US08598795B2
An arrangement wherein a plurality of LED strings are driven with a balanced drive signal, i.e. a drive signal wherein the positive side and negative side are of equal energy over time, is provided. In a preferred embodiment, the drive signal is balanced responsive to a capacitor provided between a switching network and a driving transformer. Balance of current between various LED strings is provided by a balancing transformer.
US08598794B2
A multi-color white LED which can be driven by a single current, and more particularly, to the use of a specific ratio of numbers of different color LEDs to obtain a specific desired color while running all of them at the same current.
US08598793B2
The color of an LED-based lamp can be tuned to a desired color or color temperature. The lamp can include two or more independently addressable groups of LEDs associated with different colors or color temperatures and a total-internal-reflection (TIR) color-mixing lens to produce light of a uniform color by mixing the light from the different groups of LEDs. The color of the output light is tuned by controllably dividing an input current among the groups of LEDs. Tuning can be performed once, e.g., during manufacture, and the lamp does not require active feedback components for maintaining color temperature.
US08598787B2
A display device includes a first electrode formed on a first substrate, and a second electrode formed on a second substrate. An electro-optical material is sandwiched between the first and second electrodes. A protective layer has a first section formed over the second substrate, a second section formed over the first substrate, and a third section formed between the first and second sections. The third section conforms to the shape of sides of the electro-optical material, the second electrode, and the second substrate.
US08598785B2
To provide a novel organometallic complex capable of emitting phosphorescence by using an organic compound with which a variety of derivatives can be easily synthesized as a ligand. In addition, to provide an organometallic complex which exhibits red emission. To provide an organometallic complex formed by ortho-metalation of an m-alkoxyphenyl pyrazine derivative represented by General Formula (G0) below with respect to an ion of a metal belonging to Group 9 or Group 10. In addition, to provide an organometallic complex which exhibits red emission formed by ortho-metalation of an m-alkoxyphenyl pyrazine derivative represented by General Formula (G0) below with respect to an ion of a metal belonging to Group 9 or Group 10.
US08598780B2
An organic light emitting display having a small thickness and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The organic light emitting display includes a substrate, an non-transmissive layer formed on the substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the non-transmissive layer, a gate insulation layer formed on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulation layer, an inter-layer dielectric layer formed on the gate electrode, a source/drain electrode formed on the inter-layer dielectric layer, an insulation layer formed on the source/drain electrode, and an organic light emitting diode formed on the insulation layer.
US08598773B2
A hot cathode fluorescent lamp (10) of small diameter is described comprising a shield (17) around the cathode (15) to avoid the formation of blackenings on the phosphors due to evaporated material and a mercury filiform mercury dispenser (20) fixed by a metallic part (18) to the front part of the shield, in such a geometry that said dispenser is turned towards the opposite end of the lamp and its axis is essentially parallel to the axis of the lamp.
US08598770B2
A resonator element capable of improving impact resistance is provided. A quartz crystal resonator element is a resonator element formed by etching a Z plate which is cut at predetermined angles with respect to the crystal axes of a quartz crystal. The quartz crystal resonator element includes a base, a pair of resonating arms extending from the base in the Y-axis direction, and a positive X-axis notch and a negative X-axis notch formed by notching the base in the X-axis direction. The positive X-axis notch is formed by notching the base from the negative side of the X axis towards the positive side so that the width of the positive X-axis notch increases as it approaches the outer circumference.
US08598766B2
A surface acoustic wave resonator includes a quartz crystal substrate with Euler angles (−1.5°≦φ≦1.5°, 117°≦θ≦142°, and 42.79°≦|Ψ|≦49.57°), and an IDT provided on the quartz crystal substrate that includes a plurality of electrode fingers and excites a stop band upper end mode surface acoustic wave. Inter-electrode finger grooves are provided between the electrode fingers. If a line occupation rate of the convex portions of the quartz crystal substrate disposed between the inter-electrode finger grooves is ηg, and a line occupation rate of the electrode fingers disposed on the convex portions is ηe, ηg>ηe and 0.59<ηeff<0.73 are satisfied when an effective line occupation rate ηeff of the IDT is an arithmetic mean of the line occupation rate ηg and the line occupation rate ηe.
US08598765B2
A U phase winding, an X phase winding, a V phase winding, a Y phase winding, a W phase winding, and a Z phase winding are configured by mounting conductor wires so as to alternate repeatedly between 5π/6 short-pitch windings and 7π/6 long-pitch windings, and are mounted into the stator core in that order so as to be stacked sequentially in a radial direction so as to be offset by one slot each in a first circumferential direction.
US08598759B2
A magnetic gear arrangement includes: a first gear member for generating a first magnetic field, a second gear member for generating a second magnetic field, and a coupling device which provides an arrangement of interpoles between the first gear member and the second gear member. The interpoles couple the first and second magnetic fields to produce a gearing between the first and second gear members. The first gear member has superconducting magnets or coils for generating the first magnetic field and/or the second gear member has superconducting magnets or coils for generating the second magnetic field.
US08598734B2
Converters are connected in parallel with each other to a pair of electric power lines. When required electric power required by a drive force generation unit is not more than a threshold value, a converter ECU causes a voltage converting operation of one of the converters that is associated with a power storage device of a higher output voltage to perform voltage converting operation, and causes the voltage converting operation of the other converter to be stopped, based on output voltages of the power storage devices detected by output voltage detection units. The first power storage device and the second power storage device are configured so that one of the power storage devices has a higher power supply voltage by a predetermined value than the power supply voltage of the other power storage device. The predetermined value is defined based on errors which may be included in detected values of the output voltage detection units.
US08598722B2
An electrical generator utilizing two internal combustion engine having an expanded range of power output is disclosed. A primary internal combustion engine is coupled to the magnet rotor assembly. The primary engine is operated solely in a lower power range. A secondary engine, coupled to a coil assembly is locked in place in such lower power range to make the coil assembly stationary. In a higher power range, that overlaps the lower power range, the secondary engine is unlocked and operated to rotate in a counter-rotating direction with respect to the first engine. The secondary engine can be started by operating the generator (consisting of the magnet rotor assembly and the coil assembly) as a motor by appropriate application of current.
US08598718B2
A three-dimensional multichip module includes a first integrated circuit chip having at least one first high-temperature functional area and one first low-temperature functional area, and at least one second integrated circuit chip having a second high-temperature functional area and a second low-temperature functional area. The second high-temperature functional area is arranged opposite the first low-temperature functional area. As an alternative, at least one low-temperature chip having only one low-temperature functional area can also be arranged between the first and second chips.
US08598713B2
According to an exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor die including at least one deep silicon via is provided. The deep silicon via comprises a deep silicon via opening that extends through at least one pre-metal dielectric layer of the semiconductor die, at least one epitaxial layer of the semiconductor die, and partially into a conductive substrate of the semiconductor die. The deep silicon via further comprises a conductive plug situated in the deep silicon via opening and forming an electrical contact with the conductive substrate. The deep silicon via may include a sidewall dielectric layer and a bottom conductive layer. A method for making a deep silicon via is also disclosed. The deep silicon via is used to, for example, provide a ground connection for power transistors in the semiconductor die.
US08598701B2
A semiconductor device has high reliability which suppresses a temperature rise of a set housing within an allowable range, and avoids an effect on a wiring on a package substrate due to thermal expansion of a heat dissipating member. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a package substrate, and a heat dissipating member. A first main surface of the semiconductor element faces an element-mounting surface of the package substrate and is connected to the package substrate. A main surface part of the heat dissipating member contacts a second main surface which is a back surface of first main surface of semiconductor element. A bonding part around a periphery of the main surface part is bonded to a bonding area of the element-mounting surface of the package substrate. A wiring on the package substrate is arranged at a portion other than the element-mounting surface, in a region of the bonding area.
US08598700B2
Thermal conductivity in a stacked IC device can be improved by constructing one or more active temperature control devices within the stacked IC device. In one embodiment, the control devices are thermal electric (TE) devices, such as Peltier devices. The TE devices can then be selectively controlled to remove or add heat, as necessary, to maintain the stacked IC device within a defined temperature range. The active temperature control elements can be P-N junctions created in the stacked IC device and can serve to move the heat laterally and/or vertically, as desired.
US08598696B2
An IC package having multiple surfaces for interconnection with interconnection elements making connections from the IC chip to the I/O terminations of the package assembly which reside on more than one of its surfaces and which make interconnections to other devices or assemblies that are spatially separated.
US08598690B2
A semiconductor device is made by mounting a plurality of semiconductor die to a substrate, depositing an encapsulant over the substrate and semiconductor die, forming a shielding layer over the semiconductor die, creating a channel in a peripheral region around the semiconductor die through the shielding layer, encapsulant and substrate at least to a ground plane within the substrate, depositing a conductive material in the channel, and removing a portion of the conductive material in the channel to create conductive vias in the channel which provide electrical connection between the shielding layer and ground plane. An interconnect structure is formed on the substrate and are electrically connected to the ground plane. Solder bumps are formed on a backside of the substrate opposite the semiconductor die. The shielding layer is connected to a ground point through the conductive via, ground plane, interconnect structure, and solder bumps of the substrate.
US08598686B2
The invention provides an electronic device package structure and method of fabrication thereof. The electronic device package structure includes a chip having an active surface and a bottom surface. A dielectric layer is disposed on the active surface of the chip. At least one trench is formed through the dielectric layer. A first protection layer covers the dielectric layer and sidewalls of the trench. A second protection layer covers the first protection layer, filling the trench.
US08598676B2
A starting substrate in the form of a semiconductor wafer (1) has a first side and a second side, the sides being plane-parallel with respect to each other, and has a thickness rendering it suitable for processing without significant risk of being damaged, for the fabrication of combined analogue and digital designs, the wafer including at least two partitions (A1, A2; DIGITAL, ANALOGUE) electrically insulated from each other by insulating material (2; 38; 81; L) extending entirely through the wafer. A method for making such substrates including etching trenches in a wafer, and filling trenches with insulating material is also described.
US08598675B2
An trench isolation structure and method for manufacturing the trench isolation structure are disclosed. An exemplary trench isolation structure includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion extends from a surface of a semiconductor substrate to a first depth in the semiconductor substrate, and has a width that tapers from a first width at the surface of the semiconductor substrate to a second width at the first depth, the first width being greater than the second width. The second portion extends from the first depth to a second depth in the semiconductor substrate, and has substantially the second width from the first depth to the second depth.
US08598673B2
A quad photoreceiver includes a low capacitance quad InGaAs p-i-n photodiode structure formed on an InP (100) substrate. The photodiode includes a substrate providing a buffer layer having a metal contact on its bottom portion serving as a common cathode for receiving a bias voltage, and successive layers deposited on its top portion, the first layer being drift layer, the second being an absorption layer, the third being a cap layer divided into four quarter pie shaped sections spaced apart, with metal contacts being deposited on outermost top portions of each section to provide output terminals, the top portions being active regions for detecting light. Four transimpedance amplifiers have input terminals electrically connected to individual output terminals of each p-i-n photodiode.
US08598662B2
A semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor substrate located on an insulating layer; and an insulator located on the insulating layer and embedded in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the insulator applies stress therein to the semiconductor substrate. A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises: forming a semiconductor substrate on an insulating layer; forming a cavity within the semiconductor substrate so as to expose the insulating layer; forming an insulator in the cavity, wherein the insulator applies stress therein to the semiconductor substrate. It facilitates the reduction of the short channel effect, the resistance of source/drain regions and parasitic capacitance.
US08598661B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device such as a MOSFET. The method includes forming gate electrode pillars on a silicon substrate via material deposition and etching. Following the etching step to define the pillars, an epitaxial silicon film is grown on the substrate between the pillars prior to forming recesses in the substrate for the source/drain regions of the transistor. The epitaxial silicon film compensates for substrate material that may be lost during formation of the gate electrode pillars, thereby producing source/drain recesses having a configuration amenable to be filled uniformly with silicon for later forming the source/drain regions in the substrate.
US08598652B2
Provided is a semiconductor device capable of suppressing deterioration in characteristics even when an Avalanche phenomenon occurs in the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first conductive type drift region; a second conductive type body region disposed on a front surface side of the drift region; a gate trench penetrating the body region and extending to the drift region; a gate electrode disposed within the gate trench; an insulator disposed between the gate electrode and a wall surface of the gate trench; and a second conductive type diffusion region surrounding a bottom portion of the gate trench. An impurity concentration and dimension of the diffusion region are adjusted such that a breakdown is to occur at a p-n junction between the diffusion region and the drift region when an Avalanche phenomenon is occurring.
US08598646B2
An electronic device includes a substrate with a semiconducting surface having a plurality of fin-type projections coextending in a first direction through a memory cell region and select gate regions. The electronic device further includes a dielectric isolation material disposed in spaces between the projections. In the electronic device, the dielectric isolation material in the memory cell regions have a height less than a height of the projections in the memory cell regions, and the dielectric isolation material in the select gate regions have a height greater than or equal to than a height of the projections in the select gate regions. The electronic device further includes gate features disposed on the substrate within the memory cell region and the select gate regions over the projections and the dielectric isolation material, where the gate features coextend in a second direction transverse to the first direction.
US08598644B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor storage device including a first transistor comprising a first gate electrode including a charge storage layer, an interelectrode insulating film, and a control electrode layer; a second transistor comprising a second gate electrode including a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and an upper silicide portion above the upper electrode; and a third transistor comprising a third gate electrode including a lower electrode, an upper electrode, and an upper silicide portion above the upper electrode; wherein the lower electrodes of the second and the third gate electrodes have a first side and a second side taken along a length direction of the second and the third gate electrodes, the lower electrodes of the second and the third gate electrodes including a lower silicide portion in which at least the first side of the lower electrodes are partially silicided.
US08598643B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first inter-electrode insulating film, and a third conductive layer stacked above the first conductive layer, a memory film, a semiconductor layer, an insulating member, and a silicide layer. The memory film and the semiconductor layer is formed on the inner surface of through hole provided in the second conductive layer, the first inter-electrode insulating film, and the third conductive layer. The insulating member is buried in a slit dividing the second conductive layer, the first inter-electrode insulating film, and the third conductive layer. The silicide layer is formed on surfaces of the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer in the slit. The distance between the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer along the inner surface of the slit is longer than that of along the stacking direction.
US08598640B2
A solid-state imaging device with a structure such that an electrode for reading a signal charge is provided on one side of a light-receiving sensor portion constituting a pixel; a predetermined voltage signal V is applied to a light-shielding film formed to cover an image pickup area except the light-receiving sensor portion; a second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed in the center on the surface of a first-conductivity-type semiconductor area constituting a photo-electric conversion area of the light-receiving sensor portion; and areas containing a lower impurity concentration than that of the second-conductivity-type semiconductor area is formed on the surface of the first-conductivity-type semiconductor area at the end on the side of the electrode and at the opposite end on the side of a pixel-separation area.
US08598638B2
A solid-state image capturing element according to the present invention includes a one conductivity type semiconductor substrate; an opposite conductivity type well region formed on the one conductivity type semiconductor substrate; a photodiode section formed on the opposite conductivity type well region, constituted of a plurality of one conductivity type regions with successively different impurity concentrations for complete electric charge transferring; a one conductive drain region capable of reading out signal charges from the photodiode section; and a transfer gate formed above a substrate between the one conductivity drain region and the photodiode section.
US08598636B2
The present invention discloses a heat dissipation structure for a SOI field effect transistor having a schottky source/drain, which relates to a field of microelectronics. The heat dissipation structure includes two holes connected with a drain terminal or with both a source terminal and a drain terminal, which are filled with an N-type material with high thermoelectric coefficient and a P-type material with high thermoelectric coefficient respectively. A metal wire for the N-type material with high thermoelectric coefficient in the vicinity of the drain terminal is applied a high potential with respect to the drain terminal, and a metal wire for the P-type material with high thermoelectric coefficient in the vicinity of the drain terminal is applied a low potential with respect to the drain terminal. A metal wire for the N-type material with high thermoelectric coefficient in the vicinity of the source terminal is applied a high potential with respect to the source terminal, and a metal wire for the P-type material in the vicinity of the source terminal is applied a lower potential with respect to the source terminal. By way of a Peltier effect, in the present invention heat can be absorbed at a contact portion between the thermoelectric material and the source/drain, and at the same time dissipated at a connection portion between the thermoelectric material and a bottom electrode metal, so that the heat generated in an active region of the device is effectively transferred to the substrate and dissipated through a heat sink.
US08598635B2
It is an object to provide a thin film transistor with high speed operation, in which a large amount of current can flow when the thin film transistor is on and off-state current is extremely reduced when the thin film transistor is off. The thin film transistor is a vertical thin film transistor in which a channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor film in which hydrogen is contained in an oxide semiconductor at a concentration of lower than or equal to 5×1019/cm3, preferably lower than or equal to 5×1018/cm3, more preferably lower than or equal to 5×1017/cm3, hydrogen or an OH group contained in the oxide semiconductor is/are removed, and carrier concentration is lower than or equal to 5×1014/cm3, preferably lower than or equal to 5×1012/cm3.
US08598621B2
A memory cell includes a thyristor having a plurality of alternately doped, vertically superposed semiconductor regions; a vertically oriented access transistor having an access gate; and a control gate operatively laterally adjacent one of the alternately doped, vertically superposed semiconductor regions. The control gate is spaced laterally of the access gate. Other embodiments are disclosed, including methods of forming memory cells and methods of forming a shared doped semiconductor region of a vertically oriented thyristor and a vertically oriented access transistor.
US08598617B2
An LED array comprises a growth substrate and at least two separated LED dies grown over the growth substrate. Each of LED dies sequentially comprise a first conductive type doped layer, a multiple quantum well layer and a second conductive type doped layer. The LED array is bonded to a carrier substrate. Each of separated LED dies on the LED array is simultaneously bonded to the carrier substrate. The second conductive type doped layer of each of separated LED dies is proximate to the carrier substrate. The first conductive type doped layer of each of LED dies is exposed. A patterned isolation layer is formed over each of LED dies and the carrier substrate. Conductive interconnects are formed over the patterned isolation layer to electrically connect the at least separated LED dies and each of LED dies to the carrier substrate.
US08598616B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light unit using the same. The light emitting device includes a body, a light emitting diode installed in the body, a plurality of lead frames disposed in the body and electrically connected to the light emitting diode; and a heat dissipation member received in the body, thermally connected to the light emitting diode, and having a plurality of heat dissipation fins exposed from a lower surface of the body.
US08598604B2
An optoelectronic component with a semiconductor body that comprises an active semiconductor layer sequence is disclosed, which is suitable for generating electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength that is emitted from a front face of the semiconductor body. The component also comprises a first wavelength conversion substance following the semiconductor body in its direction of emission, which converts radiation of the first wavelength into radiation of a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and a first selectively reflecting layer between the active semiconductor layer sequence and the first wavelength conversion substance that selectively reflects radiation of the second wavelength and is transparent to radiation of the first wavelength.
US08598595B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device comprises an SOI substrate; a semiconductor fin formed on the SOI substrate, the semiconductor fin having a first side and a second side which are opposite to each other and stand upward on a surface of the SOI substrate, and a trench which is opened at a central portion of the second side and opposite to the first side; a channel region formed in the fin and being between the first side and the trench at the second side; source and drain regions formed in the fin and sandwiching the channel region; and a gate stack formed on the SOI substrate and being adjacent to the first side of the fin, wherein the gate stack comprises a first gate dielectric extending away from the first side and being adjacent to the channel region, a first conductor layer extending away from the first side and being adjacent to the first gate dielectric, a second gate dielectric extending away from the first side and being adjacent laterally to one side of the first conductor layer, and a second conductor layer extending away from the first side and being adjacent laterally to one side of the second gate dielectric. The embodiments of the invention can be applied in manufacturing an FinFET.
US08598587B2
An optical sensor preventing damage to a semiconductor layer, and preventing a disconnection and a short circuit of a source electrode and a drain electrode, and a manufacturing method of the optical sensor is provided. The optical sensor includes: a substrate; an infrared ray sensing thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a visible ray sensing thin film transistor including a second semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; a switching thin film transistor including a third semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; and a semiconductor passivation layer enclosing an upper surface and a side surface of an end portion of at least one of the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer, and the third semiconductor layer.
US08598582B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate, a plurality of unit pixels on the substrate, each unit pixel including a first region that emits light and a second region that transmits external light, thin film transistors (TFTs) disposed in the first region of each unit pixel, first electrodes disposed in the first region of each unit pixel, each first electrode being electrically connected to one of the TFTs, a second electrode facing the first electrodes, and commonly disposed in the unit pixels, and an organic layer interposed between the first electrodes and the second electrode, and including an emissive layer. With respect to two adjacent pixels of the plurality of unit pixels, the first region and the second region in one unit pixel are symmetrical with the first region and the second region in another adjacent unit pixel, and the second regions are connected to each other.
US08598577B2
A display substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction on a base substrate, a data line on the base substrate and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a gate insulating layer on the gate line, a thin-film transistor and a pixel electrode. The thin-film transistor includes a gate electrode electrically connected the gate line, an oxide semiconductor pattern, and source and drain electrodes on the oxide semiconductor pattern and spaced apart from each other. The oxide semiconductor pattern includes a first semiconductor pattern including indium oxide and a second semiconductor pattern including indium-free oxide. The pixel electrode is electrically connected the drain electrode.
US08598576B2
A spin toque transfer magnetic random access memory (STTMRAM) element comprises a reference layer, formed on a substrate, with a fixed perpendicular magnetic component. A junction layer is formed on top of the reference layer and a free layer is formed on top of the junction layer with a perpendicular magnetic orientation, at substantially its center of the free layer and switchable. A spacer layer is formed on top of the free layer and a fixed layer is formed on top of the spacer layer, the fixed layer has a fixed perpendicular magnetic component opposite to that of the reference layer. The magnetic orientation of the free layer switches relative to that of the fixed layer. The perpendicular magnetic components of the fixed layer and the reference layer substantially cancel each other and the free layer has an in-plane edge magnetization field.
US08598567B2
Photoconductive optoelectronic devices, such as photodetectors and photovoltaics, are provided. The devices are sensitized to a particular wavelength (or range of wavelengths) of electromagnetic radiation such that the devices provide increased performance efficiency (e.g., external quantum efficiency) at the wavelength. The devices include a photoconductive semiconductor layer spanning an electrode gap between two electrodes to provide a photoconductive electrical conduit. Abutting the semiconductor layer is a plurality of plasmonic nanoparticles. The improved efficiency of the devices results from wavelength-dependent plasmonic enhancement of device photosensitivity by the plasmonic nanoparticles.
US08598557B2
This application relates to an apparatus and method for providing patterned illumination fields for use within process control and article inspection applications. More specifically, it pertains to the use of patterned illuminators to enable visual surface inspection of polished objects such as ball bearings. The use of patterned illuminators properly disposed in relation to a polished part under inspection allows small surface imperfections such as scratches and pits to become visible against the normal surface background. The use of carefully engineered illuminators facilitates advantageous defect-site scattering from generally dark field sources. The patterned nature of the illuminators defined by this invention allows the complete surface of three-dimensional parts to be effectively highlighted using dark field illumination fields.
US08598553B2
In certain exemplary embodiments of the present invention, three-dimensional micro-mechanical devices and/or micro-structures can be made using a production casting process. As part of this process, an intermediate mold can be made from or derived from a precision stack lamination and used to fabricate the devices and/or structures. Further, the micro-devices and/or micro-structures can be fabricated on planar or nonplanar surfaces through use of a series of production casting processes and intermediate molds. The use of precision stack lamination can allow the fabrication of high aspect ratio structures. Moreover, via certain molding and/or casting materials, molds having cavities with protruding undercuts also can be fabricated.
US08598543B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for treatment of solid cancer. More particularly, the invention comprises a multi-axis and/or multi-field raster beam charged particle cancer therapy system. The system independently controls patient translation position, patient rotation position, two-dimensional beam trajectory, delivered beam energy, delivered beam intensity, beam movement velocity, timing of charged particle delivery, and/or distribution of radiation striking healthy tissue. The system operates in conjunction with a negative ion beam source, synchrotron, patient positioning, imaging, and/or targeting method and apparatus to deliver an effective and uniform dose of radiation to a tumor while distributing radiation striking healthy tissue.
US08598539B2
A germicidal device for elevator buttons includes a casing and a lamp tube installed inside the casing and capable of emitting germicidal light. The casing can be fixedly mounted on an elevator control panel for the germicidal light emitted from the lamp tube to project onto all elevator buttons on the elevator control panel, so as to continuously kill any germs on the elevator buttons. The casing is provided on a bottom with an elongated slot, via which the germicidal light emitted from the lamp tube is outward projected onto all the elevator buttons. The lamp tube can be a UV germicidal lamp tube for emitting UV germicidal light.
US08598538B2
In a substrate stage device, a substrate is held by a substrate support member mounted on a Y step surface plate. The substrate support member moves in the scanning direction in long strokes on the Y step surface plate. The part corresponding to an exposure area of the substrate is held by suction in a non-contact manner from below by a fixed point stage, and other parts are supported by levitation by the plurality of air floating devices placed on the Y step surface plate. The part corresponding to the exposure area of the substrate is controlled so that surface position of the substrate is located in the depth of focus of the projection optical system by the fixed point stage.
US08598535B2
An evaluation method for evaluating the ultraviolet protection effect of a measurement sample applied on a substrate includes measuring, at predetermined wavelength intervals, a change over time of a spectral transmission spectrum of the measurement sample within a predetermined wavelength range by irradiating light from a light source that includes ultraviolet light, visible light, and infrared light under a predetermined irradiation condition; establishing, based on the change over time of the spectral transmission spectrum, a correlation between a light irradiation time and an erythema effective dose per unit time, which is obtained by dividing an erythema effective dose of the measurement sample by an erythema effective dose per 1 MED; and calculating an in vitro rSPF predictive value for the measurement sample on the basis of a time until a cumulative erythema effective dose, which is obtained through time integration based on the correlation, reaches 1 MED.
US08598530B2
The present disclosure discloses, in one arrangement, a single crystalline chloride scintillator material having a composition of the formula A3MCl6, wherein A consists essentially of Cs and M consists essentially of Ce and Gd. In another arrangement, a chloride scintillator material is single-crystalline and has a composition of the formula AM2Cl7, wherein A consists essentially of Li, Na K, Rb, Cs or any combination thereof, and M consists essentially of Ce, Sc, Y, La, Lu, Gd, Pr, Tb, Yb, Nd or any combination thereof. Specific examples of these scintillator materials include single-crystalline Ce-doped KGd2Cl7 (KGd2(1-x)Ce2xCl7) and Ce-doped CsGd2Cl7(CsGd2(1-x)Ce2xCl7).
US08598528B2
A bolometric array detector for detecting electromagnetic radiation in a predetermined range of infrared wavelengths includes a substrate; an array of bolometric micro-plates for detecting the radiation suspended above the substrate by support arms; and metallic reflectors formed on the substrate underneath the micro-plates to reflect that portion of the radiation which has passed through said micro-plates without being absorbed by the latter. For each micro-plate, a corresponding reflector includes a first part located underneath the micro-plate which extends as a second part not positioned underneath the micro-plate. At least the second part has surface texturing in a repeating pattern for coupling a portion of incident radiation on the second part to a guided wave that propagates towards the first part of the reflector positioned underneath micro-plate.
US08598526B2
A transmission electron microscope in which a sample is positioned in a sample plane 9b comprises an objective lens 11b, a first projection lens system 61b having plural lenses, a second projection lens 63b system having plural lenses, and an analyzing system.The sample plane 9b is imaged into an intermediate image plane 71, a diffraction plane 15b of the objective lens 11b is imaged into an intermediate diffraction plane 67b, and either a) the intermediate image plane is imaged into an entrance image plane of the analyzing system and the intermediate diffraction plane is imaged into an entrance pupil plane of the analyzing system, or b) the intermediate image plane 71 is imaged into the entrance pupil plane 65b and the intermediate diffraction plane 67b is imaged into the entrance image plane 21b.
US08598522B2
Described are techniques for tuning parameters of a system. For one or more values of a distance, mass spectral analysis of a liquid analyte stream is performed. A corresponding ion signal intensity of a selected ion is obtained. The distance is measured from a first end of a first tube to a second end of a second tube which surrounds said first tube. Using a computing device, a current value of the distance is automatically adjusted in accordance with corresponding ion signal intensities obtained for the selected ion. Using a computing device, a desired value for the distance is automatically determined using the corresponding ion signal intensities. The desired value results in an ion signal intensity for the selected ion which is any of more than a threshold intensity and a maximum of ion signal intensities obtained by performing mass spectral analysis using different values for the distance.
US08598519B2
A method includes directing ions from an atmospheric pressure ion source to a first ion guide; directing ions in the first ion guide to a second ion guide, the second ion guide being a multipole ion guide extending along an axis; periodically directing ions along the axis; receiving at least some of the ions in a time-of-flight analyzer; accelerating the ions in the time-of-flight mass analyzer orthogonal to the axis; and detecting the accelerated ions.
US08598518B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a time of flight mass analyzer. The time of flight mass analyszr comprises an ion guide comprising a plurality of electrodes which are interconnected by a series of resistors forming a potential divider. Ions are confined radially within the ion guide by the application of a two-phase RF voltage to the electrodes. A single phase additional RF voltage is applied across the potential divider so that an inhomogeneous pseudo-potential force is maintained along the length of the ion guide.
US08598516B2
The present invention relates to the analytical electronics used to identify compositions and structures of substances, in particular, to the analyzers comprising at least one mass-spectrometer (MS) and may be applied in such fields as medicine, biology, gas and oil industry, metallurgy, energy, geochemistry, hydrology, ecology.Technical result provides the increase in MS resolution, gain in sensitivity, precision and measurement rates of substances compositions and structures concurrently with enhancement of analyzer functional capabilities, downsizing and mass reduction.In claimed invention the ion flux generation and its guiding are performed in off-axis single-flow mode; parallel multi-stage mode; through use of three-dimensional field with mean meridian surface including without limitation three-dimensional reflecting and dual-zoned reflecting modes or by method of multi-reflection arrays.Devices to implement the claimed method are embodied.Proposed schematic ion optical diagrams allow developing different MS types notable for their minimized material intensity and geometrical dimensions.
US08598510B2
A downhole instrument for estimating density of sub-surface materials includes: a neutron source, a source monitoring detector, a near detector and a far detector. Each of the detectors may be coupled to an electronics unit adapted for receiving a detection signal from each of the detectors and compensating the detection signal for at least one of the near detector and the far detector according to the detection signal of the source monitoring detector. A method for estimating density is provided.
US08598509B2
An optical encoder comprising a set of light sources configured to emit light rays in a serial manner, an encoded scale configured to reflect at least a portion of the emitted light rays, and a photodetector, where the photodetector is configured to detect at least a portion of the reflected light rays and to generate signals based on the detected light rays for each of the light sources.
