52nd week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 29 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140376047 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT TERMINAL FOR MANAGING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A device management terminal includes: an imaging section that images an electronic device placed at an installation location; a specific information acquisition section that acquires, from a server, specific information for specifying the electronic device that is being imaged; a status information acquisition section that acquires status information from the electronic device that is being imaged based on the specific information; and a display section that displays, on a screen, the acquired status information together with the electronic device that is being imaged. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376048 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR DISPLAYING A SCHEDULE SCREEN FOR PRINT JOBS TO BE EXECUTED - On a job schedule screen that displays a type of sheet, information for identifying a sheet storage unit in which the number of sheets has become smaller than or equal to a certain value is displayed. An identifier, which is the information for identifying a sheet storage unit, is set by a user. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376049 | Direct Printing of Photos from Mobile Devices - Presented herein are methods for the facile wireless printing of photos from mobile devices. The methods are directed to the seamless printing of images via a photo server which accepts files transmitted from a mobile device and relays them to a printer. The systems and methods of the invention are especially amenable to the easy, wireless transfer of images from a mobile device to a photo printing kiosk, where a user may view and edit images, specify printer settings, and print hard copies of the image. Systems for printing at remote printers and kiosks are enabled as well. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376050 | INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information terminal apparatus that is wirelessly communicable with an information processing apparatus enables a user to position an antenna of the information processing apparatus with which the information terminal apparatus communicates and an antenna of the information terminal apparatus with ease by watching a screen of the information terminal apparatus. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376051 | Device Registration System and Method - A device registration system includes a network, an image forming apparatus, a mobile terminal communicatively connected to the network via an access point, and a server. The image forming apparatus comprises an image forming apparatus near field communication (NFC) unit configured to perform wireless communication with the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal comprises a mobile terminal NFC unit configured to perform wireless communication with the image forming apparatus. The server is configured to register setting information associated with the image forming apparatus in a search list, wherein the setting information includes (i) position information indicative of a location of the image forming apparatus and (ii) tag information representative of a text label that describes the image forming apparatus. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376052 | PERIPHERAL APPARATUS CONTROL SYSTEM, PERIPHERAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PERIPHERAL APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - In a network printing system utilizing WSD Print Service, a highly operable peripheral apparatus control system that utilizes a mass storage device and a low-cost shared printer that does not include a function for requesting print data to an information processing apparatus is provided. The peripheral apparatus control system includes an information processing apparatus and a peripheral apparatus mutually connected via a network. The information processing apparatus inputs a job request and a reservation request to the peripheral apparatus. The peripheral apparatus includes a first measurement unit that measures the difference between reception timings of the job request and the reservation request. If the difference between the reception timings is equal to or less than a first predetermined time, a reservation ID is input and a reservation of the job request is accepted. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376053 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING A DEVICE THAT UPDATES STORED PROGRAM BASED ON UPDATING DATA WHICH IS SELECTED BASED ON PROGRAM THAT IS STARTED OR STARTABLE - An image forming apparatus includes a storage section that stores programs for carrying out processes, an updating data selection section that selects an updating data for at least one of programs from an updating data group, based on a program that is started or is startable, and an updating section that updates at least one arbitrary program stored in the storage section based on the selected updating data. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376054 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus includes a screen information storage unit configured to store screen information of a home screen that displays a user interface component list including an application user interface component for accessing an application, a screen generating unit configured to generate the home screen based on the screen information, a display unit configured to display the home screen generated by the home screen generating unit, an image generation control unit configured to issue an instruction to generate a general-purpose image of a document when a request for scanning the document is issued while the home screen is displayed, and an image processing unit configured to generate the general-purpose image based on image data obtained from scanning the document upon receiving the instruction to generate the general-purpose image from the image generation control unit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376055 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD AND MEDIUM - An information processing method includes inputting a gradation object, rendering the input gradation object to obtain a rectangular bitmap including the rendered gradation object, generating a command for extracting pixels corresponding to the rendered gradation object from the obtained rectangular bitmap, and sending the obtained rectangular bitmap and the command for extracting the pixels from the obtained rectangular bitmap. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376056 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREFOR - Screen processing is performed on input image data. A boundary pixel adjacent to a white pixel in the input image data is detected. Output image data based on either the input image data or the screen-processed image data is selectively output for each pixel in accordance with the detection result of the boundary pixel. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376057 | CORRECTION METHOD OF PRINTING DATA - Disclosed is a correction method of printing image data, including correcting printing data for printing, based on color information of an adhering medium bonded to a printing medium after performing printing on the printing medium. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376058 | Printing Apparatus and Printing Control Method for Determining Whether and Where to Print a Watermark Relative to Print Data - A printing apparatus in which watermark data is stored and a printing control method that controls whether or not the watermark is to be printed on a receipt superimposed with specific print data received from a host apparatus. When it is determined that the watermark is not to be printed over the specific print data, a controller determines where on the receipt the specific print data is to be printed to avoid the watermark. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376059 | MULTIFUNCTION APPARATUS AND READING DEVICE - A multifunction apparatus includes a transporting unit that transports the document, a reading unit that irradiates the document passing through a reading position with light and reads reflected light so as to generate image information representing an edge of the document and an image of the document, an inclination amount calculating unit that calculates an inclination amount of the document on the basis of the image information; a first inclination correcting unit that corrects an inclination of the image represented by the image information, on the basis of the inclination amount of the document, so as to generate new image information representing the image whose inclination is corrected, and a controller that prevents, in a transmission mode for transmitting image information, the first inclination correcting unit from performing an image inclination correction operation, and transmits a facsimile signal on the basis of the image information generated by the reading unit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376060 | AUTOMATIC CAPTURING OF DOCUMENTS HAVING PRELIMINARILY SPECIFIED GEOMETRIC PROPORTIONS - Methods, devices, and systems for capturing documents are provided. A frame in a viewfinder is selected and is converted into a binary version. Segmentation of the binarized version of the frame is performed using computed horizontal and vertical histograms. At least one document is identified in the selected frame. The at least one document is captured upon determining that values of the one or more parameters associated with the document match predetermined values of corresponding one or more parameters. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376061 | IMAGE SENSOR UNIT, IMAGE READING APPARATUS, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - A plurality of edges of sensor substrates are connected in a longitudinal direction in a sensor substrate unit. Farthest tips of sensor chips at the edges of the sensor substrates are positioned inside of farthest edges of the edges in the longitudinal direction. The edges of the connected sensor substrates overlap each other in a thickness direction of the sensor substrates in plan view. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376062 | PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE SCANNING CONTENT - The present invention discloses a processing system and method for the scanning content. The processing system for the scanning content includes a scanning device and a cloud processing device. The scanning device scans the image of the non-electronic paper to generate a paper image and retrieves a selected content image corresponding to the selected content from the paper image. The cloud processing device analyzes the selected content image to correspondingly generate a content type, obtains a processing mode table which stores a plurality of content types and processing means corresponding to each content type, determines which content type in the processing mode table the generated content type belongs to and executes the processing means corresponding to the content type. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376063 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit that emits light on a recording medium or a platen and detects reflected light while the detection unit moves in a direction perpendicular to a transportation direction of the recording medium; a width calculation unit that compares a value indicative of light intensity responsive to the reflected light with a threshold, and calculates a width of the recording medium measured from a position of the detection unit where the value indicative of light intensity responsive to the reflected light becomes greater than or equal to the threshold; an image formation unit that performs an operation of forming an image based on the calculated width of the recording medium; and an image formation control unit that halts the operation of forming the image upon detecting that the calculated width is less than or equal to a predefined value. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376064 | SCANNING APPARATUS WITH PATTERNED PROBE LIGHT - A 3D scanner for recording the 3D topography of an object, the 3D scanner includes an illumination unit configured for providing probe light for illuminating the object, where the probe light includes a pattern of light rays; an image sensor for acquiring one or more 2D images of light rays returning from the illuminated object; an optical system including an optical element arranged such that the patterned probe light passes through it when propagating towards the object from the illumination unit along an optical path; and a device for changing the configuration of the optical system between a first and a second configuration, where the change in configuration comprises a change in orientation of the optical element between a first orientation and a second orientation relative to the optical path of the probe light. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376065 | LIGHTING UNIT AND IMAGE SCANNER USING SAME - A lighting unit includes LED chips positioned in an array form in a main scanning direction on LED substrates. Cylindrical parabolic mirrors each form a shape in which a cylindrical paraboloid having curvature with respect to an sub-scanning direction has been clipped by an axial plane that is perpendicular to the vertex of the cylindrical paraboloid in the main scanning direction, and project light emitted from the light source on an illumination area of an illuminated item. Each cylindrical parabolic mirror includes an anchoring section that is provided at the vertex of the cylindrical paraboloid, and extends from the vertex in an outside direction of the cylindrical paraboloid. Heat-radiating plates each have a contact section that is in contact with the LED substrate, and a non-contact section. Each LED substrate is interposed between the contact section of the heat-radiating plate and the anchoring section of the cylindrical parabolic mirror. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376066 | Image Reading Device - An image reading device including an illumination unit that has a light guide body guiding light of a light source that is facing one longitudinal end surface of the light guide body to an object to be read; and an image forming optical device that is parallel to the light guide body, has a lens array with an incidence surface in which lens surfaces are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the light guide body, and condenses reflected light from the object which is incident on the incidence surface, thereby forming an erect equal-magnification image on a sensor. The image reading device further includes a frame on which is disposed the image forming optical device. A second frame projects in a direction away from the first frame and connects to the first frame, or the frame connects to an H-shaped cross-section frame. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376067 | IMAGE READING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND OPTICAL UNIT - An optical unit of an image reading device has the center of gravity in a position toward a first sub scanning direction, relative to the middle point of the optical unit in terms of sub scanning directions. An engagement part is provided in a position toward a first main scanning direction relative to a sliding part. A plurality of pairs of pinching parts include a first pair provided in a position toward the first sub scanning direction and a second pair provided in a position toward a second sub scanning direction. Of the two pinching parts in the second pair, the pinching part provided in a position toward the first main scanning direction is biased by a first biasing member toward a rail part side, and the pinching part provided in a position toward a second main scanning direction is not biased by the first biasing member. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376068 | IMAGE READING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image reading apparatus includes an image scanning unit that is provided with a holding portion holding a flexible flat cable. The holding portion is protruded toward an upstream side in a sub scanning direction, and provided with a second wall part. The flexible flat cable that is extended from a connector is brought into contact with the second wall part. As for the flexible flat cable, a downward movement is regulated by a lower holding portion and an upward movement is regulated by an upper holding portion. Accordingly, the flexible flat cable does not rise. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376069 | MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL REFLECTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MICRO-ELECTROMECHANICAL REFLECTOR - A micro-electromechanical reflector is described including an electrode substrate having a first surface and a second surface, which is opposite to the first surface, on whose first surface a carrier layer is situated, a plurality of electrode recesses, which are introduced under the carrier layer from the first surface into the electrode substrate, a plurality of second electrode recesses, which are introduced from the second surface into the electrode substrate, at least one torsion spring structure which is formed in the carrier layer over one of the first electrode recesses, a carrier substrate, which is attached to the second surface of the electrode substrate, and a reflector surface, which is situated on the carrier layer. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376070 | Micro-electromechanical reflector and method for manufacturing a micro-electromechanical reflector - A micro-electromechanical reflector includes an electrode substrate having first and second surfaces opposite to the first surface, on whose first surface a monocrystalline silicon layer is situated, a plurality of electrode recesses, which are introduced from the second surface into the electrode substrate, at least one torsion spring structure, which is implemented in the monocrystalline silicon layer above one of the electrode recesses, a carrier substrate, which is applied to the second surface of the electrode substrate, and a reflector surface situated on the monocrystalline silicon layer. At least one first electrode, movably mounted in the electrode substrate via the torsion spring structure, and at least one second electrode, mechanically fixedly anchored to the carrier substrate and the monocrystalline silicon layer, are formed by the electrode recesses. The electrode surfaces of the first and second electrodes are situated in parallel to one another and perpendicularly to the electrode substrate surfaces. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376071 | Micromechanical component, micromirror device, and manufacturing method for a micromechanical component - A micromechanical component includes a mounting, and a mirror plate which is adjustable with respect to the mounting about at least one rotational axis and which has a mirror side and a rear side which faces away from the mirror side. The mirror plate is connected to the mounting at least via four springs. Each of the four springs extends partially along the rear side of the mirror plate and is connected to the mirror plate via one support post each, which in each case contacts an anchoring area situated on the rear side. Also described is a micromirror device, as well as a manufacturing method for a micromechanical component. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376072 | WINDOW SHADE AND WINDOW ELEMENT - A window element having a window shade is provided. The window element has a viewing area, comprising a window shade element. The window shade element includes an electrically darkable element, and the window shade element is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the window shade element is covering a first portion of the viewing area, and in the second position, the window shade element is covering a second portion of the viewing area. The first portion and the second portion are unequal. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376073 | OPTICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROPAGATION DIRECTIONS OF LIGHT AND SURFACE PLASMON BY USING THE OPTICAL DEVICE - Provided are an optical device and a method of controlling propagation directions of light and a surface plasmon using the optical device. The optical device includes a light source, a substrate, and a metal layer that is disposed on the substrate, the metal layer includes at least two slots, and propagation directions of light and a surface plasmon may be controlled by using the light that is polarized in a direction parallel to a direction of a long length of any one of the at least two slots. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376074 | AUTOSTEREOSCOPIC DISPLAY DEVICE BASED ON PARALLAX BARRIER - An autostereoscopic display device includes a display, a parallax barrier, a driver and a controller. The parallax barrier is placed in front of the display and includes a matrix of barrier blocks. The driver is electrically connected to the parallax barrier. The controller is in communication with the driver and controls the driver such that the barrier block in the i-th line and j-th column is switched on to a transparent state and the other barrier blocks are switched off to a nontransparent state, where i and j satisfy the following condition formulae: j=i+nk, i≦N, and j≦M, i and j are positive integers, n is an integer, k is a positive integer constant, N is the number of the lines of the barrier blocks, and M is the number of the columns of the barrier blocks. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376075 | ELECTROCONTROLLABLE DEVICE - An electrically controllable device includes two supported electrodes, each coated with a conductive coating, the two electrodes positioned with respect to one another so that the conductive coatings are facing each other. An electroactive system, sandwiched between, and in contact with, the two electrodes, has an area smaller than that of each of the electrodes to define a peripheral groove over the entire perimeter of the electroactive system. A peripheral seal fills the groove over the entire perimeter of the electroactive system and is entirely in contact with the two electrodes. The contact area between the seal and the first electrode and the contact area between the seal and the second electrode each include a conductive part and a non-conductive part. No conductive part of the contact area between the seal and the first electrode is opposite a conductive part of the contact area between the seal and the second electrode. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376076 | VEHICLE LAMP WITH ELECTROCHROMIC ELEMENT - A vehicle lamp includes a reflector, a light source mounted in the reflector, a cover fixed to the reflector and an electrochromic element embedded into the cover. The light source emits light towards the reflector. The electrochromic element is located at a lower portion of the cover. The electrochromic element turns black when receiving an electricity, and turns transparent when receiving no electricity. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376077 | WAVELENGTH SWEPT SOURCE APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - Provided are a wavelength swept source apparatus and a method for operating thereof. According to the provided apparatus and method, single mode light is generated, a basic optical comb including a plurality of light rays having identical frequency differences with adjacent light rays is generated by modulating the generated single mode light, and a plurality of optical combs, that includes same number of light rays as the plurality of light rays, has a different frequency band from that of the basic optical comb, and is distributed in a wider frequency band than that in which the basic optical comb is distributed, is generated by modulating the plurality of light rays. The plurality of light rays and light rays included in the plurality of optical combs are sequentially emitted according to frequencies of the plurality of light rays and the light rays included in the plurality of optical combs. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376078 | SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPE - A scanning optical microscope includes a light source, a light converging optical system, a stage, a scanning unit which displaces an illumination light and the stage relatively, a detecting optical system, and a photodetector. A light modulation element and a relay optical system are disposed on the light converging optical system side of the light source, and a modulated signal having only amplitude changed is input to the light modulation element, and the light modulation element is positioned such that the illumination light emerged from the light modulation element with respect to the modulated signal of a predetermined amplitude coincides with an optical axis of the light converging optical system, and a position of a pupil of the light converging optical system and a position of the light modulation element are conjugate through at least the relay optical system. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376079 | ELECTROWETTING DISPLAY DEVICE - An electrowetting display device includes a plurality of pixels each including an array substrate, an opposite substrate, and an electrowetting layer. The array substrate includes a base substrate, a barrier wall defining a pixel area, a partition wall partitioning the pixel area into a plurality of sub-pixel areas, a hydrophobic layer disposed in the sub-pixel areas, and an electronic device controlling the electrowetting layer. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376080 | ELECTROPHORETIC PARTICLES, ELECTROPHORETIC DISPERSION LIQUID, DISPLAY SHEET, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Electrophoretic particle include a core particle (mother particle); a siloxane-based compound that is bonded to a surface of the core particle and contains a connection structure in which a plurality of siloxane bonds are serially connected to each other; and a charging group that is an organic group bonded to the surface of the core particle, contains a main skeleton, and has a positive or negative electric charge. It is preferable that the occupancy rate of an area to which the siloxane-based compound is bonded on the surface of the core particle be in the range of 0.05% to 20%. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376081 | ELECTROPHORETIC PARTICLES, ELECTROPHORETIC DISPERSION LIQUID, DISPLAY SHEET, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - Electrophoretic particle include a core particle; a siloxane-based compound that is bonded to a surface of the core particle and contains a connection structure in which a plurality of siloxane bonds are serially connected to each other; and a polarizing group that is an organic group bonded to the surface of the core particle, contains a main skeleton and a substituent bonded to the main skeleton, and has unevenly distributed electrons on the particle side of the main skeleton or the opposing side thereof. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376082 | MULTI-STABLE ELECTRONIC INKS - A compound is disclosed. The compound has the general structure: | 2014-12-25 |
