US08270417B2
A method for an access network node, and the access network node, to provide a user device access to a service enabled by an IMS network, comprising the steps of: setting up an IP tunnel for communication with the user device, sending an authentication request to the user device via the tunnel, receiving a response to the authentication request from the user device via the tunnel, authenticating the user device, sending a registration request comprising an IMPU associated with the user device to an IMS network node, receiving a confirmation message from the IMS network node that the user device is authenticated, sending an authorization confirmation message via the IP tunnel that the user device is authorized, receiving a service request via the IP tunnel from the user device to start the service, sending a service session initiation message to an application server associated with the service.
US08270413B2
A technique is provided for implementing deep-packet inspection (DPI) services in a MPLS/VPN configured computer network. The technique employs a novel self-learning algorithm that analyzes data packets belonging to different unidirectional tunnels in the MPLS/VPN network and determines whether the analyzed data packets transport data in the same VPN. If so, the unidirectional tunnels containing the analyzed data packets are associated with a common layer-2 identification (L2ID) value. Unlike conventional flow-classification procedures, the inventive technique classifies a data packet by first associating the data packet with a L2ID value and then classifying the packet as belonging to a particular data flow based on a novel 6-tuple consisting of a conventional 5-tuple plus the packet's L2ID value. Because unidirectional tunnels corresponding to the same application data flow transport data packets having the same set of 6-tuple values, DPI services can apply application-level policies to classified data packets consistent with their 6-tuple flow classifications.
US08270409B2
A wireless user device, in radio communication with a first access point of one or more networks with which it could communicate via at least one of a plurality of access points, sends a network selection request to the first access point. If the network wishes to initiate a response from another access point in the same or another network, the first access point forwards the network selection request to one or more neighboring access points, in the same or another network. If any of the neighboring access points is able to communicate with the user device, that neighboring access point sends a response directly to the wireless user device and the wireless user device chooses the most suitable network from the responses sent.
US08270406B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for blocking forged multicast packets. The apparatus includes input and output ports connected to user terminals; a forwarding process unit transferring a frame input through one of the input ports to one of the output ports connected to a user terminal having a destination address; a determination unit determining an address of a user terminal connected to one of the input ports from a source address included in the frame; a filtering database storing information on the output port connected to the user terminal having the destination address of the frame based on information received from the determination unit; a multicast gate information unit including information on multicast media access control (MAC) addresses of frames providing a monodirectional multicast service and blocking or forwarding all frames having a corresponding multicast MAC address as the destination address by checking whether the input and output ports are connected to an Internet group management protocol (IGMP) querier or not; and a port information transference unit learning the multicast MAC address of the IGMP querier connected to the apparatus, obtaining information on a port having the multicast MAC address as the destination address from the filtering database, and transferring the information to the multicast gate information unit. According to the present application, forged traffic is blocked from being multicasted and thus restricted resources of a network are prevented from being wasted. As a result, the network may be used more efficiently in an industrial field.
US08270401B1
A method for routing and switching data packets from one or more incoming links to one or more outgoing links of a router. The method comprises receiving a data packet from the incoming link, assigning at least one outgoing link to the data packet based on the destination address of the data packet, and after the assigning operation, storing the data packet in a switching memory based on the assigned outgoing link. The data packet extracted from the switching memory, and transmitted along the assigned outgoing link. The router may include a network processing unit having one or more systolic array pipelines for performing the assigning operation.
US08270394B1
Methods and apparatus describe techniques for reducing interference signals in a communication signal. An apparatus includes, in at least one aspect, a transceiver circuit to receive a communication signal that includes one or more interference signals and a compensation circuit to generate a compensation signal to compensate for the one or more interference signals in the communication signal based on one or more cancellation coefficients and one or more data symbols.
US08270382B2
Authentication in a mesh network controlled by a central controller, including using standard IEEE 802.11i mechanisms between a potential child mesh access point (AP) as supplicant and the controller as authenticator. Each mesh AP in the mesh network has a secure tunnel to a controller using a protocol for controlling the mesh AP, including AP capabilities, and a fast roaming method for re-establishing a secure layer-2 link with a new parent mesh AP including, while the mesh AP is a child mesh AP to the first parent mesh AP and has a secure layer-2 link to the first parent mesh AP, caching key information and wireless mesh network identity information in the controller.
US08270379B2
A wireless terminal and wireless communication method that can improve data transfer efficiency and reduce traffic. A frame transmitter of a wireless terminal transmits a frame by wireless. A wireless terminal receives the frame transmitted from the frame transmitter and transmits the received frame by wireless to a wireless terminal. A frame receiver receives the frame transmitted from the succeeding wireless terminal to the wireless terminal. When the frame is received by the frame receiver, a frame reception recognizer recognizes that the frame has been received by the succeeding wireless terminal. It is therefore unnecessary for the wireless terminal to receive, from the succeeding wireless terminal, a frame indicative of reception of the frame, so that the data transfer efficiency improves and the traffic reduces.
US08270378B2
A network includes an access point and a station. The station transmits to the access point a current clear-to-send packet at a current time during a current exchange. The transmission is based on success or failure of a previous exchange during which a previous clear-to-send packet was transmitted at a previous time.
US08270371B2
A method and an apparatus for non-access stratum (NAS) message processing during handover in an evolved network are provided. The method includes the following steps. An evolved packet core (EPC) receives a message which indicates that a UE is being handed over sent by a source evolved NodeB (S-eNB), and stops sending an NAS message to the UE temporarily. The EPC receives a message which indicates that the UE returns to an S-eNB service area sent by the S-eNB. The EPC sends the NAS message to the UE through the S-eNB, if needed. With the method and the apparatus, the EPC can acquire a location of the UE in time in the case of a handover failure of the UE, a time limit of a retransmission timer is set precisely, and a specific implementation for forwarding an NAS message through an X2 interface is provided.
US08270369B1
A network device includes a transceiver that transmits N packets to a first access point and that receives a control message from a second access point. The control message indicates reception of one of the N packets by the second access point from the first access point during a handover of the network device from the first access point to the second access point. N is an integer. A control module causes the transceiver to refrain from transmitting the one of the N packets to the second access point based on the control message. The handover of the network device from the first access point to the second access point occurs prior to the control message being received by the transceiver.
US08270367B2
A mobile communication system 100 according to the present invention comprises handover control apparatus 1 and radio terminal unit 10. The handover control apparatus 1 controls handover of a radio terminal unit 10 between access routers 31-34 provided in respective base stations 21-24 for radio communication with the radio terminal unit 10. The handover control apparatus 1 counts the number of relay routers for every candidate access router 32-34 for a destination of the radio terminal unit 10, from a gateway device 52 and determines a COR on the basis of the number of relay routers for every access router 32, 33, 34 thus counted.
US08270362B2
To improve throughput of the whole system while reducing power consumption. In a mobile communication system comprising a mobile station apparatus and a base station apparatus, the base station apparatus creates an interference information table based on channel quality of an uplink channel, and at the same time, transmitting the interference information indicator table to the mobile station apparatus, and the mobile station apparatus determines a state of interference in an uplink frequency band based on the interference information indicator table, determines a frequency band of a measurement pilot channel, which is a pilot channel used to determine received quality, and make a request to the base station apparatus for a transmission resource. For example, the mobile station apparatus determines a frequency band with lowest interference among the uplink frequency bands as a frequency band of the measurement pilot channel.
US08270358B2
There is disclosed a system and method for enabling transmission of data between an application pair, a first one of the applications in a nomadic/mobile subsystem and a second one of the applications in a ground subsystem comprising a first router within the nomadic/mobile subsystem, the first router interconnected with the first application, a second router within the ground subsystem, the second router interconnected with the second application, and a secure data transfer tunnel established between the first router and the second router, the tunnel comprising a plurality of communication pipes, each one of the plurality of pipes having associated therewith one of a plurality of different communication networks and at least one filtering rule dictating circumstances under which the pipe can be used to transmit data. When at least one attribute of the data to be transmitted matches the at least one filtering rule of a matching one of the plurality of pipes, the transmission of the data between the application pair is assigned to the matching pipe. In a particular embodiment each of said different communication networks comprises a network driver, and each of said plurality of pipes further comprises a roaming profile consisting of a set of rules defining how the pipe can transmit and receive data packets from at least one of said network drivers.
US08270352B2
Methods and apparatuses for reducing the overhead associated with transmitting MAPs are provided by grouping client stations in different constellations into one of two or more groups/allocations based partially upon their respective channel conditions. As a result of grouping, client stations within each group/allocation share a single resource allocation and in addition, the different groups of client stations can be scheduled such that variable modulation repeat-coding schemes can be implemented for map transmissions to each group, thereby reducing the repetition rates and overhead associated with map transmissions.
US08270347B2
A method of routing data packets (P) between a source node (S) and a target node (C) in an ad hoc network comprising mobile nodes (1-14) that can be located and moving on traffic routes (L1, L2, L3, C1, C2, C3) of a particular geographical network (10) forming between them a plurality of intersections (I1-I6). This method comprises a destination intersection selection step in which a carrier node (S) of the packets (P) selects a destination intersection (12) from neighbor intersections and according to traffic conditions; a step of seeking one or more neighbor mobile nodes (1) of the packet carrier node nearer the selected destination intersection (12) than the carrier node; and, if one or more neighbor mobile nodes (1) are found, a step of transferring the packets (P) from the packet carrier node (S) to the neighbor node (1) that has been found, so as to route the data packets to the selected destination intersection.
US08270345B2
Method and system for transmitting content to a plurality of users of a mobile communication network
A scheme substantially similar to that used in HSDPA (in which a downlink channel is provided for data transmission, and at least one associated control channel is provided for transmission of control information including information related to availability of a portion of the transmitted data for the current UE on the downlink channel) is adapted for prolonged high data rate transmission, particularly for MBMS transmission. A duration of the data portions sent on the downlink channel is varied possibly up to high duration values (as compared with a duration of one TTI). User equipment enjoying the service is informed of the duration of the imminent available data portion in a field suitably defined and transmitted as control information on the associated control channel(s). Advantageously, during the “long” decoding of the data portion, the UE does not monitor the associated control channel(s), so that the impact on the terminal's battery is considerably reduced.
US08270341B2
A method for multi-hop data transmission in an ad-hoc network comprising concealed nodes. A source node determines the probability of a collision-free transmission of data to the following nodes and if a high probability of collision-free transmission is present, transmits a data packet to a following node without coordinating transmission-channel allocation with concealed nodes disposed in the vicinity of the next node.
US08270327B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure propose a technique that may be utilized to accelerate the processing of MAC management messages by an MS, allowing the MS to return to a lower power state sooner, thereby conserving power. An indication of whether or not data bursts in a downlink (DL) sub-frame contain MAC management messages may allow the MS to avoid needlessly processing of data bursts and return to a low power state sooner.
US08270326B2
An operating mode transition method and control apparatus for power saving of a mobile station in a wireless communication environment are disclosed. The operating mode transition method includes receiving, in an idle mode, a control message having an indication of ranging from a corresponding base station, transitioning to a sleep mode, upon reception of the control message, and performing a ranging procedure in the sleep mode.
US08270314B2
An endpoint for determining a frame loss ratio is provided. The endpoint includes a processor and a memory coupled with the processor. The memory stores instructions that are executable to generate a number of synthetic frames, and insert the number of synthetic frames into a stream of data frames, the synthetic frames being transmitted to a responder endpoint address designated in the synthetic frames. The memory may also store instructions that are executable to determine a number of lost synthetic frames; and calculate a synthetic frame loss ratio as a function of the number of lost synthetic frames and the number of synthetic frames inserted into the stream of data frames.
US08270313B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for determining a rank of a node in a multi-hop wireless network, wherein the network includes a gateway node, client nodes, and relay nodes, wherein a node p(i) is a default parent of the node i having a rank, and the network uses a directed acyclic graph (DAG) topology. The method comprises steps of transmitting at least one data packet from the node to the default parent node over a wireless link; counting a number of successful transmissions of most recent transmissions of data packets; determining an expected transmission time (ETX) for the wireless link based on the number of successful transmissions in the most recent transmissions; and assigning a rank R(i) to the node based on the rank of the parent node and the ETX.
US08270305B2
To provide a node device improving the measurement accuracy of the network communication quality and creating a smaller table for managing statistics information on the communication quality. An importance degree judging section determines the importance degree of a flow by referencing data for judging the degree of importance in the Z-list. An E-list stores statistics data on a flow having a high degree of importance of monitoring. A change judging section makes a judgment on change according to the importance degree of the flow and the importance degree in the E-list. An integral quality calculating section totalizes the qualities of the normal packet information that was measured in a normal packet quality measuring section and the statistics information that was measured in a statistics information quality measuring section and records the total in a quality result section.
US08270304B2
A system is configured to scan for APs on DFS channels while maintaining VOIP traffic employing both passive and active scans. During passive scan mode, the APs are configured to listen only. During active scan mode, the STA sends a probe request, and the AP(s) send(s) probe responses. During power save mode, the STA tells the associated AP that it will be turning “off” to save power. The STA is then required to listen to beacons for traffic notifications. The power save mode enables the STA to move to other channels during periods in which the AP “thinks” it is asleep. An 802.11 “in-use” list is used to facilitate scanning.
US08270301B2
Network design techniques and techniques for routing virtually-concatenated data traffic in a network in a manner which distributes delay to intermediate nodes of the network are disclosed. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a technique for routing virtually-concatenated data traffic in a network comprising a plurality of nodes comprises, for a given traffic demand to be routed from a source node to a destination node in the network, the following steps/operations. Two or more paths are determined to route the given traffic demand. Each of the two or more paths correspond to a member of a virtually-concatenated group. At least one path of the two or more paths comprises the source node, the destination node and at least one other node coupled between the source node and the destination node. Further, at least a subset of the source node, the destination node and the one other node buffer at least a portion of the given traffic demand such that a delay is distributed over the at least one path. The given traffic demand is routed over the two or more determined paths. The at least one path is preferably the shorter of the two or more determined paths.
US08270299B2
A method, system, method and computer program product for facilitating collective communication in parallel computing. A system for parallel computing includes one or more communicators. Each of the one or more communicators comprises a plurality of processes. A memory pool including one or more early arrival buffers is provided. One or more tokens are assigned to a specified communicator included in the communicators. Each of the processes comprised by the specified communicator may consume any token assigned to the specified communicator. Requesting an early arrival buffer included in the memory pool requires consuming at least one token. A collective communication operation is performed using the specified communicator. The collective communication operation is performed eagerly using early arrival buffers obtained by consuming the tokens assigned to the communicator.
US08270286B2
Disclosed is a thermally assisted magnetic recording medium comprising a substrate, a plurality of underlayers formed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer which is formed on the underlayers and predominantly comprised of an alloy having an L10 structure, characterized in that at least one of said underlayers is predominantly comprised of MgO and comprises at least one kind of an element having a free energy for oxidation of, per mol of oxygen, not higher than −120 kcal/mol·O2 at 1000° C. The element having the free energy for oxidation is preferably selected from Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Zr and B. The thermally assisted magnetic recording medium has a magnetic layer comprised of magnetic crystal grains with uniform diameters, and exhibiting a sufficiently weak exchange coupling between magnetic grains.
US08270280B2
An optical pickup device is provided with a spectral element which imparts diffraction in such a manner that four light fluxes of the first laser light are separated from each other, when a light flux of the first laser light and a light flux of the second laser light reflected on a recording medium having laminated recording layers and servo layers are divided into four by a first straight line in parallel to a converging direction by an astigmatism element, and a second straight line perpendicular to the first straight line, and that the four light fluxes of the first laser light propagate on an outer side than the light flux of the second laser light; and a photodetector including a first sensor group which receives the first laser light, and a second sensor group which receives the second laser light.
US08270274B2
There is provided an optical disk device which quickly inspects the presence or absence of a defect in an optical disk in order to ensure that it can be played back on various types of optical disk devices. A detection unit uses signals supplied from a playback unit to detect defects from each of an RF signal, a focus error signal, and a tracking error signal. A CPU stores positions of the defects in a memory. The playback unit plays back data while degrading playback conditions at the positions of the defects . The detection unit detects an error rate of the played-back data, and finally determines whether the optical disk is “OK” or “NG”.
US08270271B2
An optical recording medium has a multi-layer structure recording layer structure recording layer portion including plural recording layers provided with tracks for guiding a recording light and being adapted to record data, where recording condition information and recording layer identification information for the recording layers are recorded on the tracks as information signals. Test writing is conducted on a recording layer that is subject to recording to derive a suitable recording condition based on recording condition information that is recorded on the recording layer, and direct recording is conducted according to a direct recording condition.
US08270270B2
The present invention relates to methods for on-line calibrating output power of an optical pick-up. A power adjusting circuit of the optical pick-up has an optical power regulator and an optical power detector. The on-line output power calibrating method includes the steps of: performing a recording pre-process; providing a focus offset value and/or a tilt offset value to the optical pick-up; providing a setting value, corresponding to power under test, to the optical power regulator; detecting laser power emitted from the optical pick-up using the optical power detector; comparing the laser power with the power under test to adjust the setting value of the optical power regulator corresponding to the power under test; and performing an optimum power calibration if the laser power emitted from the optical pick-up conforms to the power under test.
US08270265B2
An optical pickup device or an optical disk device includes: a light source 11 that emits a laser beam toward an optical disk 25; an optical receiver 18 that detects light reflected from the optical disk 25; and an astigmatism-generating element 31 that generates light used for focus control in a condition where a focusing position on one of two perpendicular cross sections including an optical axis of the light reflected from the optical disk 25 is located ahead of the optical receiver 18 and a focusing position on the other cross section is located behind the optical receiver 18. The astigmatism-generating element 31 is a Fresnel mirror 31a configured to include a plurality of reflecting mirrors, and an imaginary surface 31d that connects the tips of the reflecting mirrors is curved in a concave shape toward a light incidence side.
US08270255B2
A system for measuring acoustic signature of a target object in water includes a plurality of rigid segments connected to each other to form a longitudinal member and a plurality of floats connected to the longitudinal member. Two buoys are connected at two ends of the longitudinal member and two weights are suspended from the buoys, thus making the longitudinal member neutrally buoyant when suspended in water. A plurality of hydrophones and an acoustic projector of a known source level are connected to the longitudinal member. The system further includes a data acquisition system for receiving signals from hydrophones and a signal processing means for processing signals received by data acquisition and determining acoustic signature of the target object. A depth/pressure sensor may be included. A pinger is located on the target object to measure range of target object to hydrophones. Range to target object is displayed in real time.
US08270253B1
A method for short range alignment using ultrasonic sensing is provided. The method includes shaping an ultrasonic pulse on a first device to produce a pulse shaped signal and transmitting the pulse shaped signal from the first device to a second device, receiving the pulse shaped signal and determining an arrival time of the pulse shaped, identifying a relative phase of the pulse shaped signal with respect to a previously received pulse shaped signal, identifying a pointing location of the first device from the arrival time and the relative phase, determining positional information of the pointing location of the first device, and reporting an alignment of three or more points in three-dimensional space. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08270247B2
According to one embodiment, a word line driving circuit includes a driver and a booster circuit. The driver drives a word line based on an output of an inverter. The booster circuit connects a boosting capacitor to a source side of a P-channel field effect transistor of the inverter to boost the potential of the word line.
US08270243B2
The initial command generation device includes a first flag signal generation unit configured to generate a reset flag signal setting a reset period in response to a reset command, an initial pulse signal generation unit configured to generate a first initial pulse signal and a second initial pulse signal in response to the reset flag signal, a second flag signal generation unit configured to generate a device auto initialization flag signal setting a device auto initialization period in response to the first initial pulse signal and an internal command generation unit configured to generate an internal refresh command enabled within the device auto initialization period in response to the second initial pulse signal.
US08270238B2
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to data storage and computer memory, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits and methods to compensate for defective memory in third dimension memory technology. In a specific embodiment, an integrated circuit is configured to compensate for defective memory cells. For example, the integrated circuit can include a memory having memory cells that are disposed in multiple layers of memory. It can also include a memory reclamation circuit configured to substitute a subset of the memory cells for one or more defective memory cells. At least one memory cell in the subset of the memory cells resides in a different plane in the memory than at least one of the one or more defective memory cells.
US08270237B2
To provided a relief-address generating circuit that generates relief address information based on plural data bits supplied in time sequence via a first terminal from outside and a programming circuit that writes into any one of fuse sets the relief address information generated by the relief-address generating circuit. With this configuration, repetition of a programming operation by the total number of the fuse sets at the maximum completes a series of write processing on relief address information. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the time required for a series of write processing on relief address information.
US08270235B2
A method of processing a strobe signal can include oversampling a strobe signal received from a source synchronous device and determining an amount of time between sending a read request to the source synchronous device and detecting a first pulse of the strobe signal according to the oversampling. The method also can include squelching the strobe signal for the amount of time responsive to at least one subsequent read request.
US08270234B1
A level shifter including a level shifter module configured to i) receive an input signal, wherein the input signal varies between a first level and a second level, ii) receive a first voltage supply signal and a second voltage supply signal, and iii) generate a latch control signal based on the input signal and one of the first voltage supply signal and the second voltage supply signal. The level shifter further includes a latch module configured to i) receive the latch control signal, ii) receive the second voltage supply signal and a third voltage supply signal, and iii) generate an output signal based on the latch control signal and one of the second voltage supply signal and the third voltage supply signal.
US08270232B2
A reference voltage selecting unit selectively outputs a first external reference voltage and a second external reference voltage as a selection reference voltage in accordance with whether to perform a wafer test. An address buffer generates an internal address by buffering an external address in accordance with the selection reference voltage. A command buffer generates an internal command by buffering an external command in accordance with the selection reference voltage. A data buffer generates internal data by buffering to an external data in accordance with the second external reference voltage.
US08270229B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a first data selection section inputted with the first data and second data and output one of the first data and the second data as first selection data in response to an address signal, a second data selection section inputted with the second data and the first selection data and output one of the second data and the first selection data as second selection data depending upon an input and output mode, and a data output section configured to be inputted with the first and second selection data and output first and second output data.
US08270228B2
Semiconductor device having nonvolatile memory element and data processing system including the same
A semiconductor device includes a fuse element, a read-out circuit that reads out a memory content of the fuse element in response to a first internal reset signal that is activated in response to transition of an external reset signal, and a latch circuit that holds therein the memory content read out by the read-out circuit and is reset by a second internal reset signal that is activated based on an activation period of the external reset signal. With this configuration, even when the activation period of the external reset signal is long, the time for which a current flows through the fuse element can be shortened, thereby making it possible to reduce a current consumption at the time of a reset operation.
US08270220B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array and a peripheral circuit. The memory cell array includes active areas extending in a first direction, a dummy active area extending in the first direction, memory cells on the plurality of active areas, first dummy cells on the dummy active area, diffusion layer areas each connected to the corresponding memory cell and the corresponding first dummy cell, first contacts in the respective active areas, and a second contact in the dummy active area. The peripheral circuit includes a voltage applying unit configured to apply to each of the first contacts a first voltage to set each of the memory cells in a write enable state or a second voltage to set the memory cells in a write inhibit state, and to apply to the second contact a third voltage to change a threshold of the dummy cell.
US08270217B2
The unintentional programming of an unselected (or inhibited) non-volatile storage element during a program operation that intends to program another non-volatile storage element is referred to as “program disturb.” A system is proposed for programming and/or reading non-volatile storage that reduces the effect of program disturb. In one embodiment, different verify levels are used for a particular word line (or other grouping of storage elements) during a programming process. In another embodiment, different compare levels are used for a particular word (or other grouping of storage elements) during a read process.
US08270211B2
A memory device includes a storage node, a first electrode, and a second electrode formed in a memory cell, the storage node stores electrical charges, the first electrode comprising a first portion electrically connected to a second portion, the first portion moves to connect to the storage node when the second electrode is energized.
US08270210B2
A non-volatile storage system includes a substrate, control circuitry on the substrate, a three dimensional memory array (above the substrate) that includes a plurality of memory cells with reversible resistance-switching elements, and circuits to SET and RESET the resistance-switching elements. The circuits that RESET the resistance-switching elements provide a pulse to the memory cells that is large enough in magnitude to SET and RESET the memory cells, and long enough to potentially RESET the memory cell but not long enough to SET the memory cells.
US08270203B2
A semiconductor memory device including: a memory cell array in which memory cells each containing a variable resistive element and a rectifier element connected in series are arranged at intersections of a plurality of first wirings and a plurality of second wirings; and a control circuit for selectively driving said first wirings and said second wirings; wherein said control circuit applies a first voltage to said selected first wiring, and changes said first voltage based on the position of said selected memory cell within said memory cell array to apply a second voltage to said selected second wiring, so that a predetermined potential difference is applied to a selected memory cell arranged at the intersection between said selected first wiring and said selected second wiring.
US08270195B2
Interface circuitry in communication with at least one non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory is disclosed. The memory includes a plurality of non-volatile memory elements that may have two-terminals, are operative to store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be determined by applying a read voltage across the memory element, and retain stored data in the absence of power. A plurality of the memory elements can be arranged in a cross-point array configuration. The interface circuitry electrically communicates with a system configured for memory types, such as HDD, DRAM, SRAM, and FLASH, for example, and is operative to communicate with the non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory to emulate one or more of those memory types. The interface circuitry can be fabricated in a logic plane on a substrate with at least one non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memory vertically positioned over the logic plane. The non-volatile resistivity-sensitive memories may be vertically stacked upon one another.
US08270185B2
In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for a switching mode power supply. In one example, the switching mode power supply may include a transformer, a switching circuit and a switching control circuit. The transformer receives a DC input voltage on a primary winding and generates a DC output voltage on a secondary winding. The switching circuit, which may include a MOSFET switch, is coupled to the transformer and is configured to switch the transformer on and off. The switching control circuit generates a switching control signal to control the switching circuit in order to regulate the DC output voltage of the transformer. The switching control circuit is configured to generate the switching control signal as a function of a timing signal having a varying frequency, wherein the varying frequency of the timing signal causes a switching frequency of the switching circuit to vary over a period of time in order to reduce electromagnetic interference caused by the switching circuit.
US08270180B2
A printed circuit board includes a number of signal layers, a number of ground layers, a first transmission line, a second transmission line, a first via, and a second via. The first transmission is located on one of the number of signal layers. The second transmission line is located on another of the number of signal layers. The first and second vias pass through the printed circuit board. The first via is electrically coupled to the first and second transmission lines, and is isolated from the number of ground layers. The second via is electrically coupled to one or more of the number of ground layers, and is isolated from the other of the number of ground layers to increase an inductance, thus compensating capacitive nature of an open stub and improving signal integrity.
US08270178B2
An active device array substrate has at least one patterned conductive layer. The patterned conductive layer includes a copper layer. A cross-section of the copper layer which is parallel to a normal line direction of the copper layer includes a first trapezoid and a second trapezoid stacked on the first trapezoid. A base angle of the first trapezoid and a base angle of the second trapezoid are acute angles, and a difference between the base angle of the first trapezoid and the base angle of the second trapezoid is from about 5° to about 30°.
US08270174B2
A hardware protection system is integrated into a circuit carrier. As a result, a sensor system, which is integrated into the circuit carrier in the form of printed circuit boards, which can be produced by means of the traditional high-tech printed circuit board technology and can be equipped with and processed on traditional insertion lines of electronic module installations, is obtained.
US08270167B2
An electrical device includes an enclosure having an interior surface, at least one bus bar, and an element enclosing at least a portion of the bus bar, wherein the element includes a first surface contacting the interior surface and is configured to transfer heat from the bus bar to the enclosure and configured to provide electrical isolation between the enclosure and the bus bar.
US08270158B2
A primary housing segment is provided for a computing device. The primary housing segment may be unitarily formed and shaped to provide (i) at least a majority of a plurality of perimeter surfaces, the perimeter surfaces including a pair of opposing lateral surfaces, a bottom surface, and a top surface; (ii) one or more frontal surface regions; and (iii) a rear surface to retain an integrated substrate module.
US08270156B2
An electronic device that includes a cabinet having a top face, an undersurface, and a side that completely surrounds the top face and the undersurface by connecting the outer edge of the top face and the outer edge of the undersurface together; and an electronic part disposed inside the cabinet, wherein the cabinet has an exhaust hole provided in the undersurface of the cabinet, at a position distant from the side of the cabinet; a fan disposed inside the cabinet, which blows air inside the cabinet from the exhaust hole; and at least one protrusion disposed at the back of the undersurface of the cabinet, protruding from the undersurface of the cabinet and holding the cabinet placed on a flat plate in a state of being lifted.
US08270154B2
A modular server cooling unit user standard dimension modules to build a variety of components for use in cooling a server or server farm. One module may be the module in which the server(s) are mounted. Another module may be an exhaust plenum, drawing air through the server module and exhausting the air to the outside. A third module may be a cooling module through which outside air is drawn, filtered and optionally cooled, for example, using an adiabatic, or water-wash, cooler. Exhaust air may be selectively mixed with air from the cooling module to provide finer control of server temperature and humidity.
US08270151B2
A hard disk assembly includes a first and a second hard disk, and a hard disk connecting mechanism for holding the first and the second hard disks. The first and second hard disks both each have a composite receptacle. The hard disk connecting mechanism includes a frame for mounting the first and the second hard disks and a composite connector detachably positioned in the frame. The composite connector includes a base, a first composite plug engaged with the composite receptacle of the first hard disk and a second composite plug engaged with the composite receptacle of the second hard disk.
US08270143B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six concentrically wound capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections each have a respective section element terminal at a first end of the capacitive element and the capacitor sections have a common element terminal at a second end of the capacitive element. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end a case for the element and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitive element to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals. Deformation of the cover caused by failure of the capacitor element breaks at least some of the frangible connections sufficient to disconnect the capacitive element from an electric circuit in which it is connected. A cover insulation barrier mounted on the deformable cover, has a barrier cup substantially surrounding the common cover terminal and a plurality of barrier fins each extending radially outwardly from the barrier cup, and deployed between adjacent section cover.
US08270140B2
A system and a method for controlling a set of bi-stable solenoids for locking applications which eliminates the direct connection of the power supply and solenoid by introducing a capacitor and a switch between the power supply and solenoid, thus eliminating the need of a dedicated h-bridge for every solenoid, and reducing the control lines required for each solenoid such that after the initial control lines, every subsequent solenoid requires only one control line to select the appropriate solenoid.
US08270133B2
A power supply control apparatus includes: an output transistor coupled between a first power supply line and an output terminal, the output terminal being configured to be coupled with a load; a protection transistor coupled between a gate of the output transistor and a second power supply line; a negative voltage control unit coupled between the first power supply line and the gate of the output transistor; a compensation transistor bringing the second power supply line and the output terminal into a conduction state when a counter electromotive voltage from the load is applied to the output terminal; and a back gate control circuit that controls the second power supply line and a back gate of each of the compensation transistor and the protection transistor to be brought into a conduction state in a standby state when the polarity of the power supply is normal.
US08270130B1
An electrical monitoring device for monitoring an electrically powered device is provided. The monitoring device includes a frame for placement onto a conductor of the electrically powered device. A sensor is present for detecting the amount of current passing through the conductor. Also, a display may be provided for indicating to the user parameters of the electrically powered device that are indicative of the current passing through the conductor.
