US08613254B2
There is described a method for detection of occurrence of printing errors on printed substrates during processing thereof on a printing press comprising the steps of providing multiple sensors on functional components of the printing press to monitor the behavior of the printing press during processing of the printed substrates and performing an in-line analysis of the behavior of the printing press to determine occurrence of a characteristic behavior of the printing press which leads or is likely to lead to occurrence of printing errors on the printed substrates or which leads or is likely to lead to good printing quality of the printed substrates. In-line analysis of the behavior of the printing press preferably includes performing fuzzy pattern classification of the behavior of the printing press. According to one embodiment of the proposed method in-line analysis of the behavior of the printing press is coupled with an in-line optical inspection of the printed substrates.
US08613251B2
The invention provides a centrifugal juicer with a removable bin for collection of unwanted pulp generated by the juicing process. The pulp is thrown upwardly and outwardly, and exits through a letterbox-like aperture which aligns with a filler aperture in the bin. The bin is slidably movable towards and away from the juicer and is open-topped; being covered during operation by a roof member which extends outwardly from the juicer. The bin (32) is provided, above the filler aperture, with a bridging member having a surface adapted to slide in contact with, or closely adjacent, the underside of the roof, thereby to wipe pulp deposits from the roof when the bin is slid away from the juicer for removal. The wiping surface of the bridging member may be shaped or configured to enhance the wiping action.
US08613237B2
A steering arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a rotatable steering handle, in particular a steering wheel, and a steering spindle connected torsion-tight therewith. At least one generator device is provided for generating at least one haptic signal, and at least one rocker bar is fixed on a structural part of the steering arrangement in a fixing region. On the rocker bar, a pinging hammer is held such that it is deflectable with respect to the fixing region, and the rocker bar for the deflection of the pinging hammer is connected with the generator device. The pinging hammer can be brought into contact with a structural part of the steering arrangement.
US08613230B2
An apparatus, system, and method for improving force and torque sensing and feedback to the surgeon performing a telerobotic surgery are provided. In one embodiment, a surgical instrument, a robotic surgical system, a cannula, a cannula seal, and a method for improved sensing of z-axis forces on a robotic surgical instrument are disclosed.
US08613227B2
The measuring transducer comprises: a transducer housing, of which an inlet-side, housing end is formed by means of a flow divider including four flow openings spaced, and an outlet-side, formed by means of a flow divider including four flow openings spaced, from one another. A tube arrangement including four curved measuring tubes connected to the flow dividers for guiding flowing medium along flow paths connected in parallel. Each measuring tubes opens with an inlet-side, measuring tube end into one of the flow openings of the flow divider and with an outlet-side, measuring tube end into one the flow openings of the flow divider. The two flow dividers are embodied and arranged in the measuring transducer, so that the tube arrangement extends both between a first and a second of the measuring tubes and between a third and a fourth of the measuring tubes. An imaginary longitudinal-section plane, with respect to which the tube arrangement is mirror symmetric and perpendicular to the imaginary longitudinal-section plane, an imaginary longitudinal-section plane, with respect to which the tube arrangement likewise is mirror symmetric. An electromechanical exciter mechanism of the measuring transducer serves for producing and/or maintaining mechanical oscillations of the four measuring tubes.
US08613217B2
The interfacial tension between two liquids is determined by: flowing an internal liquid (Li) through an internal flow member (2) and flowing an external liquid (Le) through an external flow member (4), with conditions being first established such that either droplets (G) of the internal liquid are formed in the external liquid, or a continuous jet of the internal liquid is formed in the external liquid, the continuous jet of the internal liquid then being formed in the external liquid or droplets of the internal liquid then being formed in the external liquid, and deducing therefrom the value of the interfacial tension between these two liquids.
US08613196B2
A new method, system and apparatus for power system utilizing flue gas streams and a multi-component working fluid is disclosed including a heat recovery vapor generator (HRVG) subsystem, a multi-stage energy conversion or turbine subsystem and a condensation thermal compression subsystem (CTCSS), where the CTCSS receives a single stream from the turbine subsystem and produces at least one fully condensed stream.
US08613193B2
When a detection value of a temperature sensor exceeds a set temperature, an ECU increases an opening of a sub-port by controlling a solenoid valve, and as a result, an intake volume of an expander increases. The ECU then adjusts the mass flow rate of a coolant flowing through a boiler so that a detection value of a pressure sensor indicates a pressure as close as possible to an upper limit pressure, on condition that an upper limit temperature is not exceeded.
US08613192B2
An engine exhaust gas purifier includes a filter, a hydraulic load mechanism, a clog detector and a forced actuation valve. The filter purifies the exhaust gas of the engine. The hydraulic load mechanism is driven by the engine's power. The clog detector detects a clogging state of the filter. The forced actuation valve forcibly increases an actuation amount of the hydraulic load mechanism. The filter is regenerated by increasing an engine load while maintaining an engine rotating speed, by increasing the actuation amount of the hydraulic load mechanism with an actuation of the forced actuation valve on the basis of detection information of the clog detector.
US08613190B2
The invention relates to a pressure vessel consisting of a housing and an insulating layer lining the inner surface of the housing. The housing is formed from a fiber composite material which has a high mechanical and thermal resistance and the insulating layer is formed from a gas-tight silicone elastomer, with the housing and the insulating layer being bonded to each other. The invention also relates to a method for the manufacture of such pressure vessels.
US08613183B2
A mandrel assembly for use in shrink sleeve labeler machines includes a replaceable insert having a cutting slot that is spaced apart from both upper and lower elements of the mandrel assembly.
US08613180B2
An insulated door comprising a door shell having spaced first and second exterior panels. The door includes a plurality of stiffeners bonded to a liner panel, with thermal insulation between adjacent stiffeners, disposed within the door shell. The liner panel may extend along one side of the stiffeners and the thermal insulation along the liner panel between the stiffeners and the first and second exterior panels. The stiffeners and the liner panel are preferably made of steel and the stiffeners are welded to the liner panel. The stiffeners are preferably not welded to the first and second exterior panels of the door shell. The liner panel is preferably insertable into the first or second exterior panels of the door shell. The insulation material fills substantially all of the space between the liner panel and one of the first or second exterior panels.
US08613179B2
The energy-free refrigeration door of the present application provides a way to control condensation when the door of a refrigeration unit is opened by providing thermal insulation to the door with glass panels which have a low emissivity coating. The door includes a door frame housing and an insulating glass unit comprising inner, middle and outer sheets of glass. A first sealant assembly disposed around the periphery of the inner and middle sheets of glass forms a first chamber between the inner and middle sheets of glass. A second sealant assembly disposed around the periphery of the middle and outer sheets of glass forms a second chamber between the middle and outer sheets of glass. A gas, such as krypton, air, or argon is held in the first and second chambers. The outer sheet of glass and inner sheet of glass each have an unexposed surface that faces the middle sheet of glass. A low emissivity coating is disposed on the unexposed surfaces of the inner and outer sheets of glass so that the glass door as a whole avoids formation of condensation on the outer surface of the outer sheet of the glass door, without the application of electricity to heat the door, while also providing the desired evaporation rate of condensation from the inner side of the inner sheet of the glass door. An anti-fog or anti-frost coating is included on a surface of one of the sheets of glass.
US08613173B2
A suspension device for façade elements of a façade of a building. The suspension device includes suspending elements engaging in receiving regions of elements of the suspension device that are arranged on the building side. The elements of the suspension device arranged on the building side include at least one base element that is fastened to the building and an adjusting device that is adjustable on the base element.
US08613166B2
A collapsible temporary housing system including a base, four walls being connected along each respective edge extending between at least two of the four corners, the walls being pivotally connected along the edges of the base so that when the walls are pivoted into a collapsible configuration each wall is laid upon a previously collapsed wall creating a nearly horizontal surface extending across a top surface area of the base, and a flat roof, the flat roof being detached from the four walls while the four walls are pivoted into an erected position, secured to the walls once the walls are erected, and set upon the nearly horizontal surface when the walls are pivoted into a collapsible configuration, wherein a plurality of other temporary housing systems may be stacked where a lean of the stacked housing systems which could result in the stacked housing systems falling over is not present.
US08613159B2
An apparatus is disclosed for easy removal of potted and trained plants from a plant container. The apparatus includes an elongated support member configured to assist plant training, and an elliptical-shaped support base connected to the elongated support member and configured to removably support a plant. Embodiments of the apparatus include support arms asymmetrically disposed on the elongated support member to upwardly support a plant.
US08613155B1
A greeting card display system has a greeting card with a card first panel and a card second panel pivotally attached. A first crease divides a card front surface from a card back surface and a card first inside surface from a card second inside surface. The system has a protective sleeve with a sleeve first panel and a sleeve second panel. The protective sleeve has a sleeve cavity with a single sleeve opening adapted for insertion of the greeting card. The sleeve first panel is pivotally located on the sleeve second panel via a sleeve first outside crease that divides the front surface from the back surface and a sleeve first inside crease that divides the first inside surface from the second inside surface. The system has a display unit adapted to receive the protective sleeve on a display unit front surface.
US08613145B2
A cutting tool with double compound leverage includes first and second opposed handle levers having handle ends and pivot ends. One of the handle levers includes a double link with a rearward portion defining the handle end and a forward portion defining the pivot end. First and second opposed blade levers each include a jaw end with a cutting blade and a lever end. The blade levers are each pivotally attached intermediate the jaw end and the lever end at spaced apart pivot points to a transverse coupling element. The pivot ends of the handle levers are pivotally attached to the lever ends of the blade levers. First and second compound linkage pivotally couple the handle levers and the blade levers so as to provide complete opening and closing of the cutting jaws.
US08613140B2
A heat sink composed of a fin set and a seat and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. One side of the fin set is provided with a plurality of rail rods whose cross sections are of a hook shape. One side of the seat is formed with a plurality of slots corresponding to the rail rods. Thus the fin set and the seat can be assembled by engagement of the rail rods and slots. A press mold is employed to press the rail rods and the slots, thus the rail rods and slots are deformed to make the fin set and seat tightly engage with each other.
US08613138B2
A method is provided for repairing a damaged rotor blade on an integrally bladed rotor by removing a damaged portion of a damaged blade leaving a blade stub extending outwardly from the disk and performing a linear friction welding operation to attach a replacement blade segment to the blade stub. The rotor may be disposed operation using a linear friction welding apparatus. The method includes disposing a support collar about the blade stub and securing the support collar to the linear friction welding apparatus prior to a commencement of the bonding operation. A lower surface of the support collar is contoured to mate with a portion of an outer circumference surface of the rotor disk.
US08613131B2
Methods are provided for forming/inserting a magnet in a rotor. One method includes coating a plurality of magnetizable particles with a non-metallic material, inserting the coated particles in a rotor, and magnetizing the coated particles. Another method includes inserting a plurality of magnetizable particles into a rotor, submersing the rotor in motor varnish or another viscous, non-metallic material to coat the particles, and magnetizing the particles. Yet another method includes inserting a plurality of magnetizable particles in a rotor, inserting a non-metallic material into the rotor, mixing the particles and non-metallic material to form a mixture, curing the mixture to coat each particle with non-metallic material, and magnetizing the particles. Still another method includes mixing a plurality of magnetizable particles with a non-metallic material, curing the non-metallic material to coat each particle with non-metallic material, inserting the coated particles in a rotor, and magnetizing the coated particles.
US08613121B1
A funeral service apparatus and method for implementing the funeral service apparatus is provided and includes an apparatus body having a hex wrench, a knife blade, a Phillips head screwdriver, a flat head screwdriver, a holy water containment vial, a committal sand containment vial, scissors, a tape measure having a measuring tape, a pen and a flashlight. The hex wrench, knife, Phillips head screwdriver, flat head screwdriver, scissors and measuring tape are rotatably associated with the funeral service apparatus to be configurable between an extended configuration and a stored configuration. Moreover, the holy water containment vial, the committal sand containment vial and the pen are slidably associated with the funeral service apparatus to be configurable between an extended configuration and a stored configuration.
US08613119B2
An adjustable mattress comprises a carrier and a foundation. The carrier has a bed surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of first flexible members and second flexible members distributed in the carrier. One of the first flexible members and one of the second flexible members are encased in a flexible support unit. The bottom of the carrier is disposed on the foundation. The two bearing points in a stretchable direction of the first flexible member contact the bed surface and the bottom surface respectively, and one end of the second flexible member protrudes from or is concealed in the bottom surface of the carrier. The foundation has a moving plate and a lifting device. The moving plate can be lifted by the lifting device to an active position to support weights from the bed surface with the first flexible members.
US08615810B2
A copy prohibition method and system is disclosed, which can provide a preview page with copy prohibition means inserted thereinto, so as to prohibit a copy of information displayed on the preview page, the method comprising receiving a selection request for a preview page of a predetermined webpage from a user; inserting copy prohibition means into the preview page; and providing the preview page with the copy prohibition means inserted thereinto to the user. When providing the preview page to the user, the user is notified that the corresponding preview page has the copy prohibition function. Thus, the user becomes easily aware of that the copy is prohibited in the corresponding preview page.
US08615809B2
A web site can be authenticated by a third party authentication service. A user designates an authentication device that is a shared secret between the user and the authentication service. A web site page includes a URL that points to the authentication service. The URL includes a digital signature by the web site. When the user receives the page, the user's browser issues a request to the authentication service, which attempts to authenticate the digital signature. If the authentication is successful, it sends the authentication device to the user computer.
US08615807B1
Described herein are methods, network devices and machine-readable storage media for conducting simulated phishing attacks on an individual so as to educate the individual about the various ways in which phishing attacks may be disguised. Specifically described is a simulated phishing attack involving a sequence of messages. At least one of the messages has an associated target action that would ordinary, if the attack were an actual phishing attack, result in the individual's personal information and/or computing device becoming compromised. In the simulated phishing attack, no malicious action is actually performed. At least one of the other messages is designed to draw attention to the message with the target action.
US08615804B2
Method to prevent the effect of web application injection attacks, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), which are major threats to the security of the Internet. Method using complementary character coding, a new approach to character level dynamic tainting, which allows efficient and precise taint propagation across the boundaries of server components, and also between servers and clients over HTTP. In this approach, each character has two encodings, which can be used to distinguish trusted and untrusted data. Small modifications to the lexical analyzers in components such as the application code interpreter, the database management system, and (optionally) the web browser allow them to become complement aware components, capable of using this alternative character coding scheme to enforce security policies aimed at preventing injection attacks, while continuing to function normally in other respects. This approach overcomes some weaknesses of previous dynamic tainting approaches by offering a precise protection against persistent cross-site scripting attacks, as taint information is maintained when data is passed to a database and later retrieved by the application program. The technique is effective on a group of vulnerable benchmarks and has low overhead.
US08615801B2
Software is authorized in accordance with a reputation of the software. A trust in the author and/or publisher of the software is determined via digital signatures and/or CoAs, and a reputation of the software is utilized to determine the intent of the software. The reputation of the software can be determined via a local service, such as an enterprise IT department and/or via a reputation determination service. When software is downloaded or to be executed, the trust in the author/publisher is determined using digital signatures and/or CoAs associated with the software. If the author/publisher is determined to be trusted, a service is called to determine the reputation of the software. The software can be installed and/or executed dependent upon the reputation of the software and trustworthiness of the author/publisher.
US08615796B2
Techniques for determining which resource access requests are handled locally at a remote computer, and which resource access requests are routed or “redirected” through a virtual private network. One or more routing or “redirection” rules are downloaded from a redirection rule server to a remote computer. When the node of the virtual private network running on the remote computer receives a resource access request, it compares the identified resource with the rules. Based upon how the identified resource matches one or more rules, the node will determine whether the resource access request is redirected through the virtual private network or handled locally (e.g., retrieved locally from another network). A single set of redirection rules can be distributed to and employed by a variety of different virtual private network communication techniques.
US08615792B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for controlling access to attribute information. A request is received from an application for attribute information. An attribute release policy associated with the requesting application is used to filter attributes stored in a datastore. The filtered attributes are then provided to the requesting application.
US08615786B1
The invention relates to various solutions to the challenges of supporting call centers and networks having a plurality of network connected agents or employees. According to one aspect, the invention manages agent authentication, including hiding the authentication methods (e.g., username and password) from the agent. According to another aspect, the invention provides information bridging, such as entering previously-collected information in carrier site pages. According to yet another aspect, the invention provides scripting, such as performing agency-specific scripting and guidance. According to still another aspect, the invention restricts agents from visiting non-approved sites. According to yet another aspect, the invention monitors and logs data fields of particular interest.
US08615784B2
Embodiments of the subject invention provide methods of using an integrated database management system and communication tool to provide group management and communication services through wide area networks (WAN). Embodiments of the invention can utilize computer-implemented methods and systems for uniquely organizing, integrating, and assembling the different information sharing and communication features via a user-friendly interface allowing access from a plurality of independent computer workstations after user identification. Further embodiments, of the invention can include a database server for managing members' information and data. Still further embodiments, of the invention can incorporate a graphical user interface server for interacting with users in an organization.
US08615778B1
A system and method for providing personal broadcast channels are provided. In one embodiment, one or more users interact with a local broadcast agent hosted by a local server to define profiles for a number of personal broadcast channels. The profiles include information identifying types of content to be broadcast on the personal broadcast channels and optionally formats for the personal broadcast channels. Based on the profiles for the personal broadcast channels, the local broadcast agent generates a request for content types desired for the personal broadcast channels and provides the request to a content distribution agent hosted by a master server. Based on content provided to the local server in response to the request and the profiles of the personal broadcast channels, the local broadcast agent generates the local broadcast channels.
US08615777B2
An information apparatus includes a comment processing unit that acquires, from an external posting site, a comment of a viewer by using a tag as a search key. The comment represents a viewer's feedback on the content of a program being viewed and is related to a tag for grouping with other comments. The information apparatus also includes a display processing unit that generates data to be displayed on a screen. The data includes an image of a program being broadcast by a first broadcasting station and at least one comment for a program being broadcast by a second broadcasting station, which is different from the first broadcasting station.
US08615776B2
An audio video (AV) device presents a user interface (UI) on the display. The UI has plural UI selector elements, including a left-most column of tabbed selector elements including a “video” tab, a “cast” tab, a “related” tab, with the tabs representing types of information and/or AV programs related to a seed input to the processor. The tabbed selector elements are selectable to cause, the information and/or AV programs represented by the respective tab to be presented on a central information/video area. The UI also includes a right-most column of iconified selector elements for selecting respective AV program sources from which information and/or AV programs related to the seed are available. The iconified selector elements are selectable to cause information and/or AV programs related to the seed to be received from the respective source and presented on the central information/video area.
US08615773B2
Systems and Methods are provided for coordinating computing functions to accomplish a task. The system includes a plurality of standardized executable application modules (SEAMs), each of which is configured to execute on a processor to provide a unique function and to generate an event associated with its unique function. The system includes a configuration file that comprises a dynamic data store (DDS) and a static data store (SDS). The DDS includes an event queue and one or more response queues. The SDS includes a persistent software object that is configured to map a specific event from the event queue to a predefined response record and to indicate a response queue into which the predefined response record is to be placed. The system further includes a workflow service module, the work flow service module being configured to direct communication between the SDS, the DDS and each of the plurality of SEAMs.
US08615769B2
The present invention provides a system which executes processes in steps so as to increase the speed of processing and implement links with other systems easily. The data processing system includes: an AP execution unit which executes operational processing while referring to/updating an in-memory DB and a disk type DB; a buffer storage unit which stores output data of the operational processing in a data buffer; a response transmission unit which issues a processing end notice of the operational processing; a temporary file storage unit which stores, in a temporary file, the output data stored in the data buffer; a request transmission unit which transmits a commitment request with respect to the disk type DB; a disk type DB commitment unit which commits the disk type DB by updating a control table; a normal file storage unit which changes the temporary file to a normal file, and an in-memory DB commitment unit which commits the in-memory DB.
US08615767B2
A data processing system having a memory for storing instructions and several central processing units for executing instructions, each central processing unit including an adaptive power supply which provides, among other data, IR (voltage) drop information. Circuitry is provided that receives the IR drop information from the many central processing units, selects a central processing unit which has the lowest IR drop and which is available to execute instructions and dispatches instructions to the selected central processing unit from the memory.
US08615766B2
A hybrid operating system may allocate two sets of resources, one to a first operating system and one to a second operating system. Each operating system may have a memory manager, process scheduler, and other components that are aware of each other and cooperate. The hybrid operating system may allow one operating system to provide one set of services and a second operating system to provide a second set of services. For example, the first operating system may have monitoring applications, user interfaces, and other services, while the second operating system may be a lightweight, high performance operating system that may not provide the same services as the first operating system.
US08615764B2
Resources of a partitionable computer system are partitioned into: (i) a first partition for first jobs, the first jobs being at least one of small and short running; and (ii) a second partition for second jobs, the second jobs being at least one of large and long running. The computer system is run as partitioned in the partitioning step and the partitioning is periodically re-evaluated against at least one threshold for at least one of the partitions. If the periodic re-evaluation suggests that one of the first and second partitions is underutilized, the resources of the partitionable computer system are dynamically re-partitioned to reassign at least some of the resources of the partitionable computer system from the underutilized one of the first and second partitions to another one of the first and second partitions.
US08615761B2
Provided is a virtual machine package generation method that decreases the dependency relationships between virtual machine packages when generating a virtual machine package from a distributed system.The method comprises: a virtual machine image generation function that generates a virtual machine image from a configuration and a connection relationship of a subject computer system; a virtual machine package setting file generation function that generates a setting file of a virtual machine package by analyzing the dependency relationships between the subject computer systems; and a virtual machine package generation function that stores the virtual machine image and the virtual machine package setting file as a virtual machine package.
US08615757B2
A system and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a physical resource that is capable of generating I/O data. The system also includes multiple virtual machines to utilize the physical resource. Among the virtual machines are a resource source virtual machine that is capable of owning the physical resource. The resource source virtual machine is also capable of sending a stream of one or more I/O packets generated from the I/O data that targets a resource sink virtual machine. The resource sink virtual machine is designated as a termination endpoint of the I/O data from the physical device. Also among the virtual machines are one or more resource filter virtual machines. Each of the resource filter virtual machines is capable of filtering I/O packets of a particular type from the stream prior to the stream reaching the resource sink virtual machine.
US08615753B2
A distribution apparatus manages a distribution history of a program and, when a request about a program applicable to a device including device identification information and a version of the program of the device is received from the device, if an update result indicates successful updating in the distribution history about the program, transmits information indicating a post-update version included in the distribution history to the device as a response to the request.
US08615751B2
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for patching software based on seeded product information. In one embodiment, patching software can comprise receiving a patch deliverable that can include a software patch and information identifying a target software package. The information identifying the target software package can be read and a determination can be made as to whether the information indicates a known software package. In response to determining the information indicates a known software package, the patch can be installed. In response to determining the information does not indicate a known software package options identifying software packages for which the patch may be used can be presented to a user and a selection of one of the packages can be received. The selected software package can be seeded with the information identifying the target software package and the patch can be installed for the selected software product.
US08615743B2
In a managed execution environment, an error may be deferred until execution of the application, program, function, or other assemblage of code reaches a point at which calling the reference to a module associated with a missing type or type member becomes inevitable.
US08615740B2
A computer implemented method, a computer program product and a data processing system provide a method for modifying a computer program during execution of the computer program by a processor unit. A computer receives an instruction string. The instruction string has a new function data therein for replacing current function data of a function of the computer program during execution of the computer program by a processor unit. The function is capable of being changed during execution of the computer program to modify the behavior of the computer program. The computer replaces the current function data with the new function data. The new function data modifies the computer program. The computer program is modified while the computer program is executed by the processor unit.
US08615734B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for dynamically redefining class files in a Java-based development environment. The existing development cycle in Java generally requires developers to edit, build, and deploy before they can test changes to the code. This process can be quite time consuming. There is a need for dynamically redefining and testing class files in a development environment without a significant time delay or loss of data. In one embodiment, when a developer modifies the class definition a ClassFileTransformer function is used to maintain the original shape of a redefinable class, i.e. its declared fields and methods, without affecting the redefined class' behavior or appearance to outside code.
US08615730B2
Modeled Types allow a developer to define attributes and/or code when defining a new type. When the Modeled Type is used, specific values may be assigned to the attributes. The consumer of the values of the attributes can be the type itself by executing the logic during application execution, or the consumer may be the runtime framework or the application using the values by querying the meta-data of the Modeled Type. Modeled Type Aliasing defines a Modeled Type based on another Modeled Type allowing both a new unique name but at the same time optionally supplying specific values to one or more of the attributes of the base Modeled Type. Context-aware Modeled Types provide a description of how to determine the value for the attribute.
US08615724B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for automatically predicting production yield for a circuit assembly according to attributes of its components and defect data mapped thereto. Embodiments receive a proposed design specification for a circuit assembly, including bill of materials (BOM) and schematic data, at a yield prediction environment. The yield prediction environment maps a set of attributes to each component in the BOM and maps a set of possible defects to each component according to its attributes. Defects may be further mapped to a manufacturing process assigned to populate each component in the circuit assembly. The defects are associated with predicted frequencies of occurrence, which can be used to roll up a yield prediction for the circuit assembly. Embodiments further allow “what-if” analysis to be performed so that different yield prediction results can be compared according to different form factor options and/or different manufacturing process options.
US08615722B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a preview of a menu object in a technique of displaying a menu object. The apparatus includes an input unit that receives an event from a user, an event processing unit that highlights objects, from among objects displayed on a screen, to which a user input can be applied according to the received event, and a display unit that displays the highlighted objects.
US08615717B2
An address bar user interface control includes a plurality of interactive segments, each segment including one or more filters or selection criteria for selecting content from physical and/or virtual locations. A segment may include two or more filters or selection criteria which are logically combined such as by a logical “OR” operation. A user may select a child control associated with an interactive segment, i.e., a parent segment, to provide a list of selectable child filters or selection criteria. In response to selection of a child filter or selection criteria, an interactive segment representing the child filter or selection criteria is added to the address bar succeeding the parent segment and the interactive segments subsequent to the parent segment are removed.
US08615715B1
A mechanism for processing graphical block diagram parameter expressions is presented. The mechanism achieves optimal implementation of block equations in the execution (run-time) environment by defining a mapping between user-defined block parameters and a run-time version of the parameters. The parameter processing mechanism also pools like, non-interfaced parameter expressions, allowing reuse of both uniform and non-uniform data across constant block parameters in the generated code and during model execution. The parameter processing mechanism further maintains an execution structure that maps the run-time parameter expressions containing interfaced variables to generated code for the block diagram so that the interfaced variables appear in the generated code. This mapping thus allows for interfacing to the interfaced variables in the generated code from any execution framework.
US08615700B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for forward error correction for flash memory. Encoded data from flash memory may be used to generate a number of data streams. At each of a number of error detection sub-modules operating in parallel, a different one of the data streams is processed. Each error detection sub-module may detect whether a portion of the respective received stream contains an error, and forward the portion to an error correction module. The error correction module, physically separate from the error detection sub-modules, may correct the forwarded portions of the respective received streams containing an error. The age and error rate associated with the flash memory may be monitored, and a coding rate or other aspects may be dynamically adapted to account for these factors.
US08615695B2
A dictionary-based scan chain fault detector includes a dictionary with fault signatures computed for scan cells in the scan chain. Entries in the fault dictionary are compared with failures in the failure log to identify a faulty scan cell. In one embodiment a single fault in a scan chain is identified. In another embodiment, a last fault and a first fault in a scan chain are identified.
US08615694B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for improving interposers that connected stacked die assemblies to system substrates. The improvement includes the addition of IEEE 1149.1 circuitry within interposers to allow simplifying interconnect testing of digital and analog signal connections between the interposer and system substrate it is attached too. The improvement also includes the additional 1149.1 controlled circuitry that allows real time monitoring of voltage supply and ground buses in the interposer. The improvement also includes the additional of 1149.1 controlled circuitry that allows real time monitoring of functional digital and analog input and output signals in the interposer. The improvement also provides the ability to selectively serially link the 1149.1 circuitry in the interposer with 1149.1 circuitry in the die of the stack.
US08615690B2
A controller of a memory device which accesses a memory of the memory device having a data storage area and a data correction area. The controller includes a mode selection unit When the memory works with a first operation voltage, the mode selection unit selects a first mode of the controller, and the controller writes input data into the data storage area to serve as storage data and reads the storage data from the data storage area. When the memory works with a second operation voltage, the mode selection unit selects a second mode of the controller, and the controller performs a correction function to encode the input data to generate encoded input data, writes the encoded input data into the data storage area and the data correction area to respectively serve as the storage data and correction data, and reads and decodes the storage data and the correction data.
US08615687B2
A data processing system and method for regulating a voltage supply to functional circuitry configured to operate from a variable voltage supply, the functional circuitry having at least one error correction circuit configured to detect and repair errors in operation of the functional circuitry. Voltage regulator circuitry provides the voltage supply to the functional circuitry, and modifies the voltage level of the voltage supply based on a feedback control signal. Error rate history circuitry receives error indications from the error correction circuit during operation of the functional circuitry and generates error rate history information therefrom. An adaptive controller then generates the feedback control signal in dependence on the error rate history information such that the adaptive controller adjusts the feedback control signal over time having regard to the error rate history information in order to obtain a predetermined target non-zero error rate within the functional circuitry.
US08615683B2
An industrial controller module (13a) is provided with a routine of program instructions (29a) for storing a log of I/O table state changes (31) in a defined portion of memory (23). Upon the occurrence of a trigger event, a file of the state changes (37) is saved in the memory (23). Each entry (32) in the log of I/O table state changes (31) includes a timestamp (33) and values of each word of I/O state data (36) that changed at a time of the timestamp. Logs of state change data (16a), including timestamp data, can also be saved for intelligent sensors and actuators (16) and uploaded with the log of controller processor state data (31) to a computer (20) with a diagnostic program (21a) for playing back the state changes and synchronizing changes of the intelligent sensors and actuators (16) with changes of the controller processor module (13a).
US08615680B2
A method for maintaining vital product data (VPD) of each field replaceable unit (FRUs) in a computer system, the computer system including a first FRU and a second FRU operatively coupled with the first FRU. The method includes calculating a parity for the VPD of the second FRU, and upon detecting a failure of the second FRU, regenerating the VPD for the failed second FRU using the parity.
