US09030805B2
Two electrodes are drawn out from a wound capacitor element by a pair of leads. Each of electrodes forming the capacitor element includes a sheet-like collector, an electrode layer formed on the surface of the collector, and an exposed part provided on one edge of the collector. The electrode layer is not formed on the exposed part. The electrodes are wound such that the exposed parts come to both ends of the capacitor element. Two or more points of at least one of the exposed parts are connected together.
US09030801B2
There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body having first and second side surfaces facing each other, and third and fourth end surfaces connecting the first and second side surfaces, a plurality of internal electrodes formed in the ceramic body and having one ends thereof exposed to the third end surface or the fourth end surface, and a first side margin part and a second side margin part formed such that an average thickness thereof from the first and second side surfaces to edges of the internal electrodes is 18 μm or less.
US09030800B2
A thin film capacitor includes an under electrode, a plurality of dielectric body layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers that are alternately laminated on the under electrode, the internal electrode layers respectively including protrusion parts that each protrude from the dielectric body layers viewed in the lamination direction, and connection electrodes to which at least a portion of each of the protrusion parts contacts. Assuming that protrusion amounts of the protrusion parts of the internal electrode layers that are connected to the same connection electrode are regarded as L, a protrusion amount Ln of a protrusion part of nth (n≧2) internal electrode layer from the under electrode side is smaller than another protrusion amount Ln-1 of another protrusion part of (n−1)th internal electrode layer.
US09030795B2
A method provides electronic overload protection having a thermal trip level. The method executes a function by a processor; provides the electronic overload protection by the function executed by the processor; and adjusts the thermal trip level by the function executed by the processor in order to mimic adjusting a physical thermal characteristic of a thermal time constant of a fixed mechanical system.
US09030794B2
An electronic fuse apparatus is connected between a power side and a system side. The electronic fuse apparatus mainly includes an electronic fuse, a short-circuit protection switch, a current-sensing module, and a digital control module. The current-sensing module detects an operating current which flows from the power side to the system side. The digital control module generates a control signal to control the electronic fuse. When the current-sensing module detects that the operating current is over-current, the digital control module generates the high-level control signal to turn off the electronic fuse, thus providing an over-current protection. When a short-circuit fault occurs at the system side, the short-circuit protection switch is turned on to turn off the electronic fuse, thus providing a short-circuit protection.
US09030792B2
A semiconductor device may be protected from over-voltages via a comparator-controlled, high-current FET coupled to the semiconductor device output and between circuit devices that carry high voltages. A three-terminal, N-channel field effect transistor (FET) may have its source coupled to the output of the semiconductor device to be protected from over voltage. The FET drain may be connected to the load to be driven by the semiconductor device. A transistor, or other voltage comparator, may be configured and connected in order to compare the voltage on the FET drain to a Vmax reference voltage. When a voltage on the FET drain exceeds Vmax, the comparator output may shut down the FET, thereby isolating the semiconductor device, which is connected to the FET source, from the overvoltage on the FET drain.
US09030791B2
A circuit for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is disclosed. The circuit includes multiple transistors that are selectively turned on during an ESD event. An ESD sense circuit detects an ESD event and asserts signals to activate an ESD protection circuit which closes multiple protection transistors to dissipate current during the ESD event. During normal operation of the circuit, the signals are de-asserted, disabling the ESD protection circuit.
US09030790B1
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit, set forth by way of example and not limitation, includes an input operative to receive input signals and a primary protection circuit coupled to the input. The protection circuit is operative to provide a single ESD current path for one or more the input signals that are ESD strikes. The currents of positive ESD strikes and negative ESD strikes flow through the single ESD current path, where the single ESD current path is not used by one or more of the input signals that are non-ESD signals.
US09030789B2
The present invention is directed to a protective wiring device that includes a rear cover member having a portion substantially defining a line terminal interface region. An electric circuit assembly includes a sensor assembly coupled to a fault detection circuit. A plurality of line terminal interface contacts are disposed in the line terminal interface region, each line terminal interface contact being connected to a termination structure coupled to the rear body member. A conductive pathway is configured to interconnect the termination structure and a corresponding one of the first set of contacts via the sensor assembly. The conductive pathway includes a conductive structure disposed in the rear cover member and mounted to the at least one PCB. The line terminal interface contacts are configured to mate with a removably attachable electrical adapter connected to the plurality of AC power transmitting wires to provide AC power to the electric circuit assembly.
US09030786B2
In one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a magnetoresistive sensor having a free layer and a soft magnetic layer adapted to control a magnetization direction of the free layer and a magnetic domain of the free layer, wherein a close-packed plane of the soft magnetic layer is positioned parallel to an air bearing surface (ABS) of the magnetic head. In another embodiment, a method for forming a magnetic head includes forming a magnetoresistive sensor having a free layer above a substrate and forming a soft magnetic layer adapted to control a magnetization direction of the free layer and a magnetic domain of the free layer, wherein a close-packed plane of the soft magnetic layer is positioned parallel or oblique to an ABS of the magnetic head.
US09030782B2
A data reader and associated method of making are generally provided. A data reader capable of sensing adjacent data bits may be configured at least with a magnetic stack disposed between first and second side shields. Each side shield may have a polish stop layer that is tuned to provide a first predetermined polish rate.
US09030781B1
Technologies are described herein for detecting an external magnetic field affecting a magnetic storage device through use of the read/write heads of the device. The magneto-resistive resistance (“MRR”) associated with a pair of read/write heads oriented to read and write opposite recording surfaces of the storage medium. If the change in the MRR associated with the first read/write head is in an inverse direction to the change in MRR associated with the second read/write head and the change in the MRR of either read/write head exceeds a threshold, then all operations of the storage device are halted and the read/write heads are parked.
US09030772B2
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses that provide for variable data density on a disc data storage medium, where the variable data density may have a circumferential definition and a radial definition. In some examples, devices and methods may include measuring a read or write performance attribute on a disc data storage medium and selectively setting a data density rate that may vary in a circumferential direction for the disc data storage medium based on the read or write performance attribute. In other examples, apparatuses can include a data storage device having a disc data storage medium and a controller configured to measure a performance attribute of the disc data storage medium and to selectively set different Bits Per Inch (BPI) for data storage within different areas of the disc.
US09030763B2
A lens device is used with an imaging device having a imaging-lens and an aperture stop device. The lens device includes a lens barrel that houses the imaging-lens and the aperture stop device, a first operation ring that is on an outer circumferential portion of the lens barrel and that is rotatable in a circumferential direction of the outer circumferential portion about an axis line of the lens barrel in order to adjust the aperture-area of the aperture stop device, and a second operation ring that is parallel with the first operation ring and is rotatable in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential portion about the axis line of the lens barrel in order to adjust a transmittance of a variable light transmission filter.
US09030745B2
A wafer level lens includes a first lens structure of a first polymeric material coupled to a second lens structure of a second polymeric material, wherein an interface is formed by opposing surfaces of the first lens structure and the second lens structure, the opposing surfaces having no air gap therebetween, at least one aperture disposed between the first lens structure and the second lens structure, wherein the aperture contacts the first lens structure and the second lens structure and wherein a supporting substrate is not positioned between the first lens structure and the second lens structure, and a spacer coupled to and separate from the wafer level lens.
US09030744B2
A method for fabricating a micro lens array is provided. The method includes forming a first lens material structure on a substrate. The first lens material structure includes a plurality of elevated portions. The elevated portions are separated by recesses. Moreover, the plurality of elevated portions have an average height of at least 3 micrometers. Furthermore, the method for fabricating a micro lens array includes depositing a dielectric material on the first lens material structure and the recesses to form a second lens material structure. The second lens material structure has an average thickness of at least 1 micrometer. Moreover, the first and second lens material structures form together the micro lens array.
US09030743B2
An optical filter includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a first reflecting film provided to the first substrate; a second reflecting film provided to the second substrate and opposed to the first reflecting film; a first electrode provided to the first substrate in a peripheral area of the first reflecting film; a second electrode provided to the first substrate in a peripheral area of the first electrode; a third electrode provided to the second substrate and opposed to the first electrode; and a fourth electrode provided to the second substrate and opposed to the second electrode.
US09030741B2
An image stabilizing apparatus includes a shift member holding a lens, a first driver moving the shift member in a first direction in a plane orthogonal to an optical axis, and a second driver moving the shift member in a second direction in the plane orthogonal to the optical axis. The first driver includes a first magnet, a first coil, and a first yoke in order in an optical axis direction, the second driver includes a second magnet, a second coil, and a second yoke in order in the optical axis direction, the first yoke has a protrusion that protrudes in the first direction at least one of end portions extending in a direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the second yoke has a protrusion that protrudes in the second direction at least one of end portions extending in a direction orthogonal to the second direction.
US09030735B2
An optical sight ensures a more accurate aim at feebly discernible targets in the twilight and in dull weather. The sight includes an objective, a reticule, an erecting system consisting of a first and a second positive component, each of which is cemented of two lenses, and an eyepiece. The sight also includes a beam-splitting cube, the beam-splitting face made as a diagonal face, three mirrors and a third positive component cemented of two lenses, a first plane mirror parallel to the beam-splitting face of the cube on the same axis with the third positive component, a second plane mirror perpendicular to the first mirror in front of a focal plane of the eyepiece, and a third mirror tilted to the optical axis and faced with its reflective surface toward the eyepiece arranged between the eyepiece focal plane and the second component of the erecting system.
US09030726B2
A gaming system including an electronic gaming machine (EGM) having a multi-layer display is described. In particular, the EGM can be configured with a display that provides a 3D-like image. An acousto-optical modulator interstitial component can be positioned between two liquid crystal displays to mitigate moiré interference. A piezoelectric transducer can be attached to a glass interstitial component or to a display panel of a multi-layer display in order to control the moiré interference.
US09030717B2
Provided are an image reading apparatus, a compression-ratio determination method and a computer-readable, non-transitory medium that can determine a compression ratio such that the data amount after compression would be optimal. The image reading apparatus includes an image generator for generating an input image by reading a document, a document-type identification module for identifying a type of the document, and an image compressor for compressing the input image, wherein the image compressor determines a compression ratio for compressing the input image, based on the type of the document.
US09030714B2
An image processing apparatus for generating dot data to form an image by forming dots on a recording medium includes a receiving unit, a first, second, and third generating unit, and a correcting unit. The receiving unit receives first and second image data included in image data. The first generating unit generates, per the first image data, first ink color data representing a multi-valued signal value corresponding to an ink color. The second generating unit generates, per the second image data, second ink color data representing a multi-valued signal value corresponding to an ink color. The correcting unit corrects the signal value represented by the generated first and second ink color data. The third generating unit generates, per the first and second ink color data of which the signal values have been corrected, the dot data representing existence of formation of dots to form an image.
US09030705B2
A printing control method includes obtaining a size of a sheet to be used for printing, determining a size of a post-trimming sheet according to the obtained sheet size, specifying a print position of barcode information according to the determined sheet size, and controlling the barcode information to be printed in the specified position.
US09030700B2
A relay device includes a receiver that receives facsimile transmission instructions via a private network from a client device that does not include facsimile transmitting functions, a facsimile communication unit that transmits a facsimile externally via a public network, on the basis of the facsimile transmission instructions received by the receiver, a determiner that, on the basis of the content of the facsimile transmission instructions received by the receiver, determines whether or not to request another device connected via the private network to execute facsimile transmission, and a requester that, in the case where the determiner determines to request another device to execute facsimile transmission, sends a transmission request regarding some or all of the facsimile transmission instructions received by the receiver to another device.
US09030698B2
An image processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to control a storage unit configured to associate and store a document and a thumbnail image of a top page of the document, a deletion unit configured to delete a page designated from among pages of the document stored in the storage unit, and a generation unit configured to, in a case where a page to be deleted by the deletion unit is a top page of the document, generate a thumbnail image based on the top page of the document after deletion.
US09030697B2
The present invention discloses a printing device. The printing device of the present invention may include a communication element capable of communicating with an external host utilizing a plurality of telecommunication network technologies to receive a file sent from the external host to the device, a printing element electrically coupled to the communication element to output an image file, and an audio outputting element electrically coupled to the communication element to output an audio file, wherein the communication element identifies a file type of the file received from the external host and selectively sends the file to the printing element or the audio outputting element.
US09030694B2
An information processing system includes at least one information processing apparatus; a connecting unit configured to enable a connection with at least one device via a network; an acquiring unit configured to acquire attribute information on at least one distribution destination that is a destination of data to be distributed from the distribution destination, the distribution destination allowing a user to designate in the device; an output unit configured to output the acquired attribute information to the device via the network; and a distribution control unit configured to perform a process of distributing the data to the distribution destination designated by the user in the device after the attribute information is output to the device.
US09030693B2
A communication apparatus at a client side communicates with a server to update remote one-touch keys each time because a remote one-touch key can be deleted or added in a communication apparatus at the server side. However, a remote one-touch key selected to specify a transmission destination can be used to deselect the transmission destination. Consequently, the communication apparatus at the client side does not update the remote one-touch keys while the remote one-touch key is selected to specify the transmission destination. With the configuration, the one-touch keys provided from the communication apparatus at the server side can be used while the operability of the one-touch keys is maintained.
