electronic appliance, with a capacitor having at least two capacitor plates being provided in order to improve the electromagnetic sensitivity. In a simple and low-cost suppression measure for electronic appliances, which is also suitable for mass production, the capacitor is arranged outside the housing of the electronic appliance and is electrically connected firstly to a plug-in element of the plug-in device and secondly to the potential of the electrically conductive housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Reinhold Berberich, Dieter Busch
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Patent number: 6831823Abstract: A substrate chucking apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck for electrostatically chucking a substrate, and a DC power supply for applying a DC chucking voltage to the electrostatic chuck. An amplitude of the chucking voltage Vc is exponentially decreased with respect to a chucking time after an operation of chucking the substrate starts. Such a control of the chucking voltage variation is executed by a control device.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Nissin Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shuya Ishida
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Patent number: 6831824Abstract: A fully surface mountable vertical multi-layer capacitor having low insertion loss at high frequency and low inductance, and providing sufficiently high capacitance for use in broadband and other applications. The capacitor includes a first section and a second section, each directly mountable to a surface trace on a printed circuit board, and each providing an electron flow path to a respective set of internal electrode plates. By the present invention, the need for wire bonding of vertical multi-layer capacitors is eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventors: Lambert Devoe, Alan Devoe
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Patent number: 6831825Abstract: In a second generation fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen are produced by the chemical dissociation of water with the simultaneous generation of electron charged hydroxyl ions. Alkali metals, termed initiators, and alkaline earths, termed moderators, react exothermally with water in the cathode compartment to generate charged hydroxyl ionic current flow in an amount corresponding to the electrochemical equivalence of the weight of each type material reacted. The ionic electron current flow resulting from the chemical reactions occurring in the cathode compartment is discharged on the outer surfaces of a metal conduit acting as a capacitor plate, and are electrically conducted through its metal wall and deposited on the inner surfaces of the metal conduit. The build up of electron charge on the inner wall reaches a critical potential and emits electrons to receptor hydroxyl ions of the passive receptor anodic electrolyte circuit flowing through the metal conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventor: Edward Milton McWhorter
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Patent number: 6831826Abstract: A polarized electrode for an electric double-layer condenser, which has a structure for preventing the damage of the end portion of the electrolyte belonging to the collecting foil, in the process for manufacturing the electric double-layer condenser, and an electric double-layer condenser using the polarized electrode.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Daido Metal Co., Ltd.Inventors: Manabu Iwaida, Shigeki Oyama, Kenichi Murakami, Kouki Ozaki, Masanori Tsutsui
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Patent number: 6831827Abstract: A family of spacers of various sizes for securing a standardized terminating electrical protection device (such as one of the “snap-cap” type) to an electrical energy power source (i.e., a lithium electrochemical cell) is described. The terminating protection device is mounted on a header for an electrochemical cell and contains a circuit board provided with electrical components, such as diodes and fuses. The function of the circuit board is generally to protect the cell from being overcharged or too rapidly discharged, and the like. The spacers are sized to take up the space between the edge of the cell and the edge of the terminating protection device. That way, only variously sized spacers need to be stocked. The spacers are relatively simple to manufacture and inexpensive to stock.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Wilson Greatbatch Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Robert Zayatz
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Patent number: 6831828Abstract: A compact and economical gas-insulated switchgear is provided. The gas-insulated switchgear includes: a grounding metal housing 1 filled with insulating gas, and in which the disconnector part 2 having a moving side electrode part 2a and a stationary side electrode part 2b is accommodated; and composite insulating shields 17a, 17b integrally formed into one metal-dielectric member in which surface of a high electric field part located in the vicinity of ends of openings is coated with a dielectric so as to cover the moving side and stationary side electrode parts 2a and 2b with the dielectric. To form the composite insulating shields 17a, 17b, a metal shield of less than 0.6 in non-uniform constant before coating with the dielectric is coated with dielectrics 18a, 18b having a thickness of not more than approximately 30% of an inter-electrode distance from a facing electric-field relaxation shield.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: TMT&D CorporationInventors: Hirohide Aoki, Hiroyuki Hama, Takuya Ootsuka, Kouichi Oosumi, Yoshinori Shimizu, Kiyoshi Inami
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Patent number: 6831829Abstract: A furniture assembly includes a base, a pair of lifting columns flanking the base, a mounting panel fixed to the lifting columns in front of the base so that it can be raised and lowered, and a flat electronic display screen fixed to the mounting panel. According to a preferred embodiment, the furniture assembly is a modular assembly and includes a top module detachably fixed to a base module. The mounting panel can be moved between an upper position, where it at least partially covers the top module, and a lower position, where it at least partially covers the base module. The assembly includes a wiring harness fixed to the back of the screen for inputting video signals to the display screen from a number of electronic sources such as a TV antenna, a VCR, a DVD player, and a computer. The harness is movable through a space between the front and the rear of the base under the action of a retracting mechanism which keeps the harness taut as the panel is raised and lowered.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Sharut FurnitureInventors: Shimon Einhorn, Shamir Einhorn, David Einhorn
