Patents Issued in August 2, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070176493
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for powering a patient monitoring system. The present invention is a modular patient monitoring system utilizing a bi-directional power bus to efficiently couple a multi-parameter acquisition device, a display and any number of expansion modules. Each coupled device includes a battery, enabling each device to send or receive power through the bi-directional bus. The method and system of the present invention utilizes power from any single battery or from any number of the batteries in the system, as charge is not transferred from one battery to another. The present invention allows for the batteries to charge when it is operated from AC mains derived power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Roy Koski, David Schieble, James Gray, Alan Clapp, Paul Lindquist
  • Publication number: 20070176494
    Abstract: According to an example embodiment, an apparatus is provided that produces a small-step switchable capacitor, which can have steps that are smaller in value than the smallest capacitor used in the system. In one embodiment, an input signal is connected to a switchable capacitor system that includes at least one and/or a plurality of small-step, switchable capacitors. In an example embodiment, a capacitor system may be provided that includes a first capacitance block coupled in series with a second capacitance block. In an example embodiment, the second capacitance block may include one or more switchable capacitors to provide a step in capacitance for the capacitor system between a first setting and a second setting using the one or more switchable capacitors. Also, in an example embodiment, the step in capacitance of the capacitor system may be determined based, at least in part, on a ratio of the capacitance of the second capacitance block to the capacitance of the first capacitance block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Ali Medi, Hooman Darabi
  • Publication number: 20070176495
    Abstract: A heat dissipation apparatus for a linear motor comprises a motor iron core wound with windings, and a pair of covers and a pair of dissipation mechanisms being arranged at two pairs of opposite sides of the motor iron core, respectively, which is characterized in that: a groove is defined in an inner side of the respective dissipation mechanisms at two opposite sides of the motor iron core for accommodation of heat dissipation medium, such that the coefficient of thermal conductivity of the windings on the motor iron core and the heat dissipation mechanisms are increased, improving the heat dissipation effect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Lieh-Feng Huang, Chia-Chun Hung
  • Publication number: 20070176496
    Abstract: A device (1) suitable for moving a body (2) along a linear path (F) between two predetermined positions, and comprising: first and second electromagnets (5, 8) respectively having first and second moving cores (6, 9) that are secured to the body and that are arranged to have axes of action (7, 10) on the body that are parallel to the path (F), and a permanent magnet (11) associated functionally with the first core (6) and disposed to co-operate magnetically and functionally therewith when the body finds itself in its first position, and preferably return means (13) that are associated with the body so as to urge it back from the second position to the first position when the second electromagnet (8) is not excited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Sylvain Roche
  • Publication number: 20070176497
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for controlling an integrated rotary-linear actuator system that may be coupled to a network via a network interface. The integrated rotary-linear actuator system includes a control system and a rotary-linear actuator having a moveable plunger and associated coils. The coils may be energized to interact with associated magnets to effect corresponding movement of the plunger, which may include rotation and/or linear movement. The network interface facilitates receipt of control information at the control system of the integrated rotary-linear actuator system from the network. The control system may control an amplifier to energize the coils based on the control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: ANORAD CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anwar Chitayat, Mustansir Faizullabhoy
  • Publication number: 20070176498
    Abstract: An ultrasonic wave generating device includes a substrate, a heat insulation layer on the substrate, a membrane heating portion on the heat insulation layer, and a membrane oscillator on the heating portion. The heating portion is electrically driven with a predetermined period, and produces heat for thermally displacing a surface of the oscillator. The oscillator receives a temperature variation with the predetermined period from the heating portion, and oscillates so as to generate ultrasonic waves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makiko Sugiura, Takahiko Yoshida, Yasuyuki Okuda, Ryonosuke Tera, Hiroshi Tanaka, Yuta Hasebe
  • Publication number: 20070176499
