22nd week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 30 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100134985 | Image-sensing module for reducing overall thickness thereof and preventing EMI - An image-sensing module for reducing its overall thickness and preventing electromagnetic interference (EMI) includes a flexible substrate, an image sensor, and a plurality of electronic elements. The flexible substrate has a first PCB (Printed Circuit Board), a flexible bending board bent upwards from one side of the first PCB, and a second PCB extending forwards from the flexible bending board and disposed above the first PCB. The second PCB has at least one first opening. The image sensor is electrically disposed on the first PCB, and the image sensor is exposed by the first opening of the second PCB. The electronic elements are selectively electrically disposed on the first PCB and/or on the second PCB so that the electronic elements are disposed between the first PCB and the second PCB. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134986 | Fastening device for electronic modules on a support rail - A device for fastening an electronic module on a mounting rail and an electronic module fastened with the device on a mounting rail are provided. The device has a displaceable nose, encompassing a profile of the mounting rail together with a stationary nose provided on the back of a housing of the electronic module. The displaceable nose is configured as a clamping profile of a slide. By plugging in mechanical anchorings, the device is mounted in recesses of the housing on the back of the electronic module. The device has a spring mechanism provided to support the electronic module on the housing. A clamping force of the device on the mounting rail results from a force to the slide applied by the spring mechanism. An end of the slide opposite of the displaceable nose protrudes beyond the housing of the electronic module for the manual displacement of the displaceable nose. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134987 | Module with Housing for Mounting Rail - A module and tensioning means for mounting the module to a mounting rail are provided. The tensioning means are rotatably disposed about a pivot point disposed on a housing, wherein the tensioning means interact with anchoring means such that, by rotation of the tensioning means, the anchoring means are latched to a second clamping means of the mounting rail. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134988 | EXPANSION BOARD RETENTION AND EXTRACTION MECHANISM - An apparatus for applying a uniform retention and extraction force to a computer expansion board. The apparatus includes a body with upper and lower retaining members that define a retention channel between them sized to receive an edge of an expansion board. At each end of the catch body pins are provided that extend into a support structure, which is mounted to the computer chassis adjacent a mounting surface for the expansion board. A handle assembly is provided with arms pivotally mounted to the support structure. Each arm includes a dowel that extends into a groove in the catch body. During operation of the mechanism, a handle attached to the arms is moved to pivot the arms and force the catch body from an open position to a closed position with the side pins riding in the guide slots and the dowels riding in the grooves of the catch body. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134989 | Expansion Card Retention Apparatus, Systems and Methods - An apparatus for retaining an expansion card within an information handling system provides a first bracket including a first elongated body defining a first groove for receiving a first edge of an expansion card and wherein the first groove extends in a direction substantially parallel to a motherboard of the information handling system. The apparatus also includes a first base member extending from the first elongated body, wherein the first base member is attachable to the motherboard and a first pivot portion extending from the first elongated body, wherein the first pivot portion is angled upward toward an interior side of the first bracket. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134990 | COMPOSITE ELECTRONIC COMPONENT AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A composite electronic component includes a multilayer wiring block having a plurality of insulating layers and a wiring pattern, and a chip-type electronic component built-in multilayer block having a plurality of insulating payers and a wiring pattern and including a first chip-type electronic component. The multilayer wiring block and the chip-type electronic component built-in multilayer block are electrically interconnected and arranged on substantially the same plane. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134991 | Chip embedded printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof - The present invention relates to a chip embedded printed circuit board and a manufacturing method thereof. The prevent invention provides the chip embedded printed circuit board including an insulating layer embedding a chip provided with posts at an upper part, vias formed through the insulating layer, upper patterns formed at the upper part of the insulating layer to be connected to the posts and the vias and lower patterns formed at a lower part of the insulating layer to be connected to the vias, and the manufacturing method thereof. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134992 | Embedding Thin Film Resistors in Substrates in Power Delivery Networks - Using die side capacitors and embedded resistors, an advantageous power delivery network may be achieved. In some embodiments, the embedded resistors may be more precisely controllable. The number of die side capacitors may be reduced by combining embedded resistors with these capacitors to reduce costs. The embedded resistors may be provided within the metallization layers either at an upper layer or a lower layer, as two examples. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134993 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, CIRCUIT BOARD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic component includes: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing to the first surface; a trans-substrate conductive plug that penetrates the semiconductor substrate from the first surface to the second surface; an electronic element provided in the vicinity of the first surface of the semiconductor; and a sealing member that seals the electronic element between the sealing member and the first surface, wherein the electronic element is electrically connected to the trans-substrate conductive plug. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134994 | POWER SEMICONDUCTOR MODULE - A power semiconductor module is disclosed, comprising: a substrate mounted with a power semiconductor device and formed with a pattern; and an integrated terminal unit integrally assembled with a power terminal for applying power to the substrate and a body in which a signal terminal for inputting a signal to or outputting the signal from the substrate is made of an insulated resin material, wherein the integrated terminal unit can be mounted to the substrate to allow the power terminal and the signal terminal to be simultaneously connected to the substrate. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134995 | Electrical Interconnection System - According to one embodiment, an electrical interconnection system includes a pair of printed wiring boards formed of a printed wiring board material. Each printed wiring board has multiple surface pads formed on a surface of the printed wiring board adjacent its outer edge. The surface of each printed wiring board is operable to be placed adjacent to one another such that an electrical circuit coupled to one printed wiring board is electrically coupled to another electrical circuit of the other printed wiring board by contact of the surface pads of each printed wiring board with one another. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134996 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE - An integrated circuit package comprising at least two printed circuit boards each comprising a substrate coated with metallic layers on both sides and having plated through-holes for electrical and thermal connection to the metallic layers, at least two of the printed circuit boards being diffusion-bonded at an interface between their respective metallic layers, the bonded metallic layers forming an hermetic seal between the opposed external surfaces of the integrated circuit package. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134997 | CONTROL DEVICE HAVING A POSITION SENSOR - An electronic control device is described for controlling an automatic transmission, having a control circuit an integrated plug connector and an integrated position sensor in a housing, the position sensor including a stator and a rotor. In order to improve the production quality of the position sensor, the stator of the position sensor is enclosed by the material of the housing in a stationary manner. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134998 | Adapter, socket, electronic device, and mounting method - An adapter has a body having a plate-like shape, a holding portion which holds the semiconductor package on a first surface of the body to be electrically connected to terminals of the semiconductor package, and first terminals provided on a second surface of the body and electrically connected to the fitting portions. The adapter is designed mountable to a board via a socket by inserting the first terminals into the socket. | 2010-06-03 |
