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20090311883 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector includes a printed circuit board, a plug fixedly and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, an electromagnetic shielding cover configured for encompassing the printed circuit board, a reinforced frame configured for framing the plug and the electromagnetic shielding cover to the circuit board and, a housing configured for housing the printed circuit board, the plug, the electromagnetic shielding cover and the reinforced frame therein. | 12-17-2009 |
20100031053 | BIOMETRIC DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE AND METHOD - A data transmission device for secure biometric transmission includes first and second input-output units, and a biometric identification apparatus. The input-output units electrically connect to one of the two electronic devices, respectively. The biometric identification unit is configured for electrically interconnecting the first and second input-output units, receiving a biometric input, outputting biometric data in response to the biometric input, and encrypting the biometric data to be transmitted to one of the electronic device having a storage unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100276948 | LATCHING DEVICE - A latching device includes a first member, a second member defining a locking slot, and a latching member disposed on the first member for locking on the second member. The latching member includes a fixing board extending from the first member, and a deformable resilient tongue connecting with the fixing board away from the first member to form an acute angle with the fixing board. | 11-04-2010 |
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20120146410 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM INCORPORATING STORAGE UNIT - An exemplary power supply system includes a mains supply unit, a generator unit, a switch unit selectively connected to one of the mains supply unit and the generator unit, a heat dissipation unit connected to the switch unit, a storage unit connected to the switch unit through a control element, and a plurality of server units connected to the storage unit. The heat dissipation unit is also connected to the storage unit. When the mains supply unit is cut off, the switch unit is automatically switched to connect the generator unit with the storage unit. After the mains supply unit is cut off and before the generator unit starts to output power, the storage unit is controlled to operate to thereby energize the server units and the heat dissipation unit to work continuously. | 06-14-2012 |
20120146419 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM INCORPORATING UPS - An exemplary power supply system includes a main power supply, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) connected to the main power supply, a control unit connected to the UPS, and a server unit connected to the UPS through a power distribution unit. The UPS includes a rectifier connected to the main power supply, a power storage module connected to the rectifier, a switch connected to the rectifier, and an inverter connected to the rectifier and in parallel connection with the switch. The control unit includes a sensor and a control element connecting the sensor with the switch. The sensor can detect an environment around the server unit to produce different signals to the control element, to thereby control the UPS to output DC or AC by turning the switch on or off. | 06-14-2012 |
20130067254 | HOST COMPUTER AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING DATA BETWEEN HOST COMPUTER AND SLAVE DEVICE - In a method for transmitting data between a host computer and a slave device, the host computer connects to a slave device through a data communication port. The slave device is equipped with a power supply that includes at least one capacitor. The power supply is charged through the host computer using the capacitor when the host computer is powered on. The method controls the host computer sends data to the slave device, and controls the capacitor to discharge to provide power to the slave device for a period of time when the host computer is powered off, and stores the data packet into the slave device during the period of time. The method further retrieves the data from the storage device when the host computer is powered on, and resends the data to the slave device through the data communication port. | 03-14-2013 |
20130070410 | SERIAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY ATTACHMENT DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - A computer system includes a motherboard with first and second storage device interfaces and first to third memory slots, and first to third serial advanced technology attachment dual-in-line memory modules (SATA DIMMs). First and second extending boards are extended from two opposite ends of each SATA DIMM, arranged with first and second edge connectors, respectively. The first edge connector of the first SATA DIMM is connected to the first storage device interface. The second edge connector of the first SATA DIMM is connected to the first edge connector of the second SATA DIMM. The second edge connector of the second SATA DIMM is connected to the first edge connector of the third SATA DIMM. The second edge connector of the third SATA DIMM is connected to the second storage device interface. | 03-21-2013 |
