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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184670 | Smart linear pulsed laser diode driver, and method In a pulsed laser diode driver an energy storage capacitor is continuously being charged to a supply voltage Vr. When a pulse is initiated, energy stored in the capacitor is delivered to the laser diode load. The capacitor voltage Vd at the end of a pulse is used to... | 05/22/2012 |
| 7980477 | Dual interface inlays A dual interface inlay having a bottom sheet; an antenna wire mounted to the top surface of the bottom sheet; end portions of the antenna wire formed with squiggles or meanders forming contact areas of increased surface area for subsequent attachment of a chip or ch... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979975 | Methods of connecting an antenna to a transponder chip An antenna wire (210, 260, 310, 410, 510, 610, 710) is mounted to a substrate (204, 254, 304, 404, 504, 604, 704) so that end portions (210a/b, 260a/b, 310a/b, 410a/b, 510a/b, 610... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7927188 | Powder delivery rate control for air abrasive instruments A micro-abrasive blasting device and method for perturbation control using a plurality of delivery conduits of various lengths and/or apertures. The user is able to individually open and close bypass conduit pinch valve(s) external to micro-abrasive blasting device ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7748636 | Portable identity card reader system for physical and logical access A portable RFID reader apparatus having a contactless interface and slots or recesses for insertion of contactless smart card fobs, including ID card, and having a wireless interface for communicating with a token plugged into a computer, provides physical and logic... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7731570 | Micro-abrasive blasting devices with perturbation control The present invention is a micro-abrasive blasting device (55) with superior perturbation control via a plurality of delivery conduits (25) of various lengths and apertures. The user is able to individually open and close bypass conduit pinch valve ( | 06/08/2010 |
| 7632113 | Retractable USB stick A retractable USB stick comprises: an elongate housing having an open end, a USB stick disposed within the elongate housing, and means for causing the USB stick to project out of and retract back into the housing. The means for causing the USB stick to project may b... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7607972 | Self-contained disposable micro-abrasive blasting tip for dental applications The present invention is a micro-abrasive blasting device (75) constructed from a disposable pipette structure (80) comprising a delivery conduit (30) extending from a delivery conduit inlet (35) through a tapered section (33) to f... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7597250 | RFID reader with multiple interfaces A pocket-size RFID reader apparatus having a contactless interface and a slot for insertion of a contactless smart card fob, and having a biometric sensor, thereby providing two levels of personalization. The apparatus may have a wireless interface; and a slot for i... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7581308 | Methods of connecting an antenna to a transponder chip Method of connecting an antenna wire to a transponder chip. A transponder chip in a recess in a substrate, and an antenna wire mounted to the surface of the substrate and having end portions spanning the recess. The end portions are spaced wider than the chip, to al... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7546671 | Method of forming an inlay substrate having an antenna wire Forming an inlay comprising an antenna wire having two end portions and a site for a transponder chip, comprises: mounting the wire to a surface of substrate; and leaving the end portions of the antenna wire free-standing, as loops adjacent terminal areas of a site ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7348948 | Polyphase diode driver A driver supplying a total current to a load has a plurality (n) of driver stages (ST1 . . . STn). One stage is a master stage. Each driver stage has a switching device (Q) and an inductor (L) connected in series between the switching device and the output of... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7288471 | Bumping electronic components using transfer substrates A method for forming solder bumps on an electronic component. Providing a transfer substrate having a plurality of solder balls, disposing the transfer substrate on the surface of the electronic component, heating to reflow the solder balls onto the electronic compo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7262584 | Efficient fast pulsed laser or light-emitting diode driver A capacitor is connected to the output of a multiphase power converter, and a current-driven device (e.g., LED or laser diode) is also connected to the power converter output. A solid state switch (FET or IGBT) is connected in series with the current-driven device. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7213766 | Multi-interface compact personal token apparatus and methods of use A compact personal token apparatus (100,120,140,200,220,300,320,500), resembling a conventional USB memory fob in size, shape, and form which can be plugged into a PC and interfaced with the virtual world of the Internet. The apparatus is capable of loading and stor... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7126290 | Light dimmer for LED and incandescent lamps The light output intensity of incandescent lamps and LEDs connected to a common lamp power bus are controlled using a composite waveform having two power components: a pulse-width modulated (PWM) component and a direct current DC component. The DC component is maint... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7007833 | Forming solder balls on substrates A mask (stencil) having cells (openings) is disposed on a surface of a heater stage, and is then filled (printed) with solder paste. Then a substrate is assembled to the opposite side of the mask. Then the solder paste is reflowed. This may be done partially inverte... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6856119 | Single-stage power factor corrected capacitor charger Current (ip) flowing in the primary of a transformer in a full wave bridge converter is monitored and compared against thresholds (+imax, +imin, −imax, −imin). When the input voltage is adequate, the full wave bridge converter is operated in a normal manner. Whe... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6810434 | Multimedia interface having a processor and reconfigurable logic An integrated circuit architecture for multimedia processing. A single integrated circuit (IC) operates as a system or subsystem, and is adaptable to processing a variety of multimedia algorithms, whether proprietary or open. Hard macros, either analog or digital, c... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6769848 | Load restraint method An improved load restraint system and method for protecting and supporting loads, such as cargo, especially during transit movement. The load restraint system and method compensates for various attitude, altitude and ambient pressure changes while maintaining suffic... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6697402 | High-power pulsed laser diode driver Fast rise time to high currents in a load such as a laser diode array is achieved by connecting an inductor between a power supply and an end of the diode array. A switching element, is connected between the other end of the diode array and ground. A shun... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6650404 | Laser rangefinder receiver In a laser rangefinder receiver, a return signal from a light-sensitive detector is passed through a high-pass filter, and is then processed in two separate circuit paths, a "signal" path and a "noise" path. The "signal" path employs a time-variable offse... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6646479 | Pulse discriminator A non-delayed input signal is provided to a first comparator input and, a delayed input signal is applied to a second comparator input. An offset voltage is applied between the delayed and non-delayed signals at the comparator inputs. When an input pulse ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6587490 | Low-noise current source driver for laser diodes A low-noise current source driver for a laser diode load is achieved by means of a current-regulated supply connected across the load, and a shunt regulator. The shunt regulator comprises a shunting element, a current sensing element for sensing current c... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6537003 | Load restraint system and method An improved load restraint system and method for protecting and supporting loads, such as cargo, especially during transit movement. The load restraint system and method compensates for various attitude, altitude and ambient pressure changes while maintai... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6484065 | DRAM enhanced processor An efficient DSP or MPU is combined with efficient DRAM on a single IC die. To optimize the embedded memory, the chip includes wide-band connections to DRAM. Row and column addresses of DRAM can be applied at the same time using wide address busses. Addit... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6373447 | On-chip antenna, and systems utilizing same One or more antennas are formed on an integrated circuit (IC) chip and connected to other circuitry on the IC chip. Antenna configurations include loop, multi-turn loop, square spiral, long wire, or dipole. The antenna may be formed to have two or more se... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6370603 | Configurable universal serial bus (USB) controller implemented on a single integrated circuit (IC) chip with media access control (MAC) An interface device is provided which enables communications between devices having disparate protocols (e.g., USB and Ethernet), and can be fabricated on a single integrated circuit (IC) chip. A system incorporating the interface device provides plug-and... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6287180 | Handheld apparatus for propelling particulate matter against a surface of a patient's tooth, and method A self-contained device is disclosed for directing a fluid stream containing particulate matter against a surface to abrade, etch, erase, cut, smooth, clean, polish and harden the surface. In tile preferred embodiments of the invention, the particulate ma... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6280322 | Single sheet of paper for duplicating information entered on both surfaces thereof Improvements to self-replicating duplex forms are disclosed. Generally, a single sheet of paper is divided into original and copy panels by fold line, and carbonless coatings are applied to the panels so that information entered on the two, front and back... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6279045 | Multimedia interface having a multimedia processor and a field programmable gate array An integrated circuit architecture for multimedia processing. A single integrated circuit (IC) operates as a system or subsystem, and is adaptable to processing a variety of multimedia algorithms, whether proprietary or open. Hard macros, either analog or... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6279133 | Method and apparatus for significantly improving the reliability of multilevel memory architecture Method and apparatus for significantly improving the reliability of multilevel (MLT) memory architecture. Before writing to MLT architecture, each MLT word is encoded into a coded bit stream in such a way that the resultant coded data contains the origina... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6229227 | Programmable-value on-chip passive components for integrated circuit (IC) chips, and systems utilizing same Programmability for on-chip passive components such as resistors, capacitors and inductors is achieved by forming a first passive component such as a resistor, capacitor or inductor, and at least one additional passive component (again, such as resistor, ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6181011 | Method of controlling critical dimension of features in integrated circuits (ICS), ICS formed by the method, and systems utilizing same An integrated circuit (IC chip) has features such as conductive lines. The features have a thickness "T", a width "W", and a distance (spacing) "S" between adjacent features, and one or more of the following aspect ratio relationships: a ratio of width:th... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6147890 | FPGA with embedded content-addressable memory Content Addressable Memory (CAM) core is integrated and interfaced with a configurable logic core (e.g., FPGA) on a single integrated circuit (IC) chip to permit a user to change algorithms for and to tailor word length to a particular application. Signif... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6120320 | GFI adapter GFI-protection for a wall outlet is provided by a GFI adapter which has a commercially-available type GFI wall outlet disposed within a housing. Blades extending from the screws on the GFI wall outlet plug into the slots (power, return) on the wall outlet... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6087811 | Pulsed-output power supply with high power factor A pulsed-output power supply having a high input power factor. The rate at which energy is transferred from a power supply unit (PSU) to an energy storage element such as a capacitor is monitored and adjusted such that the charging rate substantially matc... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6000417 | Bi-directional magnetically-operated check valve for high-purity applications A check valve is described which employs a magnetic biasing component, disposed external to the valve body, to exert force on a poppet, at least a portion of which is ferrous. In a "normal" mode of operation, the poppet is urged against the inlet end surf... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5896856 | Emergency air cooling device A lightweight, compact breathing device for firefighters includes a housing having a one end for receiving hot air, a coolant storage cylinder disposed within the housing, an expansion valve in fluid communication with the coolant storage cylinder, a heat... | 04/27/1999 |
| 5876525 | Bobbin body and process for producing the same In order to simplify the production of a nigh-resistance bobbin body made of an aluminum alloy, the following process steps are performed: (a) extruding or flow extruding an essentially cylindrical bobbin blank; (b) cutting the bobbin blank to a length in... | 03/02/1999 |