US08270124B2
A method for manufacturing a magnetic head with an electrostatic discharge resistor for preventing electrostatic discharge damage to magnetic head. The electrostatic discharge resistor is formed by a processes that saves manufacturing time and cost by forming resistor in the same deposition and patterning steps used to form the magnetoresistive sensor. However, the resistor includes only a portion of the layers used to form the magnetoresistive sensor, thereby ensuring that the resistor will have sufficient resistivity.
US08270122B2
A magnetic recording read head is provided capable of achieving high reproduction output, resolution, and SNR, even at a high linear density. There is also provided a magnetic recording and reproducing device capable of achieving sufficient error bit rate. The magnetic recording read head includes a differential read head and a write head. The differential read head has a multilayer structure formed by laminating a first magnetoresistive sensor having a first free layer, a differential gap layer, and a second magnetoresistive sensor having a second free layer. Outside the multilayer structure, a pair of electrodes and a pair of magnetic shields are provided respectively. A ratio (Gl/bl) of an inside distance (Gl) between the first and second free layers to a bit length (bl) is set to 0.6 or more and 1.6 or less.
US08270117B2
In the magnetic head slider locking apparatus according to the present invention, a spring portion takes a sandwiching posture in which a center region of a proximal-side engage portion sandwiches a magnetic head slider in a suspension longitudinal direction in cooperation with a distal-side engage portion when an operational force to the spring portion is released after the magnetic head slider has been mounted in a state where the spring portion has been elastically deformed from an initial posture to an elastically deformed posture. Paired arm are elastically deformed by paired side regions of the proximal-side engage portion that are moved upon posture change of the spring portion from the initial posture to the elastically deformed posture so as to take a distant posture in which a distance between the paired arm portions is wider than the width of the magnetic head slider, and are shifted to take a sandwiching posture of sandwiching the magnetic head slider from both sides in the suspension width direction upon posture change of the spring portion from the elastically deformed posture to the sandwiching posture.
US08270109B2
In one embodiment, a magnetic head slider includes a write head having a single magnetic pole, the single magnetic pole having a main magnetic pole piece that extends to a medium opposing surface facing a magnetic disk. The main magnetic pole piece generates a recording magnetic field from a medium opposing surface side end face thereof being divided into an injection region and a non-injection region. Impurities which deteriorate magnetic properties are present in a higher concentration in the injection region relative to a concentration of the impurities in the non-injection region due to injection of the impurities in the injection region. The non-injection region has a narrower width at a leading end of the medium opposing surface side end face than at a trailing end of the medium opposing surface side end face. In another embodiment, the magnetic head slider may be incorporated into a system including a magnetic recording medium, at least one magnetic head, and a control unit coupled to the magnetic head.
US08270099B2
A lens system, in an order from the object side thereof to the image side thereof, includes an aperture stop, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power. The lens system satisfies the formula: Rmax/TTL>0.97; and 0.31
US08270088B2
A laser scanning microscope is disclosed that combines light from first and second scanning optical systems onto a common optical path using a beam combiner. A first plane-parallel transparent plate and a beam combiner are positioned on a support that may be moved relative to the common optical path. The first plane-parallel transparent plate has an optical thickness equal to the optical thickness of the beam combiner and is oriented with its surface normal lying substantially parallel with the surface normal of the beam combiner. An astigmatism-correcting optical element is provided on the common optical path, with the astigmatism-correcting optical element generating astigmatism that is equal in magnitude, but different in direction by 90 degrees, to the astigmatism generated by non-collimated light that is transmitted through the beam combiner. When the support is repositioned, spherical aberration in various light paths is maintained constant so that it may be easily corrected.
US08270081B2
A method of reflecting impinging electromagnetic radiation by using engineered surfaces of alternating layers of materials having different indices of refraction is described. These layers can be fabrication or applied onto the surfaces of macro-scale objects. Also, a method of limiting the heating within the interior of an object being impinged upon by electromagnetic radiation is described.
US08270078B2
Dual-function laser systems and methods are disclosed. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a laser source configured to emit a beam; a collimating optical system spaced apart from the laser source; and a diffractive element positioned to diffract the beam to provide a diffracted beam to the collimating optical system such that the collimating optical system refracts the diffracted beam to form an approximately collimated central portion and a diverging outer portion.
US08270076B2
A retardation film composed of a laminated film which comprises a layer A composed of a material having a positive intrinsic birefringence and a layer B composed of a material having a negative intrinsic birefringence; the retardation film has a stretching temperature Tα which causes delaying of a phase after the stretching to a phase before the stretching and a stretching temperature Tβ which causes hastening of a phase after the stretching to a phase before the stretching, in cases of uniaxially stretching in a direction of an X axis by draw ratio of 1.25, in which the phase is of linearly polarized light ΨX in relation to linearly polarized light ΨY, the X axis is an uniaxially stretching direction; and the retardation film satisfies 0.92 ≦R40/Re ≦1.08, wherein Re (nm) and R40 (nm) are retardation values of light having a wavelength of 550 nm.
US08270075B2
Projection apparatuses and associated methods are provided. A representative apparatus includes: a support frame defining a projection area; a polymeric screen of sheet material sized and shaped to span at least a portion of the projection area; a retention member operative to contact the polymeric screen along an edge thereof; and a tensioning assembly operative to apply tension to the screen via the retention member, the tensioning assembly being operative to selectively reposition the retention member relative to the support frame.
US08270073B2
A surgical microscope system is disclosed. The surgical microscope is comprised of a stand which is comprised of a movable base and a support capable of free motion with keeping a particular orientation relative to the movable base; a stereoscopic surgical microscope linked with the support, which is comprised of a pair of first optical systems so as to provide a first stereoscopic magnified view; and a stereoscopic display device having a movable link with the stand, which is comprised of a display screen for displaying stereoscopic image taken by the first optical systems and a pair of second optical systems as to show the stereoscopic image as a second stereoscopic magnified view.
US08270070B2
An optical fiber arrangement has at least two optical fiber sections, each optical fiber section defining an outside longitudinally extending surface. The outside longitudinally extending surfaces are in optical contact with each other. The invention further provides for an amplifying optical device have an optical fiber arrangement as just described, and a pump source. The amplifying optical device is configured such that the pump source illuminates the amplifying optical fiber. A amplifying arrangement is also disclosed. The amplifying arrangement includes a plurality of amplifying optical devices as just described, and each amplifier also has at least one input fiber and a first multiplexer connected to the input fiber. Each amplifier is configured such that at least one of the amplifying optical fibers is connected to the first multiplexer. The amplifying arrangement also has a second multiplexer connected to each of the first multiplexers.
US08270065B2
A colored electrophoretic display includes a transparent substrate, a transparent conductive layer, a planar electrophoretic cell, and a backplane substrate in sequence of receiving an incident light. The backplane substrate includes a first block reflective electrode, a second block reflective electrode and a third block reflective electrode, tiled in a planar arrangement perpendicular to the incident light and electrically connected to a driving circuitry in the backplane substrate. The driving circuitry electrically drives the first block reflective electrode, the second block reflective electrode and the third block reflective electrode individually as well as the transparent conductive layer to form spatially colored reflective light modulation.
US08270064B2
An electrophoretic medium comprises at least one electrically charged particle dispersed posed in a fluid. The electrically charged particle comprises an inorganic black pigment having a surface area of at least about 7 m2/g. Preferred pigments are magnetite and mixed metal oxides containing two or more of iron, chromium, nickel, manganese, copper and cobalt, for example copper iron manganese oxide spinel and copper chromium manganese oxide spinel. The inorganic black pigment may bear a polymer coating.
US08270062B2
In certain embodiments, a device is provided including a substrate and a plurality of supports over the substrate. The device may further include a mechanical layer having a movable portion and a stationary portion. The stationary portion may disposed over the supports. In certain embodiments, the device further includes a reflective surface positioned over the substrate and mechanically coupled to the movable portion. The device of certain embodiments further includes at least one movable stop element displaced from and mechanically coupled to the movable portion. In certain embodiments, the at least a portion of the stop element may be positioned over the stationary portion.
US08270054B2
A beam-steering system having high positional resolution and fast switching speed is disclosed. Embodiments of the beam-steering system comprise a diffraction limited optical system that includes a reflective imager and two controllably rotatable MEMS elements. The optical system is characterized by a folded optical path, wherein light propagating on the path is incident on each MEMS element more than once. Each MEMS element imparts an optical effect, such as angular change, on the output beam. By virtue of the fact that the optical system is multi-bounce optical system, the optical effect at each MEMS element is multiplied by the number of times the light hits that MEMS element.
US08270046B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processor capable of generating an image from which a user-designated color component has been removed and performing a color/monochrome determination correctly. In order to complete the task, an image processor according to the present invention comprises a removal unit that removes a removal color part from a read image, and a determination unit that determines whether the read image from which the removal color part has been removed by the removal unit is a monochrome image or a color image.
US08270042B2
A document reading apparatus includes a document positioning plate configured to set a document to be read thereon, a light source configured to emit light onto an area where the document is set on the document positioning plate, an image sensor configured to photoelectrically convert reflected light of the light emitted from the light source to output color signals, and a document size detection unit configured to select a color signal used for document size detection from among the color signals output from the image sensor based on the color signals output from the image sensor in a state where the light source is turned off, and to detect a size of the document set on the document positioning plate based on the selected color signal output from the image sensor in a state where the light source is turned on.
US08270038B2
An image output apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether a density of a document image exceeds a threshold, and a control unit configured to inhibit an output of a composite image including a two-dimensional bar code and the document image if the determination unit determines that the density exceeds the threshold and configured to output the composite image including the two-dimensional bar code and the document image if the determination unit determines that the density does not exceed the threshold.
US08270022B2
A menu displaying system and method having an icon for editing image data in an AV (Audio and Video) device, the AV device having a recording medium capable of storing image data and audio data, and which is capable of reproducing image data and audio data. The method comprises steps for displaying icons and additional information corresponding to the image data stored at the recording medium, selecting one of the icons displayed, and reproducing image data corresponding to the selected icon. A corresponding program stored at the AV device having a recording media such as a hard disc drive, is then reproduced upon a menu screen such that image data stored at the AV device can be easily observed.
US08270012B2
At least two printing devices receive a print job from a user that has printing data and printing specifications. Each of the printing devices calculates an ability score based on each printing device's ability to meet each of the printing specifications. The printing devices each output their ability score to the user. The printing devices then receive an indication as to which printing device is the selected print device, and instructions to print the print job are thus sent from the user to the selected print device. Then, the selected print device prints the print job on tangible media to produce a tangible output.
US08270011B2
A print controlling device for transmitting printer controlling information to a printer connected thereto is configured such that print setting data is generated based on desired print settings which may include operational control setting data in accordance with a setting by a user. The print controlling device is capable of generating print data including the print setting data as header information thereof, and converting the print data to the printer controlling information. When the print data is converted, it is judged whether the print setting data included in the print data contains the operational control setting. If the print setting data includes the operational control setting, job controlling information which corresponds to the operational control setting is transmitted to the printer.
US08270005B2
A wireless communication device comprises a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication; a connector that enables exchange of a signal with an information processing device; an acquisition unit that acquires setting information when an information processing device connected to the connector uses the wireless communication unit based on the setting information stored in the information processing device; a storing unit that stores the setting information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a communication processing unit that performs communication processing by using the wireless communication unit based on the setting information stored by the storing unit.
US08270000B2
An image processing apparatus that stores image data in a volatile memory, and also transmits data corresponding to the stored image data to a mail server by attaching it to an electronic mail addressed to the image processing apparatus. If it is detected, prior to an execution of an image processing such as printing, that the image data has been erased from the volatile memory due to a power failure or the like, the image processing apparatus acquires the data corresponding to the image data from the mail server and resumes the image processing job.
US08269992B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus that generates print data for printing by an inkjet printing apparatus, based on a rendering command group that includes a rendering command for a vector image, comprising: a determination unit which determines, for each rendering command included in the rendering command group, whether ink having a predetermined property is to be used; a rendering unit which renders in a first memory a raster image corresponding to a rendering command for ink having the predetermined property is to be used, and renders in a second memory a raster image corresponding to a rendering command for ink having the predetermined property is not to be used; a lossy compression unit which lossily compresses the raster image in the first memory; and a generation unit which generates print data that includes the raster image in the first memory and the raster image in the second memory.
US08269988B2
A print terminal includes a memory reader for reading image data recorded in a recording medium, an image-capturing unit for capturing the image data read by the memory reader, and an image-processing unit for processing the image data captured by the image-capturing unit. The image-processing unit has a first rotation-processing function for rotating a print image to be used in printing the image data, a second rotation-processing function for rotating a print-medium image to change the orientation of a print medium to be used in printing the image data, and a third rotation function for simultaneously rotating both the print image and the print-medium image.
US08269979B2
A device detects underfill voids and solder ball defects via laser generation and laser detection of an ultrasonic wave at the top surface of flip chips. High resolution is provided by using small laser spot sizes and closely-spaced laser beams of wavelengths that are absorbed near the surface of the semiconductor. Improved spatial resolution and rejection of unwanted scattered waves can be attained by limiting the time frame of the ultrasonic waveform to the time required for the first longitudinal wave reflection from the bottom of the flip chip. The laser beam spacing can be reduced by using probe and detection beams of different wavelengths. Resolution of less than 100 μm features was demonstrated for silicon flip chips.
US08269965B2
A method for characterizing samples having units, by monitoring fluctuating intensities of radiation emitted, scattered and/or reflected by said units in at least one measurement volume, the monitoring being performed by at least one detection means, said method comprising the steps of: a) measuring in a repetitive mode a number of photon counts per time interval of defined length, b) determining a function of the number of photon counts per said time interval, c) determining a function of specific brightness of said units on basis of said function or the number of photon counts.
US08269964B2
A system and method for measuring photons utilizing a low-power light source modulated with a code sequence to interrogate a sample of interest. Preferably a portion of the scattered light from the sample is detected by a photo-detector. A correlation of the photo-detector signal and the code sequence produces an estimate of the distribution of flight times for photons traveling from the source to the detector.
US08269963B2
A tunable apparatus for performing Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) includes a deformable layer and a plurality of SERS-active nanoparticles disposed at one or more locations on the deformable layer, wherein the one or more locations are configured to be illuminated with light of a pump wavelength to cause Raman excitation light to interact with the nanoparticles and produce enhanced Raman scattered light from molecules located in close proximity to the nanoparticles. In addition, a morphology of the deformable layer is configured to be controllably varied to modify an intensity of the Raman scattered light produced from the molecules.
US08269956B2
An optical element for resonating and reflecting incident light having a wavelength includes a periodic structure formed of protrusions and recessions. A period of the periodic structure is equal to or less than the wavelength of the incident light. The incident light having the wavelength is resonated and reflected by a resonance caused between the incident light and the protrusions and recessions. Widths of the protrusions are spatially changed.
US08269955B2
A system comprises a laser configured to produce a laser beam and to be optically coupled to a first end of an optical fiber of a device under test, a phase mask configured to selectively pass one of a plurality of modes and to be optically coupled to a second end of the optical fiber of the device under test, and a detector optically coupled to the phase mask and configured to determine an intensity of the beam received over the optical connection from the phase mask. The system may further comprise a data analyzer connected to the detector and in selective communication with the phase mask, wherein the data analyzer is configured to set the phase mask to selectively pass a fundamental mode, set the phase mask to selectively pass a higher order mode, receive intensity data from the detector, and determine a performance in the form of at least one performance factor for said device under test according to said intensity data.
US08269951B1
An audible distance measuring assembly includes a housing that has a front wall and a rear wall. A laser emitter is mounted in the housing and emits laser light outwardly of the front wall. A light detector is mounted in the housing and captures reflected laser light received through a window in the front wall. A processor is mounted in the housing and is electrically coupled to the laser emitter and the light detector. The processor is programmed to determine a distance between the housing an object off of which the laser light is reflected. A measure actuator is mounted on the housing and is electrically coupled to the processor. The measure actuator actuates the laser emitter and the light detector when actuated. A sound emitter is mounted in the housing and is electrically coupled to the processor. The processor is programmed to audibly indicate the distance.
US08269948B2
The disclosure relates to a projection exposure apparatus and an optical system, such as a projection objective or an illumination system in a projection exposure apparatus for microlithography, that includes at least one optical element and at least one manipulator having a drive device for the optical element. The drive device can have at least one movable partial element and at least one stationary partial element movable relative to one another in at least one direction of movement.
US08269942B2
A display apparatus that includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a thin film transistor. The first substrate includes a fiber reinforced plastic substrate and a color filter layer formed on the fiber reinforced plastic substrate. The second substrate faces the first substrate. The thin film transistor is formed on the first substrate.
US08269935B2
A liquid crystal display is provided. The liquid crystal display having a plurality of pixel regions includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate has a patterned electrode layer having a plurality of complete coverage regions and at least one slit distribution region. Each of the complete coverage regions is located in a corresponding pixel region. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer have various slanting directions, and each of the complete coverage regions is located at a slanting center of the slanting directions of the liquid crystal molecules. The slit distribution region is used for stabilizing the slanting directions of liquid crystal molecules within the liquid crystal layer.
US08269926B2
A display panel using laser cutting technology and a mother substrate thereof are provided. The display panel comprises two base plates opposite to each other, a sealant and a buffering metal layer. The sealant is disposed between the two base plates. The buffering metal layer formed on the inside surface of at least one of the two base plates is disposed along the sealant. At least a portion of the buffering metal layer is positioned outside the sealant. There is a first distance between the rim of the buffering metal layer and the edge of the base plate.
US08269924B2
A light shield member in a LCD unit includes a first shield section that includes a pile of two color filter patterns and separates each effective opening of pixel from an effective opening of the adjacent pixel, and a second shield section that includes a pile of three color filter patterns and shields a TFT area including a TFT and the vicinity thereof.
US08269923B2
A multilayer liquid crystal display element has a plurality of data electrode layer-to-layer interconnects formed in a non-display area of a liquid crystal display panel for connecting data electrodes of liquid crystal display panels for R, G, and B to a plurality of data signal input terminals from layer to layer, and a plurality of scanning electrode layer-to-layer interconnects formed in the non-display area for connecting scanning electrodes of the liquid crystal display panels for R, G, and B to a plurality of scan signal input terminals from layer to layer.
US08269920B2
A backlight unit is disclosed. The backlight unit includes a light emitting device, a light guide plate to guide light irradiated from the light emitting device, an optical sheet disposed on a front surface of the light guide plate, a bottom chassis disposed below the light guide plate, a mold frame disposed on a front surface of the optical sheet, and an anti-contact protrusion disposed at the bottom chassis so as to come into contact with the mold frame, thereby allowing the mold frame to be spaced apart from the light guide plate and the front surface of the optical sheet.
US08269919B2
A micro-louver (1) includes: a transparent substrate (2); a concavoconvex shape portion (5) formed on at least one surface of the transparent substrate (2) and in a prescribed pattern for diffracting incident light to form an image; and a light controlling layer (7) including at least one transparent layer (3) and at least light-absorption layer (4) arranged alternately on said at least one surface of the transparent substrate (2), each of said at least one transparent layer (3) and said at least one transparent layer (4) extending in a direction that intersects said at least one surface of the transparent substrate (2).
US08269905B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device including, an active matrix region, a short-circuit line, electrostatic protection elements, and a light-shielding film.
US08269890B2
A digital microform imaging apparatus which includes an approximately monochromatic illumination source transmitting an incident light through a diffuse window along a first optical axis of the apparatus. A microform media support is configured to support a microform media after the diffuse window and along the first optical axis. An approximately 45 degree fold mirror reflects the incident light transmitted through the microform media approximately 90 degrees along a second optical axis. An imaging subsystem includes a lens connected to a first carriage which is linearly adjustable approximately parallel with the second optical axis, and an area sensor connected to a second carriage which is linearly adjustable approximately parallel with the second optical axis.
US08269889B2
A television apparatus (20) including a display (22) and an audio transducer (24,28) for reproducing video and audio component parts of a television signal. A processor (40) is provided for separating from the television signal an audio descriptor component part for providing an audio description of a corresponding video component part of the television signal. A controller (46) selectively controls the television apparatus to operate in one of an audio descriptor mode in which an audio descriptor component part is reproduced by the audio transducer (24,28) at the same time as the display (22) reproduces the respective corresponding video component part and a standard mode in which the audio descriptor component part is not reproduced. A user operable interface (30,50,48) is provided for selectively selecting between the standard mode and the audio descriptor mode. The controller (46) is configured to drive the display (42) to provide a mode image (52) providing an indication of the selective mode. It is additionally configured to cause the television apparatus to provide, for a visually impaired user, an additional indication whenever the audio descriptor mode is selected and an additional indication whenever the audio descriptor mode is deselected.
US08269885B2
A system and method for determining a pixel characteristic of pixels in interpolated frames. Preceding and successive frames are evaluated to determine if there is a frame-wide change occurring to the pixels. To the extent there is a frame-wide change, the pixel characteristic in interpolated frames is accommodated by the frame-wide change. In one implementation, frame-wide changes in luminance, such as fade in and fade out, are detected and the pixel characteristic of pixels in the interpolated frame is determined based at least in part on fallback techniques rather than motion compensation interpolation.
US08269884B2
A stand for a camera-equipped wireless communications device comprises an adjustable terminal support configured to be mounted to a base. The adjustable terminal support includes a system plug at one end that connects to a system interface on the camera-equipped wireless communications device. The adjustable terminal support may include a cradle having a pair of arms that clamp on to the camera-equipped wireless communications device. At least one of the pair of arms is movable.
US08269883B2
The solid image capture device 100 in accordance with the present invention is detachably fixed to a wiring board 1 and applies pressure to the side faces of a transparent lid section 3 in a direction normal to the faces, so as to nip and secure the transparent lid section 3. The mechanism allows a solid image capture element 2 to be attached to and detached from the wiring board 1. The solid image capture element 2 is readily positioned precisely on the wiring board 1.
US08269882B2
A method for determining the current camera aperture (working aperture) of lenses on digital cameras having a viewfinder eyepiece and internal exposure measurement through the lens is wherein a further external exposure measurement is carried out past the lens and the value of the working aperture is determined from a reference table stored in the digital camera from the difference ΔBV between the two measured exposure values BV(int) and BV(ext). A digital camera suitable for carrying out the method wherein outside the region covered by the lens tube, the housing of the digital camera has an additional window for a further exposure meter with an upstream optics that is directed onto the subject and serves to restrict the shooting angle, and includes a memory for a reference table for determining the aperture value.
US08269873B2
Disclosed herein is a solid-state imaging device including: a plurality of pixel circuits each of which converts an optical signal into a pixel signal; a load current source circuit adapted to supply a load current, used to read out the pixel signal from the plurality of pixel circuits, to the pixel circuits on a column-by-column basis; a signal readout circuit adapted to read out a reference signal and the pixel signal from the pixel circuits on a row-by-row basis and output the difference between the reference and pixel signals that have been read out; and a control signal generation circuit adapted to generate a maintenance control signal used to maintain the load current constant during a readout period that lasts from when the reference signal is read out by the signal readout circuit to when the pixel signal is read out by the signal readout circuit.
US08269871B2
In a method for correcting a picked-up image signal of an image pickup apparatus including: a solid-state imaging device having a plurality of pixels which are arranged in a two-dimensional array form in a surface portion of a semiconductor substrate, and an amplifier which is provided at the semiconductor substrate, and which amplifies signals that are detected by the pixels in accordance with an amount of incident light; and an image signal processing section which processes a signal output from the amplifier, each of the pixels senses light emission produced when the amplifier operates, through the semiconductor substrate to obtain a signal amount as a correction amount, and the correction amount is subtracted from a detection signal amount of the pixel which is output from the amplifier, to correct the detection amount.
US08269866B2
An amplifier gain setting section estimates a light source parameter which relies upon a spectral distribution of an image pickup light source based on an image signal. Then, a first adjustment control value for each color signal when adjustment is to be performed so as to establish a white balance based on the estimated parameter is modulated by an amount corresponding to a follow-up sensitivity toward a second adjustment control value when adjustment is to be performed so that an achromatic subject under a particular reference light source is reproduced as an achromatic subject. The modulated adjustment control value is set to a white balance amplifier. The follow-up sensitivity is set to the amplifier gain setting section in response to an illuminance level estimated from a detection value of the brightness.
US08269865B2
A signal processing apparatus performs predetermined signal processing on an image signal output from an image sensor having a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a direction along a row and a direction along a column. The signal processing apparatus comprises: a storage unit that stores characteristic information indicating characteristics of signal component mix in each pixel from adjacent pixels according to the pixel position in the pixel array of the image sensor; and a correction unit that calculates a correction coefficient according to the position of a pixel for correction in the pixel array from the characteristic information, and corrects an output image signal of the pixel for correction based on an output image signal of adjacent pixels of the pixel for correction and the calculated correction coefficient.
US08269858B2
The moving picture image pickup device includes an image pickup section for obtaining a picked-up moving picture, and an image processing section for processing, per frame, the picked-up moving picture and creating a storage moving picture. The image processing section designates, upon a user's instruction, object images in the picked-up moving picture; sets object trimming images for clipping, out of the picked-up moving picture, the object images, respectively; follows the object images and moving, per frame, the object trimming images in accordance with the object images; sets, per frame, the object trimming images as a first trimming image; sets one image enclosing the object trimming images as a second trimming image; calculates and compares the data sizes of the first and the second trimming images; and selects, as the storage moving picture, an image having a smaller data size, from the first trimming image or the second trimming image.
US08269845B2
A process for the optical detection of objects moved at a conveying speed. The process comprises illuminating the object in a temporally consecutive manner with a sequence of at least two light pulses of different colors and taking images of the object during each light pulse with a monochromatic optical area sensor comprising many sensor lines. The process comprises reading out and temporarily storing at least as many lines of each image as there are different colors of the light pulses. The read-out lines have a line pitch relative to each other. Sequentially combining lines from images taken under illumination by different colors to form color lines, with the lines combined with each other having the aforesaid line pitch or a multiple thereof relative to each other when they are being read out, and assembling the color lines into an overall color picture.
US08269843B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a section that detects a local motion vector for each block forming an image from a standard image and a reference image; a section that executes motion compensation on the reference image employing the local motion vector to generate a local motion-compensated image; a section that calculates a single global motion vector for the entire standard image and the entire reference image employing the local motion vector and that executes motion compensation on the reference image employing the global motion vector to generate a global motion-compensated image; and a section that calculates respective reliabilities of the local motion-compensated image and the global motion-compensated image in units of image regions and that executes a process to synthesize pixel values of the local motion-compensated image and pixel values of the global motion-compensated image in accordance with the reliabilities to generate a blended motion-compensated image.
US08269839B2
An image motion sensing method applicable for an image sensing device includes the steps of capturing a plurality of sensing frames, each sensing frame including image position information of an image; selecting a base frame from the sensing frames and a sampling frame disposed after the base frame; comparing image position information of images in the base frame and the sampling frame within a base comparison range of the base frame and a sampling comparison range of the sampling frame to generate displacement information; determining a comparison range size according to the displacement information; updating sampling comparison range according to the comparison range size; selecting a sensing frame after the sampling frame as an updated sampling frame; updating the base comparison range of the base frame according to the comparison range size; and returning to the foregoing step of comparing the image position information.
US08269834B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and program includes a behavior processing system for capturing a three-dimensional movement of a monitored user within a particular environment monitored by a supervising user, wherein the three-dimensional movement is determined by using at least one image capture device aimed at the monitored user. The behavior processing system identifies a three-dimensional object properties stream using the captured movement. The behavior processing system identifies a particular defined adverse behavior of the monitored user represented by the three-dimensional object properties stream by comparing the identified three-dimensional object properties stream with multiple adverse behavior definitions. In response to identifying the particular defined adverse behavior from among the multiple adverse behavior definitions, the behavior processing system triggers a warning system to notify the supervising user about the particular defined adverse behavior of the monitored user through an output interface only detectable by the supervising user.
US08269833B2
A digital video camera is placed on a vehicle. The video camera is attached to the vehicle and is directed to a surface at a certain angle to the surface. The camera angle can change while vehicle is in motion. The camera angle is constantly measured by angular sensor (i.e., inclinometer). Images of the surface are projected onto a video matrix and transformed into a sequence of digital frames that are formed at a pre-set time interval. A speed of the video camera relative to the surface is calculated as a ratio of an off-set between the adjacent frames and the time interval between the frames. Then a known relative speed of the vehicle can be corrected by multiplication of the height of the camera (above the surface) by a coefficient that equals a ratio of the known vehicle speed and the measured camera speed.
US08269820B2
Epipolar lines of first and second images are made consistent with each other in a paralleling step, so that it has the advantages (1) and (2) as set forth in the background section. Further, distortions of the first and second images are corrected in a correcting step, and, even if characters conversion is carried out, it can avoid excessively reduction of central portions in the first and second images or excessively enlargement of side edge portions. Thus, while maintaining of the above mentioned advantages (1) and (2), wide angle image acquiring method and a wide angle stereo camera device which make three-dimensional space holding possible can be provided.
US08269817B2
In one embodiment, a conference with multiple end points is provided. At the locations, multiple screens may be configured to display video from a portion of the multiple end points. Video from multiple locations is output onto the multiple screens, such as video streams from N different segments are output on N different screens. The video output may be determined based on a first dimension of the floor control algorithm. A push-to-talk input may then be received from a button. A video segment associated with the push-to-talk button is then determined and the video segment is output on one of the multiple screens in response to receiving the push-to-talk input. The push-to-talk input may be used by users that cannot actively participate in the first dimension of the floor control algorithm. For example, users using sign language cannot speak louder and thus by using the push to talk button or hand gestures can indicate their desire to be switched in as one of the displayed segments.
US08269815B2
In a network system (1), in response to a user's operation on a video telephone (32) having no browser function, WEB data described in HTML is supplied from a WEB server (26) to a WEB browse server (4) by HTTP. The supplied WEB data is converted by the WEB browse server (4), for example, into dynamic image data in the MPEG format which can be displayed on the video telephone (32). Furthermore, the dynamic image data is distributed via a transmission path set between the WEB browse server (4) and the video telephone (32) by line switching to the video telephone (32) so as to be displayed. That is, in the network system (1), a user of the video telephone (32) having a dynamic image display function and an audio transmission function but no browser function can view a WEB image on the Internet.
US08269810B2
An aspect of the present invention is an LED print head grounding structure including: an LED print head that emits exposure light; a conductive member that is adjacent to one end and another end of the LED print head; a conducting portion that puts the one end of the LED print head and one end of the conductive member into electric conduction; and a grounding portion that grounds the other end of the LED print head and another end of the conductive member.
US08269800B2
With a source voltage of a transistor driving a light emitting element set to a fixed voltage, variations in an emission luminance due to variations in the threshold voltage of the transistor are corrected. The fixed voltage is set in accordance with a signal level of a drive pulse signal on-off controlling a transistor supplying power to the first transistor.