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Patent number: 6831830Abstract: A digital storage arrangement is interfaceable with a host device which defines a cavity. The digital storage arrangement includes a housing receivable in the cavity, with a movement margin between the housing and host device, while a resilient support arrangement is provided for fixed engagement with the host device and for engaging the housing, while extending through the movement margin, to support the housing within the storage device cavity and to subject the storage device to a lesser degree of mechanical shock when the host device receives a given mechanical shock. The resilient support arrangement provides support by extending from each corner region of the housing to the host device. The support arrangement is molded through an opening defined by the housing in each corner region to extend outwardly to the host device. A bumper configuration is provided integral with the support arrangement and including a sealing arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Convergent Systems Solutions, LLCInventors: Curtis H. Bruner, John F. Fletcher, Frida E. Romauli Fletcher
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Patent number: 6831831Abstract: A disc storage subsystem includes a housing, at least one disc drive assembly received in a front portion of the housing, first and second controllers, and an intermediate electronic component. The disc drive assembly includes a carrier supporting a disc drive having an Advanced Technology Architecture (ATA) data interface. The first and second controllers each include a data port corresponding to the disc drive. The intermediate electronic includes multiplexing electronics having first and second data communication paths. The first data communication path provides electronic communication between the data port of the first controller and the data interface of the disc drive. The second data communication path provides electronic communication between the data port of the second controller and the data interface of the disc drive. The multiplexing electronics selectively opens and closes the first and second data communication paths in response to at least one control signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventors: Bruce A Bicknell, Krish L Kawlra
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Patent number: 6831832Abstract: A device to be detachably attached to a mechanical substructure includes rails on opposed sides joined at the front by a cross member. A pair of guides mounted on the substructure slidably receives and retains the rails upon attachment of the device. An alignment pin extending from a rail mates with a hole in one of the guides to insure alignment of an electrical connector of the device with an electrical connector mounted on the substructure. The cross member includes screws for securing the cross member to the substructure. A spring extending from a rail makes electrical contact with an adjacent guide and an electrostatic discharge contact plate to discharge any existing static charge.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Adtron CorporationInventors: James A. Haager, Kevin L. Kilzer, Daniel P. Fogelson, Ronald E. Tupa
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Patent number: 6831833Abstract: Disclosed is a heat dissipator for an optical writing and/or reproducing apparatus. The heat dissipator comprises a main base having mounted thereto a plurality of parts including at least one motor for optical writing and/or reproduction; a circuit board positioned below the main base and having installed thereon elements for controlling the parts; a heat generating element formed with a plurality of leads which are connected to a circuit pattern of the circuit board; a heat conduction member brought into contact with at least the leads, for receiving heat generated in the heat generating element; and a cabinet brought into contact with the heat conduction member and formed with an element accommodating section and/or a pair of protrusions which are shaped to be functionally associated with an outer surface of the heat generating element to ensure that the heat dissipating member is brought into close contact with the leads of the heat generating element.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Hitachi-LG Data Storage Korea, Inc.Inventors: Tae Hyoung Kim, Kyung Hawn Park, Un Gyu Park, Tae Sung Kim
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Patent number: 6831834Abstract: The present invention includes one embodiment of a printed circuit board assembly including a printed circuit board, a microprocessor chip, a socket and an actuator for connecting the chip to the printed circuit board, a heat sink for attachment to the top surface of the chip, and a field installable thermal interface phase change pad positioned between the heat sink and the microprocessor chip. The heat sink has an actuator access opening so that the actuator is operable with the heat sink positioned on top of the microprocessor. The connection between the chip and the heat sink is free of alignment features so that they may be separated by twisting the heat sink relative to the chip. The connection between the heat sink and the circuit board is also free of alignment features.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2000Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Silicon Graphics, Inc.Inventor: Richard B. Salmonson
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Patent number: 6831835Abstract: Multi-layer laminated structures on which electrical devices may be mounted, methods for fabricating such structures, and power supplies including such structures are disclosed. One such multi-layer laminated structure include a first portion on which at least one electrical device may be mounted and further includes a portion that overlays a fractional portion of a major surface of the first portion and on which at least one electrical device may be mounted.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2002Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Ault, Inc.Inventor: Louis Soto
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Patent number: 6831836Abstract: A heat sink comprises a side including a structural member defining a distance between a heat generating structure and the second side of the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Rakesh Bhatia, Eric DiStefano
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Patent number: 6831837Abstract: An external controller of burning record for compact disks comprises a control box and a circuit board. The control box has the front panel thereof extending two pivotal connectors to join two docking boxes containing a data record loader and a compact disk burning record device respectively. The rear side of the control box provides a power supply to obtain the direct current with stabilized voltage. A control switch for powering on or off and for starting or shutting off the burning operation is also provided on the rear side of control box. The circuit board is received in the control box and receives the direct current with stabilized voltage. There are related wires on the circuit board to connect with the preceding components. A control chip is on the circuit board to contain a recording firmware and to offer the compact disk burning record device a recording program so as to execute related steps of burning record.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2001Date of Patent: December 14, 2004Inventor: Cheng-Chun Chang