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling system and method for the concentrated motor stator windings of an electric motor. The cooling system and method provides coolant directly onto the motor stator windings and between each adjacent stator winding. The motor housing assists in distributing coolant between each stator winding of the electric motor assembly. Moreover, an insulated sheet and/or tube is insertable between the concentrated motor stator windings. Each is configurable to direct coolant directly on to the stator windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Alan Holmes, Richard Ordo, Ahmed El-Antably
  • Publication number: 20070176500
    Abstract: A terminal board includes an attachment portion engageable with an end cap and defines an attachment plane that is substantially parallel to an end plane defined by the end cap, and a first terminal portion adapted to receive a first terminal wire. The first terminal portion defines a first terminal plane that intersects the end plane to define an included angle. The included angle is between about 40 degrees and 80 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: William Watkins, Chih Lin
  • Publication number: 20070176501
    Abstract: The automotive alternator according to the present invention includes: a case; a rotor that is disposed inside the case and that is fixed to a shaft; a stator that is disposed so as to surround the rotor and in which alternating current arises by means of a rotating magnetic field from the rotor; a rectifier that is disposed at an end portion of the shaft and that rectifies the alternating current that arises in the stator into direct current; and a noise preventing capacitor that is connected between a positive side and a negative side of the rectifier and that absorbs noise that arises during rectification into direct current by the rectifier, wherein a carbon resistor that suppresses current that flows to the noise preventing capacitor is connected to the noise preventing capacitor in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Shinji Nishimura, Wakaki Miyaji
  • Publication number: 20070176502
    Abstract: A compact fan motor including a motor body having a tubular case accommodating a rotor, a permanent magnet, and brushes, and a pair of spring terminals that are connected to the brushes, sticks out from a peripheral wall of the tubular case, and has elasticity in a direction perpendicular to an axis of rotation of a shaft; an impeller fixed to the shaft sticking out from a front end of the tubular case; a holder having a case accommodating portion that is provided in a housing accommodating the motor body and impeller and has an inner wall surface extending in the direction of the axis of rotation of the shaft, and a motor body insertion opening provided at an edge of the case accommodating portion; and a pair of conductors provided on the inner wall surface of the holder while contacting with the spring terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kasai, Tomoaki Hoshina
  • Publication number: 20070176503
    Abstract: A motor is composed of a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a shaft, a hub having a cylindrical wall and a thrust ring. The stator includes a motor base, an inner seal and a sleeve having a flange section. The rotor is supported in a thrust direction by a first thrust dynamic pressure fluid bearing constituted by a top surface of the thrust ring, a surface of the flange section with having a first gap between them, and lubrication fluid filled in the first gap and a second thrust dynamic pressure fluid bearing constituted by a bottom surface of the thrust ring, an end surface of the inner seal with having a second gap between them, and the lubrication fluid filled in the second gap, and supported in a radial direction by a radial dynamic pressure fluid bearing constituted by an inner circumferential surface of the sleeve, an outer circumferential surface of the shaft with having a third gap between them, and the lubrication fluid filled in the third gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Victor Company of Japan, Limited
    Inventor: Teruyuki Yajima
  • Publication number: 20070176504
    Abstract: A motor includes a rotor and a stator. A shaft of the rotor is received in a sleeve. A face of the sleeve and a face of the shaft, that are opposed to each other, form a bearing supporting the rotor in a rotatable manner relative to the stator. A sleeve-retaining portion that retains the sleeve has a bottom portion opposed to an axial end of the sleeve. A magnet holder is arranged in the bottom portion to accommodate an attracting magnet magnetically attracting the axial end of the shaft. The magnet holder is held between the axial end of the sleeve and the bottom portion of the sleeve-retaining portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaya Otsuki, Masahiro Ishikawa, Takamasa Yamashita, Naoto Yamaoka, Yuji Yabuuchi, Kazuhiro Inouchi, Makoto Fujihara
  • Publication number: 20070176505
    Abstract: A permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) apparatus comprises a plurality of permanent-magnet switched-flux (PMSF) devices, wherein each of the plurality of PMSF devices comprises a ferromagnetic outer rotor coupled to a shaft, wherein the ferromagnetic outer rotor comprises a plurality of permanent-magnets coupled to an inner surface of the ferromagnetic outer rotor, an inner stator rotatably disposed in the ferromagnetic outer rotor, wherein the inner stator comprises a stator core and multiple serrated edges forming multiple stator poles distal from the stator core, wherein the multiple stator poles are configured to interface with the plurality of permanent-magnets, and a coil disposed on the stator core between the multiple stator poles, wherein the coil is coupled to the plurality of permanent-magnets, wherein a magnetic flux of the plurality of permanent-magnets is operable to pass through the coil, and wherein the magnetic flux is configured to switch to an opposite direction in response to a rotation o