US08598507B2
A sensor circuit integrated with a signal processing circuit and a charging circuit. The sensor circuit has a sensor voltage source to which a sensor internal resonance is connected in series, the signal processing circuit having a capacitor to which the sensor voltage source is connected via a signal line of the charging circuit, and a switch. The charging circuit includes another capacitor connected to the signal line, and a drive circuit at an input side of which the other capacitor is connected and which has a transconductance equivalent to an internal resistance.
US08598506B2
An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a conversion unit configured to generate electric charge, a first amplification unit configured to amplify a signal corresponding to an amount of the electric charge and output a first amplified signal, a second amplification unit configured to amplify the first amplified signal and output a second amplified signal, a current source shared by the first amplification unit and the second amplification unit, and a selection unit configured to bring the first amplification unit and the second amplification unit into an inactive state. The current source is shared by the first amplification unit and the second amplification unit. The number of current sources is therefore reduced. This leads to the reduction in power consumption.
US08598503B2
A projection display apparatus includes: a light amount sensor which detects an amount of light emitted from an array light source; a deterioration rate calculator which acquires an amount of light of a measurement target light source from the amount of light detected by the light amount sensor; a reference light amount storage which stores a reference amount of light of an amount of light emitted from plurality of solid state light sources, for each of the solid state light sources; and a light source controller which controls the amount of light emitted from the plurality of solid state light sources for each of the solid state light sources, and the deterioration rate calculator determines whether the measurement target light source has deteriorated, in accordance with a result of a comparison between the amount of light detected by the light amount sensor, and the reference amount of light.
US08598495B2
A device for heating containers, in particular drums, for example containing liquid materials that undergo temperature-induced changes in viscosity. The device has a heat conducting base upon which a drum is adapted to be placed. In one embodiment, the device is provided with a plurality of interchangeable bases designed to be used with different liquids that are effective to heat a liquid to a desired temperature.
US08598489B1
A system, method, and device for etching an indicia onto a piece of glass or other inorganic oxide includes a compact laser etching device having a delivery head, an emitter housing, a RF cable, and a communication cable. The delivery head has a beam steering mechanism and a hood assembly positioned between the beam steering mechanism and the piece of glass. The emitter housing has a laser for generating a laser beam, and a fold mirror positioned in an optical path of the laser beam for redirecting the laser beam into the beam steering mechanism. A remote RF electronics package drives the laser. Control electronics cause the beam steering mechanism to steer the laser beam into a pattern of the indicia. The delivery head may further include a plurality of suction cups for holding the compact laser etching device in engagement with the piece of glass.
US08598488B2
An apparatus can include a first beam cropper configured to crop a portion of a radiation pulse having a first spot size to form an intermediate cropped radiation pulse having an intermediate cropped spot with an intermediate cropped spot size less than the first spot size; and a second beam cropper configured to crop the intermediate cropped spot to form a second cropped radiation pulse having a second cropped spot with a second cropped spot size less the intermediate cropped spot size.
US08598485B2
The present invention efficiently processes work pieces by transferring them without bringing them outside. The present invention comprises: a stage 4 for working, which is used when working a work piece D, L by irradiating a focused beam B while observing the work piece D, L in an observation region W of a previously determined range, and possessing a table 10 having plural mount bases 2, 3 on whose upper faces 2a, 3a there can be respectively mounted the work piece D, L; and a rotation slant means 11 rotating respectively the mount base 2, 3 about a Z-axis perpendicular to the upper faces 2a, 3a and slanting the upper faces 2a, 3a to an arbitrary angle, wherein the table 10 is made possible to move so as to dispose respectively the plural mount bases 2, 3 to an inside of the observation region W.
US08598483B2
A switching device assembly with a contact gap has a nozzle made of insulating material. The nozzle made of insulating material is formed with a nozzle channel that ends in a hot gas space. A deflector element is arranged within the hot gas space. The deflector element is supported inside the deflector channel.
US08598480B2
An exemplary electronic device includes a casing, a first switch, a second switch and a switch control unit. The casing includes a side plate and a top plate detachably connected with a top end of the side plate. The first switch is turned on when the top plate is connected to the side plate and turned off when the top plate is detached from the side plate. The switch control unit includes a sliding member mounted at one side of the second switch. The sliding member includes a pressing plate. The sliding member is moveable relative to the side plate between a first state in which the pressing plate aligned with and pressing the second switch to turn on the second switch and a second state in which the pressing plate is staggered with the second switch to turn off the second switch.
US08598474B2
A mobile device is described herein in which the mobile device has a housing that includes a transition point and an actuator that can be flexible and that can be used to initiate a predetermined action. The actuator can include a transition point. The mobile device can also have a stiffening component that can be configured to engage the actuator and can also have a flexible circuit. In one arrangement, the flexible circuit can be coupled to the stiffening component and the flexible circuit can be configured to relay signals in response to a force being applied to the actuator. In another arrangement, the actuator can be positioned such that the transition point of the actuator substantially aligns with the transition point of the housing of the mobile device.
US08598466B2
A shielded signal pass-through or via structure integral with an electronic circuit board is described. The structure includes a rigid inner generally cylindrical conductor; at least a semi-rigid intermediate annular dielectric surrounding the conductor; and a rigid outer annular conductor surrounding the dielectric material. Also described is an interconnect device that presents a contact array in a boss region of a unitary embossed printed circuit board (PCB) optionally equipped with one or more such shielded vias.
US08598457B2
A flexible electrical line has at least one sensor element with two leads in a core, the leads made from insulated electrical conductors which are surrounded by a common outer casing of insulation material. The core is three phase leads of a conductor and insulation which are stranded together for energy transmission. The conductors of the leads are copper wires which surround a tension-proof central element in two layers with oppositely directed threading direction. The insulation of the leads is a cross-linked elastomer material applied by extrusion with a dielectricity number of at least 6.0 at room temperature. The unit, composed of leads and filler strands of the sensor element, is surrounded by a casing of an electrically conductive polymer material, and the core of the line is surrounded by a common inner casing produced by extrusion over which is arranged the outer casing.
US08598448B2
Disclosed are semiconducting compounds having one or more pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole-2,5(1H,4H)-dione 3,6-diyl units. Such compounds can be monomeric, oligomeric, or polymeric, and can exhibit desirable electronic properties and possess processing advantages including solution-processability and/or good stability.
US08598445B2
A means of providing solar powered electricity for day and nighttime use supported in part by power from the grid to allow a small generator to electrify the home or business with a small generator operating with much larger capacity. Excess solar energy is provided to the power company as needed.
US08598444B2
A controller for a tablet computing device is disclosed. The controller has a body having a number of control surfaces. A dock is on the body and has an L-shaped groove configured and arranged to receive a tablet computing device docked therein. A microcontroller is configured and arranged to detect interactions with the control surfaces and transmit the interactions to the tablet computing device. An analog output is configured and arranged to receive audio signals from the tablet computing device whereby interactions from the control surfaces are processed by the tablet computing device into audio signals for transmission through the audio output.
US08598442B2
The pin-barrel (1) is provided for a musical box in the form of a wristwatch. The pin-barrel is formed of a set of parallel pairs of strips (3, 3′), which are connected at one end thereof to a heel (2). Each pair of strips forms a tuning fork, wherein one of the strips (3′) of the pair can be set in vibration by at least one pin of a musical module wherein the vibration propagates to the other strip (3) of the pair by a longitudinal wave.
US08598421B2
A soybean cultivar designated S090081 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090081, to the plants of soybean cultivar S090081, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S090081, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S090081. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090081. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090081, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S090081 with another soybean cultivar.
US08598420B2
A soybean cultivar designated S090088 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090088, to the plants of soybean cultivar S090088, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S090088, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S090088. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090088. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090088, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S090088 with another soybean cultivar.
US08598418B2
A soybean cultivar designated S100315 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S100315, to the plants of soybean cultivar S100315, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S100315, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S100315. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100315. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S100315, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S100315 with another soybean cultivar.
US08598410B2
The present invention relates generally to a process of producing transgenic plants and more particularly transgenic oil palm plants carrying exogenous genetic material which confers on said plants or cells of said plants particular phenotypic traits. The present invention further provides plant parts, reproductive material and plant products from the transgenic plants. The present invention particularly provides transgenic plants and even more particularly transgenic oil plants having beneficial and useful phenotypic characteristics not present at least to the same extent in non-transgenic plants of the same species. The present invention is further directed to oil, and particularly palm oil, having beneficial and desirable characteristics, produced by the transgenic plants made in accordance with the present invention.
US08598408B2
The present invention aims to provide a method for antibody preparation. The present invention is directed to a method for preparing an antibody-producing cell, which comprises the following steps: (1) transplanting metastatic cancer cells capable of expressing a target antigen into a non-human animal to ensure engraftment of the cancer cells in the animal; (2) immunizing the animal with the target antigen; and (3) collecting the antibody-producing cell from the immunized animal; as well as a method for preparing an antibody, which comprises collecting the antibody from the antibody-producing cell prepared by the above method.
US08598402B2
The present invention describes a n-butane absorption process for purifying the ethylene product from an ethane oxidation process. The ethane oxidation product is fed to a series of absorption towers using a n-butane solvent that remove the inert components as well as purifying the ethylene from the product. A first absorption tower uses n-butane as a solvent to absorb both the ethane and ethylene, allowing for inert gasses to be removed from the stream. An ethylene-rich side stream from this tower is sent to an ethylene purification tower where ethylene is purified using n-butane solvent. The bottom stream from the first absorption tower is then sent to an intermediate ethylene recovery tower where crude ethylene is purified, and the overhead ethylene stream being sent to the ethylene purification tower. The bottoms stream, along with the bottoms stream of the ethylene purification tower, both of which comprise mostly ethane and n-butane, are then sent to a stripper tower for ethane recovery and n-butane solvent recover.
US08598400B2
The present invention generally relates to methods for performing metathesis reactions, including cross-metathesis reactions. Methods described herein exhibit enhanced activity and stereoselectivity, relative to known methods, and are useful in the synthesis of a large assortment of biologically and therapeutically significant agents.
US08598396B2
Olefin feeds with high olefin content and/or containing a substance that generates water when contacting the catalyst, are oligomerised over solid phosphoric acid catalyst in tubular reactors by introducing the olefin feed into the reactor and maintaining the reacting mixture under conditions whereby the peak temperature is controlled to be below 265° C. and preferably a single liquid or dense phase is maintained and the average temperature throughout the reactor is maintained in the range 190° C. to 260° C.
US08598386B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing (R)-2-acetamido-N-benzyl-3-methoxypropionamide (lacosamide), by methylation of (R)-2-acetamino-2-N-benzyl-3-hydroxy-propionamide (V), in which the methylation is carried out at a temperature below 20° C.
US08598383B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition useful for treating or preventing inflammatory disease and cell damage, and a method for treating or preventing inflammatory disease and cell damage. The present invention uses the 2-hydroxybenzoic acid derivative represented by the specific chemical formula or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The compound of the present invention is useful for treating or preventing cell damage and inflammatory disease including gastritis, gastric ulcer, pancreatitis, colitis, arthritis, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, nephritis, hepatitis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Lou Gehrig's disease.
US08598378B2
Methods and compositions are disclosed for the direct transesterification and extraction of bio-lipids and bio-oils in the production of biofuel, particularly fatty acid methyl ester products.
US08598373B2
The invention includes halichondrin B analogs having pharmaceutical activity; in some cases, crystalline forms thereof, and in some cases, halichondrin B analogs having a further utility as synthetic intermediates.
US08598371B2
Compounds of the formula (I) in the form of a mixture of predominantly one diastereomer or in the form of pure diastereomers, Z1-Q-P*R0R1 (I), wherein: Z1 is a C-bonded, secondary phosphine group of the formula —P(R)2, wherein R is a hydrocarbon radical or O-atom(s)-containing heterohydrocarbon radical having 1 to 18 carbon atoms and optionally substituted by C1-C6-alkyl, trifluoromethyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, trifluoromethoxy, (C1-C4-alkyl)2amino, (C6H5)3Si, (C1-C12-alkyl)3Si or halogen; Q is selected from the group consisting of: (i) an optionally substituted achiral aromatic group, wherein the achiral aromatic group is bonded directly to Z1 through a carbon atom of the achiral aromatic group and bonded directly to P*R0R1 through a carbon atom of the achiral aromatic group, and (ii) an optionally substituted C1-C4-alkylene group; P* is a chiral phosphorus atom; R0 is methyl; and R1 is a C-bonded optically enriched or optically pure chiral, mono- or polycyclic, nonaromatic hydrocarbon ring; and preparation and use.
US08598370B2
The present invention provides a process for producing Droxidopa or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof comprising a step of reacting threo-N-phthaloyl-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-L-serine represented by the formula (1) with methylamine, whereby a process for producing threo-3-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-L-serine (common name: Droxidopa), which is useful as an agent for treatment of peripheral orthostatic hypotension or an agent for treatment of Parkinson's disease, with high production efficiency and without requiring troublesome operations.
US08598369B2
The instant invention pertains to novel bi- or tricyclic sterically hindered alkoxyamines, their precursors, a process for their preparation and their use as light stabilizers for polymers or coatings, as flame retardants, as peroxide substitutes (rheology modifiers) or carbon radical scavengers.
US08598358B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing an oxazole compound in a high yield.The object can be achieved by a compound represented by Formula (11): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or lower-alkyl group; R2 is a 1-piperidyl group substituted at the 4-position with a substituent selected from (A1a) a phenoxy group substituted on the phenyl moiety with one or more halogen-substituted lower-alkoxy groups, (A1b) a phenoxy-substituted lower-alkyl group substituted on the phenyl moiety with one or more halogen-substituted lower-alkyl groups, (A1c) a phenyl-substituted lower-alkoxy lower-alkyl group substituted on the phenyl moiety with halogen, (A1d) a phenyl-substituted lower-alkyl group substituted on the phenyl moiety with one or more halogen-substituted lower-alkoxy groups, (A1e) an amino group substituted with a phenyl group substituted with one or more halogen-substituted lower-alkoxy groups, and a lower-alkyl group, and (A1f) a phenyl-substituted lower-alkoxy group substituted on the phenyl moiety with one or more halogen-substituted lower-alkoxy groups; n is an integer from 1 to 6; and X3 is an organic sulfonyloxy group.
US08598351B2
The present invention provides phospho-amino pincer-type ligands, metal complexes thereof, and catalytic methods comprising such metal complexes.
US08598342B2
The present invention provides Wall Teichoic Acid biosynthesis inhibitors such as compound 1835F03 (targocil) and related synthetic analogs. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods for treating bacterial infection and the suppression of growth of bacterial cells by administering a Wall Teichoic Acid biosynthesis inhibitor. The invention is particularly useful for the treatment of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The invention further provides procedures for the syntheses of Wall Teichoic Acid biosynthesis inhibitors. The invention also provides methods for the identification of antibacterial therapeutic agents.
US08598339B2
The present invention features novel withanolides, as well as analogs and salts thereof, for use in the treatment of proliferative disease, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease and inflammatory disease.
US08598330B2
The present invention provides a method of screening a subject for mutations in the CC2D2A gene that are associated with Joubert syndrome, an autosomal recessive form of mental retardation. The present invention also provides proteins that are associated with Joubert syndrome including proteins that includes an amino acid sequence that terminates in DHEGGSGMES (SEQ ID NO: 1). Also provided are nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins and methods of screening subjects to identify nucleotide sequences or proteins associated with Joubert syndrome.
US08598328B2
An object is to provide a Tol1 element transposase and a use thereof. Provided is a Tol1 element transposase containing (a) a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No: 1 or (b) a protein having an amino acid sequence homologous to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and having an enzymatic activity for transferring Tol1 element. Further, provided are a polynucleotide encoding the transposase and an expression construct containing the polynucleotide therein. The present invention also provides a DNA introduction system including (a) a donor factor having such a structure that a desired DNA is inserted in a transposase gene-defected Tol1 element and (b) a helper factor containing the transposase or the polynucleotide.
US08598322B2
A hybridoma cell which has been deposited under ATCC Accession Number PTA-9974 is disclosed. Also provided are Antibodies and methods of using same.
US08598315B2
This invention relates to novel protein transduction domains (PTDs) derived from secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI). SLPI-derived PTDs are able to deliver cargo moieties in vivo and in vitro into the cytoplasm and nucleus of a host cell. The invention also relates to a transduction complex comprising one or more SLPI-derived PTDs linked or fused to one or more cargo moieties, which may comprise, for example, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates, small molecules and other chemical compounds. The invention also relates to the manufacture of SLPI-derived PTDs, complexes comprising them; compositions comprising SLPI-derived PTDs or complexes; and utilization of SLPI-derived PTDs or complexes comprising them for therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods involving delivery of heterologous molecules across cellular membranes, and especially, across nuclear membranes.
US08598313B2
In alternative embodiments, the invention provides apratoxin F and apratoxin G compounds, which include apratoxin F and apratoxin G stereoisomers, derivatives and analogs compositions and methods. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising apratoxin F (compound 6 of FIG. 1) and apratoxin G (compound 7 of FIG. 1) and their stereoisomers, derivatives and analogs. In alternative embodiments, pharmaceutical compositions and formulations of the invention are administered in an amount sufficient to treat, prevent and/or ameliorate a disease or condition that can be ameliorated by decreasing or inhibiting cell growth, e.g., pathological, uncontrolled or unwanted cell growth, e.g., a cancer or a metastases, or any disease or condition (e.g., allergy) or infection having a hyperproliferative cell growth component.
US08598312B2
The present invention relates to compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for their use. In particular, the compounds of the invention are useful for the treatment or prevention of diseases associated with T cell proliferation such as autoimmune diseases and disorders.
US08598308B2
The invention relates to novel multifunctional dendrimer structures with a high loading capacity. Said dendrimer structures include a nucleus having at least a first generation or an end generation covalently bonded thereto. The first generation is formed by at least two of the following structures, namely: a spacer, a load, a branching element. In addition, a plurality of sequences (known as intermediary generations) with at least two of the aforementioned structures can be joined to the first generation. The terminal generation is formed by at least three of the following structures, namely: a spacer, a load, a branching element and a terminal.
US08598299B2
A semiconductor composition for producing a semiconducting layer with consistently high mobility is disclosed. The semiconductor composition includes a diketopyrrolopyrrole-thiophene copolymer and a non-aromatic halogenated hydrocarbon solvent. The copolymer has a structure disclosed within. Preferably, the non-aromatic halogenated hydrocarbon solvent contains at least 2 carbon atoms and at least 3 halogen atoms.
US08598294B2
Hardener composition for condensation-crosslinking RTV-2 silicone compositions contain (A) at least one crosslinker, (B) at least one crosslinking catalyst which is an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal compound which is not a hydroxide, and (D) at least one functional silane as a coupling agent.
US08598287B2
A process for polymerizing olefin(s) utilizing a cyclic bridged metallocene catalyst system to produce polymers with improved properties is provided. The catalyst system may include a cyclic bridged metallocene, LA(R′SiR′)LBZrQ2, activated by an activator, the activator comprising aluminoxane, a modified aluminoxane, or a mixture thereof, and supported by a support, where: LA and LB are independently an unsubstituted or a substituted cyclopentadienyl ligand bonded to Zr and defined by the formula (C5H4-dRd), where R is hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl substituent, a substituted hydrocarbyl substituent, or a heteroatom substituent, and where d is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; LA and LB are connected to one another with a cyclic silicon bridge, R′SiR′, where R′ are independently hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl substituents that are connected with each other to form a silacycle ring; and each Q is a labile hydrocarbyl or a substituted hydrocarbyl ligand.
US08598285B2
A process for the preparation of 1-butene homopolymers or 1-butene/alpha olefin copolymers wherein the alpha olefins are selected from ethylene, propylene or alpha olefins of formula CH2═CHZ wherein Z is a C3-C20 alkyl radical, comprising contacting 1-butene or 1-butene and one or more alpha olefins under polymerization conditions in the presence of a catalyst system comprising: (a) a solid component comprising a Ti compound and an internal electron-donor compound supported on MgCl2 (b) an alkylaluminum cocatalyst; and (c) a compound of formula (I) as external donor.
US08598280B2
Process for preparing molding materials MM with improved optical and color properties, consisting of a polymer PM which contains units of the formula I in which R1 and R2 are each hydrogen and methyl and R3 is hydrogen, C1-C18-alkyl, C5-C8-cycloalkyl, C6-C10-aryl, C6-C10-aryl-C1-C4-alkyl, where these radicals may be up to trisubstituted by radicals selected from the group consisting of C1-C4-alkoxy and halogen, prepared in an imidation reaction known per se in a reactive extruder, in which, on completion of the imidation reaction, an amount of one or more reducing phosphorus compounds P which is effective for color stabilization is added to the polymer PM, characterized in that the phosphorus compounds are organic phosphorus compounds OP selected from the group consisting of compounds of the formula II in which R4 and R5 are each independently hydrogen or an aromatic 6-membered ring which may be up to pentasubstituted by a C1-C4-alkyl and/or C5-C8-cycloalkyl groups. Shaped bodies obtainable by the process, especially light waveguides, have a low tendency to yellowing under thermal stress, coupled with a low haze, and also a stable and high transparency.
US08598277B2
Polyolefin composition with improved sealability comprising from 70 to 95% of one or more copolymers of propylene with one or more comonomers selected from ethylene, a C4-C8 α-olefin and combinations thereof, where the comonomer, or comonomers, content in (A) is from 5 to 25%, and from 5 to 30% by weight of butene-1 (co)polymer (B) having a flexural modulus of 60 MPa or less.
US08598274B2
A method for producing a modified conjugated diene-based polymer, wherein the method comprises: a first step of producing a conjugated diene-based polymer by polymerizing monomers comprising a conjugated diene compound in a hydrocarbon solvent using an organoalkali metal compound and a second step of adding (I) a compound having a carbonyl group and a substituted amino group and (II) a compound represented by Formula (II-A) to a hydrocarbon solvent containing the conjugated diene-based polymer.
US08598265B2
Disclosed is a thermoplastic elastomer composition that will provide little load on the environment and has superior mechanical characteristics, the composition being obtained by melt-kneading 10 to 90 parts of ethylene-α-olefin based copolymer rubber (A), 1 to 50 parts of non-petroleum source-derived thermoplastic resin (B), 1 to 50 parts of modified propylene-based copolymer (C), 1 to 50 parts of propylene-based polymer (D), 0.001 to 5 parts of crosslinking agent (E), and 0 to 50 parts of mineral oil-based softening agent (F), wherein the amounts of components (A), (B), (C), (D), and (F) are amounts in weight calculated where the combined amount of components (A), (B), (C), (D) and (F) is considered to be 100 parts by weight, and the amount of component (E) is an amount in weight calculated where the combined amount of components (A), (B), (C), (D), and (F) is considered to be 100 parts by weight.
US08598263B2
Flexible members for use in imaging devices comprise a polyamic acid and an internal release agent; and optionally, a polysiloxane surfactant.
US08598259B2
The vinyl chloride resin composition for transparent products which does not contain heavy metal stabilizers such as lead, tin and barium, characterized in that (A) 0.001˜10 mass parts of at least one kind of organic acid zinc salts and (B) 0.001˜10 mass parts of at least one kind of zinc-modified hydrotalcite compounds are contained relative to 100 mass parts of vinyl chloride resin; and the transparent molded products produced by molding the said composition.
US08598258B2
The present invention provides a tire rubber composition which improves in fuel economy, processability, adhesion, and rubber strength in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire. The tire rubber composition includes: a rubber component; a plasticizer (a); and at least one of a resin and a plasticizer (b), the resin being at least one selected from the group consisting of aromatic petroleum resins, terpenic resins, and rosin resins. The plasticizer (a) has a glass transition point of −50° C. or lower. The resin and the plasticizer (b) each have a glass transition point of −40° C. to 20° C. The tire rubber composition includes, for each 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 1 to 30 parts by mass of the plasticizer (a) and 1 to 30 parts by mass in total of the at least one of the resin and the plasticizer (b).
US08598255B2
The present invention provides the early strengthening agent for hydraulic compositions containing a compound (a) obtained by reacting (A) one or more compounds selected from polyhydric alcohols having 3 to 20 hydroxy groups and alkylene oxide adducts thereof with (B) a sulfating agent, and the additive composition for hydraulic compositions containing the compound (a).
US08598253B2
Provided is a polypropylene carbonate (hereinafter, PPC) paint composition, and more particularly, a pre-coated metal (PCM) paint composition for coil coating, which is mainly applied to cases for home appliances requiring high hardness, such as cases of a refrigerator. The composition can be used to provide a PCM paint, which has very low smoke density at the time of burning and emits remarkably low amounts of combustion gas and poisonous gas due to combustion at the time of firing, as compared with the existing laminate steel plate and a high-gloss film. In addition, the composition exhibits excellent adhesion to metal materials and excellent durability so that it can be usefully used for a PCM print steel plate applied to home appliances.
US08598250B2
The present invention relates to a photocurable acrylic viscoelastic material composition including: an acrylic monomer mixture containing an alkyl (meth)acrylate as a main monomer component and a polar group-containing vinyl monomer, or a partial polymerization product thereof; a (meth)acrylate compound having at least one isocyanate group within the molecule thereof; and a photopolymerization initiator. The photocurable acrylic viscoelastic material composition of the present invention has, by virtue of the above-described construction, excellent pot life and excellent storage stability, despite containing an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group within the molecule thereof, and further can form an acrylic viscoelastic material excellent in the holding power at high temperatures through photocuring. Also, the acrylic viscoelastic material and acrylic viscoelastic material layer tape or sheet of the present invention is excellent in the holding power at high temperatures.
US08598242B2
Disclosed is an expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particle whose base resin is a polypropylene random copolymer resin having a melting point of not more than 145° C., the base resin having a H/W ratio of not more than 8 where H (%) is a maximum height of an elution peak and W (° C.) is a peak width at half a height of the peak in an elution curve obtained from a differential value of eluted content measured by cross fractionation chromatography, and a ratio (Mw/Mn) of a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) and a number-average molecular weight (Mn) being not less than 3.5 in a molecular weight distribution measurement of a whole of eluted components. With such an expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particle, it is possible to provide expanded polypropylene copolymer resin particles which are capable of producing an in-mold expansion-molded article with a low molding heating vapor pressure, and which causes few deformation or shrinkage of an obtained in-mold expansion-molded article (i.e. having a broad molding heating temperature range) even if the in-mold expansion molding is carried out with a high molding heating vapor pressure and has a low decrease in physical properties such as compression strength.
US08598217B2
The invention provides compounds of the formula (I): and salts, tautomers, solvates and N-oxides thereof; wherein Q is CH or N; X is N, N+—O− or CR3; Y is N, N+—O− or CR3a; R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen and various substituents as defined in the claims; or R1 and R2 together with the atoms to which they are attached, link to form an optionally substituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic or non-aromatic ring of 4 to 7 members; R3 is selected from hydrogen and various substituents; and R3a is selected from hydrogen and various substituents as defined in the claims. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of formula (I), processes for making the compounds and the medical uses of the compounds. The compounds of formula (I) have activity as inhibitors of CDK kinases and are useful in the treatment of inter alia proliferative diseases such as cancers.
US08598207B2
Compositions containing opioid antagonists, particularly alvimopan and its active metabolite, with improved solubility and bioavailability for oral or parenteral administration, injectable dosage formulations, kits, and methods of making and using same are disclosed. In preferred embodiments, invention provides injectable formulations containing opioid antagonists, particularly alvimopan and its active metabolite, having low solubility that may be readily prepared, are stable during storage, and provide maximum levels of opioid antagonists when administered parenterally, particularly via injection. The results are achieved by a combination of processing techniques and component selection.
US08598202B2
Certain aryl-hydroxyethylamino-pyrimidine and triazine compounds are described, which are useful as FAAH inhibitors. Such compounds may be used in pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the treatment of disease states, disorders, and conditions mediated by fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity, such as anxiety, pain, inflammation, sleep disorders, eating disorders, energy metabolism disorders, and movement disorders (e.g., multiple sclerosis). Methods of synthesizing such compounds are also disclosed.
US08598196B2
Pharmaceutical formulations and methods for the topical and/or transdermal delivery of imiquimod, including creams, ointments and pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions to treat dermatological disorders, namely, viral infections, such as Type I or Type II Herpes simplex infections and genital and perianal warts, actinic keratosis and superficial basal cell carcinoma, and to induce interferon biosynthesis to achieve an antiviral effect, with shorter durations of therapy, than currently approved for imiquimod by the Food & Drug Administration (“FDA”).
US08598194B2
The present invention relates to polycyclic antiviral compounds, and salts thereof, methods for their preparation and compositions containing them, and the use of the compounds and composition in the treatment of viral infections.
US08598193B2
Compounds of formula (I), and their use as in the treatment of infections involving viruses of the Pneumovirinae sub-family (RSV) are disclosed. In the formula ring (A) may be phenyl, pyridyl etc., (B—C) may be CH2—CH2 etc., (R1) may be phenyl and substituted forms thereof, (R2) may be assorted substituents.
US08598192B2
Imidazo ring compounds (e.g., imidazoquinolines, 6,7,8,9-tetrahydroimidazoquinolines, imidazonaphthyridines, and imidazopyridines) with a hydroxylamine substituent at the 2-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.
US08598191B2
The present invention is directed to oral pulse-release pharmaceutical dosage form containing an immediate release component of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, and one or more delayed/controlled release components of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.
US08598190B2
There are provided compounds of formula (I), wherein R1, R6, R8, Q2, Q3, Q3a, Q4, L and A have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of the activity of a member of the MAPEG family is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of inflammation and/or cancer.
US08598188B2
This invention relates to an antitumor agent comprising carboplatin and a combination drug of tegafur/gimeracil/oteracil potassium to be administered to a cancer patient selected according to an expression level of thymidylate synthase gene.
US08598180B2
Compositions comprising tetrahydroindolone derivatives in which the tetrahydroindolone moiety is covalently linked to a substituted arylpiperazine moiety and methods for treating neurological and psychiatric conditions using such compositions are disclosed.
US08598178B2
A controlled release sterile freeze-dried aripiprazole formulation is provided which is formed of aripiprazole of a desired mean particle size and a vehicle therefor, which upon constitution with water and intramuscular injection releases aripiprazole over a period of at least about one week and up to about eight weeks. A method for preparing the controlled release freeze-dried aripiprazole formulation, and a method for treating schizophrenia employing the above formulation are also provided.
US08598170B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to compounds having the formula: wherein: Ar, Z, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in the specification, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These compounds have AT1 receptor antagonist activity and neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds; methods of using such compounds; and process and intermediates for preparing such compounds.
