Electricity: electrical systems and devices inventions 07/08

20080180866 - Combined arc fault circuit interrupter and leakage current detector interrupter: A combined arc fault circuit interrupter and leakage current detector interrupter. A current sensor, amplifier, and comparator are employed to detect the presence of leakage current in alternating current power conductors. Upon the detection of an amount of current leakage beyond a threshold level, a relay is opened, disconnecting a... Agent: Patzik, Frank & Samotny Ltd.

20080180867 - Power supply device and communication apparatus: A power supply device of the invention includes: a supply section that supplies power to a processing device which processes data; a load detection section that detects a load of processing executed by the processing device; a power control section that causes the supply section to increase or decrease power... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180868 - Protective circuitry for photomultiplier tubes: An electronic circuit for protecting a photomultiplier against overloads is provided. The photomultiplier has a cathode, an anode, a plurality of dynodes and a voltage divider. The circuit includes a high-voltage source, which applies a high voltage to the photomultiplier. A protective switch is set up for preventing a current... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080180869 - Electrostatic discharge protection circuit device: An electrostatic discharge protection circuit device includes a discharge circuit, a trigger circuit and a trigger control circuit. The discharge circuit is connected to a predetermined circuit node of a semiconductor device, and makes discharge when surge voltage is applied to the circuit node. The trigger circuit triggers the discharge... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080180870 - Power switching circuit for liquid crystal display: An exemplary power switching circuit (20) includes a control signal input terminal (210); an output terminal (220); direct current (DC) power supply (230); a first transistor (250) including a control electrode connected to the control signal input terminal, a first current conducting electrode, and a grounded second current conducting electrode;... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080180871 - Structure and method for self protection of power device: A resetable over-current self-protecting semiconductor power device comprises a vertical power semiconductor chip and an over-current protection layer composed of current limiting material such as a PTC material. The over-current protection layer may be sandwiched between the vertical power semiconductor chip and a conductive plate, which could be a leadframe,... Agent: Bo-in Lin

20080180872 - Drive control method and unit for micro machine device: A drive control method for a micro machine device is provided. The micro machine device is made up of first and second electrodes opposed to each other and a dielectric layer disposed between them. The drive control method includes the steps of applying a control voltage between the first and... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080180873 - Securing a substrate to an electrostatic chuck: The present invention relates to securing a substrate to an electrostatic chuck to minimise damage to the substrate. In particular, the present invention relates to securing a substrate to an electrostatic chuck provided as part of a substrate scanner in an ion implanter. A method of loading a substrate on... Agent: Applied Materials, Inc.

20080180874 - Headphone battery charging: A device for charging a headphones battery. The device includes a first module adapted to receive a first power source through a first power source connector, the first module having a connector adapted to fit the headphones battery; and a second module adapted to receive a second power source through... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080180875 - Fault-tolerant materials and methods of fabricating the same: Compliant/stretchable electroactive materials which exhibit self-healing/clearing properties are disclosed.... Agent: Levine Bagade Han LLP

20080180876 - Variable capacitor: A variable capacitor is provided which is appropriate for suppressing fluctuation in driving voltage characteristic and for achieving a larger variation ratio of static capacitance. The variable capacitor includes a fixed electrode and a movable electrodetrode. The fixed electrode includes a first opposing face, while the movable electrode includes a... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080180877 - Multilayer capacitor: A multilayer capacitor has a capacitor element, inner electrodes arranged within the capacitor element, and first to fourth terminal electrodes. Electrode parts of the first to fourth terminal electrodes cover ridges formed between first and third side faces, first and fourth side faces, second and third side faces, and second... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180879 - Multilayer chip capacitor: A multilayer chip capacitor including: a capacitor body having a plurality of dielectric layers deposited therein and having a parallelepiped shape; at least three pairs of first and second external electrodes formed on two longer sides, the first and second external electrodes in each of the pairs having different polarities... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080180878 - Package structure with embedded capacitor, fabricating process thereof and applications of the same: A package structure with an embedded capacitor, a fabricating process thereof and applications of the same are provided, wherein the package structure includes a dielectric layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first embedded plate and a second embedded plate. The dielectric layer has a thickness. The... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080180880 - Thin film capacitor, manufacturing method of the same, and electronic component: There is disclosed a thin film capacitor and the like capable of suppressing fluctuations of a capacity, increasing a VBD, and accordingly improving a device characteristic and reliability of a product. In electronic components 1 to 4, a capacitor 11 is formed on a flat substrate 51 as a base... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180882 - ultracapacitor and method of manufacturing the same: A method for producing an ultracapacitor comprises the steps of: providing a negative porous electrode in contact with a negative conducting plate; providing a positive porous electrode in contact with a positive conducting plate; providing an ultracapacitor separator being a microporous material that separates the negative porous electrode from the... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20080180881 - Electric double layer capacitance device: The present application is directed to electric double layer capacitance (EDLC) devices. In one aspect, the present application is directed to an electrode comprising an activated carbon cryogel having a tunable pore structure wherein: the surface area is at least 1500 m2/g as determined by nitrogen sorption at 77K and... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080180883 - Nano scale digitated capacitor: A capacitor device having a first conductive element and a second conductive element. The capacitor includes a porous membrane disposed between the first and second conductive elements. The capacitor has pores included in the porous membrane extending from the first conductive element to the second conductive element, and a conductive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180884 - Power distribution module using buss bar: A power distribution module includes a housing having multiple channels, and a plurality of buss bars received within the housing for distributing power between multiple electrical components. The buss bars have terminals that are selectively positionable within respective ones of the channels based on a predetermined arrangement of the electrical... Agent: Lisa B. Vaccarelli Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080180885 - Electrical power service apparatus with external circuit breaker rocker switch reset: A watthour meter socket adapter includes a housing having internal jaw contacts and external blade terminals. A power switch is electrically connected between the jaw contacts and the blade terminals. A rocker member on the power switch faces a side of the housing. An actuator is mounted in the housing... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20080180886 - Cooling arrangement for electrical components arranged in a housing of a soft starter, and a soft starter: A cooling arrangement is disclosed for electrical components which are arranged in a housing of a soft starter which in particular may be designed for operation of an electric motor. In at least one embodiment, the cooling arrangement includes at least one fan arranged inclined in an opening in a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180887 - Attachment of an electrical appliance to a holding plate, in particular to a switch panel, and an adapter for such attachment: An attachment is disclosed for an electrical appliance to a holding plate, for example to a switch panel, as well as to an adapter for such an attachment, which for this purpose has an aperture opening into which the appliance, which has a front panel, can be inserted. In at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180888 - Electronic device and electronic system: An electronic device includes: a main unit; a cap unit that is capable of having a portable electronic device attached thereto and is capable of tilting; a driving unit that causes the cap unit to tilt with respect to the main body; and a controlling unit that drives the driving... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180889 - Electronic device and electronic system: An electronic device includes: a main unit; a cap unit that is capable of having a portable electronic device attached thereto; an instructing unit that issues an instruction to designate a tilt angle of the cap unit with respect to the main unit; a driving unit that drives the cap... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180890 - Method for preparing a cover for protecting a component on a substrate: A method for preparing a cover on a substrate in particular for the encapsulation of electronic, optical, optoelectronic components, of the electromechanical microsystems type, also known as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) or optoelectromechanical microsystems, also known as Micro-Opto-Elect-Mechanical systems (MOEMS), joined to the substrate.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080180893 - Information processing apparatus having switch for inputting key data: An information processing apparatus includes a housing with a top surface and a rear surface, a CPU (central processing unit) provided in the housing, a keyboard placed on the top surface of the housing and including a plurality of keys which input key data to the CPU, a display unit... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080180891 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, and at least one speaker is provided. The second body is pivotally connected to one side edge of the first body, such that the second body is selectively rotated to cover the first body, or to form an angle... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080180892 - Portable electronic device: A portable electronic device including a secondary body having a touch screen and a primary body having a keyboard is provided. The secondary body slides and rotates relative to the primary body, such that the secondary body selectively makes the touch screen is back towards the primary body and cover... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080180894 - Method for producing a panel storage frame and panel storage frame: The manufacturing method of the panel installation portion 12a allows the portions of the upper block and the lower block for forming the panel installation portion to be exchanged as the nesting blocks upon press working so as to change the protruding amount of the panel installation portion from the... Agent: Yokoi & Co., U.s.a., Inc

20080180895 - Portable terminal: A portable terminal is disclosed that includes a first housing, having a lowered surface portion and a second housing seated on the lowered surface portion of the first housing to be rotated while facing the first housing. When the second housing is placed at a first position in which it... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080180896 - Chassis partition framework for personal cluster computer: A chassis partition framework is provided for configuring a personal cluster computer that has a head-node mainboard, a first compute-node mainboard, a second compute-node mainboard, a third compute-node mainboard and a fourth compute-node mainboard. The chassis partition framework mainly includes a top chamber, a left chamber and a right chamber.... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080180897 - Expansion card carrier and method for assembling the same: An expansion card carrier is disclosed, the expansion card carrier including a top portion for covering an expansion card, at least one side portion for supporting the top portion, and at least one pair of card guides for allowing an expansion card to slide along into the expansion card carrier.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080180898 - Sports ball computer with concealed motorized screen in base: A sports-inspired computer is presented which has a neat, uncluttered appearance when deactivated. In an embodiment, the computer resembles an authentic sports ball memorabilia display when deactivated. The computer includes a motorized flat panel display screen that is hidden from view when the computer is not in use. The screen... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080180900 - Electronic component for an electronic carrier substrate: Disclosed are an electronic component, an assembly of an electronic component and an electronic carrier substrate, and a method of connecting the electronic component to the carrier substrate. The carrier substrate has a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), and the electronic component has a second CTE. The assembly further... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080180899 - Methods and systems for a multi-memory module: A computer system is provided that includes a processor and a memory slot coupled to the processor. The system also includes a multi-memory module attached to the memory slot, the multi-memory module having a plurality of memory sets mounted on a single circuit base. The memory sets are treated as... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180901 - Supporting apparatus with shock isolation function: A supporting apparatus with a shock isolation function is provided, which is applicable for supporting at least one storage device. The supporting apparatus includes a frame body for accommodating a storage device and at least two supporting parts. The frame body has at least two side plates, and a protruding... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080180902 - System that accommodates non-volatile storage devices of different sizes: A system comprises a first mechanical adapter configured to accept a plurality of non-volatile storage devices of a first size. The system also comprises a cage into which the first mechanical adapter is installable. At least one non-volatile storage device of a second size is installable in the cage without... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180903 - Cooling high performance computer systems: A computer system may include a chassis defining a front and a rear. The chassis may include a vertically oriented midplane disposed therein, the midplane including a plurality of front module slots for receiving front electronic modules from the front of the chassis, and a plurality of rear module slots... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C. Alan W. Young

20080180905 - Heat dissipation air duct: A heat dissipation air duct is provided. The air duct is fixed inside a computer case, and covers a plurality of high heat-generating elements on a mainboard. The air duct includes a main air duct and an auxiliary air duct. The main air duct isolates a first air duct area... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080180904 - Uniform heat conduction installation: A uniform heat conduction installation includes a reflection layer and a graphite uniform heat conduction layer with the latter provided on the lower surface of the former; certain portion of thermal energy generated by a heat source disposed on top of the reflection layer is reflected and dissipated by the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080180906 - Heatsink thermal module with noise improvement: The invention provided a heatsink thermal module with noise improvement, which has a heatsink thermal module additionally consisting of a heat pipe, a heatsink fins set and a fan module; the fan module is combined with the heatsink fins set which consists of multiple heatsink fins with different lengths and... Agent: Venable LLP

