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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8183981 | Passive tag with oscillator circuit and frequency identification system utilizing the same A passive tag receiving a reader signal provided by a reader is disclosed. The passive tag includes an antenna, an oscillator circuit, and an internal chip. The antenna receives the reader signal. The reader signal is within an operation frequency band. The oscillat... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179616 | Optical lens assembly for image taking An optical lens assembly for image taking, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprises: the first lens element with refractive power, the second lens element with positive refractive power, the third lens element with negative refractive po... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179615 | Image pickup optical lens assembly An image pickup optical lens assembly, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprising: the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with negative refr... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179614 | Image pickup optical lens assembly An image pickup optical lens assembly, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, comprises the first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, the second lens element with negative refrac... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179076 | Chip structure capable of smoothing slope of signal during conversion The present invention discloses a chip structure capable of smoothing slope of signal during conversion. And the chip structure is suitable for a DC motor which is embedded in a portable electronic device. The DC motor is for adjusting the focal distance of a digita... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176231 | Methods for handling data updating of flash memory and related memory cards A method for handling data updating of a flash memory is disclosed, in which the flash memory comprises a mother block with a plurality of pages to be updated, and each page comprises a plurality of sectors. In such method, a first data for updating a target page in... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169513 | Cameras and defective pixel compensation methods for image sensors thereof A camera with defective pixel compensation is provided. The camera comprises a register and a compensating unit. The compensating unit receives an image datum and a plurality of adjacent image data relating to the image datum and, according to the value installed in... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166718 | Horizontally engineered hardwood floor and method of installation Horizontally engineered floor boards are provided by this invention. The floor board includes a top decorative layer placed on a plurality of strips. The plurality of strips are arranged to have some in X-axis orientation and some in Y-axis orientation. The pluralit... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164305 | Battery management system with energy balance among multiple battery cells The present invention provides a battery circuit including a first battery cell with a first parameter having a first value and a second battery cell with a second parameter having a second value. The second battery cell is coupled to the first battery cell in serie... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156845 | Wrench A wrench includes a driving head, an axle hole formed at an end of the driving head, an accommodating portion disposed in the axle hole for accommodating pawls, a control ring contained in the axle hole and having an end extended out of the axle hole and coupled to ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154449 | Signal acquisition systems with applications of general clocks A global positioning system (GPS) system includes a clock module for providing multiple counter values at multiple time points. The GPS system also includes a system module coupled to the clock module. The system module is capable of obtaining a time value for each ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8151144 | Memory card, nonvolatile memory, controller, and method for managing writing errors for nonvolatile memories The invention provides a method for managing writing errors for a nonvolatile memory. In one embodiment, the nonvolatile memory is coupled to a controller. First, data received from the controller is stored in a data register of the nonvolatile memory. The data stor... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149164 | System for demodulating navigation bits from satellite signals A signal processing system for demodulating navigation bits from a satellite signal is disclosed herein. The signal processing system includes a digital baseband processor for determining a boundary between two navigation bits in the navigation bits according to a f... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147219 | Motor direct driven compressor system A motor direct driven compressor system includes a motor, a coupling and a compressor, and the coupling is coupled between the motor and the compressor, and a second assembling portion, a coupling portion and a metal plate of the coupling are used for connecting a d... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147126 | Covering structure of a mixer A covering structure of a mixer includes: a fixed ring connected to the head of a mixer; an upper ring; and a lower ring. The fixed ring is further surrounded by a protruding ring. The upper ring has a striding part on its inner wall to stride on the protruding ring... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8146213 | Hand puller with detachable handle A hand puller with a detachable handle includes a body, an axle, and a handle. The axle is passed and mounted onto the body, and a sheath opening is formed at an end of the handle for sheathing an edge of the axle, such that the handle can be turned by using the axl... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8132836 | Ball collecting device A ball collecting device comprising a drum and a control element. A first cover and a second cover are installed at both ends of the drum respectively to form a containing space in the drum. The first cover and the second cover are hollow and connected to at least o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127413 | System and method for preventing race condition vulnerability A method for identifying vulnerable system call pairs is disclosed. The method is based on a model for identifying Time-Of-Check-To-Time-Of-Use (TOCTTOU) problem (called STEM), which enumerates the potential file system call pairs (called exploitable TOCTTOU pairs) ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8124591 | DNA vaccine comprising IL-6-encoding DNA construct and applications thereof The present invention provides a DNA vaccine, which comprises a DNA construct comprising an expression vector which is expressible in a eukaryotic cell, and a nucleotide fragment which comprises an IL-6-encoding sequence and an HPV E7-encoding sequence. In addition,... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8122183 | Data managing method for flash memory and flash memory device using the same A data management method for a flash memory apparatus, entailing a step for handling a plurality of flash chips, a step for enabling the flash chips in sequence, and a step for updating the first data in the first block on the first flash chip among the flash chips.... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120965 | Data storage device and data read method The invention provides a data read method. First, a training sequence stored in a storage unit of a memory is read according to at least one sense voltage to obtain a read-out training sequence. Whether the read-out training sequence is correct is then determined. W... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117949 | Movable wrench A movable wrench including a screw bar, and an operating element. The bottom surface of the screw bar is urged by a first compressible spring. The hook part of the operating element urges against the bottom surface of the screw bar. As the user depresses the operati... | 02/21/2012 |