US08598163B2
This invention relates to novel compounds of an 11 β-HSD1 inhibitor disclosed herein, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are useful for the therapeutic treatment of diseases associated with the modulation or inhibition of 11/3-HSD1 in mammals. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions of the novel compounds and methods for their use in the reduction or control of the production of Cortisol in a cell or the inhibition of the conversion of cortisone to Cortisol in a cell.
US08598161B2
Compounds of formula (I), including pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are set forth herein: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are independently hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl or C1-C6 cycloalkyl; Y and Z are independently a C6-C10-aryl group or a 5-10 membered heterocyclic group, wherein each Y and Z group can be optionally substituted with from 0-3 substituents selected from halogen, amino, C1-4alkylamino, C1-4dialkylamino, haloC1-4 alkyl, OH, CN, C1-C6 alkyl or cycloalkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, and C2-C4 alkynyl; L is either a bond or is —NHCO—; L and Z together can be absent; and m is 1, 2 or 3.
US08598149B2
The present invention provides a method for optimizing levels of mifepristone in a patient suffering from a mental disorder amenable to treatment by mifepristone. The method comprises the steps of treating the patient with seven or more daily doses of mifepristone over a period of seven or more days; testing the serum levels of the patient to determine whether the blood levels of mifepristone are greater than 1300 ng/mL; and adjusting the daily dose of the patient to achieve mifepristone blood levels greater than 1300 ng/mL.
US08598148B2
The tetracycline class of antibiotics has played a major role in the treatment of infectious diseases for the past 50 years. However, the increased use of the tetracyclines in human and veterinary medicine has led to resistance among many organisms previously susceptible to tetracycline antibiotics. The modular synthesis of tetracyclines and tetracycline analogs described provides an efficient and enantioselective route to a variety of tetracycline analogs and polycyclines previously inaccessible via earlier tetracycline syntheses and semi-synthetic methods. These analogs may be used as anti-microbial agents or anti-proliferative agents in the treatment of diseases of humans or other animals.
US08598146B2
The present invention provides novel cell-based and animal-based assays for determining antagonists of PKCε and uses of the isolated antagonist compounds for modulating insulin clearance and secretion. The invention also provides novel animals and cells such as animals and cells suitable for use in the assays.
US08598143B2
The present invention relates to the discovery of a method for inhibiting RNA silencing in a target sequence-specific manner. RNA silencing requires a set of conserved cellular factors to suppress expression of gene-encoded polypeptide. The invention provides compositions for sequence-specific inactivation of the RISC component of the RNA silencing pathway, and methods of use thereof. The RISC inactivators of the present invention enable a variety of methods for identifying and characterizing miRNAs and siRNAs, RISC-associated factors, and agents capable of modulating RNA silencing. Therapeutic methods and compositions incorporating RISC inactivators and therapeutic agents identified through use of RISC inactivators are also featured.
US08598135B2
Methods of treating a tumor in a subject include identifying a subject having, at risk for, or suspected of having a tumor, and administering to the subject an effective amount of an IGFBP7 agent if the tumor has increased Ras-BRAF-MEK-Erk signaling, is dependent for growth and/or survival upon the Ras-BRAF-MEK-Erk signaling pathway, and/or expresses an activated or oncogenic BRAF or RAS.
US08598132B2
Glycosylated indolocarbazoles, method for obtaining same and uses thereof. This invention relates to rebeccamycin and staurosporine derivatives obtained by fermentation of recombinant bacterial strains. The invention also relates to the methods used to obtain the recombinant strains and the production of rebeccamycin and staurosporine derivatives. The invention also relates to bacterial strains that are of use for the production of rebeccamycin and staurosporine derivatives. Lastly, the rebeccamycin and staurosporine derivatives described herein are applicable to the field of human health, specifically for manufacturing drugs that are of use in the treatment of tumour, neurological and inflammatory diseases.
US08598131B2
The present invention regards a novel administration form and a novel administration regime useful in the treatment and prevention of a bacterial lung infection in patient in need thereof, in particular by providing a composition useful for aerosolization of a highly concentrated solution of aminoglycosides such as Tobramycin.
US08598126B2
The present invention is concerned with means and methods for diagnosing or treating HPV associated neoplasia or tumors. Specifically, it relates to a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence motif as shown in SEQ ID No: 1. Moreover, contemplated by the present invention are fusion polypeptides, polynucleotides, vectors and host cells based on said peptide. Furthermore, the peptides, fusion polypeptides, polynucleotides, and vectors are suitable as pharmaceutical compositions for treating HPV associated neoplasia or tumors. The peptides and fusion polypeptides are also suitable as diagnostic compositions for diagnosing HPV associated neoplasia or tumors. The present invention also refers to a method of identifying a compound capable of binding to the HPV E6 protein. Finally, a kit is provided for carrying out the aforementioned diagnosis or compound identification.
US08598121B2
The present disclosure provides variants of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), pharmaceutical compositions comprising CNP variants, and methods of making CNP variants. The CNP variants are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of diseases responsive to CNP, including but not limited to bone-related disorders, such as skeletal dysplasias (e.g., achondroplasia), and vascular smooth muscle disorders (e.g., restenosis and arteriosclerosis).
US08598115B2
A compound useful as an antifungal agent, particularly a therapeutic agent for deep-seated mycoses, is provided. A fungus Acremonium persicinum was collected, and cyclic compounds were isolated from culture liquids thereof. The present inventors confirmed that the cyclic compounds or salts thereof have a potent antifungal activity and are useful as medicaments, particularly an antifungal agent, and thus the present invention was completed. The cyclic compound and the salt thereof according to the present invention can be used as an agent for preventing or treating mycoses, particularly deep-seated mycoses.
US08598111B2
Controlled studies demonstrate that products and related methods using soy related peptides lower total and LDL cholesterol levels in individuals. In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a product containing an effective amount of lunasin peptides that lowers cholesterol levels in an individual that consumes the lunasin peptides is provided. In another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a composition containing an effective amount of lunasin peptides or lunasin peptide derivatives and one or more enzyme inhibitors is provided. In a related exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for lowering or reducing cholesterol levels in an individual is provided where a product containing an effective amount of lunasin peptides to an individual is provided and a claim that the product lowers or reduces cholesterol, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol or lipid levels in an individual that consumes the composition is made.
US08598105B2
The present invention provides a liquid detergent composition containing a specific amount of surfactant (A); a specific amount of a polymer compound (B) having the polyether chain moiety (i) and the polymer chain moiety (ii) composed of polymerization units derived from the specific unsaturated monoethylenic monomer; and water, wherein component (A) contains a specific amount of a specific alkoxyl nonionic surfactant (a1), and component (B) is a polymer compound having the polyether chain moiety (i) composed of polymerization units derived from an epoxide having 2 to 5 carbon atoms and the polymer chain moiety (ii) composed of polymerization units derived from one or more unsaturated carboxylic acid monomers selected from acrylic acid, methacrylic acid and maleic acid, the polymer compound having a graft structure wherein one of the chain moieties (i) and (ii) is the main chain and the other is a side chain.
US08598100B2
A lubricant additive which comprises a succinimide compound or a boronization product thereof is advantageously used for preparation of a lubricant composition which can maintain the property of anti-shudder for a long time without decreasing the transmission torque capacity or the friction coefficient between metals. The succinimide compound is obtained by reacting (a) succinic acid substituted with an alkenyl or alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms or an anhydride thereof with (b) a polyalkylenepolyamine comprising a polyalkylenepolyamine having a ring structure at an end in an amount of at least 5% by mole of the entire amount of the polyalkylenepolyamine and is represented by following general formula (1): (In the formula, R1 represents an alkenyl or alkyl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, m represents an integer of 2 to 4, n represents an integer of 0 to 3, and A represents the ring structure in the polyalkylenepolyamine having a ring structure at an end or a mixed structure comprising the ring structure and an amino group).
US08598089B2
The present invention provides a method of synthesizing libraries of molecules which include an encoding oligonucleotide tag.
US08598081B2
Described is the specific delivery of agrochemicals to plants. More specifically, a targeting agent has at least one binding domain that specifically binds to a binding site on an intact living plant. Such binding domains include a peptide having 4 framework regions and 3 complementarity-determining regions, or fragment thereof, wherein the binding domains bind or retain a carrier onto a plant. Described are binding domains that specifically bind trichomes, stomata, cuticle, lenticels, thorns, spines, root hairs, or wax layer. Further described is a method for delivering agrochemicals to a plant, for depositing agrochemicals on a plant, and for retaining the agrochemicals on a plant, using targeting agents comprising the binding domains, and to a method for protecting a plant against stress or controlling plant growth. Also, described is a method for manufacturing a specifically targeting agrochemical carrier.
US08598078B2
Compounds of Formula I wherein the substituents are as defined in Claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts and all stereoisomers and tautomeric forms of the compounds of formula I can be used as agrochemical active ingredients and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US08598077B2
The objective of the current invention is the control of agricultural infestations based on alternative methods that are less aggressive to the environment and that are harmless to other invertebrates and to man; for instance biological control using bacterial strains belonging to species of the genera Bacillus, Brevibacillus and/or Paenibacillus. A first embodiment of the invention refers to compositions based on the systemic utilization of bacterial strains belonging to species of the genera Bacillus, Brevibacillus and/or Paenibacillus to protect plants by using the composition containing the above referred bacteria in wild-type, conjugated, mutant or transgenic forms and/or the substances produced by them. A second embodiment of the invention refers to a method of bioinsecticide application based on bacteria from the genera Bacillus, Brevibacillus and/or Paenibacillus. A third embodiment of the invention is related to the bioinsecticide usage of the formulations based on bacteria from the genera Bacillus, Brevibacillus and/or Paenibacillus.
US08598074B2
To provide a thermosensitive recording medium including: a support; an image recording layer on the support; and an inorganic material in particle form as a light-heat conversion material, wherein the inorganic material has a ratio of Y to X, represented by Y/X, of 2 or greater, where X denotes an average value of absorption intensities with respect to light having wavelengths in the range of 400 nm to 700 nm, and Y denotes a maximum value among absorption intensities with respect to light having wavelengths greater than 700 nm but smaller than or equal to 1,200 nm.
US08598071B1
Improved CO2 sorbents comprised of a mesoporous silica functionalized with a polyamine are obtained by the in-situ polymerization of azetidine. Also included herein are processes utilizing the improved CO2 sorbents wherein CO2 is chemisorbed onto the polyamine portion of the sorbent and the process is thermally reversible.
US08598070B1
Improved CO2 sorbents comprised of a mesoporous silica functionalized with a polyamine are obtained by the in-situ polymerization of azetidine. Also included herein are processes utilizing the improved CO2 sorbents wherein CO2 is chemisorbed onto the polyamine portion of the sorbent and the process is thermally reversible.
US08598064B2
New photocatalytic product comprising compounds of titanium integrated with limestone. The product is obtained by reacting limestone with a suitable precursor of titanium dioxide in a basic solution, recovering the product in particular conditions, drying it and calcining it. By operating in presence of sodium, a composite is obtained substantially free from titanium dioxide, containing limestone and calcium titanate. The composite thus obtained, used as such or in mixture with other components, has shown an unexpectedly high photocatalytic activity.
US08598061B2
The present invention provides a polymerization process utilizing a dual metallocene catalyst system for the production of broad or bimodal molecular weight distribution polymers, generally, in the absence of added hydrogen. Polymers produced from the polymerization process are also provided, and these polymers can have a Mn in a range from about 9,000 to about 30,000 g/mol, and a short chain branch content that decreases as molecular weight increases.
US08598060B2
The present invention relates to a method of regenerating a ruthenium catalyst for the hydrogenation of phthalates, which comprises flushing the catalyst with inert gas in a regeneration step until the original activity or part of the original activity has been attained.
US08598054B2
A woven geosynthetic fabric is disclosed having a first weft yarn, a second weft yarn, and a stuffer pick woven in the weft direction of the fabric. A warp yarn interweaves the first and second weft yarns and the stuffer pick. The first weft yarn and the second weft yarn having different cross-sectional shapes. At least a portion of the fabric has a plurality of weft yarn sets with stuffer picks respectively disposed and woven between the weft yarn sets. Each weft yarn set has two first weft yarns and two second weft yarns. One of the two first weft yarns is adjacent one of the two second weft yarns and stacked on the other second weft yarn. The adjacent second weft yarn is stacked on the other first weft yarn.
US08598051B2
The present invention generally provides semiconductor substrates having submicron-sized surface features generated by irradiating the surface with ultra short laser pulses. In one aspect, a method of processing a semiconductor substrate is disclosed that includes placing at least a portion of a surface of the substrate in contact with a fluid, and exposing that surface portion to one or more femtosecond pulses so as to modify the topography of that portion. The modification can include, e.g., generating a plurality of submicron-sized spikes in an upper layer of the surface.
US08598038B2
A process for producing two interleaved patterns on a substrate uses photolithography and etching to produce, on the substrate, a first pattern of first material protruding regions separated by recessed regions. A non-conformal deposition of a second material on the first pattern forms cavities in the recessed regions of the first pattern. These cavities are opened and filled with a third material. The second material is then removed, and the remaining third material forms a second pattern of third material protruding regions, wherein the second pattern is interleaved with the first pattern.
US08598030B2
A process for making a copper post with footing profile employs dual photoresist films of different photosensitivities and thicknesses on an under-bump-metallurgy (UBM) layer. After an exposure lithography process, a first opening with a substantially vertical sidewall is formed in a first photoresist film, and a second opening with a sloped sidewall is formed in a second photoresist film. The second opening has a top diameter and a bottom diameter greater than the top diameter, and the bottom diameter is greater than the diameter of the first opening. A conductive layer is then formed in the first opening and the second opening followed by removing the dual photoresist films.
US08598025B2
An improved method of doping a workpiece is disclosed. In this method, a film comprising the species to be implanted is introduced to the surface of a planar or three-dimensional workpiece. This film can be grown using CVD, a bath or other means. The workpiece with the film is then subjected to ion bombardment to help drive the dopant into the workpiece. This ion bombardment is performed at elevated temperatures to reduce crystal damage and create a more abrupt doped region.
US08598023B2
There is disclosed a substrate processing apparatus including a processing chamber housing a substrate, pipes for supplying gas into the processing chamber, and heaters provided in the middle of the pipes, and heating the gas. In the substrate processing apparatus, the heaters heat the gas to a temperature lower than a temperature at which exhaust gas is generated from the pipes to dry the substrate in the heated gas.
US08598022B2
An isotopically-enriched, boron-containing compound comprising two or more boron atoms and at least one fluorine atom, wherein at least one of the boron atoms contains a desired isotope of boron in a concentration or ratio greater than a natural abundance concentration or ratio thereof. The compound may have a chemical formula of B2F4. Synthesis methods for such compounds, and ion implantation methods using such compounds, are described, as well as storage and dispensing vessels in which the isotopically-enriched, boron-containing compound is advantageously contained for subsequent dispensing use.
US08598021B2
A method of implanting ions into a workpiece without the formation of junctions, which impact the performance of the workpiece, is disclosed. To counteract the effect of dopant being implanted into the edge of the workpiece, components made of material having an opposite conductivity are placed near the workpiece. As ions from the beam strike these components, ions from the material are sputtered. These ions have the opposite conductivity as the implanted ions, and therefore inhibit the formation of junctions.
US08598012B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes sequentially stacking a pad oxide layer and a hard mask layer over a substrate, forming a device isolation layer over the substrate, forming a capping layer pattern configured to open a first region of the substrate and cover a second region of the substrate, removing the hard mask layer, removing the capping layer pattern, and removing the pad oxide layer.
US08598010B2
Methods of forming a variable-resistance memory device include patterning an interlayer dielectric layer to define an opening therein that exposes a bottom electrode of a variable-resistance memory cell, on a memory cell region of a substrate (e.g., semiconductor substrate). These methods further include depositing a layer of variable-resistance material (e.g., phase-changeable material) onto the exposed bottom electrode in the opening and onto a first portion of the interlayer dielectric layer extending opposite a peripheral circuit region of the substrate. The layer of variable-resistance material and the first portion of the interlayer dielectric layer are then selectively etched in sequence to define a recess in the interlayer dielectric layer. The layer of variable-resistance material and the interlayer dielectric layer are then planarized to define a variable-resistance pattern within the opening.
US08598006B2
An embedded epitaxial semiconductor portion having a different composition than matrix of the semiconductor substrate is formed with a lattice mismatch and epitaxial alignment with the matrix of the semiconductor substrate. The temperature of subsequent ion implantation steps is manipulated depending on the amorphizing or non-amorphizing nature of the ion implantation process. For a non-amorphizing ion implantation process, the ion implantation processing step is performed at an elevated temperature, i.e., a temperature greater than nominal room temperature range. For an amorphizing ion implantation process, the ion implantation processing step is performed at nominal room temperature range or a temperature lower than nominal room temperature range. By manipulating the temperature of ion implantation, the loss of strain in a strained semiconductor alloy material is minimized.
US08597998B2
Fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a mask on a substrate having a top substrate surface; forming a gate trench in the substrate, through the mask; depositing gate material in the gate trench; removing the mask to leave a gate structure; implanting a body region; implanting a source region; forming a source body contact trench having a trench wall and a trench bottom; forming a plug in the source body contact trench, wherein the plug extends below a bottom of the body region; and disposing conductive material in the source body contact trench, on top of the plug.
US08597992B2
A transistor is manufactured by a method including: forming a first wiring layer; forming a first insulating film to cover the first wiring layer; forming a semiconductor layer over the first insulating film; forming a conductive film over the semiconductor layer; and performing at least two steps of etching on the conductive film to form second wiring layers which are apart from each other, wherein the two steps of etching include at least a first etching process performed under the condition that the etching rate for the conductive film is higher than the etching rate for the semiconductor layer, and a second etching process performed under the condition that the etching rates for the conductive film and the semiconductor layer are higher than those of the first etching process.
US08597985B1
MEMS packaging with etching and thinning of lid wafer to form lids and expose device wafer bond pads
In wafer-level packaging of microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices a lid wafer is bonded to a MEMS wafer in a predetermined aligned relationship. Portions of the lid wafer are removed to separate the lid wafer into lid portions that respectively correspond in alignment with MEMS devices on the MEMS wafer, and to expose areas of the MEMS wafer that respectively contain sets of bond pads respectively coupled to the MEMS devices.
US08597984B2
A method of manufacturing a modular semiconductor subassembly: providing at least one semiconductor subassembly having a modular sidewall element of modular dimensions and a semiconductor substrate base element coupled to the modular sidewall element that has at least one semiconductor element with a layout sized to be accommodated by modular dimensions of the modular sidewall element. If a modular package protective cover is to be used: providing the modular package protective cover configured to accommodate the semiconductor subassembly in accordance with a modular design; securing the semiconductor subassembly in the modular package protective cover to create a modular package assembly; and mounting the modular package assembly to a core, with a base side of the semiconductor substrate base element in contact with the core; otherwise: mounting the at semiconductor subassembly to the core, with the base side of the semiconductor substrate base element in contact with the core.
US08597980B2
Method for bonding a plurality of chips onto a base wafer.
US08597968B2
An active device array substrate is provided. First, a substrate having a display area and a sensing area is provided. Then, a first patterned conductor layer is disposed on the display area of the substrate. A gate insulator is disposed on the substrate. A patterned semiconductor layer, a second patterned conductor layer and a patterned photosensitive dielectric layer are disposed on the gate insulator, wherein the second patterned conductor layer includes a source electrode, a drain electrode and a lower electrode, the patterned photosensitive dielectric layer covering the second patterned conductor layer includes an interface protection layer disposed on the source electrode and the drain electrode and a photo-sensing layer disposed on the lower electrode. A passivation layer is then disposed on the substrate. After that, a third patterned conductor layer including a pixel electrode and an upper electrode is disposed on the passivation layer.
US08597964B2
A method for manufacturing a plurality of holders each being for an LED package structure includes steps: providing a base, pluralities of through holes being defined in the base to divide the base into a plurality of basic units; etching the base to form a dam at an upper surface of each of the basic units of the base; forming a first electrical portion and a second electrical portion on each basic unit of the base, the first electrical portion and the second electrical portion being separated and insulated from each other by the dam; providing a plurality of reflective cups each on a corresponding basic unit of the base, each of the reflective cups surrounding the corresponding dam; and cutting the base into the plurality of basic units along the through holes to form the plurality of holders.
US08597963B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device: an LED wafer having an array of LEDs formed on a surface thereof, the method comprises: a) fabricating a sheet of phosphor/polymer material comprising a light transmissive polymer material having at least one phosphor material distributed throughout its volume and in which the polymer material is transmissive to light generated by the LEDs and to light generated by the at least one phosphor material; b) selectively making apertures through the phosphor/polymer sheet at positions corresponding to electrode contact pads of the LEDs of the LED wafer; c) attaching the sheet of phosphor/polymer material to the surface of the LED wafer such that each aperture overlies a respective electrode contact pad; and d) dividing the wafer into individual light emitting devices. The method can further comprise, prior to dividing the LED wafer, cutting slots through the phosphor/polymer material that are configured to pass between individual LEDs.
US08597962B2
An improved method of fabricating a vertical semiconductor LED is disclosed. Ions are implanted into the LED to create non-conductive regions, which facilitates current spreading in the device. In some embodiments, the non-conductive regions are located in the p-type layer. In other embodiments, the non-conductive layer may be in the multi-quantum well or n-type layer.
US08597956B2
An ultrasensitive method for detecting non-aromatic non-planar nitroamine analytes in a sample is provided.
US08597949B2
The present invention concerns methods and compositions involving inhibitors and enhancers of RAD51, a protein involved in homologous recombination. In some embodiments, the present invention concerns methods for stimulating homologous recombination, which has a number of significant research and clinical applications. In certain other embodiments, there are methods for protecting cells using a compound that enhances RAD51 activity. Such enhancers may also be employed to prevent or reduce damage to cells that may be caused by DNA damaging agents. In other embodiments, there are methods for sensitizing cells to the effects of DNA damaging agents, which can have particular applications for cancer patients. In some embodiments of the invention, the RAD51 enhancer or inhibitor is a small molecule that directly affects RAD51 activity, such as its ability to promote filament formation.
US08597948B2
A medical device, said medical device, comprises: a first component having a non-biological material; a second component having a cloned biological material, said second component being attached to said first component, wherein said first component and said second component are operatively associated in a non-living medical device for at least one of treatment, diagnosis, cure, mitigation and prevention of disease, injury, handicap or condition in a living organism. In another aspect, a method comprises: preparing a cloned biological material from a tissue or an organ; attaching said biological material to a medical device; interfacing said biological material with the non-biological material; providing treatment, diagnosis, cure, mitigation and prevention of disease, injury, handicap or condition in a living organism.
US08597939B2
The invention generally provides a cell culture vessel having at least one first zone and at least one second zone, wherein the first zone is a transfer zone for a culture medium which essentially contains no cells and the second zone is a cell culture zone. The invention further includes methods utilizing the cell culture vessel.
US08597938B2
Provided are methods and oligonucleotides useful as primers and templates for internal controls designed for use in Real Time Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reactions. Use of the present methods and oligonucleotides allows validation of assay parameters and of the results that an assay set.
US08597933B2
A copper bioleaching process which makes use of a consortium which contains Leptospirillum ferriphilum and a sulphur oxidising microorganism which is halophilic or halotolerant.
US08597929B2
Liquid microbial starter culture that retains its initial metabolic activity during storage for extended periods of time. Such liquid starter cultures are useful in the manufacturing of food and feed products. Starter cultures of the invention include culture of lactic acid bacteria, e.g. Lactococcus species.
US08597926B2
The present invention relates to novel hydrogenases isolated from novel hyperthermophilic strains belonging to Thermococcus spp., genes encoding the hydrogenases, and methods of producing hydrogen using strains having the genes. According to the hydrogen production methods of the invention, a large amount of hydrogen can be produced merely by culturing the strains in specific culture conditions. Thus, the methods of the invention have advantages in that they are more economic and efficient than existing hydrogen production methods and can produce hydrogen even at high temperature.
US08597908B2
The present invention relates to an efficient and economical process for producing a protein A-like protein. Hosts such as Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis have been used in the production of a protein A-like protein using a genetic recombination technique and however, their low productivity has been a big cause of high cost. Thus, it has been desired strongly to immediately establish a technique enabling the inexpensive, large-scale production of a protein A-like protein using recombinant DNA techniques other than Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. The present invention provides a process for producing a protein A-like protein in large amounts, for example, a process comprising allowing a recombinant Brevibacillus genus bacterium to express and secrete the protein in large amounts into a culture solution and separating and collecting the accumulated protein A-like protein from the culture solution.
US08597907B2
The present invention provides a method for efficiently producing an industrially useful protein in coryneform bacteria, and more particularly, a method for efficiently producing a protein for which secretion was difficult using conventional protein secretion pathways. In particular, the present invention provides a method for efficiently producing heterologous proteins comprising culturing coryneform bacteria containing an genetic construction containing a promoter sequence which functions in coryneform bacteria, a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Tat system-dependent signal peptide region, and a nucleic acid sequence encoding a heterologous protein, in the direction from 5′-end to 3′-end, and secretory producing the heterologous protein by coryneform bacteria.
US08597903B2
The present technology discloses biotinidase assay, biotinidase substrates (I) and a kit wherein the biotinidase substrate includes a label molecule separated from the biotin carbamoyl group by a linker X longer than about 4 Å but shorter than about 27 Å.
US08597891B2
The present invention relates to a method for identifying a target nucleotide sequence. This method involves forming a ligation product on a target nucleotide sequence in a ligation detection reaction mixture, amplifying the ligation product to form an amplified ligation product in a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) mixture, detecting the amplified ligation product, and identifying the target nucleotide sequence. Such coupling of the ligase detection reaction and the polymerase chain reaction permits multiplex detection of nucleic acid sequence difference.
US08597882B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for conducting nucleic acid sequencing by pyrosequencing. The method comprises the steps of providing a platform having at least one well for containing at least one support surface, and providing at least one support surface within each well, wherein the support surface is adapted to immobilize a first binding partner or selectively immobilize a second binding partner. The method further comprises the steps of binding or immobilizing the first or second binding partner to the support surface and dispensing into each well from a point external of said platform a reagent, wherein after the dispensing step the platform is rotated sufficiently such that any residual or unreacted said reagent is substantially centrifugally removed from each well and/or each support surface, wherein during rotation each support surface is held within each well.
US08597881B2
Provided herein is a method for replacing the allyl group in a compound of formula R—O-allyl, R2N(allyl), RNH(allyl), RN(allyl)2 or R—S-allyl with a hydrogen, using a transition metal and one or more phosphine ligands.
US08597878B2
A reaction unit containing a bottom part and a top part for pipetting a liquid, wherein the bottom part contains a reaction cavity with a permeable filter grid insert and the top part contains a reaction cavity which can be fixed on said bottom part and contains a cavity or covering for receiving a magnet.
US08597876B2
Disclosed is a method of treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in an antiretroviral treatment-experienced mammal, which involves administering to the mammal an effective amount of a compound of the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a prodrug, or an ester thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable composition of the compound, the salt, the prodrug, or the ester thereof, wherein A, X, Q, W, m, and R2-R6 are as defined herein.
US08597872B2
A method is provided for production of a medical marker (4) made of an X-ray-opaque material, including the following steps: a) photolithographic application of a mask (31) on a substrate (1); b) deposition of the X-ray-opaque material (40) of the marker (4) on the substrate (1); c) removal of the mask (31); and d) elimination of the substrate (1).
US08597870B2
A coating material for use during a lithography process. In an example, a coating material disposed on a material layer includes a polymer and a quencher catcher chemically bonded to the polymer. The quencher catcher substantially neutralizes any quencher that diffuses into the coating material from the material layer.
US08597867B2
A radiation-sensitive resin composition excelling in basic properties as a resist such as sensitivity, resolution, and the like, having a wide depth of focus (DOF) to both a line-and-space pattern and an isolated space pattern, and exhibiting a minimal line width change due to fluctuation of a bake temperature, and having a small line width limit in which the line pattern destroying phenomenon does not occur, and a lactone-containing copolymer useful as a resin component of the composition are provided.The lactone-containing copolymer is represented by a copolymer of the following compounds (1-1), (2-1), and (3-1). The radiation-sensitive resin composition comprises (a) the lactone-containing copolymer and (b) a photoacid generator.
US08597864B2
Provided is a photoreceptor for electrophotography, a process for producing the photoreceptor, and an electrophotographic apparatus that includes the photoreceptor. The photoreceptor has a photosensitive layer which contains a resin binder that is a copolymerized polyallylate resin. An electrophotographic apparatus having a photoreceptor drum that includes this photoreceptor has a reduced surface frictional resistance throughout the printing period from the beginning to after printing, thus reducing the amount of surface wear while producing satisfactory images.
US08597863B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor including a conductive substrate, a photosensitive layer, and a cross-linked resin surface layer comprising a cross-linked resin having a charge transport structure, which satisfies the following inequations: 0.01
US08597850B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell or fuel cell module (12) consisting of a plurality of single cells (7), all of which have the same dimensions, i.e. in terms of the length, width and height. Said cells have an optimal constructions, as the supply lines are associated with and connected to a cooling and medium module (40). Said cooling and medium module (40) is only used to provide secondary functional chambers (41), (42) or functional planes and to form the stack. In addition, either the hydrogen electrode (5), (5′) or the oxygen electrode (6), (6′) of the neighbouring single cell (7) is situated on both sides of a respective cooling and medium module (40). This obviates the need for all types of bipolar plates, permitting for example thin metal sheets (90), (91) to be used. Said sheets have gas inlets (73) and gas outlets (74) for the oxygen feed (70) and the hydrogen feed (71), allowing the separate conduction of both the process gases and the coolant. In addition, the current feeds to the electrodes (6), (7) are situated and designed in such a way that they allow e.g. connectors (80) to be provided on the outer wall (48), thus permitting both a parallel connection and a series connection.
US08597843B2
A cooling system for a battery pack which can reduce the number of components, manufacturing cost and an installation space, is provided. The battery pack includes high-voltage electrically conductive paths connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode thereof, respectively. The high-voltage electrically conductive path connected to the positive electrode serves as a cooling member. The high-voltage electrically conductive path connected to the positive electrode is arranged along the battery pack to absorb heat generated at the battery pack and dissipate the absorbed heat at a location distant from the battery pack. The invention takes an advantage of the superior heat conductivity of the high-voltage electrically conductive path to cool down the battery pack.
US08597838B2
Method of forming lithium-containing electrolytes are provided using wet chemical synthesis. In some examples, the lithium containing electrolytes are composed of β-Li3PS4 or Li4P2S7. The solid electrolyte may be a core shell material. In one embodiment, the core shell material includes a core of lithium sulfide (Li2S), a first shell of β-Li3PS4 or Li4P2S7, and a second shell including one of β-Li3PS4 or Li4P2S7 and carbon. The lithium containing electrolytes may be incorporated into wet cell batteries or solid state batteries.
