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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7942877 | Guide system and associated method for installing an implant device adapted to apply compression across a fracture site An implant for fracture fixation in which a wire element has one end installed in bone and an opposite end fixed externally to the bone to apply compression across the fracture wherein a guide system is provided for guiding a tip of the one end of the wire element i... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7938438 | Three-chamber adaptive side airbag The invention relates to a side airbag module for an automotive vehicle which includes an inflatable bag (11) configured to be deployed between an occupant and the vehicle body upon being filled with the gas produced by a generator, which bag comprises a fron... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7935603 | Symmetric non-intrusive and covert technique to render a transistor permanently non-operable A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The technique including forming active areas of a first conductivity type and LDD regions of a second conductivity type resulting in a transistor that is always non-operational when sta... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7928877 | Continuous-time delta-sigma modulator with small distributed resonators A continuous time delta-sigma modulator having a sampling frequency includes a distributed resonator having a length about equal to a reciprocal of an integer times a velocity of a signal in the distributed resonator divided by twice the sampling frequency of the co... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7911407 | Method for designing artificial surface impedance structures characterized by an impedance tensor with complex components A method for designing artificial impedance surfaces is disclosed. The method involves matching impedance component values required for a given far-field radiation pattern (determined, for example, by holographic means) with measured or simulated impedance component... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7906567 | Process for producing encapsulated product, and encapsulated product The present invention provides a method for producing an encapsulated product in which a core substance having an electric charge on its surface is coated with a wall material comprising a polymer as a main component, the production method comprising at least the fo... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7897039 | Apparatus for collecting condensed water of air conditioner evaporator in heavy construction equipment An apparatus for collecting condensed water of an air conditioner evaporator in heavy construction equipment is disclosed, which is able to receive condensed water into a receiver from an evaporator and treats the same which comprises a body which is installed at on... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7891954 | Method and apparatus for conveying material and ejector apparatus A method for conveying material by applying a pressure difference in a conveying conduit (4), in which method the material is fed into the conveying conduit (4) and in the conveying conduit further into a separating device (5), where the materia... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7888213 | Conductive channel pseudo block process and circuit to inhibit reverse engineering A technique for and structures for camouflaging an integrated circuit structure. The integrated circuit structure is formed by a plurality of layers of material having a controlled outline. A layer of conductive material having a controlled outline is disposed among... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7884930 | Integrated quartz biological sensor and method A sensor integrates a quartz nanoresonator for mass detection and SERS for optical detection in a same cavity on a chip for redundancy in the detection of a species. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7875523 | HBT with emitter electrode having planar side walls A heterojunction bipolar transistor is formed with an emitter electrode that comprises an emitter epitaxy underlying an emitter metal cap and that has horizontal dimensions that are substantially equal to the emitter metal cap. ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7868829 | Reflectarray A reflectarray is disclosed. The reflectarray includes a first array of conductive patches supported by a substrate, wherein each conductive patch in the first array has a first center line along a Y-direction and a second centerline along an X-direction, a pluralit... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7868335 | Modulation doped super-lattice sub-collector for high-performance HBTs and BJTs A bipolar junction transistor having an emitter, a base, and a collector includes a stack of one or more layer sets adjacent the collector. Each layer set includes a first material having a first band gap, wherein the first material is highly doped, and a second mat... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864870 | Ultra wideband waveform generator circuit The invention relates to a novel ultra wideband (UWB) waveform generator circuit (1) placed on a substrate, with transmission lines, loads and ports; wherein the circuit takes as input a waveform and generates as output the derivative of said waveform, charac... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7864396 | Vertical cavity multiple quantum well device with simultaneous modulation and photodetection capability A vertical cavity modulator/detector (VCMD) device and a method for modulating and detecting light are disclosed. The VCMD device contains an n-type contact layer, a transparent tuning layer, a multiple quantum well structure, a p-type contact layer, a low reflectan... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7861398 | Method for fabricating a miniature tunable filter A method for fabrication of a filter includes forming an input transformer pole in a first substrate by forming a first conductive via, forming an output transformer pole in the first substrate by forming a second conductive via, forming one or more filter poles in ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7851971 | Low frequency quartz based MEMS resonators and method of fabricating the same A method for fabricating a low frequency quartz resonator includes metalizing a top-side of a quartz wafer with a metal etch stop, depositing a first metal layer over the metal etch stop, patterning the first metal layer to form a top electrode, bonding the quartz w... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7851319 | Method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor with a small emitter-to-base spacing The present invention refers to a method for preparing a non-self-aligned heterojunction bipolar transistor comprising: preparing a patterned emitter metal on an emitter epi layer of a HBT epi structure on a substrate; preparing an emitter epitaxy below the emitter ... | 12/14/2010 |