20140376083 | POLARIZATION REDUCING APPARATUS, LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS, OPTICAL AMPLIFYING APPARATUS, AND EXCITATION LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS FOR RAMAN AMPLIFICATION - A polarization reducing apparatus includes a separating unit configured to separate input light into components having polarization directions orthogonal to each other; a winding waveguide of silicon formed on a silicon substrate in a winding manner, the winding waveguide transmitting a first component among the components separated by the separating unit; an optical path configured to have a shorter optical path length than the winding waveguide, the optical path transmitting a second component among the components separated by the separating unit; a combining unit configured to combine the first component and the second component; and an output unit configured to output light consisting of the first component and the second component combined by the combining unit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376084 | YB: AND ND: MODE-LOCKED OSCILLATORS AND FIBER SYSTEMS INCORPORATED IN SOLID-STATE SHORT PULSE LASER SYSTEMS - The invention describes classes of robust fiber laser systems usable as pulse sources for Nd: or Yb: based regenerative amplifiers intended for industrial settings. The invention modifies adapts and incorporates several recent advances in FCPA systems to use as the input source for this new class of regenerative amplifier. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376085 | PASSIVE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR THE COHERENT COMBINATION OF A PLURALITY OF OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS - A passive device for the coherent combination of at least two optical amplifiers, includes an interferometer having at least four branches having optical elements for separating and combining polarization, the elements having four inlet-outlet ports that are respectively connected to a branch. The first branch includes a first polarization element, a first optical amplifier and a first mirror; the second branch includes a second polarization element, a second optical amplifier and a second mirror; the third branch includes a third polarization element and a third mirror; the fourth branch is an inlet-outlet branch of the interferometer. The three polarization elements are designed such that a polarized optical beam entering respectively into the first, second or third branch and reflected by the mirror at the end thereof forms a polarized optical beam leaving the branch with a polarization that is orthogonal to that of the polarized optical beam entering the branch. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376086 | CATADIOPTRIC PROJECTION OBJECTIVE WITH TWO INTERMEDIATE IMAGES AND NO MORE THAN FOUR LENSES BETWEEN THE APERTURE STOP AND IMAGE PLANE - A projection objective for imaging a pattern provided in an object plane onto an image plane includes: a first objective part to image the pattern provided in the object plane to a first intermediate image, wherein all of the elements in the first objective part having optical power to image the pattern are refractive elements; a second objective part that includes at least one concave mirror to image the first intermediate image to a second intermediate image; and a third objective part to image the second intermediate image to the image plane, wherein all of the elements in the third objective part having optical power are refractive elements. An aperture stop is positioned in the third objective part and there are no more than four lenses in the third objective part between the aperture stop and the image plane. The projection objective has an image side numerical aperture >0.9. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376087 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MICROSCOPE SYSTEM, AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires image information representing a fluorescence observation image of a specimen stained with hematoxylin-eosin, a spectrum generation unit that generates a plurality of spectra each representing a wavelength distribution of fluorescence intensity in a plurality of pixels in the fluorescence observation image, a pixel extraction unit that extracts at least two pixel groups with a feature of a particular spectrum from the plurality of pixels, and an image generation unit that generates an image based on the extracted pixel groups. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376088 | INJECTION-MOLDED PRODUCT HAVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SECURITY ELEMENT AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - The present invention according to one embodiment comprises a three-dimensional security element and an injection-molded product having the three-dimensional security element, wherein the three-dimensional security element further comprises: a micro lens array to which various types of lenses can be applied; an image array; a primer layer for facilitating adhesion; and a protection film for protecting the three-dimensional security element from heat and pressure. According to the configuration above, the present invention can implement three-dimensional effects, such as a latent image effect, a floating effect, and an inverted parallax effect, wherein an effect is determined by a period rate and a matching angle between the micro lens array and the image array. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376089 | window-equipped cover for an optical device and manufacturing method for manufacturing a window-equipped cover for an optical device - A manufacturing method for manufacturing a window-equipped cover for an optical device includes: forming an opening in a front side of a substrate, which opening has a first base partial surface at a first depth and a second base partial surface at a greater second depth; introducing a window plate into the opening in such a way that the window plate is supported on a first partial area of the first base partial surface and on a second partial area of the second base partial surface of the opening; and at least partially filling and/or covering a gap between at least one outer edge of the window plate and the opening, with the aid of at least one sealant and/or adhesive, from a side of the window plate oriented toward the front side of the substrate. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376090 | LENS DRIVING DEVICE WITH IMAGE STABLILIZER FUNCTION - The present invention provides a lens driving device with image stabilizer function with high driving efficiency of second coils for swinging the lens, and the swing part is light. A lens support accommodating the first coil wound around the Z axis, and a base are respectively connected with first spring components extending along the direction perpendicular to the Z direction. The second coils are wound around the X direction and the Y direction and configured on the outer side of the first coil. A lens carrier and a carrier bracket provided with the second coils are connected with the second spring component extending along the Z direction. The second spring component is supported by the lens carrier and can swing in the X direction and the Y direction. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376091 | OPTIONALLY TRANSFERABLE OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH A REDUCED THICKNESS - An optionally transferable optical system with a reduced thickness is provided. The inventive optical system is basically made up of a synthetic image presentation system in which one or more arrangements of structured image icons are substantially in contact with, but not completely embedded within, one or more arrangements of focusing elements. The focusing element and image icon arrangements cooperate to form at least one synthetic image. By way of the subject invention, the requirement for an optical spacer to provide the necessary focal distance between the focusing elements and their associated image icon(s) is removed. As a result, overall system thicknesses are reduced, suitability as a surface-applied authentication system is enabled, and tamper resistance is improved. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376092 | INTEGRATED STRUCTURED-LIGHT PROJECTOR - Optoelectronic apparatus includes a semiconductor die and a monolithic array of light-emitting elements formed on the semiconductor die in a grid pattern comprising multiple columns. Conductors formed on the die define a respective common contact for driving each column of the light-emitting elements. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376093 | Diffractive Optical Element and Optical Device Having the Same - There are provided a diffractive optical element in which a diffraction pattern is formed on at least one surface, wherein a height of the diffraction pattern changes from a center to an edge of the one surface, and a height of a first diffraction pattern element formed at the center and a height of a second diffraction pattern element formed at the edge are different, and an optical device having the same. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376094 | Low-Color Scratch-Resistant Articles with a Multilayer Optical Film - Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to articles that exhibit scratch-resistance and improved optical properties. In some examples, the article exhibits a color shift of about 2 or less, when viewed at an incident illumination angle in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees from normal under an illuminant. In one or more embodiments, the articles include a substrate, and an optical film disposed on the substrate. The optical film includes a scratch-resistant layer and an optical interference layer. The optical interference layer may include one or more sub-layers that exhibit different refractive indices. In one example, the optical interference layer includes a first low refractive index sub-layer and a second a second high refractive index sub-layer. In some instances, the optical interference layer may include a third sub-layer. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376095 | DIFFUSING PLATE HAVING MICROLENS ARRAY - A diffusing plate includes a microlens array in which a plurality of microlenses are arranged, wherein the microlenses have such a shape that a curvature of a sectional shape including a center line of the microlenses varies depending on a direction of the center line, and wherein microlenses that are different in the direction of a center line where the curvature of the outline is largest are arranged. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376096 | SECURITY ELEMENT AND METHOD OF PRODUCING A SECURITY ELEMENT - A security element and a method of printing a security element using a rotary printing process, the security element including a plurality of image elements, the method including: providing a transparent or translucent substrate having a printing side; and printing an image layer onto at least a portion of the printing side of the substrate, wherein the image layer is contiguous and includes an extended edge region and an image region, wherein at least a portion of the extended edge region is printed before the image region, and wherein the image region includes unprinted and printed areas. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376097 | MICROLENS ARRAY AND IMAGING ELEMENT PACKAGE - A microlens array to be used in combination with a pixel array of an imaging element. The microlens includes a glass substrate; and a plurality of microlenses provided on at least one surface of the glass substrate and arranged in an array shape. Each of the plurality of the microlenses is constituted such that light to be entered into the microlens is received by a plurality of pixels of the imaging element. A difference between a coefficient of linear expansion of the glass substrate and a coefficient of linear expansion of an imaging element substrate having the pixel array formed thereon or member of a package to be bonded to the imaging element substrate is within 8×10 | 2014-12-25 |
20140376098 | LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATOR - A solar concentrator device comprising a solar concentrator element comprising a radiation transmissive surface, a radiation absorptive material and a radiation concentrating/collection point and disposed on the incident radiation side thereof a recapture element for recapturing at least a portion of radiation lost from the concentrator element has improved solar radiation collection efficiency by reintroducing recaptured radiation into the concentrator element or by propagating said recaptured radiation through the recapture element to a radiation concentration point associated with the recapture element. It has been found that planar elements having a grooved or corrugated outer surface make for very good recapture elements for planar concentrator elements. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376099 | ANGLE MIRROR WITH IMAGE INJECTION - An angle mirror with image injection has an angle-mirror body, a viewing-in end, a viewing-out end, panels arranged in front of the ends, upper and lower deflection mirrors and a display. The image of the display is visible in the viewing-in end. The angle mirror makes it unnecessary for an observer's eye to refocus during an image-source change, such that he can recognize both represented image information items at the same time. This is achieved by arranging the display in a vertical direction on the angle mirror, configuring the lower deflection mirror as a beam splitter, arranging a first mirror element behind it, and guiding a first beam path of the display via an injection lens arranged on the angle-mirror body and likewise via mirror elements arranged thereon such that the first beam path is superposed at the beam splitter by a second beam path through the viewing-out end. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376100 | LIGHT CONTROL FILM - Light control films, and a method for manufacturing tools used to microreplicate light control films. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376101 | ZOOM LENS FOR PROJECTION AND PROJECTION-TYPE DISPLAY APPARATUS - A zoom lens for projection substantially consists of a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, a positive fifth lens group, and a positive sixth lens in this order from a magnification side. The first lens group and the sixth lens group are fixed and the second lens group through the fifth lens group move during magnification change. A reduction side is telecentric. First through fourth lenses from the magnification side in the fifth lens group are a negative meniscus-shaped single lens with its convex surface facing the magnification side, a positive single lens, a biconcave lens and a biconvex lens, respectively, and the biconcave lens and the biconvex lens are cemented together. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376102 | ZOOM LENS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS USING THE SAME - A zoom lens includes a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, third lens unit having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens unit having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens unit having a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop disposed between the second lens unit and the third lens unit. At the time of zooming, the aperture stop moves and the fifth lens unit is fixed. At the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, a distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit widens, a distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit narrows, a distance between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit fluctuates, and a distance between the fourth lens unit and the fifth lens unit fluctuates. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376103 | LENS BARREL - This disclosure provides a lens barrel which can realize miniaturization thereof in a radial direction even when a drive part such as an actuator is disposed inside the lens barrel. The lens barrel according to this disclosure receives light from a subject and forms an image by a lens system. The lens barrel includes a fixed frame, a cam frame disposed on an inner peripheral side of the fixed frame and having at least one cam groove, a movable frame including a cam pin which engages with the cam groove of the cam frame and movable in an optical axis direction of the lens system, and a drive part engaging with the cam frame at an end portion of the cam frame, rotatably driving the cam frame, and being disposed at a position where the drive part and the cam frame are arranged in the optical axis direction. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376104 | LENS BARREL - This disclosure aims to miniaturize a lens barrel. The lens barrel includes: a movable frame which has two cam followers provided in a circumferential direction about an optical axis and two guide protrusions arranged along an optical axis direction; a cam frame having two cam grooves with which the two cam followers of the movable frame are engaged respectively; and a guide frame having one guide groove with which the two guide protrusions are engaged. The two cam followers and the two guide protrusions restrict tilting of the movable frame with respect to the cam frame and the guide frame. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376105 | IMAGING LENS - An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features a low F-value, low-profile design and a wide field of view. Designed for a solid-state image sensor, the imaging lens includes constituent lenses arranged in order from an object side to an image side: a first positive refractive power lens having a convex object-side surface; a second negative refractive power lens having a concave image-side surface; a third positive refractive power lens having a convex image-side surface; a fourth negative refractive power lens having a concave image-side surface; a fifth positive refractive power lens as a meniscus lens having a convex image-side surface; a sixth lens as a meniscus double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface near an optical axis; and a seventh negative refractive power lens as a double-sided aspheric lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376106 | WIDE FIELD ATHERMALIZED ORTHOSCOPIC LENS SYSTEM - A wide field optically athermalized orthoscopic lens system includes, in order from object to image, a first lens having a negative power, a second lens having a positive power, a third lens group having a positive power, a fourth lens having a positive power and a fifth lens having a negative power. The third lens group includes two lenses having, in order, a first lens with positive power and a second lens with negative power. The powers, shapes, Abbe dispersion values and temperature coefficients of refractive indices of the lenses are selected such that the lens system is athermalized, orthoscopic and achromatized over a wide (e.g. >140° C.) temperature range. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376107 | LENS MODULE - A lens module including may include: a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens of which an object-side surface or an image-side surface is convex; a third lens of which an image-side surface is concave; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power; and a sixth lens having an inflection point formed on an image-side surface or an object-side surface thereof. The first to sixth lenses are disposed in a sequential order from the first lens to the sixth lens. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376108 | IMAGING LENS - An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. Each of the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens has refractive power weaker than that of each of the first lens and the second lens. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376109 | IMAGING LENS - The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including , in an ordered way from an object side, a first lens having positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having negative (−) refractive power, a third lens having positive (+) refractive power, a fourth lens having positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having negative (−) refractive power, wherein an aperture is interposed between the first and second lenses, and the imaging lens meets a conditional expression of 202014-12-25 | |
20140376110 | IMAGE PICKUP LENS - An image pickup lens includes an aperture stop, a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second meniscus lens having a concave image-side surface, a third meniscus lens having a convex image-side surface, a fourth meniscus lens having a concave object-side surface near an optical axis, and a fifth meniscus lens having a concave image-side surface near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens has an aspherical shape in which a positive refractive power weakens toward the periphery, and wherein the following conditional expressions (1) and (7) are satisfied: | 2014-12-25 |
20140376111 | WIDE-ANGLE IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY WITH THREE LENSES - A wide-angle imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including three lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens. Two surfaces of the third lens have at least one inflection point from the optical axis to an end point of the aspheric surfaces. At least one surface of the three lenses are aspheric. The fixing diaphragm is disposed at any position between an object and the second lens. By the concatenation between the lenses and the adapted curvature radius, thickness, interval, refractivity, and Abbe numbers, the assembly attains a big diaphragm with ultra-wide-angle, a shorter height, and a better optical aberration. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376112 | WIDE-ANGLE IMAGING LENS ASSEMBLY WITH TWO LENSES - A wide-angle imaging lens assembly comprises a fixing diaphragm and an optical set including two lenses. An arranging order from an object side to an image side is: a first lens with a positive refractive power, a convex surface directed toward the object side, and a convex surface directed toward the image side; and a second lens with a positive refractive power, a concave surface directed toward the object side, and a convex surface directed toward the image side. Two surfaces of the two lenses are aspheric. The fixing diaphragm is disposed between an object and the second lens. By the concatenation between the lenses and the adapted curvature radius, thickness/interval, refractivity, and Abbe numbers, the assembly attains a big diaphragm with ultra-wide-angle, a shorter height, and a better optical aberration. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376113 | Lenses for Curved Sensor Systems - The subject disclosure is directed towards lenses for curved surfaces, including multi-element lens assemblies. In one or more implementations, an object-side meniscus lens is coupled to an image/curved surface side subassembly including a biconvex lens. The subassembly may comprise a single biconvex lens or a biconvex lens coupled to a negative meniscus lens. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376114 | IMAGING LENS - An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens is formed so that a surface thereof on the object side has a positive curvature radius. The sixth lens is formed so that a surface thereof on the object side and a surface thereof on the image plane side have positive curvature radii. Each of the first to sixth lenses has an Abbe's number within a specific range. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376115 | IMAGING LENS - An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; a fifth lens having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power. The first to sixth lenses have specific Abbe's numbers to satisfy specific conditions. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376116 | OPTICAL LENS ASSEMBLY - An optical lens assembly includes a first lens, an adhesive layer, and a second lens in sequence, wherein the first and the second lenses are rectangular in shape. The adhesive layer is made of an adhesive acrylic composition. to adhere both sides thereof to interior sides of the first lens and the second lens, and the adhesive layer has following conditions: a transmittance greater than 70%; |n3−n1 |<0.5; and |n3−n2 |<0.5; where n1 is a refractive index of the first lens; n2 is a refractive index of the second lens; and n3 is a refractive index of the adhesive layer. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376117 | OPTICAL MEMBER DRIVING APPARATUS AND LENS APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - An optical member driving apparatus includes an optical member holder holding an optical member, which is rectilinearly guided and has a rotating member supported rotatably about a rotation shaft extending perpendicularly to a movable direction in which the optical member holder is movable, a fixed member that extends in the movable direction, has two sliding surfaces facing each other with predetermined spacing therebetween, and is arranged in such a way that the rotating member is located between the two sliding surfaces, two movers each of which includes a base and a vibrator connected to the base, and a controller that controls driving of the two vibrators to move the optical member holder in the movable direction. The vibrators of the two movers are in pressure contact with one and the other of the two sliding surfaces respectively. The rotating member is rotatably held between the bases of the two movers. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376118 | RESONANCE-SHIFTING LUMINESCENT SOLAR CONCENTRATORS - An optical system and method to overcome luminescent solar concentrator inefficiencies by resonance-shifting, in which sharply directed emission from a bi-layer cavity into a glass substrate returns to interact with the cavity off-resonance at each subsequent reflection, significantly reducing reabsorption loss en route to the edges. In one embodiment, the system comprises a luminescent solar concentrator comprising a transparent substrate, a luminescent film having a variable thickness; and a low refractive index layer disposed between the transparent substrate and the luminescent film. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376119 | REARVIEW MIRROR ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE - A rearview mirror assembly for a vehicle includes a mirror head pivotally mounted at a mounting base configured for attachment at a side of a vehicle. The mirror head includes a mirror casing and a reflective element adjustably disposed at the mirror casing. A powerfold actuator is operable to pivot the mirror head relative to the mounting base between at least a park detent position and a drive detent position. The mirror head is manually pivotable to a non-detent position other than the park detent position and the drive detent position. Responsive to the mirror head being at a non-detent position and responsive to a single actuation of a user input, the powerfold actuator is operable to pivot the mirror head to either the park detent position or the drive detent position. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376120 | SUPPORT FOR FACETS - Support for facets that maintains the facet attached to the structure of a heliostat, which comprises a connecting plate, a threaded bolt, a fixed attachment of the connecting plate to the facet, and a movable attachment between the connecting plate and the threaded bolt. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376121 | COLOR FILTER SUBSTRATE - A color filter substrate includes a substrate, a color filter and a plurality of dummy column spacer. The substrate has an effective area and an ineffective area which is adjacent to the effective area. The color filter is disposed on the substrate in the effective area. The plurality of dummy column spacers is formed from the same layer as the column spacers and the plurality of dummy column spacers are formed on the ineffective area and surrounds the effective area in the ineffective area. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376122 | FLAT PANEL DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A flat panel display device includes a window, a mold, a black matrix, a display panel and a resin layer. The window has a connecting part and a transmission part through which light may pass. The mold is coupled to the connecting part of the window. The black matrix is disposed under the connecting part of the window, and the black matrix blocks light which is leaked from the mold. The display panel is disposed under the window. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, which is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The display panel further includes a polarizer which is disposed on the first substrate. The resin layer is disposed between the window and the display panel, and the resin layer is hardened by ultraviolet ray. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376123 | PRODUCTS WITH TAPE FORMATS HAVING ONE OR MORE SPARE AREAS AND APPARATUSES CONFIGURED FOR USE WITH SUCH PRODUCTS - An apparatus includes a magnetic head having an array of transducers. The apparatus is configured to read and/or write to a magnetic recording tape according to a format. The format specifies a number of active channels and a contiguous spare area on the magnetic recording tape. The format also specifies compatibility with a second format. The second format specifies a different number of active channels than the number of active channels specified by the format. A product includes a magnetic recording tape and data stored on the product specifying the aforementioned format. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376124 | WRITE HEAD DESIGNED FOR ADJUSTING RELATIVE WRITE PHASE BETWEEN SUBTRACKS OF A PATTERNED MEDIA HYPERTRACK - A magnetic recording system configured for recording to a bit patterned media using both hypertrack recording and shingled recording. The magnetic recording system includes a write pole with a notched trailing edge that results in a write bubble with a trailing edge that has two outer convex lobes separated by a centrally disposed concave region. By locating one of the lobes over first and second data tracks of a hypertrack, a proper alignment of the relative phase of the two tracks can be maintained. Further adjustment to the alignment can be achieved by adjusting the radial location of the write head. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376125 | CONTROL SYSTEM FOR HARD DISKS - A control system for a group of hard disks includes a power supply and a connecting module. The power supply supplies power for the group of hard disks. The connecting module couples the power supply to the group of hard disks. The group of hard disks has a number of hard disks. When the connecting module is coupled between the power supply and the group of hard disks, a staggering spin-up function of the plurality of hard disks is activated. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376126 | CLOSED LOOP CONTROL OF TAPE MEDIA POSITIONING WITHIN TAPE DRIVE USING POSITION ERROR SIGNAL FEEDBACK - A control system for a tape drive that uses position error signals (PESs) generated by a tape head assembly of the tape drive during longitudinal movement of a tape through the drive to dynamically adjust a lateral and/or angular position of tape to enhance tape drive performance (e.g., the ability of a tape head assembly to precisely follow one or more data and/or servo tracks on the tape). In one arrangement, the PESs and/or PES metrics are used as feedback into the system to steer the tape by moving one or more tape path guides until subsequently generated PESs or PES metrics have been optimized or have at least moved back into an acceptable range or to acceptable levels. The disclosed control system facilitates achieving increased stringencies on PES minimization that come with increased tape drive magnetic track densities. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376127 | MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS - A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a magnetic layer including a FePt alloy having a L1 | 2014-12-25 |
20140376128 | ERASE DRIVE SYSTEM AND METHODS OF ERASURE FOR TAPE DATA CARTRIDGE - The present disclosure relates generally to writing and reading data from a magnetic tape storage media and, more particularly, to a secure erasure system for the eradication of the data contained in the data tracks of a tape media such that substantially all of the data can be erased while leaving the servo bands substantially unaltered or within specification. A data tape cartridge erased with such a system can then be reused in a secure data storage environment with complete confidence that any data from a previous usage is not subject to discovery. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376129 | MAGNETIC RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - According to an embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a recording medium and a reproducing head. The recording medium includes a concentric circular plurality of tracks. The reproducing head includes a spin torque oscillator and reproduces information from the recording medium using the spin torque oscillator, the spin torque oscillator including an oscillation layer with a first cross-track direction width, a polarizer layer with a second cross-track direction width, and a spacer layer provided between the oscillation layer and the polarizer layer. The first cross-track direction width is larger than double the second cross-track direction width, and the second cross-track direction width is smaller than an inter-track distance. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376130 | MAGNETIC HEAD, MAGNETIC RECORDING REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND MAGNETIC HEAD MANUFACTURING METHOD - A magnetic head includes a plurality of reproducing elements so that the magnetic head can acquire reproduction signals from a plurality of tracks at the same time. The magnetic head includes a first reproducing element, a first magnetic film formed on a first side wall of the first reproducing element with a first side wall insulating film interposed therebetween, a second magnetic film formed on a second side wall of the first reproducing element with a second side wall insulating film interposed therebetween, a second reproducing element electrically isolated from the first reproducing element and formed on the first magnetic film, a third magnetic film formed on the first magnetic film, and a fourth magnetic film formed on the first reproducing element and electrically isolated from the second reproducing element. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376131 | Data Writer with Tapered Side Shield Sidewalls - A data writer may be generally configured at least with a write pole that has a pole sidewall and a continuous first taper angle connecting leading and trailing edges. The write pole can be positioned adjacent to a side shield that is configured with first and second shield sidewalls tapered to a shield tip that is the closest point between the write pole and side shield. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376132 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO INTERRUPT A DC CURRENT IN A HIGH VOLTAGE CIRCUIT BY USE OF AN AC CIRCUIT BREAKER - An electrical circuit to interrupt a DC current includes a bypass switch and an AC high voltage breaker which includes interrupters that are rated for carrying a current having a value of the DC current for a period of time less than or equal to continuous duty. The first interrupter is electrically coupled in parallel with the bypass switch. A making switch causes a cancellation current to flow from an energy source through the second interrupter, and through the first interrupter, in addition to the DC current. The AC high voltage breaker is adapted to a DC service as the DC current in addition to the cancellation current causes an arc quench which allows the AC high voltage breaker to cause the interruption of the DC current in the electrical circuit. A method for interrupting a DC current flowing in an AC high voltage circuit breaker is also described. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376133 | ESD PROTECTION CIRCUIT CELL - A device includes a first bidirectional PNP circuit coupled to a first output of an communication circuit, and a second bidirectional PNP circuit coupling to a second output of the communication circuit. The first and second bi-direction PNP circuits have coupled outputs and a first breakdown voltage. A third bidirectional PNP circuit is coupled to ground via the coupled outputs of the first bidirectional PNP circuit and of the second bidirectional PNP circuit. The third bidirectional PNP circuit has a second breakdown voltage. In some arrangements, a sum of the first breakdown voltage and the second breakdown voltage exceeds 60 volts. The communication circuit can be an automotive application circuit for a serial automotive communication application. The first and second bidirectional transistor circuits can form a part of a cell of an integrated circuit having an isolation structure to sustain high voltage. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376134 | Voltage Protection Circuit - In an integrated circuit device having an internal circuitry that requires voltage protection (e.g. negative voltage protection), the voltage protection is provided by a FET. In some embodiments, the source and drain of the FET are connected in series with the internal circuitry and an I/O node through which the voltage can be received (e.g. the source connected to the internal circuitry and the drain connected to the I/O node). In some embodiments, the FET is drain-extended (e.g. a drain-extended PFET). | 2014-12-25 |