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Andrzej Trzynadlowski, Ling Qin
  • Publication number: 20070176506
    Abstract: Bonding geometries are disclosed between permanent magnets and steel portions of magnetic assemblies. When employed in permanent magnet motors, this particular bonding construction reduces or even eliminates the loosening of permanent magnets inside of electric motors. The bonding geometry consists of interlocking protrusions and voids at the bonding interface. A bonding agent is employed that may be filled with finely divided iron or other magnetic material. The result is a strong bond between the permanent magnet and steel assembly portions with virtually no loss in overall magnetic properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Fred N. Miekka
  • Publication number: 20070176507
    Abstract: A motor with a rearranged bearing configuration for reducing an axial length, hence dimensions thereof, is to be provided. In a motor including a stator fixed to an inner circumferential wall of a housing, a rotating shaft rotatably supported by the housing via bearings, and a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft, the rotor includes a disk-shaped portion disposed coaxially with the rotating shaft and a cylindrical portion extending parallel to the rotating shaft from a circumferential edge of the disk-shaped portion, such that the rotor constitutes a cylindrical shape with the disk-shaped portion closing an end portion. Locating a portion of the bearing and of a rotation detector inside the cylindrical portion of the rotor allows reducing the axial length of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventor: Yasuaki Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20070176508
    Abstract: In a fan motor, there are provided protruding portions provided integrally with a base member so as to face a magnet and protrude toward the magnet, and openings facing the magnet, in the base member made of magnetic material. As to the positional relation between the protruding portions and the openings, when the protruding portions are positioned corresponding to centers of the magnetic poles, the openings are positioned corresponding to boundaries between the magnetic poles. As to the positional relation between the protruding portions and the coils, when the protruding portions are positioned corresponding to centers of the magnetic poles, both ends of the coils are positioned corresponding to positions other than the boundaries between the magnetic poles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiaki Kasai, Tomoaki Hoshina
  • Publication number: 20070176509
    Abstract: A stator coil assembly includes a cylindrical support tube with first and second pluralities of stator coils disposed radially around the support tube. Each stator coil includes first, second, third, and fourth linear segments, each having first and second planar broad sides. The second and fourth linear segments extend in parallel along a first axis with the first and second broad sides of the second and fourth linear segments lying in a common plane. The first and third linear segments extend in parallel along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. Transition segments having first and second planar broad sides each join a pair of linear segments. The transition segments of the first and second pluralities of stator coils define curvatures toward and away from the center axis, respectively, such that the first and third linear segments are disposed at a substantially equal radial distance from the center axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Swarn Kalsi, Dariusz Bushko
  • Publication number: 20070176510
    Abstract: An armature for a direct current motor, in particular for a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor, has an armature body, with armature teeth joined in one piece together via a short-circuit ring and offset by equal circumferential angles, each with a tooth neck for receiving an armature winding and with a tooth head that protrudes past the tooth neck in the circumferential direction. For an axial lengthening of the armature body that is simple and economical to produce, one preferably stacked flux-conducting element each, whose profile corresponds to the tooth head profile, is placed on the axially pointing end faces of the tooth heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Gerald Roos, Werner Grosch, Harold Bitzer, Guenter Kastinger, Wilhelm Braun, Gabriele Pfeiffer, Jochen Oser, Markus Rauschning
  • Publication number: 20070176511
    Abstract: A motor includes a stator core, insulators, coils and a rotor. The stator core includes a plurality of coil cores, which are circumferentially arranged, wherein each of the plurality of coil cores includes a tooth that radially extends, and an outer peripheral core that circumferentially extends at a radially outer side of the tooth. Each of the insulators covers a corresponding one of the plurality of coil cores, wherein a part of each of the insulator is provided radially outward of an imaginary straight line, which connects circumferential ends of an inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral core. Each of the coils is formed at the insulator. The rotor is rotatably provided to an inner peripheral side of the stator core.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromi Sakai, Kiyoshi Nagata