US08269792B2
Scissoring for any number of scissoring regions is performed in a sequential order by drawing one scissoring region at a time on a drawing surface and updating scissor values for pixels within each scissoring region. A scissor value for a pixel may indicate the number of scissoring regions covering the pixel and may be incremented for each scissoring region covering the pixel. A scissor value for a pixel may also be a bitmap, and a bit for a scissoring region may be set to one if the pixel is within the scissoring region. Pixels within a region of interest are passed and rendered, and pixels outside of the region are discarded. This region may be defined by a reference value, which may be set to (a) one for the union of all scissoring regions, for a scissoring UNION operation, or (b) larger than one for the intersection of multiple (e.g., all) scissoring regions, for a scissoring AND operation.
US08269791B2
An information processing apparatus for processing a structured document describing a vector image includes a determining unit configured to determine whether an object in a vector image obtained by analyzing a structured document is included in a specified area. The information processing apparatus also includes a creating unit configured to create a structured document describing an object included in the specified area by deleting a description of an object if the determining unit determines that the object is not included in the specified area.
US08269781B2
A system for decoding a stream of compressed digital video images comprises a graphics accelerator for reading the stream of compressed digital video images, creating, starting from said stream of compressed digital video images, three-dimensional scenes to be rendered, and converting the three-dimensional scenes to be rendered into decoded video images. The graphics accelerator is preferentially configured as pipeline selectively switchable between operation in a graphics context and operation for decoding the stream of video images. The graphics accelerator is controllable during operation for decoding the stream of compressed digital video images via a set of application programming interfaces comprising, in addition to new APIs, also standard APIs for operation of the graphics accelerator in a graphics context.
US08269775B2
This disclosure describes techniques for removing vertex points during two-dimensional (2D) graphics rendering using three-dimensional (3D) graphics hardware. In accordance with the described techniques one or more vertex points may be removed during 2D graphics rendering using 3D graphics hardware. For example, the techniques may remove redundant vertex points in the display coordinate space by discarding vertex points that have the substantially same positional coordinates in the display coordinate space as a previous vertex point. Alternatively or additionally, the techniques may remove excess vertex points that lie in a straight line. Removing the redundant vertex points or vertex points that lie in a straight line allow for more efficient utilization of the hardware resources of the GPU and increase the speed at which the GPU renders the image for display.
US08269774B2
A system and method are provided for displaying a data series. In one embodiment, a graphical interface is provided including at least one axis that is divided into a plurality of axis regions. Preferably, each axis region uses a different linear scale, and the plurality of axis regions forms a continuous non-linear scale. The graphical interface also displays the data series in relation to the plurality of axis regions, and the data series is plotted in relation to each axis region based on a scale resolution corresponding to each respective axis region.
US08269773B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods provide near real-time graph data feedback to a user during a drag-and-drop graph display creation process. A graph creation display region is displayed, where a graph display data structure contains associations between graph display components and variables, the associations in the graph display data structure defining what graph components are to be displayed on the graph creation display region. The display device contains a plurality of graph hotspot regions that are associated with a graph display component, where using the user manipulation device to drag a variable from the variable selection region to the graph hotspot results in an association between the graph display component and the dragged variable. While the variable is being dragged over a hotspot, the graph creation display region is modified to provide near real-time feedback to the user of a temporary association between the graph display component and the dragged variable.
US08269765B2
Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for reducing artifacts in rendered images. In one embodiment, a dual UV engine generates a dual of the graph defined by an initial UV set associated with a 3D model. The dual UV engine then uses existing flattening and layout engines to generate a dual UV set from this dual graph. Using the dual graph to define the dual UV set ensures that the seams corresponding to the initial UV set and the dual UV set minimally intersect.
US08269762B2
Triangulating quadrilaterals. A method includes accessing an irregular grid comprising a plurality of irregular quadrilaterals. A determination is made that each of the irregular quadrilaterals in the irregular grid is not a concave and is a convex quadrilateral. On a grid basis and as a result of determining that each of the irregular quadrilaterals in the irregular grid is not a concave and is a convex quadrilateral, each of the irregular quadrilaterals in the irregular grid is triangulated to create a triangular mesh by defining diagonals from at least one vertex point of each of the irregular quadrilaterals in the irregular grid to the diagonally opposed vertex point of the same irregular quadrilateral. The triangular mesh is stored in a computer readable storage medium that can be accessed by an application for performing tasks related to data visualization, computer graphics, computational geometry, etc.
US08269761B2
A liquid crystal display panel (LCD) including a plurality of pixels. A plurality of drivers are provided and switched between a driving state and a non-driving state in response to an ON/OFF signal that is fed. The plurality of drivers drive the plurality of pixels of the liquid crystal display panel on the basis of a display data signal and a synchronizing signal, including a vertical synchronizing signal VSYNC, so that an image responsive to the display data signal is shown on the liquid crystal display panel. A signal generating section is provided to generate, on the basis of the vertical synchronizing signal VSYNC and the ON/OFF signal that is fed, a new ON/OFF signal synchronized with the vertical synchronizing signal VSYNC, and feeds the new ON/OFF signal into the drivers.
US08269757B2
Provided are a method of driving a liquid crystal panel using self-masking, a masking circuit for performing the method, and asymmetric latches. The method includes supplying power to the liquid crystal panel; receiving a horizontal start pulse signal instructing source lines of the liquid crystal panel to be driven, from a timing controller; generating a horizontal start masking signal by masking at least one pulse of the horizontal start pulse signal; and driving the source lines in response to the horizontal start masking signal. The horizontal start masking signal turns off the switches until signals output from the source driver, which correspond to image data of the liquid crystal panel, are supplied. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent unknown image data from being displayed on the liquid crystal display when the liquid crystal panel is powered on.
US08269752B2
A burst wave is applied to an excitation element of a touch panel main body from an oscillation section so as to excite surface acoustic waves, and the excited surface acoustic waves are received by a receiving element of the touch panel main body. The received signals are A/D converted by a receiving section, and a control section calculates the contact position and the contact width of the object in contact with the touch panel main body, based on time-series changes in the received strength. Based on the received strength of surface acoustic waves, the control section controls the wave number of the burst wave to be applied to the excitation element.
US08269750B2
Optical position input systems and methods determine positions of at least one pointing objects within an active touch area. At least three imager modules form images of at least one pointing objects within the active touch area. A processor computes a position of each of the at least one pointing object based upon the images formed by the at least three imager modules.
US08269734B2
Tools and techniques for non-linguistic interaction with computer systems via surface stimulation are provided. These tools may receive indications of stimulation levels calculated for cells defined by a non-linguistic user interface. The cells may be associated with respective physical regions of a hardware substrate. The stimulation levels may be calculated based on non-linguistic actions directed by users to the hardware substrate. Visible characteristics of the non-linguistic user interface may be updated in response to the calculated stimulation levels.
US08269729B2
Methods and systems for interfacing with multi-point input devices employ various techniques for controlling displayed images, including 2D and 3D image translation, scale/zoom, rotation control and globe axis tilt control. Various techniques employ three or more simultaneous inputs, changes in characteristics of those inputs, and pressure sensing, among other things.
US08269728B2
A media integration device associated with a touch system including a touch screen, comprises a media control module operative to receive media information from a plurality of devices and generate media data associated with each of the plurality of devices. The media control module selects one device from the plurality of devices for displaying media data associated with the one device on the touch screen. A program module is operatively coupled to the media control device and adapted to generate a graphical user interface including a first display on the touch screen for operationally controlling the selected one device from the touch screen.
US08269721B2
A 3D mouse apparatus is disclosed in the present invention. The apparatus is mainly utilized to calculate, recognize, analyze and output the 3D gestures which include the physical quantity such as 3D position coordinate, displacement, velocity and acceleration of a point light source and the moving behavior of human hand, so as to achieve the purpose of 3D mouse apparatus.
US08269720B2
The present invention relates a coordinate input device to input a variety of job commands, diagrams or characters, and to store or output the input data. More particularly, the present invention provides an input device for recognizing hybrid coordinates and a method of operating the device. The input device uses an absolute coordinate recognition method and a relative coordinate recognition method in a combined fashion as a coordinate recognition method for inputting the track of the characters or diagrams. By doing so, input coordinates are converted into absolute coordinates, and the tracks of handwritten characters and diagrams are stored as the converted absolute coordinates such that the tracks are displayed on a display of the input device or on a monitor of an information terminal connected to the input device. Accordingly, problems of respective conventional input devices for recognizing coordinates can be solved, the structure of hardware can be simplified, and characters or diagrams can be input with accurate recognition of coordinates.
US08269719B1
A portable device which is capable of communicating with an external device and a control method thereof are disclosed. A method for transmitting user input of a portable device includes detecting navigating input in a navigation mode for controlling an external device which is connected by a network, wherein the external device displays displayable content and the navigating input is for navigating the displayable content which includes at least one input box, transmitting a control signal corresponding to the detected navigating input to the external device, displaying an indicator which indicates capability of mode switching from the navigation mode to a user input mode, initiating the user input mode by displaying the input box which is extracted from the displayable content when user input for mode switching is detected, and transmitting user input which is received through the displayed input box.
US08269717B2
Provided is a photodetection device which is small in size and has excellent sensitivity. The photodetection device (10) puts cathode terminals of photodiodes (1 and 2) having different spectral characteristics, or a photodiode (1) provided with an optical filter and a photodiode (2) provided with a light shield layer, into an open end state, and detects light intensity of a desired wavelength region according to a difference in electric charges that have been stored in those photodiodes in a given period of time. Since the photodiodes 1 and 2 store electric charges, even if a photocurrent is small, it is possible to store the photocurrent to obtain the electric charges required for detection, permitting achievement of downsizing and high detection performance of the semiconductor device on which the photodiodes 1 and 2 are formed. It is also possible to realize a wide dynamic range by making the electric charge storage time variable according to the light intensity, to suppress electric power consumption by intermittently driving an element required for differential detection at the time of differential detection, and to reduce an effect from flicker by averaging the output.
US08269707B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) that includes a plurality of pixels, a switch unit, and a gate line driving unit. Each of the pixels includes a liquid crystal capacitor having a pixel electrode and a common electrode, and the pixels are located at intersections of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines. The switch unit applies source line driving voltages having levels opposite to a common voltage applied to the common electrode, to the source lines. The gate line driving unit sequentially outputs via gate lines gate line driving voltages to control the source line driving voltages to be applied to the pixel electrodes of the pixels. The common voltage transits from a first level to a second level or vice versa at the boundary between a first half frame and a second half frame. At the first half frame, the switch unit applies the source line driving voltages to only odd-numbered source lines. At the second half frame, the switch unit applies the source line driving voltage to only even-numbered source lines.
US08269705B2
A liquid crystal display including a plurality of pixels includes a gray voltage generator generating a plurality of gray voltages, a data driver supplying data voltages selected from the gray voltages corresponding to image data to the pixels, a gate driver supplying gate voltages to gate lines of the pixels, a signal controller supplying a first control signal to the gate driver and the image data and a second control signal to the data driver for controlling the image data and comprising a dimming controller, the dimming controller generating a dimming signal based on an average gray of the image data over at least one frame and a common voltage generator generating at least one common voltage based on the dimming signal and applying the common voltage to the pixels. Therefore, the variation of the pixel voltage depending on the gray of the image data is decreased to improve image quality of the LCD.
US08269694B2
A method for driving a plasma display panel (PDP) that can increase dark contrast without causing erroneous discharges is provided. A unit display period is divided into a plurality of subfields. A reset process and a sustain process are performed in one of the subfields. In the reset process, a reset pulse is applied to row electrodes of the PDP to initialize each discharge cell to an emission mode (or non-emission mode). In the sustain process, a sustain discharge is repeatedly generated a number of times, corresponding to the number of times a sustain pulse is to be applied, in those discharge cells that are in the emission mode. In this case, a peak potential of the reset pulse is changed based on the number of those discharge cells that are maintained in the non-emission mode during the unit display period and the number of times the sustain pulse is to be applied in the sustain process in this subfield.
US08269693B2
In a PDP device, a technique capable of more efficiently performing address energy control according to contents of a display image (display data) to reduce the address energy. In the PDP device, as an address energy recovery circuit, a plurality of address energy control circuits (B1 to Bn) are provided corresponding to a plurality (n) of regions (H1 to Hn) into which a screen area (R) and a group of address electrodes are divided in a horizontal direction. For each of the regions (H) of which the address energy recovery circuits (B) are respectively in charge and for each of subfields, an address pulse switching load (Q) corresponding to that region (H) is determined, and then, according to the magnitude of the load (Q), the operation of the address energy recovery circuit (B) is ON/OFF-controlled.
US08269678B2
An antenna module for a tablet personal computer is disclosed. The tablet personal computer comprises a main body and a housing with a screen, and the housing is pivotally connected to the main body. The tablet personal computer is capable of being switched to a tablet mode. The antenna module comprises an antenna device, a first magnetic element, and a second magnetic element. The antenna device is located concealably in the housing. The first magnetic element is coupled to an end of the antenna device. The second magnetic element is located in the main body. The second magnetic element is positioned corresponding to the first magnetic element in the tablet mode such that an end of the antenna device can be moved outside the housing due to a magnetic force between the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element.
US08269676B2
An exemplary dual-band antenna includes a first antenna unit and a second antenna unit for receiving /sending radio frequency signals corresponding generating a low resonant frequency and a high resonant frequency. The first antenna unit is perpendicularly connected to the second antenna unit. The second antenna unit includes a feed portion, two slots, two gaps and two grounding sheets. The feed portion is electrically connected to the first antenna unit and is used to receive radio frequency signals. The slots are adjacent to one side of the first antenna unit and are defined at the both sides of the feed portion, and the slots are connected with the feed portion and used to radiate radio frequency signals. The gaps extend away from a position of the first antenna unit and are defined at the both sides of the feed portion, and each gap communicates with corresponding slot. The grounding sheets are symmetrically positioned at both sides of the feed portion.
US08269673B2
A broadband antenna for wireless signal transmission of an electronic device comprises a base board, a radiating element, a grounding element, a shorting element, and a feeding point. The radiating element, the grounding element, and the shorting element are disposed on the base board. The radiating element comprises a first slot and a second slot. The second slot is connected to the first slot substantially. The first slot and the second slot are used to adjust the operating band of the broadband antenna. The grounding element is used to ground the broadband antenna. The shorting element is used to connect the radiating element and the grounding element. The feeding point is disposed between an edge of the base board and the shorting element, and the horizontal extended range of the first slot does not exceed the position of the feeding point.
US08269665B1
Modern tactical radars frequently use phase shifters to electronically specify or steer the spatial position of the antenna beam without requiring mechanical motion of the antenna. These phase shifters can only be set correctly for a specific frequency. If a waveform is transmitted through the antenna which consists of multiple segments which differ in frequency or modulation from that frequency used to steer the position of the beam, errors are introduced into the monopulse measurement. These monopulse errors are reduced or eliminated by correction factors. The monopulse errors are corrected by pre-computed factors or terms which result from the differences in frequency and modulation used in the waveform from the frequency used to steer or position the beam. Correction is also provided for radar altitude. These correction factors are easily pre-computed and applied only when needed to minimize the computational requirements.
US08269664B2
The present invention pertains to a portable repeater device for use by friendly forces in a combat theater. The repeater device includes a sensor that receives an interrogator signal, coded or un-coded, from a friendly interrogator, such as an airborne attack or search and rescue vehicle, and a transmitter that transmits a coded or uncoded beacon at a covert wavelength outside the typical night-vision spectrum back to the interrogator in response. Because the transmission wavelength of the repeater signal is covert and outside typical night-vision capabilities, the system limits the ability of enemy forces to locate friendly forces employing such signaling beacons through typical night-vision equipment.
US08269660B2
Disclosed is a circuit for converting an analog input signal into a digital code (b1-bN), comprising a delay circuit adapted to generate a periodical signal having a delay as a function of the analog input signal value; and a quantization stage for converting the delayed periodical signal into the digital code. The circuit converts an analog voltage or current into the time-domain, thus facilitating the implementation of high-speed analog-to-digital converters into submicron technologies, in particular CMOS technologies. A method of converting an analog input signal into a digital code (b1-bN) is also disclosed.
US08269655B2
Key control for a key matrix circuit having a plurality of keys is provided to reduce power consumption in key searching caused by unintended key pressing. In key control on the key matrix circuit having a plurality of rows and columns of keys (key switches) in matrix arrangement, keys are disabled or enabled in row lines or in column lines on the key matrix circuit by any one of the lines through key selection by a key selecting means (opening/closing detection circuit, opening/closing detecting unit, key selection switch, key selecting unit). Following key selection, a control means (control unit) keeps key pressing detection in a standby status for a predetermined time in response to an event of detection of a press of a key included in enabled keys, and resumes the key pressing detection after the passage of the predetermined time.
US08269652B2
A substantially transparent windscreen head up display includes one of light emitting particles or microstructures over a predefined region of the windscreen permitting luminescent display while permitting vision through the windscreen. A method to display a graphic describing traffic information based upon vehicle-to-vehicle communication upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display of a host vehicle includes monitoring the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, determining the traffic information based upon the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, determining the graphic describing the traffic information for display upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display, and displaying the graphic upon the substantially transparent windscreen head up display.
US08269638B2
One aspect of the invention is an apparatus including an alarm for alerting an operator to recharge a humidifier, wherein such alarm is generated other than through the use of a humidity sensor. In one embodiment the total work performed during heating and hydrating an insufflation gas is measured and an alarm generated when the total work performed exceeds a particular threshold. In another embodiment, a flow meter is used to measure the total flow of insufflation gas so that when the total flow of insufflation gas reaches a predetermined level an alarm is activated.
US08269627B2
A status monitoring device for a fenestration unit is provided. The device is positioned in or on the fenestration unit and includes a panel position sensor and a lock status sensor. The device is capable of transmitting panel position data and lock status data to a remote device, trigger an audible alarm on the device or the remote device, trigger a visual alarm on the device or the remote device, or a combination of these.
US08269624B2
A positioning apparatus is disclosed, which comprises: a position detection module, including an inertial sensor, a magnetometer, and a global positioning device, being used for detection a movement of an object and thus generating a positioning signal accordingly; wherein the positioning signal is transmitted to a control unit and then to a signal processing device where it is being processed and converted into an angular/displacement signal to be transmitted to a monitoring device by way of a signal transmission device for enabling the monitoring device to track the movement of the object. In a preferred embodiment, both of the monitoring device and the signal transmission device are respectively being configured with a displaying unit for displaying the movement of the object. In addition, the positioning apparatus further comprises an identity module, for providing a unique identification code to the object to be used for identifying the same. With the aforesaid apparatus, the object can be positioned and monitored in a remote manner no matter it is being shielded or not.
US08269620B2
An alarm trend summary display system and method can utilize an alarm trend list that works together with an alarm summary list. A set of rows in the alarm trend list can be organized in a top-to-bottom manner. A set of alarm indicators within each row in the alarm trend list can be arranged in a right-to-left horizontal arrangement. The set of alarm indicators can be aligned with most recent alarms appearing on a right side of the alarm trend list. The specific alarm indicators can be selected in the alarm trend list, so that a corresponding item can be highlighted in the alarm summary list, if the alarms are active. Hence, the system and method can allow an operator to see when alarms occur, their sequence, relations and priority, which aid the operators cope with inevitable alarm floods.
US08269608B2
A device and method of coupling a processor to an RFID tag which creates new applications for the RFID tag. The device includes an RFID tag which includes a memory, an antenna coupled to the RFID tag, and a processor coupled to the RFID tag in parallel with the antenna.
US08269595B2
A coil unit includes a planar coil, a coil-receiving housing having a depression that receives the planar coil, the planar coil being disposed in the coil-receiving housing so that a transmission side of the planar coil faces a bottom of the depression, and a substrate having a mounting surface that is provided with a mounted component and faces a non-transmission side of the planar coil, an inner end lead line and an outer end lead line of the planar coil being connected to the substrate. The substrate is secured as a lid of the coil-receiving housing on an open end side of the depression of the coil-receiving housing.
US08269593B2
A magnetic element includes a bobbin, a first winding assembly, a second winding assembly and a magnetic core assembly. The bobbin includes a winding part, a first extension part and a second extension part. The first extension part and the second extension part are separated from each other by the winding part. The first winding assembly is wound around the winding part of the bobbin, and includes plural first terminals. The second winding assembly is wound around the winding part of the bobbin, and includes plural second terminals. The magnetic core assembly includes a first window and a second window. The first extension part is protruded out of the first window. The second extension part is protruded out of the second window. At least one of the first terminals and at least one of the second terminals are simultaneously fixed on the first extension part and/or the second extension part.
US08269590B2
A system for high power transmission on an installation comprising a first part (1, 11) and a second part (2, 12) rotating relative to each other characterized in that the system further comprising a rotary three-phase transformer having primary (U1, V1, W1) and secondary (U2, V2, W2) windings, the first part being provided with one of said primary (U1, V1, W1) or secondary (U2, V2, W2) windings, the second part being provided with the remaining winding of said primary (U1, V1, W1) or secondary (U2, V2, W2) windings, said primary (U1, V1, W1) and secondary (U2, V2, W2) windings are arranged to face each other, and an air gap (6) is provided between the primary (U1, V1, W1) and secondary (U2, V2, W2) windings and their corresponding parts of the transformer cores.
US08269588B2
Disclosed is a cylinder type bistable permanent magnetic actuator, the bistable actuator including, a cylinder formed by rolling a thin plate so as to form an inner space, a mover reciprocatingly installed within the cylinder in a lengthwise direction of the cylinder, first and second coils installed near both end portions of the cylinder, respectively, by interposing the mover therebetween, and a permanent magnet installed between the first and second coils.
US08269584B1
An incorrect-circuit deactivation device of a magnetic GFCI outlet includes an electromagnetic coil seat, a magneto-conductive core driven by the electromagnetic coil seat to displace, and two magnetic elements located on both sides of the magneto-conductive core. The magneto-conductive core is connected to a first electrical conductive end. The first electrical conductive end is positioned to face a second electrical conductive end. Electric power is supplied when the first electrical conductive end is brought into contact with the second electrical conductive end. The electromagnetic coil seat senses a reverse current to make the magneto-conductive core to displace toward one of the magnetic elements when there is a ground fault, thereby departing the first electrical conductive end from the second electrical conductive end to cut off the electric current.
US08269581B2
A band-pass filter according to the present invention includes two or more resonant lines arranged side by side in a direction orthogonal to a laminating direction in a laminate substrate formed by laminating plural dielectric layers. Each of the resonant lines has a first coil pattern portion formed in the dielectric layers and a second coil pattern portion formed in the dielectric layers different from the dielectric layers in which the first coil pattern portion is formed. The first and second coil pattern portions are connected in series and formed in a spiral shape. At least one of the first and second coil pattern portions is formed as parallel lines in the plural dielectric layers. According to such a configuration, a band-pass filter that is reduced in size and reduced in loss is provided.
US08269566B2
A tunable resonant circuit includes first and second capacitors that provide a matched capacitance between first and second electrodes of the first and second capacitors. A deep-well arrangement includes a first well disposed within a second well in a substrate. The first and second capacitors are each disposed on the first well. Two channel electrodes of a first transistor are respectively coupled to the second electrode of the first capacitor and the second electrode of the second capacitor. Two channel electrodes of a second transistor are respectively coupled to the second electrode of the first capacitor and to ground. Two channel electrodes of the third transistor are respectively coupled to the second electrode of the second capacitor and to ground. The gate electrodes of the first, second, and third transistors are responsive to a tuning signal, and an inductor is coupled between the first electrodes of the first and second capacitors.
US08269557B2
An electronic amplifier is characterized by a first stage (1) controlled by an input voltage UE, the operating voltage of said stage being on positive and/or negative potentials (V1+/V1A−), which are always constant with respect to the input voltage (UE), and further by a second impedance-converting stage (2), which is controlled by a voltage supplied by the first stage (1) and the operating voltage of which is on positive and/or negative potentials (V5+/V5A−), which are always constant with respect to the voltage supplied by the first stage (1).
US08269550B2
A reference voltage generation circuit for generating a reference voltage that can adaptively depend on temperature and process includes: a comparator, having a process, temperature and voltage (PVT) insensitive reference as a first input, and a feedback of the output as a second input, for generating a voltage reference output; a first resistor, coupled to the output of the operational amplifier; a second and a third variable resistor coupled in parallel, and coupled between the first resistor and ground; and a transistor, coupled between the third variable resistor and ground.
US08269540B2
Disclosed herein are circuitry and methods for improving differential signals that cross power domains. In an example embodiment, the power supply domain boundary along the output paths that generate the differential signal is staggered, such that the boundary occurs at an odd numbered stage in one differential output path and at an even numbered stage in the other differential output. Defining the power supply domain boundary in this manner can help ensure that the same logical state is present at the boundary in either of the differential output paths. This same logic signal should affect subsequent stages similarly from a speed perspective, and so should similarly affect the differential signals generated by each of the output paths. This means, among other things, that the differential signal as generated should tend to cross nearer to a midpoint voltage, which increases its compliance with certain integrated circuit specifications such as the Vox specification used for the differential data strobe in an SDRAM.
US08269536B2
An onion waveform generator and a spread spectrum clock generator (SSCG) using the same are provided. The onion waveform generator includes a value generation unit and an accumulating unit. The value generation unit outputs a counting value. The accumulating unit accumulates the counting value to output a waveform value. The accumulating unit switches from an increasing mode to a decreasing mode if the waveform value is a third boundary value, and the accumulating unit switches from the decreasing mode to the increasing mode if the waveform value is a fourth boundary value.
US08269535B1
A delay-locked loop (DLL) and a method of using the DLL are provided. The DLL receives an external clock signal and outputs an internal clock signal. The DLL includes a variable delay line and a phase detector. The variable delay line delays the external clock signal and outputs a delayed external clock signal. The phase detector compares the phase of the external clock signal and the phase of the internal clock signal. The method includes the following steps: providing the delayed external clock signal directly to the phase detector of the DLL as the internal clock signal in a high frequency mode; and inverting the delayed external clock signal and providing an inverted delayed external clock signal to the phase detector as the internal clock signal in a low frequency mode.
US08269534B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) circuit is disclosed. The DLL circuit includes a delay circuit and a phase adjusting circuit. The phase adjusting circuit is configured to receive a clock signal output from the delay circuit, pass the clock signal through a N-divider and a replica path to create a N-divided delay signal, and detect phase information about an external clock signal in response to a rising edge and a falling edge of the N-divided delay signal, wherein N denotes a natural number. The delay circuit is configured to output the clock signal by adjusting a phase of the external clock signal in response to a result of the detection. A semiconductor device, semiconductor system, and method are also disclosed.
US08269528B2
Apparatus and methods disclosed herein operate to compensate for skew between inverse phases (e.g., differential phases) of an analog signal appearing at the inputs of an analog signal capture circuit such as a track-and-hold or sample-and-hold circuit associated with an ADC or similar device. Each of two capture clocks is used to capture one of the inverse phases. One or more delay circuits are configured to create a differential delay between clock transitions associated with the two capture clocks. The differential delay is proportional to the input skew between the inverse phases. The phases are consequently sampled at substantially identical points on a phase domain axis. Embodiments operate to create phase sampling synchronicity and to thereby decrease the amplitude of a common-mode signal component that results from the skew. Increased linearity and decreased distortion may result.
US08269526B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes an arithmetic circuit that executes a program based on an operating clock signal input through a clock transfer node, an internal oscillator that generates an internal clock signal to be used internally, a watch dog timer that counts the internal clock signal, detect that a count value reaches a predetermined value of an execution time of the program in the arithmetic circuit and output a notification signal, and a clock monitor circuit that detects presence or absence of the operating clock signal in response to the notification signal.
US08269523B2
In accordance with the invention, VLSI layouts of generalized multi-stage networks for broadcast, unicast and multicast connections are presented using only horizontal and vertical links. The VLSI layouts employ shuffle exchange links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to inlet links of switches in the succeeding stage in another sub-integrated circuit block so that said cross links are either vertical links or horizontal and vice versa. In one embodiment the sub-integrated circuit blocks are arranged in a hypercube arrangement in a two-dimensional plane. The VLSI layouts exploit the benefits of significantly lower cross points, lower signal latency, lower power and full connectivity with significantly fast compilation.The VLSI layouts presented are applicable to generalized multi-stage networks V(N1, N2, d, s), generalized folded multi-stage networks Vfold(N1, N2, d, s), generalized butterfly fat tree networks Vbft(N1, N2, d, s), generalized multi-link multi-stage networks Vmlink(N1, N2, d, s), generalized folded multi-link multi-stage networks Vfold-mlink(N1, N2, d, s), generalized multi-link butterfly fat tree networks Vmlink-bft(N1, N2, d, s), and generalized hypercube networks Vhcube(N1, N2, d, s) for s=1, 2, 3 or any number in general. The embodiments of VLSI layouts are useful in wide target applications such as FPGAs, CPLDs, pSoCs, ASIC placement and route tools, networking applications, parallel & distributed computing, and reconfigurable computing.
US08269512B2
A capacitive occupant sensor for detecting an occupant sitting on a seat cushion of a seat of a vehicle includes a capacitive sensor mat, a cushion member, and a floating electrode. The capacitive sensor mat is disposed in the seat cushion and has a surface. The cushion member is disposed on the surface of the capacitive sensor mat. The floating electrode is disposed on an opposite side of the cushion member from the surface of the capacitive sensor mat. A projected area of the floating electrode with respect to the surface is smaller than the surface. The floating electrode is in an electrically-floating state with respect to the capacitive sensor mat. The occupant is detected based on an occupant capacitance between the capacitive sensor mat and the occupant and a floating capacitance between the capacitive sensor mat and the floating electrode.
US08269510B2
A chamber formed from an electrically conductive material is connected to a ground potential. A hot electrode formed from an electrically conductive material is disposed within the chamber in a substantially horizontal orientation and is physically separated from the chamber. The hot electrode includes a top surface defined to support a part to be measured. A radiofrequency (RF) transmission rod is connected to extend from a bottom surface of the hot electrode through an opening in a bottom of the chamber and be physically separated from the chamber. The RF transmission rod is defined to transmit RF power from a conductor plate in an electrical components housing to the hot electrode. An upper electrode formed from an electrically conductive material is disposed within the chamber in a substantially horizontal orientation. The upper electrode is electrically connected to the chamber and is defined to be movable in a vertical direction.
US08269509B2
A system and method for measuring a thickness of a refractory wall of a gasifier using electromagnetic energy is disclosed. The system includes a waveguide with a bistatic or monostatic phased array antenna at one end. The waveguide is operably connected to a Network Analyzer that generates a pulse of electromagnetic energy with a desired bandwidth. The pulse is transmitted through a coaxial cable to the waveguide. The reflection of the pulse is received by the waveguide and input to a data acquisition system. An output device displays the resolvable discontinuities in impedance encountered by the pulse in its propagation path in the system.
US08269507B2
This invention describes a device for testing a surface mounted connector using a test probe assembly that utilizes a vacuum to force the test wires and the test probe's wire array into intimate contact with the connector to be tested. The wires are directed through a wire module assembly and have a wide spacing at one end, and a narrow spacing corresponding to the spacing required for the specific units to be tested at the opposite end. The wires are kept in contact with the unit under test by the use of spring loaded test connectors and vacuum.