20140376135 | Electro-Static-Discharge (ESD) Protection Structure With Stacked Implant Junction Transistor and Parallel Resistor and Diode Paths to Lower Trigger Voltage and Raise Holding Volatge - An electro-static-discharge (ESD) protection circuit has a vertical NPN transistor with a floating p-type base created by a deep p-type implant under an N+ source region. The deep p-type implant may be an ESD implant in a standard CMOS process. The p-type implant provides a low initial snap-back trigger voltage, but the holding voltage may be too low, creating latch-up problems. The holding voltage is raised by about one volt by connecting the emitter of the vertical NPN transistor to parallel resistor and diode paths. When the vertical NPN transistor is triggered, its current initially flows through the resistor, creating an increasing voltage drop through the resistor as current rises. Once the voltage across the resistor reaches 0.5 volt, the diode in parallel with the resistor becomes forward biased and shunts a higher current than the resistor, raising the holding voltage. A clamp transistor may replace the diode. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376136 | DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a display unit including a thin film transistor (TFT) and a display device. The display device is electrically connected to the TFT and displays an image. A circuit unit is disposed at a side of the display unit and includes a driving device or a signal line unit. The circuit unit includes a damage inducing unit electrically coupled to a conductor in the circuit unit. The damage inducing unit forcibly discharges an electrostatic discharge (ESD) introduced into the circuit unit, thus preventing damage to the driving device or the signal line unit due to the ESD. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376137 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING LEAKAGE PATHS IN A BATTERY SENSING CIRCUIT - System and methods for detecting electrical leakages in a battery sensing are presented. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods allow a vehicle battery sensing circuit and/or other associated system to detect certain electrical leakages and implement one or more actions to protect vehicle systems from damage resulting from such leakages. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376138 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A semiconductor device includes an external voltage detection unit suitable for detecting a voltage level of an external voltage to output an external voltage detection signal based on the detected result, a reference voltage generation unit suitable for generating a reference voltage based on the external voltage, an internal voltage generation unit enabled in response to the external voltage detection signal, suitable for selectively generating a voltage corresponding to the reference voltage as an internal voltage, and an internal voltage control unit suitable for selectively providing a voltage having a target level corresponding to the internal voltage as the internal voltage in response to the external voltage detection signal. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376139 | VOLTAGE PROTECTION SCHEME FOR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - Various examples are provided for voltage protection of semiconductor devices. In one example, among others, a circuit includes a MOS device, a protective device connected between the MOS device and an output voltage connection, and gate protection circuitry configured to provide a bias voltage to a gate of the protective device. The bias voltage includes a DC bias component and an AC bias component that synchronously varies with a voltage of the output voltage connection. Another example includes a plurality of protective devices connected between the MOS device and the output voltage connection. The gate protection circuitry may be configured to provide a plurality of bias voltages to the plurality of protective devices. In another example, a method includes attenuating an output voltage, combining the attenuated output voltage with a constant offset voltage to generate a gate bias voltage, and providing the gate bias voltage to a protective device. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376140 | HYBRID DC BREAKER - A hybrid DC breaker, comprises a main current circuit, a transfer current circuit, an over-voltage limiting circuit and a control system, wherein the main current circuit, the transfer current circuit and the over-voltage limiting circuit are connected in parallel. The transfer current circuit consists of circuits | 2014-12-25 |
20140376141 | OVERCURRENT PROTECTION METHOD, CIRCUIT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - Disclosed is an overcurrent protection method and circuit and an integrated circuit. The overcurrent protection circuit includes an output circuit, an overcurrent sampling circuit and an overcurrent protection loop circuit. The overcurrent sampling circuit is configured to perform overcurrent sampling on the output circuit, and to pass the sampled current to the overcurrent protection loop circuit, and the overcurrent protection loop circuit is configured to perform direct current level shifting on the sampled current to result in a control current, and to provide a negative feedback to the output current of the output circuit based on the control current. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376142 | FUSE ASSEMBLY INCLUDING RELAY AND STRING INCLUDING THE SAME - A fuse assembly structured for use with a power circuit includes: a fuse holder defining a space and including first and second terminals structured to electrically connect to the power circuit; a fuse disposed in the space defined by the fuse holder; and a relay disposed in the space defined by the fuse holder. The relay includes separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close said separable contacts, and a control circuit cooperating with said operating mechanism to cause said operating mechanism to open or close said separable contacts. Current flowing between the first and second terminals flows through the separable contacts and the fuse and opening the separable contacts interrupts said current flowing between said first and second terminals. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376143 | POWER SUPPLY FUSE ALARM CIRCUIT AND ALARM APPARATUS - The present invention provides a power supply fuse alarm circuit and an alarm apparatus, where the alarm circuit is connected to a power access module of multiple combined paths and includes multiple groups of alarm units, and each of the alarm units includes: a voltage step-down module, which performs step-down processing on a voltage provided by the power access module, to output a working voltage applicable to the alarm circuit; a control module, which outputs a pulse control signal with a certain duty cycle in a case of normal power supply; a power consumption module, which generates an alarm blowing current according to the pulse control signal, so that the alarm blowing current serves as a virtual load to blow an alarm fuse by using the alarm blowing current after a main fuse is blown; and a protection module, which disconnects the power consumption module after a control circuit fails. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376144 | ELECTRIC CONTACTOR AND CONTROL METHOD OF ONE SUCH CONTACTOR - The electrical contactor ( | 2014-12-25 |
20140376145 | Method For Controlling Electronic Apparatus And Electronic Apparatus - A method for controlling an electronic apparatus is described where the electronic apparatus includes a first body, a second body on which a touch display unit is provided, and a rotary shaft used to connect the first body and the second body and through which the second body can rotate relative to the first body. The method includes determining whether the electronic apparatus is under a predetermined condition, so as to obtain a determination result; and when the determination result indicates that the electronic apparatus is under the predetermined condition, increasing a rotation resistance that the rotary shaft experiences during rotation of the rotary shaft, so as to cause the second body to reside in a non-rotational state relative to the first body when a user is touching the touch display unit. | 2014-12-25 |
20140376146 | STATIC ELIMINATOR FOR PARTS FEEDER - The static eliminator for parts feeder comprises a hollow cylindrical or truncated conical cup into which air is injected from the upper portion thereof to generate an air stream of negative pressure circling within the cup so as to lift the works up in the air, and an ionized air introduced into the cup to remove the static from the works thus lifted. The static eliminator is disposed above the upper portion of the parts feeder in a space more than the height of the work. The static eliminator is positioned just in front of the place in which the works stop moving due to the static charge. | 2014-12-25 |