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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154301 | Method of testing substrate Disclosed herein is a method of testing a substrate. In the method, a first test terminal is connected to a first external circuit layer coupled to a first connection pad of a first active element included in a substrate, and a second test terminal is connected to a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8085052 | Charge eliminating apparatus and method, and program storage medium for removing static electricity from a target object such as a wafer A charge eliminating apparatus eliminates, when an electrical characteristics test of a target object is performed by moving a mounting table mounting the target object thereon and a probe card relative to each other to bring the target object into electrical contac... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7868620 | Data integrity management responsive to an electrostatic event The disclosure is related to detecting an electrostatic charge at a data storage device. The electrostatic charge can be detected and a data integrity management process can be implemented. In a particular embodiment, a method includes monitoring an electronic devic... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7671599 | Static electricity monitor comprising a walking footpad electrode and handrail electrode A static electricity monitor is disclosed operable to test a garment worn by a person, the garment comprising a first piece of footwear worn on a first foot of the person. The static electricity monitor comprises a first footpad electrode having a length of at least... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7649359 | Electrostatic thin film chemical and biological sensor A chemical and biological agent sensor includes an electrostatic thin film supported by a substrate. The film includes an electrostatic charged surface to attract predetermined biological and chemical agents of interest. A charge collector associated with said elect... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7361212 | Electrostatic precipitator An electrostatic precipitator is detailed. The precipitator includes a conduit for the passage of particles in an air flow and a generator of an electrostatic field substantially orthogonal to the air flow, and an ion supply, capable of charging the particles, in wh... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358748 | Methods and systems for determining a property of an insulating film A method for determining a property of an insulating film is provided. The method may include obtaining a charge density measurement of the film, a surface voltage potential of the film relative to a bulk voltage potential of the substrate, and a rate of voltage dec... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7346998 | Foot measuring method There is provided a foot measuring system that includes a support surface for a foot, a plurality of movable measurement structures, an inflatable diaphragm for contacting the first end of each structure and forcing a movement of each structure from an initial posit... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343262 | Self-propelled harvesting machine and operating method therefor A method of operating a self-propelled harvesting machine includes continuously separating a crop-material flow into a useful-material flow and a remaining-material flow, in a separating step of the machine, capturing at least a portion of the useful-material flow f... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339381 | Object sensing An object sensing system (50), and method, employing electric field sensing, also known as quasi-electrostatic sensing and which may be termed cross capacitive sensing, is described. The system (50) includes at least one electrode arrangement (30 | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330032 | Techniques for building-scale electrostatic tomography Techniques for imaging a search region to detect a dielectric target include placing multiple electrodes outside the search region. At least two electrodes are activated independently of each other. Emitter circuits are connected to corresponding emitter electrodes.... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7315173 | Method of measuring electric field distribution and electric field distribution measuring instrument A method and apparatus for measuring an electric field distribution according to the present invention calculates a distribution of electric field intensity and its direction at arbitrary positions on the surface of the electronic apparatus or its circumference with... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7302378 | Electrostatic discharge protection device modeling method and electrostatic discharge simulation method An ESD protection device modeling method of modeling an electrical characteristic of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device for simulating a circuit that include the ESD protection device, comprising the steps of (114) setting a parameter of at le... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298127 | Particle detection Particle detection and characterizing apparatus has an insulating tube along which the particles flow. Five electrodes spaced along the outside of the tube are connected via amplifiers to a processor arranged to measure the charge on the particles. The apparatus als... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295022 | Method and system for automatically determining electrical properties of a semiconductor wafer or sample In a method and apparatus for determining one or more electrical properties of a semiconductor wafer or sample, the response of a semiconductor wafer or sample to an applied CV-type electrical stimulus is measured. Utilizing a recursive technique, progressively more... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7256572 | Electric-field meter having current compensation An electric-field meter provided with a housing, an electrode assembly, a shield assembly, a movement assembly, a position detection assembly, a charge measurement circuit, and a leakage current compensation circuit. The electric-field meter can be characterized as ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239227 | Command interface using fingerprint sensor input system A substrate having a fingerprint sensing system usable as a command interface using finger movements. A user's fingerprint pattern is recognized and compared to previously stored reference patterns. If the fingerprint pattern matches a previously stored pattern, the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239148 | Method and device for measuring surface potential distribution In a surface potential distribution measurement method and device, a sample having a surface with a surface potential distribution is scanned using a charged particle beam in a two-dimensional manner. A detection signal caused by the two-dimensional scanning is obta... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7212007 | Electric potential sensor, and image forming apparatus Disclosed in a non-contacting electric potential sensor capable of being readily reduced in its size, which includes a detecting electrode, an electrically-conductive movable shutter, and a driving unit for driving the electrically-conductive movable shutter. The de... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7196528 | Electrostatic capacitance detection device An electrostatic capacitance detection device including an electrostatic capacitance detection element arranged in a matrix form; a row line arranged in each row for selecting a relevant electrostatic capacitance detection element arranged in a relevant row; an outp... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7183772 | Ion detector A charge detector includes an outer housing having an entrance aperture. Within the housing is disposed a charge capture element that is electrically isolated from the outer housing. The charge capture element includes a plurality of apertures, such as provided by a... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177133 | Method and apparatus for bipolar ion generation A method and apparatus for generating positive and negative ions, the method comprising: generating ac high voltage; providing different polarity of the high-voltage to at least one pair of ionizing electrodes mounted in separate conducting cages located adjacent to... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161143 | Method and apparatus to increase the resolution and widen the range of differential mobility analyzers (DMAs) A differential mobility analyzer (DMA) for separating charged particles or ions suspended in a gas and a method of using the DMA for separating such particles. The invention includes various means for increasing the resolution of the DMA by stabilizing the laminar f... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154275 | Method and apparatus for detecting individuals using electrical field sensors A robust, easily deployable, covert, passive intrusion detection system uses one or more E-field sensors to detect the presence of a moving individual and to provide an indication of the presence of the individual adjacent the sensor based on E-field distortion prod... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151603 | Overhead transparency clarity simulator A method and apparatus for evaluating the scattering properties of a transparency image comprises projecting radiation through the transparency image to form a transmitted beam of radiation; splitting the transmitted beam of radiation into at least two distinct beam... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151655 | Electrostatic discharge (ESD) detector An electrostatic discharge (ESD) detector and a system having an ESD detector have been described herein. ... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149442 | Electric potential sensor An electric potential sensor includes a detecting electrode, a capacitor modulating unit for modulating a coupling capacitance between the detecting electrode and a measurement object by using an electrostatic force, and a shielding unit for electrically shielding t... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7138804 | Automatic transmission line pulse system A system for measuring electrostatic discharge (ESD) characteristics of a semiconductor device that comprises at least one pulse generator generating ESD-scale pulses, a first point of the semiconductor device receiving a first ESD-scale pulse from the at least one ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7126356 | Radiation detector for electrostatic discharge In some embodiments, an apparatus includes an electronic device that has a ground to receive an electrostatic discharge. A radiation detector, mounted on the electronic device, generates a differential signal in response to the electrostatic discharge. ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119553 | Security scanners with capacitance and magnetic sensor arrays Security scanning devices based on electrical tomography, including tomography systems based on the measurement of capacitance (ECT) and electromagnetic tomography (EMT), in combination with knowledge-based image analysis and understanding. Each device includes a se... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7109698 | Electric-field meter having current compensation An electric-field meter provided with a housing, an electrode assembly, a shield assembly, a movement assembly, a position detection assembly, a charge measurement circuit, and a leakage current compensation circuit. The electric-field meter can be characterized as ... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7077743 | Method of and device for determining crop parameters A method of determining crop parameters in an agricultural harvester has the steps of determining at least one crop parameter during a working process with a compacting device which is fillable with a crop probe, and using for determining the at least one crop param... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7031133 | Aerosol charge altering device The invention relates to a device for charging or adjusting the charge of gas-borne particles into a defined charge distribution under utilization of corona discharge in the aerosol space. In addition to an appropriate geometry of the charger and the electrodes, the... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7019529 | Electrostatic sensor device and matrix A system for electrostatically measuring the shape or pattern of objects including an array of sensor devices having the capability of responding, due to variable electrostatic coupling, to produce differentiated output signals when a sensor element forming part of ... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7012438 | Methods and systems for determining a property of an insulating film A method for determining a property of an insulating film is provided. The method may include obtaining a charge density measurement of the film, a surface voltage potential of the film relative to a bulk voltage potential of the substrate, and a rate of voltage dec... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7005858 | System and method for decreasing ESD damage during component level long term testing A method is disclosed for minimizing damage from electrostatic discharge (ESD) during long-term testing of electronic components and assemblies. The method includes conducting a stress-test, during which a protection circuit is engaged, which shields components and ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6995361 | Radial disk type ion mobility spectrometer The present invention relates to a radial disk type ion mobility spectrometer, comprising: an ionizing chamber which is made of a cylindrical tube, and includes an inlet for supplying sample gas therethrough, an ionizing means for ionizing the supplied sample gas to... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6943665 | Human machine interface A human machine interface (10) for use in situations requiring authorized access. The human machine interface (10) includes a validator controller (12) and a data transmitter (14). The validator controller (12) includes a validator... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6935166 | Measurement of moisture of potting soil The invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining the moisture content of bulk material, in particular potting soil, wherein the volume of a quantity of bulk material is determined, the weight of the quantity of bulk material is determined, the specifi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6923979 | Method for depositing particles onto a substrate using an alternating electric field Uniform portions of fine powders are deposited on a substrate by electrostatic attraction in which the charge of the electric field and polarity of the charged particles are varied repeatedly to form a buildup of powder on the carrier surface. ... | 08/02/2005 |
