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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8178784 | Small pins and microscopic applications thereof Pins comprising nanorods and attached members are provided. Two exemplary embodiments of pins are such that: the nanorod is partially embedded in the attached member; and one end of the nanorod is attached to the surface of the attached member. In some embodiments, ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8163997 | Electronic component, lead-wire and their production methods A lead-wire includes a led-out electrode made of metal and a cap. The cap is put over an end of the led-out electrodes, and is made of metal harder than the metal forming the led-out electrodes. An electronic component includes a functional element and the lead-wire... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7960653 | Conductive nanowires for electrical interconnect An electrical interconnect includes first and second electrical contacts to be electrically connected, each electrical contact having a plurality of electrically conductive nanowires extending outwardly from a respective electrical contact; and the nanowires of the ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956287 | Transparent conductive formed article for a touch panel and touch panel A touch panel-use transparent conductive molded product having a conductive layer excellent in wear resistance and flexing resistance, small in surface resistivity change when the touch panel is in use, and free from a change in transmitted light hue, and a touch pa... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956288 | Conductive contact and method of manufacturing conductive contact A shape of a cross-section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of a main body section of a conductive contact is anisotropic. ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952028 | Bonding wire for semiconductor device A high-performance bonding wire that is suitable for semiconductor mounting technology, such as stacked chip bonding, thinning, and fine pitch mounting, where wire lean (leaning) at an upright position of a ball and spring failure can be suppressed and loop linearit... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7939762 | Feedthru assembly A feedthru assembly configured to provide a conductive path extending between an interior of an enclosure and an exterior of the enclosure includes a flange, at least one conductive pin, and at least one insulative member. The flange is configured to couple to the e... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7893355 | Lead pin for package boards Provided is a lead pin for package boards including a disk-shaped head of which the diameter increases toward the middle portion thereof and that has a hexagonal vertical cross-sectional shape; and a connection pin that is formed so as to project from the center of ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7829791 | Solder wire construction A solder construction carrier device for connecting electrical components including a carrier with a plurality of compartments and a solder construction disposed in each of the plurality of compartments. Each solder construction includes a conductive wire and a sold... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7820913 | Bonding wire for semiconductor device The present invention provides a bonding wire improved in formability of a ball part, improved in bondability, good in loop controllability, improved in bonding strength of a wedge connection, securing industrial production ability as well, and mainly comprised of c... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7655864 | Photosensitive conductive paste for electrode formation and electrode A photosensitive conductive paste for electrode formation containing conductive metal particles, a glass binder, a monomer, a photoinitiator, an organic polymer binder, an organic medium and an ultraviolet absorber which does not substantially change reflectance of ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7629534 | Contact member, connecting method of the contact member, and socket A contact member inserted in a piercing hole of a socket provided between a first contacted member and a second contacted member facing each other, the contact member includes a first contact part configured to come in contact with a first pad formed in the first co... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7608784 | Photosensitive conductive paste for electrode formation and electrode A photosensitive conductive paste for electrode formation, containing conductive metal particles, a glass binder, a monomer, a photoinitiator, an organic polymer binder, an organic medium and carbon black. ... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7582832 | Bond and method for bonding two contact surfaces A bond between two contact surfaces using at least two bonding wires, as well as a method for producing such a bond. The bonding wires are positioned one above the other and are conductively interconnected. ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7550673 | Electrode pattern and wire bonding method An electrode pattern for wire-bonding includes: a wire-bonding reference pattern indicating a reference position for determination of a wire-bonding position; and a wire-bonding recognition pattern. The distance between the reference position and a wire-bonding meta... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7498516 | Feedthru assembly A feedthru assembly configured to provide a conductive path extending between an interior of an enclosure and an exterior of the enclosure includes a flange, at least one conductive pin, and at least one insulative member. The flange is configured to couple to the e... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7456362 | Electrical bushing for connecting a superconducting device to a device located at room temperature An electrical bushing (1) for connecting a superconducting device (2) to a device located at room temperature has an electrical conductor (9) and an insulating layer (10) surrounding the conductor (9). The conductor (9) has ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7435906 | Touch panel, transparent conductor and transparent conductive film using the same In a transparent conductor containing conductive particles and a binder, the conductive particles have an average particle size of 60 nm or smaller, and the number of conductive particles having an average particle size of 100 nm or greater is 10% or less of the tot... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7414199 | Joined cable assembly A joined cable assembly joins the interfacing ends of cables, one to another. The joint includes a pair of cables, each cable having an end and comprising a first plurality of conductor strands. A terminal enlarging member is provided longitudinally of each cable pr... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7367101 | Filler pipe A filler pipe for introducing a fuel from a fuel inlet to a fuel tank. Connected to the filler pipe 10 is a bracket 14, which has a cross-section of a “hat” shape and is constructed by bottom wall portions 14-1 located at its ends and... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7354645 | Engineered glasses for metallic glass-coated wire A metallic glass-coated wire is formed by drawing a hollow glass fiber from a container in which molten alloy is entrained and solidified. Interference stresses extant between the glass coating and the alloy core of the wire are produced by systematically controllin... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7326316 | Electrical interconnect using locally conductive adhesive An anisotropic electrically conducting interconnect is disclosed in which an adhesive comprising particles having a breakable coating of at feast one electrically nonconductive material is compressed between a first contact and a second contact. Compression to two c... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7318567 | Cable management device A cable management device includes a clamping mechanism (110) suitable for attachment to a surface. The clamping mechanism comprises an annular portion (111) having an outside surface (114), an inside surface (115) that forms a perimeter ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319196 | Bonding wire and bonded connection A bonding wire (1) includes a matrix material (2) and a filler (3) embedded in this matrix material (2), the coefficient of thermal expansion of the filler (3) being lower than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the matrix mat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7309263 | Combination wedge tap connector An electrical connector assembly for a utility power transmission system includes a first conductive member having a first hook portion and a first base wedge portion with the first hook portion extending from the first wedge portion and is adapted to engage a main ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304243 | Cable connector A cable clamp includes a housing having a cavity therein with two opposed walls and an open end in communication with the cavity. A pair of wedge shaped jaws are located within the housing and are slideably movable toward and away from the opening. Each of the jaws ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293995 | Electrical contact and connector system An electrical contact formed from a compliant folded sheet that includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a first contact edge and a second contact edge. A plurality of corrugations are formed in the top surface and the bottom surface that terminate at the first con... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291021 | IC socket and IC socket assembly An integrated circuit socket comprises an insulative housing having an integrated circuit package receiving recess provided with a plurality of contact receiving openings arranged in a matrix. Contacts are arranged in the contact receiving openings. Each of the cont... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7281931 | Electrical connector for connecting electrical units, electrical device, and production method for producing electrical device In a construction for electrically connecting electrical unit with joint surfaces thereof opposed to each other, wiring patterns electrically connected with distortion gauges are formed on function-element forming surfaces of each electrical three-dimensional unit a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7252563 | Electricity connector An electricity connector to connect two electronic devices abutted to each other includes an insulation body and multiple conductor terminals, and multiple channels disposed on the insulation body to accommodate the conductor terminals; each conductor terminal inclu... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251884 | Method to build robust mechanical structures on substrate surfaces A robust mechanical structure is provided to prevent small foundation structures formed on a substrate from detaching from the substrate surface. The strengthened structure is formed by plating a foundation metal layer on a seed layer and then embedding the plated f... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248142 | Thin deflectable resistor A system and method for a deflectable resistor. The deflectable resistor has a first layer of conductive material and a second layer of conductive material on a top surface of a substrate, said first layer of conductive material having a resistance that changes pred... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7235742 | Circuit board connector A circuit board connector includes a main body portion, a first connecting portion for connection to a first circuit board, and a second connecting portion for connection to a second circuit board. The circuit board connector is obtained by cutting a conductive plat... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7219425 | Arrangement in explosion joining of ends of wires and the like A method of joining the interfacing ends of cables, one to another, wherein each comprises a plurality of conductor strands, comprising (i) providing each of the ends with an enlarged terminal portion of greater diameter than the cable adjacent the end, (ii) inserti... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7214881 | High temperature electrical connection An electrical connection is made by connecting a metal element to a second element to which the electrical connection is desired to be made by means of a conductive material disposed onto one or both of the metal element and the second element so as to contact and d... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7196269 | Mounting structure for circuit board terminal A mounting structure for mounting a terminal at a circuit board, which allows the terminal to be easily mounted by using an automatic mounter is provided. This structure also assures a sufficient level of strength at the terminal mounting area, reduces the electrica... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7189083 | Method of retaining a solder mass on an article A method of retaining a solder mass to a solder-bearing article is provided and includes the steps of: (a) forming a plurality of openings in the solder-bearing article; (b) disposing a length of solder mass over at least some of the plurality of openings; and formi... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183489 | Multi-port compression connector The compression connector has a first body portion including a first hook and a first ramp extending therefrom to form a first main wire port. The first body portion also has a second hook and a second ramp extending therefrom to form a first tap wire port. The firs... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7179116 | Collapsing bridge crimp The collapsing bridge crimp comprises a central portion and two mutually-opposite side arms extending from the central portion. Each side arm comprises a first portion attached to the central portion, the first portion being inwardly curved, and a second portion ext... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173187 | Ground bus bar connector A ground connector for providing quick and secure connection between a plurality of electrical conductors and a ground bus bar. The connector has a generally U-Shaped body of deformable conductive material with a pair of outwardly directed shoulders and a pair of le... | 02/06/2007 |