20100134999 | Display Panel and a Light Source Used Therein - A display panel and a light source device used therein are provided. The display panel includes a light-guide thin-film circuit substrate, a light source and a polarizing layer. The light-guide thin-film circuit substrate has a light entrance end and a light exit top surface, and the light source is disposed corresponding to the light entrance end. The polarizing layer is disposed on the light-guide thin-film circuit substrate and parallels the light exit top surface of the light-guide thin-film circuit substrate. The light produced by the light source enters the circuit substrate through the light entrance end, guided and transmitted through the circuit substrate, and then leaves the circuit substrate through the light exit top surface and enters the polarizing layer. The light after passing through the polarizing layer is turned into a polarized light having flat light source effect as a backlight source for the system. A polarizer may even be disposed between the light source and the light entrance end, so the light is turned into polarized light before entering the circuit substrate. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135000 | LIGHT UNIT WITH INTERNAL POWER FAILURE DETECTION - A light unit that includes an internal power supply that may be used in the event of an external power failure to provide power to the light unit. In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a lighting apparatus, comprising (a) a power input configured to receive external power from an external power source; (b) a solid state light element that is interconnected to the power input; (c) a detection circuit interconnected to the power input and that, when power is not provided to the power input, measures input impedance at the power input and determines if there is a lack of external power; and (d) a back-up power source that is interconnected to the solid state light element and the power input and that provides power to the solid state light element when the light element is; not provided with power from the power input. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135001 | LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICE WITH A LONG LIFESPAN - A light-emitting device includes a housing, a light-emitting unit, a cup-shaped reflector, and a plurality of leads. The light-emitting unit is disposed in the housing. The cup-shaped reflector is disposed in the housing, and includes a base wall that is formed with a plurality of holes therethrough, and a surrounding wall that diverges from the base wall thereof and that surrounds the light-emitting unit. Each of the leads extends into the housing and is coupled electrically to the light-emitting unit. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135002 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM FOR ILLUMINATING DISPLAY DEVICES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH AN ILLUMINATION - The invention relates to an illumination system ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100135003 | Backlight Module and Liquid Crystal Display Module Using the Backlight Module - This present invention discloses a backlight module and a flat display device using the backlight module. The backlight module has a plastic base having a plastic plate and a plastic frame, wherein a light guide plate is disposed on the plastic plate. The plastic plate is light reflective and has a thickness ranging from 0.2 mm to 0.9 mm. The plastic plate is used to reflect light leaking from the light guide plate. The reflectivity of the plastic plate to the visible light with wavelength ranging from 410 nm to 780 nm ranges from 80% to 95%. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135004 | BACK-LIT DISPLAYS WITH HIGH ILLUMINATION UNIFORMITY - A directly illuminated display unit includes a display panel and one or more light sources disposed behind the display panel. The light sources are capable of producing illumination light. A diffusive light diverting layer is disposed between the one or more light sources and the display panel. The light diverting layer comprises first light diverting elements disposed on one of a first side of the light diverting layer facing display panel and second light diverting elements disposed on a second side of the light diverting layer facing away from the display panel. The diffusive light diverting layer further comprises diffusing particles disposed within a polymeric matrix. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135005 | LIGHTING DEVICE FOR DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY DEVICE AND TELEVISION RECEIVER - An optical member | 2010-06-03 |
20100135006 | LED light group lamp - An LED light group lamp includes a plurality of fixing portions criss-crossed and equidistantly disposed at a front side of a lamp holder, and a power supply module, installed at a back side of the lamp holder and electrically coupled to each fixing portion, and each LED light source is soldered, inserted, latched or screwed to the fixing portion, and the lamp holder includes a protective cover at a front side of the lamp holder. The modular design of the lamp not just significantly reduces the manufacturing cost only, but also facilitates the installation of the lamp to a general ceiling or a light steel frame as well as its maintenance and repair. Each LED light source can be replaced separately to lower the application cost, and the heat produced by each LED light source can be dissipated through the lamp holder and the fixture body to enhance the lifetime of the lamp. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135007 | MULTIPLE AXES ADJUSTABLE LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting assembly includes a thermally conductive mounting having a mounting surface is provided. The lighting assembly further includes a thermally conductive carriage having a front and a rear surface. The rear surface of the carriage is moveably mounted to the front surface of the mounting. A heat sink seat having a front and a rear surface is moveably mounted to the front surface of the carriage. A light emitting device may be attached to the front surface of the heat sink seat. In use, the carriage is moveable along a first axis and the heat sink seat is moveable along a second axis, the first axis and second axis being substantially transverse. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135008 | LED STREETLIGHT WITH HEAT-DISSIPATING STRUCTURE - An LED streetlight with heat-dissipating structure. The LED streetlight includes a light housing composed of an upper cover and a lower cover connected therewith to define an opening, a common rail assembly fixedly attached to an inner face of a bottom of the light housing, and a gas-permeable shade. The common rail assembly includes multiple common rail base seats connected with multiple LED light bulbs and multiple circuit boards. The gas-permeable shade is fitted with the end of the light housing to seal the opening thereof. The heat generated by the LED light bulbs are conducted by the common rail base seats and dissipated to internal space and outer side of the light housing. The heat on outer side of the light housing is carried away by external cold air. The heat in the internal space of the light housing is quickly dissipated through the gas-permeable shade to outer side of the light housing by way of thermal convection. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135009 | CUSTOM COLOR LED REPLACEMENTS FOR TRADITIONAL LIGHTING FIXTURES - A system useful as a light bulb replacement fixture is presented comprising a light bulb replacement fixture; at least one light emitting diode connected to the light bulb replacement fixture; and at least one quantum dot for absorbing light of a first wavelength emitted by the at least one light emitting diode and emitting light of a second wavelength. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135010 | CONDENSING DEVICE FOR LED - A condensing device for LED includes a base arranged with LED on a surface thereof and a projecting lens aligned to a center of the base. Lights from the LED will be concentrated by the projecting lens without scattering. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135011 | PEST AND VANDAL RESISTANT SOLID STATE LUMINAIRE - The present invention provides a light emitting fixture or luminaire that is sealed from the outside and possesses no major voids within. This arrangement protects the light emitting elements, in a preferred embodiment consisting of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) from the elements as well as keeping pests and vandals from inhabiting and/or causing damage to the luminaire. The light emitting elements have lenses that add high impact resistance, thus improving safety and reliability. The luminaire is easy and quick to install; it can be installed using only one hand tool, and can easily be handled with thick gloves. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135012 | LED lighting fixture - A LED lighting fixture includes a light guide board, which is made of a high transmissive material and directly mounted in the cavity of a lamp holder, furniture, utensil, or the construction of a building, having a clear base layer at the front side and a continuous piece of reflective layer with a corrugated cross section at the back side, and a plurality of LEDs mounted within the cavity outside the light guide board and controlled to emit light transversely into the inside of the light guide boards for reflection by the reflective layer to increase the angle of illumination and to provide a uniform lighting effect having an enhanced brightness without multi-image and flashing. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135013 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM - An illumination system includes at least one illumination module and a mechanism. The illumination module includes a light source generating a light beam, a first reflector, in which the light source is positioned, including a first reflective surface to reflect the light beam to form a first beam, and a second reflector including a second reflective surface reflecting the light beam and the first beam to form a second beam and a third beam, wherein the second and third beams combine to generate a projection pattern. The mechanism adjusts the position of the second reflector relative to the light source to change the projection pattern. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135014 | LIGHT SOURCE APPARATUS - A light source apparatus in which a light guide member is held reliably also in the configuration in which the light guide member is displaced. The light source apparatus includes a plurality of light sources arranged on an identical virtual circle, a rotary table rotatable about an axial line of the virtual circle, a drive unit configured to rotate the rotary table, a light guide member configured to guide alight emitted from the light sources, and a fixing member configured to fix the light guide member in a state in which an outgoing end is positioned at the center of the virtual circle, and an incoming end is directed radially outwardly of the virtual circle. The fixing member includes supporting parts which receive the light guide member from the incoming end side to limit a movement of the light guide member toward the incoming end. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135015 | LED ILLUMINATION DEVICE - An LED illumination device includes a light-emitting module, a heat sink and an electrical module. The light-emitting module includes a light source provided with a plurality of LEDs. The heat sink includes an elongated base and a plurality of fins extending from the base. The base has a top surface and an opposite bottom surface. The fins extend upwardly from the top surface of the base. The light source is thermally attached to the bottom surface of the base. The heat sink is provided with at least one receiving space at a top side thereof. The electrical module includes at least one circuit board and two end covers. The at least one circuit board is accommodated in the at least one receiving space of the heat sink. The two end covers are arranged at two opposite ends of the heat sink. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135016 | LAMP UNIT - Disclosed is a lamp unit | 2010-06-03 |
20100135017 | LIGHTING FIXTURES AND SYSTEMS WITH HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND VISUAL QUALITY - Lighting fixtures, systems, and methods of using the lighting fixtures that can achieve radically increased energy efficiency and visual effectiveness, are disclosed. The invention also offers the potential for decorative effects, supplementary background lighting, and other lighting effects. Various embodiments use light sources capable of individual focus, replacement, and control of operation. Fixtures allow mounting of the light emitting components to achieve a large effective aperture/diameter of the fixture in relation to the distance from the illuminated area, producing improved illumination. The light emitting components may be installed on parts of the fixture that may be oriented individually, thereby allowing infinite and/or incremental adjustment of the overall light emission pattern to achieve desirable illumination effects. Desirable lighting effects are further achievable by selection of the lighting type (LED, incandescent, fluorescent, etc), combinations thereof, and by selection of the fixture aperture/diameter, axis, and intensity. Shielding of the light sources to avoid glare to bystanders may be included. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135018 | Semiconductor radiation source - The invention relates to a semiconductor radiation source comprising a base body which is connected to at least one LED chip thermally connected to an end side of the base body and a pliable flexible printed circuit board fitted on the same end side of the base body. The flexible printed circuit board at least partly surrounds the LED chip, has at least one printed-on conductor track ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100135019 | LED LAMP ASSEMBLY - An LED lamp assembly includes a bracket, a heat sink secured on the bracket, a plurality of LED modules mounted on a bottom of the heat sink, and a transparent envelope correspondingly covering the LED modules. A sealing chamber is cooperatively defined by the heat sink, the bracket and the envelope, and the LED modules are received in the sealing chamber. The LED assembly is further provided with a gas-injecting member for injecting a predetermined gas into the sealing chamber of the LED lamp assembly therethrough. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135020 | Modular illumination systems - Lighting systems are provided which may be modular in form. Components of the systems include light emitting modules having a plurality of light emitting elements such as an array of spaced apart surface mounted or through board light emitting diodes, a power input connected to the light emitting module, and a housing assembly structured to receive the module. The housing assembly includes an attachment member for securing the housing element to a mounting surface, and a face portion effective to allow passage of light from the array of light emitting elements to a region to be illuminated when the module is received by the housing assembly. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135021 | VIBRATING AND TWINKLING LED BACKLIGHTING DEVICE - A waterproof vibrating and twinkling LED backlighting device includes: a main body ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100135022 | LIGHTING SUBSTRATE - The present invention concerns a lighting substrate that supports an array of lights, and in particular small decorative lights. The invention also concerns a lighting arrangement incorporating the lighting substrate together with an array of lights. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135023 | LIGHTING DEVICE - A lighting device having a light source and devices for changing the illumination area, comprising two arrangements made of transparent flat components with oblong imaging elements disposed next to each other in a parallel fashion, having a surface deviating from a plane on at least one side, the imaging properties of the component arrangements can be changeable and the longitudinal axes of the one component arrangement being perpendicular to those of the other, characterized in that the light source is a matrix-shaped arrangement of light emitting diodes. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135024 | Decorative light protection device with environmental impact reduction features - A decorative lighting assembly preferably comprises a shell assembly for use in combination with a lamp assembly having conductors and a lamp in electrical communication with said conductors intermediate the length thereof. The shell assembly comprises two shells, of which at least a portion is translucent or light-filtering. The shells each comprise an interior shell surface, an exterior shell surface, and cooperative shell fasteners. The fasteners fasten the shells together, and thereby the interior shell surfaces define a lamp-housing interior space. Opposed shell ends define conductor-letting apertures through which the conductors extend. The lamp is housed within the interior space. The conductors deliver power to the lamp, and the lamp, when powered, radiates light observable at the exterior shell surface(s) via the light-filtering material. Certain light refractive structures and glow in the dark elements may be added to enhance the assembly. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135025 | LIGHTING MODULE AND LIGHTING SYSTEM - A lighting module includes a light source, a heat sink, a case, and a fan. The light source has a light emitting surface and a bottom surface opposite thereto. The heat sink is disposed at the bottom surface of the light source and includes a heat sink mass having a heat dissipation surface, wherein the heat dissipation surface is opposite to the bottom surface. The case is disposed to the heat sink and has a module airflow inlet and a module airflow outlet. The fan is disposed to the case or the heat sink for driving airflow to sequentially pass through the module airflow inlet, the heat sink, and the module airflow outlet. The case is capable of making the flowing direction of the airflow passing the module airflow outlet the same as the light emitting direction of the light emitting from the light emitting surface. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135026 | REFLECTOR SYSTEM FOR ELECTRODE-LESS PLASMA SOURCE - The present invention relates to a lamp primarily for projectors, which lamp comprises at least one light source, which light source is formed of at least one Electrode Less Plasma Source (ELPS), which light sources comprises a light bulb comprising a plasma material, which plasma material is excited to emit light by electromagnetic radiation, which lamp comprises at least a first reflector, which light source is placed inside the first reflector, which lamp further comprises at least a second reflector. The present invention further concerns a method for forming a beam of light generated from an ELPS light source, where the light is concentrated by a first reflector and where the light is further concentrated in a second reflector. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135027 | ANTI-GLARE INDOOR LAMP - An exemplary anti-glare indoor lamp includes a shade, light source, and an optical sheet. The shade defines a receiving cavity therein and an opening at the bottom of the receiving cavity. The light source is received in the receiving cavity and positioned to emit light toward the opening. The optical sheet is arranged facing the opening and is sized to cover only part of the opening. The optical sheet is configured for reducing the brightness of the light passing therethrough, and is movable to cover a selected part of the opening. Therefore, the light reaching eyes of a user is reduced, and glare is avoided or at least mitigated. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135028 | LIGHT EMITTING DEVICE AND LIGHTING DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A light-emitting device ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100135029 | Lighting assembly having end wall with retaining member - A lighting assembly includes a housing enclosing a lamp for illuminating a target area. The housing has an open end and an end wall removably coupled to the open end of the housing. A retaining member such as a spring clip extends between the end wall and the internal portion of the housing for retaining the end wall to the housing. The spring clip has one end coupled to the end wall and a hook-like portion received in an aperture in the housing for applying a biasing tension on the end wall. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135030 | CEILING RECESSED-TYPE LAMP UNIT - Disclosed is a ceiling recessed-type lamp unit, which is capable of facilitating recessedly mounting a unit body to a ceiling, in a reliable manner regardless of a lamp unit's size. The lamp unit comprises a support member | 2010-06-03 |
20100135031 | Heat-dissipating module and heat-dissipating apparatus for light-emitting diode - The present invention disclosed a heat-dissipating module for a light-emitting diode (LED), comprising:a LED substrate having a plurality of extending feet; a heat-dissipating device having a center portion; wherein the plurality of extending feet are bent downwards by an angel to be placed into the center portion so that the extending feet are tightly combined with the heat-dissipating device. A heat-dissipating apparatus for a light-emitting diode (LED) includes a heat-dissipating device, a LED substrate, a ring, and an electrically controlled carrier assembly. The heat-dissipating device has a hollow center potion. The LED substrate having a plurality of extending feet is bent downwards at an angle of 90 degrees. The LED substrate is placed into the hollow center potion of the heat-dissipating device so that the extending feet can be tightly combined with the heat-dissipating device. The electrically controlled carrier assembly is disposed in a lower half portion of the center potion of the heat-dissipating device, for driving at least one LED. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135032 | Rod Assembly Connector for Mounting Light Emitting Display Apparatuses - A method and system for connecting a light emitting apparatus is disclosed herein. The system includes at least two rod assembly connectors, in which each rod assembly connector includes a rod assembly body having a first end and a second end. The first end of one of the rod assembly connectors is configured to connect with the second end of the second rod assembly connector. Further, at least one of the rod assembly connectors includes an attachment mechanism, in which the attachment mechanism is configured to attach to a light emitting apparatus. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135033 | SEARCHLIGHT HAVING PULL-IN BEZEL RETENTION FOR MARINE APPLICATIONS - A searchlight is provided featuring a bezel pull-in retention assembly having a frame and a housing. The frame has a back plate configured with at least one opening to receive a fastening device. The housing is configured with a front end opening for receiving the frame, configured with a back end opening having an outer rim for receiving a seal plate, the seal plate configured to be adapted in the rim of the back end opening, to receive the fastening device and to fixedly couple the frame to the housing. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135034 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT MOUNTING MODULE AND ELECTRICAL APPARATUS - The invention provides an electronic component mounting module capable of increasing the adhesion between the board and the heat radiating member, improving the thermal conductivity, and effectively radiating heat generated from the LEDs being an electronic component. The LEDs are mounted on the surface of the ceramics board, and the rear surface | 2010-06-03 |
20100135035 | ADAPTIVE PROJECTOR SYSTEM FOR HEADLIGHTS OF MOTOR VEHICLES - An adaptive projector system for headlights of motor vehicles is disclosed, the system consists of a reflector with a light source, a lens ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100135036 | VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICE - An optical axis O′ of a lens section of an optical member is inclined downward relative to a horizontal direction (an optical axis O of each LED) from a light emitting section of each LED. Therefore, an area at and below a horizontal position of a lighting device is illuminated by the lens section while each LED is arranged at an optically ideal position relative to the lens section. Also, reflection surfaces of upper and lower reflector sections and of the optical member are respectively set based on parabolas P | 2010-06-03 |