US08597835B2
Positive-electrode material for a lithium ion secondary battery and manufacturing method of the same
Provided is a positive electrode material for a safe, high capacity, long lifetime lithium ion secondary battery capable of large current charging and discharging. The positive electrode material contains between 5% by mass or more and 30% by mass or less of a carbon black composite formed by joining together fibrous carbon and carbon black wherein ash is 1.0% or less by mass in accordance with JIS K 1469 and the remainder includes olivine-type lithium iron phosphate, and volatile oxygen-containing functional groups which constitutes 1.0% or less by mass of the positive electrode material. The fibrous carbon is preferably a nanotube having a fiber diameter of 5 nm or more and 50 nm or less and a specific surface area between 50 m2/g or more and 400 m2/g or less.
US08597832B2
A lithium-sulfur cell comprising an anode structure, a cathode structure and an electrolyte section abutting to the cathode structure. The cathode structure comprises a continuous layer of nanotubes or nanowires and sulfur particles. The sulfur particles are attached to the nanotubes or nanowires. The continuous layer of nanotubes or nanowires abuts to at least a part of the electrolyte section. The invention further relates to a corresponding method for manufacturing the inventive cell.
US08597829B2
The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a rolled electrode assembly 14E formed by rolling a positive electrode plate 11 and a negative electrode plate 12 with a separator 13 interposed therebetween, the separator 13 is fixed on the outermost periphery of the rolled electrode assembly 14E with an adhesive tape for fixing a roll end 30e, an exposed portion of a negative electrode substrate 12c without an active material mixture layer 12b is placed on an outermost periphery side of the negative electrode plate 12, a negative electrode tab 12a is connected to the negative electrode substrate 12c on an outermost periphery side, and the adhesive tape 30e is not overlapped with a roll end 11d of the positive electrode plate 11 and a roll end 12d of the negative electrode substrate 12c. Thus the battery is seldom broken even when charging and discharging are repeatedly provided at high voltage.
US08597819B2
A separator for an electrochemical cell, comprising (A) a flexible perforate support, and (B) a porous ceramic material which fills the perforations in the support and is suitable for receiving an ion-conducting electrolyte, wherein the porous ceramic material comprises a first porous layer which is characterized by an average pore size and also at least one second porous layer for contacting with an electrode, the second porous layer having an average pore size which is smaller than the average pore size of the first porous layer.
US08597818B2
The present disclosure relates to a lithium ion battery. The lithium ion battery cathode includes a cathode, a separator, an anode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte solution. The cathode includes a cathode current collector and a cathode material layer disposed on a surface of the cathode current collector. The cathode material layer comprises cathode active material, conductive agent, and adhesive uniformly mixed together. The cathode active material comprises cathode active material particles and AlPO4 layers coated on surfaces of the cathode active material particles. The separator includes a porous membrane and a protective layer coated on a surface of the porous membrane. The protective layer prevents the separator from being melted during charging or discharging of the lithium ion battery.
US08597817B2
A bipolar battery plate is utilized for production of a bipolar battery. The bipolar battery plate includes a frame, a substrate, a conductor, a filler, first and second lead layers, and positive and negative active materials. The substrate is positioned within the frame and includes a plurality of perforations that are sealed by a filler, with the conductor positioned in the perforation and held by the filler. The conductor connects to the plurality of perforations. The first lead layer positioned on one side of the substrate, while the second lead layer positioned on another side of the substrate. The first and second lead layers electrically connected to each other through the filler. The positive active material (PAM) positioned on a surface of the first lead layer, while the negative active material (NAM) positioned on a surface of the second lead layer.
US08597816B2
The present invention is to provide a separator that is excellent in heat resistance, shutdown function, flame retardancy and handling property. The separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery of the invention is a separator for a nonaqueous secondary battery that has a polyolefin microporous membrane at least one surface of which is laminated with a heat resistant porous layer containing a heat resistant resin, and is characterized by containing an inorganic filler containing a metallic hydroxide that undergoes dehydration reaction at a temperature of 200 to 400° C.
US08597809B2
A rechargeable battery according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an electrode assembly; a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly comprising: a cap plate comprising a top portion and at least one opening; and a vent member comprising two or more notches and a supporting portion, wherein the vent member is configured to break at the two or more notches and bend along two or more lines adjacent to the supporting portion.
US08597808B2
A battery module includes a plurality of rechargeable batteries each having a gas exhaust member openable at a threshold pressure; a housing holding the rechargeable batteries and having a gas exhaust hole; and a valve member covering the gas exhaust hole, wherein a pressure for opening the valve member is lower than the threshold pressure.
US08597805B2
A binder composition for a magnetic recording medium contains a vinyl copolymer having structural units denoted by each of formulas [1], [2] and [3]. In formula [1], R1 is hydrogen, halogen, or methyl, L1 is a single bond or a divalent linking group, and Y is an alicyclic group. In formula [2], R2 is hydrogen, halogen, or methyl, L2 is a single bond or a divalent linking group, and Z is a hydrocarbon group with a carbon number of from 8 to 50. In formula [3], R3 is hydrogen, halogen, or methyl, and L3 is a single bond or a divalent linking group:
US08597799B2
Disclosed is an organosulfur compound denoted by a general formula (a1): in which A denotes —S—, —S(O)— or —S(O)2—; Z1 and Z4 denote a trivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like; Z2 and Z3 denote a bivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like; Ar1, Ar2, Ar3 and Ar4 denote an aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like; and n is 0 or 1, or a general formula (b1): in which A denotes the same meaning as aforesaid; Z5 denotes a trivalent aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like; Ar denotes a m-valent aromatic hydrocarbon group or the like; Ar1 and Ar2 denote the aforesaid meaning; and m is 2 or 3. This compound is useful as an electron transport material, a hole blocking material or a host material of an organic electroluminescence element.
US08597797B2
[Task] The chromium nitride ion-plating coating has a property that it is hard but is liable to peel off. Year by year, the required level of wear resistance and scuffing resistance becomes higher in a diesel engine. The property of a coating is improved to enhance the wear resistance and scuffing resistance and also to improve resistance against peeling off.[Means for Solution] (1) Composition is mainly composed of chromium, nitrogen, and carbon, and the concentration of carbon relative to the total concentration of the main components is from 4 to 8% by weight. (2) The crystal structure is that texture of the CrN (111) plane orientation is from 0.4 to 2.0 in terms of a CrN (111) structural coefficient. (3) Vickers hardness is from Hv 1600 to Hv 2000.
US08597796B2
Multilayer film, comprising an at least flushable, thermoplastic layer composite made of at least one layer which is at least comminutable via exposure to water and is resistant to cold water or can only be dissolved slowly therein, formed of at least one at least partially saponified polyvinyl acetate having a layer thickness of <10 μm, and at least one layer soluble in cold water comprised of at least one at least partially saponified polyvinyl acetate and at least one substance that increases the water solubility, selected from the group consisting of biodegradable polymers, surfactants, inorganic pigments and fillers, and flushable packages produced therefrom.
US08597795B2
Provided are an antifouling coating composition containing a hydrolyzable resin having a specific silicon-containing group and a triorganosilyl oxycarbonyl group, an antifouling film, a composite film and an in-water structure such as a ship using the same. The hydrolyzable resin may further have a specific metal-atom-containing group containing a divalent metal atom. By the antifouling coating composition, it is possible to form a coating film having excellent crack resistance, while exerting an excellent antifouling property for a long period of time even when no or a small amount of antifouling agent is contained.
US08597781B2
Fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 360 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and optionally, a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2450 g/76.2 mm and/or a Machine Direction (MD) Dry Tensile of less than 1520 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean (GM) Total Dry Tensile of less than 1180 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.
US08597775B2
A microporous polyolefin multilayer film which is used as a separator for a battery is a 3 layer microporous film which is prepared by a wet process to have both surface layers containing polyethylene of 95 wt % or more having a melting temperature of 125° C. or higher, and an inner layer containing polypropylene of 50 to 90 wt % having a melting temperature of 160° C. or higher and polyethylene of 10 to 50 wt % having a melting temperature of 125° C. or higher. A thickness of the film is 9-50/M, a puncture strength is 0.15N//M or more, a permeability is 1.5×10−5 Darcy or more, a multiplication of the puncture strength and the permeability is 0.4×10−5 Darcy·N/μm or more, a shrinkage in a transverse direction at 120° C. for 1 hour is 15% or less, and a melt fracture temperature of 160° C. or higher.
US08597766B2
A process for the manufacture of a decorative surface element, which element comprises a base layer, a decor and a wear layer of a UV or electron beam curing lacquer. One or more structured surfaces, forming embossing surfaces of one or more rollers or moulds, are positioned on top of the decorative lacquered surface, possibly after having cured the lacquer to a desired viscosity, and are continuously or discontinuously pressed on to this. The lacquer will be provided with a surface structure which enhances the decorative effect of the decor. The wear layer is then completely cured.
US08597760B2
A stitched multi-layer fabric is provided. The fabric includes an interior layer, a barrier layer, a yarn, and a face layer. The barrier layer is disposed over the interior layer and is configured to inhibit fluid flow. The yarn is stitched through the interior layer and the barrier layer. The yarn secures the interior layer to the barrier layer and forms stitch holes in the barrier layer. The face layer is disposed over the barrier layer. A melted portion of the barrier layer bonds the face layer and the barrier layer together and fills a portion of the stitch holes in the barrier layer.
US08597755B2
A resin welded body where a first resin part that is absorbent with respect to laser light and a second resin part that is transparent with respect to laser light are fitted together and the laser light is emitted to a predetermined position from the side of the second resin part to weld together the first and the second resin parts and form a joint portion between both resin parts, wherein on either the first or the second resin part there is disposed a projection that comes into contact with the other resin part during the welding and regulates the sinking amount at the joint portion.
US08597745B2
The present invention is directed to implantable bioabsorbable non-woven self-cohered web materials having a high degree of porosity. The web materials are very supple and soft, while exhibiting proportionally increased mechanical strength in one or more directions. The web materials often possess a high degree of loft. The web materials can be formed into a variety of shapes and forms suitable for use as implantable medical devices or components thereof.
US08597731B2
A diamond layer can be applied stably onto a graphite substrate in a CVD process when the graphite substrate is subjected to the following pretreatment steps before the CVD process: fine cleaning of the surface in a vacuum at a temperature >500° C., preferably >800° C., in an etching gas atmosphere, mechanical removal of loose particles, seeding of the substrate surface with very small diamond particles and at least one degassing treatment in a vacuum to remove adsorbed hydrocarbons and adsorbed air at a temperature T>500° C., preferably T>700° C.
US08597730B2
A process for the production of surface functionalised nanoparticles, such as the production of semiconductor quantum dot nanoparticles incorporating surface-bound functional groups that increase the ease with which the dots can be employed in applications, such as incorporation into solvents, inks, polymers, glasses, metals, electronic materials and devices, bio-molecules and cells. Embodiments of the method include reacting first and second nanoparticle precursor species in the presence of a nanoparticle surface binding ligand X—Y—Z where X is a nanoparticle surface binding group, Y is a linker group, and Z is a functional group, in which Y comprises a polyethyleneglycol group and/or Z comprises an aliphatic group incorporating a terminal unsaturated group, the reaction being effected under conditions permitting binding of said surface binding ligand to the growing nanoparticles to produce said surface functionalised nanoparticles.
US08597728B2
There is disclosed a film forming method of spraying an aerosol jetted from a nozzle on a film formation object, while continuously changing a spraying position of the aerosol, to form a film which continuously covers an upper surface, an outer surface and a curved surface, which enables continuous formation of a high-quality film by a simple process. This film forming method includes a first film forming step of continuously spraying the aerosol on an upper surface W01 and a curved surface W03 connected to the upper surface W01, to continuously form a film which covers the upper surface W01 and a film which covers at least part of the curved surface W03; and a second film forming step of continuously forming a film which covers an outer surface W02 and a film which further covers the film formed on the curved surface W03 in the first film forming step.
US08597727B2
A photoalignment material includes an alignment polymer, a photoalignment additive including a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 and an organic solvent. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 represents a cyclic compound. A and B independently represent a single bond or —(CnH2n)—. “n” represents an integer in a range of 1 to 12. Each —CH2— of A and/or B may be replaced with R3 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and each —CH2— of A and/or B may be replaced with —O—. R4 represents In Chemical Formula 1, each hydrogen atom excluding hydrogen atoms of R4 may be replaced with chlorine (Cl) or fluorine (F).
US08597718B2
An ultrathin film of calcium phosphate crystals having a thickness of 200 nm or less on a surface of a solid substrate, and a method for preparing the same are disclosed. Further, an amorphous dendritic extension used as an intermediate material in preparation of the ultrathin film of calcium phosphate and a method for forming the same are disclosed. The ultrathin film of calcium phosphate crystals can be coated on the surface of the solid substrate while substantially maintaining surface roughness of the solid substrate. The method employs calcium phosphate ion solutions at low temperature. The ion solutions are separately applied to the steps of 1) forming granules of amorphous calcium phosphate on a surface of a solid substrate, 2) forming a dendritic precursor matrix of surface crystals around the granule of amorphous calcium phosphate, 3) removing the amorphous granule via dissolution before the amorphous granule is crystallized, and 4) crystallizing the dendritic precursor matrix of surface crystals to form surface crystals and multiplicating the crystals over the surface of the solid substrate, thereby forming an ultrathin film of calcium phosphate crystals having a thickness of 200 nm or less.
US08597712B2
A method for removing isoflavones from a soy-based beverage is disclosed. The method includes processing a soy base by subjecting ground or milled soy beans to one or more of sonic vibration and ultrahigh pressure homogenization. The soy base is separated, using centrifugation, into a lipid phase substantially free from isoflavones and a serum phase containing isoflavones. One or more isoflavones are separated from the serum phase. The serum phase is mixed with the lipid phase.
US08597699B2
A method of increasing a prostate specific antigen (PSA) doubling time in treating a patient. A subject with rising serum PSA is selected. A composition is administered to the subject comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a pomegranate extract comprising a higher content of high molecular weight polyphenol compared to pomegranate juice from arils. The therapeutically effective amount increases a prostate specific antigen doubting time. The pomegranate extract is formed from an insoluble byproduct component obtained by placing pomegranate solids in an aqueous solution, heating the aqueous solution to between about 60° F. to about 210° F., adding at least one enzyme to the aqueous solution, and removing residual insoluble solid materials from the aqueous solution.
US08597698B2
The Present Invention teaches herbal formulations based on a non-aqueous extract of wrightia tinctoria and an extract of cocos nucifera, which, when applied topically and used as directed in therapeutically effective amounts, have been clinically proven to be safe and effective for people needing treatment for skin conditions such as reducing or regressing dermal tortuosity, reducing spongiform pustules, and reversing and regressing stratum granulosum in keratinization disorders. The formulations can take the form of an ointment, an oil, a soap, or a shampoo.
US08597690B2
A method of treating a respiratory disease in an animal comprising the steps of administering to the animal an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising 1.5 parts by weight powdered fennel, 2.0 parts by weight powdered rhubarb, 1.0 part by weight powdered glycyrrhiza, 2.0 parts by weight powdered phellodendron bark, 1.0 part by weight powdered zedoary, 1.5 parts by weight powdered picrasma wood, 1.0 part by weight powdered matricaria chamomilla, 1.5 parts by weight powdered geranium herb, 1.0 part by weight powdered ginseng, 1.5 parts by weight powdered citrus unshiu peel, 1.0 part by weight powdered scutellaria root, 1.0 part by weight powdered magnolia bark, 2.0 parts by weight powdered oyster shell, 1.0 part by weight powdered cyperus rhizome, 2.0 parts by weight powdered platycodon root, 2.0 parts by weight powdered melia azedarach, 1.0 part by weight powdered cnidium rhizome, 2.0 parts by weight sodium bicarbonate and 4.0 parts by weight precipitated calcium carbonate in 30 parts by weight of the composition.
US08597683B2
A modified release dosage form for the oral administration of tranexamic acid.
US08597681B2
Methods for producing stabilized solid dosage form pharmaceutical compositions are provided. In particular, methods for preparing protected granules containing morphinans, and solid dosage form pharmaceutical compositions produced using the morphinan-protected granules are provided.
US08597677B2
Compositions are provided comprising a balance between lysine and essential amino acids and metabolizable energy. The compositions are useful in methods to prevent or treat obesity in an animal without concomitant loss of lean muscle mass. The compositions may also be used in methods to preserve or to cause a gain in lean muscle mass in an animal in need thereof.
US08597669B2
A cosmetic transparent gel preparation that has high levels of transparency and hardness and favorable usability, as well as a gelling agent that is ideal for use in the cosmetic transparent gel preparation. The cosmetic transparent gel preparation contains an esterification reaction product obtained by reacting glycerol with a dibasic acid of 18 to 28 carbon atoms and a fatty acid of 8 to 28 carbon atoms (excluding dibasic acids), 12-hydroxystearic acid, and an oil component. The gelling agent contains an esterification reaction product obtained by reacting glycerol with a dibasic acid of 18 to 28 carbon atoms and a fatty acid of 8 to 28 carbon atoms (excluding dibasic acids), and 12-hydroxystearic acid.
US08597667B2
A system and methods are provided for targeted and individualized delivery of multiple skin benefit agents to the skin of a user. The image of a predetermined treatment area of the user's skin is first captured by an imaging device. The captured image data is then analyzed by a computing device to generate a unique skin profile for the user. Based on such skin profile, a printing device prints out one or more cosmetic delivery sheets that can be applied to the predetermined treatment area. Each of the cosmetic delivery sheets contains a substrate with multiple isolated, discrete regions, while at least two of the regions are imprinted with different skin benefit agents for treating different skin conditions of the predetermined treatment area according to the unique skin profile of the user. Targeted delivery of one or multiple skin benefit agents to the skin of a user may be achieved by applying and conforming to the skin a flexible cosmetic delivery sheet having associated therewith the multiple skin benefit agents.
US08597665B2
The invention provides immunomodulatory compounds and methods for immunomodulation of individuals using the immunomodulatory compounds.
US08597664B2
Methods of modulating the immune response using pharmaceutical compositions containing crystalline adjuvants are described. In various embodiments the crystalline adjuvants are selected from the group consisting of monosodium urate (MSU), xanthine, basic calcium phosphate (BCP), calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD), hydroxyapatite, calcium oxalate, cholesterol, lipid liquid, other crystalline lipids, lithium heparin, talc, and starch.
US08597654B2
The present application describes adjuvant therapy of nonmetastatic breast cancer using an anti-ErbB2 antibody conjugated to a maytansinoid.
US08597646B2
The instant invention provides methods and compositions for the treatment and prevention of Marfan syndrome and related diseases, disorders and conditions. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions and kits for the treatment and prevention of Marfan syndrome and related diseases, disorders and conditions.
US08597643B2
The invention relates to the identification of a novel epitope on non-functional P2X7 receptors which are implicated in cancer. The epitope includes a region from two adjacent monomers within the three subunit receptor. Antibodies which bind to the epitope and peptides for generating the antibodies are described. The antibodies and peptides are useful in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
US08597641B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing an instant enzyme formulation; instant enzyme formulations obtainable by this process and feedstuff compositions prepared using instant enzyme formulations of the invention.
US08597627B2
The invention relates to a mascara composition comprising at least one micronized wax.
US08597623B2
Present invention relates to aqueous conditioning composition for keratin fibers especially for hair, which provides hair long lasting, several hair washes, conditioning effect. Accordingly, present invention is a conditioning composition for hair which comprises at least one polydimethylsiloxane with a viscosity of maximum 350 mm2/s at a concentration of 12.5% by weight or higher and polyquaternium 37 at a concentration of 0.2 to 5% by weight, calculated to total composition.
US08597613B2
A radiolabeled lymphatic staining agent is mixed on site with a much larger amount, on a weight basis, of a non-radiolabeled lymphatic staining agent to form an injectable radiolabeled lymphatic staining agent suitable for surgical use in humans. Preferably, the radiolabel is I-125, because it has a 60-day half-life which enables it to be made off-site. The preferred radiolabeled lymphatic staining agent is iodinated methylene blue, because it can be mixed with a range of non-radioactive lymphatic staining agents, for example isosulfan blue, methylene blue, patent blue, and patent blue V, to provide the injected agent with sufficient radioactivity to enable machine detection. A method for making radioiodinated methylene blue is also disclosed.
US08597609B2
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of a functionalized nano size transition metal oxide or sulfide particle comprising the steps of (a) providing a ternary solvent system comprising a polar solvent, a non-polar solvent and an intermediate solvent allowing miscibility of all three components; (b) providing a mixture of a transition metal salt and a ternary solvent; (c) providing a mixture of a suitable source of oxide or sulfide and the ternary solvent; (d) providing a mixture of a non-polar end capping agent and the non-polar solvent; (e) mixing the mixtures; and (f) recovering the resultant functionalized nano size transition metal oxide or sulfide particle. The invention further relates to non-polar end capped nano sized transition metal oxide or sulfide particle so produced and the use of such particles.
US08597607B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating graphene ribbons, comprising: preparing a graphitic material comprising stacked graphene helices; and cutting the graphitic material in a short form by applying energy to the graphitic material; and simultaneously or afterward, decomposing the graphitic material into short graphene ribbons. This method provides a mass production route to graphene ribbons.
US08597600B2
There are provided processes for extracting aluminum ions from aluminous ores and for preparing alumina. Such processes can be used with various types of aluminous ores such as aluminous ores comprising, for example, various types of metals such as Fe, K, Mg, Na, Ca, Mn, Ba, Zn, Li, Sr, V, Ni, Cr, Pb, Cu, Co, Sb, As, B, Sn, Be, Mo, or mixtures thereof.
US08597597B2
Described herein are embossing methods for forming pico liter well arrays (and other structures), arrangements of such pico liter well arrays, for example, in arrays of pico liter well areas, and methods of forming templates for such embossing. Also described as wells with a refractive index similar to that of an aqueous medium used for supporting cells in the wells.
US08597590B2
Systems and methods for multiple analyte detection include a system for distribution of a biological sample that includes a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a plurality of sample chambers, a sample introduction channel for each sample chamber, and a venting channel for each sample chamber. The system may further include a preloaded reagent contained in each sample chamber and configured for nucleic acid analysis of a biological sample that enters the substrate and a sealing instrument configured to be placed in contact with the substrate to seal each sample chamber so as to substantially prevent sample contained in each sample chamber from flowing out of each sample chamber. The substrate can be constructed of detection-compatible and assay-compatible materials.
US08597589B2
The invention relates to an analysis system for analyzing a sample on a test element. The system has an analysis unit for generating a signal as a function of an analyte contained in a sample, and a detection unit for detecting the signal. The analysis system further includes a test element holder into which the test element can be reversibly introduced and in which it can be positioned relative to the analysis unit and the detection unit. The test element contains at least one guide element, which is suitable for laterally guiding the test element, so that the test element in the test element holder is held and guided only on an outer region of the test element, and an inner region of the test element introduced into the test element holder remains free. The test element contains a sample application site in the inner region.
US08597577B2
An optoelectronic swept-frequency semiconductor laser coupled to a microfabricated optical biomolecular sensor with integrated resonator and waveguide and methods related thereto are described. Biomolecular sensors with optical resonator microfabricated with integrated waveguide operation can be in a microfluidic flow cell.
US08597575B2
Method and apparatus for performing a discrete glucose testing and bolus dosage determination including a glucose meter with bolus calculation function are provided.
US08597570B2
Provided are a measurement device by which the blood-sugar level or the like associated with the living activity of a diabetic patient can be measured easily and precisely and the measured valued associated with the living activity can be clinically applied easily, and an insulin infusion device, a measurement method, a method for controlling an insulin fusion device, and a program. A blood-sugar level measurement device (100) is provided with a blood-sugar level sensor (200) and an acceleration sensor (112) for measuring movement information associated with human body activity, wherein a CPU (110 controls, on the basis of the measured movement information, whether or not the measurement operation of a blood-sugar measurement circuit (113) can be executed. The CPU (110) further associates and records in a recording unit (111) the measured blood-sugar level and the movement information measured by the acceleration sensor (112), and displays the associated blood-sugar level and movement information on a display unit (102). The CPU (110) further combines the blood-sugar level measured by the blood-sugar level sensor (200) and the data detected by the acceleration sensor (112) and executes each mode processing.
US08597565B2
A method for forming microscopic 3D structures. In the method according to the invention a substrate (105) is placed in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The SEM is equipped with a Gas Injection System (GIS) (110) for directing a jet of precursor fluid to the substrate. The substrate is cooled below the freezing point of the precursor gas so that a frozen layer of the precursor gas can be applied to the substrate. By now repeatedly applying a frozen layer of the precursor to the substrate and irradiate the frozen layer with an electron beam (102), a stack of frozen layers (130) is built, each layer showing an irradiated part (131) in which the precursor is converted to another material. After applying the last layer the temperature is raised so that the unprocessed precursor (132) can evaporate. As a result 3D structures with overhanging features can be built.
US08597557B1
Methods using solid-state shear pulverization and melt mixing and related polymer-carbon nanotube composites, as can be used to affect various mechanical and/or physical material properties.
US08597554B2
In a method for manufacturing conglomerate articles in sheet form, a mix comprising the following is prepared: an expanded inert granular material; a filler consisting of hollow inorganic microspheres and a plasticizer (clay, quartz or other powder mineral, cellulose); an aqueous silicon-containing binder. A layer of mix, where necessary coated with a fiberglass meshwork in order to increase the mechanical strength thereof, is deposited on a temporary support and subjected to vacuum vibrocompression. The resultant rough-formed sheet is heated at a controlled temperature so as to cause evaporation of the water present in the mix.A light, sound-absorbing, heat-insulating sheet, rated in Class 0 in terms of fire reaction, suitable to be plastered or painted superficially and used for forming panels and partitions for internal and external use, is obtained.
US08597549B2
Disclosed are highly efficient multiphoton absorbing compounds and methods of their use. The compounds generally include a bridge of pi-conjugated bonds connecting electron donating groups or electron accepting groups. The bridge may be substituted with a variety of substituents as well. Solubility, lipophilicity, absorption maxima and other characteristics of the compounds may be tailored by changing the electron donating groups or electron accepting groups, the substituents attached to or the length of the pi-conjugated bridge. Numerous photophysical and photochemical methods are enabled by converting these compounds to electronically excited states upon simultaneous absorption of at least two photons of radiation. The compounds have large two-photon or higher-order absorptivities such that upon absorption, one or more Lewis acidic species, Lewis basic species, radical species or ionic species are formed.
US08597546B2
The present invention provides a process for preparing acetylene and synthesis gas by partial oxidation of hydrocarbons with oxygen, by first separately preheating the starting gases comprising a hydrocarbon-containing stream and an oxygen-containing stream and then mixing them in a mixing zone and, after they have flowed through the burner block, reacting them in the firing space and then cooling the products rapidly, wherein the surface on the firing space side of the burner block is covered with a purge gas stream and this purge gas stream is introduced through the burner block by means of several bores, where the averaged ratio of effective surface area of the burner block to number of these bores in the burner block for the purge gas stream is within a range from 5 to 100 cm2.
US08597544B2
A compound for non-linear optics for use at 350 nm and below. The compound includes a material for non-linear optics comprising AxM(1-x)Al3B4O12. x is larger than or equal to zero and smaller than or equal to 0.1, A is selected from a group consisting of Sc, Y, La, Yb, and Lu, and M is selected from a group consisting of Sc, Y, La, Yb, and Lu. The compound is free from a molybdenum bearing impurity of at least 1000 parts per million.
US08597536B2
Disclosed is a non-lead perovskite oxide having a low Curie temperature and high ferroelectricity represented by General Formula (P) given below. (Bix1,Bax2,Xx3)(Fey1,Tiy2,Mny3)O3 (P) (where, Bi and Ba are A-site elements, X is one kind or a plurality of kinds of A-site elements, other than Pb and Ba, with an average ion valence of 2. Fe, Ti, and Mn are B-site elements. O is oxygen. 0
US08597534B2
There are provided a composition for a ceramic electronic component having excellent sinterability and magnetic characteristics (Q), a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic component using the same. The magnetic material composition for the ceramic electronic component is composed of ferric oxide (Fe2O3) of 47.0 to 49.0 parts by mole, nickel oxide (NiO) of 16.0 to 24.0 parts by mole, zinc oxide (ZnO) of 18.0 to 25.0 parts by mole, and copper oxide (CuO) of 7.0 to 13.0 parts by mole, wherein a portion of ferric oxide may be substituted with boron oxide (B2O3). The ceramic electronic component manufactured by using the magnetic material composition for the ceramic electronic component has an excellent Q.
US08597532B2
A sizing composition for insulating products based on mineral wool, in particular of glass or of rock, includes at least one reducing sugar, and at least one inorganic acid metal salt chosen from inorganic acid alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, transition metal or poor metal salts. Furthermore, insulating products based on mineral fibers obtained and their process of manufacture are presented.
US08597526B2
A method for making a graphene/carbon nanotube composite structure includes providing a metal substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, growing a graphene film on the first surface of the metal substrate by a CVD method, providing at least one carbon nanotube film structure on the graphene film, and combining the at least one carbon nanotube film structure with the graphene film, coating a polymer layer on the at least one carbon nanotube film structure, and combining the polymer layer with the at least one carbon nanotube film structure and the graphene film, and forming a plurality of stripped electrodes by etching the metal substrate from the second surface.
US08597523B2
A method for treating a liquid using an apparatus includes: (a) a pump volute or hydrocyclone head having an inlet, and a throat having an outlet and a central axis, (b) a tank connected to the second opening of the throat, wherein the tank has a maximum inner diameter that is larger than an inner diameter of the outlet of the throat, and (d) a wave energy source having a first electrode within the pump volute or hydrocyclone head that extends through the outlet of the throat along the central axis, and a second electrode within the tank that is spaced apart and axially aligned with first electrode along the central axis. The method includes the steps of providing the above-described apparatus, supplying the liquid to the inlet of the pump volute or hydrocyclone head, and irradiating the liquid with one or more wave energies produced by the wave energy source.
US08597515B2
A method of enhancing flux of tailings settling pond water from an oil sands process through a membrane separation system and purifying the water comprising is disclosed. The process comprises the following steps: (a) treating the water with an effective amount of one or more water-soluble cationic polymers, amphoteric polymers, zwitterionic polymers, or a combination thereof; (b) passing the treated water through a membrane separation system; and (c) optionally, passing the permeate from step (b) through an additional membrane separation system.
US08597513B2
The present invention is directed to a method for cleansing fuel processing effluent containing carbonaceous compounds and inorganic salts, the method comprising contacting the fuel processing effluent with an anode of a microbial fuel ell, the anode containing microbes thereon which oxidatively degrade one or more of the carbonaceous compounds while producing electrical energy from the oxidative degradation, and directing the produced electrical energy to drive an electrosorption mechanism that operates to reduce the concentration of one or more inorganic salts in the fuel processing effluent, wherein the anode is in electrical communication with a cathode of the microbial fuel cell. The invention is also directed to an apparatus for practicing the method.