20130148292 | SERVER SYSTEM WITH FAN SPEED CONTROL - A server system includes a server cabinet, several servers accommodated in the server cabinet, several fan groups coupled to a rear side of the server cabinet, and several fan control boards. The servers each include an intelligent platform management interface. Each fan group includes a row of fans to provide a horizontal airflow to cool several of the servers. The fan control boards each include several intelligent platform management interfaces each connected to the intelligent platform management interface via an intelligent platform management bus, thereby allowing the servers sending a message to a corresponding one fan control board. When the fan control board receives one or more messages from the servers, the fan control board is capable of transmitting an electrical signal corresponding to the one or more messages for controlling a rotation speed of a corresponding one fan group. | 06-13-2013 |
20130148293 | SERVER SYSTEM WITH FAN SPEED CONTROL - A server system includes a server cabinet, a network switch, a number of servers accommodated in the server cabinet, a number of fan groups, and a number of fan control boards connected to the network switch via Ethernet connections. The servers are connected to the network switch via Ethernet connections for transmitting a data packet to the network switch. The fan groups are coupled to a rear side of the server cabinet and each comprising a number of parallel fans to provide a horizontal airflow to cool several of the servers. Each of the fan control boards is connected to one of the fan groups and configured to convert a data packet to an electrical signal for controlling a rotation speed of the corresponding one of the fan groups. | 06-13-2013 |
20130151011 | SERVER SYSTEM WITH FAN SPEED CONTROL - A server system includes a server cabinet, servers accommodated in the server cabinet capable of modulating a PWM signal, fan groups coupled to a rear side of the server cabinet, and fan control boards. The fan groups each include and to provide a horizontal airflow to cool several servers. The servers are connected to one fan control boards via a first ground cable, a first tachometer cable, and a first PWM cable, and one fan control board is connected to one of the plurality of fan groups via a second ground cable, a second tachometer cable, a second PWM cable, and a supply voltage cable. The servers modulate a PWM signal and send the PWM signals to the corresponding fan group for controlling a rotation speed of the fans, and the first and second tachometer cable transmits in real-time the rotation speed of the fans back to the several servers. | 06-13-2013 |
20130163194 | CABINET WITH COOLING SYSTEM - A cabinet includes a chassis, a server module, a first cooling module, and a number of second cooling modules. The server module includes servers received in the chassis, and each server includes heat generating components. The first cooling module includes first fans. The second cooling modules are mounted in each server. Each second cooling module includes a second fan and a temperature sensor electrically connected to the second fan. When temperatures measured by the sensors are lower than a predetermined temperature, only the first fans are employed to dissipate heat of the servers; when any of the measured temperatures is higher than the predetermined temperature, the temperature sensor that detected the higher temperature transmits a signal to the corresponding second fan for starting the second fan. | 06-27-2013 |
20130170134 | SERVER SYSTEM WITH FAN SPEED CONTROL AND SERVERS THEREOF - A server system includes a server cabinet, several servers, several fan groups coupled to a rear side of the server cabinet, and several fan control boards each connected to a group of the servers and a corresponding one of the fan groups. Each server includes several electronic components, a detecting module to detect performance characteristics of the electronic components, a comparison module to obtain a rotation speed according to the performance characteristics, and an executing module to convert the rotation speed into a fan speed control signal. Each fan group corresponds to a group of the servers. When the fan control board receives fan speed control signals from the servers, the fan control board converts the fan speed controls into an electrical signal to the fan group, thereby controlling the fan group to rotate at a corresponding speed to satisfy heat dissipation needs of the servers. | 07-04-2013 |
20130288588 | SERVER SYSTEM AND FAN CONTROL METHOD AND A FAN CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A server system includes a server cabinet, several fan control boards, several servers connected to one fan control board, an uninterruptible power supply, a network switch, and several fan groups coupled to the server cabinet. The fan control board includes a determining module to determine whether the fan control board has received a control signal, and a controlling module. The server includes a first detecting module to detect performance characteristics, a first obtaining module to obtain a control signal, and a first transmitting module to transmit the control signal. Each fan group includes several fans to cool the servers, the uninterruptible power supply, or the network switch. When determining that the fan control board received a control signal, the controlling module of the fan control board controls the fan group to rotate at a corresponding speed; otherwise controlling the fan group to rotate at a constant speed. | 10-31-2013 |