20080180908 - In-row air containment and cooling system and method: An in-row electronic equipment storage system and corresponding method provides cooling to an electronic equipment rack. The system includes an electronic equipment rack that includes a housing adapted to receive electronic equipment, and an electronic equipment rack air cavity. A cooling rack, including a housing adapted to receive cooling equipment,... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080180907 - Scanning apparatus with heat dissipating ability: A scanning apparatus with heat dissipating ability includes a housing having an opening formed thereon. A cover having a slit, a heating dissipating portion, and supporting portion connected to the heat dissipating portion covers the opening, wherein the supporting portion extends from an edge of the slit into the housing.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080180909 - Mount module for an inverter and inverter having a plurality of mount modules: A mount module for an inverter includes a housing element with a recess being open to the front face, for holding a single inverter. The upper face and the lower face of the housing element are complementary to one another, and/or the right side and the left side of the... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080180911 - Fan motor apparatus and electronic apparatus: Provided is a fan motor apparatus. The fan motor apparatus includes a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a blade. The stator includes a rotor supporting mechanism, a supporting member, and a vibration insulation member. The rotor supporting mechanism rotatably supports the rotor. The supporting member supports the rotor... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080180910 - Portable electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, a portable electronic apparatus includes a casing provided with an exhaust hole part, a printed circuit board contained in the casing, an exothermic body mounted on the printed circuit board, a first cooling fan and a second cooling fan which are contained in the casing. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080180913 - Electronic apparatus and fin unit: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing, a heat-generating element mounted in the housing, a cooling fan mounted in the housing, a fin unit which is mounted in the housing and opposed to the cooling fan, and a heat transfer member which thermally connects the fin unit... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080180912 - Radiator, heat sink fan, and radiator manufacturing method: A heat sink has a plurality of radially extending radiating fins, which are arranged annularly on the outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical base to be integral with that surface. The base is formed to have a cylindrical shape having a center axis. The base is formed to be solid-core.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080180915 - Easily disassembling cooling apparatus: An easily disassembling cooling apparatus is assembled onto a circuit board. The circuit board has an electronic element. The cooling apparatus includes a pair of fastening blocks, one or two heat conducting blocks, and at least one heat pipe. The pair of fastening blocks are fastened onto the circuit board... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080180914 - Integrated heat spreader and exchanger: Disclosed is an integrated active heat spreader and exchanger. The heat spreader cum exchanger includes a housing with a conductive heat spreader therein. A spreader plate of the heat spreader is in thermal contact with a microprocessor chip to be cooled and a plurality of spreader fins extending from the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080180916 - Electronic control module assembly: An electronic control module includes a body portion, a printed circuit board positioned within the body portion, and a cap portion adapted to mate with the body portion. One of the body portion and the cap portion is formed with a groove and the other of the body portion and... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20080180917 - Cable management system and method of use thereof: Cable management systems and methods of use thereof with an electronic system having modules arranged in a rack system of a cabinet both above and below an air filter location, provides for unobstructed substantially horizontal removal and/or insertion of the air filter into the air filter location. In addition, these... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080180918 - Apparatus for positioning electronic component modules within an equipment chassis: An apparatus for positioning an electronics module in an equipment chassis with adequate pathways for the flow of cooling air across the module or across one or more adjacent modules, such as one or more blade server. The system includes an electronics module movably secured within a sub-assembly prior to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/nc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080180920 - Pluggable guiding apparatus: A pluggable guiding apparatus is used for an opening of a case and there are two guiding elements arranged at two sides of the opening. The pluggable guiding apparatus includes: a main frame, wherein the size of the main frame is corresponding to the opening of the case and the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080180919 - Semiconductor module, module substrate structure, and method of fabricating the same: A module substrate structure may include a substrate, a passive device mounted on the substrate, and a protection layer covering the passive device. The protection layer may cover the passive device either completely or partly. Where a plurality of passive devices are present, the protection layer may cover either all... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080180921 - Electronic package structure: An electronic package structure including a first carrier, at least one first electronic element, and a second electronic element is provided. The first carrier has a first carrying surface and a second carrying surface opposite to each other. The first electronic element is disposed above the first carrying surface and... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080180923 - Encapsulated electronic device: An electronic device includes a substrate (1), an electronic component (2) seated on the substrate (1), and a cover (3) across the electronic component (2) with a space (330) between the cover (3) and the electronic component (2). The cover (3) is configured on an inside (32) facing the electronic... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080180922 - Printed circuit board having protection means and a method of use thereof: A printed circuit board is provided with protection means for protecting one or more components of the printed circuit board (PCB). The protection means includes a sleeve member located on the PCB around at least one component of the PCB. The protection means further includes cover means for covering a... Agent: Head, Johnson & Kachigian

20080180924 - Microwave surface mount hermetically sealed package and method of forming the same: A broadband surface mounting package includes a housing having a flat bottom wall forming parallel first and second surfaces. An integral wall forms, with the bottom wall, an enclosure having a top opening to provide access to an interior compartment or cavity to receive a microwave component. The second surface... Agent: Lackenbach Siegel, LLP

20080180925 - Dual-board case for multi-mainboard system: A dual-board case for multi-mainboard system includes a rectangular-sectioned tubular housing, in which two track sets are provided; and two mainboard trays being movably mounted on the two track sets to locate at an interior of two opposite lateral walls of the tubular housing. Each of the two mainboard trays... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20080180926 - Circuit module and circuit device including circuit module: A circuit module includes connection electrodes on a plate-shaped board and connection electrodes on a frame-shaped board that are bonded together with conductive bonding materials there between. Circuit components are provided in portions of a surface of the plate-shaped board, the portions being located inward relative to the frame-shaped board.... Agent: Murata Manufacturing Company, Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080180927 - Compliant penetrating packaging interconnect: A circuit package is provided. The circuit package includes a plurality of electrically conductive pads located on a bottom surface of the circuit package, wherein at least one pad of the plurality of bottom surface pads has a recession for receiving an electrically conductive protrusion located on a substrate to... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20080180928 - Printed circuit board and manufacturing method thereof: A plurality of wiring patterns are formed so as to extend in parallel with each other. A plurality of test terminals are formed in a substantially rectangular shape such that respective widths thereof increase toward respective one sides from respective ends of the plurality of wiring patterns. The plurality of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080180929 - System having primary and secondary backplanes: A system comprises a primary backplane and a secondary backplane. The primary backplane has a surface region substantially devoid of components and a plurality of connectors to which electronic devices can be mated. The secondary backplane is removably mated to the primary backplane within the region. The secondary backplane has... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080180930 - Embedded electronic component structure and fabrication method thereof: An embedded electronic component structure and a method for forming the same are provided, wherein the embedded electronic component structure comprises a lower laminating layer, a first clamping layer, a dielectric layer, a second clamping layer, an electronic component, an upper laminating later and a via interconnection. The first clamping... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080180931 - Structure of mounting shield cover and display device: A structure of mounting a shield cover according to the present invention includes a shield cover having an insertion part which is inserted into a gap formed between a circuit substrate and a shield cover fastening part along the circuit substrate. The insertion part of the shield cover includes a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080180932 - Device for housing and connection of accessories for switches: The present invention relates to a device for housing and connection of accessories, particularly for low-voltage automatic switches, comprising an integrated wiring support. In particular, the housing and connection device (1) has a shaped structure (10) comprising an integrated wiring bus for electrical connection of the accessories. The shaped structure... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080174922 - Method and apparatus for detecting ground fault current on a power line: A ground fault interrupt (GFI) circuit detects and interrupts a ground fault, even in the presence of AC power induced currents. The GFI circuit can be used for power delivery between nodes in a network, such as from a central office to remote network equipment. The GFI circuit meets GFI... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080174924 - Electrostatic discharge (esd) protection device: An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device includes an I/O terminal structure and a current discharge structure. The current discharge structure includes a conductive region separated from a bridge region by a gate electrode, a well region formed below the conductive region, another well region separated from the well region by... Agent: Volentine & Whitt Pllc

20080174923 - Esd protection scheme for semiconductor devices having dummy pads: A semiconductor device formed in a semiconductor substrate for dissipating electrostatic discharge and/or accumulated charge in an integrated circuit is provided. In one embodiment, the device comprises a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of layers of metal lines formed overlying the substrate; a plurality of via plugs through intermetal dielectric layers... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20080174925 - System and method for esd protection: An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programmable attenuation and a programmable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circuitry advantageously uses LC filters integrated onto the substrate in conjunction with image reject mixers... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080174926 - Dc high power distribution assembly: A DC high power distribution system provides power to a load in parallel with one or more storage capacitors. The system includes a hot-swap controller and an array of parallel-connected transistors connected in series between a DC source and the capacitors/load. A power contactor is connected in parallel to the... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080174927 - Esd protection scheme for semiconductor devices having dummy pads: A semiconductor device formed in a semiconductor substrate for dissipating electrostatic discharge and/or accumulated charge in an integrated circuit is provided. In one embodiment, the device comprises a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of layers of metal lines formed overlying the substrate; a plurality of via plugs through intermetal dielectric layers... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley LLP

20080174928 - Sspc technology incorporated with thermal memory effects to achieve the fuse curve coordination: Methods and apparatuses implement a thermal memory effect for a solid state power controller. A solid state power controller trip apparatus with thermal memory according to one embodiment comprises: a trip module including a first capacitor (156) and a counter (174), wherein the first capacitor (156) charges multiple times, when... Agent: Oral Caglar Honeywell International Inc.

20080174929 - Light emitting diode driver: A driving system used for light emitting diodes relating to a controllable driver which can detect the voltage desire from application and adjust driving voltage (Vapp1-Vapp2) automatically in order to reach a steady driving current. Additionally, users can adjust the setting of driving current and the output value of DC... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080174930 - Electrostatic chuck with heater and manufacturing method thereof: An electrostatic chuck includes a base. The base has a support portion made of alumina ceramics, and a surface portion made of yttria ceramics. The surface portion forms at least a substrate mounting surface and side surface of the base on a surface of the support portion. Carbon contents in... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080174931 - Vertical electrode layer design to minimize flex cracks in capacitors: An electrical component with a substrate having a planar surface. A capacitor is provided having a plurality of first plates and second plates wherein the first plates and second plates are non-contacting and in common planes. A plurality of third plates are parallel to the first plates and the second... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, Llc

20080174932 - Capacitor assembly, display device having the same, and method of manufacturing capacitor assembly: A capacitor assembly includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a dielectric portion, a body and a conductive cover. The second electrode overlaps the first electrode. The dielectric portion is interposed between the first and second electrodes. The body surrounds an outer surface of the dielectric portion, the first electrode... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080174933 - Apparatus and method to store electrical energy: An apparatus to store electrical energy has a first magnetic unit, a second magnetic unit, and a dielectric section. The first magnetic unit has a first magnetic section and a second magnetic section. The second magnetic unit has a third magnetic section and a fourth magnetic section. The dielectric section... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.l.p.

20080174934 - Multilayer capacitor and electronic device: A multilayer capacitor has a laminate body in which a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode are alternately laminated with a dielectric layer in between, a first terminal electrode provided on one end side of the laminate body, and a second terminal electrode provided on the other end... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174935 - Multilayer capacitor: A multilayer capacitor has a capacitor element, inner electrodes arranged within the capacitor element, and first terminal electrodes and second terminal electrodes arranged on the capacitor element. The capacitor element has an element part held between the inner electrodes. The first terminal electrodes and second terminal electrodes have electrode parts.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080174936 - Apparatus and method to store electrical energy: An apparatus to store electrical energy has a first magnetic section, a second magnetic section and a dielectric section configured between the first magnetic section and the second magnetic section. The dielectric section is arranged to store electrical energy, and dipoles of the first magnetic section and the second magnetic... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, L.l.p.

20080174937 - Active balancing modular circuits: Provided are active balancing modules that control voltage imbalances between capacitors stacked in a series arrangement and methods for their manufacture. These modules are simple and inexpensive to manufacture, and versatile. They may be used alone or they may be combined together to form a multi-module active balancing circuitry for... Agent: King & Spalding, LLP

20080174938 - Organic substrates with embedded thin-film capacitors, methods of making same, and systems containing same: A thin-film capacitor assembly includes two plates that are accessed through deep and shallow vias. The thin-film capacitor assembly is able to be coupled with a spacer and an interposer. The thin-film capacitor assembly is also able to be stacked with a plurality of thin-film capacitor assemblies. The thin-film capacitor... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080174939 - Niobiuim solid electrolytic capacitor and fabrication method thereof: A niobium solid electrolytic capacitor having an anode composed of niobium or a niobium alloy, a dielectric layer formed on a surface of the anode by anodization and containing nitrogen and fluorine, and a cathode formed on the dielectric layer. Preferably, the dielectric layer has an increasing concentration gradient of... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.c.