| D629167 | Vacuum cleaner | 12/14/2010 |
| 7843756 | Low current consumption semiconductor memory device having input/output control circuit and control method thereof A low-current consumption semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of cell blocks, in which each cell block includes a plurality of cell mats; a plurality of input/output line switches which transmit the plurality of cell blocks to input/output lines; and an... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7839196 | Multi-phase clock generation circuit having a low skew imprecision A multi-phase clock generation circuit having a low skew imprecision is presented. The circuit includes a phase clock generation block and a phase correction block. The phase clock generation block is configured to generate a plurality of phase clocks having phases ... | 11/23/2010 |
| D627939 | Dishwasher | 11/23/2010 |
| D627938 | Dishwasher | 11/23/2010 |
| D627937 | Dishwasher | 11/23/2010 |
| D627593 | Oven | 11/23/2010 |
| 7835600 | Microwave receiver front-end assembly and array A method of and apparatus for modulating an optical carrier by an incident electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field propagates in a dielectric-filled transverse electromagnetic waveguide, At least one slice of an electro-optic material is disposed in the die... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7833622 | Optical film The subject invention provides an optical film, comprising a transparent substrate and a resin coating having a convex-concave structure on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein said resin coating comprises a plurality of organic particles and a binder, the... | 11/16/2010 |
| D627324 | Mobile phone | 11/16/2010 |
| 7831113 | Optical pulse position modulator with chirp compensation An optical pulse position modulator includes a substrate with parallel first and second sides, the substrate including a first waveguide channel and a parallel second waveguide channel orthogonal to the first and second sides, a linear chirped grating orthogonal to ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830695 | Capacitive arrangement for qubit operations A capacitive operation method for quantum computing is disclosed where providing a sequence of write pulses above a threshold voltage induces a single charge population, forming a quantum dot (Q-dot). Determining if the single charge population was induced in the Q-... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830310 | Artificial impedance structure An artificial impedance structure and a method for manufacturing same. The structure contains a dielectric layer having generally opposed first and second surfaces, a conductive layer disposed on the first surface, and a plurality of conductive structures disposed o... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830227 | Device having integrated MEMS switches and filters A method for fabricating integrated MEMS switches and filters includes forming cavities in a silicon substrate, metalizing a first pattern on a quartz substrate to form first switch and filter elements, bonding the quartz substrate to the silicon substrate so that t... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830074 | Integrated quartz oscillator on an active electronic substrate An oscillator having a quartz resonator, and a base wafer containing active electronics, wherein the quartz resonator is bonded directly to the base wafer and subsequently hermetically capped. ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7829041 | Jet-wheel impact atomizer for spray drying The present invention provides an atomizer for producing finely dispersed spray of slurry/liquid and a process for the preparation of free flowing spray dried alumina powder. The jet-wheel impact atomizer based on the principle of addition of momenta has been invent... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825440 | Suspended-membrane/suspended-substrate monolithic microwave integrated circuit modules A suspended-membrane/suspended-substrate monolithic microwave integrated circuit module and method of making same. The device contains a plurality of active devices, such as transistors, a plurality of transmission mediums connected to the active devices; and a subs... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823887 | Sealing between components of a rotary machine In a casing of a rotary machine, cast components are sealingly mounted together by means of seals accommodated in (semi-) enclosed cavities. A ring seal includes an annular base and an annular skirt extending axially from the base. To ameliorate manufacturing tolera... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7822698 | Spike domain and pulse domain non-linear processors A neural network has an array of interconnected processors, each processor operating either the pulse domain or spike domain. Each processor has (i) first inputs selectively coupled to other processors in the array of processors, each first input having an associate... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7822082 | Wavelength reconfigurable laser transmitter tuned via the resonance passbands of a tunable microresonator The present invention relates to a laser transmitter capable of being configured to transmit one of a plurality of wavelengths. Specifically, the laser transmitter may be reconfigured using the resonance passbands of a tunable microresonator coupled with a fixed gra... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7821704 | Compact, tunable, efficient IR laser and IR guiding silica fibers An IR laser source providing light in the IR spectrum, the laser source comprising a pump laser operating at a frequency equivalent to wavelength shorter than 2 μm and at a predetermined power, and an optic fiber coupled to the pump laser. The optic fiber has at le... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7813654 | Broadband linearization of photonic modulation using transversal equalization Transversal equalization is used to obtain broadband linearization of photonic modulation. A photonic link comprises a signal path and a feed-forward path. The feed-forward path includes an optical linearizer and a transversal equalizer connected with the optical li... | 10/12/2010 |