  • Publication number: 20070176512
    Abstract: A rotary shaft is rotatable relative to a motor rotor. A first end face of the motor rotor is exposed to the outside of a stator. A hammer portion is provided at the first end face. The hammer portion is configured to be movable as the motor rotor rotates. A collision portion rotating integrally with the rotary shaft is configured to collide with the hammer portion. The allowance space between the collision portion and the hammer portion allows the hammer portion to be move relative to the collision portion. Therefore, the electric pump is capable of detaching a rotor from a pump chamber without increasing the size of the pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Toshiro Fujii, Yoshiyuki Nakane
  • Publication number: 20070176513
    Abstract: It is possible to provide a resonator structure that does not cause a variation in anti-resonant frequency can be achieved, even if the cavity and the upper and lower electrode shift. A thin-film piezoelectric resonator includes: a lower electrode provided on the principal surface of the substrate so as to cover the cavity; a piezoelectric film provided on the lower electrode so as to be located above the cavity; and an upper electrode. The upper electrode includes: a main portion which overlaps a part of the cavity, a protruding portion connected to the main portion, an extension portion provided at the opposite side of the main portion. The length of the protruding portion in a direction perpendicular to a direction of connecting to the main portion is substantially the same as the length of the connecting portion in a direction perpendicular to a direction of connecting to the main portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Ryoichi Ohara, Naoko Yanase, Kenya Sano, Takaaki Yasumoto, Kazuhiko Itaya
  • Publication number: 20070176514
    Abstract: An electromechanical actuator structure is disclosed to include an electric actuator affixed to a base, a resilient drive member, which has a fixed segment fixedly connected to the electric actuator for synchronous reciprocating movement and a resilient segment extending out of the electric actuator and terminating in a conduction portion, a passive member mounted in the conduction portion of the resilient drive member, and a spring member mounted on the resilient segment of the resilient drive member and forcing the passive member into friction engagement with the conduction portion for enabling the passive member to be moved with the resilient drive member. By means of the amplitude of oscillation produced by the resilient drive member during displacement, the amount of displacement of the passive member is enlarged, and therefore the displacement speed of the passive member is increased and the working frequency of the drive pulse is lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: TAIWAN ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES CORP.
    Inventors: Sio-Hou Lei, Wen-Sen Pan, Kai-Lu Wang
  • Publication number: 20070176515
    Abstract: A piezoelectric linear motor apparatus and method is provided. The apparatus comprises a carriage configured to be actuated and a stator configured to actuate the carriage. The stator comprises a meander line structure and a gear teeth structure, coupled to the top of the meander line structure and a contact layer underneath the carriage. Furthermore, the meander line structure comprises a series of bimorph actuators laid linearly in the meander line structure. Each pair of neighboring bimorph actuators being linked with a corresponding connector on both sides of top and bottom. The meander line structure also comprises an odd series of connectors and an even series of connectors, interleaved with each individual connector, applied with phase-splitter's alternating current (AC) power to deform the bimorph actuators for generating traveling wave. The gear teeth structure is configured to transport traveling wave from the meander line structure to the carriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yung Ting, Liang-Chiang Chen, Chun-Chung Li, Jian-Lin Huang, Chieh-Min Yang
  • Publication number: 20070176516
    Abstract: A piezoelectric sensor capable of preventing fluctuation in the sensitivity of the piezoelectric sensor over a wide temperature range is provided. This is a piezoelectric sensor comprising a piezoelectric element and a holding member for holding the piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric element comprising a piezoelectric ceramic having formed on the surfaces thereof a pair of electrodes. The piezoelectric ceramic satisfies the following requirement (a) and/or requirement (b): (a) in the temperature range from ?30° C. to 160° C., the thermal expansion coefficient is 3.0 ppm/° C. or more, and (b) in the temperature range from ?30° C. to 160° C., the pyroelectric coefficient is 400 ?Cm?2K?1 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiatsu Nagaya, Tatsuhiko Nonoyama, Masaya Nakamura, Yasuyoshi Saito, Hisaaki Takao, Takahiko Homma, Kazumasa Takatori
  • Publication number: 20070176517