US08597512B2
A drinking container includes a main reservoir; a filling reservoir; a filter connecting the filling reservoir to the main reservoir; a plunger assembly having a plunger head sized complementary to the interior of the filling reservoir and a shaft extending therefrom to allow the plunger head to be urged into the filling reservoir, thereby urging liquid in the filling reservoir through the porous filter into the drinking reservoir. The shaft may define a passageway from an opening in the plunger head, to allow addition of liquid through the passageway into the filling reservoir. A valve allows closing of the opening to allow the plunger head to be urged into the filling reservoir, thereby urging liquid in the filling reservoir through the filter into the drinking reservoir.
US08597508B2
A method of preparing a sol-gel monolithic column includes the step of forming a separation bed (14) from a sol-gel solution in a single process step. This column has improved characteristics for CEC based on its incorporated surface charge and ease of operation due to a lack of or need for end frits. Also, a second type of column includes an optical window (30) for on-column detection.
US08597503B2
The present disclosure relates to a coal liquefaction system for utilizing a hydrogenated vegetable oil to liquefy coal. The system includes a reactor for exposing a coal to a hydrogenated vegetable oil in the presence of a coal-derived solvent to form a slurry, a heater that elevates the temperature of the slurry in the reactor to facilitate liquefying the coal and liberating a volatile matter, and a centrifuge that separates the insoluble components from the slurry to obtain a de-ashed coal extract, wherein the coal extract is suitable for downstream processing. The system may also include a distillation column that distills the de-ashed coal extract to obtain a pitch. The system may also include a coker that cokes at least one of the de-ashed coal extract and the pitch to obtain a coke.
US08597498B2
A process for treating a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock is provided in which a hydrocarbon-containing feed comprising at least 20 wt. % of heavy hydrocarbons is mixed with hydrogen, hydrogen sulfide, and a metal-containing catalyst to produce a hydrocarbon-containing product. The hydrocarbon-containing feedstock, the catalyst(s), the hydrogen sulfide, and the hydrogen are provided to a mixing zone and blended in the mixing zone at a temperature of from 375° C. to 500° C. and a total pressure of from 6.9 MPa to 27.5 MPa, where hydrogen sulfide is provided at a mole ratio of hydrogen sulfide to hydrogen of at least 0.5:9.5 and the combined hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen partial pressures provide at least 60% of the total pressure. A vapor comprised of hydrocarbons that are vaporizable at the temperature and pressure within the mixing zone is separated from the mixing zone, and, apart from the mixing zone, the vapor may be condensed to produce a liquid hydrocarbon-containing product.
US08597488B2
The method for reducing carbon dioxide of the present disclosure includes a step (a) and a step (b) as follows. A step (a) of preparing an electrochemical cell. The electrochemical cell comprises a working electrode, a counter electrode and a vessel. The vessel stores an electrolytic solution. The working electrode contains at least one nitride selected from the group consisting of titanium nitride, zirconium nitride, hafnium nitride, tantalum nitride, molybdenum nitride and iron nitride. The electrolytic solution contains carbon dioxide. The working electrode and the counter electrode are in contact with the electrolytic solution. A step (b) of applying a negative voltage and a positive voltage to the working electrode and the counter electrode, respectively, to reduce the carbon dioxide.
US08597485B2
An apparatus for aligning a capillary column with one or more excitation fibers and with one or more optical lens elements for Capillary Electrophoresis. The apparatus includes two identical blocks having a plurality of grooves for positioning and aligning the capillary column with the one or more excitation fibers, and a plurality of lens seats for optically coupling the lens element with the capillary column. Each block includes a male and female part for mating the two identical blocks together.
US08597484B2
A system and method for quantifying opaque inhomogeneities within a fluid sample. The system uses an optical lens system to focus a light beam onto a stage where the sample is introduced. The light beam is directed onto the sample in a pattern such that the intensity of transmitted light is measured as a function of path length. A photo detector measures the transmitted light through the sample. Fluctuations in transmitted light intensity are then correlated with detection of opaque inclusions in the sample. The system also includes an automated program which utilizes these optical concentration measurements to determine the fouling potential of visbroken tars, and regulates the introduction of chemical inhibitors into a visbreaker unit to improve the yield of light streams and/or economic value of product.
US08597482B2
Cleaned metal surfaces are coated with an aqueous anti-corrosion treatment. The anti-corrosion treatment includes an organofunctional silsesquioxane and a fluoro metallic acid such as H2TiF6, H2ZrF6, as well as others and blends. The metal surface can be rinsed immediately after coating, making this anti-corrosion treatment suitable for preparing a metal surface for electrocoating.
US08597476B2
Electrolytic equipment in the form of radiation mode that is provided with pluralities of baffles (13) in the form of radiation mode on the top surface of the seat (10) and acidic water passage (131) is formed between the baffles (13). The top surface of the seat (10) has through holes (14) used to make anode conduction portions (33) of anode plate (30) through. In the center of the seat (10), there is a socket joint portion (11) that is provided with an inlet and outlet interval tube (15) in the center of it. There are plurality of equidistributed baffles (151, 157) on the inside wall and the outside wall of the inlet and outlet interval tube (15) to form raw water inlet passage (152) and acidic water outlet passage (153). There are protuberant ribs (16) for separating water inside of the seat (10) corresponding to the location for separating water around the anode plate (30) and the cathode plate (40), which are used to separate alkaline water and acidic water electrolyzed from the anode plate (30) and the cathode plate (40). Alkaline water passage (631) is formed on the bottom surface of the lid (60) and the center of lid (60) is provided with alkaline water outlet joint (61).
US08597473B1
The present invention provides a method of controlling a reactive sputtering system used in coating processes. More specifically, the present invention provides a microprocessor-based control system for reactive gases in a sputtering system, particularly during the start-up phase of operation. The preferred demand for such a reactive gas is predicted for every stage of the operation, and the reactive gas supply is amenable to predictive control provided by object program-driven mathematical formulae. The injection of reactive gas using time-advanced, sequential, mathematically-derived procedures simplifies overall system operation and provides a system with an optimal amount of reactive gas at an optimal time.
US08597468B2
A joining process for an endless or seamed press fabric, the joining process including the step of providing a woven base fabric having a plurality of monofilament yarns including warp yarns extending in a machine direction and weft yarns extending in a cross machine direction, the woven base fabric being cut along one of the weft yarns and having two opposing ends and two side edges. A predetermined number of the weft yarns are removed along each of the two opposing ends to free a plurality of cut ends of the warp yarns, fringing the ends. The plurality of free cut ends of the two opposing ends are interdigitated with each other and the cut ends opposing and adjoining one another are heat bonded to define a joint area.
US08597466B2
Process for the production of paper, board and cardboard having high dry strength by separate addition of a water-soluble cationic polymer and of an aqueous dispersion of a water-insoluble polymer having a content of acid groups of not more than 10 mol % or of an aqueous dispersion of a nonionic polymer, which dispersion has been made anionic, to a paper stock, draining of the paper stock and drying of the paper products. Preferably, the polymers are added to a paper stock which has a temperature of at least 40° C.
US08597464B2
There is provided an inductively coupled plasma reactor. The inductively coupled plasma reactor is connected to a transformer with multiple magnetic cores and a primary winding, to transfer an electromotive force for plasma discharge to a plasma discharge chamber of a reactor body. Parts of magnetic core positioned in side the plasma discharge chamber are protected by being entirely covered by a core protecting tube. The primary winding is electrically connected to a power supply source providing radio frequency power. In the inductively coupled plasma reactor, since a number of magnetic core cross sectional parts are positioned inside the plasma discharge chamber, the efficiency of transferring the inductively coupled energy to be connected with plasma is very high.
US08597461B2
Methods and apparatus for isotropically etching a metal from a work piece, while recovering and reconstituting the chemical etchant are described. Various embodiments include apparatus and methods for etching where the recovered and reconstituted etchant is reused in a continuous loop recirculation scheme. Steady state conditions can be achieved where these processes are repeated over and over with occasional bleed and feed to replenish reagents and/or adjust parameters such as pH, ionic strength, salinity and the like.
US08597451B2
A method of forming a homogenous composite pipe of unspecified length from strips of fiber reinforced thermoplastic material is disclosed. A mandrel is arranged stationary in a process direction to extend freely from a first supported end to a second end. A slip-sheath is applied about the mandrel. The thermoplastic material strips are wound about the slip-sheath. A section of the thermoplastic material strip winding is consolidated. The slip-sheath is formed from tape material which is applied longitudinally onto the mandrel surface. The slip-sheath is connected to a puller arranged downstream of the material in the process direction. Consolidated pipe sections are pulled off from the second end of the mandrel in synchronization with the winding and consolidation. An assembly for carrying out the method.
US08597450B2
A sport ball may include a casing and a bladder. The casing may form at least a portion of an exterior surface of the ball. The bladder may be located within the casing and formed from a plurality of polymer bladder elements joined along abutting edges to form a sealed and valveless structure that encloses a pressurized gas. In some configurations, the bladder may be at least partially formed from an ether-based thermoplastic polyurethane material.
US08597441B2
The invention relates to a method for producing partially hardened steel components in which a blank is subjected to a temperature increase that is sufficient for a quench-hardening and after reaching a desired temperature, the blank is transferred to a forming tool in which the blank is quench-hardened or the blank is cold-formed and the component obtained by the cold-forming is then subjected to a temperature increase. During the heating of the blank or component, absorption masses rest against and/or are spaced with a small gap apart from regions that are intended to have a lower hardness and/or higher ductility; with regard to its expansion and thickness, its thermal conductivity, and its thermal capacity and/or with regard to its emissivity, the absorption mass is dimensioned so that the thermal energy acting on the component in the region to remain ductile flows through the component into the absorption mass.
US08597437B2
A biocompatible material is made of a rust-resistant, alloyed stainless steel which is configured with at least one martensitic surface layer which is formed by a heat treatment with nitrogen case hardening and subsequent cooling. The surface layer, orthogonally to the surface into the sample interior, displaying a virtually linear course of the accompanying hardening and being achieved by a complete phase change (so-called austenitising) in the structural state from ferrite via austenite to martensite. In addition, the biocompatible material is in contact preferably indirectly or directly with the human body, no reactions and/or sensitivity problems being able to occur even in permanent use as a result of its absolute freedom from nickel.
US08597429B2
Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a reaction chamber including a gas supply inlet and a gas exhaust outlet, and into which a wafer is to be introduced; a process gas supply mechanism that supplies process gas into the reaction chamber from the gas supply inlet of the reaction chamber; a wafer retaining member that is arranged in the reaction chamber and that retains the wafer; a heater that heats the wafer retained by the wafer retaining member to a predetermined temperature; a rotation drive control mechanism that rotates the wafer retaining member together with the wafer; a gas exhaustion mechanism that exhausts gas in the reaction chamber from the gas exhaust outlet of the reaction chamber; and a drain that is disposed at a bottom portion near a wall surface in the reaction chamber and that collects and discharges oily silane that drips from the wall surface.
US08597428B2
A linear actuator comprised of an actuator body having a first portion and a second portion, each arranged along a longitudinal axis of the actuator body. A vacuum bellows is concentrically located in the first portion and is configured to seal a vacuum environment from the second portion. A linear motion shaft is concentrically located substantially within the actuator body and is configured to move in a linear direction along the longitudinal axis. An electrically conductive portion of the shaft is concentrically located substantially within the vacuum bellows and electrically insulated therefrom and is configured to receive and conduct a signal. A lift force generating portion of the shaft is concentrically located substantially within the second portion. An electrical contact pad is electrically coupled to the conductive portion of the shaft and is configured to couple the signal to another surface upon activation of the shaft.
US08597424B2
A composition for forming an aluminum film, comprising a complex represented by the following formula (1) and a complex represented by the following formula (2), the molar ratio of the complex represented by the following formula (1) and the complex represented by the following formula (2) being 40:60 to 85:15: AlH3.NR1R2R3 (1) AlH3.(NR1R2R3)2 (2) (in the above formulas (1) and (2), R1, R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, alkenyl group, alkynyl group, aryl group or aralkyl group.).
US08597423B2
Disclosed herein is a composition for producing an insulator. More specifically, the composition comprises a silane-based organic-inorganic hybrid material containing one or more multiple bonds, an acrylic organic crosslinking agent and a silane-based crosslinking agent having six or more alkoxy groups. Also disclosed herein is an organic insulator produced using the insulator composition. The organic insulator is highly crosslinked to facilitate the fabrication of an organic thin film transistor in terms of processing.
US08597413B2
A scrubber removes matter (e.g., particulate, gaseous, or liquid) from a gas stream in order to recover the matter and/or to clean the gas. In particular aspects, the scrubber contains multiple venturis that may provide additional flexibility and increased efficiency. The invention also pertains to related methods.
US08597408B2
An apparatus for separation of gases from ambient air that has at least one separation column with an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, a buffer column having a single inlet at a first end, a vacuum pump, and a valve system that connects the vacuum pump to the outlet at the first end of the separation column, and that connects the outlet at the second end of separation column to the single inlet at the first end of the buffer column.
US08597398B2
The invention is directed to a method of making liquid metal compositions containing a large number of solid particles per unit volume, without external heat removal, which solid particles act as nuclei for grains when the metal is solidified. A method of forming a metal solid includes the step of partially removing a solute of a liquid metallic solution which is at its liquidus temperature to partially solidify a metal solvent component, thereby forming a solid fraction, wherein there is essentially no reduction in temperature of the liquid metallic solution and solid fraction. The method further includes the step of subsequently lowering the temperature of the liquid metallic solution and solid fraction to solidify the remaining liquid metallic solution and thereby form a solid that includes the solid fraction formed during the step of partial solute removal. In an embodiment, the method further includes turbulence from gas evolution which aids in solid particle formation and grain refinement.
US08597397B2
Processes for the production of metal nanoparticles. In one aspect, the invention is to a process comprising the steps of mixing a heated first solution comprising a base and/or a reducing agent (e.g., a non-polyol reducing agent), a polyol, and a polymer of vinyl pyrrolidone with a second solution comprising a metal precursor that is capable of being reduced to a metal by the polyol. In another aspect, the invention is to a process that includes the steps of heating a powder of a polymer of vinyl pyrrolidone; forming a first solution comprising the powder and a polyol; and mixing the first solution with a second solution comprising a metal precursor capable of being reduced to a metal by the polyol.
US08597396B1
Metallic nanodisks and a method of making them. The metallic nanodisks are wheel-shaped structures that that provide large surface areas for catalytic applications. The metallic nanodisks are grown within bicelles (disk-like micelles) that template the growth of the metal in the form of approximately circular dendritic sheets. The zero-valent metal forming the nanodisks is formed by reduction of a metal ion using a suitable electron donor species.
US08597393B2
The invention provides a filter pack of which the mass is not increased, and moreover, the effective filter medium area is not reduced, and of which the pressure drop is sufficiently low, and the strength is sufficiently high, and an air filter using this.A pleated air filter pack is configured in such a way that dot embossed projections are provided on front and rear surfaces of a filter medium made of a non-woven fabric, the filter medium is folded in zigzag shape along creases of pleats, and the opposing embossed projections are brought into contact with each other when the filter medium is folded, thus maintaining the intervals between the filter media.
US08597390B2
An air cleaner is provided with a housing having an opening, and a filter. The filter has a frame and an element supported to the frame. The filter is installed in the interior of the housing from the opening of the housing. A second seal surface of a seal ring of the filter is joined to a first seal surface of the housing in a state in which the filter is installed in the housing. A rib-shaped protection portion extending along the first seal surface is provided in the housing. The protection portion protrudes further toward the filter than the first seal surface. A slide protrusion protruding further toward the first seal surface than the second seal surface is provided in the frame of the filter. The slide protrusion can slide on the protection portion.
US08597382B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for coal liquefaction using a rubber material. A method of obtaining a de-ashed coal extract includes exposing a coal to a rubber material in the presence of a coal-derived solvent to form a slurry, elevating the temperature of the slurry to facilitate liquefying the coal and liberating a volatile matter, and separating the insoluble components from the slurry to obtain a de-ashed coal extract, wherein the coal extract is suitable for downstream processing.
US08597372B2
An oxidative hair colorant composition to be dispensed from a manually-actuable, non-aerosol dispenser as a foam. The oxidative hair colorant composition contains a foam stabilizing agent and is essentially free of surfactant.
US08597367B2
An elongate medical device configured for at least partial implantation or insertion into a subject. The medical device has at least one surface that contains one or more depressions, which are at least partially filled with a soluble material. Also described methods of making such devices.
US08597360B2
A bone fusion device provides stability to bones during a bone fusion period. The bones include, for example, the vertebrae of a spinal column. The bone fusion device comprises one or more extendable tabs attached to the bone fusion device by associated rotating means. The bone fusion device is preferably inserted by using an arthroscopic surgical procedure. During arthroscopic insertion of the device, the tabs are pre-configured for compactness. In this compact configuration, the tabs are preferably deposed along and/or within an exterior surface of the bone fusion device. After the bone fusion device has been positioned between the bones, one or more tab(s) are extended. In the preferred embodiment, the position of each tab is related to a positioning element and extending blocks. Typically, the tabs advantageously position and brace the bone fusion device in the confined space between the bones until the bones have fused.
US08597359B2
Lumbar and cervical interbody or intervertebral devices for implantation between adjacent vertebrae of a spine and/or within intermediary canals of long bones are characterized by a body defining a superior end and an inferior end whose surfaces have serrations or teeth thereon forming anti-backout structures that allow implantation of the body but inhibit removal or backing out therefrom. The one-way structures may extend from the anterior end to the posterior end. The one-way structures may take different shapes but are always configured to allow insertion of the interbody device in an anterior-first manner while preventing and/or inhibiting the interbody device from backing out posteriorly. The various interbody devices may be further characterized by a body defining a cavity that is in communication with the superior and inferior ends of the body and at least one lateral side thereof via openings in the body. Undercuts are formed in the body about the adjacent the openings in order to support bony ingrowth within the void.
US08597357B2
A prosthetic spinal implant having a deployable securing mechanism that is deployable into a portion of the vertebral space for affixing the implant between the vertebrae, the securing mechanism having tactile feedback means comprising a surface for transmitting tactile feedback during deployment of the securing mechanism. A spinal implant having deployable securing means that interface with the implant to prevent the deployable securing means from retracting after deployment. An implant that utilizes its resilient properties to provide the user with tactile feedback with which the user may ascertain the position of the securing mechanism. A system and tools for sizing and implanting implants with the aforementioned characteristics.
US08597344B2
The intravascular stent is formed from a composite wire includes an inner core of radiopaque metal, a polymer layer coaxially disposed about the inner core, and an outer metal layer coaxially disposed about the polymer layer. The intermediary polymer layer acts as a barrier material between the inner core and the outer sheath, so that the inner core and outer sheath may be made of dissimilar metallic layers, and the intermediary polymer layer will prevent a galvanic reaction between the inner core and the peripheral metal layer. The intravascular stent has ends flared radially outwardly to prevent radially and longitudinally inward deformation of the ends of the stent when the stent is disposed in a desired location in a patient's vasculature.
US08597343B2
A stent includes a wave form that includes a plurality of struts and a plurality of crowns. Each crown connects two adjacent struts within the wave form. The wave form is wrapped around a longitudinal axis at a pitch angle to define a plurality of turns and has a central portion and two end portions located on opposite sides of the central portion. At least some of the struts located in the end portions have lengths longer than an average length of all of the struts of the wave form. The stent also includes a plurality of connections. Each connection connects selected crowns from adjacent turns. The connections are positioned along the stent substantially equally so that a density of the number of connections of the end portions is substantially equal to a density of the number of connections of the central portion.
US08597329B2
A dummy teat including a nipple carrier and a hollow dummy nipple projecting from the nipple carrier, which has areas of a smaller wall thickness at least on two opposed longitudinal sides.
US08597327B2
A method and apparatus for securing a fractured or sectioned sternum in a patient's body is disclosed. The apparatus can include an attachment member and an adjustable flexible member construct. The attachment member can have a flexible member holder. The adjustable flexible member construct can have first and second ends and a body defining at least one passage portion. The first and second ends can be passed into and through the at least one passage portion via first and second openings associated with the at least one passage portion of the adjustable flexible member construct to form a pair of loops. The attachment member can be configured to be coupled to at least one of the formed pair of loops. The adjustable flexible member construct can be positioned about the sternum and can be reduced to compress the fractured or sectioned sternum.
US08597323B1
A system for delivering an implant device to a vascular site in a patient a delivery pusher apparatus, an implant device detachably connected to the delivery pusher apparatus by a tether having a distal end connected to a proximal end of the implant device, wherein the tether is substantially non-tensioned when connecting the implant device to the delivery pusher, and an electrical heating element configured coaxially around at least a portion of the tether, wherein heat generated by the heating element severs the tether at a point near the proximal end of the implant device.
US08597321B2
A device for the implantation of electrolytically severable occluding spirals in body cavities or blood vessels comprising a source of electrical power, a cathode, a catheter and an occluding spiral adapted to serve as an anode and able to slide in the catheter in the longitudinal direction, wherein the occluding spiral (3) is designed to be electrolytically corrodible at several spaced apart points so that when in contact with a body fluid one or more variably dimensioned lengths of the occluding spiral (3) may be severed by electrolysis.
US08597316B2
A surgical tool system including a handpiece with a motor and a cutting accessory with a shaft that is rotated by the handpiece motor. The handpiece includes a coupling assembly with plural locking elements for holding the accessory shaft to an output drive shaft that is actuated by the handpiece motor. The locking elements are longitudinally spaced apart from each other. The accessory shaft is formed with retention features against which the handpiece locking elements engage. The shaft retention features are in columns. The retention features in adjacent retention features are longitudinally offset from each other. This allows the coarse or fine adjustment of the extent to which the accessory shaft extends forward from the handpiece coupling assembly.
US08597309B2
A device for suturing an opening in a tissue, having an elongated shaft, at least two arms movable to a deployed positioning which the arms are non-perpendicular to the shaft, the arms having needle receiving portions; and needles advanceable longitudinally along the shaft toward the needle receiving portions, the needles exiting through side walls of the shaft at a location proximal to the arms.
US08597306B1
Provided herein are methods for decreasing the incidence of Cesarean childbirth by managing the labor process. In one aspect, a tactile feedback device is positioned adjacent the perianal tissues. A mother's labor is monitored for the progression of the baby along the birth canal and adjustments are performed in response to the progression of labor to promote a vaginal childbirth. A perianal support device includes a perianal support member having a pressure surface configured for engagement with tissue adjacent an anal orifice and a pressure detecting system associated with the perianal support member to detect pressure indicative of pressure on the perianal tissue of a patient.
US08597305B2
An apparatus for treating tissue, comprising a sheath defining a lumen sized and shaped to receive a treatment device therein, a guide member coupled to the sheath and extending a predetermined distance substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the sheath, and a stabilizer element for engaging an anchoring device coupled to tissue to stabilize the sheath and the treatment device, the stabilizing element being movably coupled to the guide member for movement therealong substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sheath wherein, when in a proximal-most position, the stabilizer element is located proximally of a proximal end of the guide member.
US08597302B2
A multi-function impactor for use with an orthopaedic implant, such as a knee joint, is described. The head of the impactor has a pair of curved recesses for mating with condylar parts of a femoral implant and flat faces for mating with a tibial implant. An extended formation is also provided for use with the inter-condylar notch of the femoral implant. A v-shaped notch in the extended formation is also provided to impact a tibial insert. The impactor can be made from a single moulded plastics part.
US08597288B2
Cardiac ablation systems include vacuum-stabilized, irrigated ablation devices that have ablating elements capable of providing regions of relatively low pressure to maintain the ablating element in a stable position relative to the tissue, or minimize relative movement of the ablating element relative to the tissue. The ablation elements have integrated structures for vacuum-stabilization. The devices also include one or more electrodes for both orienting the ablating element as well as for diagnostic purposes.
US08597285B2
A cryoprobe for use in cryosurgery and other applications comprising a rigid outer tube, an inner coolant inlet tube. a short rigid penetrating segment extending distally from the distal end of the outer tube and a helical-shaped baffle having a heating element disposed about the outer surface of the inlet tube. The baffle is adapted to produce turbulent fluid flow improving heat transfer and is able to warm target tissue during rapid freezing and thawing cycles.
US08597279B2
A capsule and methodology for dispensing a medicament in the gastrointestinal tract of a mammal is disclosed, the gastrointestinal tract having tissue sites of interest. The capsule may include a medicament reservoir; medicament dispensing means such as a plurality of piezoelectric droplet jet nozzle dispensers; a power source; electronic control circuitry means and/or detecting means capable of communicating with a medicament dispensing means for regulating the amount and time interval for dispensing of the medicament into the gastrointestinal tract by the medicament dispensing means; and a non-digestible outer protective shell housing, e.g., the medicament reservoir, medicament dispensing means and electronic control circuitry means. A plurality of the nozzle dispensers of the medicament dispensing means can be positioned tangentially to a surface of the housing such that during release of a medicament, the capsule is caused to rotate and/or translate so as to discharge the medicament homogeneously onto tissue sites of interest. In addition, by using multiple nozzles and releasing medicament at high speed, this facilitates medicament absorption by the intestines in the gastrointestinal tract.
US08597269B2
At least one tab may extend through at least one opening in a retaining member configured to cover at least a portion of a head of a reservoir body and a portion of a septum supported by the head of the reservoir body. A retaining member may be configured to cover at least a portion of a first head of a reservoir body and a portion of a septum supported by the first head of the reservoir body, and the reservoir body may have a second head having at least one tab. A retaining member located in a head of a reservoir body may be for retaining a septum on the head of the reservoir body, and the head of the reservoir body may have at least one tab.
US08597268B2
The present disclosure includes an embodiment wherein a disposable wearable absorbent article comprises an absorbent core and a side with a side anchoring subsystem. The side anchoring subsystem is configured to indirectly anchor the absorbent core to a wearer of the article. The side includes a first portion, in which substantially all of the side anchoring subsystem is integral with the side, and a second portion, outside of the first portion.
US08597257B2
A novel device and method for intradermal delivery of an active agent is provided. The device comprises a housing which contains a reservoir chamber. A flexible reservoir containing the active agent is placed in the chamber. Upon pressure on an actuator the active agents is delivered via a hollow needle to the skin.
US08597246B1
Various sealing structures are used in a front-loading injector, for preventing leakage of spilled fluid from an external surface of a syringe into the vicinity of the drive ram. For example, a sealing gasket may be incorporated into the front face of the injector housing, for mating to the rearward circular edge of the cylindrical body of a syringe. Alternatively, sealing and locking functions may be performed by a single structure on the rearward end of the syringe. Further, leakage may be prevented by including a non-planar sealing flange on the syringe, positioned on the syringe forward of the locking structure, or by a two-piece structure, including a syringe and a separate leakage stopping washer for surrounding the syringe to halt the flow of fluid along the exterior of the syringe. (As part of this aspect, or as an independent feature, the syringe may include an annularly discontinuous flange forward of the locking structure, for providing mechanical support for the syringe against the injector.) Alternatively, an iris-like structure may be incorporated into the front surface of the injector, for closing about the syringe upon insertion of the syringe into the injector.
US08597245B2
A medical injector is provided herein which includes first and second body portions each having a longitudinal axis and configured to couple at a coupling. The first and second body portions are complementarily formed so as to be movable about the coupling. The medical injector also includes an axially-displaceable plunger; biasing element for advancing the plunger a predetermined distance; and, a releasable retainer for releasably retaining the plunger in a first state against the force of the biasing element. In an initial state, the axes of the first and second body portions are not aligned and the plunger is in the first state. In a coupled state, the axes of the first and second body portions are axially aligned, and the releasable retainer releases the plunger, thereby allowing the biasing element to advance the plunger the predetermined distance. Advantageously, the subject invention provides a medical injector having an automated plunger drive which is triggered upon assembly of the pen injector, thereby minimizing premature or failed activations.
US08597222B2
An adjustable compression garment includes a first fabric portion that is moveable relative to a second fabric portion. At least the first fabric portion includes a stretchable material that provides a degree of compression to a human body. A fastening arrangement includes a first fastener device connected to the first fabric portion and a second fastening device connected to the second fabric portion. The fastening device provides an adjustable connection between first fabric portion and the second fabric portion. The fastening device is configured such that the degree of compression provided by the first fabric portion may be increased without disconnecting the first fastener device from the second fastener device.
US08597214B2
Apparatus for promoting blood flow in an extremity is disclosed including a gas source and a bladder assembly including a first bladder and a second bladder independently coupled to the gas source. The bladder assembly may be sized to fit within a shoe of a patient and may include a first bladder encircling a second bladder. A controller is operably coupled to the gas source and is configured to control the flow of gas from the gas source to the first and second bladders in order to periodically commence inflation of the first and second bladders in sequence.
US08597198B2
A breathing support system is provided. The system may include a breathing support device configured to deliver gas to a patient and a display device associated with the breathing support device. The display device may be configured to display a graphic indicating one or more measures regarding the patient's work of breathing.
US08597187B2
The present invention provides a hand-held, noninvasive diagnostic device for measuring the electric fields in mammalian skin and other epithelial structures. The device includes an outer housing that contacts the skin, providing stability and allowing the device to move along with minor movement of the skin. Recessed within the outer housing is a probe that acts as a sensor to measure the electric field in the skin through an aperture in the bottom surface of the outer housing. By applying a series of known voltages while the probe is vibrating, the skin's local surface potential can be measured and the lateral electric field can be calculated from the spatial distribution of surface potential measurements. Active feedback is used to maintain a constant distance between the probe and the skin surface.
US08597184B2
A system permits diagnosis of a patient for a physiological abnormality while protecting their airway. An esophageal airway protection device comprises an elongate device body having a distal end for insertion into the stomach through the esophagus and a proximal end. The device includes a main lumen extending the length of the device and an inflatable esophageal cuff carried by the device body mid-esophagus. Emesis and/or reflux is blocked from passing out of the stomach past the esophageal cuff positioned mid-esophagus when it is inflated to protect a patient's airway during an involuntary cough event. At least one electromyogram (EMG) pad is configured to obtain an EMG from an involuntary cough activated paraspinal muscles. A processing device is configured to receive the EMG and process the EMG to determine a physiological abnormality.
US08597176B2
An endoscopy capsule contains an induction coil that is elongated along a longitudinal axis thereof, the endoscopy coil supplying power to components within the endoscopy capsule. A magnetic element in the endoscopy capsule has a magnetic dipole moment and interacts with an external magnetic field to navigate the endoscopy capsule within the body of a subject. The magnetic element is oriented so that the magnetic dipole element is aligned perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the induction coil. The endoscopy capsule has a cross-sectional area, in a plane having a normal aligned in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the induction coil, which contains both a cross-section through the magnetic element and a cross-section through the induction coil. The magnetic element has a length along the longitudinal axis of the induction coil so that the magnetic element projects beyond the induction coil at each end thereof.