US08269503B2
A method of locating a fault on an electrical network energized by a source uses a form of triangulation of voltage measurements at at least three different locations on the network, with at least one of the locations situated upstream from the fault with respect to the source. Voltage phasors corresponding to the voltages measured during the fault are time synchronized. Conductors of the network involved in the fault are determined as a function of characteristics of the voltage phasors and a fault current causing a voltage drop at one of the locations with respect to an initial voltage value is evaluated. A position of the fault is evaluated at a point of the network where a ratio between a difference of the voltages measured at two of the locations and an impedance between one of the two locations and the point is equal to the fault current.
US08269502B2
A method for determining the state of health (SOH) of a battery is provided in which cell impedance is determined continuously, and including determining one or more confidence coefficients that depend on one or several variables selected from cell current, temperature or state of charge or their derivatives or integrals with respect to time, and continuously determining the state of health of the battery at a given point in time, using the state of health of the battery at a preceding point in time corrected as a function of cell impedance determined at the given point in time and weighted by the confidence coefficient or coefficients. The method provides a reliable way of determining the state of health of the battery with greater stability and robustness than existing methods.
US08269496B2
An electron paramagnetic resonance imaging system that includes means for continuously irradiating a sample with RF irradiation; means for imposing on the sample a sinusoidally varying magnetic field along with rotating gradients for spatial encoding; means for directly detecting signal data from the sample, without using field modulation, while irradiating the sample with RF radiation continuously, the means for directly detecting having means for sweeping the sinusoidally varying magnetic field; and means for processing the signal data, using means including a digital signal processor.
US08269492B2
A magnetic balance type current sensor measures a measured current which flows in a feedback coil when electrical conduction is provided by a voltage difference according to an induction magnetic field from the measured current and an equilibrium state is reached in which the induction magnetic field and a cancel magnetic field cancel each other. Sensor elements in a pair are arranged at positions with magnetic field from the measured current. The magnetization direction of the pinned magnetic layer in the magnetoresistive effect element of one sensor element is aligned in a forward direction with respect to the magnetic field formed by the measured current. The magnetization direction of the pinned magnetic layer in the magnetoresistive effect element of the other sensor element is aligned in a reverse direction with respect to the magnetic field formed by the measured current.
US08269490B2
A magnetic sensor that includes a magnetic film deposited on a surface acoustic wave device. The surface acoustic wave device includes an input interdigital transducer and an output interdigital transducer. An RF voltage can be applied at the input interdigital transducer in order to generate acoustic waves, which can travel via the magnetic material to the output interdigital transducer. The application of an external magnetic field alters the conductivity of the magnetic material. Such a change in conductivity attenuates the velocity of the traveling surface acoustic wave and an output frequency due to electro acoustic interaction. The change in the applied magnetic field can be indirectly monitored as a change in output frequency of the SAW device at the output interdigital transducer.
US08269488B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an eddy current testing method capable of securely detecting a high hardness part locally occurring in a metal material having magnetism, and capable of securely checking whether the high hardness part has been removed after execution of a repairing treatment for removing the high hardness part.In the eddy current testing method according to the present invention, a frequency of the AC current for energizing the differential coil 1 is set so that a phase difference between a magnetism variation signal of the metal material P and a liftoff signal detected by the differential coil is equal to or larger than 135°, and a local high hardness part occurring in the metal material is detected based on an amplitude and a phase of a detection signal outputted from the differential coil.
US08269485B2
Techniques for coupling with devices that convert displacements into differential voltages and improve the sensitivity of such devices. The disclosed system improves the accuracy and resolution of a transducers such as an LVDT by converting certain parts of the circuit to a digital circuit. One embodiment uses a processor, although other digital processing circuitry may also be used.
US08269475B2
A class DH amplifier is provided. The amplifier is generally comprised of a tracking power supply, a class D amplifier section, and a carrier generator. The tracking power supply receives a supply voltage and an analog input signal, and the tracking power supply provides an input for the carrier generator. Based on its input from the tracking power supply, the carrier generator can output a positive ramp signal and a negative ramp signal to the class D amplifier section. The class D amplifier section can generate an output signal base on the analog input signal and the ramp signals from the carrier generator.
US08269473B2
AC high voltage power supply device, charging device, developing device, and image forming apparatus
An AC high voltage power supply device includes a comparison circuit configured to compare a first signal of a sinusoidal waveform and a second signal of a triangular waveform; a switching amplifier circuit configured to perform a switching operation based on a comparison result signal output from the comparison circuit to perform signal amplification; a conversion circuit configured to convert a waveform of a switch signal output from the switching amplifier circuit into a sinusoidal waveform; a transformer configured to boost a voltage of a converted signal output from the conversion circuit; and a control circuit configured to perform feedback control on the first signal input to the comparison circuit based on a monitoring signal including an input signal or an output signal of the transformer, so that a peak level of the output signal of the transformer becomes a desired peak level.
US08269471B2
A method for DC/DC conversion which comprises the steps of controlling a first switch (10) for coupling a supply terminal (5) to a first terminal (60) of an inductor (2) and a second switch (20) for coupling the first terminal (60) to a ground potential terminal (8). The method further comprises controlling a third switch (30) for coupling a second terminal (61) of the inductor (2) to the ground potential terminal (8) and a fourth switch (40) for coupling the second terminal (61) to an output terminal (6). A control sequence is used to control the four switches (10, 20, 30, 40) using four switching phases (A, B, C, D). A maximum of two switches out of the four switches (10, 20, 30, 40) change their switching position at a respective transition of subsequent switching phases (A, B, C, D).
US08269466B2
A method for charging a battery includes measuring the battery's voltage and comparing the battery voltage to a first threshold voltage. The method includes operating the battery in a charging mode if the measured battery voltage is less than the first threshold voltage, wherein operating in the charging mode comprises applying a charging signal to the battery. The charging signal has an oscillating triangular waveform superimposed on a DC bias signal. The method includes measuring the battery's current consumption and comparing the current consumption to a first threshold current. The method includes operating in a maintenance mode if the battery's current consumption is less than the first threshold current, wherein operating in the maintenance mode comprises terminating application of the charging signal to the battery. The method includes measuring, during operation in the maintenance mode, the battery's voltage and comparing the measured voltage to a second threshold voltage. The method includes applying the oscillating triangular waveform superimposed on the DC bias signal until the battery's voltage is equal to or greater than the second threshold voltage.
US08269461B2
A hybrid battery charger includes a control circuit and a power stage. The control circuit includes an error amplifier to generate a first error signal and a second error signal according to an output voltage and an output current of the hybrid battery charger, a linear controller to generate a first control signal according to the first error signal, a PWM controller to generate a second control signal and a third control signal according to the second error signal, and according to a mode signal, a multiplexer to select the first control signal for the power stage to operate the hybrid battery charger in a linear mode, or the second and third control signals for the power stage to operate the hybrid battery charger in a switching mode.
US08269449B2
A method and system for starting and operating an electrically driven load, e.g. a compressor or pump, by power supply from a mechanical driver, e.g. a turbine or combustion engine, whereby the load is mechanically connected to a first electrical machine, and the mechanical driver is mechanically connected to a second electrical machine. The first electrical machine is electrically interconnected to the second electrical machine at a standstill or when the first and or second machine have low speed. In an acceleration phase, the first electrical machine is accelerated by accelerating the second electrical machine with the mechanical driver. When the first electrical machine has reached a predefined rotational speed, the first machine is synchronized with a local electrical power network and connected it to that network.
US08269444B2
A system and a method for controlling a sensorless motor are disclosed, where the system includes a motor driver and a zero-crossing detector. The motor driver can drive the sensorless motor. The zero-crossing detector can detect a zero-crossing point when the voltage of one motor coil of the sensorless motor is in a blanking period.
US08269437B2
A control unit for a rotary electric machine includes a first current command module, a second current command module, a change module, and a return module. The first module performs a first current command on a maximum efficiency characteristic line on a d-q plane thereby to drive the machine at a maximum efficiency. The second module performs a second current command on a switching line set at a retard angle side relative to the maximum efficiency characteristic line. The change module changes a control mode from a rectangular wave voltage phase control mode to an overmodulation current control mode when an operation point of the machine reaches the switching line. The return module returns the current command from the second command to the first command after performance of the second command for a predetermined period.
US08269435B2
Time information indicates time required for reflecting a speed control indicating value actually on the rotation speed of the motor, the speed control indicating value being read by a motor driving part and then, being reflected on the rotation speed of the motor by the motor driving part. the speed control indicating value is generated based on the time information and the rotation speed information. The speed control indicating value is read at a period which is based on the time information for actually driving the motor.
US08269431B2
A method for producing an optical output in substantially linear relationship with an input electrical AC signal, including the following steps: providing a light-emitting transistor having emitter, base, and collector regions, the light-emitting transistor producing light emission from its base region in response to electrical signals applied with respect to the emitter, base, and collector regions; applying a signal derived from the input signal to the light-emitting transistor; deriving a feedback signal from an electrical operating signal of the light-emitting transistor; applying a predistortion factor to the derived feedback signal to produce a predistorted feedback signal; and combining the predistorted feedback signal with the input signal to produce the signal derived from thr input signal; whereby the light emission comprises an optical output in substantially linear relationship with the input signal.
US08269420B2
An illuminating device includes a fluorescent lamp including a blue phosphor and a red phosphor applied on an inner surface, the fluorescent lamp emitting blue light and red light from the blue phosphor and the red phosphor, respectively; and a green phosphor layer disposed outside the fluorescent lamp, the green phosphor layer containing a green phosphor containing Eu2+ or Ce3+ as a luminescent center. Green light emitted from the green phosphor excited by the blue light is mixed with the red light and the blue light so that white light is emitted from the illuminating device.
US08269417B2
Disclosed are light emitting display and method of manufacturing the same. The light emitting display according to the present embodiments includes a first substrate including a plurality of light emitting devices and a pad portion, all of which are formed therein; a second substrate disposed to face the light emitting devices; and a bonding layer bonded to the light emitting devices and the second substrate, wherein a stepped portion is formed at a predetermined depth in an edge of the second substrate that is adjacent to the pad portion, and the bonding layer is extended to the stepped portion. Since the bonding layer is not bonded to the pad portion due to the depth of the stepped portion when the second substrate is bonded to the first substrate, poor electrical contact may be prevented, and it easy to remove the encapsulation substrate to expose the pad portion. Also, the manufacturing process is simple, the process uniformity is high and the process time is short since the bonding layer is formed in the front of the second substrate.
US08269414B2
An organic light emitting display and a manufacturing method that prevents an open edge from occurring when forming an emission layer of an organic light emitting display in order to prevent a dielectric breakdown from occurring at the edge of an anode electrode. The organic light emitting display includes: a substrate; an active layer formed on the substrate; a planarization layer formed on the active layer; an anode electrode formed on the planarization layer; a pixel definition layer formed on the upper surface of the planarization layer to cover an edge of the anode electrode; and an organic thin film formed on the pixel definition layer, wherein the pixel definition layer includes a thick film portion and a step down portion that is formed to be stepped down at both ends of the thick film portion.
US08269412B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes: a substrate; a gate line, a data line and a power line on the substrate; a switching element connected to the gate line and the data line; a driving element connected to the switching element, the driving element including a driving drain electrode; a first passivation layer on the switching element and the driving element, the first passivation layer having a first contact hole exposing the driving drain electrode; a first shield pattern under the first contact hole, the first shield pattern including a same material and a same layer as the gate line; a first electrode on the first passivation layer, the first electrode connected to the driving drain electrode through the first contact hole; an organic electroluminescent layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the organic electroluminescent layer.
US08269401B1
A graphene power-mill system is provided, including a graphene sheet configured for generating electrical charges on both sides, a graphene sheet holder configured for engaging and holding the graphene sheet on a first side, a groove provided on the first side of the graphene sheet holder, and a graphene pusher or bender configured for pushing and releasing a portion of the graphene sheet into the groove. the graphene pusher or bender has a shape fitting the groove, and the graphene sheet recovers to be flat after removing the graphene pusher or bender from the groove. The graphene sheet can comprise graphene layers and one or more polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) layers stacked alternatingly. Both sides of the stacked graphene layers can be connected in parallel electrically.
US08269397B2
A vibratory driving device (1) comprising an electromechanical transducer (3) which causes mechanical displacement according to an applied voltage, a driving shaft (4) which is held so as to be displaced in its axial direction by the electromechanical transducer and which is provided on its surface with two resistive bodies (8) extending in the axial direction and connected to the electromechanical transducer at one end, a movable member (5) which slidably engages on the driving shaft so as to contact with the two resistive bodies to connect electrically the contacted points of the resistive bodies each other, a driving circuit (13) which applies a periodical driving voltage to the electromechanical transducer, and a measuring circuit (15) which measures electric resistance between the two resistive bodies can determine a position of the movable member and has a simplified wiring (7) with low risk of disconnection.
US08269396B2
An electro-mechanical actuator includes a comb drive and a deformable connector. The comb drive has a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate. The capacitor plates have teeth capable of inter-digitating. The deformable connector is configured to apply a mechanical restoring force to the first capacitor plate. The deformable connector is configured to restore the first capacitor plate to be at an equilibrium rest position in response to no control voltage being applied across the capacitor. The comb drive is more engaged at the equilibrium rest position than at a mechanical stability threshold of the comb drive. The capacitor plates are disengaged at the equilibrium rest position.
US08269394B2
The invention relates to a commutator with contact segments, arranged at a distance from each other and forming a brush running surface. Each contact segment is soldered to a securing portion of a metal segment support piece. The commutator has a hub body made from an electrically insulating material which supports the segment support pieces which are each provided with a winding connector hook. According to the invention, at least one solder barrier recess is provided in the upper side of the securing portion facing the contact segment and/or in the under side of the contact segment facing the securing portion.
US08269390B2
A permanent-magnet-type rotating electrical machine capable of realizing variable-speed operation in a wide range from low speed to high speed at high output and improving, in a wide operating range, efficiency, reliability, and productivity. The rotating electrical machine includes a first permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and magnetizing direction thickness is small and a second permanent magnet whose product of coercive force and magnetizing direction thickness is large, to form a magnetic pole. The product of coercive force and magnetizing direction thickness of the first permanent magnet is equal to or larger than the product of magnetic field strength and magnetizing direction thickness of the second permanent magnet at a no-load operating point. At the magnetic pole, a magnetic field created by a current of an armature coil magnetizes the first permanent magnet, irreversibly changing a flux amount of the first permanent magnet.
US08269386B2
A stator assembly includes a stator stack and a plurality of lead conductors extending from the stator stack. A plurality of conductor terminals are each connected to a respective one of the plurality of lead conductors. A plurality of wires are each connected to a respective one of the plurality of conductor terminals and a plurality of phase lead connection terminals are each connected to at least one of the plurality of wires.
US08269383B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module and a method for cooling an electric machine. The electric machine module includes the electric machine including a stator with stator end turns and a housing enclosing the electric machine. An inner wall of the housing defines a machine cavity. The electric machine module also includes a cover coupled to the housing and extending radially inward into the machine cavity. The cover and the stator end turns define a stator cavity which is in fluid communication with the machine cavity.
US08269368B2
A generator for generating electricity from wind and solar resources consisting of a double bell shaped member containing a first turbine associated with at least one first magnet, a drive shaft coupled to said first turbine, at least one blade coupled to said drive shaft and associated with at least one second magnet; at least one solar device operably coupled to said at least one second magnet; at least one second turbine coupled to said drive shaft and associated with at least one third magnet; a diffuser within said double bell shaped member. A control system for controlling said generator consisting of a controller; a cogged base coupled to said generator and operably coupled to said controller; and a sensor operably coupled to said controller. A generator for generating electricity from wind and solar resources which may be coupled to private residences may comprise a tail fin instead of a cogged base.
US08269366B2
A handy terminal for a wind turbine generator which the maintenance of the wind turbine generator, especially the maintenance work inside the nacelle, can be simplified while considering the safety of the maintenance operator. The handy terminal comprises a tower provided to stand on land or off-shore, a nacelle supported on the tower to be controlled to rotate in the yaw direction and a plurality of rotatable blades attached to the nacelle to be controlled to move their pitch, whereby the handy terminal is connectable to connecting ends respectively provided on the lower portion of the tower and the nacelle so as to perform various control of the wind turbine generator.
US08269359B2
Electronic control for a hydraulic system to drive an auxiliary power source is provided, with an application as a system for controlling the operation of a hydraulically driven AC generator. The system includes a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor drivably connected to the generator, and a fluid circuit for circulating fluid from the pump to the motor and back. The feedback circuit contains a feedback conduit to feedback the motor. The system also includes a proportional servo control valve assembly for controlling the fluid conduits and a control circuit for controlling the control valve assembly to thereby control the flow of fluid to the motor. Sensors for measuring the operating parameters of the system and an operator interface module are both able to influence the operation of the system.
US08269356B2
A semiconductor package has a semiconductor die disposed on a substrate. A bond wire is connected between a first bonding site on the semiconductor die and a second bonding site on the substrate. The first bonding site is a die bond pad; the second bonding site is a stitch bond. The second bonding site has a bond finger formed on the substrate, a conductive layer in direct physical contact with the bond finger, and a bond stud coupled to the bond wire and in direct physical contact with the conductive layer to conduct an electrical signal from the semiconductor die to the bond finger. The bond finger is made of copper. The conductive layer is made of copper or gold. The bond stud is made of gold and overlies a side portion and top portion of the copper layer.
US08269352B2
A multi-chip stack package structure comprises a substrate, which has a chip placement area defined on its upper surface and a plurality of contacts disposed outside the chip placement area; a first chip is disposed in the chip placement area with the rear surface, a plurality of first pads being disposed on the active surface and a plurality of first bumps each being formed on one of the first pads; a plurality of metal wires connect the first bumps to the contacts; a second chip with a plurality of second pads being disposed on the active surface and a plurality of second bumps each being formed on one of the second pads, the second chip being mounted to the first chip with its active surface facing the active surface of the first chip, wherein the second bumps correspondingly connect the metal wires and the first bumps respectively.
US08269343B2
A semiconductor device in accordance with one embodiment of the invention can include a substrate onto which a wiring pattern is formed. In addition, the semiconductor device can include a plurality of semiconductor packages. Each semiconductor package can include a lead frame that is coupled to an electrode of a semiconductor chip. Each lead frame can be located on a side surface and a bottom surface of the semiconductor package. In addition, the semiconductor device can include a pressure-contact section for receiving the plurality of semiconductor packages and for causing the plurality of semiconductor packages to come into contact with the wiring pattern.
US08269341B2
Cooling structures and methods, methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices, and semiconductor devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling structure for a semiconductor device includes at least one channel defined between a first workpiece and a second workpiece. The second workpiece is bonded to the first workpiece. The at least one channel is adapted to retain a fluid.
US08269338B2
A semiconductor device mountable to a substrate includes a semiconductor die and an electrically conductive lead frame having first and second end portions and a first attachment surface and a second attachment surface. The die electrically contacts the first end portion of the lead frame on the first attachment surface. An externally exposed housing encloses the semiconductor die and the first end portion of the lead frame, said housing including a metallic plate facing the second attachment surface of the lead frame.
US08269336B2
A semiconductor chip assembly includes a semiconductor device, a heat spreader, a conductive trace and an adhesive. The semiconductor device is electrically connected to the conductive trace and thermally connected to the heat spreader. The heat spreader includes a thermal post and a base. The thermal post extends upwardly from the base into a first opening in the adhesive, and the base extends laterally from the thermal post. The conductive trace includes a pad, a terminal and a signal post. The signal post extends upwardly from the terminal into a second opening in the adhesive.
US08269330B1
A MOSFET pair with a stack capacitor is disclosed herein. It can regulate the input voltage and optimize a short EMI loop. It has a bottom lead frame and an up lead frame, which can simultaneously dissipate the heat generated by two MOSFETs to achieve excellent thermal-dissipation. It can adopt solder, Ag epoxy, or gold balls to implement the electrical bonding of two MOSFETs with the bottom lead frame and the up lead frame to achieve excellent structural flexibility. A device, such as an IGBT, a diode, an inductor, a choke, and a heat sink, can be stacked above the up lead frame to form a powerful SiP module. A corresponding method of manufacturing the MOSFET pair with a stack capacitor is also disclosed herein, which is simple, time-saving, flexible, cost-effective, and facile.
US08269311B2
An integrated circuit device having a capacitor structure and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The device has a substrate, e.g., silicon wafer, silicon on insulator, epitaxial wafer. The device has a dielectric layer overlying the substrate and a polysilicon layer overlying the dielectric layer. The device has a tungsten silicide layer overlying the polysilicon layer and a first oxide layer overlying the tungsten silicide layer. A nitride layer overlies the oxide layer. A second oxide layer is overlying the nitride layer to form a sandwiched oxide on nitride on oxide structure to form a capacitor dielectric. The device also has an upper capacitor plate formed overlying the second oxide layer.
US08269310B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a storage capacitor having increased aperture ratio: providing a substrate having a metal layer disposed thereon, and said metal layer is covered correspondingly with a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer in sequence; forming a photoresist layer with a uniform thickness to cover said second dielectric layer; performing a process of exposure-to-light and development to a portion of said photoresist layer that is correspondingly disposed over said metal layer sequentially, so that its thickness is less than its original thickness; removing said photoresist layer and etching said portion of said second dielectric layer, so that a thickness of said portion of said second dielectric layer is less than its original thickness, and the etching depth of said portion is greater than that of the other remaining portions of said second dielectric layer; and forming an electrode layer on said second dielectric layer.
US08269307B2
The invention provides a STI structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The STI includes a semiconductor substrate; a first trench formed on the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and filled with an epitaxial layer, wherein the upper surface of the epitaxial layer is higher than that of the semiconductor substrate; and a second trench formed on the epitaxial layer and filled with a first dielectric layer, wherein the upper surface of the first dielectric layer is flush with that of the epitaxial layer, and the width of the second trench is smaller than that of the first trench. The invention reduces the influences of divots on performance of the semiconductor device.
US08269306B2
A dielectric liner is formed in first and second trenches respectively in first and second portions of a substrate. A layer of material is formed overlying the dielectric liner so as to substantially concurrently substantially fill the first trench and partially fill the second trench. The layer of material is removed substantially concurrently from the first and second trenches to expose substantially all of the dielectric liner within the second trench and to form a plug of the material in the one or more first trenches. A second layer of dielectric material is formed substantially concurrently on the plug in the first trench and on the exposed portion of the dielectric liner in the second trench. The second layer of dielectric material substantially fills a portion of the first trench above the plug and the second trench.
US08269298B2
A semiconductor module includes a lower wiring substrate having a semiconductor device mounted and an upper wiring substrate having an opening in a position corresponding to the semiconductor device and having a packaging-component mountable region around the opening. The lower wiring substrate and the upper wiring substrate are electrically connected to each other via a plurality of solder balls provided around the semiconductor device. The solder balls are covered with light blocking under-fills.
US08269286B2
A method is provided of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising a first, n-type field effect transistor (1) and a second, p-type field effect transistor (2). The method comprises depositing a gate dielectric layer over a substrate; depositing a gate metal layer (22) over the gate dielectric layer, depositing a solid metal oxide layer (15) over the gate dielectric layer; removing a portion of the solid metal oxide layer (15) over an area of the substrate corresponding to the n-type transistor; and completing gate stacks for the n-type and p-type transistors and forming source and drain regions. The invention thus provides a device which is compatible with IC technology and easy to manufacture. The deposition of a solid metal oxide layer provides a simplified manufacturing process, by avoiding the complexity of gas exposure to form an oxide layer.
US08269279B2
A semiconductor device including: a low threshold PMOS device formed over an N-type region, the source and drain of the low threshold PMOS formed in P-regions surrounded by N-regions; a low threshold NMOS device formed in a P-type region, the source and drain of the low threshold NMOS formed in N-regions surrounded by P-regions; first and second substrate bias generators, each connected to one of the low threshold devices for generating a substrate bias; a voltage source for generating substrate bias during a standby mode to reduce leakage current; wherein a low voltage threshold is established by the source and drain regions of the low threshold devices and their respective surrounding regions of opposite polarity.
US08269276B2
The invention relates to a method for the production of both MOS transistors with extremely low leakage currents at the pn junctions and logic/switching transistors, whose gates are laterally defined by spacers in a p-substrate or a p-well in an n-substrate. The aim of the invention is to provide a method for the production of MOS transistors with extremely low leakage currents that allows for parallel logic/switching transistors. This is achieved by initially carrying out an LDD ion implantation via the edges of the gates in order to form an LDD region and subsequently removing the spacers by means of an anisotropic etching step exhibiting high selectivity in relation to the gate and substrate materials, including the covering layers thereof, or by covering the MOS transistors with an extremely low leakage currents prior to isotropic spacer production such that the spacers are formed exclusively on the edges of the gates of the logic/switching transistors, while the MOS transistors with an extremely low leakage current always remain connected solely via the LDD region, and there is no high dose implantation in the S/D regions of these MOS transistors with extremely low leakage currents.
US08269271B2
A semiconductor device includes: a FinFET (Fin Field Effect Transistor); and a PlanarFET (Planar Field Effect Transistor). The FinFET is provided on a chip. The PlanarFET is provided on the chip. A second gate insulating layer of the PlanarFET is thicker than a first gate insulating layer of the FinFET.
US08269259B2
Some exemplary embodiments of a semiconductor device using a III-nitride heterojunction and a novel Schottky structure and related method resulting in such a semiconductor device, suitable for high voltage circuit designs, have been disclosed. One exemplary structure comprises a first layer comprising a first III-nitride material, a second layer comprising a second III-nitride material forming a heterojunction with said first layer to generate a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within said first layer, an anode comprising at least a first metal section forming a Schottky contact on a surface of said second layer, a cathode forming an ohmic contact on said surface of said second layer, a field dielectric layer on said surface of said second layer for isolating said anode and said cathode, and an insulating material on said surface of said second layer and in contact with said anode.
US08269256B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating film formed over the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film, a first semiconductor layer which is embedded into a portion on both sides of the gate electrode in the semiconductor substrate, and which includes Si and a 4B group element other than Si, and a second semiconductor layer which is embedded into the portion on both sides of the gate electrode in the semiconductor substrate, so as to be superposed on the first semiconductor layer, and which includes Si and a 4B group element other than Si, wherein the gate electrode is more separated from an end of the first semiconductor layer than from an end of the second semiconductor layer.
US08269253B2
According to one embodiment, a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) comprises an insulator layer comprising a first group III-V intrinsic layer doped with a rare earth additive. The HEMT also comprises a second group III-V intrinsic layer formed over the insulator layer, and a group III-V semiconductor layer formed over the second group III-V intrinsic layer. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a HEMT comprises forming a first group III-V intrinsic layer and doping the first group III-V intrinsic layer with a rare earth additive to produce an insulator layer. The method also comprises forming a second group III-V intrinsic layer over the insulator layer, and further forming a group III-V semiconductor layer over the second group III-V intrinsic layer. A two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is formed at a heterojunction interface of the group III-V semiconductor layer and the second group III-V intrinsic layer.
US08269250B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting structure including a plurality of compound semiconductor layers, a second electrode layer below the light emitting structure, a channel layer between the light emitting structure and an edge area of the second electrode layer, a buffer layer on the channel layer, and a passivation layer on the buffer layer.
US08269249B2
A light emitting device package including a package body including a plurality of discrete and separated three-dimensional-shaped indentations formed in an undersurface of the package body and configured to dissipate heat generated in the package body, a cavity in the package body, and a light emitting device including at least one emitting diode in the cavity of the package body and configured to emit light.
US08269247B2
An emitting device includes a first electrode on a base substrate, a second electrode on the base substrate, a third electrode on the base substrate, an emitting structure on and/or at a same level as the first electrode, a first pattern on the base substrate being electrically connected to the first electrode, and a plurality of second patterns on the base substrate, wherein at least one of the second patterns is arranged on a first side of the first pattern and is electrically connected to the second electrode and at least another one of the second patterns is arranged on a second side of the first pattern and is electrically connected to the third electrode, the first side opposing the second side.
US08269246B2
A light emitting device package is provided. The light emitting device package may include a main body having a cavity including side surfaces and a bottom, and a first reflective cup and a second reflective cup provided in the bottom of the cavity of the main body and separated from each other. A first light emitting device may be provided in the first reflective cup, and a second light emitting device may be provided in the second reflective cup.
US08269245B1
Techniques are disclosed for transmitting electromagnetic radiation from LED devices, such as ultra-violet, violet, blue, blue and yellow, or blue and green, fabricated on bulk semipolar or nonpolar materials with phosphors. The starting material include polar gallium nitride.
US08269233B2
This application related to an opto-electrical device, comprising a first ACLED having a first n-type semiconductor layer, a first light emitting layer, a first p-type semiconductor layer, a first p-type electrode and a first n-type electrode; a second ACLED having a second n-type semiconductor layer, a second light emitting layer, a second p-type semiconductor layer, a second p-type electrode and a second n-type electrode, wherein each of the first ACLED and the second ACLED are vertical stack structure and is connected in anti-parallel manner.
US08269231B2
A light emitting diode module providing stable color temperature includes a plurality of light emitting diodes, at least one color sensor and a controller. The plurality of light emitting diodes can emit light with different wavelengths. The light emitting diode module providing stable color temperature includes a reflection region at the path of the light emitting from half peak angle of each light emitting diode. The color sensor detects the light having different wavelengths reflected from the reflection region. The controller adjusts driving currents of the light emitting diodes according to the luminous intensities of the light of the light emitting diodes reflected by the reflection region and detected by the color sensor.
US08269229B2
A layered semiconductor light emitting device includes a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements each of which includes a light emitting region that converts electricity into light and emits the light. The semiconductor light emitting elements are layered in a layering direction perpendicular to the light emitting regions, and are bonded to each other via a planarizing layer having electrical insulation property. The planarizing layer includes a first planarizing region disposed above or below the light emitting regions of the semiconductor light emitting elements in the layering direction and formed of a first planarizing film having higher refractive index than air, and a second planarizing region other than the first planarizing region and formed of a second planarizing film having lower refractive index than the first planarizing film. In the layering direction, the upper semiconductor light emitting element transmits light emitted by the lower semiconductor light emitting element.
US08269227B2
The invention provides a light emitting device which uses a color conversion layer, with high light emission efficiency and a low driving voltage. The light emitting device includes a light emitting element having a pair of electrodes and a layer containing an organic compound sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and a color conversion layer which absorbs light emitted from the light emitting element and emits light with a longer wavelength than a wavelength of the absorbed light. A portion of the layer containing an organic compound includes a buffer layer containing a composite material including an organic compound having a hole transporting property and a metal compound. The thickness of the buffer layer is determined so that the light emission efficiency becomes high.
US08269225B2
An object of the invention is to provide a lighting device which can suppress luminance nonuniformity in a light emitting region when the lighting device has large area. A layer including a light emitting material is formed between a first electrode and a second electrode, and a third electrode is formed to connect to the first electrode through an opening formed in the second electrode and the layer including a light emitting material. An effect of voltage drop due to relatively high resistivity of the first electrode can be reduced by electrically connecting the third electrode to the first electrode through the opening.