    Abstract: A surface mount type crystal oscillator is provided with: a container body having a bottom plate layer and a frame wall layer which has an opening, the frame wall layer being laminated on the bottom plate layer wherein a recess of the container body is formed by the opening; a crystal blank housed inside the recess; and an IC chip in which an oscillation circuit that uses the crystal blank is integrated. The IC chip has IC terminals used for external connections on one principal surface of the IC chip and is secured to the bottom plate layer. The IC chip is secured to the bottom plate layer by way of an anisotropic conductive material such that the one principal surface of the IC chip confronts the bottom plate layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Kouichi MORIYA, Tsutomu YAMAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20070176518
    Abstract: A crystal device for surface mounting is provided with at least: a container body having a substantially rectangular outer shape and mounting electrodes formed in the four corners of the outside bottom surface of the container body; and a crystal blank hermetically sealed within the container body. The spacing of mounting electrodes on at least one side of the outside bottom surface is less than the length of the mounting electrodes in the direction along that side. A jetty having a height greater than the thickness of the mounting electrodes is provided in the cross-shaped area interposed between the mounting electrodes on the outside bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kouichi Moriya
  • Publication number: 20070176519
    Abstract: A compact oscillator in which the oscillation frequency can be adjusted to a desired value is provided. The oscillator includes: a magnetoresistive effect element comprising a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer of which magnetization direction is changeable that are stacked in that order, a magnetization direction of the pinned layer being substantially fixed along a direction perpendicular to a stack direction; a bias magnetic field application unit for applying a bias magnetic field to the free layer in a direction that is perpendicular to the stack direction and is different from the magnetization direction of the pinned layer; and an adjusting magnetic field application unit for applying an adjusting magnetic field to the free layer in a direction that is perpendicular to the stack direction and is different from the direction of the bias magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rachid Sbiaa, Isamu Sato, Haruyuki Morita
  • Publication number: 20070176520
    Abstract: A piezoelectric/electrostrictive actuator includes a piezoelectric body, a plurality of internal electrode layers, side-surface electrodes, and a plurality of electrode lead portions. The internal electrode layers formed only at a central portion of the piezoelectric body. Thus, an active portion is formed at the central portion of the piezoelectric body, and an inactive portion in which no voltage is applied to the piezoelectric body and the piezoelectric body neither expands nor contracts is formed to surround the central portion. The internal electrode layers are formed such that the width of the inactive portion is at least a single layer thickness of the piezoelectric body, which is the distance between a pair of internal electrode layers facing each other, and in a cross section in which each internal electrode layer is formed, the inactive portion has an area not greater than 50% the area of the entire cross section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Yoshioka, Makoto Ohmori, Koji Kimura
  • Publication number: 20070176521
    Abstract: A multi-layer piezoelectric element of high durability wherein the internal electrodes and the external electrodes do not break even when operated continuously over a long period of time under high electric field and high pressure is provided. The first multi-layer piezoelectric element according to the present invention comprises a stack formed by stacking piezoelectric layers and internal electrodes alternately one on another and external electrodes formed on a first side face and on a second side face of the stack, wherein one of the adjacent internal electrodes is connected to the external electrode formed on the first side face and the other internal electrode is connected to the external electrode formed on the second side face, and the external electrodes include an electrically conductive material and glass and is formed from a porous electrically conductive material that has a three-dimensional mesh structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Shigenobu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070176522
    Abstract: The preferred embodiment the invention proposes pertains to a three-phase induction motor, and operates on the premises of having the extension cords on two ends of the motor embedded with several balancing eccentric washers and a balancing eccentric block added, of which the eccentric block contains a sleeve bearing, and one end of the eccentric block is fitted with a bolt, with the bolt head covered with rubber; o-ring is fitted between the balancing eccentric washer and balancing eccentric block, whereby using the invention's frequency changer for controlling an AC 3-phase induction motor serves to generate multiple frequencies for generating different amplitudes, which can be use to control the speed and load emitted between the eccentric block and balancing eccentric washer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Huan-Yau Peng
  • Publication number: 20070176523