US09030692B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an HDD for storing a plurality of pieces of transmission destination information in correspondence with a short-cut key for instructing image transmission; an operation unit displaying the short-cut key and detecting selection of the short-cut key; and a control unit displaying the plurality of transmission destinations stored in correspondence with the short-cut key if a prescribed condition is satisfied. The operation unit receives a selection operation of selecting a piece of transmission destination information from among the displayed plurality of pieces of transmission destination information, and the control unit determines the selected piece of transmission destination information to be the transmission destination of image transmission made by the selection of the short-cut key. Even if a plurality of transmission destinations are registered with the short-cut key, erroneous transmission to an unintended destination can be prevented.
US09030683B2
An information processing apparatus performs, when an instruction is received on a gadget from a user and a printer object allocated to the gadget exists, processing using a printer driver allocated to the printer object, and displays, when an instruction is received on the gadget from the user and the printer object allocated to the gadget does not exist, a setting screen for the gadget.
US09030679B2
An operation unit of an image forming apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, allowing accurate and easy input by the user requesting switching of display to a screen image allowing selection of an operation mode, includes: a pilot lamp, a touch-panel display, and hardware keys including a power key, an energy-saving key and a home key. The home key that switches the display on the touch-panel display to an operation mode selecting screen image (home screen image) when pressed is provided closer to the touch-panel display than other hardware buttons.
US09030676B2
The spatial information detection device emits, to a space including an intended area, signal light defined as light modulated with a modulation signal defined as a square wave signal having high and low level periods appearing alternately, each of the periods having its length randomly selected from integral multiples of a unit time period. The device generates signal electric charges by accumulating electric charges generated in response to light from the space in a collection time period determined by a demodulation signal defined as a signal having the same waveform as that of the modulation signal or that of the inverted modulation signal. The device corrects, using correction information regarding an effect caused by light from an unintended area, the amount of signal electric charges as an amount of intended electric charges produced in response to light from the intended area, thereby generating spatial information.
US09030673B2
An automated motorized assembly may be utilized to move a laser reflector on inside or outside surfaces, along edges of barrel shape structures. The laser reflector may be used to reflect laser signals back to a laser tracker metrology system locked in on the laser reflector. The laser tracker may follow the laser reflector as it moves along an edge of a barrel shape structure, acquiring circumferential data. The laser reflector may be moved to different positions to enable obtaining different circumferential rows of data. The automated motorized assembly may comprise a movement component that ensures consistent, continued, and/or tight movement along the traversed edge. The movement component may comprise a plurality of wheels and/or rollers, and one or more motors for driving at least some of the wheels and/or rollers. The automated motorized assembly may be controlled by user input, which may be communicated wirelessly.
US09030667B2
A method to collect 3D measurement data regarding a working fluid in a system, e.g., a turbo-machine, including: arranging sources of beams proximate to a passage of the working fluid in or downstream of the turbo-machine such that beams from the sources are projected through the working fluid; detecting intensities of the beams after they pass through the working fluid, and generating at least a two dimensional (2D) representation of the working fluid based on the detected intensities of the beams.
US09030666B2
A non-dispersive gas analyzer comprising a light source, having light that shines through a measuring cuvette containing a measuring gas to be analyzed onto a non selective detector having a downstream evaluation unit, wherein a multi-component gas analysis is made possible using in a simple manner in that the light source is a flash discharge lamp and the evaluation unit is configured to evaluate the temporal pulse curves of the flash shining onto the detector such that it is possible to take advantage of the property of flash discharge lamps in that the emitted wavelength components vary over the duration of the flash.
US09030658B1
Multi-resolution optical probing system having reliable temperature control and mechanical isolation
An optical probe system for probing an electronic device includes a sample plate that can hold a target device comprising an integrated circuit, an optical objective system that can collect reflected or emitted light from the integrated circuit in the target device, and a temperature control chamber that can hold a fluid to control the temperature of the target device.
US09030657B2
A device and method for subaperture stray light detection and diagnosis. A test light beam is generated. Stray light is detected. Based on the detected stray light, potential paths that light may have taken to arrive at the detection surface are determined. A testing device comprises a test light beam source whereby the cross sectional area of the test light beam is made less than the cross sectional area of the system aperture. A relative lateral positioning stage and an angular beam directing stage launch the test light beam into the aperture. A detector and a data processing system produce a data set relating the stray light to the location and directional angles of the test light beam to identify the sources of stray light. A light trap and test light beam delivery system are provided.
US09030645B2
In an illumination optical system, a light flux from a light source is made to come into a first fly's eye optical system, and an illumination area is illuminated, via a second fly's eye optical system and a condenser optical system, with light fluxes from a plurality of mirror elements which construct the first fly's eye optical system, wherein a reflecting surface of each of the mirror elements has a width in one direction narrower than a width of each of the mirror elements in a direction perpendicular to the one direction, and a reflectance distribution in the one direction of each of the mirror elements is trapezoidal. The intensity distribution of the illumination area can be set to be a nonuniform distribution, and respective points in the illumination area can be illuminated with the light fluxes having an approximately same aperture angle distribution.
US09030643B2
A liquid crystal prism element includes: a first prism array; a second prism array arranged so as to face the first prism array; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first and second prism arrays. The first prism array is composed of a plurality of first prisms that have ridge lines extending in a Y axis direction and are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in an X axis direction The second prism array is composed of second prisms that have ridge lines extending in the Y axis direction and are arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals in the X axis direction. Each first prism has an inclined surface facing a center side of the liquid crystal layer. Each second prism has an inclined surface facing the center side of the liquid crystal layer.
US09030635B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first electrode, a stage including an electrode formation surface, a switching element, a second electrode and a first vertical alignment film. The second substrate includes a third electrode and a second vertical alignment film. The electrode formation surface is positioned closer to the second substrate than a portion of the first vertical alignment film, which opposes the first electrode.
US09030633B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device that can electrically control the viewing angle. A liquid crystal display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a first electrode group on the lower substrate and a first region of liquid crystals in image drive areas controllable according to an applied voltage, and a second electrode group on the lower substrate and a second region of liquid crystals in viewing angle control areas controllable according to an applied voltage, wherein the first region and the second region may be controlled separately.
US09030631B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal displaying panel, which includes a first substrate having a displaying area and a sealant-coating area surrounding the displaying area and a light-blocking layer arranged between the displaying area and the sealant-coating area. The light-blocking layer can absorb and block ultraviolet light to prevent the ultraviolet light from affecting the liquid crystal layer. Additionally, the light-blocking layer and the pixel electrode layer are formed in the same process, that is, the light-blocking layer is simultaneously formed when the pixel electrode layer is formed. A thickness of the light-blocking layer is equal to that of the pixel electrode layer. Since the thickness of the light-blocking layer is equal to that of the pixel electrode layer, the pixel electrode layer and the light-blocking layer can be formed in the same process, which simplifies the manufacturing process of the light-blocking layer and the needed equipment.
US09030626B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, which includes a backlight module, a mold frame arranged on the backlight module, a liquid crystal display panel arranged on the mold frame, a front enclosure made of a plastic material and arranged on the liquid crystal display panel, and a conductor piece mounted on the front enclosure. The backlight module includes a backplane made of a conductive materiel, a backlight source mounted in the backplane, and an optic film assembly received in the backplane. The conductor piece includes a first conductive section to which a second conductive section is connected. The first conductive section is arranged between the front enclosure and the liquid crystal display panel to engage the liquid crystal display panel. A bolt is received through the second conductive section of the conductor piece, the front enclosure, and the mold frame to engage and fix to the backplane.
US09030619B2
A semiconductor device (100A) according to the present invention includes: a thin-film transistor (10); a first insulating layer (9) which has been formed over the thin-film transistor (10); a second insulating layer (11) which has been formed on the first insulating layer (9) and which has a hole (21a); and an opaque layer (12a) which is arranged so as to overlap an oxide semiconductor layer (5) when viewed along a normal to the substrate (1). The opaque layer (12a) has been formed in the hole (21a). The opaque layer (12a) has a raised and curved upper surface and the upper surface of the second insulating layer (11) is located closer to the substrate (1) than the upper surface of the opaque layer (12a) is.
US09030618B2
A flexible display panel includes a first display region that is flat, second display regions located at both sides of the first display region and curved by a predetermined angle, a plurality of pixels formed in the first display region, and a plurality of pixels formed in the second display regions, Each of the plurality of pixels formed in the first display region and the second display regions includes a light-emitting diode and a driving thin-film transistor (TFT) connected to the light-emitting diode, the driving TFT supplying a driving current to the light-emitting diode. A size of the driving TFT varies for each of the plurality of pixels formed in the second display regions so that driving currents supplied by driving TFTs in the second display regions vary in one direction with respect to boundaries between the first display region and the second display regions.
US09030614B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical element includes a first substrate unit, a second substrate unit, a liquid crystal layer, and spacers. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate, first electrodes, and second electrodes. The first substrate has a first major surface. The first electrodes are provided on the first major surface. One of the second electrodes is provided in a space between the first electrodes. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate, and an opposing electrode. The second substrate has a second major surface opposed to the first major surface. The opposing electrode is provided on the second major surface and opposed to the first and second electrodes. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first and second substrate units. The spacers are in contact with the liquid crystal layer and define a distance between the first and second substrate units.
US09030610B2
High definition media content processing techniques are described in which enhanced media content rendering techniques may be performed to output high definition media content. In an implementation, luma keying may be provided to define clear pixels in a composite output using an optimum set of graphics processing instructions. In another implementation, techniques are described which may provide clear rectangles in a composite output of one or more video streams. Clear rectangles to appear in the composite output are configured by a media playback application. A texture is arrived at to represent a union of each of the clear rectangles and is applied to form the clear rectangles in the composite output. In another implementation, capture techniques are described in which an image to capture is resolved as strips to an intermediate texture and then from the texture to a capture buffer in system memory.
US09030607B2
A method and related apparatus for restraining erroneous image colors are provided for correcting pixel values of three sequential image fields of a video data while de-interlacing the video data. The method is utilized to correct the video data by detecting whether penetrations from luminance signals into chrominance signals or penetrations from chrominance signals into luminance signals occur in the video data. In embodiments of the present invention, the pixel chrominance signals of image fields with the same polarity are utilized to correct the pixel chrominance signals of another image field. Pattern matching and edge detection are utilized to determine whether penetrations from chrominance signals into luminance signals occur.
US09030605B2
To provide a studio camera adaptor capable of easily controlling a remote controller even when shooting takes place at audience seats in a studio The present invention provides a studio camera adaptor for using a portable video camera as a studio camera, the studio camera adaptor including: a main body unit having: a bottom part for having the portable video camera attached thereto; and a side wall part rising from the bottom part; and a remote controller attachment unit provided to the side wall part for having a remote controller attached thereto, the remote controller being used for adjustment of at least one of zoom, focus, and aperture of the portable video camera.
US09030595B2
An auto-focus system employing a tunable liquid crystal lens is provided that collects images at different optical power values as the liquid crystal molecules are excited between a ground state and a maximum optical power state tracking image focus scores. An image is acquired at a desired optical power value less than maximum optical power established with the liquid crystal molecules closer a fully excited state than the maximum optical power state having the same image focus score. This drive signal employed during image acquisition uses more power than was used to achieve the same optical power value during the auto-focus scan, while actively driving the liquid crystal molecules is fast. A pause due to image transfer/processing delays after acquisition is employed to allow slow relaxation of the liquid crystal molecules back to the ground state in preparation for a subsequent focus search.
US09030594B1
Systems and methods can be configured to perform operations related to digital image processing. In a general aspect, this disclosure describes systems and methods relating to processing digital images for imaging system characterization and image quality enhancement. In some implementations, a method for digital image processing includes measuring a first phase transfer function (PTF) of a first digital image and a second PTF of a second digital image. The second digital image captures a spatially shifted version of the first digital image. The first PTF and the second PTF are compared and a spatial shift of the second image to the first image is determined.
US09030591B2
An in-focus lens position may be determined by computing a focus metric value, by counting the number of transition pixels for images of a target captured at different lens positions. Using as little as two frames to compute two focus metric values, a reasonable approximation of the in-focus lens position may be obtained. The approximation of the in-focus lens position may then be used as a starting point for a fine focus search process, to determine an in-focus lens position. An advantage here is that the focus metric values relate to the number of transition pixels and are easy to compute, and yield a reasonable approximation of the in-focus position with just a few frames. Other embodiments are also described.
US09030585B2
An information communication method selects between a visible light communication mode in which information is obtained from a subject using an image sensor having a plurality of exposure lines and a normal imaging mode. The method includes obtaining first image data by image capture with a first exposure time in the normal imaging mode. When an image is presented that prompts a user of a terminal device including the image sensor to move the terminal device to enable the information to be obtained, second image data is obtained by image capture with a second exposure time, shorter than the first exposure time, in the visible light communication mode. The information is obtained by demodulating data specified by a direction in a pattern of a bright line appearing in the second image data and corresponding to the exposure lines that is substantially perpendicular to the exposure lines.
US09030579B2
A direction being across the defective pixel and along which pixels used to calculate a signal level of a defective pixel are located, is determined. A ratio between signal levels of pixels that are adjacent to the defective pixel and that have a different color from the defective pixel, and signal levels of pixels that are adjacent to pixels being located along the determine direction with respect to the defective pixel and having the same color as the defective pixel and that have a different color from the defective pixel, is acquired. A value obtained by multiplying an average value of the signal levels of the pixels used to calculate the signal level of the defective pixel by the calculated ratio is output as the signal level of the defective pixel.
