"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia."
Dionysius Lardner, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at University College, London ; 1830
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183981 | Passive tag with oscillator circuit and frequency identification system utilizing the same A passive tag receiving a reader signal provided by a reader is disclosed. The passive tag includes an antenna, an oscillator circuit, and an internal chip. The antenna receives the reader signal. The reader signal is within an operation frequency band. The oscillat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179243 | Lane departure warning method and system thereof A lane departure warning method and system thereof are provided. First a driver model is established, wherein the driver model is established according to a lateral position error of a vehicle being driven and a steering angle generated by a driver for controlling t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178447 | Methods of forming hydrophobic silicon dioxide layer and forming organic thin film transistor A method of forming a hydrophobic silicon dioxide layer is provided. A substrate is provided. Thereafter, a hydrophobic silicon dioxide layer is formed on the substrate by using a plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, in which tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175980 | Hot video prediction system based on user interests social network A hot video prediction system is provided. A video comments database stores video comments submitted by a plurality of users. A user social network constructor establishes a user social network according to the video comments. When new comments of a new video are re... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175735 | System and method of multi-objective capacity planning in TFT-LCD panel manufacturing industry A system and a method of multi-objective capacity planning in the thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panel manufacturing industry are provided. The system includes a capacity planning module and a multi-objective planning module. In the present me... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8144169 | Input device for graphics An input device for editing a 3D model displayed in a screen is provided. The input device includes a signal transceiver module and a telescopic sensing component. The signal transceiver module communicates with a graphic system to obtain information of the 3D model... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142484 | Vertebral fixation plate assembly A vertebral fixation plate assembly for insertion into the resection site between two vertebrae of a patients vertebral column and fixation to front or lateral side of the two adjacent vertebral bodies above and below the resection site by means of surgical implanta... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8116525 | Object detection method and apparatus thereof An object detection method and an apparatus thereof are provided. In the object detection method, a plurality of images in an image sequence is sequentially received. When a current image is received, a latest background image is established by referring to the curr... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112297 | Dual-warehouse management system and method for calculating the minimum joint cost of a supply chain A dual-warehouse management system for a supply chain and a method for calculating a minimum of a joint cost thereof are provided. A manufacturer function module and a distributor function module are used to estimate a manufacturer's total cost and a distributor's t... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111710 | Method and apparatus for receiving feedback corresponding to multicast broadcast service The invention is directed to a method for receiving a feedback for at least a multicast broadcast service flow transmitting to a plurality of subscriber stations. The method comprises steps of assigning a plurality of code division multiple access (CDMA) codes to a ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8090609 | Method for evaluating performance of internal network in an enterprise An evaluating method for internal network performance by simulation of a flow network model with an acceptable threshold for the required flow of the internal network is applied to a computer system. The network model comprises plural nodes and document flow paths, ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085130 | Radio frequency identification tag A battery-assisted radio frequency identification (RFID) tag having a battery-assisted circuit and a filter is provided. The battery-assisted circuit generates a radio frequency signal whose frequency is outside an operating frequency band of the RFID tag to supply ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077355 | Digital halftoning method utilizing diffused weighting and class matrix optimization The present invention discloses a digital halftoning method. The method comprises steps of: (a1) dividing an original image into non-overlapping blocks; (a2) obtaining a Least-Mean-Square trained (LMS-trained) filter by comparing at least a training image and a half... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075644 | Catalytic liquid fuel A catalytic liquid fuel is described, including a liquid fuel added with at least one kind of catalytic ion or its salt to improve the oxidation activity thereof. The liquid fuel includes at least an organic liquid fuel or a reducing agent or their mixture. The oxid... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073303 | Light-concentrating panel A light-concentrating panel is disclosed. The light-concentrating panel comprises a planar light collecting element and a linear light collecting element. The planar light collecting element receives and collects the planar light, and then emits out as linear light.... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8067682 | Music score recognition method and system thereof A music score recognition method and a system thereof are provided. In the present method, a music score is detected and at least one measure in the music score is obtained by searching bar lines, so as to plan a recognition order according to the position of each m... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8054745 | Call admission controller and method thereof and multi-hop wireless backhaul network system using the same A method for managing a call admission controller in a multi-hop wireless backhaul network is illustrated. The method provides a call access control mechanism in a multi-hop wireless backhaul network system by calculating at least one service quality parameter in th... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049930 | Method of halftone watermarking for hiding multi-tone watermark or two-tone watermark A method is performed to hide a watermark in two halftone images or in a single halftone image. The halftone image contains information of the hidden watermark, and each pixel value of the halftone image is associated with a corresponding offset value. The offset va... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8040925 | Broadband fiber laser A broadband fiber laser provides a lasing cavity including a reflective minor and at least one fiber Bragg grating for further providing a lasing signal to resonate and be amplified therein. Alternatively, the wavelength of the fiber laser can be either fixed or tun... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035456 | Multi-phase signal generator and voltage-controlled oscillator thereof A VCO comprising a cross-coupled transistors module and a resonant module is provided. The resonant module comprises a first transistor, second transistor, a first inductor and varactor string and a second inductor and varactor string. The first source/drain termina... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8016988 | Gas sensor A gas sensor is provided. The gas sensor includes a post, an ion conductive layer, a first sensing portion and a second sensing portion. The post includes a first end, a second end, a side surface and a groove, wherein the groove is formed on the side surface of the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7995495 | System reliability evaluation method for transmission by a single minimal path in time restriction A system reliability evaluation method for transmission by a single minimal path in time restriction is disclosed. The single minimal path includes plural arcs between a start node and a terminal node in a flow network. The method includes the steps of providing a v... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991216 | Method of analyzing effective polishing frequency and number of polishing times on polishing pads having different patterns and profiles A method for analyzing the effectiveness of polishing frequency and the number of polishing times on the polishing pads having different patterns and profiles while performing the chemical-mechanical polishing process on the wafers is described. This method is to co... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7975074 | Data transmitting method with multiple token mechanism in wireless token ring protocol A data transmission method with multiple token mechanism in wireless token ring protocol is provided. First, (a) a logical ring with M nodes is provided; (b) a k-th node is selected from the logical ring, and a token in the k-th node is generated; (c) a first messag... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965442 | Combined retardation optical device A combined retardation optical device includes a first retardation optical plate and a second retardation optical plate. The second retardation optical plate contains a flat portion and a multi-step portion. This multi-step portion has several step-like flat surface... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958078 | Clustering triz analysis method The TRIZ decision process of the clustering method proposed by this invention uses the characteristics and invention rules from the contradiction matrix table resulting from massive quantities of patent inferences to find a similar or approximate character group and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957161 | Power converters A power converter capable of improving converter's efficiency and achieving zero-voltage-switching is provided, in which a first series circuit is connected in parallel with a direct current (DC) power supply and has a first inductor, a first primary winding, first ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946596 | Motor vehicle and rickshaw and tilting mechanism thereof A motor vehicle is provided. The motor vehicle comprises a vehicle body, a front wheel, a rear wheel and a tilting mechanism. The front wheel, the rear wheel and the tilting mechanism are disposed on the vehicle body. The tilting mechanism comprises a first compensa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7932465 | Photoelectric electrodes capable of absorbing light energy, fabrication methods, and applications thereof A photoelectric electrode capable of absorbing light energy is provided. The photoelectric electrode at least includes a conductive substrate, one or more semiconductor particle-containing film with a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) skeleton. ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920030 | Multi-phase voltage-control oscillator A multi-phase voltage-control oscillator including a first voltage-control oscillator circuit and a second voltage-control oscillator circuit is provided. The second voltage-control oscillator circuit and the first voltage-control oscillator circuit have a plurality... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7828182 | Stapler switchable between various operation modes and switching method thereof Disclosed is a stapler having various operation modes, as well as methods for switching the stapler among the operation modes. The stapler includes a primary staple magazine, a secondary staple magazine, a staple selector, a drive blade selector and a cover. The pri... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7783580 | Control method combining fuzzy logic control with sliding mode control for ideal dynamic responses The invention provides a novel control method combining fuzzy logic control with gain auto-tuning sliding mode control. A control error signal e(t) from the detection mechanism and an error change signal ce(t) are combined together as a sliding variable s(t)=ce(t)+Î... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7782101 | Injection-locked frequency divider An injection-locked frequency divider for dividing a frequency of an injection signal and obtaining a frequency divided signal is provided. The injection-locked frequency divider includes a signal injection unit and an oscillator. The signal injection unit includes ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7780513 | Board game system utilizing a robot arm A board game system comprises a touch screen, a computing device and a robot arm. The computing device comprises a processor and a memory. At least one type of board game program is stored in the memory so that the processor can execute the board game program presen... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7747419 | Prediction method of near field photolithography line fabrication using by the combination of taguchi method and neural network A method of building a set of experimental prediction model that requires fewer experimental frequency, shorter prediction time and higher prediction accuracy by using the advantages of combining the experimental data of Taguchi method and neural network learning is... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7723943 | Receiving method A receiving method is provided comprising the following steps. First, a receiving device is provided, wherein the receiving device comprises a chamber, a plurality of spacers, a spacer moving module, a first cover unit, a second cover unit, a control unit and an inp... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7719258 | Method and apparatus for current measurement using hall sensors without iron cores A method and apparatus for current measurement using Hall sensors without iron cores, used to estimate a flowing current in an electric conducting cable are provided by the exemplary examples of the present invention. The method for current measurement using Hall se... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716026 | Non-destructive method for inverse-calculating fiber probe aperture size and prediction method of fabrication profile of near field photolithography A non-destructive method to inverse-calculate a fiber probe aperture size, and a prediction method of the simulation and fabrication profile of near field photolithography are provided. The error between an experimental result of the photolithography and a simulatio... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7710211 | Injection-locked frequency divider with a wide injection-locked frequency range An injection-locked frequency divider includes a signal injection circuit and colpitts VCO. The signal injection circuit is for injecting an injection signal. The colpitts VCO includes first and second transistors, first and second LC tank circuits and a cross-coupl... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7705686 | Injection-locked frequency divider An injection-locked frequency divider includes a ring oscillator, a signal injection circuit, a first adjustable load circuit and a second adjustable load circuit. The ring oscillator generates an oscillation signal according to a differential signal outputted by th... | 04/27/2010 |