    Abstract: A cabinet has a housing, multiple tracks, multiple drawers, a safety device and a lock assembly. Each track has a sliding rail having a guiding notch and a locking hole. The safety device is mounted in the housing and has a fixed base, a moving base, multiple guiding blocks, multiple locking blocks, multiple guiding brackets and multiple sliders. The guiding blocks are securely attached to the moving base and each have an inclined face. The locking blocks are securely attached to the moving base and each have a locking tab selectively engaging with a corresponding locking hole. The guiding brackets are attached to the fixed base and each have a guiding slot laterally defined through the guiding bracket. Each slider has a top abutting with a corresponding inclined face and a pin engaging with a corresponding guiding notch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Ching-Hsiang Lin
  • Publication number: 20070176524
    Abstract: A storage system for storing items along a ceiling, having a container and supporting framework mounted to the ceiling. The container has a flange. The supporting framework has four frame members each including an elongated track, including two top frame members which extend downwardly from the ceiling and two bottom frame members. The flange is selectively supported by the bottom frame members with a pair of L-shaped mounting supports attached to the bottom frame members. A pair of scizzor assemblies, each having two scizzor members hingedly connected, couples to the top and bottom frame members and easily raises and lowers the bottom frame members to lift and lower the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Anders Plano, Richard Mancuso
  • Publication number: 20070176525
    Abstract: A foldable toy paper organizer is quickly assembled and dissembled that it is convenient to movie it, and the organizer, since made from recyclable paper, can be manufactured at a low cost. The organizer includes a main body including a rear wall, foldable lateral walls and cutout holes, a partition with protruding portions that can be inserted to the main body, a drawer inserted between the aforementioned partitions for accommodating stuffs, a handle that is inserted along the frontal side of the drawer used to open and close the drawer, a fixation device having an open side for fixing the protruding partition to the outer side of the main body from the left side of the main body, and a reinforcing device for reinforcing the main body and having an open side and an open end so that the reinforcing device may be inserted into the upper and lower ends of the sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventor: Kyung Jun Yoon
  • Publication number: 20070176526
    Abstract: A refrigerating unit for installing in a furniture niche has a body and a door that enclose a thermally insulated inside compartment. The door can pivot about an axis between an open and closed position. A decorative panel conceals the door and can move therewith. When the refrigerating unit is properly installed in the furniture niche, the door projects beyond a front edge of the furniture niche.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2004
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Gomoll, Siegfried Grasy
  • Publication number: 20070176527
    Abstract: An arrangement is provided for returning a removed hinge plate to a predetermined position on a refrigerator cabinet after the hinge plate has been removed. A screw plate is loosely movably positioned on an inside side of an outer wrapper of the refrigerator cabinet in a location approximating the location for the top hinge plate. The hinge plate is positioned on an outer surface of the outer wrapper and is removably secured to the screw plate. The hinge plate includes a recess area. A pilot plate is positioned on the outer surface of the outer wrapper, secured to the screw plate and being closely received in the recess area in the hinge plate. The pilot plate remains in position relative to the screw plate and the wrapper when the hinge plate is removed from the screw plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Herbert Sabelhaus, Patrick Braun
  • Publication number: 20070176528
    Abstract: A height adjustable shelf for a refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes a shelf with a pair of guide protrusions formed on opposite side surfaces thereof, and a plurality of guide grooves formed in opposite side surfaces of a refrigerator storage space, at a same interval as the guide protrusions such that the guide protrusions move along the guide grooves. Each of the guide grooves includes an upper end portion, a lower end portion, and a connection portion that connects the upper and lower end portions. Movement of the guide protrusions between the upper end portions and the lower end portions allows a height of the shelf to be adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Hang-Bok Lee, Sang-Sin Kawk, Seon-Kyu Kim
  • Publication number: 20070176529
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a housing having a cooled interior space. At least one drawer is disposed in the interior space for storing bottles in an inclined or horizontal position. The drawer has a frame with two opposite sides. The drawer also has a plurality of rods to be releasably mounted parallel to and spaced apart from one another between the two opposite sides of the frame at selectable distances from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: BSH Bosch and Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Benitsch, Rainer Brachert, Hans Haas, Christian Mayershofer
  • Publication number: 20070176530