US08615679B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a memory module that includes at least one memory chip, and an intelligent chip coupled to the at least one memory chip and a memory controller, where the intelligent chip is configured to implement at least a part of a RAS feature. The disclosed architecture allows one or more RAS features to be implemented locally to the memory module using one or more intelligent register chips, one or more intelligent buffer chips, or some combination thereof. Such an approach not only increases the effectiveness of certain RAS features that were available in prior art systems, but also enables the implementation of certain RAS features that were not available in prior art systems.
US08615675B2
This invention provides an image forming apparatus that suppresses a control error between CPUs when the CPUs operate in cooperation with each other in distributed control by the CPUs. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus utilizes a distributed control system. Respective CPUs measure time interval concerning image formation processing using their built-in clock oscillators, and perform operations in cooperation with each other. Correction coefficients are calculated based on the time interval measured by the respective CPUs to correct a measurement error generated by the operation an error of the respective clock oscillators. Clock count values each indicating a timing to drive a load is corrected based on the correction coefficients.
US08615672B2
A microprocessor includes two or more processing cores each configured to determine, at each of succeeding instances in time, an amount of energy consumed by the microprocessor during a period preceding the instance in time. The period is predetermined. Each core also operates at a frequency above a predetermined frequency in response to determining the amount of energy consumed is less than a predetermined amount of energy. All of the cores may operate above the predetermined frequency simultaneously until one of the cores determines the microprocessor has consumed more than the predetermined amount of energy during the period preceding the instance in time. The predetermined frequency may be: a frequency at which all the cores can operate over the predetermined period without the microprocessor consuming more than the predetermined amount of energy, or alternatively the maximum frequency at which system software may request the cores to operate.
US08615661B2
A method of handling cryptographic information in a communication comprising body elements and attachment elements to a mobile device includes the steps of determining if the communication includes an attachment element comprising cryptographic information and converting the attachment element into a body element upon determining that the communication includes an attachment element comprising cryptographic information.
US08615650B2
A method for deciphering control words for mechanically and electronically independent terminals includes causing first and second terminals to transmit a first and second cryptograms to a control-word server, causing that server to decipher them to obtain first and second control words for enabling descrambling of first and second multimedia content broadcast simultaneously on respective first and second channels, causing the server to transmit the control word to the respective terminals, the second control word obtained by deciphering the second cryptogram before the first terminal executes a channel change, and in response to the channel change, causing the first terminal to search to determine whether the second control word has already been transmitted in advance by the server before the channel change, and if the control word has been transmitted in advance, causing the first terminal to immediately start descrambling the second multimedia content with the second control word.
US08615645B2
An instruction is provided to establish various operational parameters for an adapter. These parameters include adapter interruption parameters, input/output address translation parameters, resetting error indications, setting measurement parameters, and setting an interception control, as examples. The instruction specifies a function information block, which is a program representation of a device table entry used by the adapter, to be used in certain situations in establishing the parameters. A store instruction is also provided that stores the current contents of the function information block.
US08615643B2
Various mechanisms are disclosed for improving the operational efficiency of a virtual translation look-aside buffer (TLB) in a virtual machine environment. For example, one mechanism fills in entries in a shadow page table (SPT) and additionally, speculatively fills in other entries in the SPT based on various heuristics. Another mechanism allows virtual TLBs (translation look-aside buffers) to cache partial walks in a guest page table tree. Still another mechanism allows for dynamic resizing of the virtual TLB to optimize for run-time characteristics of active workloads. Still another mechanism allows virtual machine monitors (VMMs) to support legacy and enlightened modes of virtual TLB operation. Finally, another mechanism allows the VMM to remove only the stale entries in SPTs when linking or switching address spaces. All these mechanisms, together or in part, increase the operational efficiency of the virtual TLB.
US08615637B2
A processing system is provided. The processing system includes a first processing unit coupled to a first memory and a second processing unit coupled to a second memory. The second memory comprises a coherent memory and a private memory that is private to the second processing unit.
US08615633B2
Technologies are generally for maintaining cache coherency within a multi-core processor. A first cache entry to be evicted from a first cache may be identified. The first cache entry may include a block of data and a first tag indicating an owned state. An owner eviction message for the first cache entry may be broadcasted from the first cache. A second cache entry in a second cache may be identified. The second cache entry may include the block of data and a second tag indicating a shared state. The broadcasted owner eviction message may be detected with the second cache. An ownership acceptance message for the second cache entry may be broadcasted from the second cache. The broadcasted ownership acceptance message may be detected with the first cache. The second tag in the second cache entry may be transformed from the shared state to the owned state.
US08615628B2
When receiving a file access from the client, the file access program refers to the mapping table, and processes an access to files of on volumes of RAID groups. The file server analyzes the file access states, and groups the files depending on the access time period, defines the file migration pattern based on the grouping, migrates the files, and then carries out a power management operation like a spin-down/-up operation on the RAID groups based on the migration pattern.
US08615626B2
Disclosed herein is a storage device including: a communication execution unit configured to be capable of controlling an operation state between a communication-enabled state in which data communication is possible and a pause state in which data communication is impossible; a buffer configured to store data transmitted and received by the communication execution unit; a memory configured to be capable of storing data; a memory controller configured to carry out data input and output between the memory and the buffer; and a communication controller configured to make the communication execution unit operate if data communication is carried out, and make the communication execution unit take a pause if data communication is not carried out. The communication controller switches the operation state of the communication execution unit between the communication-enabled state and the pause state in data communication depending on a data processing state of the buffer.
US08615618B2
Techniques and devices for transmitting data and information via a bus are provided. According to these techniques, data is transmitted in units or frames together with information that is required or useful for one or more of the transmission and the use of the data. If desired, at least some of the units or frames include a time slot within which freely selectable devices can output onto the bus data representing freely selectable information at freely selectable points in time.
US08615613B2
A control program for using a peripheral apparatus is loaded from the peripheral apparatus to the memory of an information processing apparatus. A management program manages the display form of a control object based on execution of the control program. The control object displayed on the information processing apparatus can be switched between the non-display state and the display state. For example, the management program causes the information processing apparatus to execute return from the non-display state to the display state in synchronism with the user manipulation of the peripheral apparatus.
US08615612B1
An avionics data storage device and data transfer system are provided. The data storage device, has a slanted, “shark-like” door, which provides an environmental seal when not installed in the data transfer system. The storage device and data transfer system maintain environmental seals at all times other than installation. The storage device and transfer system can implement a variety of identification and authentication methods, including electrical, physical, and optical authentication or identification.
US08615604B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a detecting unit that detects a change of a real IP address of the information processing apparatus; and a change notification transmitting unit that generates, when the detecting unit detects the change of the real IP address of the information processing apparatus during communication with a communication partner, a change notification packet, and transmits the generated change notification packet to the communication partner. The charge notification packet includes a header portion and a data portion. The real IP address before the change is included as a source IP address in the header portion of the charge notification packet, and a real IP address after the change is included in the data portion of the charge notification packet.
US08615602B2
A distributed storage system able to support real-time recording of streaming data shall be provided. Therefore, on the basis of Material Exchange Format (MXF) formatted files a data stream is packed into at least a first MXF formatted file and a second formatted MXF file. First connection data are inserted into the first MXF formatted file, wherein this first connection data points to the second MXF formatted file. Furthermore, second connection data are inserted into the second MXF formatted file, wherein the second connection data points to the first MXF formatted file. These connection data inserted as metadata into the MXF formatted files enable both seamless real-time stream recording and stream-able data playback.
US08615601B2
Liquid computing can include using a service bus to interact with a number of heterogeneous systems.
US08615594B2
A virtual media (VM) method for mounting a folder stored in a storage device of a client for accessed by a server as a virtual drive. The client assigns virtual cluster indices to each file in the folder, and creates a file-cluster index table to store the assigned virtual cluster indices. The client also creates a VM file system complying with the FAT file system standard except that only subdirectories and no data files are stored in the VM FAT file system. The VM FAT table uses virtual cluster indices rather than actual cluster indices. Data written by the server are stored in a temporary data area without modifying the actual file system of the storage device. The virtual sectors requested to be written are “dirty”, and the dirty sector numbers and corresponding temporary sector numbers are stored in a dirty sector index table for use in a write-back step.
US08615592B2
A connection between a first node and a second node is maintained within a computer network. The second node receives first data from the first node and places the first data received within a data window. A third node taking over the connection from the second node receives second data from the first node and places the second data received within the data window. Upon the data window being completely filled, the third node closes the window and responds to the first node with a zero data window. The connection between the first node and the second node is maintained by the third node.
US08615589B1
A resource optimization manager monitors resource metrics of a set of virtual machine instance types and determines a set of applications associated with the virtual machine instance types and associates the resource metrics to the set of applications. Thereafter, the resource optimization manager can generate clusters of applications that share one or more similar attributes and store resource optimizations for the clustered applications. The resource optimization manager can obtain a designation of a target application run on a virtual machine instance or otherwise obtain a definition of an application. The resource optimization manager can then associate the target application with one or more of the clustered applications based on a comparison of similarities between the clustered applications and the target applications.
US08615580B2
Control and/or feedback are provided for message publication in a publish/subscribe messaging environment. A number of different aspects are disclosed, and an embodiment may include one or more of these aspects. In each aspect, each subscribing application has an associated importance level for a subscription, and this importance level may vary among subscriptions for different message topics. Each published message has an associated topic. In some aspects, each published message also has associated criteria, where the criteria are specified with regard to message classification. In preferred embodiments, the message classification comprises importance criteria specifying requirements for importance level of subscribers registered for the topic of that message. Feedback can be provided regarding whether a message publication meets the importance criteria. Control over message publication can be based on whether a message publication meets the importance criteria.
US08615570B2
A network and connection provisioning framework for configuring and provisioning multiple aspects of network connectivity (e.g., multiple networks, media types, and/or connections). The framework may comprise a unified configuration interface that enables an administrator to configure multiple different types of network connectivity. A single configuration file comprising settings for multiple aspects of network connectivity may be generated based on preferences entered by a system administrator, or by exporting current settings from a particular computing device. Global configuration policies or other configuration settings that span multiple types of network connectivity may be also created and stored in one or more configuration files. Stand-alone media managers and/or plug-in modules may implement one or more standardized application programming interface functions so that they may interoperate with the network and connection provisioning framework. The standardized API may be used to ensure that configuration information is handled and stored in a standardized manner by different media managers and/or plug-in modules.
US08615568B2
Provided is a presence display terminal device comprising a registration unit for registering presence targets, an update information receiving unit for receiving update information indicating an update of the presence targets registered, a control unit for displaying a predetermined one of the presence targets registered, in a screen, and an update presence information acquisition unit for deciding it on the basis of the update information whether or not the presence target displayed on the screen is to be updated, thereby to acquire the updated presence information of the presence target decided to have been updated.
US08615555B2
A system and methods for remotely accessing, retrieving, and transmitting data offering remote data management control and verification of data delivery is provided. In an illustrative implementation, the present invention comprises a computing application operating on at least one computer server that cooperates with at least one communications network to which participating users have access. The exemplary computing application coordinates the delivery of desired data its corresponding data directory structure information to participating users over the communications network. The methodology may provide notification of delivery of data to intended targets using the communications network.
US08615553B2
The present invention relates to: an automatically adjusting seat, methods of playing video games by inputting a code that controls at least one aspect of the game, method of packaging cooking ingredients, methods and devices for providing gate and other travel information to passengers, a lid for a container and methods of reducing condensation, an email system for reducing size of user accounts, a toy figure or seat with a magnet, a receptacle with air inlets to prevent vacuum.
US08615542B2
A scalable engine having multiple datapaths, each of which is a unique multi-function floating point pipeline capable of performing a four component dot product on data in a single pass through the datapath, which allows matrix transformations to be computed in an efficient manner, with a high data throughput and without substantially increasing the cost and amount of hardware required to implement the pipeline.
US08615541B2
The invention set forth herein describes a mechanism for efficiently performing extended precision operations on multi-word source operands. Corresponding data words of the source operands are processed together via each instruction of a cascading sequence of instructions. State information generated when each instruction is processed is stored in condition code flags. The state information is optionally used in the processing of subsequent instructions in the sequence and/or accumulated with previously set state information.
US08615529B2
The present invention relates to a method of adapting computer programs to user profiles, including providing a user with a questionnaire to determine at least one of the user's intelligence, personality, emotional state, computer experience, sensory skills, motor skills, education, and training; compiling a user profile based on data received from the questionnaire; modifying the computer programs used by the user based on the user's profile; and storing the user profile and the computer program modifications in a database for future utilization by the user. The modification of the computer programs includes modifying at least one of a user interface, workstation tools, input device and navigation, image presentation, analysis of information presented, and reporting.
US08615526B2
An XML template having one or more nodes is received. Mapping information indicating an association of data and nodes of the uploaded XML template is obtained. Once the mapping is received, the structure of the XML template is determined. Based on the determined structure and the mapping provided, an XML based SQL query is generated. The generated SQL query can be executed to provide the XML document.
US08615518B2
Methods and systems for relating breaking news stories across content providers include receiving a breaking news headline for a breaking news from a content provider. The breaking news headline is tokenized in substantial real time by identifying a plurality of headline tokens. A plurality of news stories is received from a plurality of content providers. Each of the plurality of news stories is tokenized to identify a plurality of story tokens. The plurality of headline tokens and story tokens are analyzed to determine if one or more of the news stories are related to the breaking news headline. Based on the analysis, one or more of the news stories are mapped to the breaking news headline. The mapping enables presentation of the one or more news stories from one or more of the content providers while rendering the breaking news headline.
US08615516B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for grouping similar values of an attribute type and determining the best value of an attribute type for an entity in an entity resolution system. By applying attribute grouping rules to organize similar values into groups, an accurate number of distinct values for an entity may be ascertained by counting the number of resulting groups. A preferred group may be selected from the resulting groups and a “best value” may be selected from the preferred group by applying best value rules.
US08615515B2
A method (and system) for data acquisition includes extracting information from user communications and allowing a user to control the information to be extracted. The method of data acquisition may include downloading a user's sent materials from a communication data repository, analyzing the downloaded materials and extracting data portions that are authored by the user, generating statistical values from the extracted data, transmitting the generated statistical values to one or multiple repositories, receiving generated statistical values one or multiple server machines, and aggregating statistical values of multiple users.
US08615505B2
A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively.
US08615494B1
Various embodiments of a system and method for restoring a file are described herein. A previous version of the file may be split into segments and backed up to a server computer system. In response to a subsequent request to restore the file to the previous version, the current segments of the file may be compared to the backup segments stored on the server computer system. The segments that have changed may be retrieved from the server computer system and used to restore the corresponding segments of the current version of the file to their previous states. Segments that have not changed do not need to be transferred across the network from the server computer system. In further embodiments, one or more of the segments that have changed may be obtained locally from other files, thus further reducing the amount of data transferred across the network.
US08615492B1
Techniques for providing multiplexed data for backup are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for providing multiplexed data for backup comprising determining one or more criteria for a set of data to be backed up by a backup device, wherein the one or more criteria are based at least in part on reducing encryption overhead for the set of data. The method further includes identifying one or more sets of data to form a multiplexed backup based upon the one or more sets of data meeting the one or more criteria, and transmitting the one or more identified sets of data to the backup device for backup.
US08615490B1
First and second partial files are read from first and second storage media, respectively, irrespective of a sequence in which the first and second storage media were originally written relative to one another. The first partial file forms a first portion of a complete file. The second partial file forms a second portion of the complete file. The first and second partial files are combined to extract and form the complete file, without dependence on re-reading the first and second storage media.
US08615484B2
A relationship-based people matching system and method matches people in accordance with inferences of preferences from usage behaviors that include the explicit establishing of relationships, including directionally distinct relationships, by users. The usage behaviors may further comprise behaviors such as establishing subscriptions and the tagging of computer-implemented objects. The matching may be performed in response to a search request. Expressions of interest between matched people may be performed by the matched people through establishment of computer-implemented relationships. An explanation for the matching of matched people that references computer-implemented relationships may be delivered.
US08615479B2
Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and indicating at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the population cohort and at least one cohort-linked avatar.
US08615478B2
A non-binary affinity measure between any two data points for a supervised classifier may be determined. For example, affinity measures may be determined for tree, kernel-based, nearest neighbor-based and neural network supervised classifiers. By providing non-binary affinity measures using supervised classifiers, more information may be provided for clustering, analyzing and, particularly, for visualizing the results of data mining.
US08615477B2
Systems and methods are described herein that facilitate file management on a computing device and/or across multiple computing devices. Actions of a user with respect to digital items on a computing device can be monitored and utilized to build a relationship table, wherein the relationship table comprises identities of digital items and data that describes relationships between particular digital items. Such a relationship table is analyzed to provide a user with information pertaining to relationships between digital items captured in the relationship table. Relationship tables from different devices can be merged to analyze relationships between digital items across devices.
US08615475B2
Mitigation of processing artifacts caused by surfaces with high contrast printing or coloring transitions within a system to compare signatures derived from inherent physical surface properties of different articles to authenticate or validate articles and within a system to generate signatures from inherent physical surface properties of different articles.
US08615472B2
In a method of providing a virtual product to third parties, the virtual product being present in an original version in a digital form having a predetermined quality, a reduced version of the virtual product, along with information relating to a distributor of the virtual product, is initially provided. The reduced version's quality is inferior to the quality of the original version, and the information relating to the distributor are associated with this reduced version. On the basis of the information associated with the reduced version, further information may be created. This further information indicates that the reduced version has been passed on to the third party by the content provider. The further information is created if the third party has acquired rights to the virtual product after having obtained the reduced version of same.
US08615471B2
The presently claimed invention relates generally to toys and games that are enhanced with encoded information. One claim recites a method of playing a computerized game including: receiving image or video representing a physical object, the physical object comprising information steganographically encoded therein, the information is carried by the physical object through alterations to data representing at least some features carried by the physical object; utilizing a multi-purpose processor configured to: analyze received image or video to decode information steganographically encoded therein; interrogate a database or storage location with at least some of the information to obtain at least one game attribute associated with information; and modify the at least one game attribute to reflect activity during play of the computerized game. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided as well.
US08615465B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a means for verifying that a person using a bank card at a point-of-sale merchant location is in fact a person authorized to use the bank card. In one embodiment of the invention, verification may involve communicating with the mobile device 103 associated with the person authorized to use the bank card. The person authorized to use the bank card may be required to send verification data to the bank card verification system via the mobile device to confirm a purchase. The bank card verification system may not authorize the purchase if the proper verification data is not received from the mobile device. In another embodiment, the bank card verification system may be configured to determine a proximity of the mobile device to the merchant point-of-sale location to verify the purchase.
US08615457B2
A method begins by storing payment request data, which, for a client, includes a payables profile and an accounts payable data file. The method continues by receiving payment remittance information subsequent to initiation of a payment in accordance with the payment request data. The method continues by storing the payment remittance information. The method continues by consolidating the payment remittance information and the payment request data to produce consolidated payment data. The method continues by generating at least one report based on the consolidated payment data.
US08615447B1
A search engine communicates with a broker to identify search result content associated with merchants that support purchases through an electronic commerce system provided by the broker. The results of a search can include some content associated with merchants that support purchases through the broker, some content associated with merchants that do not support purchases through the broker, and some content not associated with any merchant. The search engine visually distinguishes content in the search results associated with merchants that support purchases through the broker by displaying a badge, such as a graphical icon, with the content. The search engine can use different types of badges to indicate different characteristics of the merchants.
US08615446B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for separating the purchase of digital assets from their fulfillment and activation. Digital assets purchase information comprising digital assets identifier information and activation key data, and system identifier information comprising system identifier data, is received. The purchase information and the system identifier information are processed to generate digital assets activation request data, which is then processed by the provider of the digital assets to generate digital assets activation data. Associated digital assets data is provided with the digital assets activation data and then processed with the purchase transaction data to generate digital assets entitlement data. A personalization agent associated with a target system automatically downloads the purchased digital assets and associated digital assets entitlement data, which is used to install the digital assets, thereby entitling the system to process the installed digital assets.
US08615434B2
Systems and methods for automatically targeting advertising on an online social network using affinity information collected concerning members of one or more online social networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes a targeting server configured to obtain data from at least one server that forms part of an online social network, where the obtained data describes member profiles of members of the online social network and activities performed on the online social network associated with the member profiles. In addition, the targeting server is configured to detect affinities between a member profile and keywords based upon data describing activities associated with the member profile and to provide the targeting keywords to a server that is part of the online social network so that the online social network displays the specific offer to online social network members targeted using the targeting keywords.
US08615430B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a weight module, a performance module and an allocator module. The weight module calculates a weight for each segment from a set of segments of potential advertisement placements matching a criterion. The weight for a segment is based at least partially on (1) a budget score for an advertisement campaign and (2) a number of potential placements for the segment. The performance module calculates a performance score for the advertisement campaign at each segment from the set of segments. The performance score of the segment is based on a success metric for an advertisement at the segment and a number of impressions for the segment. The allocator module presents the advertisement at a placement associated with the segment if the weight for the segment is greater than a first threshold and the performance score for the segment is greater than a second threshold.
US08615423B1
A method of rapid workflow process modeling, which is established according to a triangulation principle. The method integrates issues of management, operation and technology including information technology that are three fundamentals of a triangulation principle to characterize challenges and opportunities for process improvement of any organization including military units, governmental agencies and public and private business sectors. Specifically, the method is comprised of seven steps such as the As-Is process mapping, problem statements, impact statements, solution statements, benefit statements, To-Be process mapping and cost benefit analysis for generating a quantitative projection of the business cost reduction. Application of the method is able to comprehensively and effectively address challenges and opportunities for all aspects of the organizational process improvement.
US08615413B2
A patient care coordination system that includes a plurality of hand-held computers in communication with a cloud computing network or a remote server that has an accessible database of all patients and the health care information of each. The cloud computing network or remote server synchronizes, in real time, patient health care information input in any one of the plurality of hand-held computers with all the others of the plurality of hand-held computers. The hand-held computers are able to download and view the patient health care information in the database in a user friendly graphic user interface equipped with a touch screen for ease of user data navigation. The cloud computing network or remote server also receives, as input, data from patient care devices that are used to monitor patient condition periodically or continuously and store these in the database for the appropriate patient. In addition, the cloud computing network or remote server transmits encrypted electronic digital patient health care information to a third party and receives acknowledgment of third party receipt of the information. The cloud computing network or remote server monitors fee-bearing information exchanged with the third party and automatically assesses a predetermined fee based on fee-bearing information exchanged and stores the billing information to the appropriate patient in the database.
US08615404B2
A system that can enable establishment of a self-describing data network is provided. Generally, the innovation provides a mechanism by which self-describing data can be collected, validated and stored in such a way that permits each data element to be inherently self-describing. The manner in which the data is stored can be analogized to a ‘data chemistry’ whereby data is stored in the smallest meaningful bit (e.g., atom) coupled with descriptive metadata (e.g., tags). In a specific example, the data network maintains health-related data where each element includes a core data element wrapped with descriptive metadata. The descriptive metadata (e.g., tags) can be employed to interrelate the data elements for storage as well as to facilitate efficient traversal of the data network as a whole.
US08615395B2
A multifunction peripheral (MFP) includes an accepting portion to accept a picked up image and a speech, a speech recognition portion to recognize the accepted speech, a display screen generating portion to generate a display screen in accordance with an output setting, and a transmission control portion to transmit the generated display screen. The display screen is generated in response to a recognized keyword included in a predetermined output setting. The display screen includes at least one of the picked up image and an image of object data stored in association with the keyword in advance and independently from the picked up image. The display screen is automatically switched including the image of object data stored in association with the recognized keyword in accordance with the output setting when a keyword is recognized by the speech recognition portion.
US08615393B2
A noise suppressor for altering a speech signal is trained based on a speech recognition system. An objective function can be utilized to adjust parameters of the noise suppressor. The noise suppressor can be used to alter speech signals for the speech recognition system.
US08615390B2
The invention relates to transform coding/decoding of a digital audio signal represented by a succession of frames, using windows of different lengths. For the coding within the meaning of the invention, it is sought to detect (51) a particular event, such as an attack, in a current frame (Ti); and, at least if said particular event is detected at the start of the current frame (53), a short window (54) is directly applied in order to code (56) the current frame (Ti) without applying a transition window. Thus, the coding has a reduced delay in relation to the prior art. In addition, an ad hoc processing is applied during decoding in order to compensate for the direct passage from a long window to a short window during coding.
US08615388B2
Training data may be provided, the training data including pairs of source phrases and target phrases. The pairs may be used to train an intra-language statistical machine translation model, where the intra-language statistical machine translation model, when given an input phrase of text in the human language, can compute probabilities of semantic equivalence of the input phrase to possible translations of the input phrase in the human language. The statistical machine translation model may be used to translate between queries and listings. The queries may be text strings in the human language submitted to a search engine. The listing strings may be text strings of formal names of real world entities that are to be searched by the search engine to find matches for the query strings.
US08615382B2
A test and measurement instrument and method for generating IQ-based time domain waveform information and presenting the IQ-based time domain waveform information together with other time domain waveform on a common axis through a user interface. The test and measurement instrument can include, for example, one or more input terminals to receive an electrical signal under test, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to digitize the signal under test, a digital downconverter to produce I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature) baseband component information from the digitized signal, a memory configured to store the IQ baseband component information, a user interface, and a controller. The controller can be configured to generate an IQ-based time domain waveform using the IQ baseband component information, and present the IQ-based time domain waveform and a second time domain waveform on a common axis through the user interface.
US08615381B2
Systems and methods for managing power usage are provided. The system includes a programmable microprocessor, at least one input mechanism, a memory having instructions and/or other information, a display, at least one power consuming power device and a remote server. The systems allows the user of a power consuming device to receive instructions or other information from the server. The method includes using stored program instructions to generate power device related information on a display, collecting power device data representative of the electrical current or power consumed, connecting to a remote computing facility having a server, and providing the data to a computer remotely located from the central server.
US08615367B2
Disclosed is number coding of pairs (“doublets”) or small sets (“multiplets”) of solid phase carriers which provides distinguishable subtypes of a given type of such carriers, where each carrier type is distinguishable on the bases of a different code. Such number coding is useful for augmenting a coding system, such as a color code, and thereby effectively multiplying the number of “colors” (distinguishable sub-types). It can be applied, for example, to determine whether a sample is homozygous or heterozygous at a number of different sites for one of two different alleles, where the same color code is applied for each of the two alleles, and the alleles with the same color code are distinguished by knowing how many carriers are associated with molecules which detect each different allele.
US08615364B1
The computer readable medium causes a gas processor with gas processor data storage to implement computer instructions to receive device data in various device protocols simultaneously information from rig based sensors and gas analysis devices, calibrate the devices and graphically present the data using both time events and depth events. The computer readable medium can scale the data and form the geological-hydrocarbon executive dashboard for transmission to various client devices to present real time streaming data, real time calibration information, real time alarms while enabling users to add and remove detection devices and sensors, including rig servers and remote servers, online without shutting down the operation of the computer readable medium.
US08615354B2
Techniques are described for displaying or otherwise providing information to users regarding various types of road traffic condition information in various ways. The information may be provided, for example, as part of a user interface (or “UI”), which may in some situations further include one or more types of user-selectable controls to allow a user to manipulate in various ways what road traffic condition information is displayed and/or how the information is displayed. A variety of types of road traffic condition information may be presented to users in various manners, including by presenting information on graphically displayed maps for geographic areas to indicate various information about road conditions in the geographic area. In addition, provided controls may allow users to select particular times, select particular routes, indicate to perform animation of various types of changing traffic conditions over a sequence of multiple successive times, etc.
US08615351B2
A driving assistance apparatus mounted to a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus determines whether an amount of change in tire wheel speed of each tire wheel of the vehicle exceeds a threshold. The apparatus specifies a tire wheel crossing order, which is an order in which the tire wheels of the vehicle cross over a level difference between a road and a parking lot when the vehicle crosses over the level difference. The apparatus determines whether or not the vehicle has crossed over the level difference between the road and the parking lot, based on whether a threshold-exceeding order is identical to the specified tire wheel crossing order. The threshold-exceeding order is an order in which the amounts of change in the tire wheel speed of the respective tire wheels exceed the threshold.
US08615349B2
A method of detecting filling of a hydraulic cylinder and incipient full engagement of a hydraulically operated clutch of a vehicular transmission utilizes a pressure sensor disposed in a hydraulic line to the clutch cylinder which provides a signal that the hydraulic pressure has dropped as the clutch cylinder begins to fill and also that the pressure has returned to a substantially normal level. The pressure sensor may be a continuously variable output device such as an analog sensor, pulse width modulation (PWM) sensor, a similar device or, less desirably, a two state sensor. An iterative algorithm utilizes data from the sensor and a timer to determine when clutch fill is complete.
US08615347B2
An anti-theft security device for a vehicle coupling, in particular a fifth wheel coupling (1), includes a security apparatus (2) and a control apparatus (3) which are electrically connected to each other. The control device (3) is connected to at least one vehicle-side system (10a, b, c) having an emergency function. Upon the triggering of at least one emergency function of the vehicle-side system, the control apparatus (3) deactivates the control apparatus (2) directly or indirectly.
US08615341B2
A propulsion control apparatus for an electric vehicle includes an inverter that converts a direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage, a power storage element, and a DCDC converter connected to the power storage element. The control apparatus further includes a circuit selector unit that selects any one of power supplied from an external power supply via a power collecting device and power supplied from the power storage element and outputs it to the inverter. A linkage control unit controls at least the DCDC converter and the circuit selector unit in a linked manner, in which the linkage control unit inputs control signals at least to the DCDC converter and the circuit selector unit and controls them in a linked manner, in accordance with each of a case where the electric vehicle travels by receiving power from the external power supply and a case where the electric vehicle travels by power from the power storage element.
US08615340B2
A method for operating a driving device of a vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle, that has as drive units at least one internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine whose torques are used for generating a drive torque of the vehicle as a function of different operating modes, and which has at least one signal flow controlling at least one drive unit in at least one operating mode, a single signal flow controlling at least one of the drive units in all operating modes by defining at least one torque limit.
