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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8020301 | Method for manufacturing hydro dynamic bearing device A method for manufacturing a hydro dynamic bearing device is provided for the finishing treatment of lubricating oil after lubricating the hydro dynamic bearing device, specifically for properly and effectively wiping off the lubricating oil adhering to the outside ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7549459 | Film metal mould crystallizer and method for casting using the same A crystallizer and method for casting using the crystallizer. The crystallizer mainly includes a plurality of-position-limiting parts (16) on the inner side of the mould seat (6, 7). The inner side of the position-limiting parts (16) is in corre... | 06/23/2009 |
| D531086 | Mini automobile | 10/31/2006 |
| 6906901 | Cooling apparatus for integrated circuit A cooling apparatus for an integrated circuit. The cooling apparatus comprises cooling fan means, a control circuit and heat pipe means. The control circuit determines a spinning speed of the cooling fan and an operation performance mode of the integrated circuit ac... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6723371 | Process for preparing an electrochemical test strip As embodied and broadly described herein, the invention provides an electrode test strip. The electrochemical electrode test strip comprises an insulating base plate, a electrode system on the base plate, a spacer which partially covers the electrode system and a ch... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6609846 | Retractable writing instrument A writing instrument with a retractable refill mechanism comprises: an replaceable refill having a front end as the pen tip, a pen barrel which has a front end opening and accommodates said refill, a slider positioned at the rear end of the refill and sli... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6610914 | Piano A sonic-vibration-generating mechanism of a piano is divided into a two-segment structure made up of the sonic-vibration-generating mechanism of the upstream side A and the sonic-vibration-generating mechanism of the downstream side B, and the sonic-vibra... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6606819 | Modifying reagents and modified organic media for plant culture Organic media are derived from natural organic materials, which are coconut dust, simple coconut dust, or those containing coconut staple fibers, coconut pericarp chips, and are beaten bark, which is both broadleaf trees and needleleaf trees, and sawdust.... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6579560 | Soybean processed food and method of producing the same A soybean processed food having crisp feelings of eating and good tasting is provided. The soybean processed food is produced by kneading a mixture of a soybean-derived material and a condiment in the presence of water to obtain dough, and drying the doug... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6544456 | Process of melt-spinning polyester fibers A method for the production of melt-spun fibers comprising polyethylene terephthalate as a fiber-forming polymer, through polycondensation or melting of the fiber-forming polymer forming a melt and subsequently melt spinning, comprises mixing 0.1-4 wt %, ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6478205 | Case for portable telephones A portable telephone set holder is comprised of a portable telephone set housing, a holding section extending from the housing, and a suspending section provided on a rear surface of the housing. The housing has an insertion port, into which a portable te... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6441905 | Sheet thickness and swell measurement method and apparatus therefor There is provided a sheet thickness and swell measurement method and apparatus to calibrate a characteristic map of a reference plane with accuracy and on demand, and to provide a simpler construction of means for creating the characteristic map of the re... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6425606 | Diffractive anti-counterfeiting tag with naked-eye inspection and machine inspection A diffractive anti-counterfeiting tag structure with capabilities of naked-eye inspection and machine inspection and its method of manufacture. The anti-counterfeiting tag structure has a naked-eye inspection component and a machine inspection non-grating... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6415974 | Structure of solder bumps with improved coplanarity and method of forming solder bumps with improved coplanarity A structure of solder bumps with improved coplanarility, comprising a substrate, a passivation layer, a plurality of Under Ball Metallurgy (UBM) layers and a plurality of solder bumps. The substrate has at least an active surface, and a plurality of bondi... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6415407 | Debugging device for a system controller chip to correctly lead its signals to IC leads A debugging device is provided for use in a system controller chip on a computer motherboard, such as a Pentium-based computer motherboard, to facilitate a debugging procedure on the system controller chip whenever a malfunction occurs to the system contr... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6412039 | Cross-bank, cross-page data accessing and controlling system A cross memory bank, cross memory page data accessing and controlling unit that provides more efficient transfer of data between a CPU and a memory cluster is described. The data accessing and controlling unit comprises a CPU interface circuit and a memor... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6403471 | Method of forming a dual damascene structure including smoothing the top part of a via A dual damascene manufacturing process, which is applicable on a dual damascene structure, is described. The etching stop layer at a bottom of the trench line is removed followed by a thermal treatment to smooth out the surface at the bottom of the trench... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6399286 | Method of fabricating reduced critical dimension for conductive line and space A fabrication method for reducing the critical dimension of the conductive line and the space is described in which a conductive layer and a mask layer are sequentially formed on a substrate. A taper etching is conducted to form a plurality of first openi... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6391708 | Method of manufacturing DRAM capacitor A method of manufacturing a DRAM capacitor comprises the steps of providing a semiconductor substrate having a source/drain region thereon, and then forming an insulating layer over the substrate. Next, a storage node opening that exposes the source/drain... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6372564 | Method of manufacturing V-shaped flash memory A method of manufacturing a V-shaped flash memory. The V-shaped stack gate is formed by implanting ions into a substrate to form a buried source line using a mask, and then forming a V-shaped trench that exposes the buried source line in the substrate. A ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6362048 | Method of manufacturing floating gate of flash memory A method for manufacturing the floating gate of a flash memory. First, a substrate is provided. A gate oxide layer, a polysilicon layer and a silicon nitride layer are sequentially formed over the substrate. Gate position is defined and then the silicon n... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6362662 | Analog W.T.A. circuit reject signal A winner-take-all (WTA) circuit apparatus for comparing two current inputs from a WTA circuit to a threshold current to create a reject signal, to assist in the decision criteria of a winner-take-all network. The circuit compares the two input currents fr... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6354338 | Icing article, apparatus for supplying the same, and method for operating the apparatus There is provided an apparatus for supplying an ice water-containing bag for use in icing. The apparatus includes an ice machine, an ice storing section for storing ice manufactured by the ice machine, ice packing means for packing the ice stored in the i... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6355502 | Semiconductor package and method for making the same A method for making a semiconductor package firstly provides a lead frame having a first surface and a corresponding second surface. The lead frame includes at least a package unit that further includes a die pad, and a plurality of leads disposed on the ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6354925 | Composite polishing pad A composite polishing pad. A lower polishing pad is concentrically disposed on a turning table. The lower polishing pad has a same radius of the turning pad. A handler is installed at a periphery of the lower polishing pad to advantage a renewal process. ... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6356662 | Method of efficiently handling digitized data through compression/decompression and utilization A data handling method is provided for handling digitized data through compression/decompression and utilization. By this method, the original digitized data are concurrently compressed into a first set of compressed data through a low-compression-rate co... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6351443 | Diffractive stack pickup head for optical disk drives and method to fabricate the pickup head The invention provides a pickup head used in an optical data storage system. The pickup head contains a diffractive optical element (DOE) stack on a semiconductor substrate. The DOE stack includes multiple diffractive lenses for providing several diffract... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6344729 | Method and apparatus for reconditioning and charging a battery A method and apparatus for reconditioning and charging a battery is disclosed. The lead-acid battery rejuvenator apparatus comprises of an oscillator, a frequency divider and a pair of transistors. The oscillator outputs a frequency signal. The frequency ... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6337240 | Method for fabricating an embedded dynamic random access memory A method for fabricating an embedded dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is provided. The method contains implanting ions onto the substrate at a DRAM active area and a logic circuit with different dopant concentration. A thermal oxidation process is perf... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6329983 | Method and apparatus for automatically detecting connecting status of a video output port A method and apparatus is provided for automatically detecting whether a video output port on a computer video display adapter is currently externally connected or disconnected. In practice the method and apparatus can be utilized, for example, on a video... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6329279 | Method of fabricating metal interconnect structure having outer air spacer An outer air spacer structure, applicable to multilevel interconnects technologies, and the method of making the same are disclosed. The outer air spacer is adjacent to a metal line to provide a lower dielectric constant in a metal interconnect structure.... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6329243 | Method to form crown capacitor for high density DRAM A method for fabricating a crown capacitor is able to form a deep UV photoresist layer having a cylindrical structure by using only one mask. A conductive layer, the main structure of a bottom electrode, is formed on the sidewall of the deep UV photoresis... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6326673 | Method and structure of manufacturing a high-Q inductor with an air trench The structure of high-Q inductor applied in a monolithic circuit according to the invention comprises a plurality of spiral metal lines and a plurality of dielectric layers, each dielectric layer formed between two adjacent spiral metal lines. Furthermore... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6327174 | Method of manufacturing mask read-only memory cell A method of manufacturing a ROM cell. A DRAM cell is provided. An ONO (oxide-nitride-oxide) stacked layer is used as a dielectric film of a capacitor of the DRAM cell. When a supply power is over 6 volts, the dielectric layer would be breakdown so that le... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6326608 | Polarization-type laser detection system A polarization-type laser detection system is provided, which is capable of distinguishing between a reflected light signal from a target object and a back-scattered light signal from a mass of suspended particles in the air. This allows the laser detecti... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6326240 | Apparatus for packaging semiconductor device and method for packaging the same An apparatus for packaging a semiconductor device and a method for packaging the same. The apparatus includes a closed printing chamber having a baseplate on the bottom of the closed printing chamber. A pressure controlling system is connected to the clos... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6324312 | Structure and method for fabricating a wide-angle TE-TM mode splitter A method is used to fabricate a wide-angle Y-branch polarization splitters on lithium niobate crystal substrate. The Y-branch polarization splitter combines a straight waveguide with a substrate prism type wide-angle waveguide branch. The straight wavegui... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6324092 | Random access memory cell A random access memory cell. The RAM cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A control gate of the first transistor is coupled to a control signal line. A data read terminal of the first transistor is coupled to a data read line. An eart... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6323719 | Pseudo bipolar junction transistor A pseudo bipolar junction transistor according to the invention includes two MOS transistors operating in saturation region, electrically connected in parallel with their drains and sources functioning as a collector and a emitter of the pseudo bipolar ju... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6323112 | Method of fabricating integrated circuits A method of fabricating integrated circuits. An oxide layer and a patterned dummy gate layer are formed on a substrate. The patterned dummy gate layer is used as an implantation mask in a first ion implantation step to form a source/drain in the substrate... | 11/27/2001 |