US09030572B2
An apparatus, a method, and a program for processing an image are provided. The apparatus includes: a determiner which determines an area corresponding to a white-saturation area included in a raw image based on raw data representing the raw image, wherein the raw image is obtained by photographing and is not processed; and a converter which selectively performs an image space frequency distribution conversion on a portion of the raw data that corresponds to the determined area corresponding to the white-saturation area. The converter reduces luminance changes of pixels which are not a preset reference pixel in the area corresponding to the white-saturation area.
US09030571B2
A system for acquiring digital images for a device having an integrated camera includes an Application Program Interface (API). The API is adapted to receive preprocessing and other instructions from a discrete application operating on the device. The API is also adapted to process multiple image capture requests using a pipeline configuration.
US09030563B2
A video archival system for recording events of interest is disclosed. The system comprises: a video camera for providing video data for a location; a remote control device having user operable controls for enabling a user to identify the event of interest and a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting event data; a receiver for wirelessly receiving the event data from the remote control device; and a data recorder for recording the video data provided by the video camera. The system is arranged to use the event data received by the receiver to identify the video data for the event of interest.
US09030561B2
To alleviate the strictness degree required for a relative positional relationship between a calibration index and a vehicle in an image calibration method and an image calibration device. The image calibration device includes a calibration index 20, four cameras 10, a distortion correction processing unit 30, a viewpoint transformation processing unit 40, and a calibration processing unit 50. The calibration index 20 includes two mutually parallel lines and a distance between which is known and one line orthogonal to the two lines. The cameras 10 take peripheral area images S1 to S4 of peripheral areas R1 to R4 including the calibration index 20. The distortion correction processing unit 30 corrects the peripheral area images S1 to S4 by using internal parameters M to obtain distortion-corrected images P1 to P4. The viewpoint transformation processing unit 40 performs viewpoint transformation processing on the distortion-corrected images P1 to P4 by using external parameters N to obtain a viewpoint-transformed composite image Q0. The calibration processing unit 50 performs calibration in the viewpoint transformation processing. The calibration processing unit 50 includes an internal parameter correction unit 51 and an external parameter correction unit 52. The internal parameter correction unit 51 corrects the internal parameters M. The external parameter correction unit 52 corrects the external parameters N.
US09030548B2
Two-dimensional scanning array microscope system, which has fields of view of individual objectives overlapping at the object, produces a composite image of the object that is devoid of optical distortions caused by such overlapping. Method for processing imaging data with the system includes precise identification of detector pixels corresponding to different portions of multiple image swaths projected on the detector by the system during the scan of the object, and, based on such identification, allocating or assigning of detector pixels that receive light from the object through more than one objective to only one of objectives, thereby correcting imaging data received in real time to remove a portion of data corresponding to image overlaps.
US09030546B2
An image processor, a program and a microscope enable a TIRF image and a confocal image to be superposed simply and accurately. A reference point detection unit 111 detects, reference points, three or more images respectively from a TIRF image of a predetermined surface of a sample obtained using a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope, and a confocal image of the predetermined surface of the sample obtained using a confocal microscope. A superposing unit superposes the TIRF image and the confocal image using a coordinate transformation coefficient.
US09030538B2
Disclosed is a three dimensional liquid crystal display device (3D LCD device) which facilitates to improve a picture quality of a three-dimensional image (3D image) by color and luminance corrections, and a method for driving the same, wherein the device comprises an image data analyzer which analyzes a luminance level for each of R, G, and B colors of original image data inputted to display the 3D image; an image data converter which generates color correction data for adjusting a color balance of the R, G, and B colors distorted by the shutter glass, and generates gamma correction data for compensating a luminance reduction, on the basis of luminance analyzing results provided from the image data analyzer; and a timing controller which converts the input image data into image data of a frame unit, reflects the color correction data and the gamma correction data in the image data of the frame unit, and supplies the corrected image data to a data driver.
US09030527B2
The present invention relates to a method for selecting an appropriate mode when performing a new broadcast, such as a 3D stereo broadcast, a UHDTV broadcast, and a multi-view broadcast, among others, while maintaining compatibility with existing broadcasting channels in an MPEG-2-TS format for transmitting and receiving digital TV, and to a method for recognizing a descriptor. To this end, the present invention suggests providing the descriptor which is related to synthesizing left and right images using the type of stream, existence of the descriptor, and a frame-compatible mode flag.
US09030525B2
A method and apparatus are described including determining an inter-frame object displacement for each object in a left eye image frame pair, determining an inter-frame object displacement for each object in a right eye image frame pair, determining a convergence shifting field between each object in the left eye image and the right eye image pair, determining an amount of motion blur responsive to the inter-frame object displacement for each object in the left eye image frame pair, the inter-frame object displacement for each object in the right eye image frame pair, and the convergence shifting field between each object in the left eye image and the right eye image pair and adjusting the motion blur by the amount of motion blur.
US09030516B2
Compensation is performed for nonuniformity in a printer. The printer has a photoreceptor and a print head with a plurality of different light sources, each light source capable of producing a plurality of different levels of light. A plurality of stored gain control signals for each light source are related to the light output of that light source. Print job data includes screened pixel levels and a halftone screen specification. The stored gain control signals are adjusted based on the halftone screen specification. The screened pixel levels are modified using the adjusted gain control signals to provide engine pixel levels. Those levels are provided to corresponding light sources to expose the photoreceptor in respective pixel areas with light corresponding to the compensated pixel levels.
US09030513B2
A color image forming apparatus has a light emitting element emitting light, a laser driving unit causing the light emitting element to emit light of a light amount at a first emission level for visualizing a toner image onto a first area where the toner image is to be visualized on a charged photosensitive member and to emit light of a light amount at a second emission level for weak emission onto a second area where the toner is not to be adhered to the charged photosensitive member. In addition, an acquiring unit acquires information of an integrated number of rotations of the photosensitive member, a drive current adjusting unit adjusts the drive current for the second emission level, and changes a magnitude of the drive current for the second emission level in accordance with the information of the integrated number of rotations of the photosensitive member.
US09030512B2
A laser process alignment measuring method applicable to a reel-to-reel manufacturing process including a laser process stage, wherein before at least one laser process stage, marks, patterns or surfaces (4,9) are made with printing ink on the base or carrier material of the web (2), and on which the laser beam used can make a mark (7, 10), for example, by removing or changing the printing ink, whereby at the laser process stage, another mark is plotted with the laser beam on the mark et al. printed with printing ink, and the position of the mark et al. printed with printing ink (4, 9) and the mark plotted with the laser (7, 10) are read optically to measure the alignment of the printing ink stage and the laser process stage.
US09030507B2
A plurality of pixel circuits include liquid crystal elements which are arranged corresponding to each intersection of a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of signal lines, and display a gradation corresponding to a gradation signal of the signal line at the time of selecting the scanning line. A driving circuit sequentially selects the plurality of scanning lines as a selection unit in a first writing period of a right eye period, supplies a gradation signal corresponding to a specified gradation of a right eye image which corresponds to a specified scanning line in the selection unit to each pixel circuit, and sequentially selects a scanning line other than the specified scanning line, and supplies a gradation signal which corresponds to the specified gradation corresponding to the specified gradation to each pixel circuit, in a second writing period.
US09030502B2
A system and method for organizing photos and other documents include a user interface for displaying photos and data nodes. A photo may be placed at a data node by selecting a facial image in the photo and then moving the facial image (e.g., using a drop and drag technique) to associate the facial image with the node. In alternative embodiments, a portion of a photo other than a facial image may be selected, or an entire photo may be selected, and then placed at the node. The user can identify nodes based on the person in the facial image and tag the photo with identifying information. In some embodiments, existing nodes (e.g., in a family tree) can be displayed in order to have photos placed therein. Relationship nodes can be suggested as facial images are associated with nodes.
US09030493B2
An example image processing apparatus has a captured image acquisition unit for acquiring a captured image captured by an imaging device, a feature detection unit for detecting the markers from the captured image, a reference acquisition unit for acquiring, based on each of the detected markers, a coordinate system serving as a reference indicating a position and attitude in a space, and a relative relation information acquisition unit for acquiring, based on the captured image in which a plurality of the markers are detected, relative relation information indicating a relative relation in position and attitude of a plurality of coordinate systems acquired for the respective markers.
US09030490B2
The invention relates to generating a composite medical image combining at least first and second image data. Particularly, the invention relates to a medical imaging system for generating a composite medical view or image combining at least first and second image data as well as a method for generating a composite medical image. In order to provide a combination of image data providing improved perceptibility and enhancing the use of acquired image data, a medical imaging system for generating a composite medical view/image combining at least first and second image data, comprising an image acquisition device, a data processing unit and a display device, a medical imaging system and a method for generating a composite medical image combining at least first and second image data provided, the method comprising the following steps: a) selecting first image data of a first image (212) and second image data of a second image (214); b) registering the first and the second image data; c) determining a boundary connecting sector connecting adjacent boundaries of the first image and the second image; d) generating a separator (218) on behalf of the image data of the boundary connecting sector; e) combining image data of the first image and the second image with image data of the separator to a combined image data; and f) displaying the combined image comprising the separator (218).
US09030486B2
An image transmission method (and related system) for obtaining data of a local subject and processing the data of the local subject to fit a local model of at least a region of the local subject and extract parameters of the local model to capture features of the region of the local subject. The method (and related system) may also include obtaining data of at least one remote subject and processing the data of the remote subject to fit at least one of at least one region of the remote subject and extract parameters the remote model to capture features of the region of the remote subject. The method (and related system) may also include transmitting the extracted parameters of the local region to a remote processor and reconstructing the local image based on the extracted parameters of the local region and the extracted parameters of the remote region.
US09030482B2
A hybrid display frame buffer for a display subsystem. An embodiment of an apparatus a first logic to split a video image into a first data portion and a second data portion; a display frame buffer including a first memory component having a first type of memory and a second memory component having a second type of memory, the first logic to write the first data portion to the first memory component and the second data portion to the second memory component; and a second logic to read the first data portion from the first memory component and the second data component from the second memory component, and to combine the first data portion and the second data portion to generate a combined video image.
US09030477B2
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The computing device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method that includes defining at least one of a location in a virtual scene and a time represented in a timeline as being associated with a performance of an animated character. The method also includes aggregating data that represents actions of the animation character for at least one of the defined location and the defined time. The method also includes presenting a user interface that includes a representation of the aggregated actions. The representation is editable to adjust at least one action included in the aggregation.
US09030472B2
A navigation apparatus has a display portion displaying a map that is controlled by a remote control as a manipulator. The remote control has a gravitation sensor. The gravitation sensor serves as a position detector to detect a three-dimensional coordinate set (x, y, z) of the remote control. A reduced scale for the displayed map is changed based on a displacement in z axis while the displayed map is moved based on a horizontal displacement in xy-coordinate plane. The remote control may move obliquely in a direction being neither parallel with z axis nor orthogonal to z axis, drawing a U-shaped locus. In this case, the reduced scale is designated as a subject reduced scale based on the lowest coordinate in z axis; the displayed map is moved based on a product obtained by multiplying the horizontal displacement by a unit distance according to the subject reduced scale.
US09030455B2
A display device includes: a pixel area comprising pixels in rows and columns; main power lines at a first side of the pixel area and a second side of the pixel area facing the first side; first sub-power lines coupled to a first main power line of the main power lines formed at the first side and extending into the pixel area in a column direction; and second sub-power lines coupled to a second main power line of the main power lines formed at the second side and extending into the pixel area in the column direction, wherein the first sub-power lines and the second sub-power lines extend in different columns of pixels, and wherein a column of pixels of the pixels are alternatingly coupled to a neighboring sub-power line of the first sub-power lines and a neighboring sub-power line of the second sub-power lines.
US09030453B2
An LCD driving circuit includes a first buffer configured to have a terminal for a first voltage, a terminal for a second voltage and a terminal for an intermediate voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, and be driven in a range from the first voltage to the intermediate voltage; and a second buffer configured to have a terminal for the first voltage, a terminal for the second voltage and a terminal for the intermediate voltage, and be driven in a range from the intermediate voltage to the second voltage. The terminal for the intermediate voltage of the first buffer and the terminal for the intermediate voltage of the second buffer are connected with each other, and the first voltage is a highest voltage, the second voltage is a lowest voltage, and the intermediate voltage is in a range from the first voltage to the second voltage.
US09030452B2
The described technology relates to a liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form. The pixels include a liquid crystal capacitor including a pixel electrode and a common electrode as two terminals. A plurality of data lines transfer data to the plurality of pixels. The pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other. First and second common signals are applied to the common electrode of the first and second pixels, respectively. The second common signal is inverted to the first common signal. The first and second common signals swing between a first voltage and a second voltage. The polarity of the data voltage transferred by a data line with respect to the first common signal or the second common signal is constant during one frame.
US09030451B2
A display driving circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter configured to convert a digital image signal to an analog image signal, and a buffer circuit configured to receive the analog image signal and to output an output signal to be applied to a data line, where the buffer circuit includes an input stage configured to receive the analog image signal and to output a first signal, a first output stage configured to receive a first voltage and a second voltage and to output the output signal, a second output stage configured to receive a third voltage and a fourth voltage and to output the output signal, and a selection circuit configured to apply the first signal from the input stage to the first output stage or the second output stage in response to a mode signal.