US08269217B2
A thin film transistor with which oxygen is easily supplied to an oxide semiconductor layer and favorable transistor characteristics are able to be restored and a display unit including the same are provided. The thin film transistor includes sequentially over a substrate a gate electrode, a gate insulting film, an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, and a channel protective layer covering the channel region A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the oxide semiconductor layer located on both sides of the channel protective layer, and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode has an aperture to expose the oxide semiconductor layer.
US08269212B2
A pixel for an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method for forming such a pixel is provided. The pixel includes a substrate, a transistor formed over the substrate, and an OLED formed over the substrate. The transistor includes a gate, a source, and a drain. The OLED includes an anode, an emissive layer formed over the anode, and a cathode formed over the emissive layer. The cathode is electrically connected to the drain of the transistor.
US08269210B2
A field emission cathode assembly that has a UV-blocking, insulating dielectric layer (3.4).
US08269209B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic devices. In at least one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to forming an isolated nanowire, wherein isolation structure adjacent the nanowire provides a substantially level surface for the formation of microelectronic structures thereon.
US08269208B2
A phase-change memory device includes a first insulator having a hole therethrough, a first electrode that conforms at least partially to the hole, a phase-change material in electrical communication with the first electrode, and a second electrode in electrical communication with the phase-change material. When current is passed from the first electrode to the second electrode through the phase-change material, at least one of the first and second electrodes remains unreactive with the phase change material.
US08269206B2
A phase change material may be processed to reduce its microcrystalline grain size and may also be processed to increase the crystallization or set programming speed of the material. For example, material doped with nitrogen to reduce grain size may be doped with titanium to reduce crystallization time.
US08269202B2
An optical sensor device has a sensor unit which includes a light emitter (24), a light receiver (26), and a lens plate (12) that is used for coupling a pencil of rays, radiated by the light emitter (24), into and out of the pane and directing it onto the light receiver (26). The lens plate (12) includes a combined Fresnel structure (16a, 16b) having a Fresnel lens structure (18a, 18b) and a Fresnel reflector structure (20a, 20b) on a first surface (12a) facing the light emitter (24) and the light receiver (26), and a Fresnel reflector structure (22a, 22b) on an opposite, second surface (12b) facing the pane. This configuration is especially suitable for use as a rain sensor. Without the light emitter the sensor device is suitable to be used as a light sensor.
US08269201B2
A pharmaceutical pig is used to transport a syringe containing a liquid radiopharmaceutical from a radiopharmacy to a medical facility for administration to a patient. The pharmaceutical pig includes an elongate polymer cap that is removably attached to an elongate polymer base. The elongate polymer cap includes a cap shell that completely encloses a cap shielding element and the elongate polymer base includes a base shell that completely encloses a base shielding element. Preferably the polymer utilized for the cap shell and the base shell is polycarbonate resin, e.g., LEXAN®. An inner liner is not utilized and the cap shielding element and the base shielding element, which are preferably, but not necessarily, made of lead, are completely sealed and unexposed.
US08269200B2
A method and device for generating terahertz radiation comprising a substrate; a plurality of segments of polar crystal material formed on the substrate, the segments having an internal electric polarization; each segment comprising at least two edges oriented substantially perpendicular to the polar axis such that the electric polarization terminates at the edges and the segment comprises a majority of positive charges on one edge and a majority of negative charges on the opposite edge thereby leading to creation of an internal electric field; whereby when irradiated by a pulsed source of duration less than one picosecond, electron-hole pairs are generated within the segments and the internal electric field separates and accelerates the electron-hole pairs to thereby produce terahertz radiation.
US08269188B2
A charged particle beam apparatus includes an ion beam column having an ion source for generating an ion beam, a first objective lens electrode which forms a first objective lens for focusing the ion beam on a sample, and a second objective lens electrode which is disposed at a position closer to the sample than the first objective lens electrode and forms a second objective lens for focusing an ion beam accelerated with a lower acceleration voltage on the sample.
US08269179B2
A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system configured to condition a radiation beam, a projection system configured to project the radiation beam onto a substrate, and a filter system for filtering debris particles out of the radiation beam. The filter system includes a plurality of foils for trapping the debris particles, a support for holding the plurality of foils, and a cooling system having a surface that is arranged to be cooled. The cooling system and the support are positioned with respect to each other such that a gap is formed between the surface of the cooling system and the support. The cooling system is further arranged to inject gas into the gap.
US08269177B2
A method and apparatus for producing a PET image of a tissue using a PET scanner that includes scintillation crystals and detectors. A first crystal group including a first subset of crystals is formed, and a second crystal group including a second subset of the crystals is formed. The crystals in the first crystal group are different from crystals in the second crystal group A first beam striking one or more crystals of the first crystal group is converted to a first electrical signal, while a second beam striking one or more crystals of the second crystal group is converted to a second electrical signal, wherein the second beam is scattered from the first beam. The second electrical signal is corrected using a correction factor derived from at least one of a first and second timing relationships to compensate for energy in the second signal scattered from the first signal. An image of the tissue is created using the corrected second electrical signal.
US08269173B2
The disclosure relates to a cell for measuring the amount of insoluble particles in a fluid that comprises a duct that passes through the cell, a filter for the particles contained in the fluid, the filter being positioned in the duct, an emitter capable of emitting an electromagnetic beam directed towards the insoluble particles concentrated on the filter, and a receiver capable of receiving the electromagnetic beam emitted by the emitter and reflected by the insoluble particles concentrated on the filter. The disclosure also relates to a device comprising this cell, to a method for measuring the amount of insoluble particles in a fluid and to applications thereof, in particular to the study of the oxidation stability of petroleum distillates, to the antioxidant capacity of additives of petroleum products and to the determination of the asphaltene content of petroleum products.
US08269165B2
Nano-electrospray ionization techniques include the introduction of a separation solvent containing a sample to a column-integrated needle having a column filled with a resin for liquid chromatography. The separated sample components are sprayed from the tip of the column-integrated needle toward a sample introduction orifice of a mass spectrometer. An organic solvent is simultaneously introduced to a solvent-supplying needle. The organic solvent is supplied from the tip of the solvent-supplying needle to the tip of the column-integrated needle.
US08269162B2
Measurements made by a wireline-conveyed pulsed neutron tool with two or more gamma ray detectors are used to provide a mineralogical and/or elemental image of the formation. This may be used in reservoir navigation and in furthering the understanding of the geology of the prospect.
US08269156B2
A projectile is guided by employing heat, generated from the aerodynamic heating of a surface of the projectile while the projectile is in flight, to vaporize a material stored within the projectile. The resulting gas is used to guide the projectile.
US08269149B2
A cooktop includes a plurality of heaters that form a contiguous cooking zone, a power supply for the plurality of heaters with a differentiator that differentiates between a first positive heating power for a first of the plurality of heaters and a second positive heating power for a second of the plurality of heaters in a differentiated heating mode.
US08269146B2
An oven apparatus for solidifying a coating on a housing includes a supporting module, a curing module, and a transporting module. The supporting module includes a frame and of periphery boards around the frame, the frame includes at least two stacked frame sections. The curing module and the heating module are respectively mounted to the frame sections, the transporting module circularly transports the housing and passes though the heating module and heating module.
US08269139B2
A fiber cutting mechanism prevents secondary utilization of a fiber laser light source that is incorporated in a device that uses a laser light. With a characteristic fiber cutting mechanism, when a laser device is separated from a laser light source application apparatus, at least a fiber is cut in an specific area from a point within a fiber grating to a connection point between the fiber grating and the fiber containing a laser activating substance.
US08269136B2
A laser beam treatment device capable of solving problem in a conventional technology that any uniform laser anneal cannot be realized since use of a galvano mirror changes the angle of incidence of the laser beam to the substrate and the reflected light from a back side of a transmissive substrate interferes with the reflected light from a surface of a semiconductor film or an interface between the semiconductor film and the substrate. Laser anneal is performed by using the laser beam treatment device comprising a laser, an optical system for shaping the laser beam oscillated from the laser, and a substrate holds to hold a work formed on the transmissive substrate, in which the substrate holder holds a liquid, and the liquid is brought into contact with the surface.
US08269129B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum switch tube, which includes a first conductive rod and a second conductive rod. A first contact is disposed at the first conductive rod. A second contact is disposed at the second conductive rod. The first contact and the second contact include conductive members and magnetic members, and are sealed in a vacuum tube body and correspondingly disposed. A front end of the first contact is disposed with a convex hemisphere. A front end of the second contact is disposed with a concave hemisphere matching with the front end of the first contact in shape. Therefore, the vacuum switch tube increases surface areas of the contacts, and reduces a resistance increase caused by the poor contacting effect. Meanwhile, a rotating magnetic field is formed between the convex hemisphere and concave hemisphere contacts, thereby facilitating arc-extinguishing and enhancing a breaking capability.
US08269118B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a touch-sensing circuit, a plurality of sensing signal transmission wires, a capacitance compensation conductor, and a sensing signal readout circuit. The touch-sensing circuit is disposed on the substrate. The sensing signal transmission wires are disposed on the substrate and electrically connected to the touch-sensing circuit. The capacitance compensation conductor is disposed over the sensing signal transmission wires. Capacitance of each sensing signal transmission wire is C1, and coupling capacitance between each sensing signal transmission wire and the capacitance compensation conductor is C2. The sensing signal readout circuit is electrically connected to the sensing signal transmission wires. In each sensing signal transmission wire, variation of summation of C1 and C2 is less than a readout resolution of the sensing signal readout circuit. Another touch panel using an electrostatic discharge conductor to adjust varied capacitances of sensing signal transmission wires is also provided.
US08269115B2
The invention relates to a composite material and a high-frequency circuit substrate made from the composite material. The composite material includes: a thermosetting composition in an amount of 20 to 70 by weight with respect to the composite material, a fiberglass cloth processed by a coupling agent; a powder filler; a fire retardant and a cure initiator. The thermosetting composition includes a resin with molecular weight thereof being less than 11,000, and a low-molecular-weight solid allyl resin. The resin is composed of carbon and hydrogen elements. More than 60 percent of the resin is vinyl. The high-frequency circuit substrate made from the composite material comprises: a plurality of prepregs mutually overlapped and copper foils covered on both sides of overlapped prepregs, wherein each prepeg is made from the composite material.
US08269111B2
An earpiece/wire organizer houses and maintains wires in an untangled manner. The earpiece/wire organizer has a sleeve constructed with mating spine pieces having an interlocking self-adhering surface coat thereon, wherein the sleeve houses wires therein. Simply scrunching or compressing the sleeve with a single hand motion engages the interlocking self-adhering surface of the mating spine pieces in an attached configuration and compresses the sleeve and wire housed therein. When the user desires to lengthen or elongate the wire, the user simply pulls or elongates the sleeve with a single hand motion that disengages the interlocking self-adhering surface of the mating spine pieces and lengthens the sleeve and wire housed therein. Where more than one sleeve is provided, the sleeves are further constructed to releasably connect to one another.
US08269108B2
A transparent conductive film (12, 22) including a transparent base material (2) having insulation properties; and a mesh member made of a conductive metal and provided in the transparent base material (2), wherein the transparent base material (2) is provided with a conductive portion in which the mesh member is arranged, and an insulating portion (I) in which a gap (5) formed by removing the mesh member is arranged.
US08269096B2
A thermoelectric generator has a top plate disposed in spaced relation above a bottom plate. A series of foil segments are electrically and mechanically connected end-to-end to generate a foil assembly that is spirally wound and in thermal contact with the bottom and top plates. Each foil segment comprises a substrate having a series of spaced alternating n-type and p-type thermoelectric legs disposed in parallel arrangement on the front substrate surface. Each of the n-type and p-type legs is formed of a bismuth telluride-based thermoelectric material having a thickness of about 10-100 microns, a width of about 10-100 microns and a length of about 100-500 microns. The alternating n-type and p-type thermoelectric legs are electrically connected in series and thermally connected in parallel such that a temperature differential between the bottom and top plates results in the generation of power.
US08269094B2
A system and method that enables a user to generate and manipulate string-instrument chord grids in a digital audio workstation. The system and method for generating a string-instrument chord grid includes receiving first data input and second data input. The first data input can include a chord root note and/or a position for one or more fingering dots. The second data input can include an instrument type and our tuning for one or more strings. Using the received data input, a processor generates an entered string-instrument chord based and displays the entered string-instrument chord on a grid. The processor can also generate and display the musical name of the entered string-instrument chord.
US08269091B2
Mask generation section generates an evaluating mask, indicative of a degree of dissonance with a target sound per each frequency along a frequency axis, by setting, for each of a plurality of peaks in spectra of the target sound, a dissonance function indicative of relationship between a frequency difference from the peak and a degree of dissonance with a component of the peak. Index calculation section collates spectra of an evaluated sound with the evaluating mask to thereby calculate a consonance index value indicative of a degree of consonance or dissonance between the target sound and the evaluated sound.
US08269088B1
A cymbal support structure for holding a cymbal comprises a rod, a nut, a rotary element, an upper felt, a lower felt, a compression element, and an elevation adjustment ring. The nut is fastened to one end of the rod. The rotary element is pivotally coupled to the nut. The upper and lower felts clamp the cymbal. When the rotary element is rotated to parallel the nut, the cymbal and the upper and lower felts pass through the nut and rotary element to couple on the rod. When the rotary element is rotated to not parallel the nut, the cymbal and the upper and lower felts are prevented from passing through the rod. The elevation adjustment ring is screwed on the rod to push the compression element to compress the lower felt upwards. Via rotating the rotary element, the user can easily assemble or disassemble the cymbal to perform replacement.
US08269086B1
An apparatus is worn on a finger of a user while playing the flute. The apparatus comprises a stabilization pad, an inner support pad, and an outer support pad. The stabilization pad is disposed at a first end of the apparatus and is positionable to abut at least one of the finger and a palm of the user. In contrast, the outer support pad is disposed at a second end of the apparatus and is positionable to project outward from the finger of the user. The inner support pad and the outer support pad are operative to at least partially support the flute.
US08269067B2
A determinate pea plant, where peas of the pea plant have a wrinkled-seed phenotype, and where the pea plant is slow-maturing.
US08269062B2
This invention relates to nucleic acid sequences coding for a Lunaria annua, Cardamine graeca or Teesdalia nudicaulis fatty acid elongase, yeast cells expressing the genes/enzymes, plants themselves and cells of such plants and seeds which contain a heterologous gene coding for a L. annua, C. graeca or T. nudicaulis fatty acid elongase gene, the plant or seed being capable of producing increased proportion of a very long chain monounsaturated fatty acid, especially nervonic acid and eicosenoic acid, beyond that of a control plant or seed lacking the heterologous FAE gene or genes.
US08269061B2
Methods of selecting haploid embryos are disclosed. Methods of producing haploid embryos and non-viable diploid embryos on a plant are provided. Methods for selecting haploid embryos produced from haploid inducer maize lines are provided. Methods for producing improved maize haploid inducer lines are disclosed. Maize haploid inducer lines comprising transgenes causing ablated or abnormal diploid embryos are disclosed.
US08269048B2
The present invention refers to a method for allylic catalytic oxidation to obtain α,β-unsaturated ketones and alcohols from bicyclic compounds reacted with oxygen and catalysts comprising metal-organic compounds and gold nanoparticles. The present invention also relates to a method for the preparation of fragrances using the above methods or products of the above method.
US08269034B2
Active compounds of Formula I are described: wherein: R1 and R2 are each independently C1-C4 alkyl; or R1 and R2 together form a C2-C7 alkylene chain; and Z is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID); along with pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrug thereof, and methods of using the same.
US08269033B2
The invention is directed a process of preparing a compound of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3 and z are as defined herein.
US08269030B2
Disclosed herein are the compounds shown below. Each R is an organic group, Cb is a carborane group, and —C6H4— is phenylene. The value of each m is a nonnegative integer, q is 0 or 1, with the proviso that if q is 0 then m is 0 or 1, p is a positive integer, r is a positive integer, and n is an integer greater than or equal to 10. Also disclosed are methods of making and crosslinking the compounds —{SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m-[Cb-SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m]p—C≡C—C6H4—C≡C}— —{SiR2—(O—SiR2)m—C≡C—C6H4—C≡C}n—; —{SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m—[C≡C—C6H4—SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m]p-Cb-[SiR2—([O]q—SiR2)m-Cb]r}-.
US08269029B2
Microwave assisted synthesis may be used to produce water-repellent metallic organic frameworks (MOFs) molecules. The water-repellent MOFs contain non-polar functional groups, such as a trifluoromethoxy group, which has a strong water repellent effect. The water-repellent MOF, when exposed to water vapor for one week does not result in a significant X-ray power pattern change. The water-repellent MOFs may be suitable as an adsorbent in many industrial applications, such as gas chromatography.
US08269025B2
The present disclosure provides methods for purifying p-dioxanone. In embodiments, crude p-dioxanone may be contacted with at least one isocyanate-functionalized scavenger. The at least one isocyanate-functionalized scavenger may react with hydroxyl compounds present with the crude p-dioxanone to form reaction products, in embodiments polyurethanes and/or polyureas, which may then be removed. The p-dioxanone thus obtained is of greater purity than the starting crude p-dioxanone.
US08269021B2
Disclosed herein are an aromatic imide-based dispersant for CNTs and a carbon nanotube composition comprising the same. Having an aromatic ring structure advantageously realizing adsorption on carbon nanotubes, the dispersant, even if used in a small amount, can disperse a large quantity of carbon nanotubes.
US08269005B2
L-malate salts of (6-(5-chloro-2-pyridyl)-5-[(4-methyl-1-piperazinyl)carbonyloxy]-7-oxo-6,7-dihydro-5H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]pyrazine) are provided.
US08269003B2
The invention relates to imatinib for use in tumor therapy. This invention describes a stable, non hygroscopic alpha crystalline form of methane sulfonic acid addition salt of 4-(4-methyl piperazin-1-yl methyl)-N-[4-methyl-3-(4-pyridin-3-yl)-pyrimidin-2-yl amino) phenyl]-benzamide (imatinib mesylate) having the general structural formula A process for the preparation of the crystalline form is also described.
US08269001B2
A novel synthesis of statins uses Wittig reaction of a heterocyclic core of statin with a lactonized side chain already possessing needed stereochemistry. Any separation of diastereoisomers is performed early in the course of synthesis.
US08268995B2
Processes for preparing an amine, which processes comprise: reacting a reactant selected from the group consisting of primary alcohols, secondary alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, and mixtures thereof, with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of ammonia, primary amines, secondary amines and mixtures thereof, in the presence of a zirconium dioxide-, copper- and nickel-containing catalyst; wherein the catalyst comprises a catalytically active composition which comprises, before reduction with hydrogen, oxygen compounds of zirconium, copper, and nickel, and 0.2 to 40% by weight of an oxygen compound of cobalt, calculated as CoO, 0.1 to 5% by weight of an oxygen compound of iron, calculated as Fe2O3, and 0.1 to 5% by weight of at least one oxygen compound of lead, tin, bismuth or antimony, calculated as PbO, SnO, Bi2O3 and Sb2O3 respectively.
US08268993B1
A heavy-metal-free sequence leading to a superior, more economical, and scalable process for the high efficiency conversion of hexaallylhexaazaisowurtzitane (HAllylIW) to hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20).
US08268992B2
This invention provides compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described in the specification. The compounds are inhibitors of PLK and are thus useful for treating proliferative, inflammatory, or cardiovascular disorders.
US08268984B2
The invention relates to the detection of Salmonella by nucleic acid amplification. The invention provides primer and probe oligonucleotides that can be used in multiplex to detect Salmonella in real-time amplification. The oligonucleotides of the invention detect all group I serovars, and have an increased Salmonella detection range: they enable to cover the seven Salmonella groups. They also have an increased sensitivity, without loss in specificity.
US08268979B2
A human mutY polypeptide and DNA (RNA) encoding such polypeptide and a procedure for producing such polypeptide by recombinant techniques is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for utilizing such polypeptide for preventing and/or treating diseases associated with a mutation in this gene. Diagnostic assays for identifying mutations in nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide of the present invention and for detecting altered levels of the polypeptide of the present invention for detecting diseases, for example, cancer, are also disclosed.
US08268975B2
The present invention provides compositions, systems and methods for demulsifying an emulsion including an aqueous phase and an organic phase by adding an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one quaternary organopolysiloxane or salt thereof to the emulsion, the composition optionally including at least one of quaternary epihalohydrin/polyamine copolymers or salts, and/or (poly)diallyldimethylammonium halides.
US08268965B2
Transmembrane receptors in the signaling pathways of bacterial chemotaxis systems influence cell motility by forming noncovalent complexes with the cytoplasmic signaling proteins to regulate their activity. The requirements for receptor-mediated activation of CheA, the principal kinase of the Escherichia coli chemotaxis signaling pathway, can be demonstrated using self-assembled clusters of a receptor fragment (CF) derived from the cytoplasmic domain of the aspartate receptor, Tar. Histidine-tagged Tar CF can be assembled on the surface of unilamellar vesicles via a lipid containing the Nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid moiety as a headgroup. The stability of such a complex can be controlled by the properties of the template including the size and composition, which can be used, for example, to vary the 2-dimensional concentration of receptor fragments. Surface-assembled CF is also found to serve as a substrate for receptor methylation, which is catalyzed by the receptor transferase. Since neither CheA activation nor CF methylation is observed in comparable samples in the absence of vesicles, it is concluded that surface-templating generates the organization among CF subunits required for biochemical activity.
US08268964B2
Novel compounds carrying ligands capable of binding to counter receptors on relevant target cells are disclosed. The compounds possess a number of advantageous features, rendering them very suitable for a wide range of applications, including use as detection systems, detection of relevant target cells as well as a number of other methods. In particular, novel MHC complexes comprising one or more MHC molecules are disclosed. The affinity and specificity of the MHC-peptide complexes are surprisingly high. The possibility of presenting to the target cells a plurality of MHC-peptide complexes makes the MHC complexes according to the present invention an extremely powerful tool e.g. in the field of therapy and diagnosis. The invention generally relates to the field of therapy, including therapeutic methods and therapeutic compositions. Also comprised by the present invention is the sample-mounted use of MHC complexes and MHC multimers.
US08268960B2
A high yield and high productivity processes for preparing 3-hydroxyglutaronitrile by reacting an epihalohydrin or a 4-halo-3-hydroxy-butanenitrile, or analogous compound containing a different leaving group, with cyanide (CN—) in the presence of water and an ionic liquid. The use of an ionic liquid as a cosolvent with water results in increased productivity and selectivity.
US08268946B2
A clay-supported complex that includes a metal complex containing a phosphinobenzenesulfonate ligand coordinated to Pd(II) or Ni(II), and a clay combined with the metal complex. The metal complex can be neutral or charged. The clay-supported complex is active in the homopolymerization and copolymerization of olefins, including polarized and non-polarized alpha-olefins.
US08268940B2
Disclosed is a halogen- and phosphorus-free flame-retardant adhesive resin composition which can be used in heat contact bonding of adherends at or below 250° C. and is excellent in heat resistance, solder heat resistance after moisture absorption, and processability. Also disclosed is an adhesive film produced from said composition. The flame-retardant adhesive resin composition comprises 65-98% by weight of a silicone unit-containing polyimide resin and 2-35% by weight of an epoxy resin having an acenaphthylene-substituted naphthalene skeleton. The adhesive film produced from the flame-retardant adhesive resin composition is suitable as an adhesive for a laminate for a multiplayer printed circuit board substrate, an adhesive for a hybrid circuit board substrate, and an adhesive for a coverlay film.
US08268939B2
Use of one or more mixed curable hydroxyl-containing silyl polyethers as a constituent of compositions, as modifiers for surfaces, the silyl polyethers being prepared by DMC-catalysed alkoxylation of epoxy-functional alkoxysilanes.
US08268933B2
A method for preparing a functionalized polymer, the method comprising the steps of (i) polymerizing conjugated diene monomer by employing a lanthanide-based catalyst to form a reactive polymer, and (ii) reacting the reactive polymer with a polyimine compound.
US08268912B2
A process for preparing aqueous dispersions of composite particles using monomers containing silane groups.
US08268891B1
Classes of compounds that exhibit effective inhibition of autotaxin enzymes are provided. Such classes include thioureas, diphenyldiazerenes, xanthenes, and isoindoles and exhibit reactivity with autotaxin to ultimately reduce the size of the reactive sites thereon to prevent conversion of lysophosphatidyl choline to lysophophatidic acid. Furthermore, such compounds can be incorporated within delivery forms for human ingestion. As such, these compounds accord an excellent manner of potentially reducing generation of certain cancers attributable to the presence of naturally occurring autotaxin within the human body. Methods of inactivating autotaxin to certain degrees therewith such compounds are encompassed within invention as well.
US08268888B2
The present invention provides a 3-iodo-L-phenylalanine or 4-iodo-L-phenylalanine for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of malignant neoplasia. Moreover, the invention provides a method for the treatment of malignant neoplasia, the method comprising the steps of administering 3-iodo-L-phenylalanine or 4-iodo-L-phenylalanine to a subject in need thereof and a pharmaceutical composition comprising 3-iodo-L-phenylalanine or 4-iodo-L-phenylalanine.
US08268886B2
The invention provides a novel class of reactive fluorescent agents that are based on a pyrene sulfonic acid nucleus. The agents are readily incorporated into conjugates with other species by reacting the reactive group with a group of complementary reactivity on the other species of the conjugate. Also provided are methods of using the compounds of the invention to detect and/or quantify an analyte in a sample. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides multi-color assays incorporating the compounds of the invention.
US08268884B2
The present invention relates to compounds represented by formula (I), or isomers, prodrugs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or hydrates thereof: in which each substituent of formula (I) is as defined in the specification. The present invention also relates to preparation methods of compounds represented by formula (I), a pharmaceutical composition comprising compounds represented by formula (I) and usage of compounds represented by formula (I) for treating chronic neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and other diseases induced by aggregation or deposition of β-amyloid peptide.
US08268881B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula processes and intermediates for their preparation, their use as muscarinic antagonists and pharmaceutical composition containing them.
US08268871B2
This invention relates to inhibitors of mitotic kinesins, particularly KSP, and methods for producing these inhibitors. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the inhibitors of the invention and methods of utilizing the inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment and prevention of various disorders.
US08268869B2
The present invention provides vinyl indazolyl compounds useful in the treatment of cancer.
US08268868B2
Various 5-substituted 1-substituted indazoles are described, as are pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treatment of diseases using these compounds. Other embodiments are also described.
US08268865B2
Disclosed are compounds having at least one quaternary alkyl ammonium functionality. The compounds inhibit bacterial efflux pump inhibitors and are used in combination with an anti-bacterial agent to treat or prevent bacterial infections. These combinations can be effective against bacterial infections that have developed resistance to anti-bacterial agents through an efflux pump mechanism.
US08268857B2
This invention provides compounds that are useful for treating patients having a TGF-β-mediated disease, particularly an ALK5-mediated disease. The compounds are represented by formula I: wherein: a-b is CH2CH2, CH2CH2CH2, CH═CH, CH═N, or N═CH; Z is N or C—F; and G is C1-6 aliphatic or a phenyl, naphthyl, or 5-6 membered heteroaryl ring.
US08268839B2
The present invention relates to therapeutically active xanthine derivative compounds of Formula (I): corresponding processes for manufacture of said derivatives, pharmaceutical formulations containing and uses of such compounds in therapy, particularly in treatment of diseases where under-activation of the HM74A receptor contributes to the disease or where activation of the receptor will be beneficial.
US08268834B2
The present invention concerns a compound of formula (I) or a salt, suitably a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or solvate thereof, wherein the groups R1, R2, Ar′, A and Y are defined in the description, to compositions and use of the compounds in the treatment of inflammatory and allergic conditions.
US08268820B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1a to R1c, R2, R3 and R5 are as defined in the description and claims and R4 signifies a bicyclic heteroaryl group or a cyanophenyl group, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are glucocorticoid receptor antagonists useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases such as diabetes, dyslipidemia, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, adrenal imbalance or depression.
US08268818B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of PI3K, particularly of PI3Kγ. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, or disorders.
US08268813B2
This invention is directed generally to zilpaterol enantiomer compositions, and, in particular, to compositions comprising the 6R,7R zilpaterol enantiomer. This invention is also directed to processes for making such compositions; methods for using such compositions to, for example, increase the rate of weight gain, improve feed efficiency, and/or increase carcass leanness in livestock, poultry, and/or fish; and uses of such compositions to make medicaments. This invention is further directed to methods for determining the absolute configurations of zilpaterol enantiomers.
US08268811B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of Aurora protein kinases. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising those compounds and methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, and disorders. The invention also provides processes for preparing compounds of the invention.
US08268810B2
The invention relates to chelate compounds which can be used in MRI, the chelates being intended to be conveyed by lipophilic transporters, such as lipid nanoparticles or liposomes. The invention also relates to compounds comprising, in association, these chelates and these transporters, if appropriate connected via chemical bonding groups, and to their use in diagnostic imaging, it being possible for this association additionally to comprise biological targeting markers, denoted biovectors.
US08268805B2
The invention relates to the use, as agent for depigmenting and/or whitening the skin, in particular for eliminating pigmentary spots and/or senescence spots, and/or as anti-browning agents, of a compound of formula (I): R1—CHOH—CH(NH—COR2)(CH2OH) (I) in which R1 denotes a C11 to C21 alkyl radical, and R2 denotes a linear, optionally hydroxylated C11-C19 hydrocarbon-based radical, with the hydroxyl group being in the alpha-position with respect to the carbonyl, which may comprise one or more ethylenic unsaturations, in particular one or two ethylenic unsaturations. The invention also relates to a cosmetic process for depigmenting and/or lightening skin exhibiting pigmentation spots, comprising the application to the skin of a composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium, a compound of formula (I).
US08268798B2
The invention provides interfering RNA molecule-ligand conjugates useful as a delivery system for delivering interfering RNA molecules to a cell in vitro or in vivo. The conjugates comprise a ligand that can bind to a low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) or LDLR family member. Therapeutic uses for the conjugates are also provided.
US08268791B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods and for increasing the bioavailability of therapeutic agents in a subject. The compositions include at least one alkyl glycoside and at least one therapeutic agent, wherein the alkylglycoside has an alkyl chain length from about 10 to about 16 carbon atoms.
US08268789B2
Compounds represented by the general formula (1) or salts thereof or solvates of both; PAR-2 antagonists containing the compounds; and preventive or therapeutic agents for PAR-2 related diseases containing the antagonists as the active ingredient: (1) wherein R1 is hydrogen, halogeno, or a group represented by the general formula (2): (wherein R11 is straight-chain or branched C1-6 alkylene or the like; and R12 and R13 together with the nitrogen atom adjacent to them form a 5- to 7-membered ring); R2 is straight-chain or branched C1-6 alkyl or the like; R3 and R4 are each independently hydrogen, one to three halogen atoms, or the like; and A1-A2-A3 is a tripeptide residue composed of α-amino acids each independently selected from the group consisting of glycine, alanine, cyclohexylalanine, and so on.