US08615338B2
The embarkation of passengers onto a vehicle of a transport installation with an aerial cable, comprising selectively served intermediate stations, is controlled by a programming device calculating the number of passengers allowed to go into a double-entrance security door and to embark onto a vehicle stopping at the station, according to the number of passengers in the vehicle and to the number of passengers disembarking from the vehicle at this station as they have compulsorily indicated when embarking.
US08615332B2
An appliance network having a first networked appliance, an energy controller, at least one of a smart dimmer and smart adapter, and a communication network coupling the first networked appliance, energy controller, and the at least one of the smart dimmer and smart adapter for communication therebetween.
US08615329B2
A control system is disclosed for regulating the flow of a liquid from a liquid provider through a liquid distribution system. The distribution system has a major liquid distribution channel connected to a plurality of minor liquid distribution channels providing the liquid to a multiplicity of users. A plurality of controllable user valves are interposed in the multiplicity of user channels. A liquid monitor senses a liquid flow characteristic within the liquid distribution channel. A user control changes selective controllable user valves for restoring a desired liquid flow characteristic within the liquid distribution channel.
US08615326B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods of use of an HVAC graphical interface dashboard. In various embodiments, the dashboard includes a weather tab, wherein invoking the weather tab advances to a weather screen. The dashboard also includes an indoor humidity tab, wherein invoking the indoor humidity tab advances to a humidity screen which displays at least a current indoor humidity. The dashboard further includes an alerts tab, wherein invoking the alerts tab advances to an alerts screen. The dashboard still further include an indoor settings tab, wherein invoking the indoor settings tab advances to an indoor settings screen which includes a current indoor temperature. A programs tab and a home tab are also provided, wherein a programs screen includes a display of a plurality of pre-populated program schedule settings.
US08615324B2
Systems and methods for automatically controlling conditions of a process are disclosed. In one example, a controller is programmed with a sequence of steps and parameters required to carry out a bioreactor process. The controller receives information related to a condition of the process over a first communication network, determines a control signal based on the received information and the programmed process, and sends the control signal over a second communication network to a benchtop utility tower. In one example, the utility tower can include transmitters for temperature, pH, and dissolved oxygen that send information related to a condition of the process to the controller over the first communication network, and an agitation system, a gas control system, a temperature control system and a pump control system that perform a control action based on the control signal affecting the process condition. The utility tower can include a computer with a human-machine interface that communicates with the controller over a third communication network.
US08615319B2
The interactive knitting and crocheting system includes at least one crocheting or knitting needle with a motion-based sensing capability integrated therein and a computing means. The computing means monitors movement of the respective needle to monitor proper crocheting or knitting technique, and upon detection of improper technique will provide an alert that an error has occurred, which shall prevent waste in work. The computing means provides notice of improper technique in the form of an audiovisual means, which can double as an instructional aid in teaching how to crochet or knit. The computing means also provides progress as to the stitch and pattern formed.
US08615316B2
An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving the audio signal and preset information; obtaining preset matrix from the preset information, wherein the preset matrix indicates contribution degree of the object to output channel; and adjusting output level of the object by using the preset matrix.Accordingly, without user's setting for each object, if preset metadata to be applied to an audio signal is selected with reference to previously-set preset metadata, levels of objects included in the audio signal can be easily adjusted using preset rendering data corresponding to the selected preset metadata.
US08615309B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for treating a medical condition in a patient using an implantable medical device by applying an electrical signal characterized by having a number of pulses per microburst, an interpulse interval, a microburst duration, and an interburst period to a portion of a cranial nerve of said patient, wherein at least one of the number of pulses per microburst, the interpulse interval, the microburst duration, or the interburst period is selected to enhance cranial nerve evoked potentials.
US08615285B2
An acoustic driver system for use in applying an oscillating stress to a subject undergoing a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) examination includes a flexible passive driver located in the bore of the magnet and in contact with the subject. A remotely located active driver is acoustically coupled to the passive driver and produces acoustic energy in response to an applied current. The passive driver produces shear waves in response to the acoustic energy and are directed into the body of the subject undergoing the MRE examination.
US08615275B1
An electronic infrastructure consisting a plurality of client mobile devices, a distribution server and a media creator computer, wherein the client mobile devices present interactive media upon user request. The plurality of client mobile devices support dynamic screen display and, contain a plurality of soft keys. The media creator is a personal computer that generates interactive media and sends them to the distribution server for distribution. The distribution server processes and sends the interactive media to the client mobile device and the client mobile devices presents the interactive media in a series of screens to the user. The client mobile devices interactively send the user responses back to the distribution server.
US08615266B2
The present invention concerns a method for adjusting the transmission power of signals transferred by or to a first base station, the first base station being located in the cell of a second base station, the first base station: transfers a first message to the second base station, receives a message comprising information representative of the path between the first base station and the second base station, receives messages transferred by the second base station to mobile terminals, information comprised in at least one message enabling the determination of the coverage of the second base station, computing a metric from both information, adjusting, according to the computed metric, the transmission power of the signals transferred by the first base station to at least a mobile terminal and/or the transmission power of the signals transferred to the first base station by at least one mobile terminal.
US08615264B2
A method and an apparatus for allocating a cognitive radio network spectrum based on aggregation. The method includes: obtaining information about unoccupied spectrum fragments and unit capacity information of a secondary users on different spectrum fragments, and constructing a solution matrix; calculating a reference index corresponding to the solution matrix, determining a resource allocation vector according to the reference index, and allocating resources after selecting a resource allocation element from the resource allocation vector; and removing a resource allocation element that is used in the resource allocation from the solution matrix, and then constructing a new solution matrix to continue allocating resources until unoccupied spectrum resources corresponding to the information about unoccupied spectrum fragments are allocated completely.
US08615256B1
A communications system (100, 300) comprises base stations (101) for providing mobile stations (104) with communications links. It comprises at least one localized service area (111) and means (108, 109) for changing the service selection offered to a given mobile station on the initiative of the communications system. The change is realized in response to information (203) indicating the arrival of the mobile station in said localized service area.
US08615238B2
In a radio access network, multiple radio network controllers are connected to several radio nodes using a network. The interconnected radio network controllers and radio nodes are addressable, and, therefore, each radio network controller can communicate directly with each radio node and visa versa. The radio access network can be configured to avoid active handoffs between radio network controllers by maintaining a traffic channel set up between an access terminal and a radio network controller even as the flow.
US08615235B2
A mobile telephone terminal (2) is provided with an electrical field strength measurement unit (201) that receives radio signals from wireless base stations (31) and measures the strengths thereof; a registration destination base station selection unit (206) that selects one of the wireless base stations (31) that sent the received radio signals as a position registration destination; a position registration execution unit (203) that sends a position registration request to the selected wireless base station (31); and an execution timer expiry determination unit (210) that performs a position registration update process by causing, when a predetermined amount of time has elapsed following the position registration, the registration destination base station selection unit (206) to select a wireless base station (31), and causing the position registration execution unit (203) to send a position registration request to the selected wireless base station (31).
US08615229B2
A mobile unit and network element are used to test RF coverage in a wireless communication network. A mobile unit receives testing location information, including the cell location data and the boundary information, from a network element. The mobile unit moves about the testing location and receives information about the RF quality of the signal and stores this data. The mobile unit periodically sends the stored data to the network element. The network element includes a correlation element that correlates the received data to form new values for each of the cell sites tested. This correlated value can be used for multiple cell sites to determine which cell sites most need additional RF coverage testing. In addition, the network element can map the data and either send to the mobile unit, display on a monitor at the network element, or sent to a web server for access via the Internet.
US08615228B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a user can control a mobile terminal and each device connected to the mobile terminal using a speech via the mobile terminal while the mobile terminal and external digital devices are connected together via a prescribed interface. The present invention includes a display unit, a user input unit, a microphone, a communication module and a controller, when connected to at least one external device via the communication module, if a electric signal corresponding to a user's speech command is inputted via the microphone in a speech recognition mode, recognizing the speech command by analyzing the electric signal, the controller controlling the recognized speech command to be displayed as a prescribed graphic user interface (GUI) on the display unit.
US08615219B2
A receiver receives from a remote system a voice biometric sample from a party attempting to obtain a service from the apparatus using the remote system. A processor selectively determines when to request authentication of the party by a remote voice biometric system. A transmitter transmit a request to the party to provide the voice biometric sample responsive to the processor determining to request authentication of the party. The apparatus provides the service contingent upon authentication of the party by the remote voice biometric system.
US08615206B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for a radio transmission emulator. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a radio transmission emulator system. The radio transmission emulator system includes a radio transmission emulator, an automobile, and/or a radio data analysis unit. The automobile can include a radio receiving unit. The radio transmission emulator generates a field simulation signal which simulates interferences. The field simulation signal is transmitted from the radio transmission emulator to the radio receiving unit. The radio receiving unit generates the radio data based on the field simulation signal. The radio data analysis unit analyzes the radio data to determine whether adjustments should be made to the radio receiving unit.
US08615205B2
Techniques are provided for reducing mismatch between the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) channels of a communications transmitter or receiver. In an exemplary embodiment, separate voltages are applied to bias the gates or bulks of the transistors in a mixer of the I channel versus a mixer of the Q channel. In another exemplary embodiment, separate voltages are applied to bias the common-mode reference voltage of a transimpedance amplifier associated with each channel. Techniques are further provided for deriving bias voltages to minimize a measured residual sideband in a received or transmitted signal, or to optimize other parameters of the received or transmitted signal. Techniques for generating separate bias voltages using a bidirectional and unidirectional current digital-to-analog converter (DAC) are also disclosed.
US08615201B1
Design systems are provided to assist users in designing circuits that include communications links. A communications link may include a transmitter link subsystem, a receiver link subsystem, and a channel subsystem that interconnects the transmitter and receiver subsystems. A user may specify global link performance characteristics such as bit error rate and data rate. Measured link subsystem performance characteristics may be gathered and stored in a database as probability distribution functions. When analyzing a link, known link subsystems parameters supplied by the user may be used to retrieve appropriate link subsystem performance data. The retrieved link subsystem data and the global link performance data may be analyzed and used to produce recommended subsystem limits. A logic design system may use information on a user's logic design and the recommended limits in producing programmable logic device configuration data.
US08615191B2
A distribution apparatus which distributes to multiple regions includes: a storage unit which stores each of radio communications systems usable for each of the regions; a selecting unit which selects, out of the multiple regions to which the distribution apparatus distributes, first regions in which a radio communications system in operation is the same; and a distribution unit which distributes, based on each of the radio communications system usable for each of the regions that is stored in the storage unit, all or some of information on the radio communications system for each of the first regions selected by the selecting unit. One or multiple radio communications systems are usable in each of the regions.
US08615189B2
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a mode setting section configured to set an operation mode in a manner that the image forming apparatus is operated in an erasing mode if an erasing operation is instructed, a supplying section configured to supply a medium on which the image formation is completed, and which is set in an designated or specified receiving section, a decoloring section configured to decolor the color of the formed image by carrying the medium to a heating section that includes at least heating and decoloring function, and a return section configured to return the operation mode to a predetermined mode except for the erasing mode from the erasing mode, when the last medium on which the image formation is completed and which is set in the receiving section is decolored.
US08615188B2
The present teachings provide a fusing method and system of tuning gloss level on a copy substrate. The method includes obtaining an image forming apparatus for forming images on a recording medium including a charge-retentive surface to receive an electrostatic latent image thereon. The method includes applying toner to the charge-retentive surface to develop an electrostatic latent image to form a developed image on the charge-retentive surface. The developed image is transferred from the charge retentive surface to a copy substrate. The toner images are fused to a surface of the copy substrate. The gloss is adjusted on the copy substrate by providing a fuser member having a surface layer a fluoroplastic matrix having dispersed therein aerogel particles wherein the greater a weight percent of the aerogel particles in the fluoroplastic matrix the lower the gloss.
US08615176B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a developing unit that visualizes an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of the image carrier, using a developing material, and a supply unit that supplies a periodic wave as a developing bias to the developing unit. A single period of the periodic wave is formed by a first time period in which a voltage in which a DC voltage and an AC voltage are superimposed is applied and a second time period in which only a DC voltage is applied. In addition, a count unit counts an amount of electrostatic latent images that have been formed in succession, and a control unit changes the duration of the second time period according to the amount of electrostatic latent images counted by the count unit without stopping image formation to continue the image formation.
US08615168B2
A Passive Optical Network (PON) component, such as a Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC) or similar pluggable transceiver, provides the combined functionality of the GBIC (or similar device) and an Optical Network Unit (ONU). The result is a device with a reduced form factor by eliminating redundant components and simplified fault management of the end-system.
US08615155B2
The invention relates to a device for receiving audio video data packets and corresponding method. According to said method, said packets received comprising an absolute time stamp showing the display time of said packets, said packets being intended to be displayed after their recording, or to be displayed directly following their reception. The device comprises an interface module with the display intended to respect, among other things, the display time of said packets. The device comprises: means for reformatting said packets intended to be displayed after recording in such a manner that these packets after they have been read are received by the interface module with the display in the same format as said packets intended to be displayed directly following their reception, said means for reformatting said packets modifying at least the time stamp of the packets intended for the recording.
US08615151B2
A lightguide arrangement including a substantially thin, lightguide for transporting and coupling light. At least one light source is coupled to the lightguide. A plurality of micro-optic surface relief forms are arranged on the lightguide. The lightguide is configured to produce one or more active indicative and/or decorative illumination effects via interaction between the one or more light sources and the plurality of micro-optic surface relief forms. A keypad assembly including the lightguide and uses of lightguide constructions.
US08615149B2
Photonics chip with efficient optical alignment and bonding and optical apparatus including the same
Provided are a photonics chip and an optical apparatus including the same. The chip may include a substrate, an optical waveguide, an optical coupler, and a plurality of alignment units. The optical waveguide is formed on the substrate. The optical coupler is formed at the optical waveguide. The alignment units align an optical connector which fixes at least one optical fiber coupled to the optical coupler, on the substrate.
US08615146B2
A planar optical waveguide including a clad layer, an optical waveguide having a core embedded in the clad layer; and a groove formed in the clad layer and having a reflection interface for totally reflecting a leaked light leaked from the optical waveguide to the clad layer. Since the reflection interface for totally reflecting the leaked light is formed in the clad layer, the leaked light is prevented from entering into the tap coupler, and the variation of the branching ratio can be reduced.
US08615139B2
Computer-readable medium having an image decoding program performing: storing a reference image which is a previously decoded image; receiving coded information including motion vector and rounding method information specifying a rounding method used in synthesizing a prediction image of a currently decoded image; and synthesizing the prediction image via motion compensation using the motion vector information and reference image; wherein synthesizing a prediction image uses a positive and negative rounding method for interpolating pixel intensity values; wherein interpolation of pixel intensity values uses a rounding method specified by the rounding method information included in the encoded bitstream of the current P frame; wherein the rounding method information is not received from the encoded bitstream of an I frame; wherein rounding method information specifies one of two values; and wherein one of the two values specifies a positive rounding method, and another of the two values specifies a negative rounding method.
US08615137B2
The invention relates to a pattern recognizer, which, in order to recognize the pattern fast and with lowest possible computing power, comprises a memory (12) for storing area-specific reference values (REF) calculated on the basis of image information of image areas containing parts of the pattern to be recognized, and a processor (14) that is configured to divide (15) a received image into areas, to calculate (16) reference values (REF) area-specifically on the basis of the image information of said areas, to compare (17) the calculated reference values (REF) with the reference values (REF) stored in the memory (12) and to indicate (18) that the pattern is recognized, in case in the received image there is found a part consisting of adjacent areas, where the reference values (REF) of the areas correspond, with sufficient accuracy, to the reference values (REF) stored in the memory (12).
US08615136B2
A computing device for motion detection in a system capable of detecting feature points of an object of interest is disclosed. The computing device includes a vector forming unit to form a plurality of vectors associated with a set of the feature points and form a vector set based on the vectors, a posture identifying unit to identify a match of a posture in a database based on the vector set, a motion similarity unit to identify a set of predetermined postures in the database based on the matched posture and an immediately previous matched posture, and a motion identifying unit to identify a predetermined motion in the database based on the set of predetermined postures.
US08615133B2
An imaging or data processing method using statistical analysis to determine features of interest in an image or data set. Particular implementations of the imaging or data processing methods relate to refining the results of an image processing method using iterative examination of posterior probabilities or external feedback.
US08615118B2
Techniques for background subtraction in computed tomography include determining voxels in a slice of interest in a three dimensional computed tomography scan of the interior of a body based on a first set of measurements of radiation transmitted through the body. Based on the first set of measurements, a first background image for radiation transmitted through the body in a first direction is determined without the effects of the voxels in the slice of interest. A current image is determined based on a different current measurement of radiation transmitted through the body in the first direction. A first difference is determined between the current image and the first background image. The result is a high contrast image in the slice of interest even from a single current projection image.
US08615110B2
A method of surveying a section of a railway to determine amounts of soil to be excavated or added at selected position coordinates of track locations includes moving a survey vehicle along the railway, optically scanning the track structure at selected intervals to obtain optical data points with position coordinates, recording images at the intervals with position coordinates, recording position coordinates of drainage points, processing the optical data points to derive ditch overlays formed by ditch profiles associated with locations along the track and ditch templates, detecting anomalous soil unit weights associated with track locations, reviewing images associated with the locations of the anomalous units, adjusting the ditch overlays as necessary, and loading the adjusted data into a computer of an excavator device for display to guide an excavator operator in reshaping the ditches along the track according to the detected position of the excavator device.
US08615106B2
Disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer program product for determining a correspondence between a first object (713) tracked in a first field of view and a second object tracked (753) in a second field of view. The method determines a first area (711) in the first field of view, based on the location and size of the first object (713). The method utilizes a predetermined area relationship between the first area (711) in the first field of view and at least one area (751) in the second field of view to determine a second area (751) in the second field of view. In one embodiment, the method determines the second area (751) in the second field of view by comparing predetermined area relationships between the first area (711) and any areas (751) in the second field to determine a best match. The method determines a correspondence between the first object (713) and the second object (753), based on a comparison between a first object signature associated with the first object (713) and a second object signature associated with the second object (753).
US08615096B2
The present invention relates to a thermoacoustic device that includes an acoustic element. The acoustic element includes a substrate, a plurality of microspaces, and a metal film. The metal film is located above the substrate. A plurality of microspaces is defined between the substrate and the metal film. The metal film is partially suspended above the substrate.
US08615094B2
A variable gain amplifier amplifies an input audio signal. A first control unit monitors the level of the input audio signal, and sets the gain of the variable gain amplifier to a predetermined fixed value when this level is lower than a predetermined minimum threshold. A second control unit monitors the level of an output signal VO of the variable gain amplifier. When this level exceeds a predetermined maximum threshold, the second control unit lowers the gain of the variable gain amplifier. When this level becomes smaller than this threshold, it raises the gain. When the level of the input audio signal is smaller than the minimum threshold, the first control unit disables the gain control operation of the variable gain amplifier controlled by the second control unit. A sub-amplifier amplifies the input audio signal. An output mixing unit mixes signals output from the variable gain amplifier and the sub-amplifier.
US08615093B2
An apparatus for processing an audio input signal is provided and includes an audio processing circuit and an audio compressing circuit. The audio processing circuit receives the audio input signal, and enhances a first frequency part of the audio input signal to output a bass-enhancement signal. The audio compressing circuit is coupled to the audio processing circuit, and reduces a gain of a second frequency part of the bass-enhancement signal to output an audio output signal.
US08615090B2
A method and apparatus of generating a sound field effect is provided. The sound field effect generating apparatus may generate a frequency coefficient that is frequency-transformed from a direct signal, may generate a reflection signal from the frequency coefficient, may generate an output signal using the frequency coefficient and the reflection signal, and may perform an inverse-frequency transform of the output signal.
US08615086B2
A key agreement method is carried out by a first system in conjunction with a second system over a bidirectional communication path, including generating a first key pair having a first public key and a first private key, sending the first public key to the second system, receiving a second public key generated by the second system, and calculating a master key based upon the first private key, the second public key, a long-term private key, and a long-term public key. The long-term private key was generated by the first system during a previous key-agreement method as part of a long-term key pair. The long-term public key was generated by the second system and received during the previous key-agreement method. The previous key-agreement method required a secret to be known to the first system and the second system, thus conferring authentication based on the secret to the long-term public key.
US08615085B2
A system for encrypted communication with external entities is configured to frustrate side channel attacks attempting to determine an encryption key. The system has a device with an encryption key stored in memory, an external entity with identity data for transmission to the device to initiate communication such that in response the device applies a one way function to the encryption key and the identity data to generate a variant key used to authenticate communications between the device and the external entity. The device is configured to limit the number of times the encryption key is allowed to be retrieved from the first memory to a pre-determined threshold.
US08615082B1
A system for real-time streaming of drilling data from a drilling rig using satellites, wherein the system includes client devices for transmitting the drilling data. Radio boxes can be disposed around the drilling rig and can form a local area network for connecting with the client devices. A router and switch can be connected to the local area network for receiving and transmitting the drilling data. A processor and data storage can be configured to receive the drilling data and form well logging data for transmission to the router and switch. A modem in communication with the router and switch can send the drilling data to satellite dishes. A server positioned apart from the drilling rig can receive drilling data and from well logs and executive dashboards. The server can stream the drilling data, well logs, and executive dashboard in real-time to remote client devices.
US08615068B2
A system and method for producing an intensity modulated arc therapy (“IMAT”) treatment plan are provided. A plurality of segmentations are generated, from which the IMAT treatment plan is determined. Apertures within each segmentation are ordered by minimizing the total leaf movement between pairs of segmentations in adjacent angles, during which corresponding minimum total leaf movement values between such pairs are calculated. From these segmentations, a network model is used to select those segmentations to be used in the IMAT treatment plan. The apertures in the selected segmentations are then modified by minimizing total leaf movement relative to the selected segmentations, and subject to physical constraints such as a maximum leaf movement constraint or interdigitation constraint. Segmentation errors in the modified segmentations are then locally minimized using a network model and a row-non-convexity measure to determine the order in which apertures are to be optimized.
US08615062B2
Described embodiments provide method of adapting pulse response taps of a receiver. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) generates an ADC value for each bit sample of a received signal. An error signature analysis (ESA) module defines a window of bit samples and, for the window, estimates a bit value corresponding to each sample based on the ADC value. The ESA module generates (i) a reconstructed ADC value corresponding to an estimated cursor bit based on a number of pre-cursor estimated bits, the estimated cursor bit, and a number of post-cursor estimated bits, and (ii) an error signature value based on the reconstructed ADC value and the ADC value. Based on the error signature value and a minimum pulse response value, it is determined whether the cursor bit corresponds to residual inter-symbol interference (ISI), and, if so, the error signature value is accumulated and tap values for each pulse response tap are adapted.
US08615061B2
A method and apparatus in which a Tap-Weight Computer (TWC) calculates a Tap-Weight Vector (TWV) are provided. The TWV is coupled to a register in an adaptive filter module. Each adaptive filter module includes several adaptive filters that each include a tapped delay line. The input to the tapped delay line is one of a plurality of potential interfering signals. The TWV controls the weighting of the outputs from the taps off the delay line. The weighted outputs from each tapped delay line are subtracted from a received signal which potentially includes interference from the potential interfering signals. The TWC is multiplexed to each of the plurality of adaptive filters so that each adaptive filter is loaded with a TWV calculated by the TWC to reduce the amount of interference contributed by a particular potential interfering signal coupled to an input to that particular adaptive filter.
US08615056B2
A differential phase shift keying demodulator having an input structured to receive current data representing a current phasor and past data representing at least two past phasors, and a phase differentiator structured to process the current data and reference data representing a reference phasor to provide resulting data representing a phase difference between said current and reference phasors. The differential phase shift keying demodulator also includes a reference phasor computational module configured to generate said reference data basing on said past data representing the at least two past phasors.
US08615053B2
Techniques for performing mode and rate control for a MIMO transmission are described. For mode selection, the use of an eigensteering mode is permitted if a first set of at least one criterion is satisfied. The eigensteering mode is selected for data transmission if a second set of at least one criterion is satisfied, and an unsteered mode is selected otherwise. For rate selection, SNR estimates are derived for data streams to potentially transmit, e.g., based on channel estimates and/or data symbol estimates. The number of data streams to transmit as well as at least one rate for at least one data stream to transmit are selected based on the SNR estimates and at least one backoff factor. The backoff factor(s) are adjusted based on status of received packets. The at least one rate may be adjusted based on the age of rate information. Other aspects, features, and embodiments are also claimed and described.
US08615045B2
A method and an apparatus for playout scheduling in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system are provided. The method includes acquiring Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) samples by decoding a received packet; setting a first scale ratio according to a length of PCM samples stored in a playout buffer based on a preset scale ratio table; setting a second scale ratio by predicting a packet delay; setting a final scale ratio using the first scale ratio and the second scale ratio; and adjusting the length of the acquired PCM samples at the final scale ratio.
US08615040B2
A technique for suppressing a significant variation of a quantization step value and enabling a stable rate control to be performed. A function is used for calculating a quantization step conversion factor from a bit rate ratio is a straight line with an inclination of −1, intersecting a function at a reference point. The function is a monotone decreasing exponential function. A reference bit rate ratio (R0) is expressed as R0=T/S by using a total bit rate (S) of a first stream and a total target bit rate (T) of a second stream. The function appropriately represents a relation between the bit rate ratio and the quantization step conversion factor in coding conversion but has a large rate of variation in an area where the bit rate ratio is about 0.5. The function has a small rate of variation and can suppress a significant variation of the quantization step conversion value.
US08615039B2
Video encoding computations are optimized by dynamically adjusting slice patterns of video frames based on complexity of each frame and allocating multi-core threading based on the slices. The complexity may be based on predefined parameters such as color, motion, and comparable ones for each slice. Allocation is determined based on capacity and queue of each processing core such that overall computation performance for video encoding is improved.
US08615030B2
Systems and methods for multi-user detection are provided. In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to process a plurality of received chips into a plurality of received symbols for a plurality of users. The apparatus further comprises a computation unit configured to compute a multi-user matrix relating a plurality of user symbols for the plurality of users to the plurality of received symbols and a detection unit configured to detect the plurality of user symbols for the plurality of users using the computed multi-user matrix and the plurality of received symbols.
US08615026B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor optical device including a semiconductor layer includes: forming a semiconductor layer; forming a first dielectric film on a first region of a surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a second dielectric film on a second region of the surface of the semiconductor layer, the second dielectric film having a density higher than that of the first dielectric film; and performing a thermal treatment in a predetermined temperature range after the second dielectric film forming, wherein within the temperature range, as the temperature is lowered, a difference increases between a bandgap in the semiconductor layer below the second dielectric film and a bandgap in the semiconductor layer below the first dielectric film due to the thermal treatment.
US08615021B2
Provided is a method and apparatus to multiplex bitstreams that are coded to have different frame lengths using asynchronous time alignment, in which, based on the length of each frame of a bitstream selected as a reference bitstream from among bitstreams coded to have different frame lengths by a plurality of coders, the remaining bitstreams except for the reference bitstream are divided and multiplexed.
US08615015B1
An apparatus includes a memory configured to store multiple route descriptors as a tree, a communications interface configured to be in communication with an access switch, and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and the communications interface. Each route descriptor is a node within the tree, and includes a next hop destination associated with a next hop destination of a route associated with that route descriptor and a next hop indicator associated with a quantity of routes represented by that route descriptor. A first route descriptor has a first child route descriptor and a second child route descriptor. The processor is configured to define, at a first time, a value of the next hop destination of the first route descriptor and to send, at a second time after the first time, the value of the next hop destination of the first route descriptor to the access switch.
US08615014B2
Techniques are provided for establishment of multiple concurrent virtual networks. In one example, there is provided a method operable by a virtual network controller (VNC) or the like. The method may involve establishing communication links with a plurality of virtual network interfaces (VNIs) operatively coupled to a plurality of virtual networks. The method may involve establishing a single port communication link with an operating system. The method may involve allowing the virtual networks to be transported on top of a physical network, and facilitating communication between the operating system and the virtual networks via the single port communication link.
US08615003B1
Method and apparatus for handling timeouts in a packet-switched communication network is described. In one example, at least one timeout condition of a network element is identifies in the packet-switched communication network. Packet delay is determined in a transport network of the packet-switched communication network in response to the at least one timeout condition. The packet delay is compared to a threshold packet delay. A timeout parameter of the network element is automatically adjusted if the packet delay satisfies the threshold packet delay.
US08615002B2
A method and apparatus for radio link synchronization and power control in CELL_FACH state and idle mode are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) transmits a random access channel (RACH) preamble and receives an acquisition indicator acknowledging the RACH preamble via an acquisition indicator channel (AICH) and an index to an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) resource. The WTRU determines a start of an E-DCH frame. An F-DPCH timing offset is defined with respect to one of the RACH access slot and an AICH access slot carrying the acquisition indicator. A relative F-DPCH timing offset may be signaled to the WTRU and the WTRU may determine a start of an E-DCH frame based on the relative F-DPCH timing offset and timing of an AICH access slot including the acquisition indicator. The WTRU may transmit a dedicated physical control channel (DPCCH) power control preamble before starting an E-DCH transmission.
US08614998B2
An integrated Land Mobile Radio (LMR) system enables communication between a trunking LMR system and a conventional LMR system. The trunking LMR system includes a trunking site controller including a first network gateway router. The trunking LMR system includes at least one trunking control channel and a plurality of trunking traffic channel. The trunking traffic channels each are assigned to a specific trunking LMR subscriber by the trunking site controller to enable the trunking LMR subscribers to communicate with one another. The conventional LMR system includes a conventional site controller including a second network gateway router connected to the first network gateway router by a data network. The conventional LMR system includes a plurality of conventional traffic channels. The conventional traffic channels are each assigned to a specific conventional LMR subscriber by the conventional site controller to enable the conventional LMR subscribers to communicate.
US08614997B1
A mobile ad hoc wireless network which utilizes Doppler data when deciding with which neighboring node to communicate. Using age of the Doppler data as well as the sign and the magnitude of the relative movement between nodes to make routing determinations.
