Temperature responsive valve assembly for a pneumatic spring
The gas spring assembly according to the present invention provides a temperature responsive valve assembly having a valve body, a seal, a bi-metal valve and a locking member. When temperatures are ab... Read More
Inventors: Rose, Mark M.;, Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC (Troy, MI) |
Method for fabricating resistors within semiconductor integrated circuit devices
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a resistor is fabricated by first depositing a passivation layer on a semiconductor substrate having multiple transistors previously... Read More
Inventors: Haddad, Nadim; Alcorn, Charles N.; Maimon, Jonathan; Rockett, Leonard R.; Doyle, Scott;, Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration, Inc. (Nashua, NH) |
Device and method for emitting output light using quantum dots and non-quantum fluorescent material
A device and method for emitting output light utilizes both quantum dots and non-quantum fluorescent material to convert at least some of the original light emitted from a light source of the device t... Read More
Inventors: Chua, Janet Bee Yin; Pan, Kok Chin; Ng, Kee Yean; Tan, Kheng Leng; Baroky, Tajul Arosh;, Assignee: Avago Technologies ECBU IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore, SG) |
Power injector apparatus
As mentioned above, the main object of the present invention is to provide a power injector apparatus that can be adapted to two power sources, one from the Internet and the other from AC power. The o... Read More
Inventors: Hung, Pai-Fu; You, Ren-Horng; Wang, Feng-Hsueh;, Assignee: Accton Technology Corporation (Hsinchu, TW) |
Integrated circuit having a void between adjacent conductive lines
The invention overcomes the disadvantages and difficulties of the prior art by introducing new methods and devices wherein the area between closely spaced conductors exhibits a dielectric constant app... Read More
Inventors: Reinberg, Alan R.;, Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc. (Boise, ID) |
Stimulable phosphor sheet storing cassette, radiation image photographing apparatus, photographing information registration apparatus, and radiation image information reading apparatus
The present invention has been conceived based on consideration of the above circumstances. An object of the present invention is therefore to obviate the conveyance of a cassette having an erasing ra... Read More
Inventors: Iwakiri, Naoto;, Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa-ken, JP) |
Non-volatile memory utilizing a thin film, floating gate, amorphous transistor
What is claimed is: 1. A non-volatile memory comprising: data storing means comprising an amorphous, thin film, floating gate transistor (FGT) having a data input for receiving a data bit to be stored... Read More
Inventors: Riggio, Jr., Salvatore R.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated (Armonk, NY) |
Liquid crystal display matrix array employing ovonic threshold switching devices to isolate individual pixels
The present invention discloses an active matrix liquid crystal display panel including: 1) a plurality of liquid crystal display elements distributed in a matrix of rows and columns; 2) means for sup... Read More
Inventors: Ovshinsky, Stanford R.; Czubatyj, Wolodymyr; Young, Rosa; Wicker, Guy C.;, Assignee: Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (Troy, MI) |
Security unit for use in memory card
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a security unit that allows security to be maintained in a small circuit scale. Another object of the invention is to provide a memory uni... Read More
Inventors: Okaue, Takumi; Ishibashi, Yoshihito; Sakamoto, Yukihiro; Mizuno, Asami; Kihara, Nobuyuki; Yokota, Teppei;, Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Nonvolatile memory device
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a programmable nonvolatile logic switch memory (register) device using a nonvolatile resistance memory device. In an embodiment, there ... Read More
Inventors: Kang, Hee Bok; Park, Young Jin;, Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, KR) |
Device and method for pulse width control in a phase change memory device
The invention is directed to an approach to programming phase-change memory devices, such as chalcogenide memory (PRAM). The invention is directed to an approach to programming PRAM elements from a re... Read More
Inventors: Cho, Woo-yeong; Kim, Kyung-hee;, Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (KR) |
Tunnel diode load for ultra-fast low power switching circuits
The key element of my invention is the use of a tunnel diode for rapid discharging of a capacitor in a switching circuit. The tunnel diode has a low resistance in the tunnel regime at low forward bias... Read More
Inventors: Lehovec, Kurt;, Assignee: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) |
Flat bed scanner system and method
A flat bed scanner system and method of scanning a planar transparent member carrying an original image with a beam of white light to produce digital data representing the densities of incremental are... Read More
Inventors: Thomas, E. Raymond; Cahill, Lysle D.; Marshall, William W.; Talley, Luke L.; Lawson, John A.; Wilcox, Brian N.;, Assignee: Coulter Systems Corporation (Bedford, MA) |
Vibratory transducer
OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Turning now to FIGS. 4-7, which depicts a first illustrative embodiment of the invention, there is depicted a single silicon crystal 30 of the p-type containing impuritie... Read More
Inventors: Ikeda, Kyoichi; Watanabe, Tetsuya; Higashino, Yasushi;, Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of forming single crystalline magnesia spinel film
The present invention has been achieved in order to solve the above described problem. For a method of forming a single crystalline magnesia spinel film of the present invention, a first single crysta... Read More