20100135037 | VEHICULAR PROJECTOR HEADLAMP - A vehicular projector headlamp includes: a projection lens; a first LED element and a second LED element that are light sources and that are arranged on opposite sides of an optical axis of the projection lens so as to substantially face each other; a first reflector that has a first reflective surface having a first focal point located at the first LED element and a second focal point located in proximity to a rear focal point of the projection lens; and a second reflector that has a second reflective surface having a first focal point located at the second LED element and a second focal point located in proximity to the rear focal point of the projection lens, wherein the second reflective surface faces the first reflective surface. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135038 | FRONTLIGHTS FOR REFLECTIVE DISPLAYS - A frontlight illuminator arrangement for a reflective display that includes a light guide and a pair of light sources coupled to the light guide at an angle that is neither normal to or orthogonal to a primary axis of the display. The light is internally reflected along the light guide until it is coupled into an optical element of similar refractive index that is adjacent to the light guide in the vicinity of the display. The optical element includes a multi-faceted beam splitter that reflects light back through the light guide onto the display where an image is formed and reflected back through the light guide and beam splitter. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135039 | BACKLIGHT MODULE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A backlight module includes a light guide plate having a light input surface, a light source adjacent to the light input surface of the light guide plate, and a frame unit receiving the light guide plate and the light source. The frame unit includes a back plate and a light reflective layer. The back plate defines a plurality of openings, and the light reflective layer covers the back plate and fills the openings. A method for manufacturing the backlight module is also provided. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135040 | Light-Emitting Element and Display Device Using Same - A self light emitting display device having high level of the external coupling efficiency and high grade image presentation as no optical cross-talk or blur can be obtained by a new light-emitting element. The device is constructed as follows. A plurality of picture elements, each of which picture elements has an organic layer composing light emitting areas, a transparent electrode and a reflective electrodes, are formed on a substrate. Between the picture elements, a bank which has a tilted reflective surface is formed so that the light emitting area is surrounded by the bank wherein the transparent optical waveguide layer is formed as optically isolated for each of the picture elements. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135041 | LIGHT GUIDE PLATE AND BACKLIGHT MODULE USING THE SAME - A light guide plate includes a plurality of micro dots. The micro dots are provided uniformly on one side of the light guide plate and are integrated with the light guide plate. Each dot is coated by a fluorescent layer, and the fluorescent layer emits light when excited by an ultraviolet light. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135042 | Light Guide Plate Microstructure - A light guide plate microstructure is provided. The light guide plate microstructure is located on at least one surface of the light guide plate and has a plurality of groove units. Each groove unit has multiple V-shaped grooves, and each V-shaped groove has an apex angle within a range of about 80°-160°. Furthermore, at least two of the V-shaped grooves of a groove unit have different apex angles. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135043 | COMPOSITE LIGHT GUIDING CURVED SURFACE STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a composite light guiding curved surface structure, comprising a structure body and at least one light source. The structure body comprises a light-receiving surface being provided with a plurality of curved surfaces formed thereon, each of which being provided with a plurality of micro lenses. Each micro lens is further provided with a plurality of sub-wavelength anti-reflecting structures. The sub-wavelength anti-reflecting structures also cover the entire curved surface among lenses. At least one light source is disposed on one side of the light-receiving surface to generate a light field projecting to each of the curved surfaces on the light-receiving surface. In the present invention, the micro lens is capable of increasing the diffusing angle for light diffusion; meanwhile, the sub-wavelength anti-reflecting structures are capable of increasing the light transmission efficiency to reduce loss of light at the interface and enhance the utilization of light. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135044 | SINGLE-STAGE SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY - A single-stage switching power supply includes a transformer, a voltage level generation circuit, a first switching circuit, a second switching circuit, a rectifying and filtering circuit, a feedback circuit and a control circuit. The rectifying and filtering circuit is connected to the secondary winding assembly and the system circuit for generating an output voltage. The feedback circuit generates a feedback signal in response to the output voltage. In response to the feedback signal and an operating-status signal issued by the system circuit, the first and second switching circuits are alternately enabled under control of the control circuit such that electric energy of a first DC voltage is transmitted from the first primary winding assembly to the secondary winding assembly. The first switching circuit is disabled but the second switching circuit is enabled under control of the control circuit when the operating-status signal is at a standby operating status. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135045 | Sine Wave Inverter - An inverter circuit having a single conversion stage with substantially zero-current switching. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135046 | PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM - The first sampling measurement value compares whether to exceed a prescribed threshold and judges the control part at the sampling time. The control part compares whether the first sampling measurement value exceeds a prescribed threshold. When the actual measurement value doesn't exceed a prescribed threshold, the control part predict the first sampling value at the next sampling time. [1] When the first sampling the predicting value doesn't exceed the threshold value, the status of the switch is maintained, [2] When the first sampling the predicting value exceeds the threshold value, the time when the movement of the switch should be changed is calculated and the status of the switch is changed at time concerned. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135047 | High-Voltage Modulator System - A high-power modulation system includes drive circuitry that receives input signals from the signal source via a series of transformers. The drive circuitry amplifies the input signals and provides the resulting amplified signals to the high-power switch. The switch includes a series of stacked switching elements, each with a control terminal, first and second current-handling terminals, and feedback path extending between the first current-handling terminal and the control terminal. The feedback paths work in concert to turn the switches on and off together to prevent excessive voltage from developing across one or a subset of the switching elements. The feedback path includes a resistor that dampens the bandwidth of the feedback path to reduce turn-off and turn-on ringing and oscillation. The damping resistor may be coupled in series with a diode that holds charge against the control terminal of the switching element. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135048 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY DEVICE AND METHOD OF STARTING THE SAME - To reduce power loss during standby. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135049 | CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR A SWITCH UNIT OF A CLOCKED POWER SUPPLY CIRCUIT, AND RESONANCE CONVERTER - A control circuit for a switch unit of a clocked power supply circuit, the switch unit being designed to effect input-side excitation of a resonant transformer arrangement, comprises an input for receiving an auxiliary signal from the resonant transformer arrangement. The auxiliary signal exhibits an essentially fixed phase relation to a load alternating current flowing through a resonant circuit of the transformer arrangement. The control circuit further comprises a phase detector designed to detect reference crossing moments when the auxiliary signal crosses a predefined reference value, a driver controllable to switch the switch unit, and a synchronization means designed to synchronize a turn-on of the switch unit by the driver with regard to a phase position with the auxiliary signal so as to achieve a turn-on of the switch unit within a predetermined time interval around a zero crossing of a voltage present across the switch unit, or of a current flowing through the switch unit. The synchronization means is further designed to receive information about the reference crossing moments from the phase detector, and to provide a turn-on signal to the driver with a fixed phase delay at the reference crossing moments, so as to define turn-on moments at which the driver is to turn on the switch unit. The control circuit further comprises a detector designed to determine an amplitude information which depends on an amplitude or a mean value of the auxiliary signal, and a regulator designed to change an operating frequency in dependence on the amplitude information supplied by the detector, and to determine a period duration between turn-off moments at which the driver is to turn off the switch unit as a reciprocal of the operating frequency. An inventive resonance converter enables independent control of frequency and turn-on moments, or duty cycle, and thus enables a particularly efficient operation of the resonance converter, and a particularly precise regulation. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135050 | SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY CONTROL CIRCUIT - A comparator detects whether a feedback signal of an output voltage detecting circuit for a switching power supply circuit reaches a control voltage. A comparator detects an operating state of the switching power supply circuit, which is instructed by a switching instruction signal, by comparing the instruction signal with a reference voltage. The comparators are connected to a decision circuit which outputs to a control circuit a signal instructing a normal state until the feedback signal reaches the control voltage, and thereafter a signal instructing a normal state or a stand-by state that is instructed by the switching instruction signal. Thus, the control circuit makes the switching power supply circuit operate in a normal state until the output voltage reaches the control voltage. After the output voltage reaches the control voltage, the switching power supply circuit operated in an operation state instructed by the switching instruction signal to enable stable startup. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135051 | THREE-PHASE INVERTER FOR CONVERTING DC POWER FROM A GENERATOR INTO THREE-PHASE AC POWER - A three-phase inverter for converting DC power from a generator into three-phase AC power comprises a transformer for transforming two single phase alternating voltages with a fixed phase offset present at corresponding two primary windings into a three-phase alternating voltage present at secondary windings of the transformer. An inverter circuitry for receiving a direct voltage of the generator between two input lines and for supplying the two single phase alternating voltages to the two primary windings of the transformer is included in the three-phase inverter and comprises a split DC link having a center point connected to both input lines via corresponding capacitors and connected to a first terminal of each primary winding of the transformer, and two inverter half-bridges connected to both input lines, wherein a center point of each half bridge is connected to a second terminal of a corresponding one of the primary windings of the transformer. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135052 | VOLTAGE MULTIPLIER WITH IMPROVED POWER EFFICIENCY AND APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH SUCH VOLTAGE MULTIPLIER - A voltage multiplier comprising a chain of multiplier stages, each multiplier stage (STGj) comprising first and second inputs (IPIj, IP | 2010-06-03 |
20100135053 | POWER CONVERSION CIRCUIT - A power conversion circuit includes a bidirectional switch | 2010-06-03 |
20100135054 | INVERTER FOR FEEDING ELECTRIC ENERGY INTO A POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - An inverter ( | 2010-06-03 |
20100135055 | Trailer Hitch Plug Power Inverter - Disclosed is a power inverter for use in converting 12VDC to 115VAC, the power inverter is adapted for securement to a conventional trailer hitch connector. The power inverter provides remote power to 115 volt accessory items by use of a conventional 115 volt output receptacle positionable at the rear of a vehicle by use of the trailer hitch connector so as to eliminate the need for extension cords commonly used when powering 115 volt accessories from a conventional vehicle. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135056 | SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE - A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array divided into a plurality of subarrays arranged in matrix form, the plurality of subarrays making up a plurality of subarray columns, an address pad column formed outside the memory cell array, the address pad column comprising a plurality of address pads that are arranged to be substantially parallel to the subarray columns, a data I/O pad column formed in a middle section of the memory cell array, the data I/O pad column comprising data I/O pads that are arranged to be substantially parallel to the subarray columns, an address input circuit arranged in the middle section of the memory cell array, and a pad input address line formed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the subarray columns on the memory cell array, the pad input address line directly connecting the address pad and the address input circuit. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135057 | MULTI-PORT MEMORY DEVICE HAVING SERIAL INPUT/OUTPUT INTERFACE - A multi-port memory device includes a first package ball out region in which a plurality of balls for a serial I/O interface part are arranged; and a second package ball out region in which a plurality of balls for a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) part are arranged. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135058 | MAGNETIC MEMORY, DRIVING METHOD THEREOF, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A magnetic memory, a driving method thereof, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The magnetic memory includes a plurality of lead structures, a plurality of first magnetic metal structures, a second magnetic metal structure, and an insulation layer. Each of the first magnetic metal structures is disposed between adjacent two of the lead structures, and the second magnetic metal structure spans over the lead structures. A structure composed of the first magnetic metal structures and the second magnetic metal structure includes a plurality of magnetic memory cells connected with each other. Each of the magnetic memory cells has a magnetic domain and a domain wall adjacent to the magnetic domain, wherein the magnetic domain is suitable for storing a bit data. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135059 | Information storage devices using magnetic domain wall movement and methods of operating the same - Provided are information storage devices using movement of magnetic domain walls and methods of operating information storage devices. An information storage device includes a magnetic track and an operating unit. The magnetic track includes a plurality of magnetic domains separated by magnetic domain walls. The size of the operating unit is sufficient to cover at least two adjacent magnetic domains. And, the operating unit may be configured to write/read information to/from a single magnetic domain as well as a plurality of magnetic domains of the magnetic track. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135060 | MEMORY DEVICE AND STORAGE APPARATUS - A memory device | 2010-06-03 |
20100135061 | Non-Volatile Memory Cell with Ferroelectric Layer Configurations - In some embodiments of the invention a non-volatile memory cell is provided with a first electrode, a second electrode, and one or more side layers of a ferroelectric metal oxide and a ferroelectric material layer between the first and second electrodes. The ferroelectric material layer may be provided between, e.g., adjacent, two side layers of a ferroelectric metal oxide or between a single layer of a ferroelectric metal oxide and an electrode. The ferroelectric metal oxide may in some cases include a uniform layered structure such as a bismuth layer-structured ferroelectric material like Bi | 2010-06-03 |