US08614995B2
A method for communication transmission includes the steps of: performing sub-frame transmission in accordance with a first communication standard and pausing sub-frame transmission in accordance with a second communication standard in a first communication period; performing a sub-frame uplink operation in accordance with the second communication standard and pausing a sub-frame uplink operation in accordance with the first communication standard in a second communication period; and performing a sub-frame downlink operation in accordance with the second communication standard and pausing a sub-frame downlink operation in accordance with the first communication standard in a third communication period. The transmission band of the first communication standard overlaps, at least partially, the transmission band of the second communication standard.
US08614990B1
What is disclosed is a method of coordinating a handoff of a wireless communication device from a first access node to a second access node. The method includes monitoring a signal strength level at the wireless communication device for wireless communications transferred from each of the first access node and the second access node. The method also includes determining a loading factor of the first access node, a loading factor of the second access node, a mobility factor of the wireless communication device, and an application type of user communications between the wireless communication device and the first access node, and processing the loading factor of the first access node, the loading factor of the second access node, the mobility factor, and the application type to determine a handoff threshold. The method also includes coordinating the handoff of the wireless communication device from the first access node to the second access node based on the handoff threshold, wherein the handoff is initiated when a difference between the signal strength levels reaches the handoff threshold.
US08614987B2
A mobile communication method includes the steps of: transmitting, from a first radio base station (S-eNB) to the mobile station (UE) communicating via a first cell under control of the first radio base station (S-eNB), a handover command instructing to perform handover to a second cell under control of a second radio base station (T-eNB); performing, at the mobile station (UE), handover from the first cell to the second cell in response to the handover command; acquiring, at the mobile station (UE), a global cell ID, which can uniquely identify the second cell in at least one mobile communication system, from the handover command; and notifying, from the mobile station (UE) to the location information management server, the acquired global cell ID which can uniquely identify the second cell.
US08614981B2
Techniques for reporting channel information are described. In one aspect, a plurality of channel information reporting modes are available to a user equipment (UE) for reporting channel information for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) data transmission. The UE may determine a first channel information reporting mode to use, determine first channel information related to at least one cell in a CoMP measurement set of the UE, and send the first channel information in accordance with the first channel information reporting mode to one or more cells in the CoMP measurement set. The UE may also determine a second channel information reporting mode to use, determine second channel information related to multiple cells in the CoMP measurement set, and send the second channel information in accordance with the second channel information reporting mode. A plurality of channel feedback configurations may be supported, including a single-stage, a two-stage, and/or a one-shot channel configurations.
US08614977B2
A wireless communication signal in Long Term Evolution (LTE) may be interleaved in a manner which permits a partitioning of a received inter-column bit-reversed interleaved code block for improved de-interleaving. The code block may be divided into equal subportions which may be simultaneously de-interleaved both forward and backward, and in parallel with other subportions. An even number of subportions may be provided. Dividing a received code block in this manner may improve de-interleaving performance.
US08614973B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing wireless service using multiple protocols on a single radio-frequency (RF) carrier. According to an embodiment, a low-cost Internet base station (LCIB) provides wireless service on an RF carrier using a first wireless-communication protocol and provides wireless service on the RF carrier using a second wireless-communication protocol, where providing wireless service on the RF carrier using the first wireless-communication protocol and providing wireless service on the RF carrier using the second wireless-communication protocol occur at different times. The LCIB may alternate between providing wireless service using the first wireless-communication protocol and providing wireless service using the second wireless-communication protocol.
US08614967B2
After a delivery tree is reorganized by a local processing, all terminal devices can recognize, in a short time, a delivery route as changed. In a local one of the terminal devices, if the local terminal device is a source node and further if the load of the CPU in any one of nodes exceeds a threshold value or the available band of the circuit line between nodes exceeds a threshold value, then a delivery tree organizing unit (462) determines nodes that receive a packet via such nodes and reselects a delivery route of the determined nodes. A packet structure modifying unit (464), if the local terminal device is the source node, modifies the header of a packet in accordance with delivery route information stored in a delivery route database (412). The packet structure modifying unit (464) then instructs, in accordance with the description of the header, a packet replicating unit (426) on a number of packet replicas and on the transmission destination of the packets.
US08614966B1
A wireless communication device wirelessly initiates data calls to access data channels in a wireless network. The wireless communication device wirelessly transfers data requests indicating a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators, and in response, wirelessly receives user data over the data channels. The wireless communication device determines performance data on a per-URL basis indicating if the data requests utilize existing data channels to receive the user data or if the data requests initiate new data calls to obtain new data channels to receive the user data. The wireless communication device processes the performance data to determine data call efficiency metrics on a per-URL basis.
US08614956B2
The position of wireless repeaters within a wireless communication network can affect the throughput and performance of the wireless communication network. A wireless repeater and/or an access point associated with the wireless communication network can be configured to determine the optimal position of the wireless repeater based on throughput achieved on communication links between the access point, the repeater, and/or the client stations. The throughput achieved on communication links between the access point, the repeater, and/or the client stations can be determined by exchanging training packets, receiving acknowledgement messages in response to the training packets, and subsequently analyzing the received acknowledgement messages. Furthermore, the throughput achieved on communication links between the access point, the repeater, and/or the client stations can also be analyzed to determine whether each of the client stations should associate with the access point or the wireless repeater.
US08614954B2
A method is implemented in a network that comprises a plurality of ports and an indicator associated with each port. The method comprises forming a frame. The frame passes through the network. The frame causes indicators of multiple ports to illuminate to provide an indication of a path through the network Each of the ports remain illuminated for at least a period of time after the frame passes through each such port to enable a person to concurrently visualize all of the ports comprising the path.
US08614953B2
A method for monitoring and reporting events by media gateways, including: presetting events in the media gateways; the media gateways monitoring the preset events and reporting the monitoring result to a media gateway controller during operation. The events may include: off-hook, on-hook, dialing, hook flash, network fault, quality alarm, and timer timeout, etc. By presetting events in the media gateways, the problem of system resulted from the fact that the media gateways can not obtain events issued from the media gateway controller due to various reasons can be avoided through presetting events in the media gateway and then monitoring and reporting the events by the media gateway automatically after the media gateways are started up. Thereby, system stability can be improved.
US08614951B2
In one aspect the invention provides a method for allocating bandwidth in a network appliance where the network appliance includes a plurality of guaranteed bandwidth buckets used to evaluate when to pass traffic through the network appliance. The method includes providing a shared bandwidth bucket associated with a plurality of the guaranteed bandwidth buckets, allocating bandwidth to the shared bandwidth bucket based on the underutilization of bandwidth in the plurality of guaranteed bandwidth buckets and sharing excess bandwidth developed from the underutilization of the guaranteed bandwidth allocated to the individual guaranteed bandwidth buckets. The step of sharing includes borrowing bandwidth from the shared bandwidth bucket by a respective guaranteed bandwidth bucket to allow traffic to pass immediately through the network appliance.
US08614940B1
Under one aspect of the present invention, a system for processing a group of signals and interference includes (a) an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter for digitizing the group of signals and the interference; (b) a Fourier transform circuit for obtaining a Fourier transform of the digitized group of signals and the interference and to provide as output spectral bins, at least one of which contains the interference; (c) a power analysis circuit for comparing the collective power level of the spectral bins to a predetermined threshold, and if the collective power level exceeds the predetermined threshold, and for excising at least one bin that contains the interference; and (d) an inverse Fourier transform circuit for obtaining an inverse Fourier transform of the remaining spectral bins and outputting a digitized group of signals less the interference in any excised spectral bin.
US08614939B2
A method and apparatus for crosstalk channel estimation based on a measured signal-to-noise (SNR) of a loaded line. The method for channel estimation includes: loading, on a newly added line K, a combination of K−1 signals sent on lines 1 to K−1; obtaining a measured SNR of the line K loaded with the combination of the K−1 signals sent on the lines 1 to K−1; and calculating crosstalk channels of the line K according to K−1 coefficients of the K−1 signals sent on the lines 1 to K−1 and the measured SNR. Embodiments of the present invention may be used for relevant network communications systems such as xDSL systems.
US08614936B2
According to one embodiment, a pickup head includes a plurality of light sources, a first objective lens, second objective lens, a driving unit, a first control unit, a second control unit, light receiving units. The first objective lens focuses a first light beam at a first recording layer. The second objective lens focuses a second light beam at a second recording layer. The driving unit moves the first objective lens and the second objective lens in a first direction and a second direction. The first control unit corrects displacement from target track along the first direction. The second control unit controls a moving direction of a position of the second light spot in the second direction.
US08614935B2
Disclosed herein are aspects of optical tape technology, tape manufacturing, and tape usage. Methods and systems of tape technology disclose optical tape media including: configurations, formulations, markings, and structure; optical tape manufacturing methods, systems, and apparatus methods and systems including: curing processes, coating methods, embossing, drums, testing, tracking alignment stamper strip; optical tape methods and systems including: pick up head adapted for the disclosed optical tape; and optical tape uses including optical storage media devices for multimedia applications.
US08614933B2
An optical laser-activated TAMR (Thermal Assisted Magnetic Recording) slider, when normally mounted on a flexure, has an optical laser as well as other elements of its optical system exposed and subject to damage by mechanical shocks. The stand-off protective device disclosed herein, formed separately and attached to the flexure, or formed as part of the flexure itself, can protect the optical elements of such a slider from these shocks, particularly from inadvertent contacts with adjacent sliders or mechanical limiters.
US08614932B1
A plasmon generator has a near-field light generating part located between an end face of a main pole located in a medium facing surface and an end face of a shield located in the medium facing surface. A waveguide has a core having a front end face facing toward the medium facing surface. The front end face has first and second end portions located at opposite ends in the direction of travel of a recording medium. The first end portion is located closer to the near-field light generating part than is the second end portion. Either a main pole or a shield overlaps only a region of the front end face of the core when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the medium facing surface, the region extending from a midpoint position between the first and second end portions to the first end portion.
US08614927B2
This description relates to a circuit including a bit line. The circuit further includes at least one memory bank. The at least one memory bank includes at least one memory cell, a first device configured to provide a current path between the bit line and the at least one memory cell when the at least one memory cell is activated, and a second device configured to reduce current leakage between the bit line and the at least one memory cell when the at least one memory cell is deactivated. The circuit further includes a tracking device configured to receive a mirror current substantially equal to a current along the current path, the tracking device configured to have a resistance substantially equal to a cumulative resistance of all memory cells of the at least one memory cell.
US08614919B2
A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed.
US08614918B2
Embodiments of apparatus and methods having a memory device can include a line to exchange information with a string of memory cells and a transistor coupled between the string of memory cells and the line. Such a memory device can also include a module configured to couple a gate of the transistor to a node during a first time interval of a memory operation and decouple the gate from the node during a second time interval of the memory operation. Additional apparatus and methods are described.
US08614907B2
A controller, includes a plurality of external terminals configured to supply a command and an address to a semiconductor memory device, communicate a data with the semiconductor memory device, and communicate a strobe signal related to the data, at least one external terminal among the plurality of external terminals being configured to be capable of supplying an information specifying a length of a preamble of the strobe signal before the semiconductor memory device communicates the data.
US08614903B2
Power generated by a solar battery of thin-film type is stepped up to a predetermined DC voltage by a step-up chopper circuit, and the predetermined DC voltage is converted into three-phase AC power by an inverter circuit, and the three-phase AC power is supplied to an AC power supply system via an output DC voltage circuit. The solar battery is not grounded, and a negative electrode thereof has a floating capacitance between the negative electrode and the ground. The AC power supply system is configured by three-phase star-connection, and the neutral point is grounded. The output DC voltage circuit includes three batteries, and the batteries are provided, for the respective phases, between the AC power supply system and a sine wave filter connected to the AC output side of the inverter circuit. Therefore, it is possible to prevent acceleration of the deterioration of the solar battery.
US08614901B2
An inverter with galvanic separation including a resonant converter and an upstream mounted boost chopper is intended to provide galvanic separation in the context of a variable input and output voltage as it exists in photovoltaic systems, with the efficiency being intended to be optimized over the entire input voltage range. This is achieved in that a boost chopper or a buck chopper is mounted upstream of the resonant converter.
US08614898B2
A printed wiring board includes an insulating resinous substrate having an aperture unit, a first terminal unit and a second terminal unit consisting of a conductor and formed on top of the resinous substrate, and a fuse unit that electrically couples the first terminal unit and the second terminal unit to each other. At least a part of the fuse unit is disposed over the aperture unit, and in addition, is covered by a porous inorganic covering material having insulating properties.
US08614896B2
An unlocking apparatus for printed circuit board, configured for detaching a circuit board, includes a clipping structure secured to the circuit board, two unlocking structures and a chassis. The chassis includes bracket for mounted the circuit board. Each of the two unlocking structures includes a dragging member, a rotating member, a sliding member and a supporting member. The pulling rod is slidably installed on the chassis. One end of the rotating member is rotatably secured to the dragging member, the other end is rotatably secured to the supporting member. The supporting member is mounted to the chassis. The dragging member is moved to drive the sliding member to slide on the supporting member along a second direction which is substantially perpendicular to the bracket, and the clipping structure is slid along with the supporting member to drive the printed circuit board to slide along the second direction.
US08614895B2
An electronic device includes a housing and a mounting apparatus. The mounting apparatus is received in the housing. The mounting apparatus includes a casing and an operating assembly. The casing includes a front wall defining a slot. The operating assembly is received in the casing, and includes a handle, an elastic member, and an operating plate. The handle is pivotably connected to the casing. A portion of the handle can extend out of the casing through the slot by rotating the handle. The elastic member provides an elastic force to rotate the handle to make the portion of the handle extend out of the casing. The operating plate is slidably connected to the front wall, and can cover the slot to limit the portion of the handle from extending out of the casing and uncover the slot to allow the portion of the handle from extending out of the casing.
US08614893B2
An information processing apparatus allows an operator to extract temperature adjustment electrical components accommodated in two holders through a single extraction port when changing the temperature adjustment electrical components. A second holder shares a transfer pathway between an accommodation position of a first holder and an opening portion of a chassis. When the second holder moves in the direction of the opening portion, the first holder is accordingly pushed and moved. Next, the first holder is fixed to a rotating member and is moved to a position above the chassis. After the second holder is discharged to the outside of the chassis, the first holder is returned to the original position.
US08614890B2
A chassis extension module includes an extension housing structure and a support structure. The extension housing structure is to be attached to a housing structure of another module. Attachment of the extension housing structure to the housing structure of the other module expands an inner volume of an assembly.
US08614885B2
An apparatus is disclosed that is adapted to reside in a bay of an electronic device having an interface adapted to engage a suitable structure. In an embodiment, the apparatus lacks the suitable connector to engage the device bay interface. Alternatively, the apparatus is adapted to reside in the bay of the electronic device and is configured to couple to only a portion of an electrical interface in the device bay such that the apparatus is charged when it resides in the device bay. In an additional embodiment, a game controller comprises first and second portions comprising respective interfaces and a hinge configured to enable the portions to move with respect to one another.
US08614881B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a mobile terminal having a side key situated at a lateral side of a bezel made of metal. The present invention is to provide a mobile terminal including a side key provided as an input means of which durability against external shock, waterproof capability and maintenance and repair facilitation are enhanced.
US08614879B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor according to an aspect of the present invention includes an anode conductor including a porous valve metal body, a dielectric layer formed on a surface of the anode conductor, and a solid electrolyte layer including a conductive polymer layer formed on a surface of the dielectric layer, in which the solid electrolyte layer includes a first solid electrolyte layer formed on a surface of the dielectric layer, and a second solid electrolyte layer formed on a surface of the first solid electrolyte layer, and at least one continuous or discontinuous layer containing an amine compound exists between the first and second solid electrolyte layers, and inside the second solid electrolyte layer.
US08614878B2
An electrode material is created by forming a thin coating or small deposits of metal oxide as an intercalation host on a carbon powder. The carbon powder performs a role in the synthesis of the oxide coating, in providing a three-dimensional, electronically conductive substrate supporting the metal oxide, and as an energy storage contribution material through ion adsorption or intercalation. The metal oxide includes one or more metal oxides. The electrode material, a process for producing said electrode material, an electrochemical capacitor and an electrochemical secondary (rechargeable) battery using said electrode material is disclosed.
US08614874B2
A transistor active bridge circuit (100) including first and second field-effect transistors (102, 104) of a first channel type, and third and fourth field-effect transistors (106, 108) of a second channel type that is different from the first channel type. The transistor active bridge circuit also includes a plurality of gate drive circuits for the field-effect transistors. A set of voltage dividers (110/112, 114/116, 118/120, 122/124) and/or voltage clamping devices (126, 128, 130, 132) permit the circuit (100) to efficiently operate over a wider range of input voltages, without potential damage to the gate drive circuits.
US08614871B2
A battery system is disclosed which includes: first and second battery blocks connected in parallel, each including a plurality of batteries connected in series; a battery state detector detecting voltages of the batteries in either of the second battery blocks. The number of the batteries in the second battery block is smaller than that of the first battery block. The battery state detector is installed integral with the second battery block.
US08614867B2
A power supply is disclosed for an electronic tripping unit and, in particular a circuit breaker for low voltages, which is connected on the outgoer side to a load via whose load resistance a direct current or alternating current flows. An electronic tripping unit initiates the disconnection of the associated contact elements in the event of an overcurrent and/or short-circuit current, and a voltage tap taps off a voltage on the conductor in order to supply power to the tripping unit. In order to ensure that power is always supplied to the tripping unit, the power supply includes, in at least one embodiment, an inductance between the load and the voltage tap, which inductance is connected in the conductor and is of such a magnitude that, when the current changes over time during the course of a short circuit, the voltage which is tapped off as the voltage drop across the inductance ensures the supply of electrical power to the tripping unit at least for a minimum time.
US08614863B2
A row bar with smart sensor for forming sliders, which comprises a row of slider forming portions, each slider forming portion comprising a slider to be cut from the row bar and a medial region adjacent the slider; each slider comprises a slider body and a magnetic writer disposed in the slider body, with the magnetic writer having a main pole which includes a pole face for being lapped, and all the main poles are arranged in a row; the row bar has at least one smart sensor disposed therein, with the smart sensor having at least three dummy poles, whose structure is identical to that of said main pole, arranged in the row of the main poles, there is a space between every two adjacent dummy poles of said smart sensor, and there is a offset in the direction vertical with the pole face between every two adjacent dummy poles of said smart sensor. The invention also discloses a method of manufacturing the slider.
US08614857B2
A lens barrel is a lens barrel that can be mounted to a camera body, including a lens element, a lens support frame, an actuator, and an electrical contact. The lens support frame supports the lens element. The actuator is arranged to drive the lens support frame in an optical direction of the lens element, and includes a drive shaft and a detector configured to detect rotation of the drive shaft. The electrical contact is disposed on the opposite side from the actuator with respect to the lens element when viewed in the optical axis direction parallel to the optical axis of the lens element, and is configured to be electrically connected with the camera body.
US08614855B2
A zoom lens comprising sequentially from an object side a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having a negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power and formed by a cemented lens alone that includes a negative lens and a positive lens. The zoom lens zooms from a wide angle edge to a telephoto edge by moving the second lens group along an optical axis, from the object side toward the image plane side. The zoom lens performs focusing and corrects image plane variation accompanying zoom by moving the fourth lens group along the optical axis, and corrects image blur caused by minute vibrations by moving the entire fifth lens group in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis.
US08614850B2
An embodiment of the invention comprises determining a gain tilt based on power measurements from a power measurement block, determining a noise figure penalty based on the gain tilt, determining a gain tilt compensation to compensate for the gain tilt taking into account the noise figure penalty, and communicating the gain tilt compensation to an amplifier block to apply the gain tilt compensation to subsequently received wavelengths.
US08614835B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit that acquires image data, an additional-data generating unit that generates additional data, a first-code-image generating unit that generates first-code image data, a first-superimposed-image producing unit that combines the first-code image data with the image data, thereby producing first-superimposed image data, a detecting-data generating unit that generates data for use in detecting modification made to the first-superimposed image data, a second-code-image generating unit that generates second-code image data, and a second-superimposed-image producing unit that produces second-superimposed image data by clipping a portion of the second-code image data, the portion corresponding to an image area of the first-superimposed image data where the first-code image data is provided, and combining the first-superimposed image data with the second-code image data from which the portion has been clipped.
US08614833B2
A printer driver for holding the setting of various parameters for a printer and effecting conversion of print data from an application, the printer driver includes: a specific character string detecting unit which detects from the print data a specific character string designated by a user; a code converting unit which converts the specific character string detected by the specific character string detecting unit to a code; and a code imparting unit which imparts the code converted by the code converting unit to the print data.
US08614831B2
An actuator includes a movable portion which can swing around a swing axis, a connecting portion which extends from the movable portion, and a support portion which supports the connecting portion, wherein the movable portion is formed in a cross shape which includes a pair of first protrusions protruding along a direction perpendicular to the swing axis and a pair of second protrusions protruding along a direction parallel to the swing axis, and when a length of the movable portion in the direction perpendicular to the swing axis is A, a length of the movable portion in the direction parallel to the swing axis is B, a length of the first protrusion in the direction perpendicular to the swing axis is a, and a length of the second protrusion in the direction parallel to the swing axis is b, the following equations (A) and (B) are satisfied. 0.8 × { 1 2 ( A - 1 3 A 2 + 1 B 2 ) } ≤ a ≤ 20 × { 1 2 ( A - 1 1 3 A 2 + 1 B 2 ) } ( A ) 0.8 × { 1 2 ( B - 1 1 3 A 2 + 1 B 2 ) } ≤ b ≤ 2.0 × { 1 2 ( B - 1 3 A 2 + 1 B 2 ) } ( B )
US08614829B2
An ink jet printing apparatus which inhibits possible bleeding by thinning color data adjacent to black data and enables printing free from image quality degradation such as gradation skip is provided. Specifically, when only one pixel has color data and pixels located vertically and horizontally adjacent to that pixel have no color data, an isolated point pixel containing a color dot is detected only in that pixel. Then, the dots other than the isolated point are thinned-out. This makes it possible to inhibit possible bleeding at the boundary between a color area and a black area and to achieve proper printing with the appropriate gradation of the entire image maintained.
US08614826B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for correcting systematic errors in positional data of electronic devices configured to navigate across a surface. An apparatus configured to correct positional errors may comprise one or more navigation sensors, and a position module configured to control the one or more navigation sensors to capture a plurality of navigational measurements and adjust the navigational measurements by one or more scaling factors to determine a translation path of the apparatus over a medium. The one or more scaling factors may be constructed by capturing a plurality of navigational measurements to determine a detected translation path of an apparatus, comparing an actual translation path of the apparatus to the detected translation path of the apparatus, and generating the one or more scaling factors based at least in part on a difference between the actual translation path and the detected translation path. Other embodiments also are described.
US08614824B2
A printing control apparatus determines a size of a recording medium based on an instruction to print an image of a predetermined size in the recording medium. A control unit causes application software to generate data to be printed having a size corresponding to the number of pages and the size of one page according to the instruction, causes a printer driver to generate print data based on the generated data to be printed corresponding to the size of the recording medium and the number of pages by registering the determined size of the recording medium in the printer driver and by designating processing for generating the print data of a size corresponding the size of the recording medium according to the instruction, and causes the printer driver to execute processing for printing the image of the number of pages on the recording medium of the size.
US08614819B2
A screen controlling program representing a sequence of instructions including outputting an acquisition request of a contents type, included in one or plural bibliographic information pieces which are defined in a storage destination of image data indicated by a storage information piece, to a document controlling server if the storage information is received from an image forming apparatus; generating, if the one or plural contents types are received from the document controlling server, selection screen data for selecting the received contents types; sending the generated selection screen data to the image forming apparatus; generating setup screen data for setting one or plural bibliographic information pieces included in the selected contents type if the selected contents type is received from the image forming apparatus; and sending the generated setup screen data to the image forming apparatus.
US08614815B2
The present invention is to provide an image forming device, an image forming system, and an image forming method that provide greater convenience for users and minimize the capacity of print data to be stored in a server. The image forming device notifies a document information management server of “a deletion permitting instruction” of a document only when two conditions, i.e., “a record that a print job has been successfully completed” and “log out of a user”, are acquired. After inputting a print job into the image forming device, a print server notifies the document information management server of “information that a print job has been input to a printer”. The document information management server has a unit that performs a document deleting process only when two pieces of information, i.e., “the deletion permitting instruction” and “the information that a print job has been input to the printer”, are acquired.
US08614811B2
An image processing apparatus capable of being remotely controlled by an information processing apparatus via a network includes a request transmission unit configured to transmit a remote control request to the information processing apparatus via the network, a detection unit configured to receive changing information for changing a setting value for the image processing apparatus from the information processing apparatus via the network and detect a content of the change of the setting value based on the changing information, and a display unit configured to display a message for prompting an operator of the image processing apparatus to determine whether to permit changing of the setting value according to the content of the change of the setting value detected by the detection unit.
US08614810B2
A scanner includes: an image data input unit to which an image data from a generating source is inputted; a generating source identification unit configured to identify the generating source of the image data inputted to the image data input unit; a selection unit configured to select an image forming apparatus to which the inputted image data is to be outputted from among a plurality of image forming apparatuses serving as output destinations to which the image data is capable of being outputted on the basis of the generating source identified by the generating source identification unit; and a converted data output unit configured to convert the image data inputted to the image data input unit into data having contents suitable for an output condition for an image of the image forming apparatus selected by the selection unit and to output the converted image data to the image forming apparatus selected by the selection unit.
US08614806B2
Haptic security features, which are generally not visually perceptible or reproducible, are applied on a surface of a substrate according to a predetermined scheme. The haptic security features are complemented by visual features that bear a relationship to the haptic security features, and/or otherwise to features of an underlying image that is already printed on the substrate. One or more colored ink layers that includes characters or other features that bear a relationship to the haptic security features is embedded into the haptic security features on the surface of the substrate to form a composite security feature that has visual information as well as haptic response. Haptic security features are based on redundantly encoding features that are pre-printed on the substrate in a preliminary step of forming a visual image on the substrate by overprinting portions of the underlying pre-printed image related to the haptic security features.
US08614796B2
A method is disclosed for measuring a profile of a reflecting face of an end (2) of a pipe section. An electrical field is generated between the face and suspended particles (19) in the ambient air of the face. The particles (19) are attracted to the face by the electrical field and matt-finishing the face. The face is then sensed with a laser beam (16) and scattered light (17) is reflected by the face and measured by a sensor (11), thereby determining a face profile.
US08614776B2
A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a blocking layer disposed on the first substrate adjacent to an outer edge of the first substrate. The second substrate includes first and second areas. The first area faces the first substrate. The outer edge of the first substrate is aligned with a boundary between the first area and the second area of the second substrate.
US08614771B2
An image display device includes a display panel, a first substrate over the display panel, a plurality of first electrodes on the first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes alternately arranged with the plurality of first electrodes, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a replica layer on the second substrate and having a concave pattern of half-cylinder shape, the concave pattern facing the second electrode, and a liquid crystal layer in the concave pattern.
US08614756B2
An apparatus for acquiring an i-bit digital code by a first stage AD conversion and a j-bit digital code by a second stage AD conversion includes a comparing unit which compares a reference signal and an analog signal in the first stage AD conversion; and an amplifying unit for outputting an amplified residual signal acquired by amplifying a difference between the analog signal and an analog signal corresponding to the i-bit digital code. The comparing unit compares the amplified residual signal and the reference signal in the second stage AD conversion.
US08614755B2
A camera 200 comprises an image pickup element 107 which has imaging pixels performing a photoelectric conversion of an object image formed by a light beam emitted from an image pickup optical system and focus detection pixels performing a photoelectric conversion of two images formed by two divided light beams, a focus detector which obtains first and second pairs of image signals having optical base lengths different from each other from the focus detection pixels, a selector which selects one of the first and second pairs of image signals based on at least one correlation amount of the first and second pairs of image signals, and a calculator which calculates a defocus amount based on the selected pair of image signals.
US08614752B2
An image signal resulting from an image-capturing operation performed at a CCD undergoes analog processing at an image processing unit. Image data resulting from the analog processing are first digitized at an A/D conversion circuit and then undergo image processing at a DSP. The image data having undergone the image processing are stored in a frame memory. At a peaking processing circuit, a brightness signal Y stored in a Y signal memory of the frame memory is read out and differentiated at a differentiation circuit. The differentiated signal is amplified at an amplifier circuit and then the amplified signal is added to the original brightness signal Y at an adder circuit. A brightness signal Y′ representing the sum is output to a display LCD. The edges in the image signal are emphasized in the display on the display LCD.
US08614748B2
For increasing a dynamic range, and for signal processing according the gain of an amplifying unit, an imaging apparatus comprises a pixel configured to generate a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion, an amplifying unit amplifying the pixel signal generated by the pixel using a plurality of gains and outputting a plurality of pixel signals corresponding to the plurality of gains, a synthesizing unit selecting one of the plurality of pixel signals output by the amplifying unit in accordance with the size of the pixel signal output by the amplifying unit and outputting a signal based on the selected pixel signal, and a signal processing unit processing the signal output by the synthesizing unit in accordance with the gain of the amplifying unit corresponding to the pixel signal selected by the synthesizing unit.
US08614747B2
A mark which at least reflects or radiates invisible light of predetermined wavelength other than visible light is added in a space of the real world. A camera apparatus comprises image capturing means for capturing a real image in which an invisible-light image may be discriminating. An image processing apparatus, comprises: mark discriminating means for discriminating at least one condition of a position of image of mark in the captured real image, a orientation of the mark, and a distance from the mark to the image capturing means, and overlaying condition determining means for determining, in correspondence with the discriminated condition, a overlaying condition which is at least one of an overlaying position which is a position of the image of the virtual object overlaid on the captured real image in the real image, an orientation of the virtual object which the image of the virtual object indicates, and a distance from a view point of viewer, of the image of the virtual object.
US08614742B2
A pan/tilt apparatus for a camera includes a base, a stage mounted on the base to rotate around a vertical pan axis, an optical apparatus mounted on the stage, a pan actuating mechanism, and a tilt actuating mechanism. The optical apparatus includes a frame that supports a magnetic structure and a mirror such that they are pivotable around a horizontal tilt axis. The mirror receives an image directed along an incident axis, and redirects the image along the pan axis, e.g., to a camera that is disposed on or below the base. The pan actuating mechanism engages and rotates the stage into a desired pan direction. The tilt actuating mechanism modulates (alters) a magnetic field applied to the mirror/magnetic structure by, for example, moving a permanent magnet that is mounted on the base.
