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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179591 | Spatial light modulator and mirror array device The present invention provides a spatial light modulator, comprising: a pixel array comprises a plurality of pixel units. Each of the pixel units comprises a memory cell. A plurality of word lines and a plurality of plate lines to electrically communicate with the p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174283 | Calibration technique for measuring gate resistance of power MOS gate device at wafer level This invention discloses a method for calibrating a gate resistance measurement of a semiconductor power device that includes a step of forming a RC network on a test area on a semiconductor wafer adjacent to a plurality of semiconductor power chips and measuring a ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8168477 | Packaging configurations for vertical electronic devices using conductive traces disposed on laminated board layers This invention discloses an electronic package for containing a vertical semiconductor chip that includes a laminated board having a via connector and conductive traces distributed on multiple layers of the laminated board connected to the via connector. The semicon... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8163618 | Power MOSFET device structure for high frequency applications This invention discloses a new switching device supported on a semiconductor that includes a drain disposed on a first surface and a source region disposed near a second surface of said semiconductor opposite the first surface. The switching device further includes ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159021 | Trench MOSFET with double epitaxial structure A trenched semiconductor power device includes a plurality of trenched gates surrounded by source regions near a top surface of a semiconductor substrate encompassed in body regions. The trenched semiconductor power device further includes a first epitaxial layer ab... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157389 | Synchronous control system for light source and spatial light modulator employed in projection apparatus The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: an a light source for emitting illumination light for transmitting along illumination light path; a display device includes a plurality of pixels for modulating the illumination light for reflecting the... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154474 | Driving method of memory access The present invention provides a spatial light modulator, comprising: a plurality of pixel elements wherein each of the pixel elements comprises at least a switching element; a plurality of control lines connected to at least one of the switching elements; and a con... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8134772 | Mirror device with an anti-stiction layer A micromirror device includes an elastic hinge for supporting a mirror on a substrate, and an address electrode for deflecting the mirror. The device further includes a protective layer and an oriented monolayer laid to cover a stopper also functioning as an address... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134767 | Mirror device A mirror device comprises: an electrode which is covered with a protective film made of a material containing a semiconductor material and is placed on a substrate; a mirror placed above the electrode; and an electrically conductive hinge placed between the mirror a... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8133455 | Micro-fabricated stamp array for depositing biologic diagnostic testing samples on bio-bindable surface The present invention discloses micro-stamp array supported on a substrate comprising a plurality of micro-stamp sticks. Each of the micro-stamp sticks includes a micro-stamp-stick head having a channel opened through a central portion in each of the micro-stamp sti... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8130945 | Encrypted cryptography system A public key cryptography (PKI or other similar system) is used to sent partial or multiple of encryption or decryption algorithm (cipher or decipher) to the data sender or receiver to encrypt or decrypt the data to be sent or received and destroy itself after each ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125407 | Deformable micromirror device A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements which are arranged in the form of a matrix and each of which modulates incident light by using an ON state for deflecting incident light to projection optics, an OFF... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124453 | Vertically packaged MOSFET and IC power devices as integrated module using 3D interconnected laminates An electronic package for containing at least a top packaging module vertically stacked on a bottom packaging module. Each of the packaging modules includes a semiconductor chip packaged and connected by via connectors and connectors disposed on a laminated board fa... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120142 | Applying trenched transient voltage suppressor (TVS) technology for distributed low pass filters An electronic circuit includes a filtering circuit implemented with a distributed inductor-and-capacitor (LC) network that includes metal oxide effect (MOS) trenches opened in a semiconductor substrate filled with dielectric material for functioning as capacitors fo... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119482 | MOSFET using gate work function engineering for switching applications This invention discloses a new MOSFET device. The MOSFET device has an improved operation characteristic achieved by manufacturing a MOSFET with a higher gate work function by implementing a P-doped gate in an N-MOSFET device. The P-type gate increases the threshold... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115986 | Mirror device comprising drive electrode equipped with stopper function The present invention provides a mirror device, comprising: a plurality of deflectable mirrors; an elastic member for supporting the mirror and to deflect the mirror to a range of deflecting angles; a drive electrode for driving the mirror; a control circuit for giv... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115252 | Elimination of gate oxide weak spot in deep trench A MOSFET with a 0.7˜2.0 micrometers deep trench is formed by first carrying out a processing step of opening a trench in a semiconductor substrate. A thick insulator layer is then deposited in the trench such that the film at the bottom of the trench is much thicke... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8110869 | Planar SRFET using no additional masks and layout method A semiconductor power device supported on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type with a bottom layer functioning as a bottom electrode and an epitaxial layer overlying the bottom layer with a same conductivity type as the bottom layer. The semiconduc... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8110472 | High power and high temperature semiconductor power devices protected by non-uniform ballasted sources A semiconductor power device is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor power device includes a plurality of transistor cells distributed over different areas having varying amount of ballasting resistances depending on a local thermal dissipation in ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8105905 | Configuration and method to form MOSFET devices with low resistance silicide gate and mesa contact regions A novel integration scheme for forming power MOSFET, particularly forming salicides for both gate and mesa contact regions, as well as using multiple energy contact implants through the salicided layer to form conductive body contacts which short to the source regio... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105895 | Enhancing Schottky breakdown voltage (BV) without affecting an integrated MOSFET-Schottky device layout This invention discloses a semiconductor power device that includes an active cell area having a plurality of power transistor cells. Each of said power transistor cells has a planar Schottky diode that includes a Schottky junction barrier metal covering areas above... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098466 | Circuit configurations to reduce snapback of a transient voltage suppressor This invention discloses an electronic device formed as an integrated circuit (IC) wherein the electronic device further includes a transient voltage suppressing (TVS) circuit. The TVS circuit includes a triggering Zener diode connected between an emitter and a coll... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097905 | Cascoded high voltage junction field effect transistor A cascoded junction field transistor (JFET) device comprises a first stage high voltage JFET cascoded to a second stage low voltage JFET wherein one of the first and second stages JFET is connected to a drain electrode of another JFET stage. ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8089139 | Small outline package in which MOSFET and Schottky diode being co-packaged A TSOP (Thin Small Outline Package) contains a MOSFET and a Schottky diode. The MOSFET has a source terminal a gate terminal and a drain terminal. The Schottky diode has a cathode terminal, a anode terminal. The TSOP contains the MOSFET and the Schottky diode with a... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081371 | Spatial light modulator and display apparatus The present invention provides an image projection system comprising a spatial light modulator (SLM) comprises a plurality of pixel elements, wherein each of the pixel elements further comprises a deflectable mirror, and at least a first electrode and a second elect... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8067288 | Configuration and method of manufacturing the one-time programmable (OTP) memory cells This invention discloses a method for manufacturing a one-time programmable (OTP) memory includes a first and second MOS transistors connected in parallel and controlled by a common gate formed with a single polysilicon stripe. The method further comprises a step of... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8064125 | Color sequential illumination for spatial light modulator The present invention provides a display apparatus, comprising: a light source or light sources for emitting a luminous flux or luminous fluxes having a plurality of colors; a spatial light modulator for modulating the luminous flux(es) having a plurality of colors ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064123 | Mirror device and MEMS device comprising layered electrode The present invention provides an image display system implemented with a micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) device formed and supported on a substrate functioning as a spatial light modulator wherein the MEMS device further comprises a drive circuit disposed on ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064118 | Control system for micromirror device This invention provides a display system that receives an image signal containing a binary data of N bits, wherein N is a positive integer, for displaying an image with a grayscale corresponding to the binary data. The display system further includes a data converte... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061856 | Projection apparatus and image projection changeover method The present invention provides a projection apparatus, comprising: a light source; a spatial light modulator for modulating the incident light emitted from the light source; a spatial light modulator control unit for generating, from an inputted image signal, a cont... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061854 | Projection display system with varying light source The present invention provides a projection apparatus, comprising: a light source; at least one spatial light modulator for modulating illumination light from the light source by a plurality of pixel elements by using different modulation states; a light source cont... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8061846 | Light source control method for video image display apparatus and video image display apparatus A method for controlling a light source of a video image display apparatus, comprising: projecting illumination lights to a first spatial light modulator (SLM) and a second SLM, and changing over a wavelength of one of the illumination lights projected to the second... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8058981 | Tire pressure monitoring device with LED warning light turned on by mechanical pressure switch A tire pressure-monitoring device (TPMD) directly mounted onto an air-pumping inlet-stem on a tire. The TPMD includes a light emitter connected to a battery through an electrical connecting loop wherein the electrical connecting loop comprising a plurality of electr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058687 | Split gate with different gate materials and work functions to reduce gate resistance of ultra high density MOSFET This invention discloses a trenched metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) cell. The trenched MOSFET cell includes a trenched gate opened from a top surface of the semiconductor substrate surrounded by a source region encompassed in a body region... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8058670 | Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) with monolithic deep body clamp diode to prevent latch-up A trench insulation gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power device with a monolithic deep body clamp diode comprising a plurality of trench gates surrounded by emitter regions of a first conductivity type near a top surface of a semiconductor substrate of the first con... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8053834 | Inverted-trench grounded-source FET structure using conductive substrates, with highly doped substrates This invention discloses an inverted field-effect-transistor (iT-FET) semiconductor device that includes a source disposed on a bottom and a drain disposed on a top of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor power device further comprises a trench-sidewall gate... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053808 | Layouts for multiple-stage ESD protection circuits for integrating with semiconductor power device A semiconductor power device supported on a semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of transistor cells each having a source and a drain with a gate to control an electric current transmitted between the source and the drain. The semiconductor further includes ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053315 | Method to manufacture split gate with high density plasma oxide layer as inter-polysilicon insulation layer This invention discloses a method of manufacturing a trenched semiconductor power device with split gate filling a trench opened in a semiconductor substrate wherein the split gate is separated by an inter-poly insulation layer disposed between a top and a bottom ga... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8053298 | Planar split-gate high-performance MOSFET structure and manufacturing method This invention discloses an improved semiconductor power device includes a plurality of power transistor cells wherein each cell further includes a planar gate padded by a gate oxide layer disposed on top of a drift layer constituting an upper layer of a semiconduct... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045254 | Structure body electrically connected via semiconductor material layer The present invention discloses an image display system implemented with a spatial light modulator (SLM) having a plurality of pixel elements wherein each of the pixel elements further comprises an electrode having a structural body comprising: a first electrically ... | 10/25/2011 |