    Abstract: An electron emission display is provided to prevent electron beams around the spacers from being distorted and to prevent arc discharging due to the spacers. The electron emission display includes first and second substrates facing each other to form a vacuum vessel, an electron emission unit provided on the first substrate, a light emission unit provided on the second substrate, and a plurality of spacers disposed between the first and the second substrates. Each spacer has a spacer body with a surface roughness, a resistance layer placed on a lateral side of the spacer body, and a flattening layer covering the resistance layer. The flattening layer has a thickness larger than the thickness of the resistance layer and a surface roughness smaller than the surface roughness of the spacer body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Hyeong-Rae Seon, Cheol-Hyeon Chang
  • Publication number: 20070176531
    Abstract: Disclosed is a phosphor which is excited by a long wavelength light source in the ultraviolet region or blue-violet visible region and mainly emits light in violet-blue-yellow-red visible region. Also disclosed is a low-cost light-emitting diode which is easily mounted and excellent in color rendering properties. This light-emitting diode does not have much color change due to radiation angle. A phosphor composed of SiC is characterized in that it is excited by an outside light source for emitting light and doped with N and at least one of B and Al.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Hiromu Shiomi, Makolo Sasaki, Toshihiko Hayashi, Hiroshi Amano, Satoshi Kamiyama, Motoaki Twaya, Isamu Akasaki
  • Publication number: 20070176532
    Abstract: In an electron-emitting device having a pair of electroconductors arranged on a substrate at an interval, a top of one electroconductor is higher than that of the other electroconductor and a groove extending from the interval region toward a position under a region where the one electroconductor is come into contact with the substrate is formed on the substrate. Deterioration of the electron-emitting device due to collision of charged particles is suppressed by the asymmetrical electron-emitting region, electron-emitting efficiency is improved, and a long life is realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamamoto, Tamaki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20070176533
    Abstract: A field emission device (10) is provided that prevents electrical breakdown. The field emission device (10) comprises an anode (40) distally disposed from a cathode plate that includes an insulating substrate (12) having a portion exposed to the anode (40), and a cathode metal (14) overlying another portion of the insulating substrate (12). A gate electrode (26) overlies an oxide (24) above at least a portion of the cathode metal (14) and optionally above a portion of the substrate. A dielectric layer (18) is positioned between a resistive layer (22) and the cathode metal (14), and substantially all of the exposed substrate, and underlies substantially all of the gate electrode (26) including its edges (34, 46), providing a resistance between the cathode metal (14) and the edges (34, 46).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Kenneth Dean, Bernard Coll, Emmett Howard
  • Publication number: 20070176534
    Abstract: Film formation is conducted with a high level of directivity. A film formation source of a vacuum film formation apparatus, includes a material container for housing a film forming material, a heating unit for heating the film forming material inside the material container, and a rectifier provided at an ejection port of the material container. In this source, the rectifier includes a passage partitioned into fine openings, and a set directivity is obtained on the basis of the cross-sectional area Sa of each opening within the rectifier, the distance L from the ejection tip of the rectifier to the film formation target surface, and the film formation rate R for the film forming material at a point on the film formation target surface directly above the center of the rectifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: Tohoku Pioneer Corporation
    Inventors: Hirosi Abiko, Daisuke Masuda, Shigehiro Umetsu
  • Publication number: 20070176535
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a novel light-emitting material, a light-emitting element capable of low-voltage driving, and light-emitting device and electronic appliance with lower power consumption. Moreover, the present invention is to provide light-emitting device and electronic appliance manufactured at low cost. The light-emitting material includes a base material, a first impurity, a second impurity, and a third impurity. The first impurity forms a shallow donor level in the base material, the second impurity forms a shallow acceptor level in the base material, and the third impurity forms a shallow trap level in the base material. The base material includes a compound including an element of Group 2 in the periodic table and an element of Group 16 in the periodic table. Light is emitted by recombination of an electron at the shallow donor level and a hole at the deep trap level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junichiro SAKATA
  • Publication number: 20070176536