US08614738B2
In a stereoscopic image imaging method which captures an image of an object to be displayed as a stereoscopic image, a three-dimensional image is generated in real time from multi-viewpoint images captured by a multi-camera, and is displayed on a viewer provided to the multi-camera, thus allowing a photographer to adjust an imaging condition. The photographer is informed of parameters, which implements a display state adjusted by an observer of a three-dimensional display while observing the three-dimensional image, via the viewer, and the photographer can capture appropriate multi-viewpoint images.
US08614737B2
There is provided a system and method for a three-dimensional video capture workflow for dynamic rendering. There is provided a method of generating three-dimensional video data comprising obtaining two-dimensional video data from a scene having a plurality of objects, identifying objects in the scene, obtaining relative positions of the plurality of objects, encoding the two-dimensional video data to generate encoded two-dimensional video data, generating relative positions metadata based on the relative positions of the plurality of objects, and providing a three-dimensional depth factor metadata for operation on the relative positions metadata. In this manner, existing two-dimensional workflows may be utilized in a cost effective manner, and end users may adjust the three-dimensional depth factor metadata to suit particular rendering environments or personal viewing preferences.
US08614724B2
The disclosure provides in one embodiment a method of fabricating a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) nanoparticle ink based piezoelectric sensor. The method has a step of formulating a lead zirconate titanate (PZT) nanoparticle ink. The method further has a step of depositing the PZT nanoparticle ink onto a substrate via an ink deposition process to form a PZT nanoparticle ink based piezoelectric sensor.
US08614717B2
A device for selecting an image processing function is provided. The device comprises an analog-to-digital converting unit outputting a first image in response to an image signal having a first frequency; a frame buffer unit having a frame buffering function; and an over-driving unit having an over-driving function, wherein the device for selecting the image processing function enables one of the frame buffering function and the over-driving function according to the first frequency.
US08614710B2
The present invention includes a method for deriving a pixel color in a graphic image. e.g. electronic RGB 48 bpp bitmap. Methods of the present invention include mathematical structure analysis of geometric graphic objects. e.g. sphere, lines, plane, points, and characters. This analysis includes using a particular steradian region of space; and two position vectors located in the particular steradian region of space; and comparing the length of the position vectors; and deriving a pixel color from a result of the length comparison. The position vectors point to a point on the geometric graphic object. A vector having a least length has contact with a light source.
US08614709B2
A programmable effects system for graphical user interfaces is disclosed. One embodiment comprises receiving one or more effect elements to apply to an element in a graphical user interface for a device, ordering the effect elements in a pipeline of operations, and storing the pipeline of operations in an effect template. Then, after the graphics hardware capability for a device is determined, the effect template may be used to create a shader that includes supported effects to render an element in the graphical user interface.
US08614704B2
A method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphics data. The method includes analyzing a characteristic of input 3D graphics data, reconstructing a rendering function based on the analyzed characteristic, and rendering the input 3D graphics data using the reconstructed rendering function. The characteristic of 3D graphics data to be rendered is analyzed and a rendering function is reconstructed only using code blocks corresponding to the analyzed characteristic, thereby minimizing the size of the rendering function.
US08614700B2
A voltage level shifter formed by single-typed transistors comprises two input terminals, two power supply terminals, a plurality of thin-film transistors, and an output terminal. Another voltage level shifter formed by single-typed transistors comprises two input terminals, an output terminal, two power supply terminals, two input units, a first thin-film transistor, a disable unit, a feedback unit, and a second thin-film transistor. The voltage level shifters are formed by single-typed TFTs. When integrating the voltage level shifters into a substrate of a TFT display, the manufacturing processes are simplified. Besides, power is saved.
US08614699B2
A problem in that a light emitting element slightly emits light is solved by an off current of a thin film transistor connected in series to the light emitting element, thereby a display device which can perform a clear display by increasing contrast, and a driving method thereof are provided. When the thin film transistor connected in series to the light emitting element is turned off, a charge held in the capacitance of the light emitting element itself is discharged. Even when an off current is generated at the thin film transistor connected in series to the light emitting element, this off current charges this capacitance until the capacitance of the light emitting element itself holds a predetermined voltage again. Accordingly, the off current of the thin film transistor does not contribute to light emission. In this manner, a slight light emission of the light emitting element can be reduced.
US08614698B2
An electrode of a light-emitting device of the OLED type adapted for forming with a second electrode, an optical cavity, including at least one layer based on a material of refraction index n1 including a structured face comprising a plurality of recesses filled with a material of refractive index n2 different from n1.
US08614697B2
A display apparatus includes a timing controller which outputs image data, a data control signal and a first gate control signal, a data driving circuit which receives the image data and converts the image data into data voltages, a control signal converting circuit which delays the first gate control signal by a reference time period to convert the first gate control signal into a second gate control signal based on a reference signal, a gate driving circuit which outputs gate signals based on the second gate control signal, and a display panel which displays an image corresponding to the one line of the data voltages based on the gate signals. Each gate signal rises at a point in time delayed from a starting point of a corresponding horizontal scanning period by the reference time period and falls before an ending point of the corresponding horizontal scanning period.
US08614695B2
In one embodiment, a tracking module (110) to select a plurality of pairs of digital ultrasonic signals to form two or more pairs of digital ultrasonic signals and estimate time difference of arrival (TDOA) for each of the two or more pairs of digital ultrasonic signals. The tracking module (110) may further determine an intersection of each pair of the TDOA estimated digital ultrasonic signals to form one or more intersections and a location of an ultrasonic signal generator (102) corresponding to at least one of the one or more intersections.
US08614687B2
The present invention provides a mutual capacitive multi-touch screen, which includes a guarding pattern and a conductive strip pattern exposed from each other. The conductive strip pattern includes a plurality of first conductive strips provided with a driving signal and a plurality of second conductive strips for providing mutual capacitive coupling signals, and the guarding pattern is provided with a DC signal. The guarding pattern allows that, when a touch range of each external conductive object is larger than a predetermined condition, capacitive coupling between each external conductive object and the guarding pattern or capacitive coupling between each external conductive object and the first conductive strips and the guarding pattern is greater than capacitive coupling between each external conductive object and the second conductive strips.
US08614686B2
The present invention provides a mutual capacitive multi-touch screen, which includes a guarding pattern and a conductive strip pattern exposed from each other. The conductive strip pattern includes a plurality of first conductive strips provided with a driving signal and a plurality of second conductive strips for providing mutual capacitive coupling signals, and the guarding pattern is provided with a DC signal.
US08614684B2
The present invention provides a mutual capacitive multi-touch screen, which includes a guarding pattern and a conductive strip pattern exposed from each other. The conductive strip pattern includes a plurality of first conductive strips provided with a driving signal and a plurality of second conductive strips for providing mutual capacitive coupling signals, and the guarding pattern is provided with a DC signal when driving signal is provided. In addition, when the driving signal is not provided and an approach or a touch of at least one external conductive object is detected, the conductive strip pattern or the guarding pattern is provided with a skin stimulated signal in response to the approach or the touch of the external conductive object.
US08614676B2
A mouse for an electronic device comprises a housing to receive component therein; a display attached on the housing for displaying, wherein the display includes image icon to perform pre-determined function; a user motion detecting device attached on the display for detection the motion of user finger; a controller received in the housing for generating a control signal in responsive to the user motion detection.
US08614663B2
Techniques for detecting and classifying motion of a human subject are generally described. More particularly, techniques are described for detecting and classifying motion as either a broad selection or a precise selection to facilitate interaction with augmented reality (AR) systems. An example may include detecting a motion of human and repeatedly analyzing a step response associated with the motion to determine one or more of a peak time tp, an estimated overshoot magnitude Mp, a damping ratio ζ of the step response and/or one or more polynomial poles of the step response. Such information may be useful in classifying the motion as either a precise selection or as a broad selection.
US08614648B2
An antenna module and methods for manufacturing an antenna module, the antenna module including a magnetic material sheet for focusing a magnetic flux, an antenna conductor deposited on the magnetic material sheet and formed in a predetermined pattern, and a protection layer deposited on the antenna conductor for protecting the antenna conductor.
US08614643B2
A system and method for antenna optimization for wireless broadband communication is provided. Such an enhanced antenna array includes higher-gain antenna and lower-gain antenna. The beamforming antenna, both higher-gain and lower-gain, are designed to be able to transmit to and receive from another transceiver. The higher-gain antenna may be designed to form a more directional beam substantially closer to the horizon; whereas the lower-gain antenna is capable of forming a less directional beam at a distance further from the horizon. In both cases, the antenna may form their respective beams anywhere in the 360 degrees horizontally around the antenna array. The higher-gain antenna may include a coverage area from the horizon to a substantially acute angle from the horizon in the vertical direction. In contrast, the lower-gain antenna may have coverage from the substantially acute angle from the horizon to substantially vertical. The substantially acute angle may be approximately 10 degrees in some cases. In some cases the lower-gain antenna may include four elements. Likewise, in some embodiments, the higher-gain antenna may include four elements as well.
US08614629B2
A dynamic position reporting and/or logging scheme is described herein. Position reporting and/or logging for a mobile device may be dynamically determined based on one or more reporting and/or logging constraints. The constraints may be based on time, distance, events, operating parameters, operating conditions, or some combination thereof. The constraints that dynamically trigger position reporting may be the same as, overlap, or be distinct from the constraints used to trigger position logging. The reporting and logging constraints can be selected to provide a more accurate indication of a track or route traveled by the mobile device.
US08614621B2
Operating a remote control to identify a user by receiving touch pad input from at least one touch sensitive element of the remote control that has a plurality of touch sensitive elements. The touch pad input corresponds to the user's touch of at least some of the plurality of touch sensitive elements. The touch pad input is at least partially processed by processing circuitry of the remote control and transmitted to a multimedia system console via a communications interface of the remote control for processing of the at least partially processed touch pad input to identify the user via pattern recognition. At least partially processing the touch pad input can be by identifying at least one finger orientation, at least one finger spacing, at least one finger width, a plurality of finger knuckle/joint locations, and/or a plurality of finger lengths based upon the touch pad input.
US08614617B2
Provided is a reactor that enables high inductance to be generated with stability in a wide current range, while minimizing noise, processing cost, and eddy-current loss. The reactor (D1) has the ratio (t/W) of the width (W) to the thickness (t) of a conductive member that composes an air-core coil configured to be 1 or less, and preferably, 1/10 or less. Furthermore, the reactor also has the absolute value of a value ((L1−L2)/L3) that has had: the difference (L1−L2) between; the space interval (L1) between an inner wall face of a first core member (3) and an inner wall face of a second core member (4), at the innermost circumference position of the air-core coil (1); and the space (L2) between the inner wall face of the first core member (3) and the inner wall face of the second core member (4), at the outermost circumference position of the air-core coil (1); divided by an average value (L3); configured to be 1/50 or less. The ratio (R/W) of the radius (R), from the axis-center (O) of the air-core coil (1) to the outer circumference of the air-core coil (1), to the width (W) of the air-core coil (1) (conductive member), is 2=R/W=4.
US08614615B2
An energy transfer assembly with tuned leakage inductance and common mode noise compensation is disclosed. An example energy transfer assembly for use in a resonant power converter includes a first winding wound around a bobbin mounted on a magnetic core. The first winding has a first number of layers proximate to a first end along a length of the bobbin and a second number of layers proximate to a second end along the length of the bobbin. The energy transfer assembly also includes a second winding wound around the bobbin. The second winding has a third number of layers proximate to the first end along the length of the bobbin and a fourth number of layers proximate to the second end along the length of the bobbin. The first and second windings are wound around the bobbin such that at least a portion of one of the first and second windings overlaps at least a portion of an other one of the first and second windings around the bobbin. A degree of overlap between the first and second windings is non-uniform between the first and second ends along the length of the bobbin such that a ratio of the first number to the third number does not equal a ratio of the second number to the fourth number.
US08614610B2
A waveguide component encapsulation device may include a housing having first and second surfaces, the housing defining a channel extending through the first and second surfaces, a micromachined waveguide component configured to be positioned in the channel, the waveguide component having first and second ends extending outside the channel and beyond the first and second surfaces of the housing by a finite length, and a pair of spacing members configured to align and stabilize the waveguide component within the channel.
US08614609B2
A resonant filter including a matrix of n×m resonators of N/MEMS type, each resonator including an actuating mechanism and a detection mechanism. An input of the filter, configured to receive an electrical input signal, is electrically connected to the resonator actuating mechanism. The outputs of the resonator detecting mechanism are electrically connected together and to an output of the filter, such that the signal to be obtained as an output of the filter is an image of the sum of the mechanical responses of the resonators. The resonators are not mechanically coupled together.
US08614604B2
A method of sharing inductors for inductive peaking of an amplifier having at least two stages includes calculating a single stage inductance of a single stage of the at least two stages for inductive peaking in order to have a stable impulse response. A shared inductance is calculated for inductive peaking by dividing the single stage inductance by a number of stages of the at least two stages. At least two inductors having the shared inductance are shared among the at least two stages for inductive peaking.
US08614602B2
In an embodiment are provided are a differential amplifier, a method of amplifying a differential input signal, a device including a differential amplifier, and a low voltage differential signaling receiver.
US08614601B2
A power amplifier includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier which include large and small size elements. An RF input signal is amplified by the first and second amplifiers. An output of the first amplifier is connected to an input of a first output matching circuit. An output of the second amplifier is connected to an input of a second output matching circuit. An output of the second output matching circuit is connected to an RF signal output terminal. In a high power state, the RF input signal is amplified by the first amplifier. In a low power state, the RF input signal is amplified by the second amplifier. In amplification with low power and high frequency, reactances of the second output matching circuit are set at predetermined values. In amplification with low power and low frequency, the reactances of the second output matching circuit are set at larger values.
US08614599B1
One embodiment of an integrated circuit includes a local circuit block, a first power supply for supplying power to a first terminal of the local circuit block, a second power supply for supplying power to a second terminal of the local circuit block, a first transmission gate coupled between the second terminal of the local circuit block and a current path from the second power supply, and a second transmission gate coupled between the current path from the second power supply and a gate of a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor in the first transmission gate, the second transmission gate including a single transistor.
US08614596B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods are provided for initializing a voltage bus. An exemplary system includes an input interface, a voltage bus, discharge circuitry coupled to the voltage bus, connection circuitry coupled between the voltage bus and the input interface, and a control module coupled to the connection circuitry and the discharge circuitry. The control module activates the discharge circuitry prior to activating the connection circuitry.
US08614595B2
A low-cost ultra-versatile pulse width modulation (PWM)-timer controller system is disclosed for use in the electric power management industry. Using different voltage/current buffer devices, the present system is capable of performing a variety of control applications, including for example as a pulse width modulation controller, power factor correction circuit, silicon controlled rectifier or thyristor, zero-voltage drive circuit, AC/DC boost converter, battery charger, motor RPM controller, timer or clock, light intensity controller, temperature range controller, pressure controller, sensing/monitoring/warning system, or analog logic circuit.
US08614584B2
A continuity test circuit for a boundary pad includes a pull-up transistor electrically connected between the boundary pad and a first power supply, and a pull-down transistor electrically connected between the boundary pad and a first reference ground potential. A normal output conductor is electrically connected to have a same electrical state as the boundary pad during normal operation. A continuity test output conductor is electrically connected to have a same electrical state as the boundary pad during continuity test operation. Continuity testing control circuitry is defined to control the pull-up transistor, the pull-down transistor, and the normal output conductor during continuity test operation such that an electrical state present on the continuity test output conductor indicates a status of electrical continuity between the boundary pad and either a second power supply or a second reference ground potential to which the boundary pad should be electrically connected.
US08614583B2
A voltage detection circuit used to detect a voltage source includes a Zener diode, a thyristor, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first light-emitting diode (LED), and a second LED. A cathode of the Zener diode is connected to the voltage source. An anode of the Zener diode is connected to a control terminal of the thyristor through a first resistor. An anode of the thyristor is connected to the voltage source through a second resistor. The anode of the thyristor is connected to an anode of the first LED. A cathode of the thyristor is connected to a cathode of the first LED. The cathode of the thyristor is connected to an anode of the second LED, and a cathode of the second LED is grounded.
US08614582B2
A detector system with a portal including a plurality of output ports that direct a plurality of output airstreams in an essentially horizontal direction, and a plurality of intake ports that pull in air. The system also includes at least one concentrator coupled to at least one of the intake ports, and a detector coupled to the concentrator. The horizontally oriented output airstreams and multiple intake ports provide a system that can rapidly screen multiple people for explosives and other substances.
US08614577B2
A method of determining anisotropy in a borehole is disclosed. An array of measurements along the borehole is obtained and a first depth in the borehole is selected. An arbitrary plane oriented with respect to the borehole at the first depth is designated and an anisotropy for the first depth with respect to the arbitrary plane is determined. The arbitrary plane is repositioned at the first depth and an anisotropy for different positions of the arbitrary plane at the first depth is determined. A minimum anisotropy coefficient with respect to the arbitrary plane at the first depth is identified based on anisotropy for different positions of the arbitrary plane. An anisotropy tensor for the first depth is then identified.
US08614575B2
A method for locally creating effectively homogeneous or “clean” magnetic field gradients (of high uniformity) for imaging (with NMR, MRI, or spectroscopic MRI) both in in-situ and ex-situ systems with high degrees of inhomogeneous field strength. The method of imaging comprises: a) providing a functional approximation of an inhomogeneous static magnetic field strength B0({right arrow over (r)}) at a spatial position {right arrow over (r)}; b) providing a temporal functional approximation of {right arrow over (G)}shim(t) with i basis functions and j variables for each basis function, resulting in vij variables; c) providing a measured value Ω, which is an temporally accumulated dephasing due to the inhomogeneities of B0({right arrow over (r)}); and d) minimizing a difference in the local dephasing angle φ({right arrow over (r)},t)=γ∫0t√{square root over (|{right arrow over (B)}1({right arrow over (r)},t′)|2+({right arrow over (r)}·{right arrow over (G)}shimGshim(t′)+∥{right arrow over (B)}0({right arrow over (r)})∥Δω({right arrow over (r)},t′)/γ)2)}dt′−Ω by varying the vij variables to form a set of minimized vij variables. The method requires calibration of the static fields prior to minimization, but may thereafter be implemented without such calibration, may be used in open or closed systems, and potentially portable systems.
US08614569B2
The switched-mode power supply includes a switching cell having an inductive element with two connections and several individually selectable outputs, and in which the two connections of the inductive element are joined respectively to at least two of the individually selectable outputs. It is thus possible to generate and regulate at least two different voltages, one positive and one negative.
US08614563B2
Methods and systems for balancing a state of charge of cell units of a battery pack of a vehicle are provided. Voltage sensors each measure a first value of state of charge of respective cell units at a first time, and a second value of state of charge of the respective cell units at a second time that is subsequent to the first time. A current sensor measures a current of the battery pack. A controller is coupled to the voltage sensors and the current sensor. The controller balances the state of charge around a predetermined calibrated value using the first values of state of charge, the second values of state of charge, and the current.
US08614562B2
A method for charging accumulation means configured by an electric charging device is disclosed. The charging device includes switching arms respectively including a first switch and a second switch. The method involves ordering a predetermined number of first switches to close respectively for an associated closure time, and on each opening of a first switch that was previously closed, another first switch is ordered to close for an associated closure time, so that a constant number of first switches are closed at a same time.
US08614555B2
An actuator control system includes a controller and a buck-boost circuit. The controller is configured to direct power from a power source to an actuator. The actuator is coupled to a control device to apply a force related to operation of a vehicle. The buck-boost circuit is configured to direct excess power generated by the actuator to an energy storage device when an actuator power level satisfies an anticipated power level.
US08614547B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing a light emitting device in which no copy-in is caused in the case of a light emitting device having a glossy cathode. An uneven portion is formed on the surface of a cathode which is in contact with an organic layer in a pixel portion, and incident light is reflected in all directions. An insulating film having a high light absorption property is formed in a driver circuit portion, and the copy-in becomes invisible to the observer.
US08614541B2
A spark plug (20) for igniting a mixture of fuel and air of an internal combustion engine comprises a center electrode (22) and a ground electrode (24). At least one of the electrodes (22, 24) includes a body portion (28, 30) formed of thermally conductive material and a firing tip (32, 34) disposed on the body portion (28, 30). The firing tip (32, 34) includes a ceramic material, providing an exposed firing surface (36, 38). The ceramic material is an electrically conductive, monolithic ceramic material. Examples of preferred ceramic materials include titanium diboride, silicon carbide, ternary carbide, and ternary nitride. The ceramic material can also include oxides, borides, nitrides, carbides, silicides, or MAX phases.
US08614536B2
Provided is a piezoelectric element including: an electrode portion including a piezoelectric layer and an electrode layer that are laminated; and a non-electrode portion that is in contact with the electrode portion and includes a piezoelectric layer without an electrode layer, in which the non-electrode portion includes a region having a density smaller than a density of the piezoelectric layer of the electrode portion.
US08614529B2
A polyphasic multi-coil generator includes a drive shaft, at least first and second rotors rigidly mounted on the drive shaft so as to simultaneously synchronously rotate with rotation of the drive shaft, and at least one stator sandwiched between the first and second rotors. A stator array on the stator has an array of electrically conductive coils mounted to the stator in a first angular orientation about the drive shaft. The rotors each have an array of magnets which are circumferentially equally spaced around the rotor and located at the same radially spacing with respect to the centre of the rotor and the drive shaft at a first angular orientation relative to the drive shaft. The arrays of magnets on adjacent rotors are off-set by an angular offset relative to one another.
US08614521B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for converting the energy of the swell and of waves into useable energy, particularly electrical energy, comprising a float element (2), an oscillating element (3) mounted such that it can move with respect to the float element, the oscillating element (3) being able to be set in relative motion with respect to the float element (2) under the action of the waves on the float element and means (4) for converting the movement of the oscillating element (3) into useable energy, particularly electrical energy, the device (1) also comprising braking means (5) capable selectively of immobilizing or releasing the oscillating element (3) with respect to the float element, clutch means (7) able selectively to couple or to uncouple the conversion means (4) and the oscillating element (3), and control means (8) for controlling the braking means (5) and the clutch means (7) as the swell evolves.
US08614518B2
A vehicle system is provided. The vehicle system includes a vehicle suspension apparatus configured for movement during vehicle travel; an energy harvesting device mounted on the vehicle suspension apparatus and configured to generate electrical energy in response to the movement of the vehicle suspension apparatus; and a sensor mounted on the vehicle suspension apparatus and coupled to the energy harvesting device for receiving the electrical energy.
US08614499B2
A variable resistance memory cell structure and a method of forming it. The method includes forming a first electrode, forming an insulating material over the first electrode, forming a via in the insulating material to expose a surface of the first electrode, forming a heater material within the via using gas cluster ion beams, forming a variable resistance material within the via, and forming a second electrode such that the heater material and variable resistance material are provided between the first and second electrodes.
US08614491B2
A package assembly comprises a package base, a sensor die, an isolation plate, and a package interface plate. The isolation plate is bonded to the sensor die and has a plurality of flexible beams. Each flexible beam is configured to deflect under stress such that effects on the sensor die of a thermal mismatch between the package base and the sensor die are reduced. The package interface plate is bonded to the isolation plate and the package base. The package interface plate is configured to limit the maximum distance each flexible beam is able to deflect.
US08614486B2
A gate dielectric is patterned after formation of a first gate spacer by anisotropic etch of a conformal dielectric layer to minimize overetching into a semiconductor layer. In one embodiment, selective epitaxy is performed to sequentially form raised epitaxial semiconductor portions, a disposable gate spacer, and raised source and drain regions. The disposable gate spacer is removed and ion implantation is performed into exposed portions of the raised epitaxial semiconductor portions to form source and drain extension regions. In another embodiment, ion implantation for source and drain extension formation is performed through the conformal dielectric layer prior to an anisotropic etch that forms the first gate spacer. The presence of the raised epitaxial semiconductor portions or the conformation dielectric layer prevents complete amorphization of the semiconductor material in the source and drain extension regions, thereby enabling regrowth of crystalline source and drain extension regions.
US08614482B2
A improved termination structure for semiconductor power devices is disclosed, comprising a trenched field plate formed not only along trench sidewall but also on trench bottom of the wide termination trench by doing poly-silicon CMP so that body ion implantation is blocked by the trenched field plate on the trench bottom to prevent a body region formation underneath the trench bottom of the wide termination trench, degrading avalanche voltage.
US08614478B2
A method for protecting a semiconductor device against degradation of its electrical characteristics is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor device having a first semiconductor region and a charged dielectric layer which form a dielectric-semiconductor interface. The majority charge carriers of the first semiconductor region are of a first charge type. The charged dielectric layer includes fixed charges of the first charge type. The charge carrier density per area of the fixed charges is configured such that the charged dielectric layer is shielded against entrapment of hot majority charge carriers generated in the first semiconductor region. Further, a semiconductor device which is protected against hot charge carriers and a method for forming a semiconductor device are provided.
US08614476B2
Non-volatile memory devices, and fabricating methods thereof, include a floating gate over a substrate, a lower barrier layer including a first lower barrier layer on the upper surface of the floating gate, and a second lower barrier layer on a side surface of the floating gate to have a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first lower barrier layer, an inter-gate dielectric layer over the lower barrier layer, and a control gate over the inter-gate dielectric layer.
US08614472B1
An integrated circuit metal oxide metal (MOM) variable capacitor includes a first plate; one or more pairs of second plates positioned on both sides of the first plate; one or more pairs of control plates positioned on both sides of the first plate and positioned between the pairs of second plates; and a switch coupled to each control plate and a fixed potential.
US08614469B2
A semiconductor device capable of improving the driving power and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. In a semiconductor device, a gate structure formed by successively stacking a gate oxide film and a silicon layer is arranged over a semiconductor substrate. An oxide film is arranged long the lateral side of the gate structure and another oxide film is arranged along the lateral side of the oxide film and the upper surface of the substrate. In the side wall oxide film comprising these oxide films, the minimum value of the thickness of the first layer along the lateral side of the gate structure is less than the thickness of the second layer along the upper surface of the substrate.
US08614466B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for electrically directly detecting biomolecular binding in a semiconductor. The semiconductor can be based on electrical percolation of nanomaterial formed in the gate region. In one embodiment of an apparatus, a semiconductor includes first and second electrodes with a gate region there between. The gate region includes a multilayered matrix of electrically conductive material with capture molecules for binding target molecules, such as antibody, receptors, DNA, RNA, peptides and aptamer. The molecular interactions between the capture molecules and the target molecules disrupts the matrix's continuity resulting in a change in electrical resistance, capacitance or impedance. The increase in resistance, capacitance or impedance can be directly measured electronically, without the need for optical sensors or labels. The multi-layered matrix can be formed from a plurality of single-walled nanotubes, graphene, or buckeyballs or any kind of conductive nanowire, such as metal nanowires or nanowires made from conductive polymers.
US08614464B2
Disclosed herein are a nitride-based semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same. The nitride-based semiconductor device includes: a base substrate having a front surface and a rear surface opposite to the front surface; an epitaxial growth film formed on the front surface of the base substrate; a semiconductor layer formed on the rear surface of the base substrate; and an electrode structure body provided on the epitaxial growth film.
US08614463B2
A layout configuration for a memory cell array includes at least a comb-like doped region having a first conductivity type and a fishbone-shaped doped region having a second conductivity type. The second conductivity type and the first conductivity type are complementary. Furthermore, the comb-like doped region and the fishbone-shaped doped region are interdigitated.
US08614460B2
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method of the semiconductor device, the semiconductor device including: a substrate; a nitride based compound semiconductor layer placed on the substrate and doped with a first transition metal atom; an aluminum gallium nitride layer (AlxGa1-xN) (where 0.1<=x<=1) placed on the nitride based compound semiconductor layer; a nitride based compound semiconductor layer placed on the aluminum gallium nitride layer (AlxGa1-xN) (where 0.1<=x<=1) and doped with a second transition metal atom; an aluminum gallium nitride layer (AlyGa1-yN) (where 0.1<=y<=1) placed on the nitride based compound semiconductor layer doped with the second transition metal atom; and a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode which are placed on the aluminum gallium nitride layer (AlyGa1-yN) (where 0.1<=y<=1).
US08614456B2
An LED die (3) is arranged with an adhesive (4) on an LED PCB (6). The LED PCB (6) has on the side opposite to the LED die (3) rear side contacts (7). Through this a self-contained LED lamp is formed, which e.g. can be applied by means of SMT to a board (9) or introduced into a lamp socket. In accordance with the invention, the rear side contacts (7) cover at least the half area, preferably the entire area apart from necessary exceptions, of the LED PCB (6). Through this, the heat can be discharged with slight thermal resistance. Preferably a cooling body (11) is arranged on the rear side of the board (9). In this case it is expedient if the board (9) has through-contacts for increasing the thermal conductivity.
US08614455B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a stacked body, first and second electrodes, first and second interconnections, first and second pillars and a first insulating layer. The stacked body includes first and second semiconductor layers and a light emitting layer. The first and second electrodes are connected to the first and second semiconductor layers respectively. The first and second interconnections are connected to the first and second electrode respectively. The first and second pillars are connected to the first and second interconnections respectively. The first insulating layer is provided on the interconnections and the pillars. The first and second pillars have first and second monitor pads exposed in a surface of the first insulating layer. The first and second interconnections have first and second bonding pads exposed in a side face connected with the surface of the first insulating layer.
US08614453B2
The invention relates to a chip-type light emitting device including one or more light emitting semiconductors and one or more frames provided over a top of the one or more light emitting semiconductors.
US08614450B2
The present invention is directed to a vertical-type luminous device and high through-put methods of manufacturing the luminous device. These luminous devices can be utilized in a variety of luminous packages, which can be placed in luminous systems. The luminous devices are designed to maximize light emitting efficiency and/or thermal dissipation. Other improvements include an embedded zener diode to protect against harmful reverse bias voltages.