US09030448B2
An image control system controls an image displayed on a display screen of a display section based on a detection value output from a detection section, the detection section outputting the detection value corresponding to a first position when an operation state of a touch operation performed on an operation surface is a first operation state in which a first touch operation is performed at the first position on the operation surface, and outputting the detection value corresponding to a midpoint between the first position and a second position when the operation state is a second operation state in which a second touch operation is performed at the second position on the operation surface in addition to the first touch operation. The image control system includes a correction section that calculates a corrected position when the operation state is the second operation state, one endpoint being indicated by a detected position acquired in the first operation state, a midpoint being indicated by a detected position acquired in the second operation state, and the other endpoint being indicated by the corrected position.
US09030438B2
A display device includes a display having an array of pixels, the pixels separated by inter-pixel gaps in at least one dimension and an electrode having a length and width located over the display and extending across at least a portion of the array of pixels, the electrode including a plurality of electrically connected micro-wires formed in a micro-pattern. The micro-pattern includes gap micro-wires located between the pixels in the inter-pixel gaps and substantially extending continuously along the electrode length.
US09030437B2
Touchscreen testing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a piece of conductor (e.g., metal) is positioned as proximal to a touchscreen device and the touchscreen device is tested by simulating a touch of a user. This technique may be utilized to perform a variety of different testing of a touchscreen device, such as to test latency and probabilistic latency. Additional techniques are also described including contact geometry testing techniques.
US09030436B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a pressure intensity detection unit that detects pressure intensity of an operating tool pressing a screen, a change rate detection unit that detects a rate of change of the pressure intensity based on information on the pressure intensity detected by the pressure intensity detection unit, and a function providing unit that provides a specific function in a case the rate of change of the pressure intensity detected by the change rate detection unit is high, and cancels an operation by the operating tool without providing the specific function in a case the rate of change of the pressure intensity is low.
US09030434B2
A touch display panel includes a display panel and a touch sensing unit. The touch sensing unit includes first sensing series, and second sensing series. Each of the first sensing series includes a plurality of first transparent sensing pads and a plurality of non-transparent bridge lines disposed along a first direction. Each of the non-transparent bridge lines is disposed between two adjacent first transparent sensing pads, overlapping with two adjacent first transparent sensing pads, and electrically connected to two adjacent first transparent sensing pads. The line width of each non-transparent bridge line is substantially between 0.5 micrometers and 10 micrometers, and the reduction of aperture ratio in a pixel region of the touch display panel caused by the non-transparent bridge lines is substantially between 0.1% and 5%. Each non-transparent bridge line and the long axis of each sub-pixel region are disposed in a non-parallel manner with each other.
US09030433B2
A method is used for operating a system with a touchscreen, a control unit for the touchscreen, a central-processing unit and a gesture-identification unit. In a first method step, a position of one or more physical objects on and/or near the touchscreen is identified by the control unit, and/or a movement of one or more physical objects on and/or near the touchscreen is identified by the control unit. In a further method step, the position and/or the movement of one or more physical objects is associated with a gesture in a gesture set by a first association unit in a gesture-identification unit. Following this, a key combination is transferred by a second association unit to an application, and/or a function of an application is started for the gesture by the second association unit, and/or the gesture is transferred by the second association unit to an application.
US09030431B2
A display panel includes: display elements; a plurality of drive electrodes; one or more touch detecting electrodes that form a capacitor along with the corresponding drive electrode; a main driver unit that generates a basic drive signal including a pulse part supplied to the drive electrodes; and a first auxiliary driver unit that includes a capacitive element and that exchanges electric charges between the capacitive element and the drive electrodes in synchronization with the pulse part.
US09030423B2
An operation instructing device includes a display unit that displays an image and a detecting unit that detects a touched position and thereby specifies a corresponding position of an image displayed on the display unit. While an image is displayed on the display unit, if the detecting unit detects that at least two points A and B are touched in a portion of the detecting unit corresponding to the image, assuming that the image is formed on a sheet of recording paper, a distance between two points of the image formed on the sheet of recording paper corresponding to the two touched points is calculated and displayed on a display panel. Thus, an error in operation instruction such as enlargement and reduction can be reduced, and hence, wasteful consumption of ink and recording paper can be reduced.
US09030418B2
The present disclosure is related to a mobile terminal comprising: a touch screen configured to display a plurality of objects, and to generate a proximity signal or a direct touch signal by using an input medium; and a controller configured to display changed sizes of a plurality of selected objects located within a range from the input medium among the plurality of objects according to the proximity signal.
US09030416B2
A method and apparatus for entering words into a computer system. Letters contained in a desired word are entered by giving approximate location and directional information relative to any specified keyboard layout. The inputs need not correspond to specific keys on the keyboard, a sequence of ambiguous key entries corresponding to individual words can be used to retrieve a word from the dictionary. The system tracks directional information of movement relative to a/the specific keyboard layout, reducing it to predetermined primary directions and translates this seemingly ambiguous information into accurate words from the dictionary. The system may also capture the user's intention (with regard to text entry) by observing the movements on the keyboard.
US09030397B2
There is disclosed a gate driver, a driving circuit, and a liquid crystal display (LCD), wherein the gate driver comprises input terminals for inputting a CPV signal, an OE signal, and an STV signal, and output terminals for outputting a CKV signal and a CKVB signal, and a processing circuit is connected between the input terminals and the output terminals for processing the CPV signal, the OE signal, and the STV signal such that a preset time interval is present between the falling edge of the CKV signal and the rising edge of the CKVB signal during one period of the CKV signal, or a preset time interval is present between the rising edge of the CKV signal and the falling edge of the CKVB signal during one period of the CKVB signal.
US09030396B2
A liquid display panel driving method to drive a plurality of pixels of a liquid display panel in a frame period comprising a plurality of data input intervals is provided. Each pixel comprises first and second capacitors coupled to a first and second common electrode respectively. The liquid display panel driving method comprises the steps of: keeping the second common electrode at the same voltage level; modifying the voltage of the first common electrode of each pixel along a row of scan line to perform a first pre-charge before the data input interval; turning on the pixels to make each pixel receive the data voltage from the data lines during the data input interval; and turning off the pixels and modifying the voltage of the first common electrode to further set the voltage of each of the pixels to a target level after the data input interval.
US09030395B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes: a first gate line extending in a first direction; a second gate line extending in the first direction; a data line extending in a different second direction; a first common signal distribution line including a plurality of first branches connected to each other, wherein the first branches extend in the second direction and intersect under or over with the first gate line and the second gate line. The first branches are connected to receive an electrostatic offset voltage of polarity opposite to that of data line voltages supplied on the data line. A column of pixel-electrodes are sandwiched between the data line and one of the first branches.
US09030393B2
A first substrate includes first and second gate lines extending in a first direction, first and second source lines extending in a second direction and a switching element electrically connected with the gate line and the source line. A pixel electrode includes a contact portion contacting with the switching element and extending in the first direction and a main pixel electrode contacting with the contact portion and extending in the second direction. The switching element includes a drain electrode arranged between the source lines. The drain electrode includes a first electrode portion located under the contact portion, a second electrode portion located under the main pixel electrode and connected with the first electrode portion, a third electrode portion connected with the second electrode portion along the first gate line, and a fourth electrode portion connected with the second electrode portion and extending along the second gate line.
US09030390B2
An electro-optical device includes one or more control lines that include a scanning line, a data line and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a drive transistor, a write-in transistor with a gate which is electrically connected to the scanning line, a light-emitting element that emits light at a brightness that depends on the size of a current that is supplied through the drive transistor, and a control line which overlaps the gate of the drive transistor when viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of a substrate on which the pixel circuit is formed is included in the one or more control lines.
US09030389B2
A display device in which the current load of wirings are distributed and display variations due to voltage drop are suppressed. An active matrix display device of the invention comprises a first current input terminal, a second current input terminal, and a plurality of current supply lines extending parallel to each other. Each current supply line is connected to a plurality of driving transistors in a line. One end of each current supply line is connected to the first current input terminal via a first wiring intersecting with the current supply lines, and the other end thereof is connected to the second current input terminal via a second wiring intersecting with the current supply lines. Accordingly, a current is supplied to each current supply line from both the first and the second current input terminals. The first and the second current input terminals are provided separately from each other.
US09030388B2
It discloses a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof. The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting device (OLED), a driving transistor (DTFT), a storage capacitor (Cst), a first switching transistor (T1), a second switching transistor (T2), a compensating transistor (T3) and a fifth switching transistor (T5). The light-emitting device (OLED) has one terminal connected to a power supply (VDD). The driving transistor (DTFT) has a first electrode connected to another terminal of the light-emitting device (OLED), a second electrode connected to a first electrode of the fifth switching transistor (T5), and a gate connected to a first electrode of the first switching transistor (T1). The first switching transistor (T1) has a second electrode connected to a data line, a gate connected to a scan line, and a first electrode connected to the gate of the driving transistor (DTFT). The second switching transistor (T2) has a gate connected to a control line, a first electrode connected to the power supply (VDD), and a second electrode connected to a second electrode of the compensating transistor (T3). The compensating transistor (T3) has a first electrode connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor (DTFT), a second electrode connected to the second electrode of the second switching transistor (T2), and a gate connected to the first or second electrode of the compensating transistor (T3). The fifth switching transistor (T5) has a gate connected to the control line, a first electrode connected to the second electrode of the driving transistor (DTFT), and a second electrode connected to ground (GND). The storage capacitor (Cst) has a first plate connected to the gate of the driving transistor (DTFT), and a second plate connected to the second electrode of the compensating transistor (T3).
US09030379B2
A display control method of a portable terminal and a portable terminal are described where, the portable terminal includes a main screen, a host and a display control module, a projection screen as an auxiliary screen set on the main screen, the auxiliary screen is overlapped with the main screen as in a non-usage state, and protrudes from the main screen as in a usage state. The projection module is set in the host, and the projection module is connected with the display control module. The present invention reduces the weight of the portable terminal while guaranteeing the double-screen display.
US09030375B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for substantially eliminating the appearance of seams between tiled panels of a display. Non-imaging magnification may be used to substantially eliminate the appearance of seams. Additionally, the appearance of seams between the tiled panels of a display may be substantially eliminated by employing propagation based elimination. The methods disclosed can be used to generate substantially seamless 2D and 3D displays. Additionally, a method and apparatus for achieving substantially uniform panel brightness and color correction may be addressed. The substantially seamless tiled displays may employ specific data formats for use in displaying images on the individual displays which may be tiled together to form a larger, substantially seamless tiled display and may employ other techniques not utilized in known video wall applications. These functions may include an intensity envelope in addition to substantially complying with the Digital Cinema Initiative (“DCI”) security concerns.
US09030373B2
A method of manufacturing a transparent film for reducing electromagnetic waves includes forming a first dielectric layer and forming a pattern layer on the first dielectric layer. The pattern layer is made of a transparent electrode material having surface resistance.
US09030370B2
A distributed continuous antenna for wireless communication includes a first section of coaxial cable having a center conductor and an outer shield; and an antenna lead having a first end electrically connected at an injection point of the outer shield of the coaxial cable, and having a second end configured to be coupled to a device radio for the purpose of transmitting or receiving signals using the outer shield of the coaxial cable as an antenna for the device radio. The distributed continuous antenna might include a plurality of leads electrically connected to the outer shield of the coaxial cable at a first end and configured to have a second end coupled to a device radio for the purpose of transmitting or receiving signals using the outer shield of the coaxial cable as an antenna for the device radio.
US09030369B2
An apparatus is provided. First and second hybrid couplers are provided with each having a first port, a second port, a third port, a fourth port and with each being substantially curvilinear. The fourth ports of the first and second hybrid couplers are first and second isolation port that are mutually coupled. The first port of the first hybrid coupler is configured to carry a first portion of a differential signal, and the first port of the second hybrid coupler is configured to carry a second portion of the differential signal.
US09030358B2
A miniature multi-frequency antenna, comprising at least one dielectric substrate, at least one signal electrode and at least one ground electrode. The signal electrode and the ground electrode are disposed on a substrate. The signal electrode contains at least two branches and at least one branch is partially overlapped with the ground electrode. Each interlayer region between the partially overlapped electrodes forms a specific capacitance. By utilizing this interlayer capacitive effect, the resonant frequency of lower frequency band is achieved while the size of the antenna is effectively reduced. For obtaining the resonant frequency of the high frequency bands, the design concept of PIFA is applied on other branches of the signal electrode. A miniature antenna thus obtained is capable of transmitting/receiving multi-frequency signals having the benefits of easily adjusting impedance and resonant frequency.
US09030354B2
A method and structure for a phased-array system. An orthogonal signal generator generates a plurality of signals C(i) that are orthogonal or near-orthogonal, meaning that a cross correlation between any two signals C(i) is lower than autocorrelation, and there is a plurality of phased-array antenna elements, each said antenna element providing a signal Sinp(i). A multiplier multiplies each signal C(i) with the signal Sinp(i) of a corresponding one of the plurality of phased array antenna elements.
US09030332B2
A method, apparatus and system for generating an indication of an object within an operating ambit of heavy loading equipment is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of sensors disposed about a periphery of the loading equipment, each being operable to generate a proximity signal in response to detecting an object within a coverage region of the sensor, the proximity signal including an indication of at least an approximate distance between the sensor and the object. A processor circuit is operably configured to define an alert region extending outwardly and encompassing swinging movements of outer extents of the loading equipment. The processor circuit is operably configured to receive proximity signals from the plurality of sensors, process the signals to determine a location of the object relative to the loading equipment, and initiate an alert when the location falls within the alert region.
