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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7463862 | Methods and apparatus to integrate image rejection into quadrature mixers Methods and apparatus to integrate image rejection into quadrature mixers are disclosed. A disclosed image-rejection quadrature mixer comprises a quadrature mixer, and a cross-coupled differential pair of transistors to provide a complex filter response, wherein the... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7463734 | Display window cover assemblies and electronic devices and methods using the same An electronic device has a display window and includes a composite display window cover assembly and a display device. The composite display window cover assembly is disposed in the display window. The composite display window cover assembly includes a glass panel a... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7460876 | System and method for intelligent transmitted power control scheme Briefly, an adaptive transmitted power control scheme, which may be used in stations of a communication system, for example, a wireless communication system. The scheme may allocate transmission power to a communication station based on multiplying each of at least ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460664 | Handsfree system and incoming call answering method in handsfree system In a system having a handsfree function to answer an incoming call handsfree and another function, when an incoming call arrives, a handsfree unit informs a user about an arrival of the incoming call and sets a user operation invalid state in which any user operatio... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460570 | Green coherent light generating device using even nonlinear crystals An object of the present invention is to provide a comparatively small-scale device, that is a second harmonic generating device of a laser beam with which high-quality and large output light is obtained efficiently and stably. Specifically, the second harmonic gene... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460567 | Laser wavelength locker The method and system operate to maintain a widely tunable laser (WTL) at a selected transmission wavelength. To lock the WTL to an ITU grid line, a portion of the output beam from the WTL is routed through the etalon to split the beam into a transmission line for d... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7457586 | Method of in-device phase measurement and correlation to programmable factors A method is provided for calibrating Amplitude Modulation to Phase Modulation (AM/PM) predistortion coefficients for a polynomial used to compensate for AM/PM distortion of a power amplifier in the transmit chain of a mobile terminal. In general, the power amplifier... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7457341 | Low loss grating for high efficiency wavelength stabilized high power lasers A low optical loss and high efficiency grating is placed within a broad-area high-power laser diode or single spatial mode laser diode to narrow the spectral width and stabilize the emission wavelength. Several embodiments of grating configurations are presented, to... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7454024 | System and method for design and fabrication of a high frequency transducer Techniques for fabricating high frequency ultrasound transducers are provided herein. In one embodiment, the fabrication includes depositing a copperclad polyimide film, a layer of epoxy on the copperclad polyimide film, and a polyvinylidene fluoride film on the epo... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7449025 | Surgical instrument to secure body tissues In a first embodiment, a surgical instrument for securing body tissue comprising an anchoring member formed from organic or inorganic biocompatible material having head, shaft and tip portions, the shaft portion comprising at least two generally opposed outwardly fl... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450621 | Integrated laser-diffractive lens device A semiconductor laser device includes an edge-emitting laser monolithically integrated with a diffractive lens formed on the chip surface to emit a focalized or collimated beam in a direction perpendicular to the surface. An upper reflective surface and an angled re... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7450907 | Power control device and method for calibrating the power of a transmitter or receiver in a mobile communication network The invention relates to a power control device and method for calibrating the power of a transmitter or receiver in a mobile communication network comprising an antenna array, wherein burst signals are transmitted to, or received by, the antenna array. The calibrat... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7445624 | Endoscopic sample taker for cartilage material The sample taker comprises a hollow shank with a scoop fixedly connected at its distal end, a handling means provided at the proximal end of the 20 hollow shank and an actuation mechanism. An actuation rod is axially movable in the hollow shank and connectable to th... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7446546 | Method and system of trace pull test The present invention provides an efficient test method and system for testing the IC package, such as BGA types of packages. With the present invention, manufacturer can have an easier way in testing various types of packages, including newer types. Manufacturer al... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7443902 | Laser-based optical switches and logic Optical switches and logic devices comprising microstructure-doped nanocavity lasers are described. These switches and logic devices have gain and thus can be cascaded and integrated in a network or system such as for example on a chip. Exemplary switching elements ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444141 | Method and system for programmable control of mobile communications units Accordingly, the present invention provides a toolkit for building programmable rules of operation for a prepaid mobile communications unit and for loading the rules into the prepaid mobile unit's internal memory. A rules development language is provided with a pred... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7444117 | Wireless network system and communications method A wireless network system for enabling good communications, while minimizing the electricity consumption of a portable terminal, is described. Included are: a first relay device 4a including first and second Bluetooth® (BT) modules {circle around (1)}... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440482 | Nitride semiconductor laser element and method for manufacturing the same A nitride semiconductor laser element, comprises a substrate, a nitride semiconductor layer laminated over said substrate and having a ridge on its surface, and an electrode, wherein a first protective film is formed so that an air gap is located on at least part of... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437166 | Reducing shared downlink radio channel interference by transmitting to multiple mobiles using multiple antenna beams A radio base station includes multiple antennas associated with a cell. Multiple mobile radios are selected to receive transmissions over a shared radio channel during a predetermined time interval. Information is transmitted over the shared radio channel to multipl... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436952 | Earset microphone An earset microphone includes an earpiece having a wedge portion wherein the wedge portion is positioned between a back side of the ear and a scalp to secure the earpiece in a selected position. A mounting bracket is positioned within the wedge portion. A boom is se... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436951 | Portable interconnection system for incompatible audio communication networks A portable interconnection system has a housing having and a plurality of communications ports adapted for connection to a plurality of audio communication networks; electronics substantially enclosed by the housing; the electronics including at least interconnectio... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433466 | Radio handset A rear cover of a radio handset having a scooped recess for improving the ergonomics of the phone for single-handed operation. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432726 | Probe According to an embodiment, a probe coming into contact with an electrode pad of a measurement object comprises a connection terminal part integrally formed and connected to a substrate, a contact part having a tapered configuration, and a supporting part which supp... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433373 | Actively Q-switched laser system using quasi-phase-matched electro-optic Q-switch A Q-switched laser system is disclosed. The laser system employs a quasi-phase-matched electro-optic (QPM EO) crystal as the laser Q-switch. When applied with a certain modulating electric field, the QPM EO crystal can function as a polarization rotator to rotate th... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433379 | Vertical-cavity surface emitting laser A vertical-cavity surface emitting laser includes a substrate and a first mirror that is grown on the substrate, a second mirror grown on the first mirror for resonating the first mirror and light, an active layer between the first mirror and the second mirror for g... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430299 | System and method for transmitting audio via a serial data port in a hearing instrument In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for transmitting audio via the serial data port of a hearing instrument. At least one hearing instrument microphone may be used for receiving an audio input signal. A sound processor... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424265 | Rectifier circuit and radio communication device A rectifier circuit includes a bias circuit that outputs a direct-current voltage; a first MOS transistor that has a gate and a source; and a second MOS transistor that has a gate, a source, and a drain connected to the source of the first MOS transistor. Only the d... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424110 | Wrist clip The Wrist Clip is made out of both sides of a watchband. The left side has a strap with holes in it, and the right side has a clasp, which fastens together with the left side to hold The Wrist Clip together. The watchbands are made out of white gold, platinum, leath... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420999 | Nitride semiconductor laser element and method for manufacturing same A nitride semiconductor laser element, comprises a substrate, a nitride semiconductor layer laminated on said substrate and having a ridge on its surface, a first protective film that covers said nitride semiconductor layer, and an electrode form on the ridge and th... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421073 | Plastic mount system for cellular phone or personal electronic device attachment The clip-mount operates with a button sub-mount system and includes a body defining a locking cavity for the button and a resilient locking tongue therein. The tongue biases the button into a locking position with a cam surface. A movable cam actuator on the body in... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7421245 | Field-shaping shielding for radio frequency identification (RFID) system A radio frequency identification (RFID) system is described that utilizes a substantially-contiguous conductive shield to shape an electromagnetic field formed by an antenna for communication with RFID tags. The antenna and the conductive shield have substantially p... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7416556 | Stop-cock suture clamping system A suture clamping system, comprising a block of material having a hole passing therethrough; and a rotatable element received into the block of material, the rotatable element having a hole passing therethrough, wherein the rotatable element can be positioned such t... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418023 | Laser-diode-excited laser apparatus, fiber laser apparatus, and fiber laser amplifier in which laser medium doped with one of Ho, SM, EU, DY, ER and TB is excited with GaN-based compound laser diode A solid-state laser crystal constituting a laser-diode-excited solid-state laser apparatus or an optical fiber constituting a fiber laser apparatus or fiber laser amplifier is doped with one of Ho3+, Sm3+, Eu3+, Dy3+, Er | 08/26/2008 |
| 7418024 | High power vertical external cavity surface emitting laser Provided is a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) including: a bottom DBR mirror formed on a substrate; an RPG layer formed on the bottom DBR layer; a capping layer formed on the RPG mirror; an optical pump irradiating a pump beam onto a surface... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7415108 | Tilt-leg-breakage prevention mechanism of terminal device A telephone includes an upper casing, a lower casing, and a receiver transmitter. The lower casing has a pair of projecting support sections at one end of the bottom, to which a first leg is rotatably mounted. The first leg includes a rotatable and slidable second l... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7411990 | Laser-diode-excited laser apparatus, fiber laser apparatus, and fiber laser amplifier in which laser medium doped with one of Ho3+, Sm3+, Eu3+, Dy3+, Er3+, and Tb3+ is excited with GaN-based compound laser diode A solid-state laser crystal constituting a laser-diode-excited solid-state laser apparatus or an optical fiber constituting a fiber laser apparatus or fiber laser amplifier is doped with one of Ho3+, Sm3+, Eu3+, Dy3+, Er | 08/12/2008 |
| 7411992 | Light wavelength converting apparatus, control method of the same, and image projecting apparatus using the same A light wavelength converting apparatus includes a semiconductor laser having gain, phase, and DBR regions, a nonlinear optical device for receiving fundamental-wave light emitted from the semiconductor laser and outputting second harmonic wave light, a first optica... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412396 | Virtual clinic for medical practice A method is provided for a virtual clinic to establish communications and working relationships among itself, patients, physicians, and insurance companies patient to facilitate the remote diagnosis and treatment of patients. In one embodiment, a patient may contact... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408967 | Method of fabricating single mode VCSEL for optical mouse A surface emitting laser having a substrate with top and bottom surfaces, a first stack of mirror layers of alternating indices of refraction located upon the top surface of the substrate and an active layer disposed over the first stack. The surface emitting layer ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406110 | Method and apparatus for controlling power of laser diodes A method and apparatus for controlling the power of laser diodes are provided. The apparatus includes an output voltage sensor, which senses output voltages of at least two laser diodes and outputs the output voltages to an optical power controller. The optical powe... | 07/29/2008 |