US08614447B2
Improved semiconductor substrates are provided that employ a wide bandgap material between the channel and the insulator. A semiconductor substrate comprises a channel layer comprised of a III-V material; an insulator layer; and a wide bandgap material between the channel layer and the insulator layer, wherein a conduction band offset (ΔEc) between the channel layer and the wide bandgap material is between 0.05 eV and 0.8 eV. The channel layer can be comprised of, for example, In1-xGaxAs or In1-xGaxSb, with x varying from 0 to 1. The wide bandgap material can be comprised of, for example, In1-yAlyAs, In1-yAlyP, Al1-yGayAs or In1-yGayP, with y varying from 0 to 1.
US08614445B2
Provided is an alkylsilane laminate with which it is possible to obtain an organic semiconductor film having excellent semiconductor properties. Such a laminate can be useful for an organic thin-film transistor. The alkylsilane laminate comprises an underlayer (Sub) having hydroxyl groups at the surface and an alkylsilane thin film (AS) formed on this underlayer. The alkylsilane laminate is a laminate wherein the critical surface energy Ec of the alkylsilane thin film and the number of carbons (X) of the alkylsilane satisfies the following formula (1): Ec≦29.00−0.63x (mN/m) (1) Also provided is a thin-film transistor (10) having such an alkylsilane laminate (Sub, AS).
US08614444B2
A top-gate transistor array substrate includes a transparent substrate with a plane, an ion release layer, a pixel array, and a first insulating layer. The ion release layer is disposed on the transparent substrate and completely covers the plane. The pixel array is disposed on the ion release layer and includes a plurality of transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes. Each of the transistors includes a source, a drain, a gate and a MOS (metal oxide semiconductor) layer. The drain, the source and the MOS layer are disposed on the ion release layer. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the drains respectively. The gate is disposed above the MOS layer. The first insulating layer is disposed between the MOS layers and the gates. The MOS layer contacts the ion release layer. The ion release layer can release a plurality of ions into the MOS layers.
US08614438B2
An organic photoelectric conversion device having: a first electrode; a second electrode opposing to the first electrode; and an organic material-containing photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein an electron spin number of the photoelectric conversion layer is not more than 1.0×1015/cm3.
US08614436B2
A solid state Klystron structure is fabricated by forming a source contact and a drain contact to both ends of a conducting wire and by forming a bias gate and a signal gate on the conducting wire. The conducting wire may be at least one carbon nanotube or at least one semiconductor wire with long ballistic mean free paths. By applying a signal at a frequency that corresponds to an integer multiple of the transit time of the ballistic carriers between adjacent fingers of the signal gate, the carriers are bunched within the conducting wire, thus amplifying the current through the solid state Klystron at a frequency of the signal to the signal gate, thus achieving a power gain.
US08614433B2
A memory device includes a lower interconnection in a semiconductor substrate, the lower interconnection being made of a material different from the semiconductor substrate, a selection element on the lower interconnection, and a memory element on the selection element.
US08614422B2
A flat panel sensor control unit reads image data from each region formed by dividing a flat panel. A write access control unit writes the image data read by the flat panel sensor control unit in a frame memory. A read access control unit starts reading the image data from the frame memory in response to that the writing of the image data to the frame memory becomes a predetermined state.
US08614421B2
A method and system of constructing and assembling a radiological imaging sensor having a transparent crystalline substrate plate, such as a glass or sapphire plate, for use in assembling the radiological imaging sensor using either a clear fiber optic plate of a dark fiber optic plate with ultraviolet curable adhesives. The transparent glass substrate plate may further include at least one crystalline sapphire strip disposed in an aperture therewithin. Flexible cable connections are provided by wire bonding to the imaging die substrate.
US08614420B2
A radiation detection system can include a scintillating member including a polymer matrix, a first scintillating material, and a second scintillating material different from the first scintillating material and at least one photosensor coupled to the scintillating member. The radiation detection system can be configured to receive particular radiation at the scintillating member, generate a first light from the first scintillating material and a second light from the second scintillating material in response to receiving the particular radiation, receive the first and second lights at the at least one photosensor, generate a signal at the photosensor, and determine a total effective energy of the particular radiation based at least in part on the signal. Practical applications of the radiation detection system can include identifying a particular isotope present within an object, identifying a particular type of radiation emitted by the object, or locating a source of radiation within the object.
US08614416B2
Methods and devices for mass spectrometry are described, specifically the use of nanoparticulate implantation as a matrix for secondary ion and more generally secondary particles. A photon beam source or a nanoparticulate beam source can be used a desorption source or a primary ion/primary particle source.
US08614412B2
A solid-state image device is provided which includes: a photoelectric conversion portion which obtains a signal charge by photoelectric conversion of incident light; a pixel transistor portion which outputs a signal charge generated by the photoelectric conversion portion; a peripheral circuit portion which is provided at the periphery of a pixel portion including the photoelectric conversion portion and the pixel transistor portion and which has an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor; a first stress liner film which has a compressive stress and which is provided on the PMOS transistor; and a second stress liner film which has a tensile stress and which is provided on the NMOS transistor. In the solid-state image device described above, the photoelectric conversion portion, the pixel transistor portion, and the peripheral circuit portion are provided in and/or on a semiconductor substrate.
US08614411B2
A 2D/3D dual-mode image sensing circuitry is composed of a photodiode, an active sensing unit, and a pull-down unit. The photodiode is to detect and convert optical signals into electronic signals. The active sensing unit is electrically connected with one end of the photodiode for receiving electronic signals outputted by the photodiode, having an output. The pull-down unit is electrically connected with the output, providing a pull-down path. The pull-down unit has a pull-down control terminal, by which the pull-down unit can be externally controllably switched on/off, for sinking the potential or not to the aforesaid end of the photodiode. In this way, as the 2D mode is switched on, the 3D mode is switched off; on the other hand, as the 3D mode is switched on, the 2D mode is switched off.
US08614406B2
A system for heating a patio, the system comprising: a head unit comprising a heating unit configured for heating a patio; an offset assembly, wherein the offset assembly is coupled to the head unit; a mounting pole comprising a plurality of sections, the mounting pole being coupled to the offset assembly; and a base unit the base unit supporting the mounting pole.
US08614394B2
Disclosed are p-n zinc (Zn) oxide nanowires and a methods of manufacturing the same. A p-n Zn oxide nanowire includes a p-n junction structure in which phosphorus (P) is on a surface of a Zn oxide nanowire.
US08614389B2
Touch sensitive musical instruments are described herein including embodiments having: one-sided capacitive touch sensors with conductive ground planes, one-sided capacitive touch sensors with air gaps, one-sided capacitive touch sensors with separating material, and/or one-sided capacitive touch sensors including a combination of conductive ground planes, air gaps, and/or separating material. Embodiments of touch sensitive musical instruments simulating string instruments such as guitars are described.
US08614384B2
A polyphonic, chromatic keyboard, whose notes are alternately distributed across two sub-keyboards arranged in thirds on each sub-keyboard. On each sub-keyboard, the notes are distributed across a tiling of basic triangles that is symmetrical from one sub-keyboard to the other and that peaks at one note, i.e. the major third thereof, and the minor third thereof. Thus, the quality of an interval, and consequently that of a chord or mode, does not vary with a nearby symmetry/translation. The harmonic material is represented by easily memorizable shapes. The relationships between chords are represented by geometrical movements. The keyboard can thus be a pedagogical aid for learning and understanding harmonic rules. The keyboard enables the user to play a bass line and a harmonic or melodic accompaniment simultaneously, feel the harmonic rhythm, and play with virtuosity. The keyboard can be fit onto a portable instrument, thus making it possible to play comfortably.
US08614376B1
A novel maize variety designated X18B705 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X18B705 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18B705 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X18B705, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18B705. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18B705.
US08614370B2
Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) isolated from the Western Corn Rootworm, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, are disclosed. The invention encompasses nucleic acid molecules that encode D. v. virgifera protein homologs and fragments thereof. In addition, antibodies capable of binding the proteins are encompassed by the present invention. The disclosed ESTs have particular utility in isolating genes and promoters, identifying and mapping the genes involved in developmental and metabolic pathways, and determining gene function. The ESTs provide a unique molecular tool for the targeting and isolation of novel genes for plant protection and improvement. The invention also relates to methods of using the disclosed nucleic acid molecules, proteins, fragments of proteins, and antibodies, for example, for gene identification and analysis, and preparation of constructs.
US08614360B2
The invention relates to new processes for preparation of 18F-fluoroalkyl halides suitable for use in labelling of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiotracers. The process of preparation comprises the step of reacting a 18F-fluoroacylhalide with Wilkinson's catalyst.
US08614356B2
A process for preparing tolylenediamine by hydrogenating dinitrotoluene with hydrogen in the presence of a suspended catalyst in a vertically upright reactor (1), at the upper end of which is arranged a motive jet nozzle (2) through which the reaction mixture drawn off from the reactor bottom, via an external loop, is sprayed into the upper region of the reactor (1) and then flows into a central inserted tube (4) which is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the reactor, flows through the latter from the top downward and flows upward again outside the inserted tube (4) in an internal loop motion, with a heat exchanger (6) in the interior of the reactor (1), through which cooling water flows, and absorbs some of the heat of reaction as it does so, with a feed for the dinitrotoluene at the upper end of the reactor (1) and a feed for the hydrogen at the lower end of the reactor (1), and wherein, in addition to the heat exchanger (6) arranged in the interior of the reactor (1), a further heat exchanger (W) is used in the external loop, in which water absorbs the rest of the heat of reaction by indirect heat exchange with the reaction mixture, which comprises utilizing the heat of reaction to raise steam with a pressure of at least 4 bar gauge by performing the hydrogenation of dinitrotoluene to tolylenediamine at a temperature of ≧180° C.
US08614341B2
The invention relates to a method for the preparation of amorphous silibinin (or its synonyms: silybin or silibin) derived from a milk thistle fruit extract having an increased release rate and improved absorbability or bioavailability, and to the use of amorphous silibinin for the treatment or prevention of liver diseases, preferably for the treatment of viral hepatitis, e.g. hepatitis B or C, in particular in a patient who will undergo or has undergone liver transplantation. Preferably, the amorphous silibinin is adapted for oral administration.
US08614338B2
The present invention relates to a method for the stereospecific chemical recycling of a mixture of polymers based on polylactic acid PLA, in order to reform the monomer thereof or one of the derivatives thereof. The latter may enter the traditional lactate market or once again serve as a raw material for synthesizing PLA.
US08614337B2
The chiral compound S-5-substituted-N-2′-(thienyl-2-yl-)ethyl-tetralin-2-amine or its chiral acid salts and preparation method thereof are disclosed, and the method for preparing Rotigotine by using the chiral compound is also disclosed. Racemic 5-substituted-N-2′-(thien-2-yl-)ethyl-tetralin-2-amine (compound 1) is resolved by using a conventional chiral acid to obtain an optically pure chiral acid salt of S-5-substituted-N-2′-(thien-2-yl-)ethyl-tetralin-2-amine, which is then dissociated to obtain S-5-substituted-N-2′-(thien-2-yl-)ethyl-tetralin-2-amine (compound 2). The compound 2 or chiral acid salt thereof is alkylated and deprotected to produce rotigotine (compound 5).
US08614333B2
The present invention relates to acenaphtho heterocyclic compounds and their uses in manufacturing the BH3 mimetics as Bcl-2-like protein inhibitors. Structures are shown in the following: Statistical analysis of their bio-activities showed these compounds exhibit better BH3 mimicking property than the reported compounds. These compounds can simulate BH3-only protein, competitively bind and antagonizing Bcl-2 and Mcl-1 proteins in vitro and in cells, and then induce apoptosis. Therefore, they all can be used in the manufactures of anticancer compounds.
US08614329B2
The present invention provides amorphous and crystalline forms of acid addition salts of sorafenib, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and their use for the treatment of cancer. The present invention also provides processes for the preparation of acid addition salts of sorafenib.
US08614323B2
The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I): wherein all symbols are as defined here, a salt thereof, a solvate thereof, or a prodrug thereof. The compound of the present invention has an antagonistic activity against CXCR4 and is therefore useful as a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for CXCR4-mediated diseases, for example, inflammatory and immune diseases (for example, rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis, retinopathy, pulmonary fibrosis, rejection of transplanted organ, etc.), allergic diseases, infections (for example, human immunodeficiency virus infection, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, etc.), psychoneurotic diseases, cerebral diseases, cardiovascular disease, metabolic diseases, and cancerous diseases (for example, cancer, cancer metastasis, etc.), or an agent for regeneration therapy.
US08614321B2
The invention relates to compounds of structural formula (I) or (III): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, clathrate, or prodrug thereof, wherein ring A, X1, X2, X3, X5, R1, R4, Y, Z, L, m and n are defined herein. These compounds are useful as immunosuppressive agents and for treating and preventing inflammatory conditions, allergic disorders, and immune disorders.
US08614304B2
Disclosed are immunogenic peptides, related fusion proteins, nucleic acids encoding the peptides or fusion proteins, conjugates, expression vectors, host cells, and antibodies. Also, disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, vaccines for use in the treatment or prevention of cancer, e.g., alveolar rhabodomyosarcoma, methods of stimulating a T cell to kill a tumor cell, methods of stimulating CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, and methods of treating or preventing cancer are further provided herein.
US08614295B2
The invention relates to antibody molecules having specificity for antigenic determinants of human OX40, therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing said antibody molecules.
US08614282B2
A silicone resin composition comprising (A) an organopolysiloxane containing silicon-bonded aryl and alkenyl groups in a molecule, (B) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane, and (C) an addition reaction catalyst is low gas permeable. An optoelectronic device encapsulated therewith is highly reliable.
US08614274B2
A medical grade adhesive comprises a mixture of at least one cross-linkable pressure sensitive adhesive component and at least one non-cross-linkable pressure-sensitive adhesive component, wherein the amount of each of said components is such that the resultant adhesive can adhere to human skin for a period of up to about 7-10 days but can be removed without causing trauma to the skin.
US08614272B2
The invention aims to provide a tire rubber composition that is excellent in the low heat build-up property (fuel economy), wet grip performance, and abrasion resistance, and can be suitably used for a tread (cap tread); and a tire rubber composition that is excellent in the low heat build-up property and breaking properties, and can be suitably used for a base tread or sidewall. The composition comprises: a diene polymer; and silica, the diene polymer being a modified diene polymer obtainable by reacting compounds (A) and (B), the compound (A) being an active alkali metal-terminated conjugated diene polymer obtainable by polymerizing a conjugated diene monomer alone or with an aromatic vinyl monomer, in the presence of compound (C), the compound (B) being a modifying agent having a functional group, and the compound (C) being a chemical species obtainable by reacting an organic alkali metal compound with compound of formula (1):
US08614268B2
This invention relates to the thermal stabilization of halogen-containing polymer compositions, more particularly, this invention relates to a poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) or a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride (cPVC) composition comprising an alkyl tin stabilizer and at least one salt of a polymeric polyacid such as a polycarboxylic acid salt supported on a polymeric material.
US08614266B2
A potting material for an electronic component, an electronic component, and a process for positioning ferrites in an electronic material are disclosed. The potting material is formed by curing a mixture. The mixture includes an epoxy component, an organic amine hardener, a viscosity-controlling agent, and a silica. The potting material has a coefficient of thermal expansion between an inorganic ferrite coefficient of thermal expansion and an organic substrate coefficient of thermal expansion of the electronic component. The potting material includes a rigidity permitting via drilling by one or more of mechanical drilling and laser burning.
US08614264B2
An ink jet recording method includes ejecting droplets of an aqueous ink composition on an ink-non-absorbent or ink-low-absorbent recording medium from an ink jet recording apparatus, and drying the aqueous ink composition on the recording medium by heating the recording medium to 40° C. or more. The aqueous ink composition used in the method contains a pigment, a first solvent and a second solvent, but does not contain glycerol. The first solvent content W‘is in the range of 3% to 6% by mass, and the ratio W2/W1 of the second solvent content W2 to the first solvent content W1 is 2 or more.
US08614263B2
A non-biodegradable endodontic sealant composition comprises the reaction product of a first paste and a second paste. Either paste or both pastes include one or more of: unmodified HEMA and bioglass. The first paste includes a first polymerizing agent and the second paste includes a second polymerizing agent. A method for making the composition comprises preparing the first paste and second paste and combining the pastes under conditions to achieve a polymerization reaction initiated by a reaction between the polymerizing agents. The combining step is performed under conditions for achieving a setting time that is in a range of about 1 minute to about 1 hour. A method for treating humans having a voided region into which no re-growth will occur comprises administering the composition to the affected area, preferably to an area where tissue, tooth, or bone are not intended to re-grow.
US08614245B2
Crystalline forms of (1r,4r)-6′-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4′,9′-dihydro-3′H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1′-pyrano[3,4,b]indol]-4-amine, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising these crystalline modifications, the use of these modifications as well as a process for the enrichment of such crystalline modifications.
US08614239B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds have been demonstrated as inhibitors of MEK and therefore may be useful in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases (e.g., cancer and inflammation).
US08614231B2
The present invention relates to a compound of structural formula (I) and its derivatives for use as medicinal drugs. They are preferably immunosuppressive agents, with mechanism of action based on the blockage of TCR-Nck interaction.
US08614224B2
The invention generally provides processes and intermediate compounds useful for the production of sinomenine derivatives. In particular, the process may encompass synthetic routes for the production of (+)-sinomenine derivatives and their intermediates.
US08614212B2
The present invention relates to chemical compounds of general formula (I) which may possess useful therapeutic activity in a range of central nervous system disorders, and in particular, anxiety disorders.
US08614207B2
A class of compounds that inhibit Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) is disclosed, along with compositions containing the compound, and methods of using the composition for treating individuals infected with HCV.
US08614198B2
The present invention provides agents, compositions, constructs and methods for silencing HCV polynucleotides, as well as methods and compositions for treating or preventing HCV infection in a mammalian cell. In one aspect, the present invention provides an agent or composition comprising at least one double-stranded RNA effector molecule or complex. The double-stranded RNA effector molecule or complex comprises: (1) a sequence of at least 19 nucleotides having at least 90% identity with a nucleotide sequence within HCV Conserved Region 1 (SEQ ID NO: 2), HCV Conserved Region 2 (SEQ ID NO: 3), HCV Conserved Region 5 (SEQ ID NO: 4), (ATR)-1 (SEQ ID NO: 86), ATR-2 (SEQ ID NO: 87), ATR-3 (SEQ ID NO: 88), ATR-4 (SEQ ID NO: 89); and (2) its complementary sequence. In another aspect, the present invention provides a construct suitable for replication in a host cell, and/or suitable for expression of an RNA molecule or complex of the invention in vitro or in vivo. In a third aspect, the present invention provides a method for silencing HCV RNA in a mammalian cell, which comprises administering to the mammalian cell an agent, composition, or construct of the invention in a manner and amount effective to silence HCV RNA in the cell. In a related aspect, the invention provides a method for treating or preventing HCV infection in a patient, comprising administering to the patient an effective amount of an agent, composition, or construct of the invention as described herein.
US08614197B2
This invention provides a method for treating cancer by blocking the migration, metastasis of cancer cells, growth of cancers wherein the cancers comprise breast cancer, leukocyte cancer, liver cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, bone cancer, brain cancer, leukemia cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, CNS cancer, melanoma cancer, renal cancer or cervix cancer. This invention provides uses of compositions comprising a triterpenoidal saponin, triterpenoid, triterpenoidal compound or sapongenin, comprising at least two side groups selected from the group consisting of angeloyl groups, tigloyl groups and senecioyl groups, wherein the side groups are attached to carbon 21, 22 or/and 28 of triterpenoidal sapogenin, triterpenoid, triterpenoidal compound or other sapongenin backbones.
US08614190B2
Thermal responsive compositions for treating bone diseases are provided. The thermal responsive composition for treating bone diseases includes a bone growth factor and a biodegradable copolymer. The biodegradable copolymer has a structure of Formula (I) or Formula (II): A-B-BOX-B-A Formula (I) B-A-B-(BOX-B-A-B)n-BOX-B-A-B Formula (II) wherein, A includes a hydrophilic polyethylene glycol polymer, B includes a hydrophobic polyester polymer, BOX is a bifunctional group monomer of 2, 2′-Bis(2-oxazoline) and used for coupling the blocks A-B or B-A-B, and n is an integer and the same or more than 0.
US08614167B2
An herbicidal synergistic composition containing (a) fluoroxypyr and (b) an ALS inhibitor herbicide, in which the ALS inhibitor herbicide is penoxsulam, halosulfuron-methyl, imazamox or imazethapyr, provides improved post-emergence weed control in rice, cereal and grain crops, pastures, rangelands, IVM and turf.
US08614164B2
Iron- and copper-containing heterogeneous catalyst, and a process for producing it, including the following steps: thermal decomposition of gaseous iron pentacarbonyl to give carbonyl iron powder having spherical primary particles; treatment of carbonyl iron powder with hydrogen, resulting in the metallic spherical primary particles at least partly agglomerating; surface oxidation of the iron particles to form iron oxide; contacting the particles with an aqueous solution of a copper compound; drying in the presence of oxygen and subsequent calcination in the absence of oxygen, resulting in oxygen-comprising copper compounds on the particles; and finally reaction of these with the iron oxide to form a mixed oxide of the formula CuxFe3-xO4, where 0
US08614161B2
A CO2 reforming catalyst composition includes a hydroxyl group-containing porous oxide, and a composite porous catalyst supported by a porous supporter. The composite porous catalyst includes a catalyst metal.
US08614156B2
The present invention is directed to a textile fabric. This fabric is particularly well suited for use as the outer shell fabric of a firefighter's garment. The fabric is a woven or knitted fabric of spun yarns and multi-filament yarns. The spun yarn includes a first staple being a polymer selected from the group consisting of aramid, PBI or PBO or melamine formaldehyde, and a second staple being an aramid polymer. The multi-filament yarn includes an aramid filament.
US08614148B2
A method may include forming first hard mask patterns and second hard mask patterns extending in a first direction and repeatedly and alternately arranged on a lower layer, forming third mask patterns extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction on the first and second hard mask patterns, etching the first hard mask patterns using the third mask patterns to form first openings, forming filling patterns filling the first openings and gap regions between the third mask patterns, forming spacers on both sidewalls of each of the filling patterns, after removing the third mask patterns, and etching the second hard mask patterns using the filling patterns and the spacers to form second openings.
US08614143B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a photolithography mask configured to form a metallization and via level utilizing a single lithography and etch process. More particularly, a photolithography mask comprising a mask via shape and one or more metal wire shapes is configured to produce both on-wafer metal lines and via levels. The mask via shape corresponds to an on-wafer photoresist via opening having a first critical dimension (CD). The one or more mask wire shapes correspond to one or more on-wafer photoresist wire openings respectively having a second CD. The first CD is larger than the second CD thereby providing a greater vertical etch rate for ILD exposed by the photoresist via opening than for ILD exposed by the one or more photoresist wire openings. This difference in CD results in a via extending vertically below the metal wire level, thereby making physical contact with underlying metal.
US08614140B2
There is provided a semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus capable of recovering a damage of a low dielectric insulating film exposed to CO2 plasma to obtain the low dielectric insulating film in a good state, thus improving performance and reliability of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus includes: an etching processing mechanism for performing an etching process that etches a low dielectric insulating film formed on a substrate; a CO2 plasma processing mechanism for performing a CO2 plasma process that exposes the substrate to CO2 plasma after the etching process; a polarization reducing mechanism for performing a polarization reducing process that reduces polarization in the low dielectric insulating film after the CO2 plasma process; and a transfer mechanism for transferring the substrate.
US08614136B1
Electromechanical transistors that employ Janus micro/nano-components and techniques for the fabrication thereof are provided. In one aspect, a method of fabricating an electromechanical transistor includes the following steps. A wafer is provided. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed opposite one another on a surface of the wafer, wherein a gap is present between the source electrode and the drain electrode. A first gate electrode and a second gate electrode are formed on the surface of the wafer on opposite sides of the gap between the source electrode and the drain electrode. At least one Janus component is placed in the gap between the source electrode and the drain electrode, wherein the Janus component includes a first portion having an electrically conductive material and a second portion having an electrically insulating material.
US08614134B2
In sophisticated semiconductor devices, a shallow drain and source concentration profile may be obtained for active regions having a pronounced surface topography by performing tilted implantation steps upon incorporating the drain and source dopant species. In this manner, a metal silicide may be reliably embedded in the drain and source regions.
US08614127B1
A FinFET device is fabricated by first receiving a FinFET precursor. The FinFET precursor includes a substrate, first fins on the substrate, isolation regions on sides of the first fins, source/drain features on the substrate and dummy gate stacks separating the source/drain features on the substrate. The dummy gate stack is removed to expose the first fins and then the first fins are recessed to form channel trenches. A channel layer is deposited in the channel trenches and then is recessed. Then the isolation regions are recessed to laterally expose at least a portion of the recessed channel layer to form second fins. A high-k (HK) dielectric layer and a metal gate (MG) layer are deposited on the second fins.
US08614126B1
A three dimensional memory device including a substrate and a semiconductor channel. At least one end portion of the semiconductor channel extends substantially perpendicular to a major surface of the substrate. The device also includes at least one charge storage region located adjacent to semiconductor channel and a plurality of control gate electrodes having a strip shape extending substantially parallel to the major surface of the substrate. The plurality of control gate electrodes include at least a first control gate electrode located in a first device level and a second control gate electrode located in a second device level located over the major surface of the substrate and below the first device level. The device also includes an etch stop layer located between the substrate and the plurality of control gate electrodes.
US08614124B2
Scaling a nonvolatile trapped-charge memory device and the article made thereby. In an embodiment, scaling includes multiple oxidation and nitridation operations to provide a tunneling layer with a dielectric constant higher than that of a pure silicon dioxide tunneling layer but with a fewer hydrogen and nitrogen traps than a tunneling layer having nitrogen at the substrate interface. In an embodiment, scaling includes forming a charge trapping layer with a non-homogenous oxynitride stoichiometry. In one embodiment the charge trapping layer includes a silicon-rich, oxygen-rich layer and a silicon-rich, oxygen-lean oxynitride layer on the silicon-rich, oxygen-rich layer. In an embodiment, the method for scaling includes a dilute wet oxidation to density a deposited blocking oxide and to oxidize a portion of the silicon-rich, oxygen-lean oxynitride layer.
US08614122B2
When forming sophisticated high-k metal gate electrode structures, a threshold adjusting semiconductor alloy may be formed on the basis of selective epitaxial growth techniques and a hard mask comprising at least two hard mask layers. The hard mask may be patterned on the basis of a plasma-based etch process, thereby providing superior uniformity during the further processing upon depositing the threshold adjusting semiconductor material. In some illustrative embodiments, one hard mask layer is removed prior to actually selectively depositing the threshold adjusting semiconductor material.
US08614120B2
A semiconductor chip package includes a substrate unit, a chip, metal members, a molding compound and a shielding layer. The chip is assembled on and electrically connected with the substrate unit. The substrate unit includes conductive seat portions surrounding the chip, and defines through holes respectively coated by conducting films to ground the corresponding seat portions. The metal members are assembled on the seat portions, surround the chip, and are grounded through the conducting films. The molding compound encapsulates the chip and the metal members, with part of each metal member exposed out of the molding compound. The shielding layer covers the molding compound and the parts of each metal member exposed out of the molding compound to shield the chip from electromagnetic radiation.
US08614091B2
In certain aspects, the present invention provides methods and compositions relating to a Pnmt-positive progenitor cell. In certain aspects, the present invention relates to methods for isolating and transplanting the subject progenitor cells, and methods for treating diseases such as myocardiac injuries and neurodegenerative disorders.
US08614085B2
Increasing tolerance to butanol in yeast has been accomplished by decreasing activity of Pdr5p encoded by an endogenous PDR5 gene. A deletion mutation of the PDR5 gene led to improved growth yield in the presence of butanol. Yeast cells with reduced Pdr5p activity, or other multidrug resistance ATP-binding cassette transporter protein activity encoded by CDR1 or BFR1, and a butanol biosynthetic pathway may be used for improved butanol production.
US08614082B2
The present invention is drawn to generating attenuated and less cytopathic forms of New World alphaviruses that can be used in immunogenic compositions as vaccines against both Old and New World alphaviruses. In this regard, the present invention discloses that the N-terminal, ˜35-aa-long peptide of VEEV, EEEV and, most likely, of WEEV capsid proteins plays the most critical role in the downregulation of cellular transcription and development of cytopathic effect. The identified, VEEV-specific peptide, CVEE30-68, includes two domains with distinguished functions. The integrity of both domains determines not only the intracellular distribution of CVEE, but is also essential for direct capsid function in the inhibition of transcription. The replacement of the N-terminal fragment of CVEE by its SINV-specific counterpart in VEEV TC-83 genome does not affect virus replication in vitro, but makes it less cytopathic and more attenuated in vivo.
US08614075B2
The present invention relates to mutant Δ5 desaturases, which have the ability to convert dihomo-γ-linolenic acid [DGLA; 20:3 ω-6] to arachidonic acid [ARA; 20:4 ω-6] and/or eicosatetraenoic acid [ETA; 20:4 ω-3] to eicosapentaenoic acid [EPA; 20:5 ω-3] and which possess at least one mutation within the HPGG motif of the cytochome b5-like domain. Isolated nucleic acid fragments and recombinant constructs comprising such fragments encoding Δ5 desaturases, along with a method of making long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids [“PUFAs”] using these mutant Δ5 desaturases in oleaginous yeast, are disclosed.
US08614066B2
Lysing agents that are free of ligands, including cyanide, for binding hemoglobin for hematology analyzers. The ligand-free lysing agents achieve accurate quantification of hemoglobin parameters, thereby replacing existing lysing agents for analysis of hemoglobin.
US08614062B1
Substituting fish of lesser value for high priced fish such as grouper has become a major problem for restaurants, wholelsalers, and the general public. A method based upon nucleic acid amplification enables clear differentiation between grouper and potential substitutes. The nucleic acid is incubated with a molecular beacon probe thereby allowing detection of the hybridized molecular beacon probe. All grouper, including the fresh market sample, were successfully confirmed as grouper. Several non-grouper samples obtained fresh and frozen from the market were also tested; none were detected as grouper.