20080174940 - Withdraw-in and withdraw-out apparatus for air circuit breaker: An air circuit breaker is provided wherein a rotational force is accurately discontinued at a movement completion time of assuming a connected position, a test position or a disconnected position by a breaker body in the process of withdrawing in and withdrawing out the breaker body from a cradle whereas... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080174942 - Handheld electronic device: A handheld electronic device of the present invention including a body, a display portion, and a connection portion. The connection portion connects the body and the display portion such that the display portion can slide on the body and pivot relative to the body. The connection portion includes a hinge... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080174941 - Notebook computer having an off-motherboard keyboard controller: A portable information handling system, user interface components thereof, and methods of user control interface and assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment a keyboard assembly, including a large plurality of contacts for a keyboard matrix, connects directly to a palmrest assembly. The palmrest assembly includes a keyboard controller, which decodes... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080174945 - Display device and case for the same: A display device includes a panel assembly on which an image is formed, a cover member which comprises a front portion having a display window exposing at least a portion of a front side of the panel assembly and a side portion which is bent from the front portion, the... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, Llc

20080174944 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device including: a plasma display panel; at least one driving board to drive the plasma display panel; a chassis base located between the plasma display panel and the driving board, to support the plasma display panel, and disposed in direct contact with the driving board; and an... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080174943 - Portable electronic apparatus: A portable electronic apparatus, which has a simple structure and the performance of visual appearance thereof in an operation state with a display section being adjusted in the height and angle thereof is not decreased, and provides the same comfort as an ordinary TV set while viewing TV images or... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080174946 - Computer enclosure with removable cover: A computer enclosure includes a chassis (10), a resilient locking member (20), a cover (40), and a resilient member (30). The chassis comprises a bottom plate (12) and a side plate (16). The side plate defines a through opening (162) therein and has a flange (164) with slits (166) defined... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174947 - Portable computer with support legs: A portable computer includes a main body, a display screen device and two stand members. The main body has a top surface and a bottom surface. The display screen device is pivotally connected with the main body by a pivot. The bottom surface faces away from the display screen device.... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174948 - Data storage device enclosures, a midplane, a method of manufacturing a midplane and modules: A data storage device enclosure for housing one or more data storage devices is disclosed. The enclosure has housed therein a plurality of modules, at least one of the modules being a power supply module and at least one of the modules being an electronics module. Each module has a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080174950 - Apparatus for fastening data storage device: The invention relates to an apparatus for fastening a data storage device, which is used to fasten a data storage device or module with a plurality of fixing holes. The apparatus for fastening a data storage device of the invention includes a housing, a driving plate, at least one lateral... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080174949 - Computer system with vibration absorbing cage: An exemplary computer system includes an enclosure, a cage, a plurality of floppy disk drives, hard disk drives, and optical disk drives received, a system power supply, and a plurality of vibration absorbers. The enclosure includes a bottom wall. The cage is attached to the bottom wall of the enclosure... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174951 - Notebook computer palmrest/keyboard interconnect: A portable information handling system, user interface components thereof, and methods of user control interface and assembly are disclosed. In one embodiment a keyboard assembly, including a large plurality of contacts for a keyboard matrix, connects directly to a palmrest assembly. The palmrest assembly includes a keyboard controller, which decodes... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080174953 - Electronic device and fire protecting mechanism of the electronic device: An electronic device having an exhaust opening configured to exhaust air outside, the electronic device includes a door part configured to close the exhaust opening when the electronic device has a predetermined temperature, wherein the door part is rotated based on the own weight of the door part and a... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080174952 - Heat dissipation assembly: A heat dissipation assembly for dissipating heat generated on a motherboard, includes a clip attached to the motherboard and above a first heat-generating component, and a heat sink rotatably mounted to the clip and thermally connected with the first heat-generating component. The heat sink includes an air outlet. The air... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174954 - System and method for evaluating equipment rack cooling performance: Aspects of the invention are directed to systems and methods for designing and analyzing data centers. One aspect is directed to a method of determining cooling characteristics of a data center. The method includes receiving data related to a configuration of equipment in the data center, identifying rack clusters in... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080174955 - Powered controlled acceleration suspension work platform hoist control cooling system: The hoist control cooling system for preferentially cooling components of a variable frequency drive that is controlling a hoist motor. The cooling system includes an inverter temperature sensor, an ambient temperature sensor, a cooling system controller, an inverter cooler, and an ambient cooler. The inverter temperature sensor measures the temperature... Agent: Gallagher & Dawsey Co., L.p.a.

20080174956 - Mini-sized heat-dissipating module having an extra strength of assembled relationship: A mini-sized heat-dissipating module includes a miniature heat-dissipating plate and a miniature fan unit. The miniature heat-dissipating plate has an assembling space, at least one airflow channel and at least one engaging portion. The assembling space and the airflow channel are provided on a top surface of the miniature heat-dissipating... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080174957 - Electronic device cooling system: An electronic device cooling system, comprising an electronic device comprising a plurality of housing walls and at least one duct wall extending between at least one of the housing walls and a circuit board disposed within the electronic device to form a duct to enable cooling air to flow within... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080174959 - Cooling device and method for acoustic apparatus: A cooling device for an acoustic apparatus includes a cooling fan that is turned on and off, and adjusted in quantity of airflow in accordance with an apparatus temperature, wherein when the apparatus temperature is lower than a value requiring immediate cooling, and when an audio output is in a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.c.

20080174958 - Mini-sized heat-dissipating module having an engaging structure: A mini-sized heat-dissipating module includes a miniature heat-dissipating plate and a miniature fan unit. The miniature heat-dissipating plate has an assembling space, at least one airflow channel and at least two engaging members. The assembling space, the airflow channel and the engaging members are provided on a top surface of... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080174960 - Clamshell enclosure for electronic circuit assemblies: A clamshell enclosure is disclosed for providing thermal and kinetic management for an enclosed electronic circuit. The clamshell enclosure comprises a sealed clamshell casing containing the circuit, and a cover that in combination with a wall of the clamshell casing forms a duct. A heat exchanger conducts heat from the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080174961 - Hybrid cooling system for a multi-component electronics system: A hybrid cooling system and method of fabrication are provided for a multi-component electronics system. The cooling system includes an air moving device for establishing air flow across at least one primary and at least one secondary heat generating component to be cooled; and a liquid-based cooling subsystem including at... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080174962 - System and method for cooling an electronic component: A cooling system has at least one heat conducting element in thermal contact with an electronic component. A heat exchanger is in fluid communication with the heat conducting element. The heat exchanger is configured to provide a working fluid to the at least one heat conducting element to facilitate dissipation... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080174963 - Heat spreader with vapor chamber defined therein: A heat spreader includes a bottom wall (12) and a cover (14) hermetically connected to the bottom wall. Cooperatively the bottom wall and the cover define a space (11) therebetween for receiving a working fluid therein. A wick structure (15) is received in the space and thermally interconnects the bottom... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174964 - Heat dissipation device: A heat dissipation device includes a base and two heat sinks formed by aluminum extrusion and located on the base. Each heat sink includes a heat conducting portion. The two heat sinks include a plurality of first fins extending inwardly from first faces of the heat conducting portions and located... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174965 - Memory module and heat sink arrangement: A memory module and heat sink arrangement is disclosed to include a memory module, two heat sinks attached to two opposite sides of a memory chip of the memory module, each heat sink having a mounting unit at a top side and multiple retaining spring strips suspending below the mounting... Agent: June-on Co., Ltd.

20080174966 - Modular power converters usable alone or in a multiphase power converter: A power converter module for use alone or with other modules in a multiphase power converter. The power converter module has an enclosure that surrounds internal components to prevent radiation of electromagnetic energy, which internal components also limit conduction of electromagnetic energy. The internal components include an EMI filter, a... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin Pllc

20080174967 - Fan bracket and heat dissipation apparatus incorporating the same: A heat dissipation apparatus (100) includes a fan bracket (20), a fan (10) and a heat sink (40). The fan bracket includes a housing (22), a support portion (242) extending from the housing, and a plurality of arm portions (244) extending from the housing in a direction opposite to the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174968 - Heat dissipation device having a locking device: A heat dissipation device includes a heat sink, a retention module and a locking device for securing the heat sink to the retention module. The heat sink includes a base for contacting with a heat-generating component. The retention module includes a bottom wall and a first spring clip secured at... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080174969 - Printed board assembly with improved heat dissipation: A multi-layer printed board assembly (PBA) with improved heat dissipation characteristics. An electronic component is surface mounted on a main surface at least partially over a cooling component arranged integrally in the PBA. The cooling component transports heat from the electronic component through the PBA in a first direction (x)... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080174970 - Fixing device for a current sensor: The disclosure specifies a fixing device for a current sensor, which fixing device comprises a holding element which is shaped in the manner of a U and a surface part which is connected to the free end of a limb of the holding element, with the surface part being arranged... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080174971 - Latch mechanism of notebook computer: A latch mechanism for fastening a display portion of a notebook computer to a main body thereof is described. A latch member is pivotally connected within the main body of the notebook computer. A magnet member is disposed within the display portion of the notebook computer. When the display portion... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080174972 - Electronic device with flip module having low height: An electronic device is provided that includes a main printed circuit board (PCB) having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a hole extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The electronic device further includes a module PCB having at least one electrical component mounted on a top... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080174973 - Printed circuit board assembly, enclosure of information technology equipment, and information technology equipment: A printed circuit board assembly is configured and arranged so that memory modules are mounted thereto. At least two connectors are mounted on a printed circuit board. The connectors are configured so that the memory modules are connected thereto. An electromagnetic wave absorption sheet is provided to at least one... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080174974 - Keylock structure and electronic device using the same: A keylock structure and an electronic device using the same are provided. The electronic device includes a first casing and a second casing. The keylock structure includes a body and a hook. The hook and the body are connected with each other and form a concave portion. When the hook... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080174975 - Flexible wiring substrate and method for producing the same: Disclosed is a flexible wiring substrate which does not form anomalous deposition of tin-bismuth alloy plating, through prevention of exfoliation, during the process of plating with tin-bismuth alloy, of a solder resist layer. A method for producing the flexible wiring substrate is also disclosed.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080174976 - Electronic circuit component: The electronic circuit component comprises an insulator substrate, a plurality of electrodes having different areas provided on the insulator substrate, one or more elements selected from a capacitor element of dielectric material sandwiched between the electrodes, an inductor element and resistor element, a metal wiring connecting the elements, a metal... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080174977 - Electronic component contained substrate: An electronic component contained substrate in which an electronic component is mounted between a pair of wiring substrates, wherein the wiring substrates are connected electrically via solder balls, an opening portion opened larger than a planar shape of the electronic component is formed in the other wiring substrate, which faces... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080174978 - Electronic component built-in substrate and method of manufacturing electronic component built-in substrate: It is an electronic component built-in substrate 100 configured as follows. That is, an electronic component 30 is provided between at least two wiring boards 10 and 20. An electrode 34 of the electronic component 30 is electrically connected to at least one of the wiring boards. Also, the wiring... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080174979 - Mount structure, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus: A mounting structure includes a base member and an electronic component having a protruded electrode which is formed on a transparent substrate. The electrode includes pads and elastic projections that are covered with a conductive film. On the transparent substrate, terminals connected to the conductive film are formed. Dummy projections... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080174980 - Quick-action clamping holder for electronic or optoelectronic devices: The invention relates to a quick-action clamping holder for electronic or optoelectronic devices, particularly optoelectronic sensors, the housing of which has a external profile. The quick-action clamping holder has a body to be fitted at a holding location and at least one fixing arm, which can be pivoted from an... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080174981 - Pre-molded lead frame and process for manufacturing the same: A lead frame and a method of manufacturing said lead frame is provided wherein a base material with first and second planar sides is first selectively etched from the first side thereof to a predetermined etching level to create etched areas. The etched areas on the first side of the... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080174982 - High frequency tuner module and tuner module: Disclosed is a high frequency tuner module, including: a circuit component; signal lines; a GND line; and a multilayer board formed by laminating a plurality of layers, wherein the circuit component is placed on a top layer surface of the multilayer board; the signal lines and the GND line are... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080174983 - Circuit module and process for producing the same: A circuit module containing a ceramic carrier substrate to carry electronic parts, ceramic substrate pads provided on a surface of the ceramic carrier substrate, and a lid having a cavity and a bottom surface joined to the ceramic substrate pads with solder, the lid being a stepped lid having protrusions... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080174984 - High frequency tuner module: Disclosed is a high frequency wave tuner module including a circuit board having an approximately rectangular shape, which is made of ceramic material and a shield cover to shield an interfering wave by covering a circuit part mounted on a board surface of the circuit board, and a position of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080170340 - Method and device for an overload detection in hand-guided power tools: The invention relates to a method for detecting an overload in an electric hand tool (10) comprising an electric motor (12), in particular a battery-driven electric hand tool (10). According to the invention, an operating current (iB) of the electric motor (12) is determined, the difference (ID) between the value... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080170341 - Novel circuit interrupting device with automatic end-of-life test: The present invention provides a novel circuit interrupting device which is capable of performing an automatic end-of-life test using a status test switch (KR-1), when the device is properly wired and the reset button is at a tripped state. The present invention is further characterized by its novel reset mechanism... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080170342 - Multistage series circuit system: A multistage series circuit system includes: multiple DC power sources coupled in series with each other; multiple unit circuits coupled in parallel with a power source; multiple first protection circuits for protecting each unit circuit; and a second protection circuit for protecting the whole system. Each first protection circuit is... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080170343 - Active matrix device with electrostatic protection: An active matrix device includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, pixels, electrostatic discharge ring, a circuit board and a electrostatic protection circuit. The scan lines and data lines are disposed on the substrate, in which the data lines cross the scan lines. The pixels are electrically coupled to the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080170344 - Arcing fault protection system for an air arc switchgear enclosure: An arcing fault protection system for a switchgear enclosure includes an arc diverter for rapidly grounding or crow-barring the electrical distribution system in response to the detection of arcing fault currents in the system. Detection is done through a comparison of current on the main bus against the current through... Agent: Schneider Electric / Square D Company Legal Dept. - I.p. Group

