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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7973263 | Mirror glass component with integrated illuminating means The invention concerns a vehicle outside mirror module with a heatable mirror glass assembly group, whereby the mirror glass assembly group exhibits at least one mirror glass and an at least one layered, foil-like heating foil, flexibly configured on the back side o... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7947924 | Cooking device A heating cooking device includes a top plate, a heating unit, a touch key including a first electrode and a second electrode, an input unit for applying an alternating current (AC) voltage to the second electrode and for outputting a voltage changing according to a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7947925 | Heater unit and battery structure with heater There are provided a heater unit and a battery structure with heater, which are capable of heating the battery structure appropriately and preventing a heater (part or whole of the heater) itself from excessively increasing in temperature. A first heater unit is pro... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7872212 | Use of mesa structures for supporting heaters on an integrated circuit An integrated circuit is joined to a liquid container. The integrated circuit includes a passivation layer. A resistor is used as a heater to heat fluid in a liquid container. A mesa structure is formed over the passivation layer. The mesa structure is in contact wi... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7847216 | Panel heater and display device using the same A panel heater includes: a heater main part including a substrate and an electric heating layer; an intervening terminal part including a base layer and a patterned conductive layer; and an anisotropic conductive film for coupling the heater main part and the interv... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7816627 | Attachment system for attaching an electric cable to a glass pane to provide electricity thereto An attachment system for attaching an electric cable to a window pane. The system includes a generally elongated plate having a width approximately equal to a thickness of said pane, the plate being provided with a plurality of holes. A socket is fastened to the pla... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7675004 | Heating element and production method thereof A heating element includes a base substrate, a pair of electrodes, a resistor capable of generating heat, a conductive resin, a terminal member, a hot melt adhesion metal, a hot melt cohesion metal, and a lead wire. The pair of electrodes is provided on the base sub... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7645961 | Image acquisition unit with heating device for monitoring the exterior of a vehicle The unit comprises: a casing (1) with a protected interior, a window (2) closed by a transparent element (3) and support means (4) to carry an optical system (5) facing said window (2); image detection means (6) accom... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7465903 | Use of mesa structures for supporting heaters on an integrated circuit An integrated circuit is joined to a liquid container. The integrated circuit includes a passivation layer. A resistor is used as a heater to heat fluid in a liquid container. A mesa structure is formed over the passivation layer. The mesa structure is in contact wi... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7413827 | Car power source apparatus A car power source apparatus is provided with a driving battery which drives an electric motor, heaters which heat the driving battery, a control circuit which controls power to the heaters, a temperature sensor which detects battery temperature and issues a detecte... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7402776 | Device and system for heating a mobile electronic device Described is a device and system for heating an electronic mobile device. The system includes a mobile electronic device including a power supply arrangement and a removable heating arrangement detachably coupled to the mobile electronic device. When the heating arr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7394271 | Temperature sensing and prediction in IC sockets An apparatus and method are provided which preferably combines temperature sensing and prediction for more accurate temperature control of integrated circuits. An IC temperature sensing and prediction device includes a current sensing device that measures current pa... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7367216 | Phased micro analyzer V, VI A micro fluid analyzer having a concentrator and two or more separators. The analyzer may have one, two or more pumps. The analyzer may have a hyper pre-concentrator having a number of channels. There are numerous detectors positioned along the flow path of the anal... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362973 | Protecting secret data entry from infrared and audio eavesdropping A method for protecting a data entry device from eavesdropping includes masking a signature of entry resulting from entry of data by a user of the data entry device so as to reduce the detectability of the signature by eavesdropping. The signature may include a temp... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7351934 | Low voltage warming blanket A low voltage warming blanket adapted for use in vehicles powered by the vehicles DC power source is provided with a control selectively actuatable to activate the blanket for one of a plurality of preset time periods at at least one pre-set temperature, the control... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7348792 | Packaging reliability super chips A test chip module for testing the integrity of the flip chip solder ball interconnections between chip and substrate. The interconnections are thermally stressed through an array of individual heaters formed in a layer of chip metallurgy to provide a uniform and ub... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7327052 | Modular connecting system for protecting an electrical load in a bus system An electrical distribution system includes a plurality of separate consumer modules for supplying power to a plurality of consumer loads, respectively. Each of the consumer modules includes an overload fault detection device for automatically interrupting the supply... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327559 | Apparatus and method for heating the hands of keyboard users A computer keyboard has a chassis, internal components and keys, at least one heating element positioned in an opening into the chassis, and at least one fan positioned to urge air over the heating element and into the chassis. Air entering the chassis over the heat... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7302845 | Method for measurement of gas flow velocity, method for energy conversion using gas flow over solid material, and device therefor The present invention relates to a method for energy conversion by gas flow over solid materials and also to a method for measurement of velocity of a gas flow over solid material such as doped semiconductors, graphite, and the like as a function of the 5 electricit... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290323 | Method for manufacturing sensing devices to image textured surfaces A fingerprint-sensing device with a sensor array that does not use active switching elements is fabricated on a base. Sensor support integrated circuits, which contain processing and addressing circuitry, are separately fabricated and subsequently mounted on the bas... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292437 | Heat dissipation assembly for computing devices Computing devices, including laptop computers, desk top computers, servers and video game terminals employ microprocessors which generate considerable heat. In fact, the heat generated from microprocessors is generally considered the limiting factor in computing spe... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7290324 | Method for fabricating a magnetic head including a media heating element A magnetic head including a media heating device. Following the fabrication of the heating device, a sacrificial layer of material is deposited to protect the heating device during subsequent process steps. Thereafter, write head components, such as write head induc... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291816 | Transparent electrothermal body and the method of making it A method for making a transparent electrothermal body includes: a) plating ITO (indium tin oxide) onto a surface of a transparent substrate to form an ITO film, and b) printing a conducting material onto a surface of the ITO film to form two connecting portions each... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288472 | Method and system for performing die attach using a flame Embodiments of a method for attaching a die to a substrate using a flame or other heat source are disclosed. The flame may be produced by combustible gas. Also disclosed are embodiments of a system for performing die attach using a flame. Other embodiments are descr... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284786 | Panels having active material based fold lines A panel having active material based segments, wherein the segments define a hinge location that can be selectively stiffened or folded on demand. The active material based segments include an active material such that activation of the active material by an activat... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284600 | Process of making a lightweight thermal heat transfer apparatus A lightweight thermal heat transfer apparatus, including a core section and a laminate composite section. The core section is substantially similar to a diamond shape. The laminate composite section has a plurality of thermally conductive fibers, which are disposed ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282938 | Testing apparatus and method for providing temperature stress to electronic component An improved apparatus and method for testing experiment is disclosed. The apparatus includes a motherboard and a stress module. The motherboard includes a component under test. A stress module connects the component and contacts the component directly. The stress mo... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282393 | Microelectromechanical device packages with integral heaters A microelectromechanical device package with integral a heater and a method for packaging the microelectromechanical device are disclosed in this invention. The microelectromechanical device package comprises a first package substrate and second substrate, between w... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275612 | Fix structure of battery for vehicles A sealing member is composed of upper and lower holders which are molded members formed of rubber or resin. The upper holder has a stopper having a tubular shape with a flange inserted on its inner periphery. The lower holder has an inserted nut and outer threaded m... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276789 | Microelectromechanical systems using thermocompression bonding Improved microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), processes and apparatus using thermocompression bonding are disclosed. For example, process embodiments are disclosed in which wafer-scale as well as die-scale thermocompression bonding is utilized to encapsulate MEMS ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276922 | Closed-grid bus architecture for wafer interconnect structure An interconnect structure employs a closed-grid bus to link an integrated circuit tester channel to an array of input/output (I/O) pads on a semiconductor wafer so that the tester channel can concurrently communicate with all of the I/O pads. The interconnect struct... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7276924 | Electrical connecting method An electrical connecting method has the step of bringing a contact member connected to an electric circuit into contact with a terminal of an electronic part. A desired processing is performed by feeding current to the terminal via the contact member. The contact me... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7274002 | Heating element induction of time-varying thermal gradient in elongated beam to cause one or more elongated beam oscillations One or more heating elements comprise a heating element. One or more elongated beams comprise an elongated beam. The heating element is coupled with the elongated beam and induces a time-varying thermal gradient in the elongated beam to cause one or more oscillation... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7273517 | Non-planar microfabricated gas chromatography column A non-planar microfabricated gas chromatography column comprises a planar substrate having a plurality of through holes, a top lid and a bottom lid bonded to opposite surfaces of the planar substrate, and inlet and outlet ports for injection of a sample gas and elut... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269979 | Set of washing machine and dryer and rear cover assembly thereof A washing system may include a washing machine and dryer set that, for example, include top covers provided at upper sides of the washing machine and dryer; rear covers interchangeably provided at rear sides of the top covers, wherein the rear covers can maintain a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267430 | Heater chip for inkjet printhead with electrostatic discharge protection An inkjet printhead heater chip includes a resistor layer, a dielectric layer on the resistor layer and a cavitation layer on the dielectric layer. A grounded-gate MOSFET electrically attaches to the cavitation layer to protect the dielectric layer from breakdown du... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268067 | Semiconductor integrated circuit package having electrically disconnected solder balls for mounting Integrated circuit packages that connect solder balls between solder ball pads of a die and substrate pads of a printed circuit board (PCB). The solder balls are electrically disconnected from any circuit of the die, i.e., “dummy” solder balls, and are used to t... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7260624 | Systems and methods for establishing interaction between a local computer and a remote computer Methods and devices provide for remote management of a local computer by transferring screen frames produced by the local computer for viewing at a remote computer. The screen frame data may be obtained by digitizing an analog video output of the local computer and ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257511 | Methods and circuits for measuring the thermal resistance of a packaged IC Disclosed is a DC thermal energy generator for heating localized regions of an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a pair of static circuits whose outputs are shorted, and are in contention. Contention causes current to flow through the circuits, gen... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247959 | Dynamoelectric machine with arcuate heat exchanger and related methods A dynamoelectric machine 30 includes a rotor 32 and a stator 34 surrounding the rotor. The dynamoelectric machine 30 further includes a generator housing 36 surrounding both the rotor 32 and the stator 34. Additionall... | 07/24/2007 |