US08268767B2
The present invention relates to super mild surfactant systems used in combination with skin or hair benefit agent(s). Specifically, surfactant systems comprise a combination of specific alkanoyls or mixtures of alkanoyl surfactants with specifically identified fatty acyl isethionate product to provide synergy which reduces irritation (as measured by Patch Testing) so greatly that it is comparable to mildness which normally can be only achieved using very great amounts of benefit agent (e.g., emollient). Use of benefit agent reduces irritation even further.
US08268763B2
The present invention provides a lens care kit for disinfecting and cleaning contact lenses. The lens care kit of the invention comprises a colored lens care solution including a colored protein and a proteolytic enzyme. The kit of the invention allows customers to visually identify when their lenses are disinfected, clean, and ready to wear. The invention relies upon a color change to indicate the completion of disinfection and cleaning of contact lenses.
US08268754B2
There is provided a novel pest control agent, particularly an insecticide or miticide. A substituted dihydroazole compound of General Formula (1) or a salt thereof: where A1, A2, A3 and A4 are independently C—Y or N, A5 is —CH2—, etc., G1 is a benzene ring, etc., G2 is G2-1, G2-6, G2-9, etc., X is a halogen atom, C1-2haloalkyl, etc., Z is methyl, —NH2, etc., R1 is —C(O)R1a, etc., R1a is C1-4alkyl, etc., R2 is H, C1-4alkyl, etc., R3 is C1-2haloalkyl, etc., R4 is H, cyano, methyl, etc., m is an integer of 1, 2, 3, etc., n is an integer of 0 or 1; and a pest control agent comprising the compound or the salt thereof.
US08268753B2
6-Amino-4-pyrimidinecarboxylic acids having alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl substituents in the 5-position and 4-aminopicolinic acids having alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl substituents in the 3-position, and their amine and acid derivatives, are potent herbicides demonstrating a broad spectrum of weed control.
US08268736B2
The present invention relates to a process for improving the breaking strength and/or tear strength of a warp-knitted fabric, in particular for use in adsorptive filtering materials having a protective function against chemical poisons and/or warfare agent materials, the process comprising providing the warp-knitted fabric with a multiplicity of wales, a multiplicity of courses and a multiplicity of structural elements. In accordance with the present invention, a portion of the structural elements is configured as to each extend over a plurality of wales, so that in the event of a breaking stress on the warp-knitted fabric or the action of a breaking force the structural elements which each extend over a plurality of wales are pushed together or bundled and an improved breaking force results.
US08268731B2
Semiconductor device producing method, substrate producing method and substrate processing apparatus
Disclosed is a producing method of a semiconductor device, including: loading a substrate into a reaction tube; oxidizing the substrate under an atmospheric pressure by supplying a plurality of kinds of gases which react with each other and an inert gas into the reaction tube; and unloading, from the reaction tube, the substrate after the oxidizing, wherein in the oxidizing, a flow rate of the inert gas is varied in accordance with a variation of the atmospheric pressure to keep constant a partial pressure of an oxidizing gas or partial pressures of oxidizing gases in the reaction tube, and the flow rate of the inert gas is calculated based on a pre-calculated flow rate of a gas or pre-calculated flow rates of gases produced by reaction of the plurality of gases and a pre-calculated flow rate of a gas which is not consumed by the reaction and which remains or pre-calculated flow rates of gases which are not consumed by the reaction and which remain.
US08268729B2
A method for processing a semiconductor fin structure is disclosed. The method includes thermal annealing a fin structure in an ambient containing an isotope of hydrogen. Following the thermal annealing step, the fin structure is etched in a crystal-orientation dependent, self-limiting, manner. The crystal-orientation dependent etch may be selected to be an aqueous solution containing ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH). The completed fin structure has smooth sidewalls and a uniform thickness profile. The fin structure sidewalls are {110} planes.
US08268724B2
In some embodiments, an alternative to desmear for build-up roughening and copper adhesion promotion is presented. In this regard, a substrate in introduced having a dielectric layer, a plurality of polyelectrolyte multilayers on the dielectric layer, and a copper plating layer on the polyelectrolyte multilayers. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US08268720B2
A method of positioning a catalyst nanoparticle that facilitates nanowire growth for nanowire-based device fabrication employs a structure having a vertical sidewall formed on a substrate. The methods include forming the structure, forming a targeted region in a surface of either the structure or the substrate, and forming a catalyst nanoparticle in the targeted region using one of a variety of techniques. The techniques control the position of the catalyst nanoparticle for subsequent nanowire growth. A resonant sensor system includes a nanowire-based resonant sensor and means for accessing the nanowire. The sensor includes an electrode and a nanowire resonator. The electrode is electrically isolated from the substrate. One or more of the substrate is electrically conductive, the nanowire resonator is electrically conductive, and the sensor further comprises another electrode. The nanowire resonator responds to an environmental change by displaying a change in oscillatory behavior.
US08268719B2
A process for aligning at least two layers in an abutting relationship with each other comprises forming a plurality of sprocket openings in each of the layers for receiving a sprocket of diminishing diameters as the sprocket extends outwardly from a base, with the center axes of the sprocket openings in each layer being substantially alignable with one another, the diameter of the sprocket openings in an abutting layer for first receiving the sprocket being greater than the diameter of the sprocket openings in an abutted layer. This is followed by forming a plurality of reservoir openings in each of at least two of the layers and positioning the sprocket openings in the layers to correspond with one another and the reservoir openings in the layers to correspond with one another so that substantial alignment of the center axes of the corresponding sprocket openings in the layers effects substantial alignment of the center axes of the corresponding reservoir openings in the layers. Engaging the sprocket openings with the sprocket by inserting the end of the sprocket having the smallest diameter into the sprocket openings having the largest diameter in the layers and continuing through to the sprocket opening having the smallest diameter in the layers effects substantial alignment of the center axes of the corresponding sprocket openings and substantial alignment of the center axes of the corresponding reservoir openings in the layers. The invention also comprises apparatus for performing this process.
US08268704B2
A substrate dividing method which can thin and divide a substrate while preventing chipping and cracking from occurring. This substrate dividing method comprises the steps of irradiating a semiconductor substrate 1 having a front face 3 formed with functional devices 19 with laser light while positioning a light-converging point within the substrate, so as to form a modified region including a molten processed region due to multiphoton absorption within the semiconductor substrate 1, and causing the modified region including the molten processed region to form a starting point region for cutting; and grinding a rear face 21 of the semiconductor substrate 1 after the step of forming the starting point region for cutting such that the semiconductor substrate 1 attains a predetermined thickness.
US08268691B2
A semiconductor device and its method of manufacture are provided. Embodiments forming an active region in a semiconductor substrate, wherein the active region is bounded by an isolation region; forming a first doped region within the active region; forming a gate electrode over the active region, wherein the gate electrode overlies a portion of the first doped region; forming at least one dielectric layer over sidewalls of the gate electrode; forming a pair of spacers on the dielectric layer; and forming a second doped region substantially within the portion of the first doped region adjacent the one of the spacers and spaced apart from the one of the spacers.The first and second doped regions may form a double diffused drain structure as in an HVMOS transistor.
US08268681B2
A display substrate includes a driving element, a switching element, a gate line, a data line, a driving voltage line and an electroluminescent element. The driving element includes a driving control electrode formed from a first conductive layer, and a driving input electrode and a driving output electrode formed from a second conductive layer. The switching element includes a switching control electrode formed from the second conductive layer, and a switching input electrode and a switching output electrode formed from a third conductive layer. The gate and data lines are formed from the second and third conductive layers, respectively. The driving voltage line is formed from the third conductive layer. Thus, misalignment between upper and lower patterns may be prevented to improve the reliability of a manufacturing process and increase an aperture ratio, thereby enhancing display quality.
US08268675B2
Methods of protecting a surface of a copper layer or a copper bonding pad on a semiconductor device against oxidation. A surface of the layer or bonding pad is cleaned by removing an oxidation layer with a plasma. A polymer layer is formed on the cleaned surface of the layer using a plasma-enhanced deposition process to protect the cleaned surface of the layer against exposure to an oxidizing gas.
US08268670B2
A method for protecting a semiconductor device is disclosed that can improve reliability of a performance test for the semiconductor device and prevent damage to the semiconductor device during transportation or packaging for shipment. An IC cover is attached to the semiconductor device, which has height unevenness because it includes semiconductor chips and electric parts having different heights. The IC cover includes projecting portions and a base portion. After being attached to the semiconductor device, the projecting portions stand in a free area in the semiconductor device, and the base portion is supported by the projections to be separated from the semiconductor chips and electric parts in the semiconductor device. The IC cover is detachably attached to the semiconductor device.
US08268666B2
A method for fabricating a field-effect transistor having a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an active layer forming a channel region, the active layer having an oxide semiconductor mainly containing magnesium and indium is disclosed. The method includes a deposition step of depositing an oxide film, a patterning step of patterning the oxide film by processes including etching to obtain the active layer, and a heat-treatment step of heat-treating the obtained active layer subsequent to the patterning step.
US08268660B2
A method for manufacturing a micromachine is provided which can remove a sacrifice layer and can perform sealing without using a specific packaging technique. In a method for manufacturing a micromachine (1) including an oscillator (4), a step of forming a sacrifice layer around a movable portion of the oscillator (4); a step of covering a sacrifice layer with an overcoat film (8), followed by the formation of a penetrating hole (10) reaching the sacrifice layer in the overcoat layer (8); a step of performing sacrifice-layer etching for removing the sacrifice layer using the penetrating hole (10) in order to form a space around the movable portion; and a step of performing a film-formation treatment at a reduced pressure following the sacrifice-layer etching so as to seal the penetrating hole (10).
US08268658B2
A light emitting diode includes a substrate, a number of light emitting units formed on the substrate, and an insulating layer. Each light emitting unit includes a first electrode layer, a number of light emitting nanowires and a second electrode layer. Each light emitting nanowire includes a zinc-oxide-nanowire buffering segment extending from the first electrode layer, an N-type gallium nitride nanowire segment and a P-type gallium nitride nanowire segment. The N-type gallium nitride nanowire segment is interconnected between the zinc-oxide-nanowire buffering segment and the P-type gallium nitride nanowire segment. The P-type gallium nitride nanowire segment has a distal portion embedded in the second electrode layer. The insulating layer is formed on the substrate and the first electrode layer. The light emitting nanowires is embedded in the insulating layer and insulated from each other.
US08268654B2
The number of photomasks is reduced in a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device which operates in a fringe field switching mode, whereby a manufacturing process is simplified and manufacturing cost is reduced. A first transparent conductive film and a first metal film are sequentially stacked over a light-transmitting insulating substrate; the first transparent conductive film and the first metal film are shaped using a multi-tone mask which is a first photomask; an insulating film, a first semiconductor film, a second semiconductor film, and a second metal film are sequentially stacked; the second metal film and the second semiconductor film are shaped using a multi-tone mask which is a second photomask; a protective film is formed; the protective film is shaped using a third photomask; a second transparent conductive film is formed; and the second transparent conductive film is shaped using a fourth photomask.
US08268647B2
In a method of manufacturing an ink jet print head that includes a number of aligned modules, an alignment mark is foamed on a first and a second adjacent module, wherein the alignment mark is positioned on a boundary between the first and the second adjacent module along which the wafer is to be separated. In a separating step the wafer is separated into separate modules such that the alignment mark is divided over said first and second adjacent module. At least one of said first and second module is aligned by reference to the divided alignment mark The method improves the accuracy, with which the modules can be aligned.
US08268646B2
A layered group III-nitride article includes a single crystal silicon substrate, and a highly textured group III-nitride layer, such as GaN, disposed on the silicon substrate. The highly textured group III-nitride layer is crack free and has a thickness of at least 10 μm. A method for forming highly textured group III-nitride layers includes the steps of providing a single crystal silicon comprising substrate, depositing a nanostructured InxGa1-xN (1≧x≧0) interlayer on the silicon substrate, and depositing a highly textured group III-nitride layer on the interlayer. The interlayer has a nano indentation hardness that is less than both the silicon substrate and the highly textured group III-nitride layer.
US08268641B2
A method of forming a CPP MTJ MRAM element that utilizes transfer of spin angular momentum as a mechanism for changing the magnetic moment direction of a free layer. The device includes a tunneling barrier layer of MgO and a non-magnetic CPP layer of Cu or Cr and utilizes a novel synthetic free layer having three ferromagnetic layers mutually exchange coupled in pairwise configurations. The free layer comprises an inner ferromagnetic and two outer ferromagnetic layers, with the inner layer being ferromagnetically exchange coupled to one outer layer and anti-ferromagnetically exchange coupled to the other outer layer. The ferromagnetic coupling is very strong across an ultra-thin layer of Ta, Hf or Zr of thickness preferably less than 0.4 nm.
US08268639B2
A method for diagnosing a kidney disease in a cat by detecting a cat urinary protein without being affected by cauxin, and a diagnostic agent therefor are provided. A method of detecting a urinary protein derived from renal dysfunction in a cat according to claim 1, wherein cauxin is removed from cat urine by bringing the cat urine into contact with a lectin or an anti-cauxin antibody that specifically binds to cauxin.
US08268633B2
A method for conducting a broad range of biochemical analyses or manipulations on a series of nano- to subnanoliter reaction volumes and an apparatus for carrying out the same are disclosed. The invention is implemented on a fluidic microchip to provide high serial throughput. In particular, the disclosed device is a microfabricated channel device that can manipulate nanoliter or subnanoliter reaction volumes in a controlled manner to produce results at rates of 1 to 10 Hz per channel. The reaction volumes are manipulated in serial fashion analogous to a digital shift register. The invention has application to such problems as screening molecular or cellular targets using single beads from split-synthesis combinatorial libraries, screening single cells for RNA or protein expression, genetic diagnostic screening at the single cell level, or performing single cell signal transduction studies.
US08268626B2
A method of analysis of lipoproteins according to the present invention comprises the steps of: separating a plurality of classes of lipoproteins contained in a subject sample by liquid chromatography and then detecting signals derived from components included in the separated lipoproteins; and assuming that the lipoproteins are constituted of subclasses estimated from component peaks comprising anchor peaks and extra essential peaks and then calculating an approximated curve corresponding to summation of the component peaks using the above described detected signals.
US08268621B2
The present invention provides a method of generating definitive endoderm, mesoderm, or ectoderm cells. The method includes culturing embryonic stem cells, parthenogenetic cells, or induced pluripotent stem cells in the presence of a demethylation agent, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, or a combination thereof, and thereafter, culturing the stem cells in the absence of the agent or combination of agents, to produce definitive endoderm cells, mesoderm, or ectoderm cells.
US08268604B2
The invention is directed to enzyme immobilization compositions comprising: one or more enzymes, a humectant, an acrylic-based monomer, a water-soluble organic photo-initiator and a water-soluble acrylic-based cross-linker in a substantially homogeneous aqueous mixture. The invention is also directed to methods for forming sensors comprising such compositions and to apparati for forming arrays of immobilized layers on an array of sensors by dispensing such compositions onto a substrate.
US08268593B2
Monoclonal antibody 9TL and antibodies derived from 9TL directed against amyloid-beta peptide and methods of using same for diagnosing and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Aβ peptide associated diseases are described. Methods of using antibodies directed against amyloid-beta peptide having impaired effector function for treatment of Alzheimer's disease and Aβ peptide associated diseases are also described.
US08268590B2
Non-activated tissue-regeneration polypeptides (TRPs) and their preparation methods are disclosed. The TRPs include: a protein transduction domain (PTD) making the polypeptides to permeate a cell membrane without cell membrane receptors; a furin activation domain (FAD) which has at least one proprotein convertase cleavage site and which can be cleaved by the proprotein convertase and activate a tissue regeneration domain (TRD) in cells; and a tissue regeneration domain (TRD) which can be activated by the proprotein convertase cleavage of the FAD to stimulate the growth or formation of tissues or to induce the regeneration of tissues. The TRPs can be mass-produced by cultured bacteria, such as recombinant E. coli, are in a non-activated state before in vivo administration, and their separation, purification, handling, storage and administration are simple and convenient. The in vivo administration of the TRPs is useful to stimulate the formation or regeneration of tissues, such as bones or cartilages, or to improve the fibrosis and cirrhosis of organs, such as kidneys, liver, lungs and heart by pharmacological mechanisms completely different from those of prior rhBMPs or TGF-β proteins.
US08268581B2
Compositions and methods are provided that are useful for predicting and controlling the stability of expressed polypeptides. The compositions and methods may be used to predict and as desired, increase or decrease the stability of proteins recombinantly expressed in mycobacteria, for example DesA3 expressed in Mycobacterium smegmatis. At the C terminus and the penultimate position, substitution to residues with charged side chains, large non-polar side chains, or no side chains can be used to reduce or inhibit the protein degradation. At the antepenultimate position from the C terminus, residues with no side chain or acidic side chains can increase the stability, i.e. reduce or inhibit the protein degradation. The combinational substitution of only the last three residues of polypeptides can make the polypeptides more stable during heterologous expression in mycobacterial hosts.
US08268577B2
A method of detecting cancer cells is disclosed. The method comprises (a) contacting the cell with a substrate for an enzyme under conditions wherein the enzyme catalyzes a reaction of the cell with the substrate, so as to generate a product capable of producing an electrical signal; and (b) measuring a level of the electrical signal, wherein a difference in a level of the electrical signal compared to a predetermined threshold is indicative of a cancer cell. The method may be adapted for diagnosis, monitoring a cancer therapy, identifying agents capable of treating cancer and individually optimizing a cancer therapy.
US08268567B2
Chemical reactions occurring within a living cell are measured in a manner that does not affect the viability of the cell or the reaction under study. In one embodiment, one or more sensors are introduced into the cell and/or covalently associated with the exterior cell membrane. The sensor(s) emit an observable signal indicating a value of a parameter associated with the chemical reaction, e.g., the concentration of a reaction product. Because cell viability is not compromised, the cell may be stimulated (e.g., by subjection to an agonist or antagonist, a pathogen, a pharmaceutical compound, or a potential toxin) so as to affect the reaction under study.
US08268565B2
The present invention provides methods for rapid forensic analysis of mitochondrial DNA and methods for characterizing heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA, which can be used to assess the progression of mitochondrial diseases.
US08268563B2
A method for producing a monolayer of molecules on a surface comprises: loading a stamp with seed molecules; transferring seed molecules from the stamp to the surface; and, amplifying the seed molecules via an amplifying reaction to produce the monolayer. The method permit generation of complete monolayers from incomplete or sparse monolayers initially printed on the surface.
US08268562B2
The present invention relates to novel genetic markers associated with response of a patient with esophageal cancer (ECa) to chemoradiation therapy, and particularly to methods and kits for predicting an ECa patient's response to chemoradiation therapy by genotyping of the markers.
US08268557B2
The present invention relates to diagnosing Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (PSSM) disease in equines.
US08268556B2
The invention includes RNA complexes comprising at least three monomeric units of an RNA molecule, each monomeric unit comprising an RNA polymer having first and second helical domains that have respective first and second binding sites, wherein the first binding sites are adapted to binding to one another and are not adapted to bind to the second binding sites, and the second binding sites are adapted to binding to one another and are not adapted to bind to the first binding sites; such that the at least three monomeric units are adapted to self-assemble by forming pairs of cognate interactions and so as to form the RNA complex in a circular closed complex. The invention also includes derivatives of these complexes including aptamers, and analytical methods and devices using same.
US08268555B2
Disclosed is a method for sequential delivery of agents to and/or into a cell structure, wherein an electrolyte-filled tube is provided together with a counter electrode, said tube is connected to a voltage or current generator, at least two agents are introduced in a discrete mode into the electrolyte solution contained in the tube, which is placed close to the cell structure, one agent at the time being transported through the tube to and/or into said cell structure in which a pore has been formed by application of an electric field focused on the cell structure, resulting in electroporation of the cell structure. Also different applications of the method is disclosed, e.g. us of the method in order to transfer cell-impermeant solutes, such as drugs or genes, into the cell structure or out of the cell structure.
US08268552B2
Disclosed is a biomolecule detector and a detection method using the same. The biomolecule detector includes a biomolecule chip having a substrate and a slit formed therein. Biomolecules are immobilized on at least a portion of the edges of the slit. A light source directs incident light toward the biomolecule chip, and a screen receives an image formed by a portion of the incident light passing through the slit. The biomolecule detector is small and portable, yet its capability for detecting a target biomolecule is quick, accurate and simple. The simple structural features of the biomolecule detector enable mass production.
US08268547B2
An organ perfusion apparatus and method monitor, sustain and/or restore viability of organs and preserve organs for storage and/or transport. The method includes perfusing the organ at hypothermic and/or normothermic temperatures, preferably after hypothermic organ flushing for organ transport and/or storage. The method can be practiced with prior or subsequent static or perfusion hypothermic exposure of the organ. Organ viability is restored by restoring high energy nucleotide (e.g., ATP) levels by perfusing the organ with a medical fluid, such as an oxygenated cross-linked hemoglobin-based bicarbonate medical fluid, at normothermic temperatures. In perfusion, organ perfusion pressure is preferably controlled in response to a sensor disposed in an end of tubing placed in the organ, by a pneumatically pressurized medical fluid reservoir, providing perfusion pressure fine tuning, overpressurization prevention and emergency flow cut-off. In the hypothermic mode, the organ is perfused with a medical fluid, preferably a simple crystalloid solution containing antioxidants, intermittently or in slow continuous flow. The medical fluid may be fed into the organ from an intermediary tank having a low pressure head to avoid organ overpressurization. Preventing overpressurization prevents or reduces damage to vascular endothelial lining and to organ tissue in general. Viability of the organ may be automatically monitored, preferably by monitoring characteristics of the medical fluid perfusate. The perfusion process can be automatically controlled using a control program.
US08268535B2
After forming a lower layer film, an intermediate layer film and a first resist film on a substrate, a first resist pattern is formed by performing first exposure. Then, after a first intermediate layer pattern is formed by transferring the first resist pattern onto the intermediate layer film, a second resist film is formed thereon, and a second resist pattern is formed by performing second exposure. Thereafter, a second intermediate layer pattern is formed by transferring the second resist pattern onto the intermediate layer film. After removing the second resist film, the lower layer film is etched by using the second intermediate layer pattern as a mask, so as to form a lower layer pattern.
US08268520B2
A photoconductor that includes a supporting substrate, an optional ground plane layer, an optional hole blocking layer, an optional adhesive layer, a photogenerating layer, and at least one charge transport layer, and where the charge transport layer contains a polyalkylene glycol benzoate and a fluorinated polymer.
US08268519B2
A curable composition including (A) a compound which has a plurality of ethylenically unsaturated double bonds and secondary hydroxyl groups, (B) a photopolymerization initiator, and (C) a coloring agent, is used to provide a curable composition which exhibits excellent storage stability such as dispersion stability even in the case where a coloring agent is included at high concentration, highly sensitive curability by exposure, high adhesiveness to the surface of a hardening material in a curing region when applied in forming patterns on the surface of the hardening material, excellent uncured region removability, and excellent pattern formability; a color filter having colored patterns, which is formed by using the curable composition and has excellent resolution and adhesiveness to the support; and a manufacturing method of the coloring filter with high productivity.
US08268516B2
The invention relates to a method for repairing phase shift masks for photolithography in which a phase shift mask is checked for the presence of defects and, if defects are present, (i) an analysis is conducted as to which of the defects negatively affect imaging properties of the phase shift mask, (ii) said defects are improved, (iii) the imaging properties of the improved phase shift mask are analyzed and the maintenance of a predetermined tolerance criterion is checked, and (iv) the two preceding steps (ii) and (iii) are optionally repeated multiple times if the imaging properties do not meet the predetermined tolerance criterion. In such a method, the imaging properties are analyzed in that, for each defect to be improved, a test variable is determined for the defect as a function of focus and illumination, and at least one additional non-defective point on the phase shift mask in the immediate vicinity of the defect is determined, and a minimum allowable deviation between the test variable for the defect and the non-defective point is predetermined as the tolerance criterion.
US08268515B2
A mask blank having, on a light-transmissive substrate, a light-shielding film made of a material mainly containing chromium, and adapted to use a resist film for electron beam writing when forming a transfer pattern in the light-shielding film. In the mask blank, an etching mask film made of a material containing a nitride or oxynitride of silicon is formed on an upper surface of the light-shielding film and a conductive mask film made of a conductive material dry-etchable with a fluorine-based gas and a mixed gas of chlorine and oxygen is formed on an upper surface of the etching mask film.
US08268504B2
A planar fuel cell stack is provided. The planar fuel cell stack comprises an anode interconnect structure comprising a corrugated first internal manifold connected to a first anode flowfield; a cathode interconnect structure comprising a corrugated second internal manifold connected to a first cathode flowfield; and a thermally active, surface insulated metallic seal disposed between the corrugated parts of the anode and cathode interconnects, such that the thermally active metallic seal responds upon the application of heat to provide sealing between the anode interconnect structure and the cathode interconnect structure.
US08268503B2
In a fuel cell module, a first membrane electrode assembly is sandwiched between a first metal separator and a second metal separator, and a second membrane electrode assembly is sandwiched between the second metal separator and the third metal separator. An oxygen-containing gas distribution section connected to a first oxygen-containing gas flow field is formed between the first metal separator and the second metal separator. The second metal separator has holes connecting the oxygen-containing gas distribution section to a second oxygen-containing gas flow field.
US08268482B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, having an internal resistance of 10 mΩ or less as an alternating-current impedance value of 1 kHz, comprises a metal outer container, a nonaqueous electrolyte contained in the container, a positive electrode contained in the container, a negative electrode contained in the container, a separator interposed between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, a negative electrode lead having one end connected to the negative electrode, and a negative electrode terminal attached to the outer container so as to be connected electrically to the other end of the negative electrode lead, at least the surface of the negative electrode terminal which is connected to the negative electrode lead being formed of aluminum alloy with an aluminum purity of less than 99 wt. % containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Mg, Cr, Mn, Cu, Si, Fe and Ni.
US08268475B2
A thin printed flexible electrochemical cell, and its method of manufacture, using a “picture frame” structure sealed, for example, with a high moisture and oxygen barrier polymer film and featuring, for example, a printed cathode deposited on an optional, highly conductive carbon printed cathode collector with a printed or a foil strip anode placed adjacent to the cathode. A viscous or gelled electrolyte is dispensed and/or printed in the cell, and a top laminate can then be sealed onto the picture frame. Such a construction could allow the entire cell to be made on a printing press, for example, as well as gives the opportunity to integrate the battery directly with an electronic application, for example.
US08268456B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting device which contains one or more organic layers sandwiched between an anode and a cathode, wherein at least one of the organic layers is a light-emitting layer including a polymer compound (I), the polymer compound (I) containing structural units derived from a hole transport or electron transport and phosphorescent polymerizable compound (a1) and structural units derived from a polymerizable compound (b) capable of transporting an oppositely charged carrier, the polymerizable compound (a1) being selected from formulae (E1-1) to (E1-39) as defined herein.
US08268453B2
The present document describes a composite material adapted to resist degradation by an erosive agent. The composite material comprises a steel base and crystals embedded in the steel base. At least 50% of the crystals have an elongated portion. Optionally, the composite material comprises an external surface for exposure to the erosive agent. At least 50% of the elongated portions are transverse to the external surface. A filler material is also described for forming the composite material on a ferrous surface by welding. The filler material comprises iron, carbon, boron, molybdenum and silicon. Methods are also described form forming the composite material.
US08268440B2
A steel plate-reinforcing material of a type giving vibration-damping performance to a steel plate including a restricted layer and a thermosetting foamed viscoelasticity layer, as tackifiers included in said thermosetting foamed viscoelasticity layer, the tackifiers including a terpene system resin, an aliphatic series system petroleum resin and an aromatic series system petroleum resin are used, a fiber is added to the thermosetting foamed viscoelasticity layer.
US08268438B2
The present application provides a component for use in streams of hot gas, which comprises a first region of fiber-ceramic material, a second region of fiber-ceramic material and a middle layer of fiber-ceramic material which is arranged between the first region and the second region, wherein the fiber-ceramic material of the middle layer has a lower ceramic content than the fiber-ceramic material of the first region and the second region, and wherein at least one acute-angled in-flow edge and/or away-flow edge of the component is formed on the middle layer.
US08268434B2
High compression strength honeycomb is made from polymer paper containing 5 to 35 parts by volume solid material and 65 to 95 parts by volume voids having a normalized peak load at bend equal or greater than 0.33 mgf/(g/m2)^3 and a Gurley air resistance equal or greater than 50 seconds/100 ml.
US08268432B2
A composite structure such as a carbon-fiber surgical table width extender includes a fiber-resin composite body and outer surface protective elements. The protective elements are adhered to the body during curing of the body's thermosetting binding matrix at a given temperature and pressure. The protective elements can include stainless steel elements and thermosetting elements which can be deformably thermoplastic and non-liquid, and simultaneously thermoset at this same temperature and pressure.
US08268431B2
An apparently seamless lengthened bamboo sheet is formed by lengthening a plurality of bamboo strips or blanks and assembling a plurality of lengthened bamboo strips or blanks together. A slot is formed on at least one end of the bamboo strips or blanks in direction of length, and a tenon corresponding to the slot is formed on the same end; the tenon on one bamboo strip or blank is embedded into the slot on another bamboo strip or blank. The tenon and slot are mutually matched and the two bamboo strips or blanks are engaged to each other. A method to manufacture is the apparently seamless lengthened bamboo sheet includes: forming a slot and a tenon on the end of bamboo strips or blanks; embedding a tenon at one end of one bamboo strip or blank into a slot on one end of another bamboo strip or blank; assembling and gluing a plurality of lengthened bamboo strips or blanks in direction of width or thickness; forming the bamboo sheet by a common process including pressing. The slot-tenon connecting structure of the present invention makes the seams on the surface unobvious and enhances the connection strength.
US08268423B2
Metal plated organic polymer compositions are useful as vehicular engine oil pans. Such oil pans may have lighter weight, and/or superior corrosion resistance, than conventional metal oil pans.
US08268419B2
The present invention relates to a novel polypouch for packaging of mineral oils. Said polypouch is made up of multilayered polymeric sheet or film of different inventive thicknesses by co-extruded unique combination of low density polyethylene, nylon and adhesive resin resulting in negligible permeation loss of packed mineral oils e.g. kerosene oil.
US08268416B2
A thermal transfer sheet includes a base material sheet, a thermal transfer dye layer, which is disposed on one surface of the base material sheet and which contains a dye, and a heat-resistant lubricating layer disposed on the other surface of the base material sheet, wherein the heat-resistant lubricating layer is formed from a binder, in which a specific amount of at least one of a polyvinyl acetal having a softening point of 262° C. or higher and a glass transition temperature of 106° C. or higher and cellulose acetate propionate and a specific amount of polyamide imide silicone are mixed.
US08268408B2
A film forming apparatus for forming a film according to an AD method in which separation of the film or generation of hillocks is suppressed when the film formed on a substrate is heat-treated. The apparatus includes: an aerosol generating unit (1-4) for dispersing raw material powder (20) with a gas, thereby aerosolizing the raw material powder (20); a processing unit (6) for processing the raw material powder (20) aerosolized by the aerosol generating unit (1-4) to reduce an amount of impurity, which generates a gas by being heated, adhering to or contained in the raw material powder (20); and an injection nozzle (9) for spraying the aerosolized raw material powder (20) processed by the processing unit (6) toward a substrate (30) to deposit the raw material powder (20) on the substrate (30).