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20120194446 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING INFORMATION INTO THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a motherboard, a touch screen, an input module, and an identifying module connected to the touch screen and the input module. The touch screen is connected to the motherboard and attached to the front of the electronic device, the input module is disposed at the rear of the electronic device. The indentify module identifies whether input information has come from the touch screen or from the input module and after any discrimination which may be necessary sends the input information to the motherboard which executes instructions according to the input information. A method for inputting information into the electronic device is also disclosed. | 08-02-2012 |
20120194447 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR UNLOCKING USER INTERFACE - An electronic device includes a touch-screen display, a processor, a memory, and one or more modules stored in the memory. The one or more modules are adapted to be executed by the processor to detect one or more contact actions on the touch-screen display when the user interface of the electronic device is locked. The one or more modules are adapted to allow and detect the rotation of an unlock image relative to a background image in accordance with the one or more contact actions, wherein the unlock image and the background image are graphical, and the unlock image is an interactive user-interface object. The one or more modules are adapted to determine one or more positions of the unlock image relative to the background image from the one or more contact actions. | 08-02-2012 |
20120195175 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AND DISARMING ALARM CLOCK - An electronic device includes a touch-screen display, a processor, a memory, and one or more modules stored in the memory. The one or more modules are adapted to be executed by the processor to enter into a user-interface alarm state from a user-interface non-alarm state in responds to an alarm trigger condition. The one or more modules are adapted to display one or more contact areas on the touch-screen display in the user-interface alarm state. The one or more modules are adapted to change locations of the one or more contact areas on the touch-screen display. The one or more modules are adapted to detect one or more contact actions on each of the one or more contact areas on the touch-screen display. The one or more modules are adapted to change the electronic device to the user-interface non-alarm state. | 08-02-2012 |
20120206480 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEPARATING DRAWING CONTENT - An electronic device includes a touch screen, a processor, a storage device, and one or more modules stored in the storage device. The one or more modules are executed by the processor to display a first area of a drawing on the touch screen. When the first area receives a drawing operation, the one or more modules detect a contact path on the first area of the touch screen. Then, the one or more modules split a first sub-area with first content in the first sub-area from the first area along the contact path upon a condition determining the contact path substantially moves across a first edge and a second edge of the first area. | 08-16-2012 |
20120212502 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER AND DISPLAYING METHOD - An electronic book reader includes a display, a back panel, and a touch panel. The display displays an electronic book. The touch panel is connected between the display and the back panel. An obtuse angle is defined between the display and a touch panel. The touch panel receives finger sliding signals from a user for controlling the display of the electronic book. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215486 | WEIGHING MOBILE TERMINAL AND WEIGHING METHOD - A mobile terminal includes a resistive touch panel, a gravity sensing module, an obtaining module, a calculating module, and a value displaying module. The gravity sensing module is used to detect a gravity direction of an object and calculate an angle between the resistive touch panel and the gravity direction. The obtaining module obtains a touch resistance when the object is placed on the resistive touch panel. The calculating module calculates a weight of the object according to the touch resistance and the angle. The value display module displays the weight on the resistive touch panel. | 08-23-2012 |
20120216144 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ANIMATED PAGE - An electronic device includes a touch-screen display, a processor, a memory, and one or more modules stored in the memory. The one or more modules are adapted to be executed by the processor to display a page on the touch-screen display. The one or more modules are adapted to detect one or more contact actions on the page on the touch-screen display. The one or more modules are adapted to transform the page into a predefined artifact in response to the one or more contact actions. The one or more modules are adapted to receive a predefined command action to the predefined artifact displayed in the touch-screen display. The one or more modules are adapted to perform an operation on the predefined artifact in response to the predefined command action. | 08-23-2012 |
20120216145 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING FILES - An electronic device includes a display, a storing module, an accessing module, a displaying controller, a sensing module, and a file operating module. The storing module stores a folder and a plurality of files. The folder is displayed as a folder representative icon on the touch-sensitive display. Each file is displayed as a file representative icon on a display window. The accessing module obtains the folder representative icon. The displaying controller displays the folder representative icon on the display. The sensing module detects a slide operation along a first direction on the touch sensitive display by a finger/stylus on the folder representative icon. The file operating module outspreads the displaying window, along a first direction corresponding to the slide operation from a side of the folder to display the file representative icon when the slide operation is detected. | 08-23-2012 |