20080170345 - Power semiconductor device architecture for output transistor protection: A power semiconductor device is provided with an output transistor, a load control circuit, and a pull-up circuit. The output transistor is connected between a power supply terminal provided to receive a power supply voltage and an output terminal to be connected with a load. The load control circuit is... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080170346 - Folded surface capacitor in-line assembly: An in-line capacitor, having a pair of inner conductor segments, each of the inner conductor segments having a mating surface. A dielectric spacer positioned between the mating surfaces, each of the mating surfaces having corresponding folds formed thereon.... Agent: Babcock Ip, PLLC

20080170347 - Apparatus for switching a cook top and method for assessing faulty operation of a cook top: An apparatus for switching a cook top having at least one cooking area, includes a clocking relay for clocking operation of a heating device of a cooking area, a control device for driving the clocking relay, a relay coil current measurement device for measuring the current through a relay coil... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20080170348 - Constant current relay driver with controlled sense resistor: The present teachings generally include a method of controlling a relay. The method generally includes momentarily initiating a pull-in pulse when an input signal indicates a first state. A sense resistor controller is activated based on the pull-in pulse. A current flow is controlled to bypass a sense resistor and... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170349 - Light weight system for lightning protection of nonconductive aircraft panels: A system for lightning-protection of an aircraft skin panel that includes a nonconductive skin panel substrate and a series of spaced apart electrically conductive strips embedded in and extending along an outer surface of the nonconductive skin panel substrate. A series of electrically conductive fasteners extend through the nonconductive skin... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080170350 - Non-contact electricity feeding system and running vehicle system using this, and method for reducing leakage magnetic field: A feeding line is connected to an AC source so that electricity is picked up from the feeding line in a non-contact manner by a pickup coil provided on the side of a moving body. A compensating current from a compensating power source in phase or in reverse phase with... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080170351 - Composite electronic component: A composite electronic component has: a first multilayer section including an electrode layer; and a second multilayer section laid on the first multilayer section and including at least one ground electrode layer on which a ground electrode is formed, and at least one hot electrode layer on which a hot... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080170352 - Capacitor and its manufacturing method: A method for manufacturing a capacitor includes the steps of: sequentially laminating, on a substrate, a lower electrode layer, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode layer; forming a patterned mask layer on the upper electrode layer; patterning at least the upper electrode layer and the ferroelectric layer using the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080170353 - Diverse capacitor packaging for maximizing volumetric efficiency for medical devices: Capacitor packaging according to the disclosure provides advantages particularly in connection to compact and/or complex-shaped medical devices (e.g., having limited interior volume defined by domed and/or irregular exterior surfaces). In addition, capacitors of the type shown and described herein can be utilized in relatively compact external defibrillators, such as automatic... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20080170354 - Fused electrolytic capacitor assembly: A fused electrolytic capacitor assembly that offers improved performance characteristics in a convenient and space-saving package is provided. More specifically, the fused electrolytic capacitor assembly contains an electrolytic capacitor element and a surface mount fuse that are contained within a case and connected to a common anode termination. During initial... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080170355 - Container for multiple household electronic charging compartment: A case or carrier for accommodating a plurality of electronic devices to be charged either singularly or more than one at a time. A slide out drawer carries a power panel which has a power surge protector. Each section of the case or carrier is removable and adjustable to change... Agent: Donald R Heiner

20080170356 - Light transfer apparatus for an electronic device: An electronic device [200] includes a housing [100] for containing circuitry [205] that generates a light beam. The electronic device includes pivotal portions [105, 110] of the housing. A light receiver [245] is associated with one of the housing pivotal portions. A light redirecting mechanism [215] is mounted at a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080170358 - Display device: A rotating shaft supporting means 3 is provided with a rotating shaft shifting means 18 for shifting a rotating shaft 2 by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction when a display means 1 is rotated on the rotating shaft 2 to a predetermined angle. Further, the rotating shaft of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170357 - Display device capable of protecting a display panel: A fixing device includes a housing, a bezel, and a rib structure. The housing has a first side. The bezel is connected to the housing for covering the flat structure with the housing. The bezel has a second side and a third side. The rib structure is disposed outside the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080170359 - Plasma display device: A plasma display device that includes a plasma display panel adapted to display images on a front side thereof, a chassis base including conductive material and arranged behind the plasma display panel, a plurality of circuit boards adapted to drive the plasma display panel, the plurality of circuit boards being... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080170360 - Extendable mouse with extension pole: An extendable mouse with an extension pole includes a bottom housing and a top housing. The top housing includes a forepart and a back part, the forepart covers the bottom housing, or, the forepart is in-molded with the bottom housing, a flexing sheath connects the forepart and the back part,... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080170361 - Receiving device structure for receiving computer peripherals and computer main body: Disclosed herein is a receiving device for integrally receiving peripherals and a main body of a computer. The receiving device includes upper and lower plates. A rear plate connects rear ends of the upper and lower plates to each other. A pair of side plates connects side ends of the... Agent: Hyun Jong Park Tuchman & Park LLC

20080170362 - Device with support structure for hard disk drive and method for mounting hard disk drive: A device (101), comprising a support structure (151), a hard disk drive (121), having a printed circuit board at one side (122) and a substantially plane plate (123) at the opposite side, at least one mounting pad (131) having at least one layer of viscoelastic material (141) characterized in that... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080170363 - Computer case: A computer case includes a blower, a bracket, and an air outlet defined in the computer case. The blower is received in the bracket, which is fixed outside the computer case. The blower includes an intake and an outlet, which are used to take away the heated air in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080170364 - Heat dissipation device with a fan duct: A heat dissipation device adapted for cooling a heat-generating electronic component includes a heat sink (30), a fan (40) mounted on the heat sink (30), a fan duct (70) mounted on the fan (40) and a clip (50) securing the fan duct (70) on the fan (40). The fan (40)... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080170365 - Heat dissipation assembly: A heat dissipation assembly includes a heat sink and a fan. The heat sink device has a base and a plurality of fins formed on the base, the fins are parallel with each other, one or more of the fins cooperatively form at least two concave engagement parts. The fan... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080170366 - Cooling apparatus with discrete cold plates disposed between a module enclosure and electronics components to be cooled: Cooling apparatuses and methods are provided for cooling an assembly including a substrate supporting multiple electronics components. The cooling apparatus includes: multiple discrete cold plates, each having a coolant inlet, a coolant outlet and at least one coolant chamber disposed therebetween; and multiple coolant-carrying tubes, each tube extending from a... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080170367 - Combination assembly of led and liquid-vapor thermally dissipating device: A combination assembly of LED and liquid-vapor thermally dissipating device includes a liquid-vapor thermally dissipating device, a circuit board and at least one LED unit. The liquid-vapor thermally dissipating device includes a metal shell with liquid and capillarity structures therein. The circuit board is provided on the liquid-vapor thermally dissipating... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080170368 - Apparatuses for dissipating heat from semiconductor devices: An apparatus for providing two-phase heat transfer for semiconductor devices includes a vapor chamber configured to carry a cooling liquid, the vapor chamber having a base section, and a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) shaped members. The plurality of 3D-shaped members have interior and exterior sidewalls, the 3D-shaped members being connected... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080170369 - Heat dissipating apparatus, heat dissipating base and its manufacturing method: A heat dissipating apparatus includes a heat dissipating base and a heat dissipating element. The heat dissipating base includes a heat conducting plate and a heat dissipating plate having a hole. The heat conducting plate is disposed in the hole by a way of fitting with the hole and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080170370 - Cooling structure using rigid movable elements: An information processing system includes: a processor; a memory; an input/output subsystem; and a bus coupled to the processor, the memory and the input/output subsystem. The system further includes a cooling structure for cooling the processor. The cooling structure consists of: a compressible backing; a plurality of rigid copper elements... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080170371 - Combination assembly of led and heat sink: A combination assembly of LED and heat sink includes a heat sink having a substrate and a plurality of fins, a circuit board provided on the substrate and at least one LED unit provided on the heat sink and electrically connected to the circuit board. The heat of the LED... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080170372 - Electronic control apparatus and method of manufacturing the same: An electronic control apparatus includes a circuit board with a circuit element mounted thereon, a heatsink for dissipating heat from the circuit board placed thereon, an external terminal having a first end electrically connected to the circuit board and a second end connectable to an external device, a molding resin... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080170373 - Computer spacing and stabilization system: A system for spacing and stabilizing a row of computers includes a strap attached to a plurality of spacer blocks. The strap is arrayed over top of the computer row, and each spacer block is inserted between a pair of adjacent computers to provide substantially uniform spacing between the computers.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080170374 - Low-thickness electronic module comprising a stack of electronic packages provided with connection balls: The invention relates to an electronic module (100) comprising a stack of n packages (10, 10a, 10b) of predetermined thickness E, which are provided on a lower surface with connection balls (12) of predetermined thickness eb, said connection balls being connected to a printed circuit (20, 20a, 20b) for interconnecting... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080170375 - Optoelectronic device in combination with a push-in cage: The device includes a push-in cage, and an optoelectronic device. The push-in cage includes a first thread form, and a first key. The optoelectronic device includes an optical subassembly, a second thread form, and a second key. The second thread form of the optoelectronic device is complementary to the first... Agent: Karl D. Kovach Emerson Network Power Connectivity Solutions, Inc.

