Electrical resistors inventions 04/07

20070085653 - Semiconductor device: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a ladder resistor formed on the semiconductor substrate. The ladder resistor includes a plurality of elongated resistor portions arranged in parallel with each other, a plurality of connection portions that connect the resistor portions at predetermined intervals in a longitudinal direction of... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070085654 - Process development and optimization of embedded thin film resistor on body: The present invention includes an apparatus including a thin film resistor. The thin film resistor includes a resistive component, a body, and a reactant. The resistive component includes a nickel-composite material. The body has a predetermined, sturdy shape. The body carries the resistive component. The reactant manipulates the body to... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20070080773 - Pressure sensible textile and pressure sensible device thereof: A pressure sensible textile has at least a high-resistance conducting area and two groups of low-resistance conducting wefts or warps contacting the high-resistance area directly. The two groups of low-resistance conducting wefts or warps cross each other and do not contact with each other directly. Furthermore, two scanning circuits can... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20070080774 - Variable resistor and method of manufacturing the same: A variable resistor includes a resistor element having a first end and a second end, a slider sliding on the resistor element, an adjustable resistor portion having a first end connected to the first end of the resistor element and having a second end, a first terminal connected to the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20070080775 - Trimming resistor and method of manufacture thereof: Described herein is a resistor to which a trimming process is applied (hereinafter, also called a trimming resistor), a method for manufacturing a trimming resistor and a circuit substrate using the trimming resistor.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070075823 - Thermistor: A thermistor comprising a pair of substrates; conductor plates for electrically connecting a pair of electrodes, the conductor plates being fixed on inner faces of the pair of substrates respectively; and a matrix resin layer disposed between the pair of substrates; wherein the conductor plates are disposed so as to... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070075824 - Advanced thick film potentiometers: A potentiometer apparatus and method include a plurality of potentiometer components etched onto a substrate. A conductor layer can be printed and fired upon the substrate and over the array of potentiometer components. Thereafter, a thick film layer can be configured upon the substrate. Each potentiometer component can then be... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick Honeywell International, Inc.

20070075825 - Resistance circuit, and voltage detection and constant voltage generating circuits incorporating such resistance circuit: A resistance circuit included in a semiconductor apparatus, which is formed of a plurality of thin film metal resistors connected in series, capable of achieving a precise resistance adjustment over a wide range by disconnecting or changing the resistors by laser beam irradiation. With three thin film metal resistors R1,... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070075826 - Method for manufacturing chip resistor networks: The present invention discloses methods for manufacturing chip resistor networks, which are free from the short circuit owing to electron migration of the silver electrodes. In one embodiment of the present invention, a barrier layer is formed to prevent the silver electrodes from electron migration. In another embodiment of the... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.l.p