20120227010 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING FILES - An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display; a storing module, an accessing module, a display controller, a sensing module, and a file operating module. The accessing module obtains a folder representative icon from the storage module. The display controller displays the folder representative icon on the touch-sensitive display. The sensing module detects a first slide operation along a first direction on the folder representative icon. The file operating module spreads out a first display window, along the first direction from a side of the folder representative icon to display the sub-folder representative icon. The sensing module further detects a second slide operation on the sub-folder representative icon. The file operating module further spreads out the second display window, along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, from a side of the sub-folder representative icon. | 09-06-2012 |
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20120042169 | ANTI-COUNTERFEITING ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An anti-counterfeiting electronic device includes a function component assigned with an identification code ID and a processor. The processor generates a random code K | 02-16-2012 |
20120131368 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes an input unit, a memory, a page flipping control unit, a buffer, a display, a processor and a switching unit. The input unit generates flipping commands in response to operations of a user. The memory stores a document. The processor displays the document in response to a document opening operation of the user, retrieves a predetermined page range of pages of the document from the memory, and stores the retrieved pages of the document in the buffer. The page flipping control unit receives the flipping commands, accesses the buffer, and flips pages on the display. The switching unit is connected to the memory, the display, and the buffer, and establishes a connection between the display, the buffer and the processor or establishes a connection between the display, the buffer, and the page flipping control unit under control of the processor. | 05-24-2012 |
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20100326873 | PACKING CUSHION - A packing cushion includes a base and a plurality of sidewalls coupled to the base. The plurality of sidewalls interconnect with each other and cooperate with the base to form an accommodating space. A first and second cushion portions protrude from an inner surface of the base in the accommodating space. The first cushion portion comprises a first inclined surface, the second cushion portion comprises a second inclined surface. The second inclined surface is parallel to the first inclined surface. A contour defined by the first inclined surface matches with at least a part of an object packed in the packing cushion. When the object is packed in the accommodating space, the first inclined surface contacts with at least a part of the object to provided a first cushioning, and when the object is subjected to impact forces to deform the first cushion portion, the second inclined contacts with the object to provided a second cushion. | 12-30-2010 |
20100326874 | PACKING CUSHION - A packing cushion includes a base and a plurality of sidewalls coupled to the base. The plurality of sidewalls interconnect with each other and cooperate with the base to form an accommodating space. A first and second cushion portions protrude from an inner surface of the base and an inner surface of one of sidewalls respectively. The first cushion portion comprises a first surface. The second cushion portion comprises a second surface. A contour defined by the first surface matches with at least a part of an object to be packed. When the object is packed in the receiving space, the first surface contacts with at least a part of the object to provide a first cushioning, and when the object is subjected to an impact to deform the first cushion portion, the second surface contacts with the object to provide a second cushioning. | 12-30-2010 |
20110005964 | PACKING CUSHION - A packing cushion for packing an object and accessories thereof is provided. The packing cushioning includes a first packing portion, a second packing portion, and a third packing portion. The first packing portion defines a first accommodating space for receiving accessories of the object. The second and third packing portions are coupled to opposite ends of the first packing portion to corporately form a space. The space is opposite to the first accommodating space, and is configured to receive the object. | 01-13-2011 |
20130240403 | PACKING CUSHION - A packing cushion includes a base and a plurality of sidewalls coupled to the base. An inner surface of one of the plurality of sidewalls defines at least one first protruding block. An inner surface of the base defines at least one second and third protruding blocks. Each of the at least one third protruding block protrudes from an end of the at least one second protruding block. The at least one first protruding block contacts with the object to act as a cushion in a first direction. The at least one third protruding block supports the object and is capable of cooperating with the at least one second protruding block to provide a second cushioning in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction for the object. | 09-19-2013 |