US09030327B2
A method includes receiving radiation sensor data from two radiation sensors that are positioned separately from each other about a path. Position information identifying a source of radiation as it passes by the two radiation sensors is received. The sensor data from the two radiation sensors is time shifted to correlate the sensor data to the identified source of radiation. The time shifted sensor signals are summed.
US09030322B2
A method of using a security display apparatus for media content products in a retail store is disclosed. The method includes arranging sample media content containers in a side-by-side configuration on a front lip of a security display fixture, wherein each of the sample media content containers is anchored to the security display fixture with a security cable. The method further includes unlocking an access door of the security display fixture, in response to a consumer request, to provide access to an internal space defined by the security display fixture rearward of the sample media content containers, and retrieving one or more non-tethered media content containers from the internal space that are of a same title as one of the sample media content containers positioned immediately in front of the one or more non-tethered media content containers.
US09030320B2
A real-time threat detection system incorporating a plurality of sensors adapted to detect radiation across the majority of the electromagnetic spectrum. The system also includes an aided or automatic target recognition module which compares the data from the sensors against known radiation signatures and issues an alert when an anomalous signature is detected. The system further includes an operator station which displays sensor information allowing the operator to intervene. The sensors detect radiation which is normally emitted by persons or other bodies and display areas to the operator where normal emissions are blocked.
US09030319B1
A digital electronic system used for receiving an audio alarm from a smoke detector, a carbon monoxide detector and like detectors. The system amplifies and converts the alarm to a digital encoded radio frequency signal for shutting off power to a kitchen appliance. The system includes a microphone and an amplifier connected to a comparator circuit. This circuit provides for outputting a logic 0 or logic 1 and outputs a logic 1, in the form of the digital radio frequency signal, if an audio alarm is received. The comparator circuit is connected to a transmitter and encoder circuit, which receives the frequency signal and transmits it to a radio frequency receiver and decoder circuit. This circuit then decodes the signal and disconnects the power to the appliance.
US09030308B1
User interface experiences with electronic devices are enhanced with feedback cues such as haptic or vibrotactile output feedback. One or more piezoelectric actuators generate haptic output. The one or more piezoelectric actuators may be integrated onto a display substrate, a battery case, a device enclosure, or other component. Such integration may improve propagation of the haptic output to the user, reduce bulk of the electronic device, minimize parts count, and reduce production costs.
US09030299B2
The invention relates to a method of operating a RFID system comprising at least one reader (1) and a plurality of wireless data carriers (2), each of which comprise at least one data processing element with slow response (5), wherein the method controls the at least one reader (1) to continuously communicate with one of the plurality of wireless data carriers (2), while at least another one of the plurality of wireless data carriers (2) is processing data with its at least one slow response element (5). The invention further relates to a RFID system comprising at least one reader (1) and a plurality of wireless data carriers (2), each of which comprises at least one slow response element (5), wherein the system is capable to continuously communicate with at least one of the plurality of wireless data carriers (2), while at least another one of the plurality of wireless data carriers (2) is processing data with its at least one slow response element (5).
US09030293B1
Methods and devices for presenting a secure passcode system to a user are disclosed. The methods and devices may include a security prompt displayed to a user, wherein the prompt comprises a sequence of passcode elements. The passcode elements may comprise both response-eligible and response-ineligible passcode elements. The security prompt may receive an input from a user and determine whether the response is correct. A correct response may include each of the response-eligible passcode elements and none of the response-ineligible passcode elements. If a correct response is received, the security prompt may permit further access to a function.
US09030292B2
A system and device for providing services to a secure facility. The system includes a kiosk with a processor, display, speaker, microphone, and a camera, and the kiosk communicates with a server that includes a server processor, a network interface unit, and a computer memory. The kiosk receives communications and transmits audio and video of the communications to the server via an internet connection, and the server records the audio and video and transmits the audio and video to a destination. The kiosk is configured to authenticate the identity of a user by verifying a personal identification number entered by the user and also performing one or more of a facial recognition via the camera or a biometric voice recognition via the microphone. The kiosk provides access to services including internet services, text-based messaging, tele-medical services, religious and educational materials, commissary ordering, and entertainment.
US09030291B2
A system for controlling vehicle opening/closing element has a radiation block for irradiating near-infrared light to a peripheral region of an opening/closing element; a photographing block that photographs an image irradiated with the near-infrared light; a hand region extraction block that extracts a user's hand region from brightness of an image photographed by the photographing block; a motion detection block that detects motions of the user's hand from the extracted hand region; and a control block that determines whether or not the detected motions coincide with previously-set predetermined motions and that commands operation of the opening/closing element in accordance with the determined motions.
US09030262B2
An input receiver circuit including a single-to-differential amplifier and a semiconductor device including the input receiver circuit are disclosed. The input receiver circuit includes a first stage amplifier unit and a second stage amplifier unit. The first stage amplifier unit amplifies a single input signal in a single-to-differential mode to generate a differential output signal, without using a reference voltage. The second stage amplifier unit amplifies the differential output signal in a differential-to-single mode to generate a single output signal.
US09030258B2
An amplifier circuit includes an input terminal and an output terminal. A current sinking transistor includes a first conduction terminal coupled to the output terminal and a second conduction terminal coupled to a reference supply node. A voltage sensing circuit has a first input coupled to the input terminal and a second input coupled to the output terminal. An output of the voltage sensing circuit is coupled to the control terminal of the current sinking transistor. The voltage sensing circuit functions to sense a rise in the voltage at the output terminal which exceeds the voltage at the input terminal, and respond thereto by activating the current sinking transistor.
US09030246B2
The disclosed invention provides a semiconductor device capable of suitably controlling the level of an enable signal to resolve NBTI in a PMOS transistor. An input node receives an input signal alternating between high and low levels during normal operation and fixed to a high level during standby. A detection unit receives a signal through the input node and outputs an enable signal. The detection unit sets the enable signal to a low level upon detecting that the input node remains at a high level for a predetermined period. A signal transmission unit includes a P-channel MOS transistor and transmits a signal input to the input node according to control by the enable signal.
US09030241B2
A phase-locked loop circuit using a multi-curve voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having a set of operating curves, each operating curve corresponding to a different frequency range over a control voltage range. The phase-locked loop circuit includes a digital control circuit configured to generate a curve select signal using a closed loop curve search operation to select one of the operating curves in the multi-curve VCO, the selected operating curve being used by the VCO to generate an output signal with an output frequency being equal or close to a target frequency of the phase-locked loop. In one embodiment, the digital control circuit implements a binary jump method and an operating curve is selected when the operating curve has an output frequency meeting the target frequency with the control voltage being within a first voltage range being a narrowed and centered voltage range within the control voltage range.
US09030240B2
A signal processing device enables a high quality enhanced signal to be obtained, and includes: a transform unit which transforms a mixed signal in which a first signal and a second signal are mixed, into a phase component and an amplitude component or a power component in each frequency; a first control unit which rotates the phase component in a predetermined frequency; a second control unit which compensates the amplitude component or the power component in the predetermined frequency according to the amount of change of the amplitude component or the power component rotated by the first control unit; and a synthesizing unit which synthesizes the phase component rotated by the first control unit, and the amplitude component or the power component compensated by the second control unit.
US09030237B2
A transistor circuit includes at least one transistor, wherein at least part of a connecting portion that connects the transistor (Tr1) and a power supply line (33) is formed from a material of which a channel of the transistor (Tr1) is made. This configuration reduces a circuit area of the transistor circuit.
US09030235B2
A method for increasing performance in a limited switch dynamic logic (LSDL) circuit includes precharging a dynamic node during a precharge phase of a first and second evaluation clock signal. The dynamic node is evaluated to a first logic value in response to one or more first input signals of a first evaluation tree during an evaluation phase of the first evaluation clock signal. The dynamic node is evaluated to a second logic value in response one or more second input signals of a second evaluation tree during an evaluation phase of the second evaluation clock signal. A signal of the LSDL circuit is outputted in response to the dynamic node according to an output latch clock signal.
US09030233B2
Disclosed herein is a device that includes first and second buffer circuits connected to a data terminal and a first control circuit controlling the first and second buffer circuits. The first control circuit receives n pairs of first and second internal data signals complementary to each other from 2n input signal lines and outputs a pair of third and fourth internal data signals complementary to each other to first and second output signal lines, where n is a natural number more than one. The first and second buffer circuits are controlled based on the third and fourth internal data signals such that one of the first and second buffer circuits turns on and the other of the first and second buffer circuits turns off.
US09030229B2
An impedance tuning circuit includes a calibration unit and a post-processing unit. The calibration unit generates an initial pull-up code and an initial pull-down code by performing a calibration operation using an external resistor during an initial impedance tuning operation. The post-processing unit outputs the initial pull-up code and the initial pull-down code as a final pull-up code and a final pull-down code during the initial impedance tuning operation, and generates the final pull-up code and the final pull-down code by using the initial pull-up code and the initial pull-down code during a subsequent impedance tuning operation.
US09030219B2
A variable pressure probe pin device, including: a housing with a channel having a first longitudinal axis; a probe at least partially disposed in the channel and including a plurality of probe pins configured to measure a property of a conductive layer; and a fluid pressure system configured to supply pressurized fluid o the channel to control a position of the probe within the channel. The housing or the probe is displaceable such that the plurality of probe pins contact the conductive layer.
US09030213B2
A method and system for measuring a time constant RC of an integrated electronic circuit is provided. This integrated circuit may be made up of a first hardware component and of a second hardware component wherein one of the hardware components is a resistive element and the other is a capacitive element. The first and the second hardware components are connected to an inverting input of an operational amplifier of an integrator of a delta-sigma modulator. A DC voltage is applied to the modulator input. The output signal Qs of the modulator is measured with the aid of an analog/digital converter, and the value of the time constant RC is determined on the basis of at least one measurement of the level of the DC component of the output signal Qs of the modulator carried out with the air of a measurement counter circuit.
US09030212B2
Target sensor comprising: sensor probe having a resonance frequency that changes as the separation of the sensor probe and a target changes. Oscillator arranged to apply a radio frequency (RF) signal to the sensor probe, the oscillator having: control circuitry configured to regulate the frequency of the RF signal applied to the sensor probe to below the resonance frequency of the sensor probe. Detector arranged to detect an electrical characteristic of the oscillator that varies with the impedance of the sensor probe indicating an interaction of the sensor probe with the target.
US09030208B2
Techniques for detecting mating and un-mating of a first connector with a second connector include providing a pulsed voltage signal at a contact of the second connector and measuring a rate of rise of voltage at the contact. If the measured voltage at the contact exceeds a threshold voltage during the time the pulsed voltage signal is applied, then it is concluded that the first connector is not present and not mated with the second connector. If the measured voltage is lower than or equal to the threshold voltage during the time of application of the voltage pulse, it is concluded that the first connector is present and mated with the second connector.
US09030201B2
An MR imaging system independently manipulates a fat and a water component of MR signals used for generating image data. An RF signal generator and a magnetic field gradient generator provide an RF pulse and magnetic field gradient sequence for acquisition of an MR signal discriminating between anatomical objects based on longitudinal relaxation time (T1). The sequence comprises, a first pulse sequence for selectively inverting a water component of the MR signal substantially exclusively of fat, a first time delay adjustable to discriminate between different anatomical elements, a second pulse sequence having a resonant frequency selected to invert a fat component of the MR signal substantially exclusively of water and a data acquisition magnetic field gradient for acquisition of the MR signal. An image shows enhanced visualization of discriminated anatomical elements.
US09030194B2
A scanning device for a position encoder is provided that comprises a plurality of sensor elements for generating a plurality of sensor signals. A summation unit is also provided for generating at least a first summation signal and a second summation signal that provide information on the relative alignment of the scanning device and an associated scale. The first summation signal is generated from a first subset of the plurality of sensor signals and the second summation signal is generated from a second subset of the plurality of sensor signals. The plurality of sensor elements are substantially evenly spaced apart from one another N and sensor elements are provided per period of an associated scale, wherein N is an integer value and a multiple of three and four. In this manner, the third harmonic contribution to the summation signals is suppressed.
US09030193B2
A system by which the proportion of ferromagnetic particles in a dielectric medium is measured. A magnetic field is generated by two signals in the medium: a low frequency feed and a relatively high frequency excitation. The feed magnetizes the ferromagnetic particles in the medium to the nonlinear range of the magnetization curve. The excitation is generated so that its spectrum is relatively wide and it is dense with frequency components. The level of the excitation is so high that the magnetic flux density in the medium corresponding to the excitation fluctuates nonlinearly, when the feed is at its peak value or near this. The magnetic field of the medium is measured by a secondary winding, and from the response signal produced by the sensor is detected the part resulting from the magnetic non-linearity, which part is the output signal. In the detection the response is multiplied by the signal, which arises magnetic field and includes the same random fluctuation as the response. The higher the proportion of the ferromagnetic particles in the medium is, the higher the level of the output signal. The secondary winding comprises several portions so that the parasitic voltages caused by the stray capacitances compensate each other. The measurement is real-time and accuracy, because the excitation is a random signal by nature, in which case its spectrum includes, instead of one frequency component, densely frequency components in a certain band. The result is a 20-30 dB higher signal-to-noise ratio in the response and output signal compared with the known technique. A device according to the method is suitable for use in an industrial plant and moving vehicles, in which there are interfering fields and the temperature can be high.