US08268403B2
A method of forming an organic silica film includes forming a coating including a silicon compound having an —Si—O—Si— structure and an —Si—CH2—Si— structure on a substrate, heating the coating, and curing the coating by applying ultraviolet radiation.
US08268402B2
Disclosed is a fullerene film which can be easily formed by a wet process without deteriorating the intrinsic properties of a fullerene by using a fullerene derivative as a raw material. Also disclosed are a fullerene polymer, a method for producing a fullerene film, and a method for producing a fullerene polymer. A fullerene film or a fullerene polymer maintaining the intrinsic properties of the fullerene is obtained by coating a base with a solution of a fullerene derivative and then heating the thus-obtained coating film at a temperature higher than the thermal decomposition temperature of the fullerene derivative but lower than the thermal decomposition temperature of the fullerene.
US08268384B2
A substrate transfer system to reduce total processing time by transferring a substrate at a first delivery stage to a process block where processing can be carried out earliest. The substrate processing apparatus includes a first transfer device delivering a wafer with respect to a substrate carrier, and a second transfer device delivering a wafer between a plurality of process blocks and the first transfer device via a first delivery stage, to transfer the wafer with respect to the process blocks. The process block where there is no wafer or where processing of the last wafer within the relevant process block will be completed earliest is determined based on processing information of the wafers from the process blocks, and the wafer of the first delivery stage is transferred by the second transfer device to the relevant process block. This ensures smooth transfer of the wafer to the process block.
US08268383B2
Medical implants exhibiting optimized mechanical properties, and methods of making such implants, are disclosed. That is, the implants are fabricated of a porous metal substrate and include coating integrated over various areas so as to provide some added or desirable property or functionality to the implant. In one embodiment, the implant is an acetabular implant with a coating applied to an internal, concave wear surface which is sized and configured to receive a head of a femur. Typically, the coating is a ceramic incorporated onto the desired area of the implant via electrophoretic deposition.
US08268381B2
A coating system and method are described. In some embodiments, a system may include a composition. The composition may include one or more bridged polycyclic compounds. At least one of the bridged polycyclic compounds may include at least two cyclic groups, and at least two of the cyclic groups may include quaternary ammonium moieties. In some embodiments, a method may include applying a coating to a surface of a medical device. The coating may be antimicrobial. A coating may include antimicrobial bridged polycyclic compounds. In some embodiments, bridged polycyclic compounds may include quaternary ammonium compounds. In some embodiments, bridged polycyclic compounds may include guanidinium moieties. Bridged polycyclic compounds based coating systems may impart self-cleaning properties to a surface.
US08268377B2
The invention concerns sugar-free syrup of low calories and a method of producing the same, which syrup is of low calories and is a healthy substitute of sugar because it has almost no calories but contains a lot of edible fiber. To this end, the sugar-free syrup of low calories according to one aspect of the invention is characterized in that it consists of 100 parts by weight of water-soluble edible fiber, 100 to 200 parts by weight of water, 0.2 to 2 parts by weight of gum, 0.2 to 2 parts by weight of natural stabilizer and a proper amount of sweetener. Also, a method of producing the sugar-free syrup of low calories according to another aspect of the invention is characterized in that it comprises the steps of adding 100 to 200 parts by weight of water to 100 parts by weight of water-soluble, edible fiber and then dissolving the mixture at 50° C. to 80° C. while agitating it, adding 0.2 to 2 parts by weight of gum when the water-soluble fiber is fully dissolved, and then dissolving the mixture while agitating it, adding 0.2 to 2 parts by weight of natural stabilizer when the gum is fully dissolved, and dissolving the mixture while agitating it, adding a proper amount of sweetener to the mixture and dissolving the resulting mixture, and then cooling it by placing the mixture at a room temperature.
US08268373B2
A cocoa extract which is rich in procyanidin monomer and oligomers is made by extracting de-fatted, unroasted, unfermented cocoa beans with organic solvents. The yield of procyanidins in an extract varies with the type of solvent used, reaction temperature, reaction pH and whether or not the solvent is an aqueous solution. Extraction parameters can be optimized to increase procyanidin yield, and different conditions results in the preferential extraction of the higher or lower oligomers. A preferred extraction method is counter-current extraction method.
US08268359B2
An embodiment relates to a composition comprising a noble-metal containing nanoparticle and a polymer located on a surface of the nanoparticle, wherein the polymer is a polycondensation product of a halogenated monomer. Other embodiments relate to the method of making a composition and providing antimicrobial treatment using the composition.
US08268356B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an aqueous film coating solution, and the like, which has good acid resistance and sustained release properties as well as the flexibility suitable for the tablet compression force and are highly productive and cost efficient. The aqueous film coating solution of the present invention comprises an ethyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate copolymer dispersion, a methacrylic acid copolymer LD, a plasticizer, titanium oxide and water, wherein the solid mass ratio of the ethyl acrylate/methyl methacrylate copolymer dispersion, the methacrylic acid copolymer LD, the plasticizer and the titanium oxide is 100:(40 to 100):(5 to 50):(5 to 30) and the solid content thereof is 5 to 20 mass %.
US08268350B2
Finely divided binders in powder form composed of vinyllactam polymers, where the binders have an average particle size of up to 35 μm and an apparent density of less than 0.2 g/ml.
US08268347B1
Methods for formulating immediate and sustained release anti-infectives and delivery of such for treatment of respiratory tract infections and other medical conditions, and devices and formulations used in connection with such are described.
US08268346B2
The present invention relates generally to methods for treating hot flashes by administering formulations for transdermal or transmucosal administration of estrogen. The formulations of the invention are effective at treating hot flashes at surprisingly low daily doses, preferably the lowest effective dose of estrogen to treat hot flashes, e.g., about 0.45 to about 0.6 mg of estrogen per day. The amount of estrogen which is administered produces an estimated nominal daily estrogen dose in a subject undergoing treatment of from about 10 to about 15 micrograms, and a serum estradiol level of between about 25 pg/ml to about 50 pg/ml. The preferred formulations are substantially free of malodorous, and irritation causing long-chain fatty alcohols, long-chain fatty acids, and long-chain fatty esters.
US08268345B2
Disclosed are sterile hydrogel compositions comprising polyvinyl alcohol (“PVA”), polyvinyl pyrrolidone (“PVP”), and a polysaccharide, wherein the combined amount of PVA and PVP present in the hydrogel compositions is from about 2% to about 12% weight by volume, based on the total volume of the composition, and wherein the hydrogel compositions has a gel fraction greater than or equal to 97%. Sterile hydrogel products including such sterile hydrogel compositions, and methods of making such sterile hydrogel compositions and sterile hydrogel products.
US08268332B2
The present invention encompasses methods that use heat and/or electromagnetic radiation for dermatological treatment and more particularly to a method that uses heat and/or electromagnetic radiation in combination with chromophores for fractional wounding and, in particular, discontinuous fractional damage of skin tissue.
US08268314B2
The present invention relates to bispecific antibodies against human VEGF and against human ANG-2, methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions containing said antibodies, and uses thereof.
US08268305B1
The invention relates to methods and compositions for reducing serum levels of triacylglycerides in human subjects. In particular, the invention relates to the oral administration of an effective amount of a fungal lipase formulation, to a human subject having borderline-high or high serum levels of triacylglycerides, for a time period sufficient to reduce serum triacylglyceride levels.
US08268303B2
This invention relates to methods for improved cell-based therapies for retinal degeneration and for differentiating human embryonic stem cells and human embryo-derived into retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells and other retinal progenitor cells.
US08268295B2
Disclosed herein is a skin-whitening cosmetic composition containing an extract of Magnolia sieboldii as an active ingredient. The Magnolia sieboldii extract has an excellent effect of inhibiting tyrosinase activity and melanin production, and the cosmetic composition containing the Magnolia sieboldii extract as an active ingredient has an excellent skin-whitening effect.
US08268281B2
Methods, processes, and apparatuses for the continuous synthesis of carbon nanostructures are provided. Metal catalysts having small diameter and narrow distribution of particle sizes are prepared and continuously injected as aerosols into a reactor. The metal catalysts are supported on supports that are substantially free of carbon. The metal catalyst, in the form of a powder, is placed on a fluidized bed and aerosolized using an inert gas. The powder entrailed in the gas is injected near the top of a vertical reactor for the synthesis of SWNTs.
US08268273B2
A method and a device for the regeneration of a particle filter, especially a diesel particle filter, arranged in the exhaust gas train of an internal combustion engine, wherein an exhaust gas stream to be cleaned is supplied to the at least one particle filter. The exhaust gas stream supplied to the at least one particle filter is a raw exhaust gas stream of the internal combustion engine, into which, during regeneration mode, a heated exhaust gas stream at a higher temperature than the raw exhaust gas stream is mixed at a point upstream of the particle filter under the control of at least one open-loop and/or closed-loop control device, which actuates a throttle device and/or shut-off device in accordance with predetermined regeneration parameters.
US08268264B2
A method and device for separating from samples magnetic particles that contain capture compounds on their surfaces. The device includes a sheath including a magnet and including orienting pin adapted to concentrate or direct a magnetic field of the magnet; and a magnetizable plate with lid holes for receiving a vessel lid of a vessel, the magnetizable plate configured to receive the sheath and position the orienting pin over the vessel lid. In one method, magnetic beads with attached molecules are collected in the lids of the reaction vessel by the magnetic separator device provided herein and the separated magnetic particles, which carry the molecules of interest through affinity-based attachment chemistry and are held in the lid by the magnet of the device, are released into a new vessel containing a solution by removal of the separator device without the need for pipettes or liquid handling devices.
US08268258B2
A package for an object having a hydrophilic surface includes at least one of a loose cover for the hydrophilic surface and an adsorbing surface, the affinity of which for apolar gases is equal to or greater than that of the hydrophilic surface.
US08268257B2
Described is a process and an arrangement for the treatment of objects, in particular for sterilization, comprising at least one chamber for the joint take-up of at least two objects to be treated. A closing element is arranged to the opening of the chamber, which closing element is arranged in a moveable way in the arrangement for the purposes of opening and closing the opening. The chamber can be closed by means of the closing element in a vacuum-tight way, whereby no relative movement takes place between the closing element and the chamber in the closed state. It is provided that the minimum of two objects to be treated are inserted one after the other, and that the closing of the opening by means of the minimum one closing element takes place essentially on a continuous basis.
US08268256B2
A holding sealing material includes mats which have a longitudinal direction and first and second longer side faces along the longitudinal direction and which include a lower mat and an upper mat laminated on the lower mat. A length of the lower mat in the longitudinal direction is longer than a length of the upper mat in the longitudinal direction. Each of the mats is connected to each other at a fixed portion which extends substantially along a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The fixed portion has first and second end portions in the width direction. The first end portion is on a side of the first longer side face. The second end portion is on a side of the second longer side face. The first and second end portions are spaced apart from the first and second longer side face, respectively.
US08268255B2
A holding sealing material includes a plurality of mats. The plurality of mats have a longitudinal direction and include a lower mat and an upper mat laminated on the lower mat. Each of the plurality of mats includes inorganic fibers and has a substantially rectangular shape. A length of the lower mat in the longitudinal direction is longer than a length of the upper mat in the longitudinal direction. Each of the plurality of mats is connected to each other at at least two fixed portions. The at least two fixed portions are positioned at different positions in the longitudinal direction.
US08268253B2
An air sterilizer that operates by electro-kinetic conversion of energy is provided. The sterilizer can have an electro-kinetic converter, rows of needles fastened along support plates, and neutralizing electrodes. The converter can have a rectangular frame with two armatures joined by electrically insulating transverse plates. The armatures can be provided on one of the margins with a row of rectangular notches, equally-spaced with a constant pitch. In the notches, the ion-generating electrodes can be introduced. On their opposed margin, the plates can be interleaved at the same pitch and with V-shaped openings where the neutralizing electrodes can be introduced. The electrodes can be affixed by insulating covers, in the shape of the letter U. Each cover can be elastically deformable. The power supply can derive from an impulse generator with sufficient voltage to form an intense electric field which can ionize surrounding air and create a plasma zone.
US08268249B2
An analytical cell including a lightguide with a plurality of conduits filled with a migration medium. The medium, the lightguide and a surrounding medium have refractive indices selected such that light entering the lightguide is internally reflected within the lightguide to provide substantially uniform illumination of the conduits.
US08268242B2
A hydrogen sensor includes a substrate, a hydrogen absorbing member, a power source, an ammeter, and a processing unit. The hydrogen absorbing member is positioned on the substrate, and includes a carbon nanotube yarn and a hydrogen absorbing film coated on the carbon nanotube yarn. The ammeter measures an electric current. The hydrogen absorbing member and the ammeter are connected in series to the power source. The processing unit is electrically coupled to the ammeter to obtain a hydrogen concentration according to the electric current.
US08268241B1
A process wherein outgassing rates of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in an object, particularly habitable vehicles, are accelerated by placing the subject object in a vacuum chamber and placing heat sources either inside the object being treated, outside the object, or both. The process includes measuring and monitoring the temperature of selected surfaces inside the object being treated. The heat sources are adjusted to maintain a temperature which is safe for the materials and which will promote maximum outgassing rates. During the treatment process, while a vacuum and heat are being applied to the subject object, the gasses in the chamber are monitored for both their composition and quantity. When the outgassing rates of the VOCs reach acceptable levels, the process cycle is terminated. The vacuum in the chamber is broken to restore atmospheric pressure, and the object being treated is removed from the chamber.
US08268234B2
New cermets with improved properties and applications are provided. These new cermets have lower density and/or higher hardness than B4C cermet. By incorporating other new ceramics into B4C powders or as a substitute for B4C, lower densities and/or higher hardness cermets result. The ceramic powders have much finer particle size than those previously used which significantly reduces grain size of the cermet microstructure and improves the cermet properties.
US08268230B2
A method of fabrication of a transparent ceramic using nanoparticles synthesized via organic acid complexation-combustion includes providing metal salts, dissolving said metal salts to produce an aqueous salt solution, adding an organic chelating agent to produce a complexed-metal sol, heating said complexed-metal sol to produce a gel, drying said gel to produce a powder, combusting said powder to produce nano-particles, calcining said nano-particles to produce oxide nano-particles, forming said oxide nano-particles into a green body, and sintering said green body to produce the transparent ceramic.
US08268224B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a polyethersulfone fiber, the method comprising the steps of discharging an electrically charged solution comprising a polyethersulfone and a solvent from a container; and drawing the charged solution by electrical attraction in an electrical field generated between the solution and an electrically charged collecting means having the opposite charge of the solution, while evaporating at least a portion of the solvent to form a polyethersulfone fiber. The fiber obtained in the present invention has a small average fiber diameter and can be made into a thin fiber cloth.
US08268219B2
A laminated rotor core (36) wherein permanent magnets (47) are inserted in respective magnet insertion holes (46) is disposed between and pressed by an upper die (37) and a lower die (29). The upper die (37) has resin reservoir pots (50) provided above the laminated rotor core (36) and at positions corresponding to the respective magnet insertion holes (46). Raw resin material put in the resin reservoir pots (50) is heated by the upper die (37). Subsequently, the resin material in a liquefied state is ejected from the resin reservoir pots (50) by plungers (52) that are inserted and moves vertically in the resin reservoir pots (50) and is directly filled in the magnet insertion holes (46). Consequently, the respective magnet insertion holes (46) are filled with the resin material more evenly and highly reliable products can be supplied at low cost.
US08268217B2
The invention relates to a method for encapsulating electronic components in a mold by the processing steps of: A) placing the electronic component for encapsulating in a mold cavity, and B) feeding an encapsulating material to the mold cavity, wherein at least a part of the mold surface defining the mold cavity is brought into contact with a conditioning gas containing a decreased oxygen concentration relative to the atmosphere. The invention also relates to a device for encapsulating an electronic component, in particular a semiconductor, with encapsulating material.
US08268212B2
Process for manufacturing a plastic hollow body, said process comprising the following steps: a) a molten plastic parison is extruded, in an extruder, through a die; b) at least one longitudinal cut is made in the parison; c) the parison is introduced into a mold comprising two cavities; and d) the hollow body is molded by conforming the parison to the mold cavities, said die being equipped with a passage for the molten plastic which gradually modifies the shape of the parison so that it is substantially flattened on exiting. Die suitable for implementing this process.
US08268207B2
A method of manufacturing pitch-based carbon-carbon composite useful as a brake disc, includes (a) providing annular carbon fiber brake disc preform; (b) heat-treating the carbon fiber preform; (c) infiltrating the carbon fiber preform with pitch feedstock by VPI or RTM processing; (d) carbonizing the pitch-infiltrated carbon fiber preform; (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) to achieve a density in the carbon fiber preform of approximately 1.5 g/cc to below 1.7 g/cc; and (f) densifying the preform by CVI/CVD processing to a density higher than 1.7 g/cc. Employing lower cost VPI and/or RTM processing in early pitch densification cycles and using more expensive CVI/CVD processing only in the last densification cycle provides C-C composites in which the pitch-based components resist pullout, resulting in a longer wearing composite.
US08268205B2
A method for fabricating an injection-molded product for a mold in which a pattern carved therein is prepared. An interim injection-molded product with a pattern arranged on an inner face thereof is fabricated using the mold having the carved pattern. Paint or a coloring agent is deposited on the inner face of the molded interim injection-molded product. The pattern on the injection-molded product finished by depositing paint is visible from an exterior of the finished product.
US08268198B2
Provided is a precursor for the preparation of a lithium transition metal oxide that is used for the preparation of a lithium transition metal oxide as a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, through a reaction with a lithium-containing compound, wherein the precursor contains two or more transition metals, and sulfate ion (SO4)-containing salt ions derived from a transition metal salt for the preparation of the precursor have a content of 0.1 to 0.7% by weight, based on the total weight of the precursor.
US08268197B2
The present invention relates generally to electrolyte materials. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides for a solid polymer electrolyte material that is ionically conductive, mechanically robust, and can be formed into desirable shapes using conventional polymer processing methods. An exemplary polymer electrolyte material has an elastic modulus in excess of 1×106 Pa at 90 degrees C. and is characterized by an ionic conductivity of at least 1×10−5 Scm-1 at 90 degrees C. An exemplary material can be characterized by a two domain or three domain material system. An exemplary material can include material components made of diblock polymers or triblock polymers. Many uses are contemplated for the solid polymer electrolyte materials. For example, the present invention can be applied to improve Li-based batteries by means of enabling higher energy density, better thermal and environmental stability, lower rates of self-discharge, enhanced safety, lower manufacturing costs, and novel form factors.
US08268196B2
A joint compound for electrical connections is disclosed which includes an antioxidant base material and a quantity of stainless steel grit mixed with the antioxidant base material to provide improved mechanical pullout strength. The joint compound has a weight ratio of antioxidant to stainless steel grit in the range of from about 30:70 to about 90:10, preferably, from about 40:60 to about 70:30, and more preferably about 50:50. The stainless steel grit is cut wire having a diameter within the range of from about 0.012 inches to about 0.125 inches, with a preferred diameter within the range of from about 0.012 inches to about 0.030 inches, and 0.017 inches being a more preferred stainless steel grit diameter.
US08268195B2
An aqueous dispersion and a method for making an aqueous dispersion. The dispersion including at least one conductive polymer such as a polythienothiophene, at least one ether containing polymer and optionally at least one colloid-forming polymeric acid and one non-fluorinated polymeric acid. Devices utilizing layers formed of the inventive dispersions are also disclosed.
US08268193B2
A polymer material as light emitter or charge transport material, and a polymer composition for organic electroluminescence containing a crosslinking agent characterized in that the crosslinking agent has no aromatic ring.
US08268173B2
A method of biologically treating wastewater with an integrated fixed film activated sludge process. The integrated fixed film activated sludge process includes biomass suspended in mixed liquor and biomass disposed on carriers. Under certain conditions the dissolved oxygen concentration in a reactor that includes the mixed liquor, biomass suspended in the mixed liquor, and the biomass on the carriers, biological treatment is performed primarily by the biomass in the mixed liquor. This is achieved by controlling or maintaining the dissolved oxygen concentration in the reactor at a relatively low concentration. When the biomass suspended in the mixed liquor is unable to adequately biologically treat the mixed liquor, the dissolved oxygen concentration in the reactor is controlled or maintained at a relatively high concentration. This enables biomass on the carriers to contribute more to the biological treatment of the mixed liquor than when the dissolved oxygen concentration was maintained relatively low.
US08268171B2
A bottom control type specimen filtering container consists of a seal plug (1), a top cap (2), a cylinder body (3), a piston rod (5), pistons (6), a clutch spring (7), a drainage needle (8) and a bottom cap (9). The piston rod (5) is disposed in a central hole (12) at the bottom of the cylinder body (3). The pistons (6) are tightly sleeved on the projections of the piston rod (5). The drainage needle (8) is fixedly connected to the lower end of the piston rod (5) through screw thread. One end of the clutch spring (7) is pressed against the bottom of the cylinder body (3), and the other end is against a flange of the drainage needle (8). Furthermore, a double-layer filtering system composed of a first layer of filter screen (4) and a second layer of filter screen (11) is arranged in the specimen filtering container. The shaft of the first layer of filter screen (4) penetrates through a middle hole of the second layer of filter screen (11) and is fixed in a hole at the top of the piston rod (5). A filtering method comprises the following steps: charging a solution to be filtered into the cylinder body (3); removing the bottom cap (9), and disposing a receiving container below the drainage needle (8); and pushing up the receiving container so as to open the bottom of the cylinder body (3) and discharge the solution from the bottom of the cylinder body (3) to the receiving container.
US08268167B2
Separating apparatus, for separating a substance from a liquid on which the substance can float, comprises: a separation chamber; an inlet adapted to convey a supply comprising the substance and the liquid into the separation chamber; and an outlet adapted to convey liquid collected in the separation chamber out of the separation chamber. The inlet is arranged such that, in use, the supply emerging from the inlet into the chamber is directed upwardly into the chamber, and the apparatus further comprises venting means arranged to convey gas out of the chamber. The apparatus may further comprise a floating pick up connected to a pump for pumping the supply to the separation chamber. In certain examples a non-floating pick up is used, comprising an elongate hollow body with a pick up inlet mouth in the form of a vertical slot extending along a length of the body.
US08268164B2
The present invention is directed to a crude product composition. The crude product has, per gram of crude product: at least 0.001 grams of naphtha, the naphtha having an octane number of at least 70, and the naphtha having at most 0.15 grams of olefins per gram of naphtha; at least 0.001 grams of kerosene, the kerosene having at least 0.2 grams of aromatics per gram of kerosene and a freezing point at a temperature of at most −30° C.; and at most 0.05 grams of residue.
US08268156B2
Processes are provided herein for the fabrication of MEMS utilizing both a primary metal that is integrated into the final MEMS structure and two or more sacrificial secondary metals that provide structural support for the primary metal component during machining. A first secondary metal is thinly plated around the primary metal and over the entire surface of the substrate without using photolithography. A second secondary metal, is then thickly plated over the deposited first secondary metal without using photolithography. Additionally, techniques are disclosed to increase the deposition rate of the first secondary metal between primary metal features in order to prevent voiding and thus enhance structural support of the primary metal during machining.
US08268155B1
Methods, electroplating solution, and apparatuses for electroplating copper into a surface of a partially fabricated semiconductor substrate are provided. Electroplating solutions include copper ions, suppressor additives, chloride ions, and alternative halide ions, which include bromide ions and/or iodide ions. The concentration of the alternative halide ions in the solution may be between about 0.25 ppm and 20 ppm. Addition of the alternative halide ions at certain concentrations improves suppression properties of the solution over a range of feature sizes without a need to change suppressors.
US08268151B2
Methods and relative devices are illustrated for generating time-variable electric fields suitable for determining the creation of closed dielectrophoretic cages able to trap inside even single particles without the cages being necessarily positioned at relative minimum points of the electric field.
US08268150B2
In order to create a workpiece carrier for conveying a workpiece to be painted, in particular, a vehicle body through at least one electrophoretic dip paint bath and by means of at least one conveyor device following the electrophoretic dip paint bath, comprising at least one electrical contacting device for passing a coating current into the workpiece when the workpiece is conveyed through the electrophoretic dip paint bath and at least one contact surface, at which the workpiece carrier comes into contact with the conveyor device following the electrophoretic dip paint bath, with which dip paint is prevented from rubbing off in the conveyor device following the electrophoretic dip paint bath, it is suggested that at least one contact surface be electrically insulated from the at least one contacting device.
US08268138B2
The present invention relates to a system comprising a heat source to provide heat at the desired temperature and energy field (e.g. a solar concentrator); an electron source configured and operable to emit electrons; an electric field generator generating an electric field adapted to supply energy sufficient to dissociate gas molecules; and a reaction gas chamber configured and operable to cause interaction between the electrons with the molecules, such that the electrons dissociate the molecules to product compound and ions via dissociative electrons attachment (DEA) within the chamber.
US08268136B2
Axially fed fluid is sheared during long residence time in a radial workspace between counter-rotating coaxial disk-shaped centrifugal impellers. Gases evolve in the fractal turbulence of a shear layer, which is forced between laminar boundary layers, and an axial suction pump axially extracts evolved noncondensables and volatiles through cores of radial vortices in the shear layer. Cavitation due to shear between the impellers kills pathogens by shock waves, microjets, OH radicals, and nearby UV light pulses. Oppositely charged electrodes bounding the workspace cause electroporesis and electrohydraulic cavitation. The electrodes are counter-rotating ridged armatures of disk dynamos, forming a dynamic capacitor having audio frequency pulsed electric fields. Electrode erosion by arcing is prevented by shear between the electrodes.
US08268125B2
A method for the fractionation of lignocellulosic materials into cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin in a batch or continuous process in a treatment with vaporous mixture of aliphatic alcohol, sulfur dioxide and water. Cooking conditions are varied to get different proportions of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin. Chemical recovery through pressure release is described.
US08268124B2
A pulp production process can produce pulp at high yield without using sodium sulfide and high-temperature/high-pressure conditions if compared with the Kraft process and also collect lignin. Pulp is produced by processing wood chips for hydrophlicization at room temperature, using a dilute caustic soda aqueous solution, selectively partially modifying lignin in dilute nitric acid and digesting the wood chips by means of a dilute caustic soda aqueous solution under the atmospheric pressure. Lignin is agglomerated and sorted out from the isolated black liquor.
US08268121B2
Delignification of biomass consisting of lignin containing plant is done by utilizing an amino compound in and aqueous solution at ambient temperature up to 150 degree C. to produce and aqueous solution of amino salt of lignin and an amino-lignin-cellulose which is not soluble in water. The aqueous solution of amino salt of lignin is then filtered off of the amino-lignin-cellulose. The aqueous solution of amino salt of lignin or the amino salt of lignin with the amino-lignin-cellulose may be reacted with an aldehyde to produce an amino-lignin-aldehyde resin or an amino-lignin-cellulose aldehyde resin which may be of the thermoplastic or thermosetting type. The thermoplastic resins are fire resistant, hard, strong, not water soluble and may be used to make exterior fiberboard, OAS boards, plywood, molded products, etc. These urea salts of lignin may also be utilized as long acting fertilizer, to produce plastics and other products.The amino-lignin-cellulose may be hydrolyzed by any suitable means such as acid hydrolysis into carbohydrates which can be fermented in alcohol.
US08268120B2
A method for treating a prebleached chemical pulp including a step of ozone treatment of the pulp, carried out at a temperature above 60° C., advantageously above 65° C. and even more advantageously above or equal to 70° C.
US08268113B2
A bonded-substrate fabricating apparatus capable of reducing defective bonded substrates fabricated. A transfer robot sucks the outer edge area of the bottom surface of a substrate and spouts gas toward the bottom surface of the substrate to carry the substrate into a vacuum process chamber of a press machine while keeping the substrate horizontally. A press plate holds the substrate, which is held by the transfer robot, by suction.
US08268112B2
A method for bonding resin members by laser welding in which melting of a resin member can be prevented on the contact surface with a base or a tool used for bonding. In the bonding method, a resin member (1) is mounted on a base (3) and a surface of the base (3) in contact with the resin member (1) is an optical mirror surface. A surface of the resin member (1) is coated with a light absorbing agent (4), a resin member (2) is placed thereon and then a laser light (10) is irradiated from the resin member (2) side in order to melt the resin on the bonding surface of the resin member (1) and the resin member (2), thereby bonding the resin members together. The laser light (11) penetrated through the bonding surface reaches the contact surface where the resin member (1) and the base (3) are in contact with each other, and since the laser light (11) penetrates the bonding surface without being scattered or absorbed, melting of the resin member can be prevented.
US08268107B2
Techniques and apparatus for providing a fly away caul plate are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for curing a composite structure includes placing a pre-cured caul plate proximate an uncured composite lay-up, the lay-up may or may not include one or more stiffeners extending substantially perpendicular to the lay-up surface, the caul plate including an aperture for receiving the at least one stiffener. A force may be exerted against the caul plate to engage the composite lay-up. Heat and/or pressure may be applied to the composite lay-up to cure the stiffener panel and co-bond the caul plate to the composite lay-up.
US08268106B2
Implementations of the present invention relate to a translucent and/or transparent polymer-based panel system that incorporates multi-colored insert layers that enable manipulation of color, transparency or light transmission of the finished panel system. Implementations of the present invention also relate to the construction of such panels to avoid the capture and retention of air within the panels through the use of textured surfaces at the lamination interfaces. In addition, implementations of the present invention provide a method of quantifying the optical response achieved in a given panel system and describes types of construction that enable the multiplicity of color and optic manipulation. Furthermore, implementations of the present invention provide methods for applying texture in an efficient, uniform manner.
US08268099B2
A method of fabricating a porous or partially porous three-dimensional metal article for use as a tissue ingrowth surface on a prosthesis. The porous article is formed using direct laser remelting in a cross section of a layer of metallic powder on a build platform without fusing thereto. The power, speed, spot size and beam overlap of the scanning laser is coordinated so that a predetermined porosity of the metallic powder can be achieved. Laser factors also vary depending from the thickness of the powder layer, type of metallic powder and size and size distribution of the powder particles. Successive depositing and remelting of individual layers are repeated until the article is fully formed by a layer-by-layer fashion. In an additional embodiment, a first layer of metallic powder may be deposited on a solid base or core and fused thereto.
US08268095B2
A method of manufacturing a hot dip galvannealed steel sheet, including the steps of: subjecting a steel sheet to hot dip galvanizing to manufacture a hot dip galvanized steel sheet; heating the hot dip galvanized steel sheet for alloying; subjecting the hot dip galvanized steel sheet to temper rolling; bringing the temper-rolled hot dip galvanized steel sheet into contact with an acid solution containing at least one ion selected from the group consisting of Zr ions, Ti ions, and Sn ions to thereby form an acid solution film on the surface of the steel sheet; after completion of the contact, a state where the acid solution film is formed on the surface of the steel sheet is held for at least 1 second; and washing with water the hot dip galvanized steel sheet after holding, to thereby form a Zn oxide layer having a thickness of 10 nm or more on the surface of the galvanized steel sheet. The hot dip galvannealed steel sheet has an oxide layer having an average thickness of 10 nm or more on the surface of the plated steel sheet.