US08597173B2
Described are implants, tools, and methods useful for treating pelvic conditions such as prolapse, by placing an implant to support pelvic tissue, the implants, tools, and methods involving one or more of adjusting engagements, specific implants and pieces of implants, placement of implants at locations within the pelvic region, and insertion, adjusting, and grommet management tools.
US08597172B2
The invention generally relates to surgically implantable supportive slings. More specifically, in various embodiments, the invention is directed to systems, devices and methods relating to surgically implantable supportive sling having an adjustable shape.
US08597165B1
A training device to induce the proper technique required to perform squatting exercises. The device is designed to be portable and constructed from light weight, cylindrical aluminum tubes, and includes foot guides, and knee guides, and hand grip, all of which may be moved to comply with the user's body size and degree of comfort. The foot guides are mounted to a foot rod that is secured in place by a pair of support legs, and the foot guides have a lateral range of movement of 3 to 20 inches. The knee guides slide laterally over a knee pole and have a range of movement from 3 to 20 inches. An adjustment rod provides for the knee guides to be varied from a height of 10 inches to a height of 21 inches. The hand grip may be placed at a distance from 44 to 54 inches and be capable of movement of 2 to 6 inches horizontally.
US08597162B2
A mobility apparatus for a patient permitting improved mobility is disclosed. The apparatus includes a frame assembly, a locomotion assembly, a forearm support assembly, a kinematic and kinetic feedback assembly and optionally a back support assembly, where the apparatus provides mobility assistance, while permitting visualization of movement velocity, loaded and unloaded motion, and other information concerning a patients proper use of the mobility assistance apparatus.
US08597161B2
An exercise device can include a frame, first and second treadle assemblies, and a one-way drive system. Each treadle assembly can include a deck and tread belt rotatably coupled to the deck. The treadle assemblies can be pivotably mounted to the frame. Downward movement of the two treadle assemblies can cause the tread belts associated with the treadle assemblies to rotate relative to their decks.
US08597146B2
A powertrain operable in input-split, output-split and compound-split operating modes includes a first motor/generator continuously connected with a first member of a first planetary gear set. A second motor/generator is continuously connected with a first member of a second planetary gear set. An input member is continuously connected with a second member of the first planetary gear set. An output member is continuously connected with a second member of the second planetary gear set. A first brake grounds a third member of the first planetary gear set. A second brake grounds a third member of the second planetary gear. A first clutch connects the third member of the first planetary gear set with the second member of the second planetary gear set. A second clutch connects the second member of the first planetary gear set with the third member of the second planetary gear set.
US08597138B2
A method for surface treating a golf club head, includes: (a) forming a depression unit in the golf club head, the depression unit being indented inwardly from an outer surface of the golf club head, the outer surface being divided into a working area and a non-working area, the depression unit being formed in the working area; (b) filling the depression unit with a shielding material and covering the non-working area with a covering material; and (c) sandblasting the golf club head after step (b) and removing subsequently the shielding material from the depression unit and the covering material from the non-working area so as to form the working area into sandblasted and non-sandblasted regions that differ in gloss intensity.
US08597134B2
A golf club having a value of L not less than 45.5 inches, with L representing a club length measured with a 60-degree method, includes a shaft, a grip attached to one end of the shaft, and a head attached to the other end of the shaft. A value of r/L is equal to or not smaller than 0.658 and equal to or not greater than 0.732, where r represents a distance from an upper end of the grip to the center of gravity of the golf club. Thus, a long-length golf club achieving an increased head speed can be obtained.
US08597132B2
An accessory for a play system includes an elongated surface and a plurality of sound modules coupled with the elongated surface. The elongated surface may be a slide, climbing wall, ladder or any other surface across which a child may slide, crawl, or climb. The sound modules are spaced along a length of the elongated surface and are each configured to emit a unique sound when operated by the child while traversing the elongated surface.
US08597131B2
A driveshaft mechanism tiding a driveshaft insert and a driveshaft are provided. The driveshaft insert is coupled to the driveshaft. The driveshaft insert is configured to couple with a component such that the driveshaft and the component rotate together.
US08597126B2
A method for incentivizing donations using virtual currencies includes determining that a user associated with a game and determining a location of the user. A charity provider is then identified that is both associated with the game and within a predetermined distance of the location. A donation incentivization message is then sent to the user that includes an identification of the charity provider. A plurality of redemption codes are also sent to the charity provider. A first redemption code of the plurality of redemption codes that is associated with the user and a donation from the user to the charity provider is received. The first redemption code is then used to credit a user account that is associated with the user with a virtual currency amount that is determined using the donation.
US08597117B2
The computer-implemented virtual game-based method and system of the present invention allow participants to play incentive-based virtual games and accept or decline offered prizes. Declining an offered prize allows a participant to play for a more desirable prize and accepting a prize prohibits the participant from accepting another prize for the duration of a temporal lock out period. Individual single use virtual games are issued electronically to participants requesting to play a virtual game. Prizes are offered by each single use virtual game in accordance with pre-generated single use virtual game tickets commanding the presentation of an offered prize or non-offered prize. Some embodiments of the present invention deliver branded advertising to consumers participating in game play. In these embodiments, virtual game elements comprise branded advertising impressions as part of the interactive virtual game.
US08597114B2
A system and method for enabling play of a casino table card game. Multiple randomized sets of playing cards of known composition are formed and delivered, and are set by following automatically generated house way instructions. An automatic card shuffler is configured to deliver randomized sets of physical cards, the shuffler equipped with a playing card reading system that reads at least one of a rank and suit of markings on each of the playing cards. A processor receives the read card information from the playing card reading system and determines a composition of each individual set of playing cards dispensed. At least one display is in communication with a processor programmed with house way rules for displaying instructions on how to set hands from a distributed set of cards a house way. Processors of the present invention may also cause a display of a house commission amount.
US08597102B2
A gaming machine 10 includes: a display device configured to display a plurality of symbols to be continuously arranged; and a controller 30. The controller 30 executes processing operations of: (a1) sequentially executing game processing for a plurality of players and then according to a result of the game processing, determining any of the symbols is to be assigned to a respective one of the players; (a2) paying out a prize according to the symbols that are assigned according to a result of the determination; and (a3) generating a scramble event in which the assigned symbols are scrambled between the plurality of players, in a case where the prize is identical as to the plurality of players.
US08597099B2
An automated raffle game and method making use of prize pools, the prize pools having elements, the elements representing one of: winning prizes; or, both winning prizes and no-win (0 value) prizes. Raffle tickets are associated with a prize pool. Upon closure of the game, either by a time-out or by number of tickets sold, a number of elements are taken from the pool. The number of elements taken from the pool is directly related to the number of tickets associated with the pool and further depends on which type of pool is being used (one having only win-elements or both win and 0-value elements). The results are sent to the player terminal, where a player may simply take a winning voucher or ticket, or, may chose to view an entertainment display.
US08597097B2
A gaming machine for conducting a wagering game includes a display for displaying a bonus game triggered by a start-bonus outcome and for presenting a plurality of player-selectable elements. Each of the player-selectable elements has a predetermined random outcome associated therewith. A game feature associated with the bonus game is configured to introduce a computer-generated player on the display. The computer-generated player randomly selects at least one player-selectable element from the plurality of player-selectable elements.
US08597088B2
An abrasive article includes a base, an abrasive member comprising three distinct phases bonded to each other including abrasive particles, a metal matrix, and an infiltrant. The abrasive article further includes a backing region between the abrasive member and the base, wherein the backing region comprises a laser welded bond joint.
US08597086B2
A tool holder is provided with a main body, a taper cone, a working portion, a coolant flow passage, and an adjuster. The taper cone includes a taper portion and movable in an axial direction of the main body. The working portion is mounted on an outer peripheral portion of the main body and includes a taper bottom surface which engages with the taper portion. The taper bottom surface is movable in a radial direction of the main body based on a movement of the taper cone in the axial direction. A coolant flows through the coolant flow passage such that a part of the coolant presses and moves the taper cone in the axial direction and another part of the coolant flows out to an outside so as to adjust a pressing force. The adjuster is fitted into a hole penetrating the main body and includes a coolant flow-out hole for adjusting a flow-out of the coolant.
US08597085B2
Full profile dressing roll (1) for dressing multi-start grinding worms for the generation grinding of small-module gears, comprising a groove-shaped axial section profile of the outer envelope surface (2), covered with hard material grains, and profile-cut hard-material profile combs (3) embedded in this envelope surface and having a multi-ribbed rack tooth system profile, the profile of which touches the outer envelope surface (2) of the dressing roll (1) only in sections of the axial section profile of the dressing roll (1) which do not participate in the generation of the grinding worm flanks. As a result, the profile sections, highly stressed during the dressing, at the crest and root of the profile grooves (4) are protected from high wear and premature grain loss and the service life of the dressing roll is effectively increased without the inhomogeneity of the flank surface of the dressing roll (1) being disturbed by the profile combs (3).
US08597083B2
A blade sharpening system using the interior surface of a grinding wheel against which a blade is drawn along its entire length for sharpening. The sharpening system includes a blade holding configuration having multiple hinged arms. A cam operating between two of the hinged arms serves to alter the angle of incidence between the blade and the grinding wheel as the blade is drawn across the grinding wheel. The result is that a wide variety of different blade configurations can be easily accommodated by the sharpening system.
US08597081B2
A pad conditioning disk, a pre-conditioning unit, and a CMP apparatus having the same are provided. The pad conditioning disk includes a base in which mountain-type tips and valley-type grooves are repeatedly connected to each other, and a cutting layer formed on the base layer. The cutting layer including conditioning particles deposited on surfaces of the tips and grooves. A surfaces roughness of conditioning particles deposited on the surfaces of the tips is less than a surface roughness of conditioning particles deposited on the surfaces of the grooves.
US08597079B2
Ophthalmic abrasive wheel including a plurality of swarf clearing grooves formed across the cutting surface and having closed profiles such that the swarf clearing grooves do not open to or exit the side of the abrasive wheel. The swarf clearing grooves are spaced around the cutting surface of the wheel and are configured so as to be substantially angled either towards or away from one another.
US08597072B1
A strap assembly includes a chest strap and shoulder straps. Similarly configured left and right cups are provided. Each cup has inside and outside surfaces. A rectangular patch is operatively associated with each cup. Each patch has upper and lower edges and interior and exterior edges. In this manner a periphery is coupled to an associated cup. A linear slit is formed in each patch parallel with, and closely spaced from, the upper edge of each patch. Each slit has an elastic band within the patch surrounding the slit. The elastic band is adapted to return the slit to a closed orientation. The elastic band is further adapted to allow the slit to stretch to an enlarged orientation.
US08597067B2
A method of manufacturing an organic electroluminescence (EL) display device includes: identifying a defective pixel which includes an organic EL element having a short defect from among the pixels; applying a reverse bias voltage within a predetermined range to the pixel identified as the defective pixel; applying, for a certain period, a predetermined voltage to the pixel to which the reverse bias voltage is already applied, and measuring light emission luminance or pixel current of the pixel; and performing another repair process on the pixel having a temporal change amount in the measured light emission luminance or pixel current that is greater than or equal to a threshold.
US08597064B2
Disclosed herein is an electrical wedge connector wedge. The electrical wedge connector wedge includes a first end, a second end, a first conductor groove, and an opening. The second end is opposite the first end. The wedge includes a generally tapered shape from the second end to the first end. The first conductor groove extends between the first end and the second end. The opening extends into the second end. The opening is adapted to receive at least a portion of an explosive charge for driving the wedge into an electrical wedge connector shell.
US08597056B2
A card edge connector is provided for mounting to a printed circuit board (PCB). The card edge connector includes a housing having a mating side, a mounting side, and a card slot that extends into the mating side. The card edge connector also includes first and second contacts held by the housing. The first and second contacts include mounting segments that extend outwardly from the mounting side of the housing. The mounting segments include mounting interfaces. The mounting segments of the first and second contacts are configured to be electrically connected to corresponding contact pads on the PCB at the mounting interfaces. The mounting interface of the first contact is offset from the mounting interface of the second contact in a direction generally away from mounting side of the housing.
US08597053B2
An electrical connector is provided for terminating a cable. The electrical connector includes an electrical contact configured to be terminated to an end of a wire of the cable, and a housing having a dielectric member and an electrically conductive material extending on the dielectric member. The electrical contact is held by the housing. The housing extends from a mating end to a cable end. The housing is configured to mate with a mating connector at the mating end. The cable end includes a shield fitting that is configured to hold an end of a shield of the cable such that the electrically conductive material of the housing is engaged with, and electrically connected to, the shield.
US08597052B2
A receptacle assembly has a front housing configured to be mated with a header assembly. A contact module is coupled to the front housing. The contact module includes a conductive holder that has an open first side and a closed second side. The conductive holder has a chamber between the first and second sides. The conductive holder has a front coupled to the front housing. A frame assembly is received in the chamber through the open first side. The frame assembly includes a first dielectric frame that has a plurality of contacts and a second dielectric frame that has a plurality of contacts. The first and second dielectric frames both are received in the chamber of the conductive holder. The contacts extend from the conductive holder for electrical termination. A ground shield is coupled to the conductive holder and closes the open first side. The ground shield is electrically connected to the conductive holder. The ground shield has grounding beams that extend forward of the front of the conductive holder for electrical connection to a corresponding header shield of the header assembly.
US08597049B2
A fuse holder includes a two piece base assembly allowing assembly and attachment of fuse clips and terminals without separately provided, external fasteners such as screws. Fuse rejection features may be built-in to the base assembly adjacent one of the fuse clips.
US08597048B2
The invention relates to a connector system comprising a first connector having a plurality of first contact terminals (E, F, G, J); a second connector having a plurality of second contact terminals, wherein the second contact terminals (A, B, C, D) and the electrical device are arranged such that, while connecting, the first contact terminals come into contact with a first subset of the plurality of second contact terminals in a first connecting stage and while the connecting further proceeds the first contact terminals come into contact with a second subset of the second contact terminals, such that in the first connecting stage an electrical quantity between two of the first contact terminals is detectable which is different from the electrical quantity in an uncoupled condition of the connectors, and in the second connecting stage a further electrical quantity between at least two of the first contact terminals is detectable which is different from the electrical quantity detected in the first connecting stage.
US08597032B2
A system to mate electronic assemblies includes a computer backplane, and a first electronic interconnect carried by the computer backplane configured to operationally mate with a first electronic assembly. The system also includes a second electronic interconnect carried by the computer backplane that is physically separate from the first electronic interconnect, the second electronic interconnect configured to operationally mate with a second electronic assembly where the first electronic assembly and the second electronic assembly mate with the computer backplane at substantially a same time.
US08597031B2
The present invention is directed to interactive training, and in particular, to methods and systems for computerized interactive skill training. An example embodiment provides a method and system for providing skill training using a computerized system. The computerized system receives a selection of a first training subject. Several related training components can be invoked, such as reading, watching, performing, and/or reviewing components. In addition, a scored challenge session is provided, wherein a training challenge is provided to a user via a terminal, optionally in video form.
US08597024B2
A two-part dental implant includes distal and proximal stem portions which in an interconnected condition at least indirectly adjoin each other at a connecting location and have mutually facing surfaces in the region of the connecting location. A sealing body is provided between the mutually facing surfaces of the distal and proximal stem portions. The sealing body has sealing surfaces which face towards the mutually facing surfaces and which in the interconnected condition of the two stem portions bear sealingly against the mutually facing surfaces thereof. In addition, mutually facing abutment surfaces are provided between the distal and proximal stem portions. These mutually facing abutment surfaces bear against each other in the final assembled dental implant and limit the degree of approach of the two mutually facing surfaces of the stem portions between which the sealing body is arranged.
US08597021B2
An apparatus and method for the creation, placement and control of an area of electrical ionization within an internal combustion engine combustion chamber or a fuel burner is disclosed. A furnace includes a fuel source, a fuel burner, a plasma nozzle and igniter assembly, and the associated housing and flue structures. The plasma nozzle and igniter assembly is arranged so that the fuel sprayed out from the nozzle into the combustion area passes through or in close proximity to the area of plasma ionization. A fuel burner equipped with this electrical ionization device has its fuel efficiency enhanced by the complete and immediate combustion of substantially all of the fuel that passes through the area of plasma ionization. Exhaust gas recirculation using this system is also disclosed.
US08597019B2
The present disclosure includes a nozzle for injecting thermoplastic material in fluid state including two portions sliding in a sealed fashion, the first portion including a nozzle body which, in a longitudinal injection direction, has a longitudinal channel through which the thermoplastic material passes, the second portion including a linking ring having a passage in which the nozzle body is able to slide in sealed manner, and a resilient load member cooperating with the two portions to urge the nozzle body in the forward longitudinal direction and the linking ring in the backward longitudinal direction.
US08597014B2
An actuator is disclosed that includes a body, the body having a face, and a plurality of conduits located in the body, each conduit deformable in response to a change of pressure within the conduit, the deformation of the conduit configured to cause a deformation of the face.
US08597008B1
The present invention relates to an apparatus for providing the upper and lower portions of two-part tire molds with an expansible opening to provide clearance for the insertion of green tires, in particular large green tires of the sort used on industrial or off-road vehicles. The tire mold according to the present invention provides a segmented tire mold wherein a plurality of circumferentially arranged segments which contribute to the shaping of the circumferential tread portion of a tire. The sidewall rings and the tread segments may include internal cavities which house insulating material.
US08596998B2
A piezoelectric micro-blower includes an inner case to which a peripheral portion of a vibrating plate including a piezoelectric element is fixed such that a blower chamber is defined between the inner case and the vibrating plate and an outer case arranged to cover an outer periphery of the inner case with a gap therebetween. The inner case is elastically retained in the outer case by a plurality of connecting portions. A first opening is provided in a top plate portion of the inner case that faces a central portion of the vibrating plate, and a second opening is provided in a top plate portion of the outer case that faces the first opening. A central space is provided between the top plate portions, and fluid introduced from the outside is guided to the central space through the gap between the inner and outer cases. The vibrating plate is driven in a bending mode so that air is sucked into the central space and is discharged through the second opening. The connecting portions prevent leakage of vibration of the vibrating plate from the inner case to the outer case, thereby reducing energy loss.
US08596992B2
A pump system has a rotatory shaft and a rotatory drive arrangement coupled to the rotatory shaft for applying rotatory energy thereto. First through fourth pump arrangements are coupled to the rotatory shaft, each pump arrangement pumping a pulse of air during each rotation of the rotatory shaft, the first, second, third, and fourth pump arrangements pumping a corresponding pulse of air sequentially during each rotation of the rotatory shaft. The rotatory shaft has a first and second ends, and a central region therebetween where an electric motor is coaxially arranged. The first and third pump arrangements are coupled to the first end of the rotatory shaft, and the second and fourth pump arrangements are coupled to the second end of the rotatory shaft. Angularly displaced eccentric couplers couple the pump arrangements to the respective ends of the rotatory shaft.
US08596989B2
The dual injection airlift pump has a hollow tubular body through which the liquid being pumped passes upward from the lower intake end to the upper outlet end. Air or other gas is injected into the liquid in the pump body, the less dense gas adding buoyancy to the liquid and entraining the liquid to rise toward the outlet end. The dual injection airlift pump includes two air injection stages, with the first or lower stage having a perforated interior sleeve allowing the gas to pass therethrough to be injected radially into the liquid. The second, upper stage has an impervious sleeve defining a gap between the sleeve and the interior surface of the pump wall, the lower end being sealed and the upper end open. Air is injected between the sleeve and pump wall, the air exiting at the upper or downstream end in an axially peripheral flow pattern.
US08596985B2
A method of protecting a component, in particular a turbine blade, from the effects of hot corrosion includes the steps of applying a chromium diffusion coating to the component and applying a coating of a ceramic material to one or more selected regions of the chromium diffusion coating. The selected regions are regions which, in subsequent use of the component, are subjected to temperatures lower than a predetermined temperature. The ceramic material preferably includes a binder combined with a metal oxide. In a preferred embodiment, a turbine blade is coated over the whole of its internal and external surfaces with the chromium diffusion coating; an aluminum diffusion coating is then applied, through a mask, to the aerofoil surfaces and the internal surfaces of the blade; the mask is removed and the ceramic material is applied as an overlay to the chromium diffusion coating in a region between the platform and the root of the blade.
US08596982B2
A turbine rotor which is easy to manufacture and has a high tolerable temperature is provided. A highly efficient steam turbine power plant is also provided. The turbine rotor is configured from a rotor shaft, an inner rotor disc constructed integrally with the rotor shaft, and an outer rotor disc which is welded to the inner rotor disc via a weld metal part and has a structure for fixing a turbine blade. The outer rotor disc preferably has a cooling hole which extends in an axial direction to penetrate the outer rotor disc over the thickness of the outer rotor disc.
US08596971B2
A fan module including two brackets, two holders and a fan is provided. Each bracket has a first assembling portion formed thereon. The holders are mounted to the brackets and located between the two brackets. Each of the holders has two second assembling portions, and one end of each of the second assembling portions being connected with the first assembling portions correspondingly. The fan is assembled between the holders.
US08596967B2
A turbine shroud for an air cycle machine includes a wall inner surface which at least partially defines a turbine flowpath, the wall inner surface defined by set of points in Table T-1 scaled by a desired factor.
US08596963B1
A ring segment for a blade outer air seal which includes an array of separated floating wall surfaces each extending from a pedestal and having an inner side with a fibrous metal pad secured and a TBC secured over the pads. The pedestals are formed by diffusion chambers formed between an outer side and an inner side of the ring segment. Purge air holes connect the diffusion chambers to the impingement cavity formed above the ring segment. Thin slots form the separated floating wall surfaces and connect the diffusion chambers to discharge cooling air through the sides of the floating wall surfaces. Cooling air holes also pass through the pedestals to discharge cooling air onto the TBC surfaces.
US08596947B1
A rack for loading and accumulating bags comprises: a) a frame; b) a plurality of similarly sized shelves maintained in a horizontal position; c) said frame carrying similar shelves on an opposite side; d) tracks and a powered mechanism to rotate the shelves. After a first shelf positioned on a bottom portion of the first long side is loaded, it can be moved upwardly, generally concurrently rotating all of the shelves around the rack. All of the shelves can be thereby loaded from the portion position on a first long side. Lifting and carrying required to completely fill the rack is thereby minimized. Most preferably a shelf unloading mechanism is provided to push the shelf and/or bags loaded thereon off the rack; so that all of the shelves can be discharged therewith, by rotatably moving all of the shelves after each shelf has been unloaded.
US08596945B2
An apparatus for charging chambers of a coke oven has a horizontal screw conveyor with a downwardly open outlet and a telescopic charging chute below the outlet having an upper intake funnel and a telescopic lower part alignable with the charging ports by horizontal and longitudinal displacement. A support frame carries the intake funnel and a lifter for vertically displacing the telescopic lower part. A traveling frame in which the support frame moves transversely can also move longitudinally on rails. A seal on a top side of the support frame surrounds the intake funnel of the telescopic charging chute, works together with a horizontal lower flange surface on the outlet of the horizontal screw conveyor, and permits horizontal movement of the intake funnel relative to the outlet of the horizontal screw conveyor.
US08596944B2
An apparatus to tilt, flip, or rotate a round cotton module on a conveying system employs actuated arms includes that support a bar which fits in place of a roller on a provided conveyor system having multiple rollers. A cotton module can be easily rotated or flipped to a vertical position when the bar rotates between initial reclined and final elevated positions. The wrapping can be removed once the cotton module reaches the final elevated position.
US08596931B2
A method includes the steps of: adding an organic surface cross-linking agent to a water absorbent resin having a cross-linked structure; adding a liquid permeability improving agent to the water absorbent resin concurrently with or after the addition of the organic surface cross-linking agent; and then adding a lubrication improving agent to the water absorbent resin. This provides a particulate water absorbing agent and a method for producing it, the particulate water absorbing agent being suitable for pneumatic transportation, suffering no decrease in the effect of the liquid permeability improving agent, and excelling in properties such as fluidity and damage resistance after the pneumatic transportation.
US08596924B2
A plastic gel grouting material, which comprises a silica type non-hardening powdery material and water or a silica type non-hardening powdery material, a calcium type hardening developing material and water as active ingredients, is statically pressure-injected into a soft, loose or weak ground to thereby form masses derived from the grouting material per se in the ground, and concurrently therewith, to compact the surrounding earth and sand, thereby increasing density of the ground.A plastic gel grouting material is provided which loses its flowability with time or by dewatering to form masses derived from the grouting material per se in a ground and which comprises a silica type non-hardening powdery material and water or a silica type non-hardening powdery material, a calcium type hardening developing material and water as active ingredients.
US08596911B2
A gelled composition for pipeline, flowline, pipeline jumper or flowline jumper dewatering or preventing ingress of seawater into open pipeline systems or components during tie-in operations of jumpers or additional pipe, valving, manifolds, subsea pipeline architecture or flow conduits operations is disclosed, where the composition includes a concentrated metal formate solution and a hydratable polymer. The gelled formate compositions have improved dewatering properties with 100% or 360 pipe coverage. The gelled formate compositions have can also be reused by breaking and reformulation.
US08596906B2
An assembly for attaching to a boat lift 12 includes a boat lift 12 attachment mechanism 70 for attaching to the boat lift 12; an outer support 24; an inner support 26 slidable within an interior of the outer support 24; a tire 22 attached to the inner support 26; and a stop member 82 extending from the outer support 24 to engage the tire 22 when the inner support 26 is retracted into the outer support 24. An outer surface of the inner support 26 is configured to be mateable with an inner surface of the outer support 24, thereby preventing rotation therein while permitting longitudinal movement with respect to the outer support 24. In another aspect, an assembly includes an axle 54 attached to the inner support 26 for the attachment of a ground engaging member. A method of leveling a boat lift 12 includes causing substantially vertical movements of first and second portions of the boat lift 12 until the boat lift 12 is horizontally level.
US08596905B2
The apparatus and method comprise a concrete float with a vibratory additive broadcaster assembly attached therewith. The broadcaster assembly is suspended above the plane of the finishing tool with a vibratory source attached. The broadcaster assembly is filled with an additive and the apparatus is placed on a wet, concrete surface which is to be treated and finished, by a user. Actuation of a power switch by the user activates the vibratory source resulting in the substantial broadcast of additive on to the concrete surface at the desired location(s) on the slab as determined by the user. The additive is then integrated into the concrete by passage of the float over the treated concrete surface.
US08596903B2
A method for absorbing vehicle's impact includes primarily absorbing impact energy of the vehicle by dragging action of a front barrier and a first dragging kinetic frictional rolling force inducing member that are sequentially inserted and installed in a front end portion of a rolled tube made of a soft material, so that a maximum deceleration of the vehicle slows to 20 g or less. The method further includes dragging a second dragging kinetic frictional rolling force inducing member having a kinetic friction coefficient larger than that of the first dragging kinetic frictional rolling force inducing member and installed at an intermediate portion of the rolled tube to secondarily absorb and reduce kinetic energy. The method further includes drag a rear barrier and a third dragging kinetic frictional rolling force inducing member that are installed along a stopper distance, so that a kinetic frictional force of the vehicle becomes a maximum stop frictional force in a state in which kinetic friction coefficients of the first dragging kinetic frictional rolling force inducing member and the second and third dragging kinetic frictional rolling force inducing members and are added.
US08596899B2
An apparatus is provided for releasably locking two rail elements (10, 11), which are supported displaceably relative to each other, of a telescopic rail or a linear guide and for adjusting the motivity to be applied for the displacement, comprising a housing (1) which is fastened to a first one of the rail elements (11) which are supported displaceably relative to each other, at least one locking element (5) and at least one locking force spring (4) which is supported against the housing and biases the locking element (5) against the second of the rail elements (10) which are supported displaceably relative to each other, at least one friction element (7) and at least one friction force spring (6) which is supported against the housing and which presses the friction element (7) in biased relationship against the second of the rail elements (10) which are supported displaceably relative to each other.
US08596897B2
The functionality and design of this pen is two-fold. The first, lower component is used as a writing implement and the second, upper component is the compartment/housing unit of the lip balm cartridge. The bottom portion of the pen houses the ink cartridge and the mechanical components of the pen. The pen tip is retractable. The upper portion of the pen is the housing chamber for the lip balm. The snap-in design allows a lip balm cartridge to be loaded and unloaded from the pen. Both halves of the pen, top and bottom are connected. Twisting the pen at the union of the lower and upper components releases and retracts the pen tip. The uniqueness of this invention is its' dual usage, one as a pen and the other as a lip balm housing unit.
US08596886B2
An apparatus includes an enclosure configured to contain at least one optoelectronic device and to interface the at least one optoelectronic device to a polymer-clad silica (PCS) optical fiber. The enclosure includes a first section that includes a base portion and a wall portion. The wall portion is coupled to the base portion. The wall portion defines an open-ended slot that is configured to receive a first portion of a PCS optical fiber lead extending through the wall portion. A second section is configured to sealingly engage a first edge of the wall portion and the first portion of the PCS optical fiber lead. Passive alignment of PCS optical fiber leads to optoelectronic devices inside the package is accomplished using special designed precision mold ceramic block with integral U-grooves.
US08596881B2
A power and data connector includes a symmetrical planar connection surface, a pair of symmetrical power interfaces, and one or more magnetic attractors. The planar connection surface is at a terminal end of a tapered extension that protrudes from a lip surface of the power and data connector.
US08596880B2
An optical fiber connector adapter for coupling a first optical fiber connector to a second optical fiber connector includes a lens body. The lens body includes a first surface and an opposite second surface. A positioning hole is defined in the first surface. A lens hole is defined in the first surface and a first lens is formed on a bottom in the lens hole. The first lens is beneath the first surface and adjacent to the positioning hole. A positioning post and a second lens protrude from the second surface. The second lens is aligned with the first lens. An optical fiber connector assembly having the optical fiber connector adapter is also provided.
US08596873B2
A roller bearing which has an outer and inner ring and ball rollers arranged between the rings, which roll in two groove-shaped tracks in the outer and inner rings and are held at a uniform distance to one another by a window cage that has two lateral ribs bent around two circumferential flanged edges to the inner ring and interconnected by pocket bridges. The cage pockets of the cage ribs have a hole formed from a cross-sectional contour of a ball roller arranged longitudinally to the circumferential direction and from a free contour incorporated therein and arranged perpendicular to the circumferential direction. The free contour in each cage pocket is expanded to a rectangle and the flange edges of the ribs each have reduced material thickness compared to the other material thickness of the cage by a circumferential, line-shaped burnishing.