US09030187B2
A nanogap device includes a first insulation layer having a nanopore formed therein, a first nanogap electrode which may be formed on the first insulation layer and may be divided into two parts with a nanogap interposed between the two parts, the nanogap facing the nanopore, a second insulation layer formed on the first nanogap electrode, a first graphene layer formed on the second insulation layer, a first semiconductor layer formed on the first graphene layer, a first drain electrode formed on the first semiconductor layer, and a first source electrode formed on the first graphene layer such as to be apart from the first semiconductor layer.
US09030184B2
A DC-DC converter and a voltage conversion method thereof are provided. The DC-DC converter includes an output unit, a control unit and a trigger unit. The output unit converts an input voltage into an output voltage. The control unit generates a control signal according to the input voltage, an output feedback voltage related to the output voltage and a reference voltage, so as to make the output unit generate the output voltage. The trigger unit generates a first trigger signal according to the control signal, the output feedback voltage and the reference voltage. When the output feedback voltage is less than the reference voltage by a preset voltage, the control unit controls the output unit to perform a voltage-regulating process to the output voltage in advance.
US09030181B2
An electric power steering apparatus includes a power supply and a power supply management unit that controls an operation of the power supply. The power supply includes a main power supply, an auxiliary power supply connected in series to the main power supply, a boost circuit that charges the auxiliary power supply by boosting an output voltage of the main power supply and applying the boosted output voltage to the auxiliary power supply, and a voltage sensor that detects an output voltage of the auxiliary power supply. When a reduction amount per unit time of the output voltage detected by the voltage sensor exceeds a voltage reduction amount over a predetermined time, the power supply management unit determines that an abnormality has occurred in an output destination of the power supply.
US09030174B2
Systems and methods for reducing current imbalance between parallel bridge circuits used in a power converter of a doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) system are provided. A control system can monitor the bridge current of each of the bridge circuits coupled in parallel and generate a feedback signal indicative of the difference in bridge current between the parallel bridge circuits. Command signals for controlling the bridge circuits can then be developed based on the feedback signal to reduce current imbalance between the bridge circuits. For instance, the pulse width modulation of switching devices (e.g. IGBTs) used in the bridge circuits can be modified to reduce current imbalance between the parallel bridge circuits.
US09030172B2
A vehicle allows a power storage device mounted therein to be externally charged using electric power from an external power supply. The vehicle includes an engine, a motor generator and a vehicle ECU. The vehicle allows a motor generator to generate electric power by driving the engine. Then, when charging of the power storage device is not completed within a target charging time period set by the user only using the electric power from the external power supply in the case where external charging is performed, the vehicle ECU charges the power storage device with the electric power from the external power supply additionally using the electric power generated by driving the engine.
US09030171B2
A charging circuit for an electronic device includes a battery pack for providing a battery voltage; an adaptor coupled to an external voltage source, for providing an input voltage; and a charging module coupled to the adaptor, for charging the battery pack. The charging module includes a buck charging unit for performing buck charging on the battery pack according to a comparison result; and a boost charging unit for performing boost charging on the battery pack according to the comparison result.
US09030170B2
In a method and a device for controlling hybrid functions in a motor vehicle, including at least one control unit, hybrid functions of a motor vehicle are controlled by the control unit, the control unit switching off at least one hybrid function above a predetermined battery temperature.
US09030169B2
A battery system and method of providing a state of charge of for the system in one embodiment includes at least one first cell, the at least one first cell having a first battery chemistry exhibiting a first open circuit potential, and at least one second cell in series connection with the at least one first cell, the at least one second cell having a second battery chemistry exhibiting a second open circuit potential, wherein the at least one first cell exhibits an open circuit potential with a center slope that is greater than the center slope of the open circuit potential exhibited by the at least one second cell.
US09030166B2
An electric device including: a connecting unit connected to a connection line supplying an electric power of a predetermined rating and transmitting and receiving an information; a charging unit conducting a charging of a charging battery connected to an own device, by the electric power supplied by the connection line; an electric supplying unit supplying an electric power to a recording medium storing an information; a reading-and-writing unit performing a reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium; and an electronic source controlling unit performing a control of the electric power supplied to the charging unit, when the reading-and-writing unit performs the reading-and-writing operation of the recording medium, according to an access request to the recording medium via the connection line.
US09030164B2
A vehicle is a vehicle in which a high-voltage power supply can be charged with electric power from an external power supply. In a travel mode, a main microcomputer (MMC) of a controller outputs a request signal requesting to forcibly turn a plug-in main relay (PIMR) on to a sub-microcomputer (SMC), in order to activate a charging system that is essentially not required to be activated. Upon receiving the request signal, the SMC outputs a signal for turning the PIMR on to the PIMR. If the MMC does not receive electric power from a low-voltage power supply via the PIMR after outputting the request signal, the MMC determines that there is an abnormality in an activation circuit for the charging system, and alerts a user.
US09030149B1
Systems and methods are provided for supporting and articulating a payload using stabilization platform. The stabilization platform may be configured to avoid gimbal lock. The stabilization platform may be configured to automatically transition between different modes of orientation.
US09030132B2
A system for remote control includes a user device configured to run an application that receives a user input; a remote device including a controller and a controlled device; and a computing cloud being connected to the user device and the remote device through the Internet and configured to convert the user input received at the user device to a command. The controller is configured to receive and execute the command and thereby control the controlled device accordingly. The application is a non-customized application. The controlled device includes a plurality of cascadable LED cubes.
US09030129B2
A preferred embodiment relates to controlling the amount of backlight power in an electronic display to account for the temperature in the backlight cavity. Another embodiment relates to a system for controlling the amount of backlight based on both the temperature of the backlight and the amount of ambient light.
US09030121B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide circuits and methods for driving light sources, e.g., a light-emitting diode (LED) light source. In one embodiment, a lamp includes a rectifier rectifying an AC voltage to a rectified AC voltage, an LED light source, and a switch coupled to the LED light source in series controlling a current through the LED light source according to a predetermined current reference. The LED light source and the switch coupled in series receive the rectified AC voltage while the switch is controlled linearly.
US09030115B2
An LED driver may use a DIAC oscillator circuit to controls a semiconductor switch in a switching circuit. The DIAC oscillator circuit uses rectified line power and so it does not require a separate power source. An LED driver may uses a zero crossing circuit to provide low level dimming. The zero crossing circuit includes a linear circuit or a constant current circuit that keeps a TRIAC dimmer on and stable during low current levels.
US09030112B2
An illumination system includes: a signal receiver device configured to, in response to a coupling signal, generate a receiver-side signal frame including a control code portion based on control information of the coupling signal; a code extracting unit operable to extract the control code portion from the receiver-side signal frame; and a current providing unit operable to provide a driving current through a light emitting component according to the control code portion extracted from the code extracting unit. The driving current has a magnitude dependent on the extracted control code portion.
US09030109B2
A LED current-balance driving circuit having a current-balance coil set, a switching unit, and a control circuit is provided. The current-balance coil set has at least a first coil and a second coil, both of which are in connection with respective LED strings, for balancing currents flowing through the LED strings. The switching unit and a leakage inductance of current-balance coil set are utilized to facilitate the voltage conversion for driving the LED strings. A duty cycle of the switching unit is controlled by the control circuit according to the currents flowing through the LED strings.
US09030100B2
A highly durable cathode component for a discharge lamp is provided. A cathode component for a discharge lamp includes a barrel having a wire diameter of 2 to 35 mm and a tapered front end, wherein the cathode component comprises a tungsten alloy containing 0.5 to 3% by weight, in terms of oxide (ThO2), of a thorium component, not less than 90% of tungsten crystals are accounted for by tungsten crystals having a grain size in the range of 1 to 80 μm, as observed in terms of an area ratio of 300 μm×300 μm in unit area in a circumferential cross section of the barrel, and are accounted for by tungsten crystals having a grain size in the range of 10 to 120 μm, as observed in terms of an area ratio of 300 μm×300 μm in unit area in a side cross section of the barrel.
US09030099B2
A long life high pressure arc discharge lamp configuration is disclosed. In some embodiments, the lamp includes a first non-cycling high pressure arc tube having a first ignition aid and a second arc tube electrically connected in parallel to the first arc tube. A lamp envelope is provided about the first and second arc tubes. In some cases, each of the first and second arc tubes is a non-cycling high pressure sodium arc tube, and each is configured with an ignition aid strip running lengthwise down the corresponding arc tube. In some cases, the first and second arc tubes are oriented such that their respective ignition aid strips are effectively 180 degrees+/−90 degrees away from each other, or so that their respective ignition aid strips are effectively 180 degrees+/−5 degrees away from each other. In some such, the second arc tube is a low-pressure arc tube.
US09030098B2
A wireless electric power supply type light-emitting element 11 of the present invention includes a substrate 2; a light-emitting structure provided on the substrate 2; and a sealing layer 3 provided on the light-emitting structure, wherein the light-emitting structure includes an electric power receiving antenna 4 and an organic electroluminescence element provided on the installation surface of the substrate 2; and two connecting wires 61 and 62 for electrically connecting the electric power receiving antenna 4 and the organic electroluminescence element, the electric power receiving antenna 4 is covered with an insulating layer 7 exclusive of two terminals 41 and 42 of the electric power receiving antenna 4 to which the end parts of the two connecting wires 61 and 62 are connected, and the light-emitting structure is sealed between the substrate 2 and the sealing layer 3.
US09030094B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting device where periphery deterioration can be prevented from occurring even when an organic insulating film is used as an insulating film for the light-emitting device. In addition, it is an object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting device where reliability for a long period of time can be improved. A structure of an inorganic film, an organic film, and an inorganic film is not continuously provided from under a sealing material under a cathode for a light-emitting element. In addition, penetration of water is suppressed by defining the shape of the inorganic film that is formed over the organic film even when a structure of an inorganic film, an organic film, and an inorganic film is continuously provided under a cathode for a light-emitting element.
US09030091B2
Provided are a substrate for an organic electronic device (OED), an OED, and lighting. The substrate capable of forming an OED ensuring excellent performance and reliability because it has excellent performance including light extraction efficiency, penetration of moisture or a gas from an external environment is inhibited, and growth of dark spots is controlled may be provided.
US09030088B2
A fluorescent lamp has an amalgam chamber that is in communication with the interior of the lamp through an exhaust tube. The amalgam chamber is constructed as a three-way junction with the exhaust tube and is formed at a supplementary angle of 180 degree or less with respect to the exhaust tube. The construction of the chamber utilizes the force of gravity to keep the amalgam away from the opening of the exhaust tube leading to the interior of the lamp. The amalgam chamber is capable of effectively retaining the amalgam within the chamber and preventing it from penetrating into the interior of the lamp regardless of mounting direction.
US09030082B2
A vibration gyro device has a base part and a pair of drive vibrating arms and a pair of detection vibrating arms respectively extended from both ends in a Y-axis direction of the base part. Further, adjustment vibrating arms extended from respective ends of connecting parts respectively extended from both ends in an X-axis direction of the base part in parallel to the drive vibrating arms are provided. At the end sides of the respective adjustment vibrating arms, spindle parts as wider parts are provided. On principal surfaces of the respective adjustment vibrating arms, adjustment electrodes as membranes for adjustment of leakage output of the vibration gyro device are provided.
US09030065B2
The invention relates to an electronically commutated electric machine (1), comprising a stator housing (3) which receives a stator (4) in a stator chamber (13) and which delimits a rotor chamber (14) receiving a rotor. According to the invention, the stator housing (3) comprises a main housing (31) and a cover (9), wherein an elastic sealing element (8) is arranged between the main housing (31) and cover (9) and extends into the inside of the stator housing (3) with at least one radial region (30) and forms a tolerance compensating element (19) acting on the stator (4).
US09030062B2
A cooling structure of a rotating electric machine includes a rotor core formed of a plurality of electromagnetic steel plates and a resin molding portion molding the rotor core with resin. The rotor core is provided with a through hole passing therethrough in the axial direction of the central axis that is a rotation axis. The rotor core is provided inside the through hole with an oil passage through which oil circulates. The resin molding portion has a cover portion covering the outer peripheral side of the oil passage. This configuration can provide the cooling structure of the rotating electric machine that achieves efficient cooling while suppressing occurrence of energy loss.
US09030060B2
A galvanoscanner including: a rotor including a shaft as a rotational center, and permanent magnets disposed around the shaft and polarized to a plurality of poles in a circumferential direction of the shaft; and a stator disposed in the outside of the rotor through a clearance and including coils, a yoke, and an outer casing so that the rotor swings in a predetermined angle range; wherein: the permanent magnets are provided with grooves which are formed in a direction of the rotation shaft so as to straddle circumferentially adjacent magnetic poles of the permanent magnets; and the permanent magnets are parted into at least two parts per pole by parting lines. Thus, the ratio of the torque constant to the moment of inertia can be improved so that the current required for driving can be reduced and reduction of power consumption at driving time can be attained.
US09030048B2
An uninterruptible power supply for supply electrical power to a load, comprises a connection to a primary source for supplying primary power, a battery system for storing battery power, an inverter, and a controller. The controller controls the inverter to operate in a first mode, a second mode, and in a third mode. In the first mode, power is supplied to the primary load and the battery system based on primary power. In the second mode, power is supplied to the primary load based on battery power. In the third mode, power is supplied to the primary source based on battery power.
