Celebrity Inventors
Actor Zeppo Marx patented a "Cardiac Pulse Rate Monitor" in 1969.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7287328 | Methods for distributed electrode injection Methods for injecting charge include providing a target comprising a first layer on a second layer, coupling a conductive base to the second layer, and providing a medium which is in contact with at least a portion of the first layer. An electrode is positioned to f... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282803 | Integrated electronic circuit comprising a capacitor and a planar interference inhibiting metallic screen An electronic circuit includes a substrate. A capacitor and at least one semiconductor component are supported by a surface of the substrate. A substantially planar screen, oriented parallel to the surface of the substrate and made of metallic material, is placed be... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275316 | Method of embedding passive component within via A method of forming a device associated with a via includes forming an opening or via, and forming at least a pair of conducting paths within the via. Also disclosed is a via having at pair of conducting paths therein. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7263764 | Method for adjusting performance characteristics of a multilayer component A method for adjusting the equivalent series resistance (ESR) of a multi-layer component includes providing at least first and second layers separated by an insulating layer, providing a resistive layer between the inslulating layer and one of the first or second el... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7260890 | Methods for fabricating three-dimensional all organic interconnect structures The present invention includes methods for making liquid crystalline polymer (LCP) interconnect structures using a high temperature and low temperature single sided liquid crystalline polymer LCP where both the high and low temperature LCP are drilled to form a z-ax... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7158383 | Techniques for fabricating a resistor on a flexible base material A technique for fabricating a resistor on a flexible substrate. Specifically, at least a portion of a polyimide substrate is activated by exposure to a ion sputter etch techniques. A metal layer is disposed over the activated portion of the substrate, thereby result... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7068124 | Integrated passive devices fabricated utilizing multi-layer, organic laminates The present invention includes an organic device that can be integrated in a multilayer board made of organic material. The passive devices can be integrally fabricated on a circuit board in either surface mount device (SMD) or ball grid array (BGA) form. Alternativ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7049929 | Resistor process Circuit panels are provided with resistors in vias extending between the top and bottom surfaces of the panels. The resistors may be formed by depositing a composite in each via, as by depositing a dispersion of a conductive material and a dielectric or by depositin... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6981239 | Method, system and apparatus for constructing resistive vias A system, method and apparatus for constructing capped resistive vias are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a bare, electronic component substrate or printed circuit board via is preferably surrounded at each opening by a conductive pad. Defined by openings at a... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6969903 | High tolerance TCR balanced high current resistor for RF CMOS and RF SiGe BiCMOS applications and cadenced based hierarchical parameterized cell design kit with tunable TCR and ESD resistor ballasting feature A resistor device structure and method of manufacture therefore, wherein the resistor device structure invention includes a plurality of alternating conductive film and insulative film layers, at least two of the conductive film layers being electrically connected i... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6720859 | Temperature compensating device with embedded columnar thermistors A temperature compensating device comprises one or more columnar thermistors embedded within a substrate. Because the thermistors are substantially covered by the substrate, they are less susceptible to changes in air temperature and to temperature gradients. Moreov... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6597277 | Termination resistor in printed circuit board A printed circuit board having resistors formed therein. A conductive layer composed of two different metals is provided on top of an insulating layer in a printed circuit board. The first metal layer is highly conductive and the second metal layer is hig... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6392530 | Resistor array board A plurality of protective resistors can be easily inserted between circuit forming elements, and opposite ends of each protective resistor can be properly press-contacted to each circuit forming element. The protective resistor can be easily replaced when... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6329065 | Wire board and method of producing the same A wiring board having an insulating substrate of aluminum oxide ceramics and a surface wiring layer formed on the surface of said insulating substrate, wherein the aluminum oxide ceramics constituting said insulating substrate contains a manganese compoun... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6278356 | Flat, built-in resistors and capacitors for a printed circuit board A flat, built-in resistor and capacitor has a substrate (10) made of dielectric material; a copper layer (12) formed on each surface of the substrate (10) and having an etched image (30) formed in each of the copper layers (12); a dielectric material laye... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6104277 | Polysilicon defined diffused resistor A resistor having a diffused impurity region in a semiconductor substrate, an insulated gate surrounding and defining the resistor, and a pair of separated conductive contacts to the diffused region within the boundary of the insulated gate for applying a... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6100787 | Multilayer ceramic package with low-variance embedded resistors A multilayer electronic component (200) is provided. The component includes a substrate package assembly (202) with a set of stacked insulated sheets of a dielectric ceramic material (204, 206, 208, 210, 212). Also included are a set of embedded resistors... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5973390 | Chip electronic part The present invention is a chip electronic part having: a ceramic member; a conductor pattern formed on the surface of the ceramic member; an insulating protective layer formed on the conductor pattern; an external electrode which is formed at least one e... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5954979 | Heater fixture of an electrical smoking system A novel electrical smoking system and method of establishing resistance to draw upon a cigarette while smoking a cigarette in an electrical smoking system comprising the step of operatively interposing a frit between a source of ambient air and the cigare... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5914559 | Resistance element and cathode ray tube A resistance element which is formed on a substrate by resistors and which divides and supplies high voltage to an electron gun of a cathode ray tube, wherein part or all of the substrate is covered by a high resistance conductive material layer as a topm... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5867087 | Three dimensional polysilicon resistor for integrated circuits A three dimensional polysilicon resistor and a method by which the three dimensional polysilicon resistor is manufactured. A semiconductor substrate has formed upon its surface an insulating layer. The insulating layer has a minimum of one aperture formed... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5856775 | Programmable thin film filament resistor and method of constructing same The present invention includes a programmable thin film filament resistor and method of constructing same. The finished construction includes: a core member of hydrogenated amorphous silicon; upper and lower electrodes made of a barrier metal such as moly... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5591368 | Heater for use in an electrical smoking system A provided heater comprises a supporting hub and a plurality of electrically resistive heater blades defining a receptacle to receive an inserted cigarette. Each blade comprises a first heater blade leg having a first end and a second end and extending at... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5560098 | Method of making an electrical connection to thick film tracks A method of making an electrical connection of a conductor (1) to a thick film track (2) mounted on a substrate (3) includes the steps of heating the conductor (1) to a temperature at which it may melt the glass constituent of the track (2), and inserting... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5287081 | Multilayer thin film multijunction integrated micropotentiometers Multilayer, thin film multijunction integrated micropotentiometers are formed in an integral multifilm membrane form over a through opening in a nonmagnetic, dielectric substrate. Through the use of conventional photolithographic and etching techniques, i... | 02/15/1994 |
| 5164699 | Via resistors within-multi-layer, 3 dimensional structures substrates Via resistor structures in a hybrid multilayer circuit having a plurality of insulating layers. One via resistor structure includes a plurality of resistive via fills in vias in respective adjacent insulating layers, a plurality of conductive elements for... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5111178 | Electrically conductive polymer thick film of improved wear characteristics and extended life An electrically conductive polymer film composition includes a polymeric resin, an electrically conductive substance intimately mixed in sufficient quantity with the polymeric resin to render the polymeric resin electrically conductive, and particles, suc... | 05/05/1992 |
| 4733055 | Heat transfer heating element and method An electric heating element with a resistance element, a metal sheath in heat transfer relation to the resistance element on one side of the sheath and a thin, dry coating of refractory material major proportion by weight of which is boron nitride on anot... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4733056 | Heater backed with a ceramic substrate A heater backed with a ceramic substrate having a ceramic substrate as a base plate and heating element formed thereon, which comprises a conductor for retaining ionized elements, said conductor branching from a terminal lead portion of the minus side con... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4688015 | Gas sensor with ceramics substrate having surface-carried ceramics particles A roughened surface is formed on an insulating ceramics substrate having an electrode pattern by bonding or partially thrusting ceramics particles to or in the substrate, and a gas-sensitive metal oxide thick film is firmly bonded to the roughened surface... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4317104 | Precision resistor for measurement purposes A precision resistor for use in electrical circuits arranged on printed circuit boards is produced from a band of thermally conductive alloy. The band is selectively surface treated with a conductive coating to improve solderability in the region of the r... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4088799 | Method of producing an electrical resistance device The process by which this device is made comprises the implantation of ions into an insulator. Surface charge on the insulator is discharged during implantation by an electron beam or by a thin conductive surface layer previously deposited on the insulato... | 05/09/1978 |