20100135062 | Very high speed FRAM for replacing SRAM - For replacing SRAM with very high speed FRAM, new memory architecture is realized such that plurality of FRAM cells is connected to a local bit line pair, a local sense amp is connected to the local bit line pair, a global sense amp is connected to the local sense amp through a global bit line pair, and a locking signal generator is connected to the global sense amp for generating a locking signal which disables the local sense amp after reading for quick write-back operation. With short bit line architecture, bit lines are multi-divided for reducing parasitic capacitance of the local bit line, which realizes to reduce the ferroelectric capacitor proportionally. The FRAM cell includes an access transistor pair, a ferroelectric capacitor pair for storing positive data and negative data, and a reset transistor pair for resetting storage nodes. And various circuits for implementing the memory are described. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135063 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE INCLUDING BIT LINE GROUPS - A semiconductor device includes: a first read/write amplifier; a second read/write amplifier; a first group of bit lines belonging to the first read/write amplifier; a second group of bit lines belonging to the second read/write amplifier and mixed with the first group of bit lines. One of the first group of bit lines and one of the second group of bit lines are selected in parallel. A reference potential is supplied to at least one of the first non-selected bit lines adjacent to the first selected bit line selected from the first group of bit lines, and to at least one of the second non-selected bit lines adjacent to the second selected bit line selected from the first group of bit lines. At least one of remaining ones of the first and second non-selected bit lines is set into a floating state. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135064 | SWITCH AND METHOD OF FORMING THE SAME - A memory device includes a memory cell that includes a storage node, a first electrode, and a second electrode, the storage node stores an electrical charge, and the first electrode moves to connect to the storage node when the second electrode is energized. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135065 | POWER-OFF APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - Apparatus, methods, and systems are disclosed, including those that are to prevent a bias voltage from rising to a higher level than a storage node voltage as the bias voltage transitions to a ground level. For example a first voltage generator may be utilized to generate a bias voltage to bias a transistor in a memory cell in a memory array. A second voltage generator may be utilized to generate an plate voltage. The memory cell may include a transistor on a substrate and a capacitor. The capacitor connects from a drain of the transistor to the plate voltage. The storage node voltage is located at the drain of the transistor. A power controller may provide an off signal to the first and second voltage generators. The bias voltage may then transition to ground from a voltage less than zero volts. The rate of the bias voltage rise to ground is such that the bias voltage is maintained at less than or equal to the storage node voltage during the transition time period. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135066 | BIT LINE CHARGE ACCUMULATION SENSING FOR RESISTIVE CHANGING MEMORY - A memory array includes a plurality of magneto-resistive changing memory cells. Each resistive changing memory cell is electrically between a source line and a bit line and a transistor electrically between the resistive changing memory cell and the bit line. The transistor has a gate electrically between a source region and a drain region and the source region being electrically between the magneto-resistive changing memory cell and the gate. A word line is electrically coupled to the gate. A bit line charge accumulation sensing for magneto-resistive changing memory is also disclosed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135067 | NON-VOLATILE MEMORY WITH STRAY MAGNETIC FIELD COMPENSATION - A method and apparatus for stray magnetic field compensation in a non-volatile memory cell, such as a spin-torque transfer random access memory (STRAM). In some embodiments, a first tunneling barrier is coupled to a reference structure that has a perpendicular anisotropy and a first magnetization direction. A recording structure that has a perpendicular anisotropy is coupled to the first tunneling barrier and a nonmagnetic spacer layer. A compensation layer that has a perpendicular anisotropy and a second magnetization direction in substantial opposition to the first magnetization direction is coupled to the nonmagnetic spacer layer. Further, the memory cell is programmable to a selected resistance state with application of a current to the recording structure. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135068 | RESISTANCE-CHANGE MEMORY DEVICE - A resistance-change memory device is provided and includes a stack constituting a tunnel magnetoresistance effect element that has a magnetic layer in which a direction of magnetization is switchable and that is formed on a conductive layer, and the stack is included in a resistance-change memory cell performing data writing utilizing a spin transfer effect caused by current injection. The stack is formed such that a line connecting centers of respective layers of the stack is tilted with respect to a direction perpendicular to a surface of the conductive layer having the stack formed thereon. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135069 | RESISTANCE VARIABLE MEMORY DEVICE - A resistance variable memory device is provided and includes a resistance variable memory cell that writes data by utilizing a spin transfer effect based on an injection current. The memory device also includes a driving circuit that generates a combined pulse of a plurality of write pulses and an offset pulse defining the level between the write pulses and supplies the combined pulse to the memory cell at the time of the writing. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135070 | Adjustable Write Pulse Generator Within a Chalcogenide Memory Device - An adjustable write pulse generator is disclosed. The adjustable write pulse generator includes a band-gap reference current, a programmable ring oscillator, a frequency divider and a single pulse generator. The band-gap reference current circuit generates a well-compensated current over a predetermined range of temperatures needed to program a chalcogenide memory cell. The programmable ring oscillator generates a first set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals based on the well-compensated current. The frequency divider then divides the first set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals into a second set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals. The single pulse generator subsequently converts the second set of continuous write “0” and write “1” pulse signals into a single write “0” pulse signal or a single write “1” pulse signal when programming the chalcogenide memory cell. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135071 | MICROELECTRONIC PROGRAMMABLE DEVICE AND METHODS OF FORMING AND PROGRAMMING THE SAME - A microelectronic programmable structure and methods of forming and programming the structure are disclosed. The programmable structure generally includes an ion conductor and a plurality of electrodes. Electrical properties of the structure may be altered by applying a bias across the electrodes, and thus information may be stored using the structure. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135072 | Spin-Torque Bit Cell With Unpinned Reference Layer and Unidirectional Write Current - Method and apparatus for using a uni-directional write current to store different logic states in a non-volatile memory cell, such as a modified STRAM cell. In some embodiments, the memory cell has an unpinned ferromagnetic reference layer adjacent a cladded conductor, a ferromagnetic storage layer and a tunneling barrier between the reference layer and the storage layer. Passage of a current along the cladded conductor induces a selected magnetic orientation in the reference layer, which is transferred through the tunneling barrier for storage by the storage layer. Further, the orientation of the applying step is provided by a cladding layer adjacent a conductor along which a current is passed and the current induces a magnetic field in the cladding layer of the selected magnetic orientation. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135073 | ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MEMORY COMPONENT, MEMORY COMPONENT ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR OPERATING AN ORGANIC ELECTRONIC MEMORY COMPONENT - The invention relates to an organic electronic memory component having an electrode and a counterelectrode and an organic layer arrangement formed between said electrode and counterelectrode and in electrical contact herewith. wherein the organic layer arrangement comprises the following organic layers: an electrode-specific charge carrier transport layer and a counterelectrode-specific charge carrier-blocking layer and disposed between said electrode-specific charge carrier transport layer and counterelectrode-specific charge carrier-blocking layer a memory layer region having a charge carrier-storing layer and a further charge carrier-storing layer between which charge carrier-storing layer and a further charge carrier-storing layer is disposed a charge carrier barrier layer. Furthermore the invention relates to a method for the operating of an organic electronic memory component. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135074 | Post-Facto Correction for Cross Coupling in a Flash Memory - A method of storing and reading data, using a memory that includes a plurality of cells (e.g. flash cells), such that data are stored in the cells by setting respective values of a physical parameter of the cells (e.g. threshold voltage) to be indicative of the data, and such that data are read from the cells by measuring those values. One of the cells and its neighbors are read. The data stored in the cell are estimated, based on the measurements and on respective extents to which the neighbors disturb the reading. Preferably, the method also includes determining those respective extents to which the neighbors disturb the reading, for example based on the measurements themselves. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135075 | READING NON-VOLATILE MULTILEVEL MEMORY CELLS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, modules, and systems for reading non-volatile multilevel memory cells. One method includes receiving a request to read data stored in a first cell of a first word line, performing a read operation on an adjacent cell of a second word line in response to the request, determining whether the first cell is in a disturbed condition based on the read operation. The method includes reading data stored in the first cell in response to the read request by applying a read reference voltage to the first word line and adjusting a sensing parameter if the first cell is in the disturbed condition. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135076 | METHOD OF PERFORMING READ OPERATION IN FLASH MEMORY DEVICE - A method of performing a read operation in a flash memory device is disclosed. The flash memory has a memory cell array including at least one block, the block having a plurality of pages. The method comprises receiving a read command to read data from a selected page in the block; determining whether or not the block has any page that has not been programmed; performing a dummy data program operation on at least one page that is determined not to have been programmed; and executing the read command to read the data of the selected page after the dummy data program operation is completed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135077 | METHOD OF PERFORMING READ OPERATION IN FLASH MEMORY DEVICE - A method of performing a read operation in a flash memory device is disclosed. The flash memory has a memory cell array including at least one block, the block having a plurality of pages. The method comprises receiving a read command to read data from a selected page in the block; determining whether or not the block has any page that has not been programmed; performing a dummy data program operation on at least one page that is determined not to have been programmed; and executing the read command to read the data of the selected page after the dummy data program operation is completed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135078 | NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY - A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells, a source line, a bit line, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a verify reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which is supplied to the selected word line, and generating a non-selected read potential larger than the selected read potential, which is supplied to the non-selected word line, and a control circuit which classifies a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell to one of three groups by verifying which area among three area which are isolated by two values does a cell current of the selected memory cell belong, when the selected read potential is a first value. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135079 | MULTILEVEL STORAGE NONVOLATILE SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY DEVICE ENABLING HIGH-SPEED DATA READING AND HIGH-SPEED DATA WRITING - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device transmits/receives data to/from a data input/output terminal every j bits (e.g., eight bits). Each of memory cells in a memory cell array can hold data of n bits in correspondence to 2 | 2010-06-03 |
20100135080 | FABRICATION METHOD AND STRUCTURE OF SEMICONDUCTOR NON-VOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A non-volatile semiconductor memory device with good write/erase characteristics is provided. A selection gate is formed on a p-type well of a semiconductor substrate via a gate insulator, and a memory gate is formed on the p-type well via a laminated film composed of a silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film, and a silicon oxide film. The memory gate is adjacent to the selection gate via the laminated film. In the regions on both sides of the selection gate and the memory gate in the p-type well, n-type impurity diffusion layers serving as the source and drain are formed. The region controlled by the selection gate and the region controlled by the memory gate located in the channel region between said impurity diffusion layers have the different charge densities of the impurity from each other. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135081 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a control circuit configured to control reading and programming operations for reading data from and inputting data to the memory cell array, respectively. The control circuit includes first and second units. The first unit is configured to count a number of bits having logic 0 or a number of bits having logic 1, to set a logic where the counted number is greater than n/2 as an initial state to regenerate programming data, and to perform a programming operation based on the regenerated data, when simultaneously programming the programming data of n bits input for a designated address. The second unit is configured to program a recognition bit for recognizing which of the logic 0 and the logic 1 the initial state of the memory cell of the designated address is in, when the programming operation is performed. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135082 | MOVING PROGRAM VERIFY LEVEL FOR PROGRAMMING OF MEMORY - Systems, methods, and devices that employ moving program verify levels to facilitate programming data to memory elements in a memory component are presented. A program component can employs a specified number of program verify (PV) levels where a first program pulse is applied to a selected group of memory elements to facilitate verifying the cells to pass the first PV level. The PV level can be moved to a next PV level that is a higher charge level than or equal to the first PV level, and a subset of the group of cells that are below the next PV level are selected and a next program pulse is applied to the subset of cells to facilitate verifying the cells to pass the next PV level. The moving PV level process can continue until the group of memory elements is verified to pass the target PV level. | 2010-06-03 |
20100135083 | NONVOLATILE MEMORY DEVICE - A nonvolatile memory device capable of: preventing variations in current and transistor properties to prevent data readout errors; facilitating design changes with a simplified adjustment of the current ratio of transistors; and achieving increased data reading speed. The memory device comprising: a first current detecting circuit comprising a first transistor of a first conductive type coupled in a diode configuration, wherein current flows according to a reference cell through the first transistor; a second current detecting circuit comprising a second transistor of the first conductive type coupled in a diode configuration, wherein current flows according to a selected memory cell through the second transistor; a bias circuit comprising a third transistor of the first conductive type that is coupled to the first transistor by a current mirror configuration; and a differential amplifying circuit comprising a fourth transistor of the first conductive type which is coupled to the second transistor, wherein the differential amplifying circuit outputs a signal corresponding to a difference between current flowing through the third transistor and current flowing through the fourth transistor; and wherein the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor and the fourth transistor are comprised of one predetermined sized unit transistor element of the first conductive type, or are comprised of parallel couplings of predetermined sized unit transistor elements of the first conductive type | 2010-06-03 |
20100135084 | WORDLINE VOLTAGE TRANSFER APPARATUS, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS - The apparatus and systems described herein may comprise a plurality of memory cells coupled to a local wordline, and a wordline drive circuit that includes a regulator coupled to a plurality of pass transistors and a string driver. The regulator may comprise a regulator transistor having a threshold voltage that is substantially the same as the threshold voltage of the string driver during memory cell program operations. In some embodiments, the regulator may comprise a cascode-connected pair of transistors. Methods of manufacturing and operating the apparatus and systems are also described. | 2010-06-03 |