US09030046B2
A dc energy store includes auxiliary systems operable in different modes, including self-supporting, island mode and normal modes. In the self-supporting mode a first controller uses a voltage demand signal indicative of desired ac voltage of an AC/DC power converter to control semiconductor power switching devices to achieve the desired level of ac voltage. The voltage demand signal is derived from comparing a voltage feedback signal and a second voltage demand signal preset to provide the desired ac voltage for the auxiliary systems. A second controller uses a current demand signal indicative of the desired dc link current to control the semiconductor power switching devices of a DC/DC power converter to achieve the desired level of dc link current. The current demand signal is derived from comparing a dc link voltage demand signal indicative of a desired dc link voltage and a dc link voltage feedback signal.
US09030045B2
The present invention may be embodied as an uninterruptible power supply comprising an input section, an output section, an inverter section, and a transformer. The transformer is operatively connected to the input section, the output section, and the inverter section. The uninterruptible power supply operates in a line mode and in a standby mode. In the standby mode, the output section generates an output power signal from a standby signal generated by the inverter section based on the alternative power source and at least one inverter control signal. When the uninterruptible power supply operates in the standby mode, the at least one inverter control signal is pulse-width modulated during at least a first portion of a cycle of the output power signal and not pulse-width modulated during at least a second portion of the cycle of the output power signal.
US09030037B2
A wind generator with a wind blade rotating cage for driving multiple generators is disclosed. Sixteen wind blades (8) manufactured by a stretch extrusion process are mounted on the periphery of the wind blade rotating cage (5) suspended by magnetic force. Inner gears (3) are mounted on the inner edge of the wind blade rotating cage (5). Two of an upper and a lower generator cabins (12) are provided on an upright post (1) and eight generators with an electromagnetic clutch are provided inside each generator cabin (12). A gear (2) engaged with the inner gear (3) on the wind blade rotating cage (5) is mounted on a generator shaft (26) extending outside the generator cabin (12). The wind blade (8) is outward convex and inward concave, 1.5 meters wide and 40 meters high. The wind blade (8) has a large wind receiving area and is mounted on the periphery, so the torque produced is large. Inner gears (3) drive the gears (2) of the generator to rotate and the loss of kinetic energy is small. A lightning rod is also provided on the wind generator. The wind generator has a high wind energy utilization ratio, a simple structure and a low operation cost.
US09030034B2
The invention concerns a stationary power plant, in particular a gas power plant, to generate electricity; having an internal combustion engine, comprising a fuel medium inlet and an exhaust gas outlet, whereas an exhaust-gas flow of the internal combustion engine is discharged via the exhaust gas outlet; having an electrical generator, which is driven by the internal combustion engine to generate electricity, and which is coupled or can be coupled to an electrical grid, in order to feed the generated electricity into said grid; having a fuel medium supply, which is connected to the fuel medium inlet; wherein a steam circuit, in which a working medium is circulated by means of a feed pump, is provided, comprising a heat exchanger arranged in the exhaust gas flow, by means of which waste heat of the exhaust gas flow is transferred to the working medium for partially or completely evaporating the working medium, further comprising a condenser, in which the working medium partially or completely condenses. The invention is characterized in that a reciprocating piston expander is provided in the steam circuit, in which the working medium expands to produce mechanical work, and the reciprocating piston expander is connected mechanically to the internal combustion engine and/or the electrical generator by means of a releasable clutch.
US09030031B2
A microelectronic assembly includes a microelectronic device, e.g., semiconductor chip, connected with an interconnection element, e.g., substrate. The reference contacts are connectable to a source of reference potential such as ground or a voltage source used for power. Signal conductors, e.g., wirebonds are connected to device contacts exposed at a surface of the microelectronic device. Reference conductors, e.g., wirebonds can be connected with two reference contacts of the interconnection element. A reference wirebond may extend at a substantially uniform spacing from a signal conductor, e.g., wirebond connected to the microelectronic device over at least a substantial portion of the length of the signal conductor, such that a desired impedance may be achieved for the signal conductor.
US09030020B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, and device regions formed in the substrate to extend in a first direction which is parallel to a principal plane of the substrate. The device further includes select gates disposed on the substrate to extend in a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, and a contact region provided between the select gates on the substrate and including contact plugs disposed on the respective device regions. Further, the contact region includes partial regions, in each of which N contact plugs are disposed on N successive device regions to be arranged on a straight line being non-parallel to the first and second directions, where N is an integer of 2 or more. Further, the contact region includes the partial regions of at least two types whose values of N are different.
US09030012B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate provided with a lower interconnect layer formed thereon, and having a device region and a mark formation region, a CNT via structure formed in the device region such that it contacts the lower interconnect layer, a first mark formed in the mark formation region, formed by embedding carbon nanotubes, and formed in the same layer as the CNT via structure, a second mark formed in the mark formation region of the semiconductor substrate, formed with no carbon nanotubes, and formed in the same layer as the CNT via structure and the first mark, and an interconnect layer formed on the CNT via structure and the first and second marks, and electrically connected to the CNT via structure.
US09030010B2
Packaging devices and packaging methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a packaging device includes forming a plurality of through-substrate vias (TSVs) in an interposer substrate. The interposer substrate is recessed or a thickness of the plurality of TSVs is increased to expose portions of the plurality of TSVs. A conductive ball is coupled to the exposed portion of each of the plurality of TSVs.
US09029998B2
A semiconductor package device includes a lower package including a lower semiconductor chip mounted on the lower package substrate, a lower molding compound layer disposed on the lower package substrate, a first trench formed in the lower molding compound layer to surround the lower semiconductor chip, and a second trench connected to the first trench to extend to an outer wall of the lower package, the second trench being formed in the lower molding compound layer, an upper package disposed on the lower package. The upper package includes an upper package substrate and at least one upper semiconductor chip mounted on the upper package substrate and a heat transfer member disposed between the lower package and the upper package.
US09029992B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a leadframe structure. A semiconductor die is attached to a die pad. Land connect bars are spaced apart from the die pad and a plurality of lands are between the land connect bars and the die pad and are spaced apart therefrom. Insulation members are adhered to the land connect bars and the plurality of lands to hold the land connect bars and the plurality of lands together and to electrically isolate them. An encapsulant covers the semiconductor die and at least portions of the plurality of lands, the die pad, and the land connect bars and further fills spaces between the land connect bars and the plurality of lands.
US09029991B2
An example semiconductor package with reduced solder voiding is described, which has a leadframe having an I/O pad and a thermal pad, a fabricated semiconductor die having a bond pad, where the fabricated semiconductor die is attached to a top surface of the thermal pad, and a wire bond connecting the bond pad to the I/O pad, where a bottom surface of the thermal pad has channels.
US09029990B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package including a bottom leadframe, an interposer mounted on the bottom leadframe, a flipchip die mounted on the interposer and a top leadframe electrically connected to the interposer. Also, a method of making an integrated circuit (IC) package including electrically and physically attaching a die to an interposer, attaching the interposer to a bottom leadframe, attaching a discrete circuit component to the interposer and attaching a top leadframe to the bottom leadframe.
US09029986B2
Semiconductor devices are provided with dual passivation layers. A semiconductor layer is formed on a substrate and covered by a first passivation layer (PL-1). PL-1 and part of the semiconductor layer are etched to form a device mesa. A second passivation layer (PL-2) is formed over PL-1 and exposed edges of the mesa. Vias are etched through PL-1 and PL-2 to the semiconductor layer where source, drain and gate are to be formed. Conductors are applied in the vias for ohmic contacts for the source-drain and a Schottky contact for the gate. Interconnections over the edges of the mesa couple other circuit elements. PL-1 avoids adverse surface states near the gate and PL-2 insulates edges of the mesa from overlying interconnections to avoid leakage currents. An opaque alignment mark is desirably formed at the same time as the device to facilitate alignment when using transparent semiconductors.
US09029984B2
A semiconductor substrate assembly is proposed. The semiconductor interposer comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a first conductive pad, a second conductive pad and a conductive pillar. The first conductive pad is formed at a predetermined location of the first surface of the substrate. The second conductive pad is formed at a predetermined location of the second surface of the substrate as compared with the position of the first conductive pad. The conductive pillar is formed in the substrate and contacts with one of the first conductive pad and the second conductive pad.
US09029977B2
The power conversion apparatus includes semiconductor modules and a circuit board on which a control circuit is formed. Each semiconductor module includes signal terminals electrically connected to the circuit board. The signal terminals of each semiconductor module are arranged in a line so as to form a terminal row along a first direction. The semiconductor modules are grouped into upper arm semiconductor modules and lower arm semiconductor modules each connected to a corresponding one of the upper arm semiconductor module. Upper arm terminal rows as the terminal rows of the upper arm semiconductor modules and lower arm terminal rows as the terminal rows of the lower arm semiconductor modules are arranged in a staggered manner along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and to a third direction in which the signal terminals of the semiconductor modules project, the first, second and third directions being perpendicular to one another.
US09029970B2
Provided is a semiconductor light receiving device including: a semiconductor substrate; a semiconductor layer laminated on the semiconductor substrate and including an upper surface portion; a reflecting film formed to cover the upper surface portion of the semiconductor layer and including a principal reflecting region and an upper surface; and an upper electrode formed to cover at least one portion of the upper surface of the reflecting film, and including a junction portion extending through the reflecting file to be provided in contact with the upper surface portion of the semiconductor layer, the junction portion of the upper electrode surrounding a portion of a circumference of the principal reflecting region of the reflecting film, the principal reflecting region being connected to a region of the reflecting film located outside the junction portion, in which the semiconductor light receiving device detects light entering from another side of the semiconductor substrate.
US09029969B2
There is provided an imaging element including a transmission channel region provided in an optical black pixel region shielded from light from an outside of a semiconductor substrate by a light shielding film, for transmitting a charge existing inside the semiconductor substrate of the optical black pixel region to an outside of the optical black pixel region.
US09029965B2
A method and system provide a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device. The magnetic junction includes a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a free layer. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the pinned layer and the free layer. The free layer includes a plurality of subregions. Each of the subregions has a magnetic thermal stability constant. The subregions are ferromagnetically coupled such that the free layer has a total magnetic thermal stability constant. The magnetic thermal stability constant is such that the each of the subregions is magnetically thermally unstable at an operating temperature. The total magnetic thermal stability constant is such that the free layer is magnetically thermally stable at the operating temperature. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction.
US09029960B2
The semiconductor device has a sensor unit including a sensing part, and a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate is bonded to the sensor unit through an insulation film such that the sensing part is disposed in an air-tightly sealed chamber provided between a recessed portion of the semiconductor substrate and the sensor unit. A surface of the semiconductor substrate provided on a periphery of the recessed portion includes a boundary region at a perimeter of the recessed portion and a bonding region on a periphery of the boundary region. The bonding region has an area greater than an area of the boundary region. The bonding region of the semiconductor substrate is bonded to the sensor unit through the insulation film.
US09029958B2
A method includes forming a gate stack including a gate electrode on a first semiconductor fin. The gate electrode includes a portion over and aligned to a middle portion of the first semiconductor fin. A second semiconductor fin is on a side of the gate electrode, and does not extend to under the gate electrode. The first and the second semiconductor fins are spaced apart from, and parallel to, each other. An end portion of the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin are etched. An epitaxy is performed to form an epitaxy region, which includes a first portion extending into a first space left by the etched first end portion of the first semiconductor fin, and a second portion extending into a second space left by the etched second semiconductor fin. A first source/drain region is formed in the epitaxy region.
US09029955B2
Integrated circuit on SOI comprising a bipolar transistor with isolating trenches of distinct depths
An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate, a silicon layer, a buried isolating layer arranged between the substrate and the layer, a bipolar transistor comprising a collector and emitter having a first doping, and a base and a base contact having a second doping, the base forming a junction with the collector and emitter, the collector, emitter, base contact, and the base being coplanar, a well having the second doping and plumb with the collector, emitter, base contact and base, the well separating the collector, emitter and base contact from the substrate, having the second doping and extending between the base contact and base, a isolating trench plumb with the base and extending beyond the layer but without reaching a bottom of the emitter and collector, and another isolating trench arranged between the base contact, collector, and emitter, the trench extending beyond the buried layer into the well.
US09029944B2
In a semiconductor substrate with a first surface and a working surface parallel to the first surface, columnar first and second super junction regions of a first and a second conductivity type are formed. The first and second super junction regions extend in a direction perpendicular to the first surface and form a super junction structure. The semiconductor portion is thinned such that, after the thinning, a distance between the first super junction regions having the second conductivity type and a second surface obtained from the working surface does not exceed 30 μm. Impurities are implanted into the second surface to form one or more implanted zones. The embodiments combine super junction approaches with backside implants enabled by thin wafer technology.
US09029927B2
A spin transistor includes a source electrode, including a magnetic material, is disposed in a substrate. A drain electrode, including a magnetic material is disposed in the substrate and is spaced apart from the source electrode in a first direction. A gate electrode is interposed between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and extends from the substrate in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. A channel layer extends along the gate electrode, and connects to the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09029917B2
In a semiconductor integrated circuit device, a plurality of electrode pads for external connection are arranged in a zigzag pattern. Some electrode pads of the electrode pads of the plurality of I/O cells which are closer to a side of the semiconductor chip, each have an end portion closer to the side of the semiconductor chip, the end portion being set at the same position as that of an end portion of the corresponding I/O cell. A power source-side protective circuit and a ground-side protective circuit against discharge of static electricity are provided with the power source-side protective circuit being closer to the scribe region. A distance between a center position of one of the electrode pads and the ground-side protective circuit of the corresponding I/O cell and a distance between a center position of the other one electrode pad and the ground-side protective circuit of the corresponding I/O cell are both short and are substantially equal between each I/O cell.