20080170376 - Stacked mounting structure: In a stacked mounting structure At least a pair of a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal is formed, and further, the stacked mounting structure includes a protruding electrode which is provided on at least any one of the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal, and... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080170377 - Manipulation input device and electronic instrument using the same: A manipulation input device includes a base, a printed-circuit board adhered to the base, a manipulation member, a pressing projection, and a manipulation dial. A plurality of push-button switches and a magnetic-field detection element are mounted on the printed-circuit board. The manipulation member has a ring-shape plate spring and a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080170378 - Circuit structure having independent ground plane layouts implemented in circuit board: A circuit structure includes a circuit board, a first circuit component mounted on the circuit board, and a second circuit component mounted on the circuit board. The first circuit board has a first ground plane layout including at least one ground plane, and a second ground plane layout including at... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080170379 - Optical receiver having improved shielding: An apparatus having a die, a carrier, and a plurality of shielding wires. The die has a top surface through which EMI is received. The carrier has a first surface on which the die is mounted by attaching the die to the first surface using a surface of the die... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20080165455 - Resistive high temperature superconductor fault current limiter: The present invention relates to a resistive type high temperature superconductor based fault current limiter with improved heat exchange capability composed of a thermally conductive matrix material 8 with a plurality of superconductor components 5 embedded in the thermally conductive matrix material 8 wherein the plurality of superconductor components 5... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080165456 - Overspeed protection for sensorless electric drives: Overspeed protection of sensorless electric drives is needed in the aerospace industry. Methods for overspeed protection may include software implementations, hardware implementations or combinations thereof. Typical high-speed rotating machinery is designed to sustain overspeed operation of up to 50% beyond maximum normal operation. This requirement leads to substantial penalties in... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080165457 - Micro-electromechanical system based electric motor starter: A motor starter is provided. The motor starter includes micro-electromechanical system switching circuitry. The system may further include solid state switching circuitry coupled in a parallel circuit with the electromechanical switching circuitry, and a controller coupled to the electromechanical switching circuitry and the solid state switching circuitry. The controller may... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20080165458 - Electrostatic protection device: One embodiment of an electrostatic protection diode in an integrated circuit includes a base area having at least two bends therein.... Agent: Mr. Joe Pugh Triquint Semiconductors

20080165459 - Pad esd spreading technique: A system, e.g. an integrated circuit or part, may include a plurality of pads, e.g. digital I/O pads, each comprising a physical pad and associated pad circuit. In case of an ESD event affecting one or more of the digital I/O pads, PMOS devices configured in an output buffer section... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080165460 - Data port transient protection apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus for protecting data bus ports and their corresponding PHY devices from taking damage associated with excess voltage across one or more signal pairs during an intermittent connection. Such connections cause the signal pins to carry external device current which raises the signal voltage above the power rails,... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates, P.C.

20080165462 - Leak current breaker and method: A leak current breaker is provided which includes a detector (10) to detect a leakage current from electric lines, a first removing unit (12) to convert the detected leakage current into a voltage and a voltage detector (14) to detect a voltage developed in electric lines A under testing, a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080165461 - System and method for circuit overcurrent protection: In one aspect, the invention provides a system for protecting a plurality of circuits including a plurality of circuit protective devices wherein each circuit protective device includes a respective nominal current rating. According to one embodiment, the system includes current sensing circuitry configured to measure a current of each circuit... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080165463 - Thermal management method and device for powerline communications: A plug in power line module apparatus, e.g., removable to be for plug and play. The apparatus has a removable housing member, which has an outer region and an inner region. In a preferred embodiment, the housing member has a width, a length, and a depth. The apparatus has a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080165464 - Safety switching apparatus and method for safe disconnection of a load: A safety switching apparatus for safe disconnection of a load in an automated installation has at least one input for receiving an analog input signal. It further has an A/D converter which converts the analog input signal to a digital signal. An evaluation and control unit controls at least one... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080165465 - Current limiting protection circuit: A power supply management device including a current limiting protection circuit. The power supply management device may include an output terminal, a first transistor, a replication circuit, a comparator circuit, and a control circuit. The first transistor may provide an output current to the output terminal of the power supply... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080165466 - Method and apparatus for providing a carbon nanotube plasma limiter having a subnanosecond response time: A method and apparatus for providing a carbon nanotube array plasma limiter having a subnanosecond response time is disclosed. A transmission line assembly having a signal line is provided. A carbon nanotube device is coupled to the transmission line assembly across a gap, wherein the carbon nanotube device is configured... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel P.C.

20080165467 - Drive circuit for an actuator and method for driving an actuator: m

20080165469 - Multilayer chip capacitor: A multilayer chip capacitor including: a capacitor body formed of a lamination of a plurality of dielectric layers and having a bottom surface that is a mounting area; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed to be opposite to each other, interposing a dielectric layer there between in the capacitor body... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080165468 - Very low profile multilayer components: Methodologies are disclosed for producing multilayer electronic devices using a single screen printing mask. Plural layer devices are constructed by placing a common mask in alternating positions among alternating layers of support material such that, upon stacking of the plural layers, complimentary electrode structure is produced in alternating layers. Support... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080165470 - Functional carbon material and method of producing the same: t

20080165471 - Organic electrolyte capacitor using a mesopore carbon material as a negative electrode: According to the organic electrolyte capacitor of the present invention, an organic electrolyte capacitor having a high discharge capacity even at a low temperature state as low as −20° C. while having a high voltage and a high energy density can be attained in an organic electrolyte capacitor having a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080165472 - High dielectric composites as capacitive materials: Novel electrolytic capacitors are based on a composite liquid crystal electrolyte sandwiched between two electrodes where the electrolyte comprises a dispersion of a lyotropic liquid crystal in a dispersion media, and where the liquid crystal is a chromonic liquid crystal and the dispersion media is selected from a variety of... Agent: Hudak, Shunk & Farine, Co., L.p.a.

20080165473 - Cooling unit: A cooling unit for integrating into a housing, especially a control box, including an assembly plate which is embodied to receive electrical components and has at least one cooling channel through which a coolant flows or is to flow. This invention provides the cooling unit with a compact structure and... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080165476 - Appliance with an electrically adaptive adapter to alternatively couple multiple consumer electronic devices: A modular system comprises an appliance and an adaptive adapter configured to alternately couple two consumer electronic devices to the appliance and to supply a different electrical service between the appliance and the consumer electronic devices depending on the device selected. The adaptive adapter supplies a first category of electrical... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165474 - Host with multiple sequential adapters for multiple consumer electronic devices: A modular system having multiple adapters for providing service to consumer electronic devices, at least one adapter being capable of being coupled to host to receive an electrical service and at least another adapter being capable of being coupled to the at least one adapter to receive an electrical service.... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165475 - Service supply module and adapter for a consumer electronic device: A service supply module and a modular system including the service supply module and an adapter. The service supply module has a surface mount and a service interface. The service interface supplies a service provided from the surface to which the service supply module is mounted. The adapter has a... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165477 - Electronic apparatus with keyboard: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus with a keyboard coupled to a cable, comprises a housing including a wall on which the keyboard is mounted, the wall including an opening, a circuit board which is accommodated inside the housing, and to which the cable is coupled through the opening,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080165478 - Adapter for docking a consumer electronic device in discrete orientations: A modular system comprises an appliance conducting a useful cycle of operation, a consumer electronic device removably mounted to the appliance and having a user interface for controlling a primary function of the consumer electronic device, and an adapter mounting the consumer electronic device to the appliance for movement between... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165482 - Display apparatus, fan unit and fan speed control method thereof: A display apparatus, a fan unit and a fan speed control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes an image processing unit that performs image processing for an image signal; a display unit that displays an image based on the image signal; a fan unit that comprises a fan... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080165483 - Display device: The present invention provides a display device of high quality by suppressing heating of a semiconductor chip mounted on a flexible board connected to an insulation substrate of a display device and by suppressing irregularities of a voltage supplied to the semiconductor chip. A heat radiation pattern is formed on... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080165480 - Display device having anti-fog transparent protection plate: An exemplary display device (10) includes a display module (11), a frame (12), a porous ceramic member (13), and a transparent protection plate (14). The frame defines a receiving cavity (121). The display module is confined in the receiving cavity of the frame. The transparent protection plate is configured in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080165479 - Display screen used in game machine: A display screen is used in a game machine having a plurality of heat-dissipating holes. The display screen includes a screen body having a bottom surface and a base coupled to the bottom surface of the screen body. The base has a plurality of latches arranged correspondingly to the heat-dissipating... Agent: Hdsl

20080165484 - Display tilting apparatus and display rotation apparatus: A display tilting apparatus and a display rotation apparatus. The display tilting apparatus, which tiltably supports a display to control an angle of the display, may include: a support member; a tilt member, which is attachable to and detachable from the display, and which is hinge-joined to the support member... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080165481 - Thin screen enclosure: A modular container (2) for a flat display panel (3) has a mounting shelf (55) for the panel and power means (48) for selectively raising and lowering the mounting shelf and vertical channels (108) or geared tracks in the container positioned to receive side edges of the panel and adjustable... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080165485 - Cold worked metal housing for a portable electronic device: A cold worked stainless steel bezel for a portable electronic device is provided. The bezel is secured flush to a housing to form part of the case of the portable electronic device. A brace that includes a slot for receiving a wall extending from the bezel is fixed to the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080165486 - Computer front bezel: A computer front bezel includes a bezel body (10), a holding member (30), a sliding member (80), and a resilient member (100). The bezel body defines an opening (138) therein. The holding member is pivotably secured on the bezel body for covering the opening of the bezel body when the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080165487 - Riser card module: A riser card module is installed in a slot of a main board. The slot has a first hook member arranged on the side of the slot. The riser card module includes a riser and a mounting rack. The riser card is inserted in the slot vertically. The mounting rack... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080165488 - Riser card module: A riser card module includes a riser card and a mounting rack. The riser card is inserted in a slot of a main board vertically and has a first hook member arranged on the side of the slot. The mounting rack includes an upright board and an engagement member. The... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20080165489 - Protection assembly for a multi-surface housing: Apparatus for protecting a multi-surface housing from mechanical vibration (shock) and electromagnetic interference (EMI). A protection assembly incorporates an EMI shield member with a base portion configured to extend adjacent a first surface of the housing. A tab portion extends from an edge of the base portion adjacent a second... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens

20080165491 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: A twist is added to an HDD holder so that the vibration of an HDD unit can be attenuated more reliably not to have any impact on a main body chassis and a VCR unit. There is provided a recording and reproducing apparatus including an HDD unit 40 and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080165490 - Technique to support multiple forms of sas dasd: A computer chassis is provided that may accommodate direct access storage device cages for various form factors. A 3.5-inch direct access storage device (DASD) cage may support 3.5-inch serial attached SCSI (SAS) direct access storage devices. The 3.5-inch SAS DASD cage includes a DASD backplane with a main connector and... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080165492 - Docking assembly for a computer and method: A docking assembly for a computer. The docking assembly includes a base station, and a computer-support assembly coupled to the base station. A method for positioning a computer-support assembly for receiving a portable computer comprising moving away from a base station at least one engager member bound to a computer-support... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080165493 - Heat disspating apparatus with stationary power supply: A heat dissipating apparatus with stationary power supply includes power supplies having a primary power system and a stationary power system, at least one heat dissipating fan and a fan driving unit electrically connected to the stationary power system. The stationary power of the fan driving unit is used for... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080165494 - Method and apparatus for thermal dissipation in an information handling system: A thermal dissipation apparatus includes a primary heat sink. The primary heat sink includes a first base member including a component coupling surface and a secondary heat sink coupling surface, and a plurality of fins extending from the first base member. A secondary heat sink may be provided such that... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080165495 - Electric device comprising a housing and a cooling body: The invention relates to an electric device (10) comprising a housing (13) and a cooling body (16) which is secured to the housing (13). A gap (43) is arranged between the cooling body (16) and the separated housing (13), said gap comprising, at least partially a collar (31) which surrounds... Agent: Michael J. Striker

