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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7965534 | Memory device, data recording method and IC tag A memory device of the present invention is characterized by a memory device for storing information by making use of molecular alignment of a liquid crystal compound in a liquid crystalline state formed by spot irradiation with a laser beam to carry out a selective... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7551471 | Memory element and semiconductor device The memory element includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a layer containing a compound which can exhibit liquid crystallinity which is interposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and a layer containing an or... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7359010 | Method for producing display device In a liquid crystal display device, a first substrate includes electrical wirings and a semiconductor integrated circuit which has TFTs and is connected electrically to the electrical wirings, and a second substrate includes a transparent conductive film on a surfac... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7335395 | Methods of using pre-formed nanotubes to make carbon nanotube films, layers, fabrics, ribbons, elements and articles Methods of Using Preformed Nanotubes to Make Carbon Nanotube Films, Layers, Fabrics, Ribbons, Elements and Articles are disclosed. To make various articles, certain embodiments provide a substrate. Preformed nanotubes are applied to a surface of the substrate to cre... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7286387 | Reducing the effect of write disturbs in polymer memories The write disturb that occurs in polymer memories may be reduced by writing back data after a read in a fashion which offsets any effect on the polarity of bits in bit lines associated with the addressed bit. For example, each time the data is written back, its pola... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283372 | Circuit element having a first layer of an electrically insulating substrate material and method for manufacturing a circuit element Circuit element having a first layer composed of an electrically insulating substrate material, a first electrically conductive material which is in the form of at least one discrete area, such that it is embedded in or applied to the substrate material, a second la... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275135 | Hardware updated metadata for non-volatile mass storage cache An apparatus and method to de-allocate data in a cache memory is disclosed. Using a clock that has a predetermined number of periods, the invention provides a usage timeframe information to approximate the usage information. The de-allocation decisions can then be m... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7239309 | Display drivers Display driver circuitry for electro-optic displays, in particular active matrix displays using organic light emitting diodes. The circuitry includes a driver to drive an electro-optic display element in accordance with a drive voltage, a photosensitive device optic... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7196968 | Method of driving data lines, and display device and liquid crystal display device using method A method of driving source lines is arranged as follows: One output signal line S61 of a source driver is connected to a plurality of lines corresponding to respective source lines SR7 through SB12, and these source lines from SR7 (starti... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193963 | Method for inputting information into a data storage medium that is optically recordable and readable In a method of entering information into an optically writable and readable data storage medium having a polymer film which can be changed locally by heating in order to store information and to which there is assigned an absorber dye (34) which is set up to ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7176505 | Electromechanical three-trace junction devices Three trace electromechanical circuits and methods of using same. A circuit includes first and second electrically conductive elements with a nanotube ribbon (or other electromechanical elements) disposed therebetween. An insulative layer is disposed on one of the f... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7158273 | Holographic data memory A holographic data storage medium has a polymer film which is set up as a storage layer whose refractive index can be changed locally by heating. The polymer film is set up for the storage of optical phase information via the local optical path length of the polymer... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7157210 | Plate-making method, plate-making apparatus used in such plate-making method, and image recording material A plate-making method is capable of recording a sharp image on a photosensitive plate, and is applicable to a process operation executed in a light room, while adverse influences caused by laser flares can be hardly received. Ultra-short pulse laser light emitted fr... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7131584 | Apparatus and means for updating a memory display A display system includes a light writable display associated with an identification code and arranged to receive an image wise pattern of light to form an image on the display; a display writer for producing the image wise pattern of light for writing the image on ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7120047 | Device selection circuitry constructed with nanotube technology A memory system having electromechanical memory cells and decoders is disclosed. A decoder circuit selects at least one of the memory cells of an array of such cells. Each cell in the array is a crossbar junction at least one element of which is a nanotube or a nano... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7087351 | Antistatic layer for electrically modulated display The present invention relates to a display comprising at least one substrate having at least one electrically modulated imaging layer thereon, at least one patterned electrically conductive layer, and at least one antistatic layer. ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7057393 | System and method for measuring the dielectric strength of a fluid A system is disclosed for monitoring the quality of an internal fluid contained in an apparatus. The system includes a pulse input port, a test gap unit, and a reactive impedance unit. The pulse input port receives a test pulse input signal from a pulse source. The ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7009590 | Display apparatus and display method A display apparatus conducting time-division gradation display is provided with: a capacitor for keeping a signal level captured by a first TFT; at least one pixel memory, for keeping the signal level captured by the first TFT; a second TFT matched with the correspo... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6979590 | Methods of making electromechanical three-trace junction devices Methods of producing an electromechanical circuit element are described. A lower structure having lower support structures and a lower electrically conductive element is provided. A nanotube ribbon (or other electromechanically responsive element) is formed on an up... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975536 | Mass storage array and methods for operation thereof Apparatus including a virtual ground array, which includes memory cells connected in rows and columns to word lines and bit lines, respectively. The virtual ground array includes at least one block of data, and peripheral circuitry adapted to simultaneously access a... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6971577 | Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object A method of and apparatus for automatically producing digital images of an object having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of the object. The method comprising determining the velocity of an object moving relative to a planar light illu... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6960812 | Method of forming an oxide film A method of forming an oxide film and a method of manufacturing an electronic device utilizing the oxide film is disclosed. A silicon oxide film is formed on a substrate by sputtering. Therefore, the film formation is carried out at a low temperature. The sputtering... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6959358 | Distributed content addressable memory The present invention provides a large capacity distributed content addressable memory (CAM) made up of a plurality of smaller CAMs interconnected on a high speed data bus. Each of the smaller CAMs is located at a local node on the data bus and configured to receive... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6953152 | HAND-SUPPORTABLE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION AND IMAGING (PLIIM) BASED CAMERA SYSTEM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIGITAL LINEAR IMAGES OF A OBJECT, CONTAINING PIXELS HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM WHITE LEVEL INDEPENDENT OF THE VELOCITY OF THE OBJECT WHILE MANUALLY MOVING SAID FILM BASED CAMERA SYSTEM PAST SAID OBJECT DURING ILLUMINATION IMAGING OPERATIONS A hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based camera system for producing digital linear images of a object within a working range, having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of the object. The hand-supportable PL... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947311 | Two-dimensional structural transition controlled by an electric field, memory storage device thereof, and method of making a memory storage device This invention relates to the controlled two-dimensional structural transition of a dipole monolayer at a metal, semi-conducting or insulating interface. The dipole monolayer consists of objects/molecules with a permanent electric dipole moment. A transition between... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6936195 | Method and apparatus for storing and retrieving information using optical data storage media Disclosed is a method of manufacturing optical information storage media and multi-layered optical information storage media. Paired information storage structures have characteristic wavelength and polarization states, and from which recorded information can be rea... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6919592 | Electromechanical memory array using nanotube ribbons and method for making same Electromechanical circuits, such as memory cells, and methods for making same are disclosed. The circuits include a structure having electrically conductive traces and supports extending from a surface of the substrate, and nanotube ribbons suspended by the supports... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6911682 | Electromechanical three-trace junction devices Three trace electromechanical circuits and methods of using same are described. A circuit includes first and second electrically conductive elements with a nanotube ribbon (or other electromechanical elements) disposed therebetween. The nanotube ribbon is movable to... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6908036 | Display and record medium and information writer A display and record medium includes a digital information record section, which is implemented as an IC memory and can record record information in noncontact, and an information display section implemented as a liquid crystal display medium of light write type int... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6770524 | Method to enhance performance of thermal resistor device An apparatus including a contact on a substrate, a dielectric material overlying the contact, a phase change element overlying the dielectric material on a substrate, and a heater element disposed in the dielectric material and coupled to the contact and the phase c... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6735009 | Electroptic device Electrooptic devices (100, 600, 700) include a left handed (102, 708) and right handed (104, 710) cholesteric phase liquid crystal layers. Electrodes (120, 122, 124, 126, 602, 604) or magnetic coils (704, 706) are used to apply ele... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6433310 | Assembly suitable for reading/writing/erasing information on a media based on thermal coupling A thermal assembly comprising at once a reading-writing-erasing capability. The present invention, accordingly, can realize important advantages of providing dual yet independent capabilities or functionalities for manifesting reading-writing-erasing on t... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6205106 | Memory card recording/reproducing with two light sources and a light value matrix Method of storing and retrieving information by exposing cells of a storage medium to a first beam of light having a first set of properties affecting the optical properties of said storage medium, and by exposing a plurality of individual cells, forming ... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6005838 | Multi-layers optical recording media and system for recording and reproducing information data An novel optical information storage media having M information storage decks. Each information storage deck has N information storage layers, and each information storage layer has a pair of information storage structures. Each paired information storage... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5838653 | Multiple layer optical recording media and method and system for recording and reproducing information using the same Disclosed is a novel optical information storage media having M information storage decks. Each information storage deck has N information storage layers, and each information storage layer has a pair of information storage structures. Each paired informa... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5712066 | Image forming method, recording medium, and visible image reproducing method Provided an image forming method comprising the steps of; forming electric charges on a recording layer by charging the recording medium comprising a conductive substrate and, provided thereon a photoconductive layer and a recording layer containing a polymeri... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5646927 | Packaged photographic film with a plurality of liquid crystal recording regions A packaged integrated information recording system has a plurality of information recording media radially arranged on a disk substrate. Each of the recording media comprises a liquid crystal recording medium including a liquid crystal-polymer composite l... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5579199 | Non-volatile memory device and a method for producing the same A non-volatile memory device according to the present invention includes: a substrate; a storage medium provided above the substrate; a writing unit having a heating unit provided above the substrate, for heating the storage medium by the heating unit to ... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5568061 | Redundant line decoder master enable A master enable circuit is provided which receives multiple enable signal inputs while matching the redundant decoder enable delay with decoder enable delay. A master enable circuit contains a hard coded master fuse, driver transistor, and a multiple inpu... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5555205 | Method device for recording information, and method for measuring the transmittance of liquid crystals, which is applied to recording information The invention provides a system in which a photoelectric sensor having a transparent electrode and a photoconductive layer formed on a transparent substrate in this order is opposed to a liquid crystal recording medium having a transparent electrode and a... | 09/10/1996 |