US08268094B2
A gas injector including in which a gas is passed through high-voltage/low-current electrical discharges before being discharged into the chamber of a thermal treatment furnace. The electrical activation of the gas accelerates desirable reactions between the gas, gases in the furnace chamber, and the chamber workload. Preferably, a hot electrode is electrically charged and the other parts of the gas injector and the furnace are grounded. Also provided is a method for activating an atmosphere within the reaction chamber of a controlled-atmosphere reactor.
US08268092B2
Provided are a magnetic sheet for use in a radio frequency identification (RFID) antenna, an RFID antenna including the magnetic sheet, and a method of manufacturing the magnetic sheet, in which the magnetic sheet includes an amorphous alloy selected from the group consisting of Fe—Si—B, Fe—Si—B—Cu—Nb, Fe—Zr—B and Co—Fe—Si—B. The magnetic sheet is made by laminating amorphous alloy ribbons made of an amorphous alloy between magnetic sheet layers formed of alloy powder including at least one amorphous alloy and then compression-molding the amorphous alloy ribbons, to thereby control microcrack of the amorphous alloy ribbons and enhance characteristic of an end-product. The magnetic sheet is also thin, and has an excellent magnetic permeability, and a simple manufacturing process.
US08268089B2
A device for checking the concentration of clear rinsing agent in a rinsing liquid circulated in the means for retaining water of a household appliance is provided. The device includes a processing unit operatively connectable to a sensor having at least one transmitting element that emits an optical signal and at least one receiving element that receives the optical signal emitted by the transmitting element. The processing unit determines the wetting of the sensor with clear rinsing liquid and renders an estimate of the concentration of clear rinsing agent in the clear rinsing liquid as a function of the wetting of the sensor with clear rinsing liquid based upon the energy level emitted by the transmitting element and received by the receiving element.
US08268081B2
A method for cleaning a workpiece support that includes using a workpiece that has been coated on its bottom surface with a suitable material is disclosed. This specially coated workpiece is placed on the support, and some time later, it is removed, taking with it particles from the support. In certain embodiments, the workpiece undergoes an ion implantation process to increase its temperature, and to increase the tackiness of the coating on the bottom surface. The material used to coat the bottom can be of variable types, including photoresists, oxides and deposited glasses.
US08268076B2
SOI wafers are manufactured by forming on a silicon substrate a monocrystalline first, cubic 1a-3 metal or mixed metal oxide layer whose lattice constant differs from that of the substrate by 5% or less; forming a second cubic 1a-3 mixed metal oxide layer having a lattice constant within 2% of the lattice constant of the first metal or mixed metal oxide layer, and having a graded metal content to vary the lattice content in the second mixed metal oxide layer from that of the first layer, and thermally treating the layered product in an oxygen atmosphere to form an amorphous interlayer between the substrate and the first metal or mixed metal oxide layer.
US08268075B2
A method of producing a zinc oxide-based semiconductor crystal, including: introducing at least zinc and oxygen on a surface of a substrate; and growing a zinc oxide-based semiconductor crystal on the substrate, wherein a total or partial portion of the zinc is ionized in a vacuum atmosphere of 1×10−4 Torr or less and is introduced to the surface of the substrate to grow the ZnO based semiconductor crystal. As a result, it is possible to provide a method of producing a zinc oxide based semiconductor crystal capable of growing a zinc oxide semiconductor crystal having excellent surface flatness and crystallinity and including an extremely small amount of impurities at a high growth rate.
US08268071B2
The invention relates to a novel sulfoaluminous clinker, to a method for preparing said clinker, and to the use of said clinker for preparing a hydraulic binder and subsequently grout, concrete, or mortar.
US08268065B2
Zirconium-containing BaO- and PbO-free X-ray opaque glasses having a refractive index nd of about 1.518 to about 1.533 and a high X-ray opacity with an aluminum equivalent thickness of at least about 180% are provided. Such glasses are based on a SiO2—Al2O3—B2O3 system with additions of K2O, ZrO2, and one or both of La2O3 and Cs2O. Such glasses may be used, in particular, as dental glasses or as optical glasses.
US08268064B2
Compositions, systems, and methods for ink-jet printing having improved black to color bleed control, reduced wicking, and/or reduced halo are described. The composition can include a functionalized carbon pigment dispersed in an ink vehicle. The carbon pigment includes functional groups chemically attached thereto. Suitable functional groups includes an aromatic ring structure having multiple carboxyl groups (or salts thereof) attached to the aromatic ring structure, wherein at least two of the multiple carboxyl groups are positioned on adjacent carbon atoms of the aromatic ring structure.
US08268062B2
The present invention relates to a fire-retardant material and method. More specifically, the present invention relates to an insulating, fire-retardant coating (and method) that shields underlying substrates from thermal and other types of insult. The invented coating is especially applicable to energy transport means including oil pipelines. The invented coating and method is also useful in providing a insulating and fire-resistant coating for a variety of substrates including but not limited to: concrete, metals, foamed polymeric materials (i.e. styrofoam), gypsum, synthetics and other substrates.
US08268043B2
A modular and compact adsorbent bed structure is disclosed for use in an adsorption-based gas separation plant. The conventional adsorbent bed in a gas separation plant is replaced with a plurality of modular adsorbent bed units connected to make the adsorbent bed structure. Modular adsorbent bed units of this invention provide higher capacity of product per unit volume of adsorbent material (i.e., increased adsorbent utilization) as compared to that obtained from conventional adsorbent beds. The modular design requires lower fabrication costs; is easier to transport; has less maintenance and repair requirements; and is easier to load with adsorbent material.
US08268031B2
The present disclosure relates to a fabric filter system, which may be used for removing particulate matter from a gas, such as a combustion process gas. The filter system includes a fabric filter (3) which is placed in a filter compartment. From the filter, gas flows via a filter plenary space (5) to an outlet duct (7), where the gas exits. A flow control device controls the amount of air exiting through the outlet duct. The flow control device comprises a louver-type damper (17). This provides reliable and efficient control of the gas flow. A collar (21), connecting the plenary space (5) with the outlet duct (7), improves the gas flow into the duct.
US08268022B2
A process of producing a universal synthetic based gasoline fuel additive that cleans the fuel system including valves surface, lubricates the fuel pump, injectors and valves while allowing for a clean and more efficient burn. A major portion will consist of (a) Alfa-Olefins, (b) 2-propanol (c) Hydroisomerized High VI HT Base Oils, (d) Dimethyl Ketones, (e) Low Flash Mineral Spirits, (f) Low Aromatic Solvent, (g) Isomer Reformate, (h) Solvent Activated Dye. In a preferred embodiment, this universal synthetic gasoline conditioner additive for improving lubrication comprises: alpha-olefins comprising from 5 to 30 percent thereof, by weight; low odor aromatic solvents comprising from 3 to 27 percent thereof, by weight; 2-Propanol comprising of 3 to 30 percent thereof, by weight; and at least one a base oil comprising from 0.50 to 15 percent thereof, by weight; wherein: the percentages by weight are specified in relative proportion to one another.
US08268015B2
Use of a composition comprising hydrogen peroxide in a cosmetic vehicle allows gentle discoloring of permanently colored, keratinous fibers which have been colored with a specific coloring composition. The coloring composition used for coloring the fibers comprises, in a cosmetic vehicle, a combination of at least one CH-acidic compound with at least one reactive carbonyl compound. The discoloring composition contains preferably between 0% and 15% by weight of hydrogen peroxide and has the effect, in particular in a working time of 5 to 20 minutes even without the use of organic peroxo compounds and in the absence of inorganic persalts, of effective color removal with simultaneous gentle treatment of the fibers.
US08267999B2
The present invention relates to an intervertebral disk prosthesis comprising at least three parts including a first plate, referred to as the upper plate (1), a second plate, referred to as the lower plate (2), and a core (3), the upper surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part (10) of the lower surface of the upper plate (1) and the lower surface of the core (3) being in contact with at least part of the upper surface of the lower plate (2), and the lower plate (1) being movable at least with respect to the core (3), characterized in that there are cooperation means between the lower to plate (2) and the core (3), so as to limit or eliminate translation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2) along an axis substantially parallel to the lower plate (2), and to limit or eliminate rotation movements of the core (3) with respect to the lower plate (2), around an axis substantially perpendicular to the lower plate (2), the planes passing through the upper (1) is and lower (2) plates forming a substantially constant angle.
US08267993B2
Devices and methods are provided for surgical repair of dilated aortic root to restore aortic valve competence while preserving native leaflets. In one aspect of the invention an expandable annuloplasty ring is provided for external placement at the base of a dilated aortic root. The expandable ring is capable of elastically expanding between a first diastolic diameter and a larger second systolic diameter to provide a physiologically representative surgical repair of the aortic root. In a further aspect of the invention, is provided a holder assembly for aortic annuloplasty ring and suitable for other cardiac valve prosthesis. The holder assembly consists of a holder body pivotingly coupled to a handle member through a ball-and-socket arrangement.
US08267989B2
The present invention provides inflatable porous implants, such as grafts, stent-grafts, and bladders, as well as methods and kits for drug delivery. In particular, the grafts and stent-grafts of the present invention provide for the delivery of a therapeutic agent into a flow conduit in the body. The inflatable porous implants provide for direct delivery of larger, more precise dosages of drugs over longer administration periods into the body. Moreover, these inflatable porous implants are often flexible when inserted and have a low profile delivery configuration for easy placement. The implants of the present invention further provide a mechanical or structural function in addition to drug delivery in a single integrated structure.
US08267986B2
Described herein are flexible implantable occluding devices that can, for example, navigate the tortuous vessels of the neurovasculature. The occluding devices can also conform to the shape of the tortuous vessels of the vasculature. In some embodiments, the occluding devices can direct blood flow within a vessel away from an aneurysm or limit blood flow to the aneurysm. Some embodiments describe methods and apparatus for adjusting, along a length of the device, the porosity of the occluding device. In some embodiments, the occluding devices allows adequate blood flow to be provided to adjacent structures such that those structures, whether they are branch vessels or oxygen-demanding tissues, are not deprived of the necessary blood flow.
US08267984B2
A method of treating a disorder may include positioning a thermoelectric device in the ear canal of a subject and activating the thermoelectric device to deliver caloric vestibular stimulation and/or cranial nerve stimulation effective to treat the disorder. In some embodiments, the ear canal may be cooled sufficiently to treat the disorder. In alternative embodiments, the ear canal may be warmed sufficiently to treat the disorder.
US08267980B2
A spinal stabilizing system includes a collar having a tubular sidewall with an interior surface and an exterior surface, the interior surface at least partially bounding a longitudinal passage extending therethrough. A shoulder radially inwardly projects from a second end of the sidewall so as to at last partially encircle the longitudinal passage. A pair of spaced apart channels transversely extend through the sidewall at the first end thereof. The system further includes a screw having a threaded portion and an enlarged head mounted on the end thereof, the head of the screw resting against the shoulder of the collar so that the head can pivot on the shoulder, a locking slot being formed on the head of the screw. A pin is secured to the collar and projects into the locking slot on the head of the screw such rotation of the collar facilitates rotation of the screw.
US08267977B2
The cannulated titanium implant (screw) for correction of flat feet in children characterized by that: a) the diameter of the stem is D=4.8 mm±25%, recommended 4.8 mm±10%, and especially recommended 4.8 mm, b) it is cannulated, whose diameter is C=2 mm+25%, recommended 2 mm±10%, and especially recommended 2 mm, c) the screw-thread height is 1.15 mm±25%, recommended 1/15 mm±10%, and especially recommended 1.15 mm, d) on the point of the screw, which ends at the angle of 90°, on the apex thread are trisect cuts at the angle of 120°. The edges of the apex thread are cut at the angle of 55°. At the very top of the point of the screw, the trisect cuts of the apex thread go inward the tunnel in the length of the screw by 1.5 mm, e) this type of the point replaces the use of the drill and the tapping device.
US08267968B2
Bone anchoring assemblies for use with minimally invasive surgery (MIS) techniques for dynamic stabilization of the spine, together with placement systems for use in such techniques are provided.
US08267963B2
A suture anchor member manual loading device may include a body comprising first and second portions preventing operator contact with a tip of a needle. An anchor receiving portion shaped to receive and restrain a suture anchor member is disposed in the first portion of the body. A suture receiving portion has a first end connected to the anchor receiving portion and a second end disposed on an outer surface of the body such that the suture receiving portion extends away from the anchor receiving portion at a non-parallel angle. When the suture is tensioned the anchor member is translationally and rotationally restrained against the anchor receiving portion. A needle receiving portion disposed in the second portion of the body is shaped to receive the needle such that the suture anchor member is received into a lumen of the needle when the needle is advanced through the needle receiving portion.
US08267958B2
The invention relates to a surgical instrument comprising an instrument handle linked to a proximal end portion of a tube shaft to the distal end portion of which an instrument head is linked so as to be bendable, in which instrument head an effector including at least one pivotal engaging element is rotatably supported. The instrument handle has a number of manipulators and/or operating mechanisms for operating the instrument head and/or the effector via gear trains. According to the invention, a clutch which permits a zero point adjustment individual at least over a predetermined pivoting range of the instrument handle is interposed in the gear train effecting the bending motion of the instrument head. The zero point is defined as a relative position of the instrument handle with respect to the tube shaft in which the instrument head adopts a predetermined bending position with respect to the tube shaft.
US08267956B2
Vascular embolic filtering systems, as well as methods for using the same, are provided. In general, the subject invention includes a system comprised of a delivery and retrieval sheath adapted for delivering and retrieving multiple embolic filters, wherein the embolic filters are each operatively coupled to a distal region of a filter wire segment and are deployable within a target vessel.
US08267951B2
Methods and devices described herein facilitate improved access of locations within the body by providing a variety of dissection modes on a single access device.
US08267949B2
An introducing device for introduction of a medical device into a body is described which has a distal region with a tip region for generating an opening in the skin, and a segment region which comprises at least two sections which, in a rigid state, are essentially rigidly connected at least to one another and to the distal region and which are movable relative to one another in a flexible state. Furthermore, a system is described in which a sensor is integrated into the device for introduction into a body.
US08267943B2
Spinal stabilization mechanisms act to prevent lateral bending, extension, and rotation across adjacent vertebrae. Methods for spinal stabilization includes placing one or more anchors at each vertebral level, positioning one or more sutures around each anchor at each level such that the each suture forms a loop or band around two adjacent anchors, applying tension to the ends of each suture to tighten the suture loop around the anchors and welding overlapping ends of each suture together to form suture bands connecting the anchors and thereby preventing lateral bending, extension, and rotation of the spinal segment. A suture banding tool may be used to place the sutures around the anchors in a looped configuration, apply tension to the suture ends to tighten the suture loop around the anchors and weld the ends of the suture to form a suture band connecting the anchors. The suture banding tool includes a suture welding tool having opposing jaws having a gap therebetween for receiving a portion of a suture and a heating element for welding the suture, a suture holding device releasably attached to the suture welding tool having at least one recess for holding a portion of a suture in a looped configuration, and one or more sutures.
US08267933B2
A device for removing organic tissue by means of high-frequency current comprises a loop carrier having a longitudinal axis and a distal end, a loop arranged at the distal end of the loop carrier and being able to be acted upon by high-frequency voltage, the loop having a loop end portion, a connection element connecting the loop with the loop carrier and having a distal connection element portion, the loop end portion and the distal connection element portion forming a wedge-shaped cutter.
US08267914B1
The present invention provides an electrospray device using a high frequency alternating current (AC) above 10 kHz to generate fine micron sized drops. The apparatus generally functions by applying a high frequency alternating current electric field across one or more micro-needles and one or more conducting elements. The present invention may be used to generate aerosol drops for respiratory drug delivery or as a microencapsulation technique for the encapsulation of drugs, DNA, protein, osteogenic or dermatological growth factors, bacteria, viruses, immobilized enzyme receptors and fluorescent particles for controlled release drug delivery, tissue or bone engineering, clinical or environmental field testing and as biosensors for clinical or drug monitoring. In addition, the present invention may be used to synthesize biodegradable fibers as bioscaffolds for tissue engineering, surgical sutures or medical gauze that enhance blood coagulation, and further may be encapsulated by other agents.
US08267907B2
Provided herein is a pad for treating the eye comprising a container having an impermeable outer membrane sized to fit generally within the peri-orbital region and sufficiently flexible to mold to the eye; a first chemical in the container; a second chemical in the container, the first and second chemicals selected to have an exothermic reaction for producing heat suitable for treating the eye, the exothermic reaction providing the suitable temperature for a period of time suitable for treating the eye. The container is covered with a soft, non-abrasive, lint-free material which may be presoaked in a pH controlled soap with or without an antibiotic. Other embodiments are also described.
US08267906B2
An apparatus and method for applying a beneficial agent to the skin is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including first and second chemical reactants, each being compatible with the skin. The first and second chemical reactants react with one another to generate a beneficial agent and enhance the permeability of the skin (e.g., by generating heat). The beneficial agent may then be applied to the skin while the permeability of the skin is enhanced. In selected embodiments, the first chemical reactant includes one or more metals, or alloys thereof, that are compatible (i.e., not harmful) with the skin. Similarly, in selected embodiments, the second chemical reactant may include water. In certain embodiments, the beneficial agent generated by the first and second chemical reactants includes an antioxidant such as hydrogen.
US08267901B2
A dose delivery device is disclosed where a dose can be set by rotating a dose setting member, whereby a push button is elevated from one end of the device a distance proportional to the set dose from a position fixed relative to the housing, and where the set dose can then be injected by pressing the push button back to its non-elevated position, through which motion a piston rod will move the same or a different distance due to a gearing mechanism being provided between the push button and the piston rod, where the gearing mechanism includes at least a first and a second thread on one or more parts that are rotationally coupled to each other, the first thread engaging a driver, the second thread engaging an element rotationally locked to the driver, one of the threads of the gearing mechanism being left-handed and the other one being right-handed.
US08267899B2
A medication dispensing device with a housing and a member wherein the member is moveable in a distal direction is useful in delivering medication to a patient. A fluid container can be used with the device and often has a moveable piston at one end and an outlet at the other. The member receives a force from a user and drives the piston in the distal direction to expel medication. A intermediate system is disposed between the member and the piston including a gear set that has a pinion in meshed engagement with a rack. The system allows the member to move a greater distance than the piston moves thereby increasing the force on the piston.
US08267886B2
A catheter having a shaft that has at least two spaced-apart lumens is disclosed. A retractable core wire is disposed within at least one of the lumens. The retractable core wire is manipulated by the user to impart variable stiffness to the shaft as the core wire is retracted and extended within the lumen. A catheter having substantially low profile bonds at the junctions where an inflatable balloon is attached to the catheter is also disclosed. The low profile bonds are created by recesses extending around the circumference of the distal end of the shaft, the proximal and distal ends of a stem, and the proximal end of a tip. The catheter having the low profile bond optionally has either a retractable or an embedded core wire. In examples, the catheter has at least one component formed from, co-extruded with, or coated with a lubricious material or a hydrophilic material.
US08267880B2
The invention relates to an elastic adhesive unidirectional bandage and to a method for the production and the use thereof. The inventive bandage is embodied in the form of a segment, exhibits elastic and adhesive properties and is designed, in particular for supporting joints and preventing and maximally reducing injuries in certain body regions. The bandage segment is held in position during a long time by means of the adhesive properties thereof and supports natural movements by the elasticity thereof without constrictions and folds. Even, when the bandage is carried for a long time, it does not provoke a foreign body feeling. The bandage segment is easily applicable and optimally anatomically adaptable by the specific design of the elastic areas (for example, only the partial areas of the segment are elastic) and by corresponding shape thereof.
US08267875B2
The proposed invention is a method and system for the segmentation of dual-axis accelerometry signals for the purposed of identifying problematic swallowing events. The method and system employ a sensor, a data collection means including an algorithm for the analysis of the data. The proposed invention considers the stochastic properties of swallowing signals in both directions, A-P and S-I to extract events associated with swallowing. A segmentation algorithm may be applied to the signals to establish the time duration of swallows and swallows may be classified with respect to gender, body mass index, age or types of swallow.
US08267873B2
A guidewire catheter includes: a sheath for passing a guidewire therethrough; an operation section connected to an end of the sheath and having a through-hole for passing the guidewire therethrough; a guidewire adapter connected to the operation section and capable of freely extending or retracting relative to the operation section along the axial line of the through-hole, the guidewire adapter grasping the outer periphery surface of the guidewire projecting from the through-hole, and the guidewire adapter being capable of guiding and moving the guidewire relative to the operation section in an axial direction and a circumferential direction of the through-hole; a bar-shaped slide section formed on one of the operation section and the guidewire adapter in the exterior of the through-hole, the slide section being disposed along a line which is parallel with the axial line of the through-hole; a receiver formed on the other one of the operation section and the guidewire adapter and being capable of moving and supporting the freely extendable or retractable slide section; a connection section having a second through-hole formed coaxially with the axial line of the through-hole formed in the guidewire adapter; and a grip section, engaged with the second through-hole, for grasping an outer periphery surface of the guidewire, and the grip section being capable of freely rotatable around the axial line of the second through-hole.
US08267870B2
In one aspect, a body fluid sampling device is provided using a penetrating member to extract fluid from an anatomical feature. The device comprises a penetrating member actuator for moving the penetrating member inbound towards the anatomical feature and a non-spring based, penetrating member retractor for moving the penetrating member outbound away from the anatomical feature. The penetrating member actuator may be adapted to move the penetrating member at a velocity greater than a velocity achieved by the penetrating member retractor.
US08267864B2
An ultrasonograph comprising a probe (10) for transmitting/receiving an ultrasonic wave to/from a subject, a transmitting section (12) for supplying a drive signal to the probe (10), a receiving section (12) for receiving a reflection echo signal outputted from the probe (10), image constructing sections (17, 19, 21) for reconstructing a diagnosis image from the received reflection echo signal, a displaying section (25) for displaying the reconstructed diagnosis image, and a control section for controlling the other sections, wherein the rise of temperature of the probe (10) is suppressed by adequately judging whether the probe (10) is left in the air or not. The ultrasonograph further comprises a judging section (22) for judging from diagnosis image information whether or not the probe (10) is left in the air. If the judging section (22) judges that the probe (10) is left in the air, the control section (26) controls the drive signal supplied from the transmitting section to the probe (10) so as to suppress the rise of temperature of the probe (10).
US08267852B2
Devices and methods for treatment of a failing heart by reducing the heart wall stress. The device can be one which reduces wall stress throughout the cardiac cycle or only a portion of the cardiac cycle.
US08267848B2
A dunnage device is disclosed and can include a dunnage mechanism comprising first and second dunnage converting portions that have an engaged condition, in which the converting portions are associated and configured for converting stock material into dunnage and a disengaged condition in which the converting portions are disabled from converting the stock into dunnage and a dunnage handler configured for receiving the dunnage from the dunnage mechanism and including a first handler portion that has a handling position in which the dunnage handler is configured for controlling the dunnage and a release position, wherein the first handler portion is associated with the dunnage mechanism such that movement of the first handler portion from the handling position to the release position causes the dunnage mechanism to change from the engaged condition to the disengaged position.
US08267847B2
A method and apparatus for performing an order change in a corrugator uses a minimum slit head configuration with all slit heads carried on two sides of a single tool support structure. A single robot is operable on the support structure to independently reset the positions of slit heads during a running order to prepare for subsequent order change in a most efficient manner, utilizing order scheduling that eliminates order changes that cannot be formed with the minimum slit head configuration.
US08267846B2
An exercise wheel is provided. The exercise wheel includes a wheel, a first support bar, and a second support bar, wherein a support portion is formed inside the wheel, and the support portion includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; an end of the first support bar is connected to the support portion, and the other end vertically extends outwardly in a direction away from the first surface; the second support bar and the first support bar are symmetrical about a center of the wheel, an end of the second bar is connected to the support portion, and the other end vertically extends outwardly in a direction away from the second surface; therefore, when holding the first and second support bars with two hands, a user can drive the wheel in a mode of riding a bicycle, so a body of the user moves forward and backward, so as to work muscles of an upper part of the body.
US08267844B2
The present invention relates to a gripping device that removably attaches onto a user's wrist to enable the user to grip onto a handle. The gripping device comprises a wrist-wrapping, elongated belt portion having opposite ends, and a gripping structure that extends outward from the plane of the belt portion.
US08267840B2
The present invention is directed to an apparatus allowing a user to get an excellent whole-body work out. The invention includes a frame that has a region for completing a pull up type movement, a region for completing a push up style movement and a region for completing a dip style movement as well as variations of movements within. Additionally the assembled unit may act in a similar fashion to a ballet or balance bar to allow completion of a variety of movements and exercises.
US08267835B2
A generator system for a portable, residential or small business generator includes an engine, an alternator, a continuously variable transmission pulley system and a governor. The engine includes a drive shaft and a throttle. The alternator includes a rotor disposed on a rotor shaft. The continuously variable transmission pulley system includes a drive pulley coupled to the drive shaft, a driven pulley coupled to the rotor shaft, and a belt configured to engage the drive pulley and the driven pulley. The governor adjusts the engine throttle to control the speed of the engine in response to a speed of the rotor shaft.
US08267830B2
A modular assembly of a transmission is provided in which a continuously variable transmission module is separable from a planetary transmission module. When connected, the two modules function as a single transmission. The two modules are connectable in multiple orientations relative to each other. A single fluid source can be provided for operation of the two modules.
US08267817B2
A fletching system and method that allows for quick and easy attachment of a fletching member to an arrow shaft provides a slotted arrow shaft adapted to receive a fletching member projecting therethrough and an internal plug member disposed within a hollow center of the arrow shaft in pressing frictional fit engagement with a flanged base portion of the fletching member wherein the flanged base portion is secured between the plug member and an internal surface of a sidewall of the arrow shaft.
US08267815B2
A nock adapter for a solid shaft bowfishing arrow fits on a standard conical taper of a solid shaft arrow and provides an extended cylindrical joint releasably engaging a cylindrical boss of a nock for field replacement of the nock while resisting lateral disengaging impacts.
US08267809B2
A golf ball that, in the process of spherical grinding after forming, can maintain the dimple shape and achieve the designed dimple surface occupation ratio. A mold for forming a golf ball of the present invention has at least two body parts, a cavity being formed within the mold by the joining of the at least two body parts, the body part comprising a cavity wall surface which has a spherical surface shape with the center thereof being at the center of the cavity and dimple-forming protrusions provided on the cavity wall surface, the dimple-forming protrusions being connected to the cavity wall surface at an angle of about 60 or more degrees in a region from about 3 μm to about 20 μm from the cavity wall surface.
US08267804B1
A game table includes: a table body having two end frames; a table board rotatably connected between the two end frames, the table board having a hockey table face in which an air space is formed; an air-blowing member mounted in one of the end frames for blowing air into a pressure reservation space, after the pressure is reserved in the pressure reservation space, the air flowing into the air space and then flowing out the hockey table face through orifices thereof; and multiple flow guide units disposed in the air space to partition the air space into multiple flow ways. The flow guide units and the flow ways communicate with each other, whereby the air can uniformly flow to every part of the air space without generating turbulence and with the air pressure unified over the air space to enhance blowing effect of the hockey table face.
US08267803B2
An infant support structure includes a support frame having a lower member configured to engage a support surface. First and second spaced arcuate posts extend upwardly from the lower member, each of the posts having a distal end portion. A seat portion is disposed between and coupled to the posts. A first end of a toy bar is secured to the distal end portion of one of the posts, and a second end of the toy bar is secured to the distal end portion of the other of the posts.
US08267795B2
A server includes an acquisition section that provides a user with information about a virtual event area selected based on acquired current position information and position information linked to the virtual event area, the virtual event area being linked to position information that indicates a position within a predetermined range from an acquired current position, and stores the virtual event area as acquisition information about the user when an acquisition request for the virtual event area has been received, the virtual event area being linked to user identification information, a visit processing section that provides the user with information about the virtual event area having position information that indicates a position within a predetermined range from the acquired current position, based on the acquired current position information and the position information linked to the virtual event area, and receives a visit request, and a parameter calculation section that changes a result value or a predetermined game parameter of the user when a visit request for the virtual event area stored as the acquisition information about the user has been received from another user.
US08267791B2
Local groups LG formed of players belonging to the same team are generated in store units. The local groups LG of each team are combined to generate groups G of each team (group Ga of team A and group Gb of team B). The groups G of which the number of players is the same and which belong to different teams are matched as opposite groups.
US08267787B2
A controller (portable electronic apparatus) includes a housing and a key provided for protruding and retreating movement on the housing. The housing has a front face, a rear face, and a side face for connecting the front face and the rear face to each other. The key has a body having one end inserted in an opening formed in the side face and the other end exposed to the outside of the housing, and an extension extending along the side face from the other end of the body to the outside farther than an end edge of the opening. With the controller (portable electronic apparatus), the area of the face of the key which is exposed to the outside of the housing, that is, the area of the face which opposes to a finger of a user, can be increased. Therefore, at whichever position the face is depressed, the key can be inputted and the contact area with the finger can be increased.
US08267776B2
A gaming machine includes: a base game; gaming terminals; a bonus game configured to award a bonus payout more rewarding than the payout in the base game; a bonus payout indicator that displays the bonus payout; and paths, respectively corresponding to the gaming terminals, including light emitting portions arranged to form a channel extending from a position corresponding to each gaming terminal to the bonus payout indicator. In each gaming terminal, the base game is run independently from the other gaming terminals. The bonus game is run. A random number of the light emitting portions are activated toward the bonus payout indicator in a path corresponding to a gaming terminal in which a predetermined winning is met, every time the predetermined winning is met in the gaming terminals. The bonus payout is awarded in a gaming terminal corresponding to a path in which the light emitting portions turned active up to the bonus payout indicator.
US08267772B2
A gaming machine and methods for independently controlling the movement of each mechanical reel are disclosed. The gaming machine includes a plurality of mechanical reels each having indicia provided on an outer surface of each of the reels. A game controller generates a game outcome and determines a spin duration for each of the plurality of reels. One or more stepper motors are operatively coupled to the mechanical reels to independently spin each reel. A reel control unit is in communication with one or more stepper motors and the game controller. The reel control unit determines an appropriate spin profile for each reel based upon the game outcome and the spin duration to cause the reels to spin and stop in a rhythmic manner.
US08267771B2
A gaming system comprises a wager input device and at least one display for displaying a primary wagering game and a secondary wagering game. The secondary wagering game comprises a playing field, the playing field having a set of field attributes associated therewith. The system further comprises a controller operative to (i) determine and display a first outcome of the primary wagering game, (ii) determine if a first set of game attributes associated with first outcome is eligible for play in the secondary wagering game, (iii) if the first outcome is eligible, determine a second outcome of the secondary wagering game by resolving the first set of game attributes with the set of field attributes in accordance with a first rule set, and (iv) if the second outcome is a winning outcome, award a first award.