20080165496 - Panel type display device: A panel type display device for minimizing temperature increase in the interior of a case and a display panel. The display device includes a case, a display panel mounted in an interior of the case, at least one circuit board for controlling the display panel, a first cooling fluid path... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080165497 - Quasi-radial heatsink with rectangular form factor and uniform fin length: In some embodiments, a heatsink includes a thermally conductive core and at least ten thermally conductive fins extending quasi-radially from the thermally conductive core, wherein most of the fins are of uniform length, and wherein at least a portion of the thermally conductive core is shaped such that the fins... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080165498 - Quasi-radial heatsink with rectangular form factor and uniform fin length: In some embodiments, a heatsink includes a thermally conductive core and at least ten thermally conductive fins extending quasi-radially from the thermally conductive core, wherein most of the fins are of uniform length, and wherein at least a portion of the thermally conductive core is shaped such that the fins... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080165499 - Coolant control unit and cooled electronics system employing the same: A coolant control unit for a liquid cooled electronics system is provided, which includes an external coolant inlet and outlet for receiving and returning external coolant; an internal coolant loop for circulating coolant to the electronics system; a first and second control valve coupling the external coolant inlet and outlet... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080165500 - Semiconductor cooling device and stack of semiconductor cooling devices: To prevent occurrence of distortion in a semiconductor cooling device and to prevent a semiconductor chip from being separated away from the semiconductor cooling device in case the semiconductor chip and the semiconductor cooling device are thermally expanded, a semiconductor cooling device includes at least an upper plate, an intermediate... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080165501 - High-load even pressure heatsink loading for low-profile blade computer applications: An apparatus for dissipating heat in a computer system includes a heat sink, at least one fastener which secures the heat sink to at least one first support member, and at least one cup. The first support member has a top side and a bottom side. The at least one... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080165502 - Patterned metal thermal interface: The present invention is a patterned metal thermal interface. In one embodiment a system for dissipating heat from a heat-generating device includes a heat sink having a first surface adapted for thermal coupling to a first surface of the heat generating device and a thermal interface having at least one... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080165503 - Heat dissipation device: A heat sink assembly (10) includes a heat sink (12) and a wire clip (14). The heat sink includes a base (120) and a plurality of fins (124) mounted on the base. A channel (126) is defined between two neighboring ones of the fins. A pair of points (1250) are... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080165504 - Host and adapter for selectively positioning a consumer electronic display in visible and concealed orientations: A modular system comprises an appliance conducting a useful cycle of operation, a consumer electronic device removably mounted to the appliance and having a display, and an adapter mounting the consumer electronic device to the appliance for movement between a first orientation, where the display is visible to a user,... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165505 - door with a service interface on an edge: A door movably mounted to a cabinet to selectively close a chamber. The door has a peripheral edge, and a standardized service interface is located on the peripheral edge. The standardized service interface is configured to supply at least one service for use by a consumer electronic device. The peripheral... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165507 - Communicating with an electronic module that is slidably mounted in a system: A system comprises an electronic module slidably mounted in the system, a first assembly including at least one wireless transceiver mounted in the system, and a second assembly including at least one wireless transceiver to communicate wirelessly with the wireless transceiver of the first assembly. The second assembly is attached... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080165506 - Host and adapter for selectively positioning a consumer electronic device in accessible and inaccessible orientations: A modular system comprises an appliance conducting a useful cycle of operation, an adapter, and a consumer electronic device. The adapter is mounted to the appliance, has an enclosure defining a cavity, and is movable between a first orientation, where the cavity is accessible exteriorly of the appliance, and a... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20080165508 - Ejectable component assemblies in electronic devices: Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies that can be substantially flush with the external surfaces of the housings of the devices, despite variations in their manufacture. The ejectable component assemblies may include connectors coupled to circuit boards of the devices, and trays that can be loaded with removable... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080165509 - Host with multiple adapters for coupling consumer electronic devices: A modular system of an appliance host with multiple identical host service interfaces. The multiple identical host service interfaces provide a mechanical service and an electrical service for removable consumer electronic devices. Multiple distinct consumer electronic devices or adapters for consumer electronic devices may be coupled alternatively to the multiple... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080165510 - Board-housing case and fluid pressure control device including thereof: A resin case main body includes a connector housing, a component housing, and a joint portion. A busbar includes a reinforcement plate portion which is orthogonal to a plane of a board and is parallel to an alignment direction of the connector housing, the joint portion, and the component housing.... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080165511 - Control device and method of manufacturing thereof: A module comprises a metallic terminal pins for connection and a circuit board with electronic components mounted thereon, a circuit board connecting side of the connector. The electronic components and the circuit board with the electronic components mounted thereon are encapsulated with the same resin. A metallic base is united... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080165512 - Method and apparatus for carrying circuit assemblies: An apparatus for a circuit assembly, including two plates which are adapted to hold a circuit assembly, connected by a hinge, and including a hold-down adapted to interlock the circuit assembly to a plate, and a sliding lock adapted to secure the plates. Examples of the present subject matter include... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woesner & Kluth, P.A.

20080165513 - Electronic component built-in substrate and method for manufacturing the same: It is an electronic component built-in substrate 100 configured as follows. That is, an electronic component 30 is provided between at least two boards 10 and 20. An electrode 34 of the electronic component 30 is electrically connected to at least one of the board 10. Also, the boards 10... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080165514 - Printed circuit board: A printed circuit board (PCB) having a multi-layered structure for improving shielding against electromagnetic interference, the PCB including one or more signal layers and an outer grounding layer located on an outermost surface of the PCB. Accordingly, the radiation of electromagnetic waves to the outside from the outer grounding layer... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080165515 - Circuit board structure having electronic components integrated therein: The present invention provides a circuit board having electronic components integrated therein, including a carrier board having an metallic oxide layer formed on each two surfaces of a metal layer, and having at least one through cavity; at least a semiconductor chip hold in the opening; at least a capacitor... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080165517 - Multiple circuit board arrangements in electronic devices: Electronic devices can be provided with at least one first circuit component coupled to a first circuit board, at least one second circuit component coupled to a second circuit board, and a mating assembly coupled to the boards for holding them in a vertical stack. The first circuit components can... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080165516 - Optical port apparatus and method of making the same: An optical port apparatus includes a housing having oppositely disposed first and second housing surfaces and a housing body extending therebetween. A housing aperture extends about a central axis of the housing body. A groove surrounds the housing aperture. The groove extends partially through the housing body and has a... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080165518 - Flip clip mounting process and bump-forming process using electrically-conductive particles: A flip chip mounting process or a bump-forming process according to the present invention is characterized in that electrically-conductive particles are fixed on electrodes formed on an electronic component. A composition comprising solder powder, a convection additive and a resin component is supplied onto a surface of the electronic component,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080165519 - Microelectronic assembly with multi-layer support structure: A method of forming a microelectronic assembly includes positioning a support structure adjacent to an active region of a device but not extending onto the active region. The support structure has planar sections. Each planar section has a substantially uniform composition. The composition of at least one of the planar... Agent: Tessera Lerner David Et Al.

20080165520 - Cigarette lighter adapter device that interfaces with an external device via a port interface: A CLA device comprises a CLA plug that is insertable into an external CLA socket, for example, a DC CLA socket inside a vehicle. The CLA device has a housing coupled to the CLA plug, for example, by integration or via a tethered wire, with the housing having a support... Agent: The Black & Decker Corporation

20080165521 - Three-dimensional architecture for self-checking and self-repairing integrated circuits: A three-dimensional architecture chip includes a base chip including a unit integrated thereon and configured to perform electrical signal operations. An active layer is separately fabricated from the base layer. The active layer includes a component to service the unit of the base chip. The active layer is bonded to... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080165522 - Bundling apparatus for electrical cables: A bundling apparatus for the organization of electrical wires. The bundling apparatus comprising a body with a first end and a second end, the body being movable from an extended position to a compressed position. The body holding the electrical wires together when the bundling apparatus is in the extended... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080158743 - Protective device for a controlling system of a sewage pump: A protective device for a controlling system of a sewage pump has a protective circuit to protect a start capacitor and to avoid the start capacitor from burnout when an overload is occurred by actuating power source (ON status) or a transient voltage is occurred by malfunction of a controlling... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.a.

20080158744 - Series arc fault current interrupters and methods: A circuit interrupter for interrupting current on a line conductor is provided. The circuit interrupter includes separable contacts, a trip mechanism, a bimetal, a microprocessor, a series arc detection sequence, a low-pass filter circuit, and a high-pass filter circuit. The trip mechanism selectively opens the separable contacts when activated. The... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080158745 - Data transmission circuit with esd protection and lcd thereof: Data transmission circuit with ESD protection comprises a first set of data lines and a second set of data lines; a first set of ESD protection components coupled to the first set of data lines; a second set of ESD protection components coupled to the second set of data lines;... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080158748 - Electrical overstress protection: In one aspect, a method for protection of an integrated circuit device includes but is not limited to detecting a first current in the integrated circuit device, wherein the first current is caused by a second current; and shunting the second current away from the integrated circuit device in response... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158749 - Electrostatic discharge protection circuit protecting thin gate insulation layers in a semiconductor device: An electrostatic discharge protection circuit protects the internal circuits of a semiconductor. The electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes a first electrostatic protection unit connected to a power source supply pad. The first electrostatic protection unit discharges an ESD current into the power source supply pad when an ESD is introduced... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080158747 - Radiation tolerant electrostatic discharge protection networks: An ESD network. The ESD network including a redundant voltage clamping element in series with a first voltage clamping element between two voltage pads. The ESD network may be connected to a power voltage pad or a signal voltage pad either directly or through a dummy voltage pad. The voltage... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080158746 - Universal energy conditioning interposer with circuit architecture: The present invention relates to an interposer substrate for interconnecting between active electronic componentry such as but not limited to a single or multiple integrated circuit chips in either a single or a combination and elements that could comprise of a mounting substrate, substrate module, a printed circuit board, integrated... Agent: Neifeld Ip Law, P.c.

20080158750 - Relay device and corresponding method: A method of operating a relay device, the method comprising the steps of: providing main circuit-breakers and a bus-tie-breaker connecting the main-circuit-breakers; defining a partial-differential-zone comprising a main circuit breaker and the bus-tie breaker; assigning a first value to the direction of the fault current flowing into the partial differential... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080158751 - Circuit protection system: A method of protecting a circuit having power switching devices that includes communicating a current in at least one secondary switching device to at least one master switching device and determining a presence of a fault condition within at least a first zone based at least in part upon characteristics... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080158752 - Circuit protection system: A protection system for a power distribution system with one or more zones that includes at least one power-switching device connected to a power or current sensing device and a communications device. The power-switching device is communicatively coupled to at least one processing device. The at least one processing device... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080158753 - Relay device and corresponding method: A method of operating a relay device, the method comprising the steps of: computing positive-sequence first and second current-phasor for the first and second main circuit-breakers and computing currents from phasors, and the bus-tie-breaker; computing positive-sequence voltage for the bus-tie-breaker; triggering a method when at least one fault current at... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080158754 - Terminal leakage monitoring for field devices: A field device detects the presence of terminal leakage between a first terminal and a second terminal in the terminal block area of the field device using a voltage variation ratio that is based on variations in a terminal voltage located across output terminals of a field device and variations... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.a.

20080158755 - Battery pack having a protection circuit: A battery pack including at least a battery cell and a protection circuit for shutting off a overcurrent discharge, comprising a discharge control switch connected between a negative terminal of the battery cell and a external minus terminal configured to close after the detection of an abnormal discharge shut-off condition.... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080158756 - Systems and methods for electrical leakage detection and compensation: Systems and methods are disclosed for compensating electrical leakage and detecting balanced electrical leakage for a machine hosting an HV system. In one embodiment, a fault detection and compensation system includes a DC power supply electrically referenced to a machine frame, a leakage correction switch connected to the machine frame,... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.

20080158758 - Over-voltage protection arrangement: at least one trigger circuit (6a, 6b) being adapted to respond to a trigger voltage, a voltage on the voltage feed deviating from the threshold range, by controlling the field effect transistor (4) to throttle the electric connection between the input (2) and output (3) terminals.... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080158757 - Short circuit and over-voltage protection for a data bus: An apparatus for protecting a device against an over-voltage condition that is in excess of its breakdown voltage includes a detector for detecting the over-voltage condition and a protection circuit for protecting the device in response to detection of the over-voltage condition. The protection circuit may include a transmission gate... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080158759 - Circuit for protecting motherboard: A circuit for protecting a motherboard of a computer includes a first transistor (Q1) and a second transistor (Q2). A CPU with a CPU voltage terminal (10) configured for electrically connecting to a power supply is mounted on the motherboard. A gate of the first transistor is connected to the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158760 - Method and apparatus for fault detection scheme for cold cathode florescent lamp (ccfl) integrated circuits: A fault detection circuit and a short-circuit detection circuit for a Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp (CCFL) driver integrated circuit having a power bridge and a CCFL load are disclosed that includes a reference circuit operable to generate a reference current in response to an external component, a replica component having... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080158761 - Circuit breaker electronic trip unit personality module: A method and apparatus providing automatic circuit breaker identification to an electronic trip unit including: a mounting plate with mechanical means to releasably engage said electronic trip unit employing a microcontroller; an electronic module embedded in the mounting plate containing a non-volatile memory device, said device containing data identifying the... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080158763 - Circuit breaker electronic trip unit personality module: A method and apparatus providing automatic circuit breaker identification to an electronic trip unit includes a processor and a configuration module comprising configuration data identifying the particulars of a circuit breaker and that is in operable communication with the processor.... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080158762 - Circuit breaker trip unit rating selection plug: A rating plug that, in addition to setting the percentage de-rating on the voltage conditioning (i.e., gain/filter) circuit, by controlling the operational amplifier gain with analog switches in series with the opamp feedback loop, provides breaker frame and/or sensor information to a microprocessor.... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080158764 - Intelligent electronic device with integrated pushbutton for use in power substation: The present disclosure describes a new pushbutton incorporated into new circuit configurations of an improved intelligent electronic device (“IED”), for use in power substation control systems. The new pushbutton is non-mechanical and configured to control a breaker, or other type of substation equipment, after an IED associated with the circuit... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080158765 - Travel outlet device: A travel outlet device is for connecting between an adapter and a power cable. The travel outlet device includes a case, a PCB and at least one power outlet unit. The case is connected with a power input portion and a power output portion. The PCB has a surge-protected circuit... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080158766 - Circuit board and electronic component: A circuit board, including a static electricity protection conductor formed around a protection target to be protected from static electricity, the static electricity protection conductor having one or more projections and being grounded at one or more points.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158767 - Connecting structure and methods for electrically connecting conductive members: An exemplary connecting structure (30, 50) is used to electrically connect two conductive members (32, 34, 52, 54). The connecting structure includes an adhesive layer (36, 56) and a conductive element (40, 60). The adhesive layer is used to connect the conductive members and defines a through hole (38, 58).... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158768 - High voltage generating circuit, ion generating device and electrical apparatus: A high voltage generating circuit includes a boosting portion (e.g., a trigger coil (22)) for boosting DC voltage delivered from a DC power supply (26) so as to deliver high voltage at a secondary side, a switching element (e.g., a MOS FET (23)) for turning on and off current flowing... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158769 - Systems and methods for arc energy regulation and pulse delivery: An apparatus for interfering with locomotion of a target by conducting a current through a load that includes an ionizable path. The apparatus includes, according to various aspects of the present invention, an energy source, an ionization detector, a charge detector, a controller, and a pulse generator. The controller determines,... Agent: Taser International, Inc.