US08596860B2
The case includes a middle part (3) and a back cover (5) delimiting a compartment (7) closed by a glass (10), made of a transparent material resistant to temperatures above 500° C., said glass being bonded or welded at joint zones (15) at least partially covering the shoulder (4) of the middle part (3). It is characterized in that the inner face (11) of the glass (10) includes an enamel deposition (20) formed on the zones of the joints (15) with the shoulder (4) of the middle part (3), either in a hollow (14), or on the surface of said inner face (11).
US08596856B2
A counter-rotating twin screw extruder includes a motor that generates power through speed reduction of a gear box to directly or indirectly drive two symmetric screw shafts inside an enclosure barrel for synchronous but opposite rotations. Each screw shaft is fit with at least one section of screw and the two screws forms screw flight that are set in opposite directions and alternating each other. The barrel contains therein at least one flow restriction die. A bearing box is set between the barrel and the gear box. The purpose is to reduce unnecessarily induced mechanical energy during the conveyance of material and the advantages of using an independent bearing box are that manufacturing costs are reduced and consumption of energy is cut down. Parts wearing is reduced and durability is enhanced to eventually realize carbon reduction and energy saving.
US08596855B2
A metering apparatus for introducing a powdery medium into a fluid includes a mixing vessel that can be filled with a fluid and a metering unit for the powdery medium. The metering unit has an inlet for the powdery medium, an inlet for a compressed gas and an outlet extending towards the mixing vessel, through which the powdery medium and the compressed gas can be discharged into the mixing vessel.
US08596853B2
The backlight includes a first light guide plate which emits a light inputted from an end face thereof from a main surface thereof, a second light guide plate which includes an end face for an incoming light and an end face for an emitting light, and which is arranged behind the first light guide plate, a reflection sheet which is arranged between the first light guide plate and the second light guide plate, a chassis which houses the first light guide plate, the second light guide plate and the reflection sheet, and a rear cover which fixes the first light guide plate, the second light guide plate and the reflection sheet with the chassis. The first light guide plate and the second light guide plate are positioned in a thickness direction thereof.
US08596850B2
A backlight device wherein LEDs which are arranged side by side at a first arrangement interval (P1) are provided to each LED unit. The LED units are mounted to a flexible board at a second arrangement interval. A light guide plate is disposed in such a manner that an end surface thereof is spaced from the LEDs by a distance (H). The light guide plate is disposed so as to satisfy the following relationship: first arrangement interval (P1)≦distance (H)≦second arrangement interval (P2). Specifically, the LEDs are arranged side by side in such a manner that the first arrangement interval (P1) is not less than 0.1 mm but not greater than 3 mm and the second arrangement interval (P2) is not less than 5 mm but not greater than 15 mm. The light guide plate is disposed in such a manner that the distance (H) is not less than 1 mm but not greater than 7 mm.
US08596845B2
A light emitting diode (LED) light unit is disclosed. For example, the LED light unit includes at least one support plate having one or more inner openings. At least one LED array may be coupled to an LED board. The LED light unit also includes at least one heat pipe coupled to the LED board, wherein said LED board is coupled to the at least one support plate.
US08596825B2
A solid state light having a solid state light source such as LEDs, and optical guide, and a thermal guide. The optical guide is coupled to the light source for receiving and distributing light from the light source, and the thermal guide is integrated with the optical guide for providing thermal conduction from the solid state light source and dissipating heat through convection for cooling the light.
US08596821B2
LED light bulbs include openings in base or cover portions, and optional forced flow elements, for convective cooling. Thermally conductive optically transmissive material may be used for cooling, optionally including fins. A LED light engine may be fabricated from a substrate via planar fabrication techiques and shaped to form a substantially rigid upright support structure. Mechanical, electrical, and thermal connections may be made between a LED light engine and a LED light bulb.
US08596820B2
The present invention is an LED unit having a thermal-release structure including a base having high thermal conductivity, a circuit board which includes a wiring pattern and is provided on the base, at least one LED element which is electrically connected to the wiring pattern and disposed on the base, and a light-transmitting resinous body provided to cover above the base to seal the LED element.
US08596819B2
There is provided a lighting device which emits light with an efficacy of at least 60 lumens per watt. The lighting device comprises at least one solid state light emitter, e.g., one or more light emitting diodes, and optionally further includes one or more lumiphor. In some embodiments, the output light is of a brightness of at least 300 lumens. In some embodiments, the output light has a CRI Ra of at least 90. Also, a method of lighting, comprising supplying electricity to a lighting device which emits light with an efficacy of at least 60 lumens per watt.
US08596818B2
An optical member includes; an incident surface on which light is incident, an exit surface which is disposed substantially opposite the incident surface and from which the light exits, a prism pattern disposed on the exit surface, and a diffusion pattern which is aligned with the prism pattern and is disposed in a total internal reflection region in which the light incident on the incident surface is totally internally reflected by the prism pattern and output through the incident surface.
US08596814B2
The invention relates to an LED light tube and a circuit module for the same, wherein the circuit is located in a light tube body and includes a rectifying unit, a current regulating and voltage regulating unit, and an LED unit. The light tube body can be installed in a lamp-holder of a fluorescent tube without changing a starter and a ballast. The rectifying unit has two power terminals connected to electrodes of the light tube body for receiving a mains power and the rectifying unit via the electrodes. The rectifying unit converts the mains power to a sign wave DC voltage. The current regulating and voltage regulating unit is connected to the rectifying unit for converting the mains power to a working power. The LED unit is electrically connected to the current regulating and voltage regulating unit for receiving the working power to emit light.
US08596810B2
A lighting device includes a base (1) and a light (2). The light (2) includes a housing (21) receiving a controller (22) electrically connected to a lighting element (24), a chargeable battery (25), and a switch module (26). A female coupler (3) is provided on one of the base (1) and the light (2). A male coupler (4) is provided on the other of the base (1) and the light (2). The female coupler (3) is detachably engaged with the male coupler (4) to detachably mount the light (2) to the base (1). The light (2) is detachable from the base (1) and can be used independently.
US08596809B2
Suspended optical film assemblies including a frame, an optical film, and an elastomeric film are disclosed. The elastomeric films include a first attachment region, a second attachment region, and a free region between the first and second attachment regions. The first attachment region is affixed to the frame; the second attachment region is affixed to the optical film, so that the free region is in tension and supports the optical film within the frame. The tension in the elastomeric film free region can help maintain flatness and reduce distortion in the optical film during environmental changes that influence dimensional changes in the frame, optical film, and elastomeric film.
US08596799B2
Retroreflective sheeting includes a body layer having a structured surface with recessed faces forming cube corner cavities. A reflective film is disposed at least on the recessed faces, and a fill material fills the cube corner cavities. The fill material comprises radiation-curable materials, adhesives, or both, and preferably transparent radiation-curable pressure-sensitive adhesives. The fill material preferably forms a continuous layer covering both the recessed faces and upper portions of the structured surface. A transparent cover layer preferably contacts the fill material layer.
US08596794B2
A light modulator configured to modulate at least two channels of an image to be projected and a lighting system configured to illuminate portions of the modulator corresponding to each channel with light having properties consistent with the channel. The channels comprise, for example, left and right channels of a 3D projection (e.g., a digital cinema projection). In one embodiment, the channels are provided by a multi-sectored filter wheel having at least one filter section for a first channel and at least one filter section for a second channel, where boundaries between the sectors are different in each section.
US08596793B2
Described herein is a method for optimization of the conditions of execution of the vision contrast test and the corresponding system with which to implement said method so as to be able to guarantee optimal conditions throughout the test session even when not it is not possible to respect the standards. Furthermore, the method comprises a self-calibration procedure, which definitively eliminates the operations of calibration of the system by specialized centers.
US08596792B2
An optotype presenting apparatus for presenting an optotype used to test a visual function of an examinee includes: an optotype presentation part configured to present the optotype in a predetermined presentation region; a control unit configured to allow a test optotype to be presented in the optotype presentation part, the test optotype including a stereoscopic vision test optotype that generates a parallax so as to be seen by the examinee as floating or sinking from a predetermined reference plane; and an optotype splitting unit configured to split the test optotype presented in the optotype presentation part into an optotype for a left eye and an optotype for a right eye to present the test optotype to right and left eyes of the examinee, wherein the test optotype includes a guide optotype for guiding the examinee to see the stereoscopic vision test optotype stereoscopically.
US08596789B2
A tonometer for measuring intraocular pressure of an examinee's eye in a non-contact manner, comprises: an arithmetic part for calculating the intraocular pressure; a fluid blowing unit for blowing a fluid at a cornea of the examinee's eye through a nozzle; a projecting optical system for projecting light onto an anterior segment of the examinee's eye through the nozzle, the system including a light source and a condensing lens; and an imaging optical system for imaging a cross-sectional image of the anterior segment, the system including an imaging lens and an imaging elements. The imaging optical system is placed so that extended planes of a cross section of the light projected onto the anterior segment by the projecting optical system, a principal plane of the imaging lens, and an imaging plane of the imaging element intersect one another on one axis, and the projecting optical system includes a light restriction unit that allows the light from the light source to pass through inside of the nozzle but not to pass through outside of the nozzle.
US08596786B2
In addition to a first detector for capturing a potential movement field of the eye in overview images, a second detector is used to capture a particular section of the eye in sectional images. From a displacement between two overview images and an intermediate displacement between two sectional images taken between said overview images, the eye movement is determined by linking said displacements. The sections are preferably illuminated by coherent light such that interfering light diffused on the eye produces a patch pattern. Alternatively, the sclera of the eye is illuminated with coherent light such that light diffused on the sclera produces a patch pattern, of which a particular part is captured using a spatially resolving detector in sectional images, on the basis of which an intermediate displacement is determined.
US08596773B2
A printer includes a filter unit having a distribution flow path through which the introduced ink flows into a recording head, and an air bubble trap in which air bubbles which have entered ink in the distribution flow path are collected, the air bubble trap being provided with a waterproof member having a waterproof property and an air permeability that forms part of a wall of the air bubble trap. A printer includes an air bubble suction mechanism that suctions air bubbles collected in the air bubble trap through the waterproof member.
US08596769B2
An inkjet printer includes: a print engine having a cradle for receiving a removable printhead cartridge; an ink inlet manifold for supplying ink to a printhead cartridge; and an ink outlet manifold for receiving ink from the printhead cartridge. The printhead cartridge includes: a cartridge body configured for user insertion and removal from the ink jet printer; a pagewidth printhead housed in the cartridge body, the pagewidth printhead defining an array of nozzles for ejecting ink onto a media substrate; a first fluid coupling in fluid communication with the pagewidth printhead; and a second fluid coupling in fluid communication with the pagewidth printhead. The first and second fluid couplings establish fluid communication with the ink inlet manifold and ink outlet manifold respectively, upon insertion of the cartridge body in the cradle.
US08596762B2
An inkjet printer head including a nozzle part, a driving part, a printing liquid supplying part, an adhesive and a leak preventing part. The nozzle part includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A nozzle is formed in the first surface sprays a printing liquid. A receiving hole is formed in the second surface receives the printing liquid. The driving part is disposed on the second surface of the nozzle part and drives the nozzle part. The printing liquid supplying part supplies the printing liquid to the nozzle part. The adhesive bonds the printing liquid supplying part onto the second surface. The receiving hole is formed in the second surface. The leak preventing part is disposed between the printing liquid supplying part and the driving part. The leak preventing part is formed to cover an exposed surface of the adhesive.
US08596761B2
A liquid ejecting head includes head main bodies each having a nozzle plate having nozzle openings, and a case member to which the head main bodies are fixed, and moves relatively in a first direction with respect to a recording sheet, wherein a cover head which covers the side surfaces of the head main body and a peripheral border of the nozzle plate is provided at each head main body, a protective wall is provided for each head main body between an end portion in the first direction of the case member and the head main body, a range in a second direction of the cover head is included in a range in the second direction of the protective wall, and the protective wall is located further on the case member side than the nozzle plate in a third direction.
US08596759B2
A liquid ejection head includes a flow path forming member having an ejection orifice for ejecting liquid therefrom and a liquid flow path communicated with the ejection orifice, a silicon substrate including a supply port for supplying the liquid to the liquid flow path, and a protective film which is formed on a wall surface of the supply port and which is formed of an organic resin which is of the same material as that of a member forming the flow path forming member.
US08596757B2
A liquid jet head includes an actuator substrate having grooves, and a flexible substrate for supplying a drive signal to the actuator substrate. On a surface of the actuator substrate, in the vicinity of a rear end thereof, are formed a common extension electrode and an individual extension electrode connected to drive electrodes of a discharge channel and dummy channels, respectively. The common extension electrode and the individual extension electrode are connected to a common wiring electrode and an individual wiring electrode of the flexible substrate, respectively. In a common wiring intersection region in which the common wiring electrode of the flexible substrate intersects the drive electrodes of the actuator substrate, upper end portions of the drive electrodes on side surfaces of the dummy channels are formed deeper than the substrate surface.
US08596756B2
An inkjet array has been developed that enables inlets for one group of inkjet ejectors to be laterally offset from the nozzles of the inkjet ejectors in the group and also enables inlets for another group of inkjet ejectors to be laterally offset from the nozzles of the inkjet ejectors in the other group. The lateral offset distance increases the distance between the inlets of the two groups to provide a wider bonding area between the two groups and improve the fluidic isolation between the two groups of inkjet ejectors.
US08596750B2
A method of maintaining a printhead includes providing a jetting module including a plurality of nozzles and a drop forming mechanism associated with the plurality of nozzles. A gas flow deflection mechanism is provided and includes a gas flow duct in fluid communication with a gas flow pressure source. A flow of liquid is provided through the nozzles at a pressure sufficient to form jets of the liquid. Liquid drops are formed from the liquid jets using the drop forming mechanism. At least some of the liquid drops are caused to enter the gas flow duct using the gas flow pressure source. Liquid from the liquid drops that entered the gas flow duct is caused to wet at least a portion of the gas flow duct. The liquid is removed from the gas flow duct.
US08596749B2
A liquid ejection apparatus including: a head having a face that has ejection openings through which liquid is ejected to record an image on a recording medium, an ejection space being defined so as to face the face; a humidification-liquid tank storing humidification liquid having a nonvolatile component; a sealing mechanism configured to selectively establish a sealing state in which the sealing mechanism seals the ejection space from an outside and an unsealing state in which the sealing mechanism does not seal the ejection space from the outside; and a humid-air supply mechanism configured to supply humid air into the ejection space when the sealing mechanism is in the sealing state, the humid air being an air humidified by the humidification liquid in the humidification-liquid tank, wherein the humidification-liquid tank is configured to be mountable on and removable from the humid-air supply mechanism.
US08596748B2
A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a conveying mechanism, a first head for ejecting a first liquid; a second head for ejecting a second liquid for coagulating or precipitating components of the first liquid, and a controller. A pair of second ejection openings of the second head are arranged side by side. The second liquid is to be ejected respectively from the pair of second ejection openings at different timings onto a pair of unit areas arranged side by side. The controller controls the second head so as to reduce an amount of the second liquid ejected from at least one of the pair of second ejection openings, when an amount of the second liquid to be ejected from one of the pair of second ejection openings at an earlier one of the different timings is equal to or larger than a first predetermined value.
US08596746B2
An inkjet pen includes a printhead firing chamber, a nozzle plate having at least one nozzle in fluid communication with the firing chamber, and a layer of shipping fluid within the firing chamber and covering the nozzle plate and the at least one nozzle. The shipping fluid has a density that is different than that of the ink that will be ejected from the firing chamber to form an image on media.
US08596744B2
A method for printing a label on a keypad, including the steps of providing a substrate plate, spraying ink on the substrate plate to form a label layer, solidifying the label layer, spraying ink around the label layer to form a primer layer, and solidifying the primer layer.
US08596740B2
A liquid jet apparatus according to the present invention includes a drive circuit adapted to apply a drive signal to an actuator of a liquid jet head, and a power supply voltage control circuit adapted to control a power supply voltage to the drive signal to be a waveform voltage set previously based on a reference signal obtained from one of the drive signal and a signal in a generation stage of the drive signal.
US08596730B2
A computer enclosure comprises a chassis with a first securing hole; a cover plate detachably attached to the chassis, a second securing hole defined in the cover plate and aligned with the first securing hole; and a securing member comprising a fastener and a coil spring; the fastener comprises a head, and a shaft extending from the head; the coil spring is attached to the shaft and between the head and the cover plate; and the shaft extends into the second securing hole, wherein the fastener is movable between released and locked positions; in the released position, the shaft is disengaged from the first securing hole, the coil spring is not compressed, and the cover plate is detachable from the chassis; in a locked position, the shaft is engaged into the first securing hole, the coil spring is compressed, and the cover plate is secured to the chassis.
US08596726B2
An automobile wheel 10 comprising: (a) a rim 20; and (b) a disc 30 including: a plurality of spokes 33; and a disc flange 35 positioned at an outside end in the wheel radial direction, the disc having decorative holes 34, in which the rim and the disc flange are joined together, wherein a part of the disc flange, which corresponds to a radially outside end S of each of the spokes, is cut out toward an outside in a wheel axial direction relative to a disc-flange inside end edge 35a of the disc flange on an inside in the wheel axial direction to form a notch 36, and a minimum distance a1 between the notch and an outer periphery of the decorative hole is smaller than a width a2 of the disc flange at a middle position CD of the decorative hole.
US08596720B2
A vehicle sheet includes: a longitudinal sliding mechanism configured to support a seat body such that the seat body is slidable relative to a vehicle floor in the vehicle longitudinal direction; a lateral sliding mechanism configured to support the seat body such that the seat body is slidable in the vehicle lateral direction; a reclining mechanism configured to connect a seat back to a seat cushion and adjust a reclining angle of the seat back; a first lever configured to be able to cancel fixation of the reclining angle of the seat back, which has been provided by the reclining mechanism; and a release mechanism configured to release locks on both the longitudinal sliding mechanism and the lateral sliding mechanism upon detection of a motion of tilting the seat back to a forward tilt position, which is caused by an operation of the first lever.
US08596714B2
A vehicle seat assembly includes a lower seat portion with a bin defining a compartment within the lower seat portion for storing an item. A lid is connected to the bin and has a closed position in which the compartment is closed by the lid and an open position in which the compartment is substantially uncovered. The bin and the lid are configured so that the lid slides forward of the lower seat portion to the open position. The lid may slide along an arc defined by slots in the bin.
US08596709B2
A car having: a frame provided with two external vertical posts, which are arranged facing each other on opposite sides of the car, and two internal vertical posts, which are arranged between the two external vertical posts and at a given distance from the external vertical posts; a passenger compartment; a sun roof, which is supported by the frame and can be set in an open position or a closed position with respect to the passenger compartment; a housing for containing the sun roof when the sun roof itself is set in the open position; a movable cover for closing the housing; and a rear window, which is mounted in a sliding manner so as to move between an extracted position, in which the rear window projects from the car body, and a withdrawn position, in which the rear window is housed inside the car body.
US08596706B2
A closure assembly includes a striker assembly and a latch mechanism moveable along a longitudinal path relative to each other. One of the striker assembly and the latch mechanism includes a plate defining a first surface, and the other of the striker assembly and the latch mechanism includes an articulating member defining a second surface moveable into abutting engagement with the first surface of the plate. The articulating member moves into abutting engagement with the plate after the latch mechanism and the striker assembly have moved into a closed position relative to each other to restrict lateral movement between the striker assembly and the latch mechanism relative to the longitudinal path.
US08596704B2
A closure for a storage compartment of a motor vehicle including an electromagnet having an armature wherein the armature can by moved by excitation of the electromagnet, and wherein a movement of the armature can be transmitted to a locking element which, due to a restoring force of a spring, is in a locked position for the storage compartment when the electromagnet is not energized, a means for generating an electric current for exciting the electromagnet, and means for measuring the electric current flow used for exciting the electromagnet, wherein the means for generating the current are designed to control the electric current such that, after turning on the current after measuring when a maximum current is reached and subsequent dropping below said maximum current, the current is reduced to a predetermined minimum value, wherein the minimum value is such that the armature is held in its position against the spring force acting on the armature.
US08596702B2
A slidable tray assembly that covers and uncovers a compartment and has an anti-jamming feature. The slidable tray assembly can include a console with a compartment and a panel that can slide and extend over the compartment when in a closed position. The panel can be attached to the console and be operable to slide between the closed position and an open position. In addition, the panel can have a plurality of spaced-apart protrusions extending therefrom and the plurality of spaced-apart protrusions prevent an object from becoming jammed or located between the panel and the console and thus prevent jamming of sliding movement of the panel.
US08596700B2
A mounting tool for use in safely lifting a heavy object such as a wind tower segment. Mounting tools may be provided in a kit that includes a tool that is especially adapted for attachment to the top of the object, and a tool that is especially adapted for attachment to the bottom of the object. Both the top and bottom mounting tools include a mounting bracket for removably mounting the tool to a mounting ring on a heavy object. To accommodate different bolt patterns in mating holes in the objects, the mounting bracket has a slotted mounting hole and two generally annular mounting holes extending therethrough. These mounting holes are arrayed along a common axis. A hoist ring assembly is mounted to the mounting bracket and includes a bail adapted for swiveling and pivoting movement to define a generally hemispheric envelope.
US08596697B1
An actuated breach lock, comprises a hub for positioning on a pressurizable vessel, the hub being generally circular and having a central opening, a bearing surface disposed within the central opening, a head hingedly connected to the hub and having a shape which complements the central opening and which is received within the central opening, the hub having a plurality of teeth extending radially inward and separated by a plurality of gaps, a locking ring rotatably positioned on the head, the locking ring having a plurality of ring teeth separated by a plurality of ring gaps, each of the teeth having a circumferential length less than a circumferential length of the gaps in the hub, the bearing surface of the hub having an angle and the head having a bearing surface at the angle, the locking ring having a polygonal cross-section including two sides which engage the bearing surfaces respectively, the locking ring engaged by head and hub when the head is in a closed position, the closed position creating a line of force which is aligned from the head through the ring and to the hub, an actuator assembly disposed radially inwardly of the locking ring, the actuator assembly engaging the locking ring and causing rotation of locking between one of a first locked and unlocked position and the other of the locked and unlocked position, the locking ring in compression when the head is closed and having a line of force being substantially aligned from the hub through the head.
US08596694B2
In a first aspect, the invention is directed to a vehicle latch including a ratchet, a main pawl, a cam, and at least one auxiliary pawl, wherein a secondary engagement is provided between the cam and the at least one auxiliary pawl in case a primary engagement between the cam and at least one auxiliary pawl is missed. In a particular embodiment of the first aspect, the ratchet is movable between a ratchet open position wherein the ratchet is positioned to receive a striker and a ratchet locking position wherein the ratchet is positioned to retain the striker. The ratchet is biased towards the ratchet open position. The main pawl is movable between a main pawl locking position wherein the main pawl is positioned to hold the ratchet in the ratchet locking position and a main pawl release position wherein the main pawl permits the movement of the ratchet out of the ratchet locking position. The main pawl is biased towards the main pawl locking position. The cam is operatively connected to the main pawl. The cam is movable between at least two main pawl enabling positions in which the main pawl is enabled to move to the main pawl locking position, and a main pawl disabling position in which the cam positions the main pawl in the main pawl release position. The cam is biased towards the main pawl disabling position. The at least one auxiliary pawl is movable to hold the cam in each of the at least two main pawl enabling positions and movable to permit the cam to move to the main pawl disabling position.
US08596685B2
A motor vehicle chassis including two side skirt lateral flanks comprising a horizontal portion. The motor vehicle chassis also includes a central floor situated between the two side skirt lateral flanks and including a horizontal main surface and horizontal secondary surfaces for attachment to the horizontal portion of the lateral flanks. The horizontal surfaces exhibit a height difference. The motor vehicle chassis also includes at least one fixing piece on each side of the central floor, between the horizontal main surface of the central floor and one of the side skirt lateral flanks. The at least one fixing piece includes two horizontal parts for fixing to the central floor, which are respectively fixed to the horizontal main surface and to a horizontal lateral surface of the central floor. One of the horizontal parts includes a first passage to accept a fixing lug of a bodywork element.
US08596663B2
A fluid flow control structure for a bicycle device is basically provided with a main body, at least one port and a plug. The main body has a first chamber, a second chamber and a third chamber. The at least one port is in fluid communication with the first chamber. The plug is moved toward a first axial direction to close the port, and is moved toward a second axial direction that is opposite the first axial direction to open the port. The plug includes a dividing portion dividing the second chamber and the third chamber such that the third chamber widens as the plug moves to close the port and the third chamber shrinks as the plug moves to open the port. The plug includes a passage fluidly connecting the first chamber to the third chamber.
US08596661B2
A thrust sliding bearing 1 includes a synthetic resin-made annular bearing body 4 having an annular upper surface 2 and an annular engaging projection 3; a synthetic resin-made annular bearing body 6; a synthetic resin-made thrust sliding bearing piece 7; an annular upper cover 9 having engaging projections 8 which engage the engaging projection 3 of the bearing body 4; and an annular metal plate 15 interposed between the bearing body 6 and the annular upper cover 9.
US08596647B2
An active roll control device utilizes a driving torque to move a suspension arm side connection point of a stabilizer link that connects both sides of a stabilizer bar with a suspension arm along a sliding unit such that roll of a vehicle is actively controlled. The sliding unit includes a linear shaft that extends in a vehicle width direction in a housing on the suspension arm, a linear bushing into which the linear shaft is inserted to be slidably moved along the linear shaft in the housing, and a bushing housing that is fixed on an external circumference of the linear bushing, a double ball joint is fixed on an inner side thereof to connect the bushing housing, and the double ball joint is connected to a drive shaft of the drive source through one end of a push rod and a lower end of the stabilizer link.
US08596637B2
A sheet conveying device that conveys a sheet discharged from an image forming apparatus. The sheet conveying device includes an air intake fan that takes in external air; an air exhaust fan that discharges internal air; a plurality of branched conveying paths which are branched from a conveying path within a range from a sheet entrance to a sheet exit and for which a passing time of the sheet is approximately the same; a conveyance motor that independently conveys the sheet to each one of the branched conveying paths; a conveying path switching unit that switches among the branched conveying paths; and a conveying path control unit that causes the conveying path switching unit to sequentially switch among the branched conveying paths every time the sheet is input from the image forming apparatus.
US08596634B2
A system for conveying mailpieces along a feed path includes a plurality of conveyances. A first conveyance is operative to convey mailpieces along the feed path and includes a singulating and drive belt. The singulating and drive belts define a throat for singulating a mailpiece from the stack of mailpieces. A second conveyance accepts mailpieces from the first conveyance and conveys singulated mailpiece downstream of the first conveyance. The system further includes a series of sensors extending from the first to the second conveyance for issuing a gap signal indicative of the relative spacing between sequential mailpieces along the feed path. Additionally, the system includes a means, responsive to the gap signal, for developing a variable opposing force between the singulating and drive belts to optimize singulation of mailpieces along the feed path.
US08596630B2
A sheet processing apparatus which is capable of stabilizing a stop position of the sheet bundle, to thereby enable creation of a high finish quality product, and is compact in size and can be manufactured at low costs. Conveyance belts convey the sheet bundle to a flattening position. A pressing roller flattens the folded spine of the sheet bundle by pressing the folded spine. Clampers hold the sheet bundle such that the sheet bundle is not moved when flattening is performed. A CPU starts to stop driving of the conveyance belts when the sheet bundle is conveyed to a predetermined location upstream of the flattening position in the conveying direction of the sheet bundle, and stops the sheet bundle at the flattening position by holding the sheet bundle with the clampers before the conveyance of the sheet bundle is stopped.
US08596628B2
An apparatus for holding a measurement object, particularly an auto body component in a reference position, comprises a clamping device, which can be attached to a carrier head, and which extends over the measurement object and holds it against the carrier head, and comprises a clamping element that can be placed against the measurement object. The clamping device comprises a lockable slide for adjusting the position of the clamping element.
US08596619B2
An adjustable gate comprises two u-shaped vertical bars having first anti-warping gutters, tension hooks; two horizontal bars having second anti-warping gutters; a chain-link mesh; two tension rods; and a truss having paddle-nuts. The first anti-warping gutters are inserted into the second anti-warping gutters to join the bars together and to prevent the gate from warping in all horizontal directions. The tension hooks are welded along the body of the vertical bars to eliminate tie wires to prevent personal injury. The tension rods are inserted along the vertical edges of the chain-link mesh and hooked on the tension hooks. The truss hooks on the vertical bars and is adjusted to a desired tension to hold the adjustable gate together. The truss paddle-nuts disposed at the two opposite ends of the truss turnbuckle interlock with the truss turnbuckle in a desired position and allow the truss tension to be increased or decreased incrementally.
US08596617B2
A guardrail includes a cable routing device providing a tortuous path for at least one tensioned cable, the cable routing device includes a bar having a rotational axis and including a cable entry port having a circumference slightly larger than the cable which passes directly therethrough when the bar is in a first non-cable gripping orientation in which the diameter of the port (diametric width) is substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the cable, and wherein rotation of the bar about the axis effectively decreases the width of the port relative to the width of the cable to create a second cable-gripping orientation which provides the tortuous path, wherein the tortuous path through the bar is due to the relative decrease in the effective diametric width of the port and this provides sufficient frictional resistance to movement in relation to the cable during impact to facilitate impact energy dissipation.
US08596616B1
A motorized improved winch for raising and lowering, for example, theater scenery by means of cables and which incorporates a tubular support enclosure for supporting and housing a moving drum and the required components for driving, emergency braking and for moving the drum in synchronization with relation to the cable guiding means, preferably mounted on the tubular support enclosure, and for driving the electrical sensors if desired. A new feature of this improved winch includes alternate means for supporting the winch unit from the tubular support enclosure through rollers, mounted to the inside of the tubular support enclosure and engaging the support means part of the movable winch unit. Another new feature is an option to use more than one driving means for increased capacity. The improved winch can be installed at the sides of the stage, up at the stage gridiron, or above the gridiron.
US08596614B2
There is provided a method for hoisting and lowering a device in a rotor head of a wind turbine generator, that can easily perform a device hoisting and lowering operation in the rotor head without an external crane. The method for hoisting and lowering a device in a rotor head includes a step of mounting a temporary winch rail to a rail support portion previously provided in the rotor head, a step of installing a temporary winch on the temporary winch rail, a step of opening a maintenance hatch provided in the rotor head, and a step of hoisting and lowering a replacement device to be attached or removed in the rotor head through a hoisting and lowering opening in the maintenance hatch by the temporary winch.