US08614061B2
The present invention relates to combinations of fluorescent dyes used in molecular biology, particularly in multiplex PCR. In particular, the present invention relates to a combination of dyes for amplification reactions, wherein at least four different dyes are used, wherein the first dye is 5-FAM or 6-FAM or a blend thereof, the second dye is selected from the group consisting of DY-530, HEX, CAL Fluor Orange 560 and ATTO 532, the third dye is selected from the group consisting of ATTO 550, DY-555 and DY-556, the fourth dye is selected from the group consisting of ROX, DY-510XL and ATTO 565, and optionally a fifth dye is selected from the group consisting of DY-632 and DY-520XL.
US08614058B2
The present invention is based on the discovery of a unique 14-gene molecular prognostic signature that is useful for predicting breast cancer metastasis. In particular, the present invention relates to methods and reagents for detecting and profiling the expression levels of these genes, and methods of using the expression level information in predicting risk of breast cancer metastasis.
US08614051B2
A photosensitive resin composition for an interlayer insulating film or a protective film of a substrate for circuit formation, which includes a polymer (a) having a structural unit shown by the formula (A) and a compound (b) which generates a radical when irradiated with active rays and has a structure shown by the following formula (B).
US08614048B2
A resin having a structural unit derived from a compound represented by the following formula (I), wherein R1, A1 and ring X1 are as defined in the instant specification:
US08614044B2
To provide a toner which can achieve both low-temperature fixing performance and dot reproducibility and further can obtain images on which any density non-uniformity has been kept from coming about, the toner has toner particles, each of the toner particles has a toner base particle containing a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent, and an inorganic fine powder; the toner having: (1) an average circularity of 0.960 or more; (2) a number-average molecular weight Mn(25° C.) of from 500 or more to 3,000 or less in measuring a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter at 25° C. of the toner by SEC-MALLS; and (3) a value of Mn(135° C.)/Mn(25° C.) of from 25 or more to 50 or less which is the ratio of number-average molecular weight Mn(135° C.) in measuring an o-dichlorobenzene-soluble matter at 135° C. of the toner by SEC-MALLS to number-average molecular weight Mn(25° C.) in measuring a tetrahydrofuran-soluble matter at 25° C. of the toner by SEC-MALLS.
US08614041B2
Disclosed is a toner for electrophotography containing at least a binder resin. This toner for electrophotography is characterized in that (a) the tetrahydrofuran (THF) soluble content in the toner has a first peak in the molecular weight region of not less than 2,000 but less than 5,000 and a second peak in the molecular weight region of not less than 100,000 but less than 200,000 in the chromatogram obtained by gel permeation chromatography (GPC); (b) the binder resin contains at least a carboxyl group-containing vinyl resin (C) and a glycidyl group-containing vinyl resin (E); and (c) the mass ratio of the styrene monomer to the acrylic monomer in the binder resin, namely (S/A), is not less than 4.6 but less than 8.5.
US08614037B2
The invention provides a dye-containing negative working curable composition comprising at least a dye, a photo polymerization initiator, and as a radical polymerizable monomer, (C-1) an acidic group-containing polyfunctional (meth)acrylic compound having an acid value of 25 mgKOH/g or more, or (C-1) the acidic group-containing polyfunctional (meth)acrylic compound in combination with (C-2) another radical polymerizable compound other than (C-1).
US08614034B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a photo-mask having a micro pattern. The method includes providing an analyzing design layout, dividing the analyzing design layout into a two-dimensionally repeated portion, a one-dimensionally repeated portion, and a non-repeated portion, forming a first corrected layout by performing optical proximity correction (OPC) in the two-dimensionally repeated portion, forming a second corrected layout, taking account of the first corrected layout, by performing OPC in the one-dimensionally repeated portion, forming a third corrected layout, taking account of the first corrected layout and the second corrected layout, by performing OPC in the non-repeated portion, and forming a photo-mask based on the first through third corrected layouts.
US08614033B2
A resist film formed by using a chemical amplification type resist composition containing (A) a high molecular compound having a structure wherein a hydrogen atom of a phenolic hydroxyl group is substituted by a group represented by the following general formula (I), (B) a compound generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, and an organic solvent, and the film thickness is 10 to 200 nm. wherein, R1 represents a hydrocarbon group, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group, and Ar represents an aryl group. R1 may also bind to Ar to form a ring which may also contain a heteroatom. * represents a binding position with an oxygen atom of the phenolic hydroxyl group.
US08614031B2
The present invention is directed to a fuel cell system with various features for optimal operations of an electronic device, a battery charger or a fuel refilling device. The fuel cell system includes an information storage device associated with the fuel supply, pump and/or refilling device. The information storage device can be any electronic storage device including, but not limited to, an EEPROM or a PLA. The information storage device can include encrypted information. The information storage device can include software code for confirming the identification of the cartridge before operation of the electronic device and/or refilling device. The present invention is also directed to system architecture for a fuel cell system that utilizes information storage devices.
US08614030B2
A fuel cell assembly provides for direct water delivery to water injection points in the active area of fluid flow field plates of the assembly. The fluid flow field plate has a plurality of channels formed in the surface thereof which extend across the surface of the plate in a predetermined pattern, defining the active areas of the plate. A distribution foil has a plurality of channels formed in a surface thereof which channels extend from a first edge of the distribution foil to a second edge of the distribution foil. The channels terminate at the second edge at positions substantially coincident with respective ones of the field plate channels at water injection points. A cover foil extends over the distribution foil to enclosed the distribution foil channels and thereby form conduits for the water between the two foils.
US08614026B2
Fuel cell devices and fuel cell systems are provided. In certain embodiments, the fuel cell devices may include one or more active layers containing active cells that are connected electrically in series. In certain embodiments, the fuel cell devices include an elongate ceramic support structure the length of which is the greatest dimension such that the coefficient of thermal expansion has only one dominant axis coextensive with the length. In certain embodiments, a reaction zone is positioned along a first portion of the length for heating to a reaction temperature, and at least one cold zone is positioned along a second portion of the length for operating below the reaction temperature. There are one or more gas passages, each having an associated anode or cathode.
US08614025B2
The invention provides a fuel cell separator wherein a first reaction gas channel 131 has a first portion 41 and a second portion 51 located upstream of the first portion 41, the first portion 41 lying closest to the upstream end of the first reaction gas channel 131 among portions located between the second portion 51 and the downstream end of the first reaction gas channel 131, the second portion 51 lying closest to the downstream end among portions located between the upstream end and the first portion 41 of the first reaction gas channel 131. Second reaction gas channels 132, 133 do not exist between the first portion 41 and the upstream end but exist between the second portion 51 and the downstream end. The first reaction gas channel 131 is communicated with at least one (hereinafter referred to as the “specific channel”) of the second reaction gas channels 132, 133 in a portion (hereinafter referred to as the “specific portion”) between the first portion 41 and the downstream end.
US08614019B2
Disclosed is an electricity storage device which can be charged/discharged at high rate and have high output, high capacity and excellent repeating charge/discharge characteristics, although it uses a non-carbon material as a negative electrode active material. Specifically disclosed is an electricity storage device comprising: a positive electrode collector; a positive electrode disposed on the positive electrode collector and including a positive electrode active material which can reversibly absorb/desorb at least anions; a negative electrode collector; and a negative electrode disposed on the negative electrode collector and including a negative electrode active material which can substantially absorb/desorb lithium ions reversibly. The negative electrode active material is composed of at least one substance selected from the group consisting of silicon, a silicon-containing alloy, a silicon compound, tin, a tin-containing alloy, and a tin compound; and the negative electrode is formed as a thin film having a thickness of 10 μm or less.
US08614018B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly in a case, the electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator, a cap assembly connected to the case and including a cap plate, first and second terminals through the cap plate, and a shorting member selectively connecting the first terminal and the cap plate, and at least one electrode lead tab including a terminal-junction part electrically connected to a terminal, an electrode assembly-junction part electrically connected to an electrode in accordance with the terminal, and a fuse part electrically connected between the terminal-junction part and the electrode assembly-junction part, the fuse part being configured to break when the first and second terminals are electrically connected, and the fuse part extending at an angle other than zero with respect to a longitudinal extension line of the terminal junction part and/or the electrode assembly-junction part.
US08614014B2
A magnetic memory device includes a track in which different non-magnetic layers are respectively formed on upper and lower surfaces of a magnetic layer. One of the two non-magnetic layers includes an element having an atomic number greater than or equal to 12. Accordingly, the magnetic layer has a relatively high non-adiabaticity (β).
US08614012B2
A coated article is provided. The coated article includes a substrate, a hydrophobic layer formed on the substrate. The hydrophobic layer is an amorphous carbon nitride layer which is defined as CNy, wherein y is in a range of from about 1 to about 3. The water contact angle of the hydrophobic layer 13 is about 100° to about 110°. The hydrophobic layer has a good chemical stability, high-temperature resistance and a good abrasion resistance, which effectively extends the use time of the coated article. A method for making the coated article is also described therein.
US08613993B2
The Present Invention discloses a slit web material, substantially longer than it is wide, with specially shaped slits that permit relatively easy expansion upon deployment. The specially shaped slits are referred to in the Present Application as “tilde-slits,” because they resemble a tilde mark. The cuts are arranged in continuous rows of tilde-slits. In any given row, the tilde-slits follow one-after-the-other in a linear direction. Adjacent rows of slits are parallel to each other, but are offset from one another such that a line drawn between adjacent tilde-slits in adjacent rows is not perpendicular to the direction of the rows. The invention contemplates that the material dispenses from a continuous roll. If the slits are arranged in the longitudinal direction, then the web material expands in the width direction only upon deployment. However, if the slits are arranged such that the row direction is at some angle to the longitudinal direction, then the web material expands in both directions upon deployment. In this case, a special dispenser is not required, and the material expands in both directions as it is pulled off the roll prior to cutting a desired length of material from the roll.
US08613991B2
The invention relates to a multilayer tube comprising a metal tube having an inner surface and an outer surface, a first polymeric layer bonded to the outer surface, and preferably a second polymeric layer bonded to the inner surface, and wherein the metal tube is made from an aluminium alloy having, in wt. %: Si 1.5 to 2.45, Fe 0.5 to 1.2, Mn 0.5 to 1.2, Cu 0.3 to 1, Mg 0.04 to 0.3, Ti<0.25, Zn<1.2, and other impurities or incidental elements, each <0.05, total <0.25, and the balance being aluminium.
US08613971B2
The present invention relates to starch-hydrocolloid complexes, their preparation and their use in foods. The complexes positively impact the foods into which they are incorporated to give longer-lasting and/or more potent satiety, thereby helping energy management. The invention further relates to the reduction of food intake and/or management of weight by increasing such satiety.
US08613970B2
Methods and systems for preparing soft or firm/semi-hard cheese are provided, as well as soft or firm/semi-hard cheese prepared by the methods. The methods typically involve the formation of a slurry that contains blended or molten cheese curd. A variety of ingredients can be introduced into the curd used to prepare the slurry, the slurry that is formed, or at other stages along the manufacturing process to tailor the performance and nutritional characteristics of the final cheese product. The slurry in some methods is directly processed to form a final cheese product. In other methods, the slurry undergoes various types of processing to achieve certain desired composition or performance requirements.
US08613965B2
The present invention is directed to a calcium-enriched chewable baked food product in which at least one piece of the food product provides the recommended daily DRI of elemental calcium. The calcium-enriched baked food product has a mouth feel, texture and taste substantially similar to a non-calcium-enriched baked food product. The food product also provides Vitamin D3 in a range of 100-2400 IU and optionally may be enrobed with a flavored coating. The present invention is also directed to a method for producing the calcium-enriched food product.
US08613964B1
A method and composition for making food products for benefiting health, including: inoculating dryland taro poi with fermented wetland taro poi; fermenting the inoculated dryland taro poi; dehydrating the fermented dryland taro poi; rehydrating the dehydrated dryland taro poi; pasteurizing the rehydrated dryland taro poi; reinoculating the pasteurized dryland taro poi with a poi starter culture; and adding nutrients to the reinoculated dryland taro poi. The poi starter culture includes a probiotic organism having a concentration of at least 2000 cfu/g. The nutrients added to the dryland taro poi include one or more selected from the group consisting of: xylose and inulin. The dryland taro poi and the wetland taro poi are in an amount in a ratio of 40:1 by weight, dryland to wetland.
US08613962B2
There is provided a medicinal agent that is effective and highly safe for the prevention or alleviation of a peripheral nerve disorder that develops as a side effect occurring after the administration of an anti-cancer agent. The present invention relates to a novel medical use of an extract from inflamed tissues inoculated with vaccinia virus, and to a prophylactic or alleviating agent for a peripheral nerve disorder that contains the extract as an active ingredient. The agent containing the extract as an active ingredient is used for a prophylactic or alleviating agent for a peripheral nerve disorder induced by an anti-cancer agent and is a highly safe and remarkably highly useful medicinal agent with few side effects.
US08613959B2
Materials derived from Nelumbo are administered orally to humans or animals for the purpose of enhancing creatine transport into skeletal tissue and for purposes of enhancing lean body mass. Enhancing creatine transport through improved insulin signaling is a new method of depositing creatine and enhancing lean body mass. Such administration is also used for enhancing athletic performance and controlling bodyweight and body fat levels. More specifically, such administration is used for the purpose of enhancing creatine transport into excitable tissues such as skeletal muscle. The material is administered as extracts of Nelumbo and administered in a variety of ways including capsules, tablets, powdered beverages, bars, gels or drinks.
US08613952B2
A tissue adhesive including cyanoacrylate and polyethylene glycol (PEG), wherein the PEG remains a polyether and wherein the tissue adhesive is bioabsorbable. A tissue adhesive including cyanoacrylate bulk monomer and cyanoacrylate nanoparticles containing a therapeutic therein. A kit for applying a tissue adhesive, including the tissue adhesive described above and an applicator. Methods of accelerating degradation of a cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive applying a tissue adhesive, closing an internal wound, administering a therapeutic to tissue, treating cancer, and preventing infection in a wound. Methods of method of making a bioabsorbable tissue adhesive and making a therapeutic tissue adhesive.
US08613951B2
The present disclosure generally relates to therapeutic nanoparticles. Exemplary nanoparticles disclosed herein may include about 1 to about 20 weight percent of a mTOR inhibitor; and about 70 to about 99 weight percent biocompatible polymer.
US08613948B2
1R,2S-Methoxamine may be used topically for effective treatment of faecal incontinence at low doses without local or systemic side effects, for example, without affecting blood pressure. 1R,2S-Methoxamine may be used to treat other disturbances and disorders of the gastro-intestinal, as a pressor agent, as a nasal decongestant and in ophthalmology, at low does and without significant side effects.
US08613945B2
The present invention relates to, inter alia, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a polyunsaturated fatty acid and to methods of using the same to treat or prevent cardiovascular-related diseases.
US08613942B2
A medical system (10) is provided having a pulling device (20) and an active substance chain (50). The active substance chain (50) has at least two storage units (51) arranged like a chain, and at least one of the storage units (51) is loaded with a medicinal active substance. The pulling device (20) has a grip element (30) and a coupling element (40), and the coupling element (40) has at least one recess (41, 41′). In a free position (100) the active substance chain (50) is arranged separated from the pulling device (20), while in an inserted position (110) at least one of the storage units (51) is arranged form-fitting in a recess (41, 41′). The active substance chain (50) can be moved reversibly from the free position (100) into the inserted position (110).
US08613936B2
The present invention relates to a replication deficient recombinant virus encoding at least one antigen and/or antigenic epitope, wherein expression of said antigen and/or antigenic epitope is regulated by a transcriptional control element comprising at least two elements driving early expression of said antigen and/or antigenic epitope and the use of said replication deficient recombinant virus as medicament or vaccine.
US08613933B2
It is disclosed herein that Brachyury is expressed in human tumors, specifically in tumors of the small intestine, stomach, kidney, bladder, uterus, ovary, and testes, as well as in lung, colon and prostate carcinomas. Immunogenic Brachyury polypeptides are disclosed herein. These polypeptides can be used in diagnostic assays for Brachyury expression, as well as for inducing an immune response to Brachyury. Polynucleotides encoding the immunogenic Brachyury polypeptides, vectors including these polypeptides, host cells transformed with these vectors, and methods of using these polypeptides, polynucleotides, vectors, and host cells are provided. Methods of diagnosing a Brachyury-expressing cancer are also provided. Exemplary cancers include small lung, colon, intestine, stomach, kidney, bladder, uterus, ovary, and testes and prostate cancers. Methods of treating cancer are also disclosed.
US08613932B2
The invention provides human cells, particularly human T cells, comprising a murine T Cell Receptor (TCR) having antigen specificity for the cancer antigen gp100. Isolated or purified TCRs having antigenic specificity for amino acids 154-162 of gp100 (SEQ ID NO: 1), as well as related polypeptides, proteins, nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, or antigen binding fragments thereof, conjugates, and pharmaceutical compositions, are further provided. The invention further provides a method of detecting the presence of cancer in a host and a method of treating or preventing cancer in a host comprising the use of the inventive materials described herein.
US08613931B2
The present invention relates to the use of mimotopes in the treatment of diseases associated with β-amyloid formation and/or aggregation (β-Amyloidoses) including Alzheimer's disease, whereby said mimotopes are able to induce the in vivo formation of antibodies directed to Aβ1-40/42, AβpE3-40/42, Aβ3-40/42 and Aβ11-40/42.
US08613930B2
Charged or pro-charged cross-linking moieties and conjugates of cell binding agents and drugs comprising the charged or pro-charged cross-linking moieties and method of making the same.
US08613924B2
The present inventors successfully produced monoclonal antibodies that are specific to only soluble A beta oligomers, but do not recognize soluble A beta monomers, which are physiological molecules. It was demonstrated that the anti-bodies are useful as diagnostic/therapeutic monoclonal antibodies for Alzheimer's disease.
US08613922B2
A method of inhibiting cellular activation by insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in a subject in need thereof (e.g., a subject afflicted with cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetic retinopathy or other disease) comprises administering an antagonist that inhibits the binding of IAP to SHPS-1 to the subject in an amount effective to inhibit cellular activation by IGF-1. Compounds and compositions for carrying out such methods are also described.
US08613908B2
The invention is a pharmaceutical product which may be authenticated, comprising identifying markers disposed in the pharmaceutical product. The pharmaceutical product is selected from the group consisting of a pill, a tablet, a caplet, and a capsule. The identifying markers are gel pellets made from a hydroscopic medium having an indicia imprinted thereon and expand volumetrically when contacted with a liquid.
US08613907B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for reducing the proliferation of cancer cells through targeted interactions with integrins.
US08613906B2
The invention features a method for treating or preventing ischemia in a mammal by administering unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSCs) to the mammal.
US08613904B2
The present disclosure concerns methods of administering and detecting a distinguishable agent in a sample from and assessing the condition of an organ in a subject. In a particular embodiment, the present invention concerns methods of detecting and comparing the cholate shunt, in a subject, preferably in a subject with chronic hepatitis C. In certain embodiments, the methods may comprise obtaining a sample from a subject such as a blood or saliva sample after administering an oral and intravenous dose of a distinguishable agent such as cholate and analyzing the sample clearance of the distinguishable agent from the subject and comparing the clearance levels in order to assess hepatic health. In another embodiment, the methods may comprise analyzing a sample from a subject for the presence of a distinguishable agent such as cholate and applying information obtained from analyzing the presence of the distinguishable agent to determine a treatment for a medical condition of the subject.
US08613898B2
A composition of matter includes at least one carbon nanotube (CNT) or a graphene type structure having an outer surface, and a plurality of crystalline polymer supramolecular structures that include a conjugated polymer that are non-covalently secured to the outer surface of the CNTs or the graphene type structure. The conjugated polymer can be a conjugated homopolymer or a block copolymer including at least one conjugated block. The supramolecular structures extend outward from the outer surface of the CNTs or graphene type structures.
US08613892B2
The present disclosure provides in vitro analyte meters that include a meter portion that is moveable relative to at least one other meter portion. Embodiments include moveable meters that are integrated with in vivo analyte systems. Also provided are methods, systems and kits.
US08613891B2
An automatic dishwashing product comprising a multi-dosing detergent delivery device comprising a housing (101, 110) for receiving therein a detergent holder (102) and a detergent holder (102) accommodating a plurality of detergent doses (104, 106) and a scenting composition wherein the scenting composition comprises a perfume and a polyolefin.
US08613885B2
Many known solder alloys according to prior art utilize silicon or boron as melting point reducers, which, however, form brittle phases that have an undesirable effect on the thermo-mechanical properties. The invention relates to a solder ally that comprises gallium and/or germanium, preferably forms the Y′ phase and has improved mechanical properties.
US08613871B2
Provided is a nanocomplex comprising a core consisting of a metal; and a periphery being formed on a surface of the core to surround the core and consisting of an inorganic substance and a conductive polymer.
US08613859B2
Synergistic mixtures of haloamines and their use to control the growth of microorganisms in aqueous systems are disclosed. The method of using the synergistic mixtures entails adding an effective amount of a monohaloamine and an effective amount of a dihaloamine to an aqueous system. The ratio of monohaloamine to dihaloamine is selected to result in a synergistic biocidal effect.
US08613858B2
The invention relates to a nanofiltration process for enriching and concentrating a neutral organic compound into the permeated liquid with negative retention.
US08613857B2
A product is enriched by a method for the processing of a reaction solution, in which: a) a pH value of the reaction solution is adjusted to less than 4; wherein said reaction solution comprises a whole-cell catalyst, an aqueous component, and an organic component, wherein the organic component contains a product to be enriched; and b) the reaction solution is filtered in the presence of a filter aid, thereby enriching the product.
US08613856B2
A method of and apparatus for treating liquids flowing in a thin film around a source of wave energy to directly expose the liquid to the wave energy, preferably generated in whole or part by an electrical arc between carbon electrodes. In addition to the wave energy generated by the electrical arc, energy generated by cavitation of the flowing liquid may be used in treating the liquid.
US08613852B2
Self-compatible heavy oil streams are produced from converted and/or desulfurized fractions. In a preferred embodiment, an incompatibility stream is added to the converted and/or desulfurized stream to reduce the solubility number of the stream. After using a water wash to remove incompatible material, a lighter fraction is removed from the stream to increase the solubility number.
US08613851B2
The present invention is directed to a crude product composition comprising hydrocarbons having a boiling range distribution of from 30° C. to 538° C., the crude product composition having, per gram of crude product composition, from 0.01 grams to 0.2 grams of hydrocarbons having a boiling range distribution of at most 204° C., where olefins comprise at least 0.02 grams per gram of the hydrocarbons having a boiling range distribution of at most 204° C., and from 0.000001 grams to 0.05 grams of hydrocarbons having a boiling range distribution of greater than 538° C.
US08613840B1
The solar-powered distillation system is particularly adapted for small scale seawater distillation to produce fresh water. The system includes a single heat-absorbent evaporation panel having mutually opposed evaporation surfaces, the panel being contained within a single housing. Each side of the housing includes a lens panel. The lenses of each panel focus solar energy onto the respective surfaces of the evaporation panel. A mirror is positioned to each side of the housing to reflect solar energy onto the respective lens panels. Contaminated water enters the top of the housing to run down the surfaces of the evaporation panel. A fresh water collection pipe extends from the top of the housing to a collection tank. A scraper mechanism removes salt and/or other residue from the surfaces of the evaporation panel to allow the residue to be removed periodically from the bottom of the housing.
US08613836B2
A process is provided for making a fluff pulp sheet, comprising contacting at least one cationic trivalent metal, salt thereof, or combination thereof with a composition comprising fluff pulp fibers and water at a first pH, to form a first mixture; contacting at least one debonder surfactant with the first mixture and raising the pH to a second pH, which is higher than the first pH, to form a fluff pulp mixture; forming a web from the fluff pulp mixture; and drying the web, to make the fluff pulp sheet. A fluff pulp sheet is also provided, comprising a web comprising fluff pulp fibers; at least one cationic trivalent metal, salt thereof, or combination thereof; at least one debonder surfactant; and a fiberization energy of <145 kJ/kg. Products and uses of the fluff pulp sheet are also provided.
US08613832B2
The present invention relates to a drainage and retention aid composition which comprises: (d) a first anionic component which is a water-soluble anionic organic polymer; (e) a second anionic component which is a water-dispersible or branched anionic organic polymer; and (f) a third anionic component which is an anionic siliceous material; wherein the first, second and third anionic components are present in a dry matter content of from 0.01 to 50% by weight.
US08613830B2
A method of modifying the surface of a substrate which comprises a fibrous material. According to the present invention, the surface is brought into contact with a type of amphiphilic block copolymer which comprises one or several hydrophilic polymeric blocks and one or several hydrophobic polymeric blocks. Approximately 0.01-3 g/m2 of the amphiphilic block copolymer are applied onto the surface. With the help of the present invention, it is possible to effectively modify the surface of paper in such a manner that it produces a good surface for printing, for instance for ink-jet printing.
US08613826B2
A method of producing floor panels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of separating a sheet formed surface material (51) into surface strips (53) and gluing said surface strips to a core (50) with a space (54) between the surface strips (53).
US08613824B2
The invention relates to a multilayer composite film which is substantially free from polyvinyl chloride and polyolefins. In particular, the layers of the film may include an ABS material, a polystyrene material, and/or a polyester material. The material composition and thickness of composite film are such that the maximum tensile force generated when a test body including the composite film is subjected to a specified single-axis tensile testing procedure ranges between 30 Newtons and 280 Newtons.
US08613821B2
Provided is a basic metal nitrate suitable as an oxidizing agent for a gas generating agent, which is a basic metal nitrate having a good thermal stability and meeting at least one requirement of the following (a) to (d): (a) a particle diameter of 0.5 to 40 μm; (b) a degree of crystallinity having 0.4 deg or less of a half band width of the peak in the X-ray analysis; (c) an initiation temperature of weight loss being 220° C. or higher according to TG-DTA analysis; and (d) an impurity content of 1,000 ppm or less based on Na atom. Further provided is a gas generating composition which has a low toxicity, a high burning rate and a low combustion temperature and which is used in a gas generator for an air bag. The gas generating composition comprises (a) tetrazole derivatives, guanidine derivatives or a mixture thereof, (b) a basic metal nitrate and (c) a binder and/or a slag-forming agent.
US08613820B2
A method of manufacturing a formed aluminum alloy body-in-white (“BIW”) part of a motor vehicle, the BIW part having a yield strength of more than 500 MPa after being subjected to a paint-bake cycle. The method includes (a) providing a rolled aluminum sheet product of an AlZnMgCu alloy and having a gauge in a range of 0.5 to 4 mm and subjected to a solution heat treatment (SHT) and quenched following SHT, and wherein the SHT and quenched aluminum sheet product has a substantially recrystallized microstructure, (b) forming the aluminum alloy sheet to obtain a formed BIW part, (c) assembling the formed BIW part with one or more other metal parts to form an assembly forming a motor vehicle component, (d) subjecting the motor vehicle component to a paint bake cycle, wherein the aluminum alloy sheet in the formed BIW part has a yield strength of more than 500 MPa.
US08613818B2
Methods of refining the grain size of titanium and titanium alloys include thermally managed high strain rate multi-axis forging. A high strain rate adiabatically heats an internal region of the workpiece during forging, and a thermal management system is used to heat an external surface region to the workpiece forging temperature, while the internal region is allowed to cool to the workpiece forging temperature. A further method includes multiple upset and draw forging titanium or a titanium alloy using a strain rate less than is used in conventional open die forging of titanium and titanium alloys. Incremental workpiece rotation and draw forging causes severe plastic deformation and grain refinement in the titanium or titanium alloy forging.
US08613815B2
An apparatus and method of uniformly heating, rheologically softening, and thermoplastically forming metallic glasses rapidly into a net shape using a rapid capacitor discharge forming (RCDF) tool are provided. The RCDF method utilizes the discharge of electrical energy stored in a capacitor to uniformly and rapidly heat a sample or charge of metallic glass alloy to a predetermined “process temperature” between the glass transition temperature of the amorphous material and the equilibrium melting point of the alloy in a time scale of several milliseconds or less. Once the sample is uniformly heated such that the entire sample block has a sufficiently low process viscosity it may be shaped into high quality amorphous bulk articles via any number of techniques including, for example, injection molding, dynamic forging, stamp forging, sheet forming, and blow molding in a time frame of less than 1 second.
US08613809B2
High cleanliness spring steel useful in manufacturing a spring with SiO2-based inclusions being extremely controlled and excellent in fatigue properties is provided. High cleanliness spring steel which is steel containing; C: 1.2% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to the component) or below (not inclusive of 0%), Si: 1.2-4%, Mn: 0.1-2.0%, Al: 0.01% or below (not inclusive of 0%), and the balance comprising iron with inevitable impurities, wherein; the total of oxide-based inclusions of 4 or above of L (the large diameter of an inclusion)/D (the short diameter of an inclusion) and 25 μm or above of D and oxide-based inclusions of less than 4 L/D and 25 μm or above of L, in the oxide-based inclusions of 25 mass % or above of oxygen concentration and 70% (means mass %, hereafter the same with respect to inclusions) or above of SiO2 content when Al2O3+MgO+CaO+SiO2+MnO=100% is presumed, out of inclusions in the steel, is 20 nos./500 g or below.
US08613804B2
Systems and methods for dry cleaning articles using siloxane solvents are provided. In the systems and methods according to the present invention, the siloxane solvent suspends impurities extracted from the articles being cleaned, and the system filters off the impurities, thereby cleaning the articles.
US08613796B1
A palladium precursor composition includes at least one palladium salt and at least one fluorinated component, wherein if the fluorinated component is not a fluorinated organoamine, the composition further includes an organoamine, and if the fluorinated component is a fluorinated organoamine, the composition may optionally further include one or more additional fluorinated components. Further disclosed is a substantially pinhole-free palladium layer formed from the precursor composition.
US08613791B2
This invention relates to a process for obtaining metal values, typically base metals, platinum or gold from a feed material. In a first step of the process of the invention, feed material containing metal values is ground to a particle size d90 of 100 microns or less to form an ultra fine pulp. In a second step of the process of the invention, the ultra fine ground pulp from the first step is oxygenated by pumping it in multiple passes through an in-line high shear static oxygenation device (30), while re-circulating it on a tank (28) or any other vessel. The process of the invention results in a significant reduction in the required leach time, improved recoveries, reduced cyanide consumptions, a steadier gold tail, as well as reduced capital and operational expenditure.