| D654337 | Ratchet wrench | 02/21/2012 |
| 8113521 | Intelligent electronic air suspension system that automatically adjusts its air pressure An intelligent electronic air suspension system that automatically adjusts its air pressure includes a vehicle speed detector, a vehicle height detector, a level detector, a first pressure sensor, a control end, and four air struts on the vehicle suspension system. ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113490 | Wind-water ultrasonic humidifier A wind-water ultrasonic humidifier includes a housing, a hollow connecting portion, a water circulation system, and a power control box. The water circulation system includes an electric base, a rubber cork plugged into the top of the water circulation system and ha... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8113021 | Door lock with an improved structure A door lock with an improved structure is disclosed. It has a turning device that includes a positioning base. The positioning base is mounted with a circular spacer with a lock control device therein. A connecting shaft for driving the lock control device is provid... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112856 | Clamp of anti-vibration spring A clamp of an anti-vibration spring includes a pipe body and a sheathing element fixed to an end the pipe body. Another end of the pipe body is fixed to a covering element. The sheathing element is passed through the external periphery of the pipe body. The pipe bod... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8101962 | Carrying structure of semiconductor A carrying structure of semiconductor includes a carrier made of a plastic material with a heat conduction region, each surface of the carrier has an interface layer formed on, and an electrically insulation circuit and a metal layer are defined on the interface lay... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8097215 | Wall-mounted aromatic air freshener device A wall-mounted aromatic air freshener device includes a board, and a housing and a frame, both disposed at a backside of the board, a container disposed in the housing for containing an essential oil, a light emitting element and a light emitting control element, bo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8093860 | Ceiling fan motor with generator winding A ceiling fan motor with a generator winding is disclosed. A stator is fixed on a motor axle. It is surrounded with several first magnetizing coils, each of which is winded with a second magnetizing coil with a generator winding. A rotor is mounted on the motor axle... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8074540 | Adjustable wrench with ratchet function An adjustable wrench with a ratchet function comprises a fixed jaw 1 and a movable jaw, wherein the fixed jaw has a receiving recess for receiving a screw, a first spring is disposed between the screw and the inner wall of the receiving recess, a shaft is pas... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072378 | Navigation system with error-detection on doppler frequencies of satellite signals A navigation system for detecting error on Doppler frequencies of a plurality of satellite signals measured by the navigation system is disclosed herein. The navigation system includes an offset calculator for calculating offsets of the Doppler frequencies of the sa... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8061166 | Door lock with transmission mechanism A door lock with transmission mechanism, in which a main lock is installed at the side of the door, and an auxiliary lock is installed at each side of the main lock respectively, whereof the main lock has a main lock-tongue, and each of the two auxiliary lock has an... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8045367 | Phase change memory A phase change memory with a primary memory array, a reference memory array, and a comparison circuit is provided. The electrical characteristic curve of the recording layers of the primary memory units is different from the electrical characteristic curve of the re... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8037656 | Flooring boards with press down locking mechanism A hardwood floor system with press down locking mechanism. Each floor board is equipped with both male and female locking mechanisms. The male locking mechanism of a floor board can be locked into the female locking mechanism of an adjacent floor board by simply exe... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031515 | Data programming circuits and memory programming methods A data programming circuit for storing a writing data into a memory cell is provided. The data programming circuit includes a control circuit and a current generating circuit. The control circuit generates a control signal according to the writing data. The current ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8029880 | Water resistant wide flooring boards A water resistant floor board comprises a top layer, a tongue connector, a groove connector, a body, and a bottom layer. The body is made from a man-made material and placed between the tongue connector and the groove connector, and the top layer is placed above the... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026952 | Image capturing device with reduced-sized sub-image collection and an image processing method thereof An image capturing device and the image preprocessing method thereof. The image preprocessing technique receives digital image consisting of luma data and chrominance data, integrates the chrominance data of adjacent rows to generate integrated chrominance data, buf... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8021213 | Acrylic polisher An acrylic polisher includes: a base with two oppositely disposed sideboards with a notch on each of them and a disposition surface in between, a cutting blade set performing a cutting process along the edge of the disposition surface, a stopping board driven by a d... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8020832 | Anti-skid sleeve for musical instrument stand An anti-skid sleeve for a musical instrument stand comprises a body, having a containing portion formed on the top end of the body for insertion of the musical instrument stand and concavely provided on one side face of the body with a receiving portion extending to... | 09/20/2011 |