US08596610B2
A universal control valve may use two different seat ring types including a threaded seat ring or a clamped seat ring. The valve includes a valve body, a cage mounting space enclosed by a bonnet and sized to receive two different valve cage types, and a seat ring mounting location including, an annular shoulder, a radiused projection, and a threaded portion. The threaded portion receives a threaded seat ring and the radiused projection forms a seal, while the shoulder supports a mounting flange of a clamped seat ring and forms a seal. Accordingly, the seat ring mounting location can receive a selected one of the two different seat ring types.
US08596609B2
The invention relates to a solenoid valve with a magnet assembly and a valve cartridge having a pole core, a valve insert connected to the pole core, an armature which is guided within the valve insert in an axially movable manner between a closed position and an open position and is coupled to a closing element, and a valve body which is connected to the valve insert and has a main valve seat which is arranged between at least one first flow opening and a second flow opening. The axially movable armature, when the magnet assembly is energized, is moved by a generated magnetic force within the valve insert in the direction of the pole core counter to a spring force of a resetting spring and counter to a fluid force in order to lift the closing element out of the main valve seat; and to permit a flow of fluid between the at least one first flow opening and the second flow opening. The axially movable armature is moved away from the pole core by the spring force of the restoring spring and by the fluid force within the valve insert in order to press the closing element into the main valve seat in a sealing manner and to interrupt the fluid flow between the at least one first flow opening and the second flow opening.
US08596603B2
A device for assembly of a connecting rod on the casing of a turbo-engine including: a clevis fixed to the casing and including at least two coaxially bored lugs; a shaft traversing the bores of the lugs to which the suspension member is fixed, in a manner which is mobile in radial rotation, via a ball joint surrounding the shaft; and a connecting device which holds the shaft in place in the lugs of the clevis and is capable of being driven in rotation about the axis of the bores, is disclosed. The ball joint and the connecting device are configured such that the rotation of the connecting device about the axis of the bore of the lugs causes an offset of the axis of rotation of the connecting rod in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the bores.
US08596598B2
A booster structure of legs contains a support plate including four posts disposed at four corners of a bottom end thereof respectively. Each post includes a plurality of recesses having a vertical sliding section and a number of horizontal retaining sections perpendicular to the vertical sliding section. Each of a plurality of vertical moving units, including includes an inner stem and an outer stem, with the outer stem including a bottom cover. A bolt element is inserted and slides between the inner and outer stems. The bolt element includes a straight sliding section and a number of engaging sections perpendicular to the straight sliding section and includes a resilient element, a button, and a lip. The button is disposed on one side of the outer stem so that the bolt element is forced by the button to slide horizontally and return to its original position.
US08596597B1
There is disclosed a paint roller support device attachable or integrally mounted to a roller frame handle or extension handle. The support device comprises a pair of legs that are pivotable with respect to each other, thereby defining open and closed positions, and further pivotable away from the roller frame handle or extension handle. When the legs are in the open position and oriented away from the long axis of the roller frame/extension handle, the support device provides a generally planar support surface by which the roller frame/extension handle can be placed on the floor, on a table or against a wall such that a nap of a roller cover is spaced apart from the resting surface.
US08596595B2
A device for displaying an article on a peg-board, including first and second housing portions securable to the front face of the peg-board, a recoil mechanism for a cable, and an adapter plate secured to the cable distal end and securable to an article to be displayed. The housing first portion has L-shaped prongs at its top with a distal end extending upwardly adjacent the peg-board back. The housing second portion has L-shaped prongs at its bottom with a distal end extending downwardly adjacent the peg-board back. The housing portions define a substantially enclosed space adjacent the peg-board front face, and the housing first portion defines a housing front face with an opening through the housing front face to the enclosed space. The recoil mechanism is biased toward retracting the cable into the recoil mechanism and disposed in the base housing enclosed space with the cable extending through the housing front face opening with the cable distal end outside the housing enclosed space.
US08596593B2
A worksurface leg mount is provided for interconnecting a support leg to a worksurface. The worksurface leg mount system includes an anchor plate attached to a lower surface of the worksurface, and a mounting plate attached to and optionally recessed in an upper end of the support leg. A fastener extends between and connects the anchor and mounting plates, which are spaced from each other. Loads that enter the mounting plate in discrete directions are transmitted through the fastener and into the anchor plate, where the loads are spread across the interfaces between the anchor plate and worksurface.
US08596590B2
A cable rack arm and support system suitable for underground power and communication service is made from a non-metallic polymer that will not rust or corrode. The cable rack arm is adapted for mounting to existing underground stanchions or for stanchions of a more modern design. Each cable rack arm is securely mounted to the stanchion. Each cable rack arm then supports one or more cables in cable rests or saddles molded atop the arm, thus keeping the cables accessibly organized in a manhole, tunnel or vault. Plastic cable ties may be used to secure the cables to the cable rack arms. Nonmetallic pins may also be used to secure the cable rack arms to the stanchions. The stanchions may be made of nonmetallic composite material that includes a fiberglass cross-layered knitted apertured mat for increased strength.
US08596577B2
An apparatus for closing a locker, which can be lowered, of a baggage compartment, in particular of an overhead baggage compartment in an aircraft, wherein the locker is connected in an actuating element (5) which is held on a frame (1) such that it can rotate or pivot, and is connected to a gas compression spring (18) in order to assist a closing movement of the locker. In order to allow a completely automatic closing movement, the invention proposes that an electromechanical hybrid drive is provided in order to drive the actuating element (5) and, in addition to the mechanical component of the gas compression spring (18), has an electrical drive apparatus (12) as an electrical component.
US08596573B2
A nacelle assembly for a turbine engine has a cowl for a turbine engine. The cowl has a first surface spaced from a second surface. The second surface defines defining a bypass flow passage. A flow volume is spaced between the first surface and the second surface. A plurality of holes are disposed on the cowl. Each of the plurality of holes are configured to alter local air pressure about one of the first surface and the second surface of the cowl. The plurality of holes are in communication with the flow volume.
US08596561B2
A dual fuel injector includes a liquid needle valve member guided to move in and out of contact with a first valve seat positioned between a liquid nozzle chamber and a liquid nozzle outlet set. A gas needle valve member is guided to move in and out of contact with a second valve seat positioned between a gas nozzle chamber and a gas nozzle outlet set. A hydraulic lock seal for inhibiting migration of gas fuel from the gas nozzle chamber into the first fuel includes an annular volume surrounding a guide segment of the gas needle valve member. The annular volume is fluidly connected to the liquid nozzle volume by a seal passage. A check valve positioned in the seal passage may close when a gas fuel supply is exhausted and an engine utilizing the dual fuel injector operates in a limp home single fueling mode.
US08596560B2
A check valve which includes a body adapted at one end to receive a liquid source and at the other end to engage with a spray nozzle and having a bore therethrough, an internal annular recess within the body, the upstream end of which body provides a valve seat, a valve assembly located in the recess and having a valve member having a generally curved end directed towards the seat and bias means to normally hold the member against the seat until the pressure at the inlet reaches a pre-determined minimum.
US08596559B2
A flow shut off or throttling valve is provided in a sprinkler nozzle housing to enable a nozzle to be changed without having to turn off a flow pressure source. The valve intersects a flow path through the nozzle housing and has an opening such that when the opening is aligned with the flow path, a flow stream can flow unobstructed through the flow path. The valve is movable between a fully open position in which the opening is aligned with the flow path and a closed position which blocks the flow stream from flowing to a nozzle disposed at an outlet passage of the flow path. The valve may be constructed to be either slidable or rotatable between the two positions, and is actuated by a gearing arrangement which is operable at the exterior of the nozzle housing. The external valve actuator may function as a physical barrier to retain the removable nozzle in the nozzle housing when the valve is open and to disengage the nozzle when the valve is closed.
US08596554B2
Provided is a light cleaning device for washing lights located on an external portion of a vehicle. The device has an elongate housing formed with an inlet port connectable to a source of pressurized liquid and a rinsing head fitted with at least one jet nozzle. The jet nozzle is mounted at a distal end of a telescopically retractable hollow tube of the device, which is normally retracted. There is a liquid flow path from the housing to the rinsing head which can emit a jet spray therefrom when the tube is projected from the housing. The nozzle may have a jet forming member fitted therein to turbulate the jet spray fluid.
US08596544B2
An RFID tag includes an RFID chip, at least one sensor chip stacked on the RFID chip and interfaced with the RFID chip through a bump interface, and a filter layer stacked on the sensor chip to filter a sensing source introduced into the sensor chip.
US08596541B2
This disclosure describes barcode scanning techniques for an image capture device. The image capture device may automatically detect a barcode within an image while the image capture device is operating in a non-barcode image capture mode, such a default image capture mode. In one aspect, the detection of the barcode within the image may be based on a combination of identified edges and low intensity regions within the image. The image capture device may configure, based on the detection of the barcode, one or more image capture properties associated with the image capture device to improve a quality at which the images are captured. The image capture device captures the image in accordance with the configured image capture properties. The techniques may effectively provide a universal and integrated front-end for producing improved quality images of barcodes without requiring significant interaction with a user via a complicated user interface.
US08596540B2
A method for optical recording of a linear barcode pattern and determination of a symbol sequence as defined by the barcode pattern from a blurred raw image and includes the following steps: taking a raw image of the barcode pattern, preprocessing the raw image to generate a series of output patterns, comparing the output pattern with stored reference patterns, wherein the reference patterns correspond to blurred images of sharp nominal patterns and each reference pattern is provided with at least one symbol, determining for each of the output patterns the reference pattern which most closely resembles the output pattern outputting, transmitting or storing the symbols corresponding to the determined reference pattern and following the sequence of output patterns, as a symbol sequence.
US08596539B2
There is set forth herein an imaging terminal having and image sensor including an image sensor array having a plurality of pixels. In one embodiment the imaging terminal can include a lens assembly for focusing light on the image sensor array. In one embodiment the lens assembly is a variable setting lens assembly having a first lens setting at which the terminal has a first plane of optimum focus and a second lens setting at which the terminal has a second plane of optimum focus. The imaging terminal can execute one or more process for determining an operating parameter of the imaging terminal.
US08596529B1
The present invention relates to a system and method which effectuates an interactive interface and protocol for interfacing a payment module (system 500) to and data communicating with a computing platform (computing platform 802), wherein the computing platform can elect to control by way of the interactive interface and protocol a vending transaction cycle or alternatively elect to monitor the payment module by way of the interactive interface and protocol allowing the payment module to control a vending transaction cycle.
US08596523B2
A viewable image for selecting one or more digital images from a collection of digital images includes a plurality of representative images representing corresponding digital images in the collection, each corresponding digital image stored in an electronic storage and retrieval system and a plurality of machine-readable codes, each machine-readable code associated with one of the representative images so that a viewer can readily identify a desired digital image and a corresponding machine-readable code in the viewable image, wherein each machine-readable code can be photographed to select its corresponding digital image, and wherein the machine-readable code encodes a reference to the corresponding digital image stored in the electronic storage and retrieval system.
US08596520B2
A waterproof, anti-wicking, and fully recyclable corrugated container comprises a base portion having a bottom wall, a pair of opposite side walls, a pair of opposite end walls, and a plurality of joined flaps foldably joined with the side walls and the end walls. Each of the plurality of the joined flap folds onto itself to form a gusset that is attached to the respective side walls. A lid portion is telescopically engaged over the base portion such that is coextensive in length and width with the base portion side walls and end walls. The lid portion comprises a score or crease line formed along near free edge of the side walls to inhibit liquid from traveling up through the side walls.
US08596513B2
A tool assembly for a surgical stapling device includes a channel member for supporting a staple cartridge therein and an anvil to deform a plurality of staples ejected from the staple cartridge thereagainst. The tool assembly also includes a sled which is movable to force the staples from the cartridge against the anvil to staple tissue disposed between the anvil and the staple cartridge. A dynamic clamping member is included which has a pin which movably engages the anvil and a flange which movably engages the channel assembly. The dynamic clamping member is mounted to and movable with the sled. The pin and the flange of the dynamic clamping member cooperating to oppose the forces associated with clamping and stapling tissue and also to maintain a substantially uniform gap between the anvil and the staple cartridge during stapling of the tissue.
US08596506B2
An adapting apparatus for mounting an accessory equipment on a bicycle is disclosed. The adapting apparatus comprises: a base having a mounting mechanism, a securing mechanism and a lock; an adaptor detachably mounted to the mounting mechanism of the base, the adaptor having an adapting mechanism for connecting to an accessory equipment; and a securing member detachably connected to the base through the securing mechanism and fastened to a portion of a bicycle; wherein, the lock, the mounting mechanism and the adaptor being configured such that the adaptor can be detached from the mounting mechanism only when the lock is unlocked.
US08596495B2
A dose counter (100) for counting the number of doses of fluid or powder that have been dispensed or that remain to be dispensed from a fluid dispenser device (200), said counter including a first rotary counter element forming a units wheel, and a second rotary counter element forming a tens wheel, said first and second counter elements co-operating with each other to define and to display, in a viewing window (151), said number of doses, said first counter element co-operating with an actuator member that is adapted to cause said first counter element to turn each time said actuator member is actuated, said counter including a base body that incorporates a pivot pin for said first and second counter elements and an opening, said counter possibly being pre-assembled in said base body so as to form a pre-assembled counter unit.
US08596494B2
A gas recovery system for a beverage dispensing system is provided. The system includes a mechanism for drawing gas from an at least partially used beverage container, a compressor downstream of the at least partially used beverage container, a gas separator downstream of the compressor, and a gas storage vessel downstream of the gas separator. The gas recovery system is configured to draw gas from the at least partially used beverage container, to separate the gas into component gases by passing the gas through the gas separator, and to selectively direct at least one of the separated component gases to the gas storage vessel.
US08596489B2
A liquid storage system. The liquid storage system includes a storage tank having an upright section and a base section. A volume extends between the upright and base section. An inlet and outlet are coupled to the volume for adding and extracting fluid from the storage tank, respectively. There is at least one shelf coupled to the upright section of the storage tank.
US08596485B2
A latchable lunchbox container having a molded lid, a plurality of molded latch forms each pivotally supported from the molded lid, and a container closable by the molded lid. Each latch is pivotally supported by a clip fit between the molded lid and the latch. The lid molding includes at least one formation for each latch whereby an abutment will occur that will reduce the likelihood of prizing of a latch from the lid molding as a result of the latch moving upwardly about its pivot axis. Each latch provides at least one cylindrical surface to be carried in at least one click fit feature therefor thereby to provide a journalled bearing defining the pivot axis.
US08596482B2
A liquid tank cap for a working machine engine is provided. The liquid tank cap opens and closes a filling opening of a tip end portion of a refilling pipe of a liquid tank. The liquid tank cap includes an upper wall that covers the filling opening, a fitting portion that engages with an inner surface of the filling opening and protrudes from the upper wall, and a peripheral wall that covers an outer circumference of the refilling pipe in a state where the liquid tank cap is attached to the filling opening.
US08596480B2
A multimodal container includes a first shell having a base and a first wall coupled to the base, the first wall defining a first cavity and a first cavity opening general opposite of the base; a second shell having a second wall defining a second cavity and a second cavity opening; and a coupler selectively engaging the shells proximate the openings to join the second shell to the first shell alternately in one of a bottle mode and a cup mode, the bottle mode including the second shell extending away from the first shell with the coupler disposed therebetween forming a bottle and the cup mode including the second shell nested within the first cavity forming a double-walled cup.
US08596479B2
A one-piece plastic hot-fill container may employ a shoulder portion, a base portion and a sidewall portion, which may be integrally formed with and extend from the shoulder portion to the base portion. The sidewall portion may generally be in an hourglass shape and employ a plurality of arched contour ribs and a plurality of arched contour lands that may alternate along a longitudinal length of the sidewall portion. An outside diameter of an upper body portion is greater than an outside diameter of a lower body portion, which may form a hand grip area. The arched contour ribs may further employ an upper flat wall, a lower flat wall, and an inner curved wall joining the upper and lower walls, which together may form an angle of about 60 degrees, and move in response to hot-fill product contraction within the container or top load forces.
US08596478B2
A closure for a container for sealing the contents of the container includes a cap assembly having a first portion that is insertable into a dispensing opening formed in the container and a second portion that is rotatable relative to the first portion. The cap is positionable between at least a dispensing position in which the contents of the container can be dispensed through the cap assembly and a closed position in which the contents are sealed in the container from atmospheric conditions. The closure also includes a rollable, flexible liner for receiving and holding the contents, the liner being coupled to the cap assembly and in fluid communication therewith so that the liner can initially receive the contents and later dispense the contents through the cap assembly.
US08596472B2
An electronic device enclosure includes a chassis, a receiving tray, and a clipping assembly. The chassis includes a side plate and a blocking pin located on the side plate. The receiving tray includes a bottom panel and a side panel connected to the bottom panel. An opening is defined in the receiving tray and located between the bottom panel and the side panel, and the blocking pin is engaged in the opening. The clipping assembly includes a first pivoting member rotatably attached to the side panel. The first pivoting member extends towards the opening to abut the blocking pin, for prevent the receiving tray from moving out of the chassis, and the first pivoting member is rotatable to disengage from the blocking pin, for allowing the receiving tray from moving out of the chassis.
US08596463B2
A vibratory separator including a frame, a basket disposed on the frame, and a motor configured to impart a vibratory motion to the basket. Additionally, the vibratory separator includes an adjustable speed drive operatively coupled to the motor to control a vibratory motion imparted to the basket. Also, a method of processing drilling waste including generating a first vibratory motion on a vibratory separator using at least one motor, and adjusting the first vibratory motion using an adjustable speed drive to generate a second vibratory motion.
US08596462B2
A separator is disclosed for separating particles of at least first and second mass/size ranges from an ambient fluid (e.g. gaseous) medium in which they are present, particles of the first range being of generally larger size/mass than particles of the second range. The separator is especially designed for use in an air monitoring device which is designed for rapid detection of micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, pathogens and the like, and is designed to be portable so that it can be readily and rapidly deployed in both civilian and military environments and can be used indoors and outdoors; it can also be designed for personal use.
US08596460B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a combination box and display unit. The unit may be used initially as a box to ship products, such as electronic cigarettes, and may then be converted into a display for the electronic cigarettes.
US08596454B1
A container mounted on the top step of a stepladder has a bottom wall joined to upright walls providing a chamber for holding tools, paint cans, parts and supplies. A ledge joined to an upright wall has holes and a slot to retain additional tools. Releasable fasteners secure the bottom wall to the top step of a stepladder.
US08596453B2
The present invention is a scalpel blade removal device comprising an opening in a wall defining a first blade guide, extending to a narrowing upward ramp bounded by left and right guide walls. A horizontal top ramp extends from the distal end of the upward ramp, bounded by left and right guide towers. A spring loaded notch device is adapted to lock behind a proximal end of a scalpel blade seated on a scalpel, where the scalpel is inserted in the opening and the blade edge is driven up the ramp to the top ramp. When the notch device is locked behind that end of the scalpel blade, the scalpel is pulled back, causing the scalpel blade to slide off the scalpel handle. A sharps container incorporates the removal device, a reinforced latch, a scalpel resting location, and needle cover removers.
US08596452B1
A system and method for storing a cupped brassiere and panty in an undergarment travel case is provided. The travel case has a lid and bowl shaped container that are connected to each other by a living hinge. The bowl shaped container has a recess that is formed in a generally flat bottom of the container. The recess receives underwire portions of the cupped brassiere. The brassiere is folded such that the cups face each other in a mirror image arrangement with the underwire portions being positioned against one another. Upon insertion, downward pressure is applied to the underwire portions of the brassiere. This pressure locates and positions the brassiere in the recess of the travel case. Next, a set of brassiere support straps connected to the brassiere are then folded and placed within a central interior portion of the cups. The panty is then folded and placed next to the support straps. The cover is then closed and the case is latched together through latching components. As such, the travel case of the present invention provides for a neat, secure and compact system and method for transporting and storing undergarments.
US08596447B2
An inclined conveyor for a combine comprising at least two endlessly wound toothed belts that extend parallel to one another and are made of cross-linked polymer reinforced with woven fabric plies. The toothed belts are connected together by coupling strips, and the toothed belts are provided with securement mechanisms for the coupling strips.
US08596438B2
A viscous fan drive with a front-mounted fan and electrical actuation without a tethered harness. The mechanical package includes an inverted viscous clutch, a drive pulley and a split electromagnetic actuator with the electrical portion mounted to a stationary mounting member. An axially moveable valve member controls the flow of viscous fluid.
US08596436B2
A power transfer unit for a motive device comprises an outer housing, an inner housing, and a torque transferring clutch. A piston housing is located between the outer housing and the torque transferring clutch. A piston is located in the piston housing. The piston is configured to provide actuation forces to the torque transferring clutch. And, when the torque transferring clutch receives the actuation forces, the torque transferring clutch causes the inner housing to rotate.
US08596427B2
An output shaft of a motor is divided into a front shaft (first or second front shaft) and a rear shaft. The first front shaft is to be rotatably supported by a first shaft support plate connected directly to a motor housing. The second front shaft is to be rotatably supported by a second shaft support plate connected to the motor housing with a spacer provided between the second shaft support plate and the motor housing. A braking mechanism including a flange plate, a braking member and a biasing member is mounted to the second shaft support plate and the second front shaft. The first front shaft is used with the first shaft support plate to realize a power tool without the braking mechanism. The second front shaft is used with the second shaft support plate and the spacer to realize a power tool without the braking mechanism.
US08596415B2
A movable safety barrier system includes a flexible barrier member having a barrier member length with first and second ends, and a width. The barrier member can have a construction that is flexible in both directions along the length and width of the barrier member. First and second end supports are provided which are capable of supporting respective first and second ends of the length of the barrier member when the barrier member is extended between the end supports. The end supports can allow the extended barrier member to move in a direction transverse to the width of the barrier member when desired.
US08596407B2
An integral power steering apparatus includes a hydraulic actuator having a piston separating pressure chambers for steering assistance and a limiter valve to be opened by movement of the piston to fluidly connect the pressure chambers. The limiter valve includes an adjuster for adjusting a press-fit position of a spring pin press fit in a plunger. The adjuster includes a movable adjusting member formed with an abutting surface to abut against the plunger to limit rearward plunger movement when the movable adjusting member is at a first adjuster position, and a regulating member to hold the movable adjusting member at the first adjuster position at the time of adjustment, and to enable the movable adjusting member to move to a second adjuster position after adjustment.
US08596404B1
A method for commissioning a hybrid vehicle includes providing a vehicle having a chassis, a first power source disposed on the chassis and a second power source disposed on the chassis. The first power source includes a prime mover and a transmission. The prime mover is selectively engaged to a driveline of the vehicle. The second power source includes a pump/motor assembly, a fluid reservoir in fluid communication with the pump/motor assembly and an energy storage unit in fluid communication with the pump/motor assembly. A neutral position of the pump/motor assembly is determined. The pump/motor assembly of the second power source is coupled to the prime mover of the first power source during pumping mode of the pump/motor assembly. Gas is purged from the second power source by routing fluid from the energy storage unit to the fluid reservoir.
US08596398B2
The present disclosure relates to all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) having an ergonomically improved rider footwell and leg well. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to ATVs having an ergonomically designed footwell leg recess to allow the rider's leg to be received therein while standing.
US08596386B2
A drilling system for drilling and completing a lateral borehole from a main borehole comprises a liner unit for storing one or more prefabricated liners for installation into the lateral borehole; and a drilling unit operable to drill the lateral borehole into the formation surrounding the main borehole and to install the prefabricated liner in the lateral borehole after drilling. A method of drilling a lateral borehole from a main borehole using such a drilling system comprises positioning the system in the main borehole at a location of interest; operating the drilling unit to drill a lateral borehole from the main borehole; completing the lateral borehole by deploying the liner from the liner unit into the lateral borehole.
US08596381B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a drilling assembly comprises a drill bit comprising a bit body and a cutting surface. A formation engaging element protrudes from the cutting surface and is configured to engage a formation. At least one compliant member is disposed intermediate the bit body and formation engaging element and is configured to provide compliancy in a lateral direction for the formation engaging element.
US08596380B2
The level of hydrogen sulfide in drilling fluid within a well formed in the Earth is assessed in an ongoing and/or in situ manner. The well may be constructed for the removal of hydrocarbons from the Earth. The assessment of hydrogen sulfide level may be provided in an ongoing manner such that real time, or near real time, fluctuations in hydrogen sulfide levels in the drilling fluid within the well may be conveyed to users. This may provide various advantages over systems in which drilling fluid must be extracted and separately tested for hydrogen sulfide content, and/or in which assessments of hydrogen sulfide level require time for performance.
US08596377B2
Three battery cells can be arranged such that one battery cell is situated on the front side of a handle portion and that the remaining two battery cells are situated on the rear side thereof while being arranged laterally side by side. Also, a handle portion can be generally of a triangular cross-sectional configuration whose apex portion is situated on the front side of the handle portion and whose base portion is situated on the rear side thereof; and the handle portion is grasped by bringing fingertips into contact with the apex portion (11a) on the front side.
US08596371B2
A method for producing oil and/or gas comprising injecting a miscible enhanced oil recovery formulation into fractures, karsts, and/or vugs of a formation for a first time period from a first well; producing oil and/or gas from the fractures, karsts, and/or vugs from a second well for the first time period; injecting a miscible enhanced oil recovery formulation into the fractures, karsts, and/or vugs for a second time period from the second well; and producing oil and/or gas from the fractures, karsts, and/or vugs from the first well for the second time period.
US08596370B2
The seal has a base ring that expands with the underlying supporting tubular. Extending from the base ring is a pleated structure with segments folded over each other so that the run in shape is small and up against the supporting tubular for run in. The pleated segments can have internal stiffeners that also add a bias radially outwardly when the structure is freed to move in that direction. A retaining band keeps the assembly retracted until tubular expansion defeats the band to allow the unitary structure to move out radially to the wellbore or surrounding tubular. The pleated portion unfolds and spans outwardly from the base ring to retain pressure differential in one direction while allowing fluid flow in the opposite direction. The assembly can be attached to a swage device so that pressure from above can drive one or more swage members to expand a tubular.
US08596369B2
A packer assembly can include an annular seal element and an end ring including leaves formed on a body of the end ring, whereby the leaves are biased radially outward when the seal element extends radially outward. A method of sealing an annulus in a subterranean well can include positioning a circumferential series of leaves radially outwardly overlying an annular seal element of a packer assembly, and the leaves pivoting radially outward in response to swelling of the seal element. Another packer assembly can include an annular seal element which swells in response to contact with a selected fluid in the well, and an end ring including an end ring body with a removable portion being engaged with the end ring body via interlocking profiles.
US08596363B1
A cement composition for cementing an oil or gas well includes Portland cement, water and a sulfur component. The cement composition may be used to cement a well bore by creating a cement slurry including the sulfur component, pumping the slurry into the well bore to a selected location and allowing it to solidify.
US08596353B2
A pressure measurement system for use with a subterranean well can include a chamber positioned in the well, the chamber having an upper portion and a lower portion as positioned in the well, and a device which, in response to gravity acting on the device, selects the upper portion of the chamber for communication with a line extending to a remote location. A method of measuring pressure in a well can include introducing a chamber into the well, then selecting a vertically upper portion of the chamber, and establishing communication between the upper portion of the chamber and a line extending to a remote location.
US08596344B2
The handling apparatus is used for positioning and holding of drill pipes. At least, a handling apparatus for the drill pipes is so arranged that it can be positioned both horizontally and vertically and it is equipped with a controllable clamping apparatus for the drill pipes. In the vicinity of the holding apparatus, a centering apparatus is arranged for the drill pipe to be held.
US08596339B2
A manifold structure is defined by a pair of stacked plates which define a void: one of these plates has three or more aperture-surrounding bosses which project into the void; the other of these plates has a plurality of protuberances. Each of the protuberances engages between a respective pair of the bosses. A heat exchange element is formed of a plurality of stacked plates, these plates defining a stack of tubes. The tube stack interiorly defines a plurality of U-shaped passages, these passages being distinct from one another. Each tube defines a respective one of the U-shaped passages and is received in plug-fit relation by a respective one of the bosses. The tubes, bosses and protuberances separate the void into a pair of manifolds. Each of the U-shaped passages leads from one of the manifolds to the other of the manifolds.
US08596336B2
Apparatus for controlling the temperature of a substrate support may include a first heat transfer loop and a second heat transfer loop. The first heat transfer loop may have a first bath with a first heat transfer fluid at a first temperature. The second heat transfer loop may have a second bath with a second heat transfer fluid at a second temperature. The first and second temperatures may be the same or different. First and second flow controllers may be provided for respectively providing the first and second heat transfer fluids to a substrate support. One or more return lines may couple one or more outlets of the substrate support to the first and second baths for returning the first and second heat transfer fluids to the first and second baths.
US08596331B2
The invention provides a mounting system for holding one or more affinity displays upon a window in an exceptionally stable manner. The apparatus comprises a drape that is capable of being wrapped around the edge or frame edge of a window, and the drape is also attached to a plurality of surface mounting components. The drape is further linked to the affinity display.
US08596330B2
A vertical door locking system includes a sliding latch mounted to a door that opens vertically, such as a garage door or corrugated self-storage door, and an electrically operated solenoid mounted at a fixed location on a guide rail for the door or the door frame. The latch includes a latchbolt that extends outward from the door to prevent the door from being raised vertically and the latchbolt has an opening at one end. The solenoid includes a spring operated solenoid rod that extends into the opening in the latchbolt to prevent the latchbolt from being retracted thereby preventing the door from being opened unless the solenoid is electrically operated to disengage the solenoid rod and release the latchbolt.
US08596320B1
Disclosed herein is an infrared emitter welder for fusion welding pipe joints. In one representative embodiment, the welder comprises a fuel tank adapted to contain a fuel under pressure and a heating element in fluid communication with the fuel tank. The heating element includes a pair of porous ceramic plates, each having opposing first and second surfaces, wherein the first surfaces of the ceramic plates are joined together, and wherein at least one of the first surfaces includes fuel distribution channels formed therein. A catalytic material, such as platinum, is disposed on at least one of the second surfaces and is operative to ignite the fuel as it reaches the second surface. A supply conduit interconnects the fuel tank and heating element.
US08596318B2
Provided is a pneumatic tire having a tread surface in which two circumferential direction main grooves continuous in a tire circumferential direction are arranged on left and right sides of a tire center, and land portions are defined by the circumferential direction main grooves as ribs or blocks having lug grooves. Multiple fine grooves are provided in each of right and left walls of the circumferential direction main groove, the fine grooves being inclined to the tire circumferential direction and provided in regions along the circumferential direction main groove, covering at least 50% of the entire circumference thereof in total. In each of the two circumferential direction main grooves on corresponding tire shoulder sides, the fine grooves in the right and left walls are inclined to the tire circumferential direction in the same direction in a plan view in a tire radial direction. In each of the two circumferential direction main grooves on a tire center side, the fine grooves in the right wall and those in the left wall are inclined to the tire circumferential direction in directions opposite to each other in a plan view in the tire radial direction.