US08613789B2
A process for producing particle-reinforced composite materials through utilization of an in situ reaction to produce a uniform dispersion of a fine particulate reinforcement phase. The process includes forming a melt of a first material, and then introducing particles of a second material into the melt and subjecting the melt to high-intensity acoustic vibration. A chemical reaction initiates between the first and second materials to produce reaction products in the melt. The reaction products comprise a solid particulate phase, and the high-intensity acoustic vibration fragments and/or separates the reaction products into solid particles that are dispersed in the melt and are smaller than the particles of the second material. Also encompassed are particle-reinforced composite materials produced by such a process.
US08613774B2
Apparatus and methods for total elbow replacement are provided to allow a surgeon to intraoperatively select a linked or unlinked constraint by utilizing a connection located on the body of the ulnar and/or humeral stem. Additional modularity also allows the selection of a cemented or cementless stem as described herein. The modularity and adjustability provides a number of advantages.
US08613773B2
An artificial disc nucleus replacement includes two mating halves which are inserted into the patient from opposite lateral sides of the patient's back, and joined together with screws.
US08613770B2
An artificial cervical vertebrae composite joint is composed of two upper and lower fixing members disposed vertically symmetrically, a cervical vertebrae body member, and two connection members, the cervical vertebrae body member being connected between the fixing members through the connection members. The fixing members each have an L shape and comprise a front wing part and a base part. A locking screw hole is formed in the front wing part, and a skidproof groove provided with an inverted tooth and a protrusion is disposed on a middle portion of the base part. A bone grafting hole is transversely disposed through a middle portion of the cervical vertebrae body member, and two cavities are disposed on both upper and lower sides of the cervical vertebrae body member at an axial center of the cervical vertebrae body member to mount the connection members. The connection member has one end mounted in the cavity by means of a fixing ring, and another end connected with the fixing member to form a stable sliding-trough type ball-and-socket joint.
US08613769B2
An apparatus and method for supporting upper and lower vertebral bodies, including first and second end members adapted for engagement with the vertebral bodies, and at least one elongate support member coupled between the end members to maintain an axial space between the vertebral bodies. In one aspect of the invention, each of the end members has a parametrical or horseshoe-shaped configuration extending about an open inner region and defining a lateral passage communicating with the open inner region to facilitate insertion of the apparatus or the individual end members into the intervertebral space via a posterior surgical approach. In a further aspect of the invention, a fusion member is positioned within the axial space to promote bony fusion between the upper and lower vertebral bodies.
US08613763B2
A multiple-sided medical device comprises a frame comprising wire or other resilient material and having a series of bends and interconnecting sides. The device has both a flat configuration and a second, folded configuration which a generally serpentine shape. The device is pushed from a delivery catheter into the lumen of a duct or vessel and may include one or more barbs for anchoring purposes. A full or partial covering of fabric or other flexible material such as DACRON, PTFE, or a collagen-based material such as small intestinal submucosa (SIS), may be sutured or attached to the frame to form an occlusion device, a stent graft, or an implantable, intraluminal valve such as for correcting incompetent veins in the lower legs and feet.
US08613753B2
A combined multi-lumen central access catheter and an embolic filter including ports proximal and distal the filter for fluid infusion and/or pressure sensing and infusion ports in the catheter to permit infusion of bioactive agents, flushing agents and/or contrast agents. The embolic filter may be removably coupled to the multi-lumen catheter for temporary placement and retrieval under recommended indications.
US08613735B2
A suction device according to the present invention has: an outer tube connected to a fluid supply unit on a base-end side thereof and including an opening edge section; and a suction tube provided in the outer tube and connected to a negative pressure generating unit on a base-end side thereof, the suction tube including an opening edge section, wherein an annular fluid supply passage is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the outer tube and an outer peripheral surface of the suction tube, and the opening edge section of the suction tube is placed inside the opening edge section of the outer tube toward the base-end side thereof.
US08613732B2
A convenient and hygienic skin therapy system comprising an encaser, one or more therapeutic compositions, a sealing means and optional accessories is disclosed. A method of using such a skin therapy system is also provided. The skin therapy system and the use thereof provides an effective, efficient and safe therapeutic approach.
US08613719B2
A drug infusion assembly comprises a drug delivery device arranged to adhere to a patient's skin and includes a reservoir that holds the drug, a cannula that delivers the drug to the patient, and a pump that causes the drug to flow to the cannula. The assembly further includes a monitor device for providing information about the operation of a drug delivery device. The monitor device includes a housing arranged to be attached to and detached from the drug delivery device, a sensor that senses the operation of the drug delivery device and generates an activation signal, a clock mechanism that generates a time signal, a memory that receives and stores the activation signal and the time signal and creates an information packet coordinating the time signal and the activation signal, an interrogator that interrogates the memory such that the memory generates a memory signal in response thereto, and a responder that receives the memory signal and generates a response.
US08613712B1
A guide wire for advancing a medical device such as a catheter through a patient's body lumen which has an elongated core with proximal and distal core section, a flexible tubular member such as a coil on the distal end. The wire core includes surface textures that are translated into the overlying coating. Alternatively, the coating has its own surface texture. The surface textures include randomly or non-randomly spaced bumps, divots, ridges, helical grooves, longitudinal grooves, undulations, etc.
US08613711B2
A stool sample collector is comprised of a sheet of water-soluble material such as heavy-weight polyvinyl alcohol film, six to nine inches by 20 to 26 inches. In use, the strip is positioned across the toilet bowl against the bowl's back rim, the front edge of the strip drooping down to a few inches above the toilet water. The strip is affixed across the bowl by moistening at each end and pressing against the sides of the bowl. Positioning of the strip is facilitated by markings on the strip. Retention of stool samples is enhanced by dimples or riffles in the strip. After use, the strip may be removed and flushed in a domestic toilet.
US08613708B2
An ambulatory electrocardiographic (ECG) monitor with a jumpered sensing electrode and method of use is provided. Self-powered ECG sensing circuitry is fully enclosed in a housing that provides electrode connection receptacles on a bottom surface of the housing. A flexible and stretchable electrode mounting panel having an elongated shape is provided with a layer of skin adhesive on a skin contacting surface. Sensing electrodes are mounted on opposite ends of the mounting panel. Each sensing electrode includes an electrode pad facing the skin contacting surface and an oppositely-facing electrode connection plug. Each connection plug is removably and pivotably couplable into the connection receptacles. A jumper wire assembly includes a jumper connection plug electrically connected to a jumper connection receptacle. The jumper connection plug is removably and pivotably couplable into the connection receptacles and the jumper connection receptacle is removably and pivotably couplable into the connection plugs on the mounting panel.
US08613704B2
An ophthalmic instrument that discharges a fluid pulse to deform the cornea of a test subject is improved by reducing the working distance between a nosepiece or a discharge tube from which the fluid pulse is discharged and the eye of the test subject. The invention improves measurement repeatability and patient comfort.
US08613699B2
A device for the sterile sheathing of a sterilization-sensitive operating part, which can be connected to a medical instrument for surgical intervention, having a handling element, which comprises a bundled sterile hose at a distal end, whereby the handling element further comprises an opening, through which the sterilization-sensitive operating part can be inserted from proximal to distal into the sterile hose such that the sterilization-sensitive operating part can thereby be sheathed with the hose. It is suggested that a medical instrument is connected fixedly at its proximal end region to a distal end of the sterile hose, and that there is a transfer station, in which the sterilization-sensitive operating part is accommodated, whereby the handling element can be connected to the transfer station such that the medical instrument and the sterilization-sensitive operating part can be connected to one another and that this assembly can be withdrawn from the transfer station, whereby the bundled sterile hose can be pulled over the sterilization-sensitive operating part.
US08613695B2
Apparatus and method for providing and using a highly precise and low level driver. In one described embodiment, a driver for a magnetic field generating device is provided, the driver including a first digital to analog converter and a second digital to analog converter; a differential amplifier configured to receive a first signal from the first digital to analog converter and receive a second signal from the second digital to analog converter and output a third signal; and an attenuator to configured to receive the third signal from the differential amplifier.
US08613694B2
A method for the biological modulation of external beam radiation therapy, in which the temporal and spatial patterning of imparted dose is modified to maximize the dose rate to the target volume while minimizing the dose rate to healthy tissues surrounding the target volume, is provided.
US08613692B2
An exercise chair which is suitable for use with Pilates and other exercises, and which is more easily stored than existing exercise chairs. The exercise chairs are positioned one behind each other in a line. Optionally, the chairs may be locked together and then tilted up as a unit so that the resulting footprint occupied on the floor is relatively small. The chair has a sturdy base having fewer moving parts to avoid sacrificed performance associated with moving parts wearing out. The chair may optional include handle sections or grips to facilitate performing exercises on the chair.
US08613690B1
A neck therapy device adapted to exercise a user's neck is described. The neck therapy device includes a headpiece on which resides a plurality of loops, and through which a strap extends. The strap is typically elastic. The headpiece includes a band portion adapted to encircle a user's head like a headband, extending across the user's forehead and back of head. A user typically grasps ends of the strap in order to modulate neck movement.
US08613689B2
An exercise guidance system and method display either a workout option or different exercise options based on a person's exercise objectives. In one embodiment, the displayed option or options is additionally based at least partially upon a metabolic equivalent. In another embodiment, the displayed option or options is additionally based at least partially upon the time current available time for the workout.
US08613687B2
A planetary gearbox, for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, comprising two stages, each provided with a sun gear, a ring gear and interposed planetary gears. The ring gear of the first planetary stage also forms the sun gear of the second stage, and the planetary gears of both stages are guided by a common planet carrier, produced from a casting material, which accommodates the planetary gears of the first stage at an axial offset position to the planetary gears of the second stage. The planet carrier is designed as one-piece such that pockets are respectively disposed in the planet carrier for receiving the planetary gears of the first stage at an offset angle, in the circumferential direction, to the pockets for receiving the planetary gears of the second stage, so that it is possible to form the pockets during casting using slides.
US08613682B2
A rotating clutch operably disposed between two rotating components includes a hydraulic operator having a piston and, on one side of the piston, an apply chamber or cavity and, on the opposite side of the piston, a balance chamber or cavity. The apply chamber is selectively provided with pressurized hydraulic fluid to engage and release the clutch to couple and de-couple the two rotating components. The balance chamber is provided with a flow of pressurized hydraulic fluid from the transmission lubrication system that flows through the transmission main shaft and flow restricting passages to the balance chamber. An exhaust port downstream of the balance chamber releases excess hydraulic fluid flow. Thus, whether, the clutch is rotating or not, hydraulic pressure is maintained in the balance chamber and proper clutch operation is assured.
US08613678B2
A golf practice mat includes an impact sensor disposed in a vicinity bounding the location of where a golf ball would be placed for striking. The golf practice mat may also include, for example, a “crosshair” target imprint that is disposed on a golf club impact sensor portion of the practice surface and indicates the point/line of contact that the club face should hit the ground after the ball has been struck with the club head in a descending blow. A microcontroller receives and analyzes the output of the impact sensor and generates a display/output message that is coupled to a display that is, for example, embodied on the golf practice mat to provide user shot-related feedback. The display may indicate, for example, the user's golf club, the estimated distance the ball will travel depending upon the impact data analyzed, the club chosen by the user, input backswing data and/or a three-dimensional simulation of the resulting golf stroke.
US08613673B2
A computing system is configured to execute a computer program on a server and to provide a video stream of the program output to a geographically remote client over a communication network. The computing system is further configured to provide executable content of the computer program to the client over the communication network in parallel with the video stream. When a sufficient amount of the executable content has been provided to the client execution of the computer program is transitioned from the server to the client. The transition optionally includes communicating a state of the computer program from the server to the client. The executable content can be provided to the client in an order that is determined based on the state of the computer program. Those parts of the executable content deemed most likely to be necessary to support game play on the client are given priority.
US08613669B1
A game controller having a video display and messaging capability is provided. Such a system is especially useful for video games with multiple players and also for communicating with non-players. In one embodiment, a game controller useful is coupled to a game console which is coupled to a wide area network. The game console is used by a person playing a game on the game console using the game controller. The game controller includes a video display capable of displaying a message sent from a second person over the wide area network. These messages can include textual, video and/or audio data. Messages can be sent from the game controller to the game console, and received from the game console to the game controller via a USB port. The video display can also be used to display game data from the game console. In some embodiment, the game controller includes a keypad for inputting a textual message for the second person. Game controller can also include a camera and/or a microphone for inputting video and/or audio data to be included in a message for the second person. Game controller can also include audible alerts via a speaker or mechanical alerts via an alerter, alerting the person about incoming messages.
US08613659B2
A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device.
US08613657B2
A system that allows precise identification and counting of appropriately equipped gaming chips inside specified zones on a gambling table is disclosed. The system relies on near field magnetic coupling technology whereby a primary looped conductor placed in a gaming zone couples a sufficient amount of energy into one or a plurality of looped conductors located inside gaming chips through a magnetic field of known characteristic.
US08613656B2
The claimed embodiments contemplate methods, systems and apparatuses directed to an active display button. In various embodiments, an active display button may generally be a button containing one or more elements that move when the button is engaged. By example, and not limitation, these elements may include one or more reels, be they mechanical or video, or perhaps a rotating indicator. The active display button may also include lights, vibratory motors and other experience-enhancing implements. The active display button may be installed on a gaming machine and operated in conjunction with the gaming device, separate from the gaming machine on which it is installed or perhaps as part of the operation of the gaming machine.
US08613652B2
A method is provided for implementing a ticket-based Internet lottery game wherein winning plays of the Internet games are validated and redeemed through a lottery authority's existing validation and redemption system for on-line lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are provided for players, with the lottery tickets having a code that enables a player to access a designated web site and play an Internet game having a prize structure. The code is validated against a database and, for winning plays of the Internet game, a virtual bet is generated and transferred to the on-line lottery ticket validation system. Virtual drawings are periodically conducted within the on-line lottery ticket validation system in order to load win files corresponding to winning plays of the Internet game into the on-line lottery ticket winners database. The winning players are instructed as to a time after the virtual drawing when they can redeem their prize.
US08613649B2
Gaming systems and methods for operating a gaming system are provided. The gaming system includes a controller operable with a plurality of gaming devices. Based at least in part on wagering activity, the controller determines a ranking for a plurality of gaming devices in the gaming system. The controller determines a plurality of the ranked gaming devices that are eligible for a designated award and, for each of the plurality of eligible gaming devices, determines a probability of being selected to win the designated award. The controller selects at least one of the eligible gaming devices based part on the determined probability for said at least one eligible gaming device, and causes the at least one selected gaming device to provide the designated award.
US08613635B2
Fluid activated retrieval devices for retrieving an object from a fluidic medium are presented including: a hollow base having a cavity formed therein, where the hollow base includes, a port disposed along an outer surface of the hollow base, the port configured to provide passage of the fluidic medium to the cavity, a diaphragm disposed along the cavity and proximate to the port, and an anchor disposed along the cavity for securing a line; a deployable float housing removably attached with the hollow base, the deployable float housing having another cavity formed therein, where the deployable float housing includes, a buoyant chamber disposed along a distal end of the other cavity, a spool for receiving the line, the spool disposed within the second cavity and attached with the deployable float housing; and a reactant disposed in the cavities.
US08613633B2
An electrical connector for terminating a plurality of line wires of communications cable which comprises a dielectric housing; a terminal insert, a contact subassembly and a wire fixture, and a polarization circuit fully covered by the wire fixture it is in a closed or working position.
US08613625B2
A network component includes an electrical device (10) for exchanging signals via a communication line (1) of a network. The electrical device (10) is configured to be connected electrically to wires (3) of the communication line (1) and includes pins (20), which are configured to pierce the insulation material (2) enclosing the wires (3) of the communication line (1).
US08613614B2
In an embodiment, a neck mold assembly includes N rows of holding plates, each of the N rows of holding plates holding a plurality of neck molds. The neck mold assembly also includes a supporting-mechanism that supports the N rows of holding plates. The supporting mechanism includes at least one reinforcement shaft that is provided along a row direction of the N rows of holding plates, and two first securing sections that are secured at either end of the at least one reinforcement shaft. Each of the N rows of holding plates has at least one first through-hole that receives the at least one reinforcement shaft.
US08613612B2
A tool and method for forming a container from a construct. The tool comprising a cavity for receiving a construct, a core operatively associated with the cavity and being operable to move into the cavity, an injection cavity for receiving injection-molding material and directing injection-molding material around at least a portion of the perimeter of the construct, and a clamping feature. The clamping feature is operatively connected to at least one of the cavity and the core and is for clamping a peripheral portion of the construct as the core moves into the cavity to form the construct into the container.
US08613607B2
A pressure pulsation dampener for use in a gas stream is disclosed herein. The dampener can include a housing with an inlet half and an outlet half having a recess, a shaft hole, and an extension with an outlet port. The inlet half can be secured to the outlet half, and can have an extension with an inlet port, forming a flow path. A choke plate can be disposed in the recess within the flow path. A shaft can be disposed through the outlet half to move the openings. The dampener can include an indicator plate with indicator openings. A fastener can engage the indicator openings and secure to the outlet half. The dampener can have a transducer, a motor connected to the shaft, a motor driver, and a controller in communication with the motor driver for comparing frequency rates to preset limits and activating the motor.
US08613603B2
An armature for a solenoid actuator is disclosed. The armature comprises a first face comprising a recess suitable for receiving a biasing spring in use of the armature; a second face opposite the first face; and fluid communication passages for providing a fluid flow path through the armature between the recess and the second face in use of the armature. The first face is uninterrupted by the fluid communication passages. The invention reduces the risk of cavitation damage during operation of the actuator. In one application, the actuator is used in a fluid pump for a selective catalytic reduction system.
US08613596B2
One embodiment of the present invention is a unique turbomachinery device, a non-limiting example of which is a gas turbine engine. Another embodiment is a unique vane assembly for a turbomachinery device. Another embodiment is a unique seal assembly for a vane of a turbomachinery device. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for turbomachinery devices, and for vane assemblies and seal assemblies for turbomachinery devices. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application shall become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
US08613589B2
To provide a thermal insulation structure for a structural member and a scroll structure which can be easily used even in integrally constructed structural members and which can ensure reliability and thermal insulation properties. Provided are securing portions (52 and 53) extending outward from an outer wall of the structural member; a press plate (55) attached to the securing portions (52 and 53), with a gap between the press plate and the outer wall; and a thermal insulation member (56) disposed between the outer wall and the press plate (55).
US08613582B2
A system of shuttle cars for transporting a vehicle in an automated parking facility. Each shuttle car includes an x-shuttle that supports two z-shuttles. The z-shuttles move from the x-shuttle and under the vehicle for transport. The z-shuttles locate and engage the front and rear tires of a vehicle to lift the vehicle from the floor. Once the z-shuttles have engage the vehicle tires, the z-shuttles return to the x-shuttle so that the x-shuttle can transport the vehicle (and the z-shuttles) to and from the appropriate parking space.
US08613581B2
In a machine (1) for manufacturing perfect-bound brochures (2) that includes a book block conveying device (10) with an endless conveying means (11), a plurality of clamps (14) that are arranged on the conveying means at a fixed pitch spacing (T) and serve for clamping book blocks (3, 3.1 . . . 3.8), and of at least one processing station (25, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30) that can be adjusted in a motor-driven fashion, the cycle time (t0) referred to the conveyance of the clamps (14) by the pitch spacing (T) defined in the at least one processing station is divided into an adjusting segment (tV1, tV2) for resetting and/or adjusting the at least one processing station (25, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30) in accordance with changing printed product characteristics and a processing segment (tB1, tB2) for processing the book blocks (3, 3.1 . . . 3.8) and/or covers (4, 4.1 . . . 4.4). The resetting of the at least one processing station to another printed product can take place within one work cycle (t0) of the respective processing station while the conveyance of the book blocks (3, 3.1 . . . 3.8) continues.
US08613578B2
A hidden tie down provides a round collar that is inserted into a like-sized round aperture formed in a planar surface. A cap and cap mount are attachable to the collar at the outer face of the surface. A fastener secures the collar to the surface at the inner face of the surface. Two opposing bushings are disposed within the collar to retain each end of a hook loop within them. The hook loop includes a round lid that closes off a like-sized round opening in the cap such that, in one position, the lid closes off the cap opening and creates a substantially flush surface across the cap. In another position, the hook loop extends outwardly from the cap opening to provide an attachment structure. Each bushing includes a detent to retain the hook loop in a stowed position.
US08613575B2
The present invention relates to an indexable cutting insert which is provided with at least two bearing surfaces for securing to a holder, said at least two bearing surfaces being each subdivided into individual subsurfaces, wherein the at least two bearing surfaces, with respect to a center plane of the cutting insert, forms at least three edges in one half of said cutting insert, said edges bounding the subsurfaces for the formation of crowning, approximating to convexity, of the at least two bearing surfaces.
US08613570B2
A method of constructing a semi-submersible unit with a side wall. To construct the semi-submersible unit, the method can include placing a hull in a body of water and connecting a deck structure to the hull. In addition, there is a kit for constructing a semi-submersible unit, with a side wall.
US08613569B2
An offshore windpower plant (OWP) including a wind turbine and foundation and a new method of installing them that exclude the use of a jack up crane vessel. By this system and method, named OWP technology, the completely assembled wind turbines are lifted from the shore stand, using the buoyancy force of a catamaran wind installer (CWTI), transported to the preinstalled foundation, engaged with it in a manner that would exclude CWTI from rolling and pitching and by this allow to use the installed foundation as the base for stability for safely placing a wind turbine on it allowing placement of wind turbines on foundations regardless of the depth of their installation. The CWTI does not need a heavy lift revolving heavy lift crane and also does not need legs, thus making the system and method simpler, smaller and drastically less expensive than jack up crane vessles.
US08613562B2
A printer with a cutter is provided that can discharge cut-offs in a stable condition. A printer includes a transportation path, a transportation mechanism that conveys a recording medium along the transportation path, a fixed knife having a cutting edge, a movable knife having a cutting edge and moving between a standby position and a cutting-completed position, and an exit disposed along the transportation path. The exit includes a narrow opening defined by a first elongated side offset from the transportation path beyond the movable-knife cutting edge in the cutting-completed position, and a second elongated side opposite the first elongated side and offset from the transportation path opposite to the first elongated side. The second elongated side can be located immediately adjacent to the transportation path, for example, by less than or equal to 2 mm.
US08613561B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to an optical USB (OUSB) to enhance the data rate of USB by adding super-high data rate (e.g. 10 Gbps) optical communication on top of its current specification so that backward compatibility is achievable. Mechanical tolerances may be achieved by using embedded lenses to expand a beam emerging from the connector prior to entering its mating connector and using an identical lens in the mating connector to collimate the beam back onto a fiber.
US08613558B2
A constant preload device of a ball bearing is provided. The preload device includes an elastic member having a hollow shape with openings at both sides in an elastic direction, and two holders inserted into the openings at the both sides of the elastic member, respectively. Each holder includes a flange part configured to contact an end portion of the opening, into which the holder is inserted, to regulate an extension of the elastic member in the elastic direction, and a claw part configured to engage with the other holder to regulate separation from the other holder. The holders are engaged to each other by the claw parts such that the elastic member is exposed from the holders. When the preload device applies preload to the ball bearing, the ball bearing contacts the preload device only at an outer ring of the ball bearing.
US08613555B2
An assembly includes a composite metal-polymer bushing having an outer metal layer with an inner surface, metal particles sintered to the inner surface, a polymer material between the metal particles, a finished interior surface collectively defined by the polymer material and exposed portions of the metal particles, a plurality of interstices formed between the metal particles and the polymer material, and a plurality of ridges defined by the polymer material that protrude above the metal particles. The ridges occupy at least about 8% of the area of a cylindrical reference surface nominally coinciding with the finished interior surface. The assembly also includes a crankshaft having a journal at least partially received within the bushing and supported by the finished interior surface. The journal is polished to a surface finish of about 0.1 microns or less to reduce a wear rate of the bushing.
US08613550B2
A slide cover stabilization/synchronization mechanism includes a slide seat, a base seat and two elastic abutment assemblies. Two slide guide sections, which can be guide rails, are disposed on two lateral sides of the slide seat in parallel to each other. Two holding sections are disposed on two lateral sides of the base seat for fitting with the slide guide sections. The elastic abutment assemblies are respectively disposed on the each holding section. The elastic abutment assemblies respectively at least partially elastically abut against the slide guide sections directly or indirectly. Accordingly, the base seat can be stably and smoothly slid along the slide guide sections without deflection.
US08613548B2
A flexible pouch for containing a carbonated product, and having a curvilinear shaped lower edge and method of producing the same is provided. The pouch includes a pouch body having an upper edge, a curvilinear bottom edge, and a side edge extending between the upper edge and bottom edge. The curvilinear bottom edge includes a curvilinear bottom seal corresponding to the curvilinear bottom edge, to distribute a force from the product evenly across the curvilinear bottom seal. The method forming a pouch body from a panel of laminate material, and aligning the first side edge with the second side edge to form the front wall and back wall of the pouch body. The method includes forming a side seal and forming a curvilinear bottom seal corresponding to the curvilinear bottom edge of the pouch body.
US08613539B2
A computer bezel includes a bezel body, a light-guide structure mounted to the bezel body, and two light sources mounted on the bezel body. The light-guide structure includes a guiding portion and a lighting portion extending from the guiding portion. The lighting portion defines an outer surface to be exposed out of the bezel body. The guiding portion includes a bottom surface and two side surfaces. The bottom surface is connected between the two side surfaces. The guiding portion defines two cutouts recessed along the bottom surface. The two cutouts are located in the guiding portion symmetrically. Each light source corresponds to one of the two side surfaces. The guiding portion is configured to guide a plurality of light beams emitted from the two light sources to the lighting portion to enable the plurality of light beams to be refracted from the outer surface.
US08613537B2
A display and illumination system includes a light source section accommodating a light source; an optical fiber for transmitting light from the light source; a display illumination unit radiating light transmitted by the optical fiber; a light source module installed in the light source section, accommodating the light source, and optically connected to the optical fiber; a plug electrode installed in the light source module and supplying electric power to the light source; a convex portion on a first side of the light source module, engaging the optical fiber, and extracting light from the light source; and a concave portion located opposite the first side of the light source module and urging the convex portion toward the optical fiber with a constant force.
US08613532B2
In the light flux controlling member (5), the angle between an optical path of light output from the light emission center (14) of a light emitting element (4) and optical axis L1 is θ2. Light is incident on the light flux controlling member (5) through an input surface and travels inside the light flux controlling member at an angle θ2 with respect to optical axis L1. Then, light is output from a light control output surface (10) at an angle θ3 with respect to optical axis L1. The input surface (15) and the light control output surface (10) are formed such that, in a range 0<θ1≦θ1max, the relationship between θ1 and θ2 is reversed from θ1<θ2 to θ1>θ2 when θ1 increases, and the relationship between θ1 and θ3 is reversed from θ1<θ3 to θ1>θ3 when θ1 increases.
US08613519B2
Disclosed herein is a retroreflector configured for mounting onto the spokes of a spoked wheel, comprising a body including fixing portions and a reflective surface extending over a major portion of the surface of the body, the body having an elongate shape and being configured so that it is mounted onto a spoke in the direction of its length l, its height h essentially being arranged orthogonal to the surface defined by a rotating spoke. The reflective surface has several reflecting surface portions, including two major opposite portions configured so that they are essentially orthogonal to the direction of rotation of the wheel and transverse to the direction of travel of the vehicle, their reflection being directed principally towards the front and the rear of the vehicle.
US08613518B2
A light source apparatus includes a light source apparatus body that emits light, and a light source apparatus housing that houses the light source apparatus body. The light source apparatus body includes a connector that electrically connects the light source apparatus body to a light source driver. The light source apparatus housing includes a handle used to grasp the light source apparatus and a connector holder that holds the connector. The handle is connected to the connector holder.
US08613517B2
An illumination system and a projection device comprising the same are provided. The illumination system comprises a main optical axis, a light source, a wheel, an optical device, a first wavelength transformer and a first angle selective film. The light source is adapted to provide a light beam advancing along the main optical axis. The wheel is adapted to rotate according to a control signal. The optical device comprises a first lens, a second lens and a third lens sequentially disposed between the light source and the wheel along the main optical axis. The optical device is adapted to converge the light beam to a focused position on the wheel. The first wavelength transformer is disposed on the wheel for receiving and transforming the light beam into a first wavelength light. The first angle selective film is adapted to angle-selectively filter the first wavelength light, and is disposed on the first wavelength transformer. The first wavelength transformer is disposed between the light source and the first angle selective film.
US08613516B2
An ophthalmic illumination device has an illuminating body. The illuminating body has a through-opening whose side wall is formed by a member made of an opalescent material. A light source is housed inside the illuminating body and a light-guide adapted to radially convey light beams emitted by the light source towards an axis of the through-opening is positioned between the light source and the opalescent member. The ophthalmic illumination device can generate extremely homogenous shafts of light, while minimizing occurrences of dark portions.
US08613515B2
A lens receptor that includes relief mechanism, such as a kerf-like slotted spring lock, that releases under pressure to allow the insertion of the lens and once inserted, provides sufficient force to retain the lens in position even during athletic activity. The lock includes an interior space that includes latches. The lens includes catches and detents that correspond to the latches. In operation, the lock is forced into the open position as the catches of the lens are forced to the backside of the latches, and as the lock closes, the latches are forced into the detents thereby securing the lens to the lock.
US08613512B2
A recording head is operable to eject ink toward a recording medium. A carriage mounting the recording head is operable to carry the recording head in a first direction. At least one infrared ray heater is provided on the carriage so as to oppose the recording medium. An input energy of the infrared ray heater is 60 W or less.
US08613510B2
An ink composition for ink jet recording with excellent ink storage stability, which makes it possible to solve the problems concerning blurring or strike through and perform printing with high density and high image quality, is provided. An ink jet recording method which makes it possible to carry out printing with high density and image quality while causing little strike through, using the ink composition, is also provided.The ink composition for ink jet recording, contains at least water, a coloring material, a block polymer that has an ethylene oxide moiety and a propylene oxide moiety, and is gelled at 50° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower, and a polymer latex.
