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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7159161 | Test method and architecture for circuits having inputs A test method for a plurality of circuits respectively having inputs for greatly reducing the required test time and the control circuit complexity is provided. The method includes steps of providing a set of test patterns for detecting a characteristic of the circu... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7113970 | Complex-valued multiplier-and-accumulator The multi-mode Multiplier-And-Accumulator of the present invention is used with the double-precision Complex-Valued Multiplier-And Accumulator as a main configuration, and the different precisions and digital modes make it more flexible, compared to the traditional ... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7045812 | Technology for increasing bandwidth of semiconductor optical amplifiers/superluminescent diodes using non-identical multiple quantum wells The present invention provides a technology for increasing the spectral width of semiconductor optical amplifiers, employing different separate confinement heterostructures (SCH's) so as to form non-identical multiple quantum wells such that the semiconductor photo-... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7033814 | Methods for preparing yeast with improved biotin productivity using integrating plasmids encoding biotin synthase Methods for preparing yeast with improved biotin productivity using integrating plasmids encoding biotin synthase. The yeast is transformed by an integrating plasmid, which includes a Candida utilis biotin synthase gene BIO2, an assistant DNA sequence to prom... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027441 | Indexing method for mapping multiple segments of coded fields into a table-structure field An indexing method for mapping multiple segments of coded fields in a table structure. The indexing method can complete resolving address mapping within a short delay, and has a collision-free characteristic when total bit-width of variation for coded fields is the ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7003367 | Equipment management method An equipment management method for managing semiconductor equipment via an equipment manager. In the equipment management method, production scenario rules and equipment behavior rules are first defined respectively in a production scenario database of a configurati... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6992151 | Phosphorus-containing flame-retardant hardener, and epoxy resins cured by the same The present invention discloses an active-hydrogen-containing curing agent having a phosphorus group, and a flame retardant cured epoxy resin which can be prepared via an addition reaction between the active hydrogen and the epoxide group of an epoxy resin. The cure... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6962804 | Drosophila clipped FRT (cFRT) chromosome insensitive to P transposase, generating method thereof, and application thereof A method for generating a Drosophila clipped FRT (cFRT) chromosome is provided, wherein the chromosome is incapable of reacting with a P transposase but remains capable of reacting with a yeast site-specific flippase recombinase (FLP). The method includes ste... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6957244 | Reduced-width low-error multiplier This invention discloses a reduced-width, low-error multiplier that can be used in Digital Signal Processing (DSP). Specifically, this invention relates to a reduced-width, low-error multiplier capable of processing digital signals of communication systems such as a... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6946470 | Method of treating psychosis in a patient A method of treating psychosis in a patient which comprises administering a pharmaceutical composition useful in treating psychosis containing a therapeutically effective amount of 1-[piperidinyl]methyl-2,3-dihydroimidazo[1,2-c]quinazolin-5(6H)-one as an active ingr... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6903029 | Method of reducing thick film stress of spin-on dielectric and the resulting sandwich dielectric structure The present invention provides a technique to reduce a stress of thick spin-on dielectric layer by forming a sandwich dielectric structure, wherein a first dielectric layer is formed on a substrate by spin coating, a liquid phase deposited (LPD) silica layer is form... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6883648 | Mechanical disk brake for a bicycle A mechanical disk brake for a bicycle is characterized in a thrust bearing included in a cam mechanism thereof to overcome the problem of a locked disk brake due to an overly large friction as frequently occurs in conventional mechanical disk brakes, and an eccentri... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6877385 | Contact type micro piezoresistive shear-stress sensor There is disclosed a semiconductor sensor for measuring the contact shear stress distribution between the socket of an above-knee (AK) prostheses and the soft tissue of an amputee's stump. The sensor is fabricated by the micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) techno... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6800499 | Process for preparing a hydrogen sensor A high-sensitivity Pd/InP hydrogen sensor was made by a) forming an n-type or p-type semiconductor film on a semiconductor substrate; b) forming a patterned first metal electrode on the semiconductor film, wherein the first metal electrode forms an Ohmic contact wit... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6798994 | Optical communication system An optical communication system suitable for a coherent optical satellite communication is configured to include an optical transmission device having a laser signal generator, a first reference laser signal generator having a first local oscillating laser signal ge... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6782212 | Coherent optical communication receiver of satellite optical communication system A coherent optical communication receiver of a satellite optical communication system, having a telescope, an automatic frequency control circuit and a frequency shift keying demodulator. The automatic frequency control circuit has a local oscillating laser, a light... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6777994 | Clock generator To reduce the effect of the phase shift error originated from the mismatch of the delay units of the clock generator, we propose to add one more set of averaging amplifiers and averaging impedances, such as resistors, into the circuit of the clock generator. In the ... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6774461 | Method of reducing thick film stress of spin-on dielectric and the resulting sandwich dielectric structure The present invention provides a technique to reduce a stress of thick spin-on dielectric layer by forming a sandwich dielectric structure, wherein a first dielectric layer is formed on a substrate by spin coating, a liquid phase deposited (LPD) silica layer is form... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6754225 | Optimal contention region allocation for medium access control in multipoint-to-point networks A method of optimal contention region allocation for medium access control in multipoint-to-point networks, and in particular a method of obtaining optimal contention region allocation so that to achieve optimal throughput. The method establishes an optimal table so... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6739930 | Process for forming field emission electrode for manufacturing field emission array A process of forming a field emission electrode for manufacturing a field emission array is provided. The process includes steps of (a) providing a substrate having a metal layer thereon, (b) forming a plurality of mask units on the metal layer and partially removin... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6736243 | Mechanical type disc brake for bicycle A mechanical type disc brake for bicycle mainly includes a housing, a mounting bracket for connecting the housing to a fork of the bicycle, a pull bar pivotally connected to an outer side of the housing, an actuating rod extended into the housing via the pull bar, a... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6738387 | Design of scalable techniques for quality of services routing and forwarding A design of scalable techniques for Quality of Service (QoS) routing and forwarding, used to reduce the blocking probability of the flow requests, and to achieve storage and computational scalability. Three techniques have been designed: 1) an overflowed cache 2) a ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6730364 | Preparation of carbon molecular sieve membranes on porous substrate A method for preparing carbon molecular sieve membrane is invented. A thin carbon-containing film is first deposited on a porous substrate. The thin film is then bombarded by high energy ions for surface modification. The surface modified film is then baked or calci... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6704322 | Smart different prime code multiplexing system A smart different prime code multiplexing system. Using the characteristic that two different prime codes do not interfere with each other, these two prime codes are combined to replace the conventional asynchronous division multiple access. Without affec... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6700652 | Low-cost continuous-wave-laser (CW laser) digital particle image velocimetry The invention of a Low-Cost alternating color-pulse digital particle-image velocimetry DPIV (Digital Particle Image Velocimetry) system is proposed. In the proposed system Low-Cost basic equipments are used such as a continuous-wave laser in mixed mode, a... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6693158 | Electroluminiscent conjugated polymers modified with high electronegative heterocyclic moieties and their applications in polymeric light emitting diodes This invention provides a method for syntheses of new electroluminescent conjugated polymers modified with high electronegative heterocyclic groups (such as 1,3,4-oxadiazole-diyl, 1,3,4-thiadiazole-diyl, and 1,2,4-triazole-diyl). These electroluminescent ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6689645 | Method of surface treatment on the improvement of electrical properties for doped silicon oxides (SiO2) films In the fabrication of gate oxides in IC process, a suitable cleaning/etching process is required to remove the native oxides and reduce surface microroughness in addition to standard RCA cleaning. For ultrathin oxide thickness ( | 02/10/2004 |
| 6680478 | Fabrication of amorphous silicon/amorphous silicon germanium NI1PI2N infrared position detectors Amorphous silicon/amorphous silicon germanium NI1PI2N position detectors are fabricated to suppress visible light and increase detection of infrared light. The material of I1 layer is amorphous silicon or amorphous silicon germanium used to absorb visible... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6674824 | Method and circuitry for controlling a phase-locked loop by analog and digital signals A mixed-signal-controlled phase-locked loop is provided. This loop includes a mixed-signal-controlled oscillator circuit for generating an oscillating signal having an oscillating frequency and a phase in response to a digital control signal and an analog... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6646064 | Reacting epoxy resin with p-containing dihydric phenol or naphthol A method for imparting flame retardance to an epoxy resin comprises reacting an epoxy resin with a phosphorus-containing dihydric phenol or naphthol derived from the reaction of 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide (i.e., DOPO) with a b... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6614921 | 3-D localization of clustered microcalcifications using cranio-caudal and medio-lateral oblique view A method using CC and MLO views localized in a display in 3-D as a breast virtual model, incorporating, feature capturing using gradient, energy and entropy codes, calibration classification according to features using binary decision trees, nipple detect... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6613848 | Phosphorus-containing phenolic, thiophenolic or aminophenyl flame-retardant hardener, and epoxy resins cured thereby A hardener for an epoxy resin comprises a phenolic, thiophenolic, aminophenyl, tris-phenolic, tris-thiophenolic, tris-aminophenyl, tetrakis-phenolic, tetrakis-thiophenolic, or tetrakis-aminophenyl compounds; or phenol-formaldehyde or phenol-formaldeh... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6614950 | Fiber bragg grating-based optical CDMA encoder/decoder An optical spectral coding scheme for fiber-optic code-division multiple-access (FO-CDMA) networks. The spectral coding is based on the pseudo-orthogonality of FO-CDMA codes properly written in the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) devices. For an incoming broadb... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6594814 | Dynamic pipelining approach for high performance circuit design Pipelining is a well-known efficient technique for optimally designing high performance digital circuits. However, conventional pipelining techniques are difficult to pipeline the execution of a loop with variant iteration execution lengths in a circuit. ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6590667 | Method and an apparatus for measuring the flying height with sub-nanometer resolution A method and apparatus is claimed for measuring the distance between a slider and a transparent disk with sub-nanometer resolution. The flying height is measured by applying ellipsometry. The measurement is done by: providing a sampling light beam with ad... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6587589 | Architecture for performing two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform An architecture for performing the two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform includes a transform module including a first stage and a second stage for decomposing an input image into four bands, and among the four bands, the band having the low frequenc... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6579322 | Biomedical material for improving the adhesion and proliferation of cells and a modified artificial vessel A novel biomedical material, which is characterized by coating a genetically engineered CBD-RGD peptide layer on the surface of a biomedical material consisting of PU to improve the attachment of tissue cells, such as fibroblasts, epithelial cells and end... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6574356 | Method for three-dimensional image reconstruction of basal ganglion The present invention relates to a method for three-dimensional image reconstruction of basal ganglion. A novel geometrical algorithm has been developed to calculate the correction coordinates of the target based on the reference axial shift in the CT sca... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6570904 | Two-mirror figure "8" ring resonantor The cavity of the invention has a pumping source, a ring cavity, a planar convex lens, an optical gain medium, and/or a nonlinear medium. The laser cavity is formed by two mirrors with the same curvature. The curving surfaces of the two mirrors are couple... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6566117 | Immortal cell line derived from grouper Epinephelus coioides and its applications therein The present invention describes (1) an immortal cell line derived from grouper and a method for establishing the cell line; (2) methods for mass producing and purifying aquatic viruses using the immortal cell line from grouper; (3) an anti-NNV antibody an... | 05/20/2003 |