20080158770 - Method of manufacturing circuit board embedding thin film capacitor: A method of manufacturing a circuit board embedding a thin film capacitor, the method including: forming a sacrificial layer on a first substrate; forming a dielectric layer on the sacrificial layer; forming a first electrode layer on the dielectric layer; disposing the first substrate on the second substrate in such... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158771 - Structure and method for self aligned vertical plate capacitor: A method of forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor includes forming a first planar dielectric layer with a first metallization layer therein; forming a first passivation layer on top thereof; forming a planar conductive layer above the first passivation layer; patterning and selectively removing the conductive layer up to the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Fishkill

20080158772 - Common centroid symmetric structure capacitor: A common centroid symmetric structure capacitor is provided, which includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, a third metal layer, and a fourth metal layer. The first metal layer is adjacent to the second metal layer, the third metal layer is adjacent to the first metal layer, the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080158773 - Multilayer capacitor array: A multilayer capacitor array having a plurality of multilayer capacitor devices formed in a single multilayer structure, the multilayer capacitor array including: a capacitor body formed by depositing a plurality of dielectric layers and having first and second side surfaces opposite to each other; a plurality of first polarity internal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158774 - Multilayer ceramic capacitor with terminal formed by electroless plating: A terminal to, most commonly, a ceramic capacitor, most commonly a multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC), is formed by electroless plating, also known as electroless deposition or simply as electrodeposition. In the MLCC having a multiple parallel interior plates brought to, and exposed at, at least one, first, surface, an electrically-conductive... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080158775 - Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same: A semiconductor device has a MIM capacitor including a first insulating film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a lower electrode composed of a first metal film formed on the first insulating film, a capacitor insulating film formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode composed of a second metal... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158776 - Face-centered cubic structure capacitor and method of fabricating the same: A face-centered cubic structure capacitor is provided, which includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and a connection layer. The first metal layer comprises a plurality of first metal wires, a plurality of second metal wires, and a plurality of first metal blocks. The first and second metal... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158777 - Capacitor and multi-layer board embedding the capacitor: There are provided a capacitor and a thin film capacitor-embedded multi-layer wiring board. The capacitor includes: first and second electrodes connected to first and second polarities; a dielectric layer formed therebetween; and at least one floating electrode disposed inside the dielectric layer and having overlaps with the first and second... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080158778 - Asymmetric electrochemical supercapacitor and method of manufacture thereof: Asymmetric supercapacitors comprise: a positive electrode comprising a current collector and a first active material selected from the group consisting of manganese dioxide, silver oxide, iron sulfide, lithium manganese oxide, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium nickel oxide, lithium iron phosphate, and a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing active... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080158779 - Method for fabricating flexible super capacitor and electrode thereof: A flexible super capacitor including a pair of flexible electrodes and a separator film is disclosed. Each flexible electrode includes a carbon fiber layer and a collector formed on a surface of the carbon fiber layer. The pair of flexible electrodes has two outer surfaces, and the collector layers are... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080158780 - Electrolytic capacitor: An apparatus is disclosed which includes an electrolytic capacitive element with multiple capacitor sections.... Agent: Fish & Richardson Pc

20080158781 - Solid electrolytic capacitor and lead frame thereof: A solid electrolytic capacitor having multiple capacitor elements and a lead frame is provided. Each capacitor element includes an anode part, a cathode part, and at least one slit or hole, wherein the cathode part is disposed opposite to the anode part and the slit is disposed in the capacitor... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080158782 - Solid electrolytic capacitor and lead frame thereof: A solid electrolytic capacitor having multiple capacitor elements and a lead frame is provided. Each capacitor element includes an anode part, a cathode part, an insulating part and at least one first slit. The cathode part is disposed opposite to the anode part. The insulating part is disposed between the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080158783 - Solid electrolytic capacitor: The present invention is a solid electrolytic capacitor having a dielectric coating film, a solid electrolytic layer, and a cathode lead-out layer on a peripheral surface of an anode body in this order, in which the solid electrolytic layer is equipped with at least a first electrolytically polymerized layer and... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080158784 - Electrode for electrolytic capacitor: An electrode for an electrolytic capacitor is disclosed, including a substrate and a metal oxide formed on the surface of the substrate, wherein the metal oxide is formed on the surface of the substrate by a chemical reaction between a precursor and functional groups on the surface of the substrate.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080158785 - Transfer switch assembly: A transfer switch assembly is disclosed that includes a power switch device with a number engagement landings and a printed circuit board defining an opening bordered by a number of tabs. The tabs engage the landings as the switch device extends through the openings, and can be fastened together.... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20080158786 - Panelboards having support rails: A panelboard for a plurality of electrical distribution components with an endplate, main bus bars, and support rails arranged parallel to the main bus bars. The first support rail has a plurality of walls and a plurality of bends that provide support for the first main bus bar. The first... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080158787 - Load center with plug in neutral connections: A load center with a circuit breaker with a first recess and a second recess, a main busbar with a first stab that is operatively arranged to insert into the first recess and support a front end of the circuit breaker. The load center also includes a neutral support bar... Agent: Paul D. Greeley, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.l.p.

20080158788 - Panelboard for fusible switching disconnect devices: A panelboard for fusible switching disconnect devices. The panelboard includes a chassis coupled to a mounting enclosure. The mounting enclosure can be used indoors or outdoors. The chassis is configured to receive one or more fusible switching disconnect devices. Each of the fusible switching disconnect devices includes both a fuse... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080158792 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus to which a portable apparatus is attachable, the electronic apparatus including: a main body portion; a front face portion; and a flexible board connecting the main body portion and the front face portion, and the front face portion is arranged to be capable of being displaced with... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158790 - Electronic apparatus and electronic system: An electronic apparatus detachably holding a portable apparatus, the electronic apparatus includes: a housing portion to which the portable apparatus is attached; an eject mechanism ejecting the portable apparatus attached to the housing portion; and a support mechanism detachably supporting the portable apparatus in an ejected state where the portable... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158791 - Electronic apparatus and electronic system: An electronic apparatus to which a portable apparatus is attachable, the electronic apparatus including: a second connecting line connected to a first connecting line provided in the portable apparatus; a detector detecting an attachment of the portable apparatus, when the second connecting line is electrically connected to the first connecting... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158789 - Electronic device housing: Apparatus and methods for housing an electronic device are provided. In some implementations an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a base, an electronic device positioned on the base, and a lid positioned to cover the base and at least a portion of the electronic device. The lid and the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158793 - Vertical electronic packaging: In some embodiments a holder holds an electronic device at a distance from a board and couples the electronic device to the board. One or more legs stabilize and provide 360 degree support for the electronic device in a z-axis height away from the board. Other embodiments are described and... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080158801 - Display device and stand therefor: A display device or stand therefor, intended to promote frequent changes in a (5) user's posture by the continuous movement of its display screen (1) in a horizontal and/or vertical manner. In a preferred embodiment the display device comprises a vertical hollow column (10) slidably attached by a saddle (11)... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20080158802 - Display device equipped with hard disk drive: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a housing, a chassis which holds a display panel inside the housing, and an HDD unit which is located behind the display panel. The HDD unit includes a case which has an opening portion opened toward rear of the display panel, a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080158798 - Display device having anti-fog transparent protection plate: An exemplary display device (10) includes a display module (11), a frame (12), a porous material member (13), and a transparent protection plate (14). The frame has a receiving cavity (121). The display module is confined in the receiving cavity of the frame. The transparent protection plate is configured in... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158799 - Display device having anti-fog transparent protection plate: An exemplary display device (10) includes a display module (11), a frame (12), a porous metallic material member (13), and a transparent protection plate (14). The frame has a receiving cavity (121). The display module is confined in the receiving cavity of the frame. The transparent protection plate is configured... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158797 - Display panel module: In a display panel module, data driver chips are cascaded to one another and mounted on a display panel. A first flexible printed circuit (FPC) board is connected between a printed circuit board (PCB) and one end of the cascaded data driver chips for transmitting data signals to the data... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080158800 - Electronic apparatus: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus having a main part and a display part which pivotally opens and closes relative to the main part, the apparatus including an electromagnet provided in one of the main part or the display part, a permanent magnet provided in the other one of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080158794 - Electronic apparatus and electronic system: An electronic apparatus includes: a main body; and a front face panel movably supported to cover a front face of the main body or to expose at least a portion of the front face thereof, and the front face panel is provided with a housing portion detachably retaining a portable... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158795 - Folding electronic device with continuous display: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes an apparatus that includes two panels pivotally connected together. The panels can pivot from an open arrangement where the two panels lay side by side to a closed arrangement where the two panels lay one on top of another. The apparatus also... Agent: Ryder Ip Law C/o Intellevate, Llc

20080158804 - Frame for a device mounted above a printed circuit board in an electronic device: The disclosure describes a frame for mounting a device above a printed circuit board (PCB) in an electronic device. The frame comprises: a frame section formed to be located on the PCB about a surface device on a section of the PCB; and a cover for placement on top of... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080158803 - Image display device: An image display device having an image display panel, the image display device including: as a casing, a base part mountable on a horizontal surface, a rising part rising from the base part in a state of being inclined frontward at a predetermined angle, and a panel retaining part connected... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080158796 - Method and system for screen attachment: Methods and apparatus for a display system include a frame and one or more screen panels. Each panel has an inwardly disposed face and an outwardly disposed face. An adhesive layer couples to respective portions of each inwardly disposed face. At least one of the adhesive layers couples the one... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158807 - Cpu mounting apparatus: A CPU mounting apparatus is disclosed. The CPU mounting apparatus includes a CPU receiver, two lever holders, two clips, two resilient members, a pair of levers, and a handle. The CPU receiver defines a cavity for receiving a CPU. The two clips are slidably mounted between the lever holders and... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158806 - Portable computer with handle: A portable computer includes a cover unit, a base unit pivotably connected to the cover unit, and a handle pivotably mounted to the base unit. The handle forms a cross bar, and at least one locking tab. The locking tab is engagable with a sidewall of the base unit to... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158805 - Small portable multipurpose pc unit insertable into a multitude of operating stations: The present invention relates to computer unit designed for a multitude of possible usage in various situations and purposes. The said characterized in that it can be easily inserted/detached from different work stations and consists mainly of a small compact computer unit having substantially small dimensions. The said unit consists... Agent: Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, Llc

