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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5962815 | Antifuse interconnect between two conducting layers of a printed circuit board A multilayered structure, such as a printed circuit board, includes a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that are separated from each other by a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is formed of a first material, such as a photoimagibl... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5813881 | Programmable cable and cable adapter using fuses and antifuses Two types of programmable elements, fuses and antifuses, are disclosed for forming an electrically programmable cable in one embodiment and a cable adapter in another embodiment. The cable and the cable adapter can be used for interconnecting a cable conn... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5733175 | Polishing a workpiece using equal velocity at all points overlapping a polisher A polishing machine for polishing a single side (e.g. a circuit side) of a workpiece (e.g. a semiconductor wafer) includes two platens. A first platen can be a workpiece-holding platen having slots or other structure for holding wafers or other workpieces... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5726482 | Device-under-test card for a burn-in board A device-under-test card includes a matrix of fuses and/or antifuses formed as part of a multi-layered structure. The matrix of fuses and/or antifuses can be electrically programmed to connect any one of first electrical contacts to any one of second elec... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5711672 | Method for automatically starting execution and ending execution of a process in a host device based on insertion and removal of a storage media into the host device One embodiment of an autostart driver in the host device detects insertion of a storage media into a peripheral, searches for a file of a predetermined name in the storage media and automatically starts an application listed in instructions in the file. A... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5701575 | Article made of a Ti-Al intermetallic compound, and method for fabrication of same An article essentially consisting of one or more of Ti--Al intermetallic compounds is fabricated so as to have a volume ratio of voids no more than 3.5%, by preparing a mixture of materials selected from a group consisting of Ti, Ti alloys, Al, Al alloys,... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5650608 | Method and apparatus for generating ratiometric control signals A ratiometric sensor is formed of a first photodiode connected in series with an electronic component, such as a second photodiode or a resistor, between a source of first voltage and a source of second voltage. The ratiometric sensor supplies a "ratiomet... | 07/22/1997 |
| 5645488 | Background screen for a stage A background screen in accordance with this invention creates an illusion of a predetermined background at the rear of an entertainment stage by using three-dimensional background elements and projected images. In one embodiment, a background element incl... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5624635 | Method and apparatus for ozone treatment of soil An ozone containing gas is injected into soil, preferably substantially uniform in consistency, to kill biological life forms. A soil injector is used to inject ozone containing gas from an ozone supplier. In one embodiment, the ozone supplier is moved ov... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5624265 | Printed publication remote contol for accessing interactive media In accordance with this invention, a remote control for an interactive media can include a printed publication and/or a storage media and/or a data button. One embodiment of a remote control includes a printed publication (such as a book, magazine or a ca... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5621515 | Identification system using regions of predetermined properties interspersed among regions of other properties In an article identification system comprising a plurality of identification regions affixed on an article, a light emitting device for impinging an illuminating light beam onto at least some of the identification regions, a light receiving device for det... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5617680 | Mounting structure for a satellite dish A satellite dish is mounted on a bracket which in turn is mounted over an uneven surface of a roof or a wall of a house. The bracket has an elevated bridge portion for supporting a mounting foot of the satellite dish. The bridge portion is integrally conn... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5607341 | Method and structure for polishing a wafer during manufacture of integrated circuits A number of blocks are reciprocably supported in a polishing apparatus in accordance with this invention, entirely independent of each other so that lifting motion of one block is not transferred to an adjacent block, thus providing flexibility to follow ... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5572409 | Apparatus including a programmable socket adapter for coupling an electronic component to a component socket on a printed circuit board Two types of programmable elements, fuses and antifuses, are disclosed for forming an electrically programmable socket adapter in one embodiment. The socket adapter can be used for interconnecting an electronic component having terminals in a first config... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5569549 | Method and structure for attaching a battery to an electrical device In accordance with this invention, a novel stick-on peel-off fastener, comprising one or more conductive sticky elements, sandwiched between one or more terminals of a first object such as an electrical device and one or more terminals of a second object ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5507647 | Simulation device and system A simulator device provides a full 360 degree axial roll to a passenger capsule. This device also provides 70 degrees of pitch to the capsule. The 70 degrees of total range of pitch motion provided by the simulator device creates additional desirable and ... | 04/16/1996 |
| 5497227 | System for determining the authenticity of an object Provided is an identification system which is highly effective in identifying the authenticity of an object and extremely difficult to analyze for the purpose of forgery. The object to be identified is affixed with an identification element comprising a r... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5495914 | Power lifting unit and method for connecting mobile patient transporter A lightweight, compact power lifting unit has one or more tension arms for applying the force required to adjust the height of a "gurney" or mobile patient transporter. In one embodiment, a ball screw and nut are used to drive the tension arms, reducing b... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5495357 | Apparatus and method for recording, transmitting, receiving and playing sounds A compact solid state representative communication device allows the user to record, transmit, receive, play and erase messages or sounds. The communication device includes a record switch for recording messages to be sent, a transmit switch for sending m... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5459489 | Hand held electronic remote control device A hand held electronic remote control device having orientation sensors, signal processing electronics, power supply and an infrared transmitter contained therein. The sensors include two angular position detectors. A first angular position detector is al... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5438429 | Digital filtering for lenticular printing A method is provided which sharpens three-dimensional images by using an unsharp masking technique subsequent to interleaving and before printing.... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5438403 | Article identification system Provided is a system for identifying the authenticity of an article which is reliable, and would not restrict the freedom of design. An identification region is defined on the article for identification purpose. The identification region comprises a light... | 08/01/1995 |
| 5425089 | Low cost telephone caller identification device and method The device and method of the present invention characterizes a telephone call by identifying a code, comparing the code to a predetermined access/ID code and generating a signal in response to the code. The device provides called party identification, cal... | 06/13/1995 |