Inventors: Inoue, Yasunori; Hanafusa, Hiroshi;, Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of manufacturing thin compound oxide film and apparatus for manufacturing thin oxide film
The present invention has an object to eliminate the conventional drawbacks described above, and has as its object to provide a method of manufacturing a thin film of a compound oxide wherein energy o... Read More
Inventors: Murakami, Toshiaki; Moriwaki, Kazuyuki;, Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (Tokyo, JP) |
Method of epitaxially growing compound semiconductor materials
The present invention is concerned with the epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials on substrates of essentially single crystal semiconducting or insulating materials. More specifically, the meth... Read More
Inventors: Shastry, Shambhu K.;, Assignee: GTE Laboratories Incorporated (Waltham, MA) |
Manufacture of monolithic infrared focal plane arrays
We claim: 1. A monolithic focal plane array structure including interconnected silicon circuitry and HgCdTe detectors, comprising: (a) a silicon substrate having silicon signal readout device circuitr... Read More
Inventors: Zanio, Ken; Bean, Ross C.;, Assignee: Ford Aerospace Corporation (Newport Beach, CA) |
Optoelectronic interconnections for integrated circuits
The present invention relates to an integrated circuit which includes a body of a semiconductor material having electrical components therein and electrically connected in a desired electrical circuit... Read More
Inventors: Hammer, Jacob M.;, Assignee: David Sarnoff Research Center, Inc. (Princeton, NJ) |
Large array MMIC feedthrough
What we claim as our invention is: 1. A backplate apparatus for use with an array of monolithic microwave integrated circuits, comprising: a plurality of electrically insulating material layers secure... Read More
Inventors: Trinh, Trang N.; Smith, Jr., Elroy C.;, Assignee: Rockwell International Corporation (Seal Beach) |
Method for controlling interfacial oxide at a polycrystalline/monocrystalline silicon interface
We claim: 1. A method of forming a bipolar transistor with a predetermined gain and having a low resistance, polycrystalline/monocrystalline silicon emitter contact interface, comprising the steps of:... Read More
Inventors: Cook, Robert K.; Knepper, Ronald W.; Kulkarni, Subodh K.; Lange, Russell C.; Ronsheim, Paul A.; Subbanna, Seshadri; Tejwani, Manu J.; Yun, Bob H.;, Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY) |
Method of forming a carbon film on a substrate made of an oxide material
An object of the present invention is to provide, with due consideration to the drawbacks of such conventional devices, a carbon-type film formed on a substrate wherein the interface characteristics o... Read More
Inventors: Itoh, Kenji;, Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. (Atsugi, JP) |
Method for producing a fully walled emitter-base structure in a bipolar transistor
An object of the present invention is to provide a process for producing a bipolar transistor structure which is self-aligned, employing a metal contacted monocrystalline silicon emitter region with a... Read More
Inventors: Hebert, Francois;, Assignee: Avantek, Inc. (Milpitas, CA) |
Rare earth slab doping of group III-V compounds
It is an object of this invention to provide a semiconductor film having a high carrier mobility while also being substantially insensitive to temperatures changes, such that the semiconductor film is... Read More
Inventors: Heremans, Joseph P.; Partin, Dale L.; Thrush, Christopher M.;, Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Detroit, MI) |
Superconducting thin film
What is claimed is: 1. A superconducting thin film of a compound oxide represented by YBa.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.y, in which "y" is a number in the range of 6<y<8 and deposited on a single crystal... Read More
Inventors: Itozaki, Hideo; Higaki, Kenjiro; Yazu, Shuji;, Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Osaka, JP) |
Process of fabricating a semiconductor substrate
An object of the present invention is to provide a substrate of good film thickness distribution with a good productivity in the preparation of an SOI substrate of good performance by bonding, and als... Read More
Inventors: Yamagata, Kenji; Yonehara, Takao;, Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Thin film solar cell and production method therefor
An object of the present invention is to provide an inexpensive thin film solar cell with high performance and reliability produced in a simple process and a method for producing such a thin film sola... Read More
Inventors: Sasaki, Hajime; Morikawa, Hiroaki; Satoh, Kazuhiko; Deguchi, Mikio;, Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Tokyo, JP) |
Soluble precursor to poly (cyanoterephthalydene) and method of preparation
The above described problems and others are substantially solved and the above purposes and others are realized in a method of preparing PPV derivatives including preparing a soluble precursor of a PP... Read More
Inventors: Shi, Song Q.;, Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL) |
Complementary junction heterostructure field-effect transistor
It is a primary object of the present invention to obviate the problems of the prior art complimentary III-V field-effect transistors. Another object of the present invention to provide a III-V integr... Read More
Inventors: Baca, Albert G.; Drummond, Timothy J.; Robertson, Perry J.; Zipperian, Thomas E.;, Assignee: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM) |
Magnetic field sensor on elemental semiconductor substrate with electric field reduction means
It is, therefore, an object of this invention to provide a magnetic field sensor of an indium antimonide film or indium arsenide film supported on an elemental semiconductor substrate. Another object ... Read More
Inventors: Partin, Dale L.; Heremans, Joseph P.; Green, Louis;, Assignee: General Motors Corporation (Detroit, MI) |
Active Solid-state 