20080158808 - Apparatus to protect shock-sensitive devices and methods of assembly: At least one shock-sensitive device is mounted within an enclosure using a shock-absorbing element as an exclusive point of contact between the shock-sensitive device and the enclosure. The shock-sensitive device may comprise a disk drive and/or a printed circuit board. The enclosure may comprise an end cap having at least... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080158809 - Computer enclosure incorporating drive bracket: A computer enclosure includes a cage (30), a drive bracket (20) pivotably mounted to the cage, a damper device (24) including a base (240) secured to the drive bracket and a damper gear (241) being rotatable relative to the base when an external force is exerted thereon and being held... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158810 - Hard disk drive drawer: A hard disk drive drawer includes a fixed casing mountable inside a computer housing, and a drawable carrier, which is elastically deformable for holding a hard disk drive therein and detachably and slidably received in the fixed casing. The fixed casing has a retaining portion. A handle is pivotally connected... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080158811 - Universal attachment for computer peripheral equipment: A mounting device for computer peripheral equipment. Preferably included are two spring arms, friction boots mounted on the ends of the spring arms, a non-skid pad and a rotating platform. The rotating platform ensures that the non-skid pad can be positioned between a first position, where the pad and friction... Agent: Ference & Associates Llc

20080158812 - Method and system to cool memory: A method, apparatus, and system related to thermal management. The method includes reducing a temperature of a stream of air upstream of at least one memory module by a heat absorption component of a refrigeration device, moving the stream of air into contact with at least one surface of the... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080158813 - Fan assembly: A fan assembly (20) for dissipating heat from an electronic device includes a bracket (30) and a fan module (40). The bracket has a retaining wall (31). The retaining wall defines an opening (311) and two vertical slots (313) at opposite sides of the opening. The fan module includes a... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158814 - Plug-in unit and electronic apparatus: A plug-in unit in which a flow rate of cooling air to be supplied thereto or to be sucked therefrom is adjustable; and an electronic apparatus in which, even if an existing plug-in unit is replaced by a plug-in unit which is different in a caloric value and a ventilation... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080158815 - Cooled electronics system employing air-to-liquid heat exchange and bifurcated air flow: Augmenting air cooling of electronics system using a cooling fluid to cool air entering the system, and to remove the heat dissipated by the electronics. A cooled electronics system includes a frame with drawers containing electronics components to be cooled. The frame includes a front with an air inlet and... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.c.

20080158817 - Electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus 100 includes a heat-generating element 1, a heat-radiating plate 4 which is used in heat radiation of the heat-generating element, and a housing 10 which accommodates the heat-generating element and the heat-radiating plate. The heat-radiating plate is disposed between the heat-generating element and a first wall portion... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080158816 - Heat dissipating module: The present invention discloses a heat dissipating module applied to a low-level chip for dissipating the heat produced by the low-level chip. The heat dissipating module has a base, and the base accommodates a fan. The base includes first and second fin modules, and the first and second fin modules... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080158818 - Motherboards with integrated cooling: A computer apparatus includes a first motherboard having a top surface and a bottom surface, a second motherboard having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a heat sink in conductive thermal contact with the top surfaces of the first and second motherboards. Computer components generating high thermal loads... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080158819 - Heat transfer apparatus containing a compliant fluid film interface and method therefor: A heat transfer device (and method therefore) for transferring heat from a heat source to a heat conductor, includes a fluid film operable as a compliant interface between the heat source and the heat conductor. The heat source includes a microelectronic device.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080158820 - Heat dissipation device for computer add-on cards: A heat dissipation device (100) is mounted on a heat-generating device (12) of a graphics card (10) and comprises a heat sink (20), a fan (30), a cover (40) and a heat pipe (50). The heat sink (20) has a base (22) and a plurality of fins (24) on the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158821 - Printed board assembly with improved heat dissipation: A multi-layer printed board assembly (PBA) with improved heat dissipation characteristics. The PBA includes a cooling component, which extends essentially perpendicularly through the layers of the PBA. A first end of the cooling component contacts a cooling structure external to the PBA. An electronic component is surface mounted at least... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080158822 - Sub-assembly: According to an embodiment, a power semiconductor module comprises a heat-dissipation contact area configured to thermally connect the power semiconductor module to a cooling element. The power semiconductor module also comprises a housing and a press-on element. The press-on element comprises an anchoring region and is captively anchored in the... Agent: Coats & Bennett/infineon Technologies

20080158823 - Electronic control apparatus: An electronic control apparatus can be reduced in size and cost by eliminating certain parts such as a power board, etc. The apparatus includes a housing, a heat sink attached to one end of the housing, semiconductor switching elements 2 mounted on the heat sink, a circuit board arranged in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158824 - Electric circuit device and the manufacturing method: An electronic circuit device includes a lower-side substrate formed with a main circuit; an upper-side substrate formed with a drive control circuit that drivingly controls the main circuit; a support body positionally fixed above the lower-side substrate with resin in a hardened state; and a case having a peripheral portion... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080158825 - Electronic device and method of assembling an electronic device: An electronic device and method of assembling an electronic device, said device including an electronic component; an electrically insulating protective layer overlaying and in contact with at least a portion of the electronic component; and injection molded material overlaying at least the portion of the component and the overlaying protective... Agent: Harrington & Smith, Pc

20080158826 - Composite module: According to one embodiment, a composite module includes a substrate, a first module mounted on the substrate, a second module mounted on the substrate and provided to be independent from the first module, and a heat radiating plate. The heat radiating plate is thermally connected to each of the first... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080158827 - Heat sink clip: A heat sink assembly (100) which has a heat sink clip (20) is provided. The heat sink clip includes a pin (22) and a spring (24) disposed around the pin. The pin has a head (222) and a clamping portion (224) at opposite ends thereof. An abutting portion (226) in... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158828 - Heatsink structure and assembly fixture thereof: A heatsink structure including a heat conductor is provided. The heat conductor has a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of heatsink fins is erected on the first surface, and the second surface is attached to a heat-generating element of a printed circuit board (PCB). A pair of... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080158829 - Processor apparatus: An add-on cartridge structure for electronic devices having a housing formed from upper and lower case sections. The upper case is typically made from plastic and has a conductive layer formed on inside surfaces, while the lower case is made from a metallic material such as aluminum. A wall-like mating... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080158830 - Electronic control apparatus: An electronic control apparatus can be reduced in size and cost by eliminating certain component parts such as a power board, etc. The apparatus includes a housing, a heat sink, semiconductor switching elements having terminals and mounted on the heat sink, a circuit board arranged in opposition to the heat... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158831 - Server control panel system: Disclosed is a server control panel system including a server disposable in a rack, a rail flange extending from each of two opposite ends of a front face of the server, the flanges being configured associate the server with the rack, a panel opening defined by the front face, the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Rochester Division

20080158832 - Sliding-type mobile communication terminal: A sliding-type mobile communication terminal having a first housing and a second housing adapted to allow the first housing to be opened or closed by means of a sliding movement on the first housing in a longitudinal direction of the first housing. The terminal includes a spring module adapted to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.c.

20080158833 - Electrical device with stabilization structure and method of forming same: An electrical device (100) having a first side (116) supported by a surface (202) and including: (a) a body (112) having the first side and a second side (117); (b) a stabilization structure (130) adjacent to the body and having at least one opening (134) therein; and (c) an electrical... Agent: Walter P. Opaska Bryan Cave LLP

20080158834 - Module: A module includes a board having a through-hole provided therein, an auxiliary board provided on a lower surface of the board, a first electronic component mounted on an upper surface of the board, a conductive cover covering the first electronic component, and a second electronic component mounted on an upper... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080158835 - Ic card and semiconductor integrated circuit device package: An IC card includes a semiconductor integrated circuit device package having one surface and another surface opposite to the one surface, card terminals on the one surface of the package, and a base card which includes a concave portion attached to the other surface of the package. The package includes... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158836 - Circuit board and method for manufacturing the same: A method for manufacturing a circuit board includes the steps of: forming a first wiring layer on a substrate; forming an insulating layer on the surface of the first wiring layer by means of electrophoretic deposition; forming a second wiring layer on the insulating layer and the surface of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080158837 - Apparatus and method for holding a card: Disclosed is a holding apparatus for a card used in a computing resource, the apparatus including a holding base, and at least one card associating arm extending from the base, the at least one associating arm being configured to hold the card via a screwless association.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080158838 - Printed circuit board and method for manufacturing printed circuit board: Chip capacitors 20 are provided in a printed circuit board 10. In this manner, the distance between an IC chip 90 and each chip capacitor 20 is shortened, and the loop inductance is reduced. In addition, the chip capacitors 20 are accommodated in a core substrate 30 having a large... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158839 - Printed wiring board, printed circuit board, and method of inspecting joint of printed circuit board: According to one embodiment, a printed wiring board, on which a circuit component including a pad is to be mounted, is provided with a pad which is to be electrically connected to the pad of the circuit component through a conductive joint member. The pad of the printed wiring board... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080158840 - Dc power plane structure: A DC power plane structure applied in multi-layer circuit board is provided. The DC power plane structure includes a first circuit area for receiving a DC power, a noise filter with one end electrically connected to a DC power output end of the first circuit area, and a second circuit... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, Pc

20080158841 - Printed circuit board and method for manufacturing printed circuit board: Chip capacitors 20 are provided in a printed circuit board 10. In this manner, the distance between an IC chip 90 and each chip capacitor 20 is shortened, and the loop inductance is reduced. In addition, the chip capacitors 20 are accommodated in a core substrate 30 having a large... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158842 - Stress and collapse resistant interconnect for mounting an integrated circuit package to a substrate: A contact grid array interconnect element for mounting an IC package to a substrate. The interconnect comprises an insulating stand-off post having opposing ends. An electrically conductive core is embedded in and traverses the post. Conductive endplates are located on the opposing ends of the post and contact the core.... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080158843 - Mounting board, height adjusting apparatus and mounting method: An electronic part having mounting terminals made of a thermally-meltable bonding material is mounted on a mounting board. A structural part is used for moving a height-adjusting member to a position under the electronic part in a process of heating and melting the thermally-meltable bonding material so as to maintain... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080158845 - Slide assembly with fixing device: A slide assembly (20) is attached to a side wall (11) of an electronic device. The side wall has a retaining member (113). The slide assembly includes a first slide (30), and a second slide (50) telescopically attached to the first slide. An engaging tab (33) is formed on the... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080158844 - Stacked type chip package structure: A stacked type chip package structure including a backplate, a circuit substrate, a first chip, a second chip, and a conductive film is provided. The backplate comprises a circuit layer. The circuit substrate is disposed on the backplate, and has an upper surface and an opposite lower surface. Besides, the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080158846 - Chip mount, methods of making same and methods for mounting chips thereon: The present invention describes a pre-fabricated chip mount and a method for making the pre-fabricated mount. The mount includes a mount body and a protective ring attached to the body by a plurality of tabs. The mount also includes a plurality of inner leads in electrical communication with the wires... Agent: Robert W Strozier, P.l.l.c

20080158847 - Radio apparatus including no less than two housings: A radio apparatus includes a first housing containing a first printed circuit board, second housing containing a second printed circuit board and being connected so as to be opened and closed to the first housing, an unbalanced-fed type antenna configured to be fed from one of the first printed circuit... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, Pc

20080158850 - Emi shielding device: An EMI shielding device (1) is set in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a shell, a circuit board set in the shell, and an electrical component set on the circuit board. The shielding device includes a middle board and a shielding cover. The middle board is set inside... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080158848 - Magnetic shield for use in a location sensing system: An energy transfer apparatus with a magnetic shield is configured to magnetically couple energy from a fixed location to a mobile or moveable device within a field-activated space of the energy transfer apparatus. Apparatuses include a location sensing surface and a drive coil arranged in relation to a periphery of... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080158849 - Reworkable rf shield: Certain embodiments relate to electronic devices and methods for forming electronic devices having a component shielded by a reworkable RF shield. The RF shield may be positioned to surround one or more components on a substrate. The RF shield may include a plurality of sidewalls and a top wall, the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20080158851 - Three-dimensional configurations providing electromagnetic interference shielding for electronics enclosures: The present invention provides a configuration of an electronics enclosure, including a computer chassis in which three-dimensional shapes that may be in the form of a partial or quarter-sphere or cube or other periodic “patterns” may be stamped, molded, cut, or extruded into a lid and a five-sided “box” to... Agent: David Bogart Dort Stealthdrive Llc