    Abstract: An object is to provide a novel light emitting material. Another object is to provide a light emitting device and an electronic device with reduced power consumption. Still another object is to provide a light emitting device and an electronic device which can be manufactured at low cost. Provided is a light emitting element including a base material, a first impurity element, a second impurity element, and a third impurity element. The base material is one of ZnS, CdS, CaS, Y2S3, Ga2S3, SrS, BaS, ZnO, Y2O3, AlN, GaN, InN, ZnSe, ZnTe, and SrGa2S4; the first impurity element is any of Cu, Ag, Au, Pt, and Si; the second impurity element is any of F, Cl, Br, I, B, Al, Ga, In, and Tl; and the third impurity element is any of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, N, P, As, Sb, and Bi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichiro SAKATA, Takahiro KAWAKAMI, Yoshiaki YAMAMOTO, Miki KATAYAMA, Kohei YOKOYAMA
  • Publication number: 20070176537
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a thin film transistor formed on an insulating substrate; a first anode electrically connected to the thin film transistor; a first organic layer formed on the first anode and comprising a first light-emitting layer; a second anode formed on the first organic layer and electrically connected to the thin film transistor; a second organic layer formed on the second anode and comprising a second light-emitting layer; and a cathode formed on the second organic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Jae-kook Ha, Soon-wook Cha, Joo-hyeon Lee, Soo-yeon Lee
  • Publication number: 20070176538
    Abstract: An OLED device comprising: an electrically insulating substrate; a plurality of light emitting pixels formed over the substrate wherein each pixel includes first and second spaced apart electrodes and organic electroluminescent media disposed between the first and second electrodes; a first thin film transistor associated with a first pixel and disposed above the substrate and having a gate electrode, a semiconductor region, a source terminal and a drain terminal; a continuously formed conductive layer positioned under the pixels and disposed above the substrate and disposed below the first thin film transistor and the organic electroluminescent media; an insulator layer disposed between the continuous conductor layer and the thin film transistor and having a first contact hole; and electrical connection is provided from the continuous conductor layer, through the first contact hole to either the source terminal or drain terminal of the first thin film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Dustin Winters, Yongtaek Hong
  • Publication number: 20070176539
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device, comprising: a) a substrate; b) a hole-injecting electrode (anode) coated over the substrate; c) a hole injection layer coated over the anode; e) a composite light emitting layer comprising two or more light emissive materials, coated over the hole transporting layer; and f) an electron-injecting electrode (cathode) deposited over the composite light emissive layer, the electrodes commonly and singularly addressing the composite light emissive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Mathew Mathai, Vi-En Choong, Stelios Choulis
  • Publication number: 20070176540
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device having high luminous efficiency and a long emission lifetime, and a transition metal complex compound realizing the organic electroluminescence device. In the transition metal complex compound, three ligands are crosslinked with a crosslinking group having a saturated cyclic structure or a saturated polycyclic structure in a tripod manner. The organic electroluminescence device includes an organic thin film layer composed of one or multiple layers including at least a light emitting layer, the organic thin film layer being interposed between a pair of electrodes. In the organic electroluminescence device, at least one layer of the organic thin film layer contains the transition metal complex compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicants: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Osaka University
    Inventors: Masami Watanabe, Toshikazu Hirao, Toshiyuki Moriuchi, Lisheng Mao, Hsyueh-Liang Wu
  • Publication number: 20070176541
    Abstract: A compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device including the same: where Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted C6-C26 aryl group; X is O, S, R1 and R2 are hydrogen, a halogen, a C1-C12 alkyl group, a C6-C26 aryl group, or a substituted group thereof; R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are each independently hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl group; R9 through R22 are each independently hydrogen, a C1-C30 alkyl group, a C1-C30 alkoxy group, a C6-C30 aryl group, a C6-C30 arylalkyl group, a C6-C30 aryloxy group, a C5-C30 heteroaryl group, a C5-C30 heteroarylalkyl group, a C5-C30 heteroaryloxy group, a C5-C20 cycloalkyl group, a C5-C30 heterocycloalkyl group, or a substituted group thereof. An organic light emitting device using the compound has low operating voltage, high color purity, and high efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Jhun-Mo Son, Eun-Sun Yu, O-Hyun Kwon, Young-Mok Son, Yu-Jin Kim
  • Publication number: 20070176542
    Abstract: Provided are an organometallic complex providing highly efficient phosphorescence and an organic electroluminescence device using the same. The organometallic complex can be used to form an organic layer of the organic electroluminescence device, efficiently emits light of a wavelength corresponding to red light, and has high brightness and low operating voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Inventors: Das Rupasree Ragini, Che-Un Yang, Young-Hun Byun, O-Hyun Kwon, Lyong-Sun Pu, Jong-Jin Park, Byoung-Ki Choi, Hee-Kyung Kim, Myeong-Suk Kim