US09029916B2
Gallium nitride (GaN) based semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The GaN-based semiconductor device may include a heat dissipation substrate (that is, a thermal conductive substrate); a GaN-based multi-layer arranged on the heat dissipation substrate and having N-face polarity; and a heterostructure field effect transistor (HFET) or a Schottky electrode arranged on the GaN-based multi-layer. The HFET device may include a gate having a double recess structure. While such a GaN-based semiconductor device is being manufactured, a wafer bonding process and a laser lift-off process may be used.
US09029914B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe apparatuses, methods, and systems of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The IC device may include a buffer layer disposed on a substrate, the buffer layer including gallium (Ga) and nitrogen (N) and a barrier layer disposed on the buffer layer, the barrier layer including aluminum (Al) and nitrogen (N). The IC device may further include a gate terminal and a gate dielectric layer disposed between the gate terminal and the barrier layer and/or between the gate terminal and the buffer layer. In various embodiments, the gate dielectric layer may include a fluoride- or chloride-based compound, such as calcium fluoride (CaF2).
US09029912B2
A semiconductor substructure with improved performance and a method of forming the same is described. In one embodiment, the semiconductor substructure includes a substrate, having an upper surface; a gate structure formed over the substrate; a spacer formed along a sidewall of the gate structure; and a source/drain structure disposed adjacent the gate structure. The source/drain structures is formed of a strain material and is disposed in an recess that extends below the upper surface of the substrate. An interface between the spacer and the source-drain structure can be at least 2 nm above the upper surface of the substrate.
US09029908B2
A photonic device comprises a substrate and a dielectric material including two or more openings that expose a portion of the substrate, the two or more openings each having an aspect ratio of at least 1. A bottom diode material comprising a compound semiconductor material that is lattice mismatched to the substrate occupies the two or more openings and is coalesced above the two or more openings to form the bottom diode region. The device further includes a top diode material and an active diode region between the top and bottom diode materials.
US09029903B2
A light emitting diode package including a package body with a cavity, a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) chips in the cavity, a plurality of wires connected to the plurality of LED chips, and a plurality of lead frames in the package body, wherein the lead frames comprise a first lead frame electrically connected to a first electrode of a first LED chip, a second lead frame electrically connected to a second electrode of the first LED chip and a second electrode of a second LED chip, a third lead frame electrically connected to a first electrode of the second LED chip, and fourth lead frame electrically connected to a second electrode of a third LED chip. Further, ends of the lead frames are exposed outside of the package body and penetrate the package body, and the first electrodes are P electrodes and the second electrodes are N electrodes.
US09029896B2
The present application is related to a light-emitting device. The present application illustrates a vertical light-emitting device in one embodiment, comprising: a conductive substrate includes a through-hole, a patterned semiconductor structure disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a first bonding pad and a second bonding pad disposed on a second surface of the substrate, a conductive line passing through the through-hole connecting electrically the semiconductor structure layer, and an insulation layer on at least one sidewall of the through-hole insulates the conductive line form the substrate.
US09029894B2
The present invention relates to a lead frame for an optical semiconductor device including: a lead frame having a first plate part and a second plate part disposed so as to oppose to the first plate part; an optical semiconductor element placed in the second plate part and electrically connected to the second plate part; a wire for electrically connecting the optical semiconductor element and the first plate part to each other; a circumferential reflector formed on the lead frame so as to surround a circumference of the optical semiconductor element; and a transparent resin for encapsulating the optical semiconductor element, filled in a recess formed by the lead frame and an inner periphery of the reflector, in which the lead frame has a contour shape substantially the same as a bottom contour shape of the inner periphery of the reflector for forming the recess.
US09029885B2
There is provided an electrode foil, which can show superior light scattering, while preventing short circuit between electrodes. The electrode foil of the present invention comprises a metal foil having a thickness of from 1 μm to 250 μm, wherein the electrode foil comprises, on at least one outermost surface thereof, a light-scattering surface having a Pv/Pp ratio of 2.0 or higher, wherein the Pv/Pp ratio is a ratio of a maximum profile valley depth Pv of a profile curve to a maximum profile peak height Pp of the profile curve as measured in a rectangular area of 181 μm×136 μm in accordance with JIS B 0601-2001.
US09029884B2
A nitride semiconductor light emitting device includes a conductive substrate, a first metal layer, a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an emission layer, and a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer in this order. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device additionally has an insulating layer covering at least side surfaces of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, the emission layer and the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer. A method of manufacturing the same is provided. The nitride semiconductor light emitting device may further include a second metal layer. Thus, a reliable nitride semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided in which short-circuit at the PN junction portion and current leak is reduced as compared with the conventional examples.
US09029883B2
An LED package structure with concave area for positioning heat-conducting substance includes a substrate unit, a heat-conducting adhesive unit, a light-emitting unit, a conductive unit and a package unit. The substrate unit has a substrate body, a concave space formed on the substrate body, and a plurality of positive and negative pads exposed on the substrate body. The heat-conducting adhesive unit has a heat-conducting adhesive layer positioned in the concave space. The light-emitting unit has a plurality of LED chips disposed on the heat-conducting adhesive layer and received in the concave space. The conductive unit has a plurality of wires. Each LED chip is electrically connected between each positive pad and each negative pad. The package unit has a translucent package resin body disposed on the substrate body in order to cover the LED chips and the wires.
US09029877B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting diode package according to an embodiment, including; a body having a cavity formed therein, a lead frame placed in the cavity; and a light emitting diode electrically connected to the lead frame while having a slope angle relative to the bottom surface of the cavity, wherein a light emitting part and a non-light emitting part are present on the light emitting diode, and wherein a connection part is provided in a region of the cavity to be connected to at least a region of the non-light emitting part.
US09029872B2
The present inventive concept has been made in an effort to improve the breakdown voltage of a silicon carbide MOSFET using a trench gate.A semiconductor device according to the present inventive concept includes a p type pillar region disposed below the trench, spaced apart from the trench or a first p type pillar region and a second p type pillar region disposed below the trench and corresponding to two corners of the trench.
US09029864B2
A transistor includes an island-like semiconductor film over a substrate, and a conductive film forming a gate electrode over the island-like semiconductor film with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween. The semiconductor film includes a channel forming region, a first impurity region forming a source or drain region, and a second impurity region. The channel forming region is overlapped with the gate electrode crossing the island-like semiconductor film. The first impurity region is adjacent to the channel forming region. The second impurity region is adjacent to the channel forming region and the first impurity region. The first impurity region and the second impurity region have different conductivity. The second impurity region and the channel forming region have different conductivity or have different concentration of an impurity element contained in the second impurity region and the channel forming region in a case of having the same conductivity.
US09029863B2
A variation in electrical characteristics, such as a negative shift of the threshold voltage or an increase in S value, of a fin-type transistor including an oxide semiconductor material is prevented. An oxide semiconductor film is sandwiched between a plurality of gate electrodes with an insulating film provided between the oxide semiconductor film and each of the gate electrodes. Specifically, a first gate insulating film is provided to cover a first gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film is provided to be in contact with the first gate insulating film and extend beyond the first gate electrode, a second gate insulating film is provided to cover at least the oxide semiconductor film, and a second gate electrode is provided to be in contact with part of the second gate insulating film and extend beyond the first gate electrode.
US09029859B2
An object is to provide a display device with a high aperture ratio or a semiconductor device in which the area of an element is large. A channel formation region of a TFT with a multi-gate structure is provided under a wiring that is provided between adjacent pixel electrodes (or electrodes of an element). In addition, a channel width direction of each of a plurality of channel formation regions is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the pixel electrode. In addition, when a channel width is longer than a channel length, the area of the channel formation region can be increased.
US09029857B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a substrate including a rectangular light-emitting area and a circuit area, the circuit area including a thin film transistor, the light-emitting area including an electroluminescent layer produced by a solution deposition process, the light-emitting area being bounded by a first major side, a second major side, a first minor side and a second minor side, the first major side being opposite from and parallel to a second major side, each of these sides having wiring or dummies arranged thereat, and a pixel defining layer arranged on the wirings and on the dummies. In order to produce a uniform thickness electroluminescent layer via a solution deposition process, top surfaces of the pixel defining layer on each of the wirings and dummies that border the light emitting area are arranged in a same plane that is parallel to the substrate.
US09029855B2
A method and a resulting device are provided for forming stack overlay and registration monitoring structures for FEOL layers including implant layers and for forming BEOL SEM overlay and registration monitoring structures including BEOL interconnections, respectively. Embodiments include forming an active monitoring structure having first and second edges separated by a first distance in an active layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming a poly monitoring structure having first and second edges separated by a second distance in a poly layer; and forming one or more contact monitoring structures in a contact layer, collectively exposing at least the first and second edges of each of the active and poly monitoring structures; wherein the active, poly, and contact monitoring structures are formed in an area which includes no IC patterns in the active, the poly, and the contact layers, respectively.
US09029849B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device is provided. The OLED display device includes a first transistor configured to supply a data voltage to a first node, a second transistor connected between the first node and a second node, a third transistor configured to supply a reference voltage to the third node, a fourth transistor configured to supply an initialization voltage to the second node, a fifth transistor configured to supply the reference voltage to the second node, a driving transistor configured to include a drain receiving a high-level source voltage, a source connected to the second node, and a gate connected to the third node, a first capacitor connected between the first node and the third node, a second capacitor connected between the second node and the third node, and an OLED configured to include an anode connected to the second node.
US09029846B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display module including a flexible substrate, a display panel, and an encapsulation film; a lower module disposed below the display module; an upper module disposed on the display module; and an elasticity-adjusting layer disposed on or below the display module to adjust a position of a neutral plane in bending of the display apparatus, wherein an elastic modulus of the elasticity-adjusting layer is less than that of at least one of the display module, the lower module, or the upper module, so as to position the neutral plane within or proximate to the display module.
US09029840B2
An organic nanofiber including a gelled organic semiconductor compound. Also disclosed is an organic semiconductor transistor and a method of manufacturing an organic semiconductor transistor.
US09029839B2
A semiconductor device containing a novel cyclosiloxane polymer showing electroconductivity or semiconductivity has a charge transport layer comprising a plasma polymer containing structural units (A) each having a transition metal as a central metal and structural units (B) each situated between structural units (A) adjacent to each other and having a cyclosiloxane skeleton. The charge transport layer is formed by plasma polymerization of an organic metal compound having the transition metal as the central metal and the cyclosiloxane compound in a reactor.
US09029838B2
An organic light emitting display device comprises a first substrate, an insulation layer having an inclined structure, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer defining a luminescent region and a non-luminescent region, an organic light emitting structure, a second electrode and a second substrate. Lateral portions of the first electrode, the second electrode and/or the pixel defining layer may have an inclination angle for preventing a total reflection of light generated from the organic light emitting structure, so that the organic light emitting display device may ensure a light efficiency substantially larger than that of the conventional organic light emitting display device by about at least 30 percent.
US09029835B2
An embodiment of the invention includes an epitaxial layer that directly contacts, for example, a nanowire, fin, or pillar in a manner that allows the layer to relax with two or three degrees of freedom. The epitaxial layer may be included in a channel region of a transistor. The nanowire, fin, or pillar may be removed to provide greater access to the epitaxial layer. Doing so may allow for a “all-around gate” structure where the gate surrounds the top, bottom, and sidewalls of the epitaxial layer. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09029831B2
An exemplary light emitting diode includes a substrate and a first undoped gallium nitride (GaN) layer formed on the substrate. The first undoped GaN layer defines a groove in an upper surface thereof. A distributed Bragg reflector is formed in the groove of the first undoped GaN layer. The distributed Bragg reflector includes a plurality of second undoped GaN layers and a plurality of air gaps alternately stacked one on the other. An n-type GaN layer, an active layer and a p-type GaN layer are formed on the distributed Bragg reflector and the first undoped GaN layer. A p-type electrode and an n-type electrode are electrically connected with the p-type GaN layer and the n-type GaN layer, respectively. A method for manufacturing plural such light emitting diodes is also provided.
US09029830B2
A group III nitride-based light emitting device includes an n-type group III nitride-based semiconductor layer, a p-type group III nitride-based semiconductor layer, and a group III nitride-based active region between the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer. The active region includes a plurality of sequentially stacked group III nitride-based quantum well layers interspersed with barrier layers. A plurality of the barrier layers have a variation in composition of a first element along a growth direction within a thickness of each of the plurality of barrier layers, and the variation in composition of the first element has at least one minimum and a position of the minimum varies in the plurality of barrier layers. The first element may be indium or aluminum, and the number of barrier layers including the composition variation may be at least three barrier layers. The composition variation may vary linearly or non-linearly.
US09029826B2
Erosion of chalcogenides in phase change memories using ovonic threshold switch selectors can be reduced by controlling columnar morphology in electrodes used in the ovonic threshold switch. The columnar morphology may cause cracks to occur which allow etchants used to etch the ovonic threshold switch to sneak through the ovonic threshold switch and to attack chalcogenides, either in the switch or in the memory element. In one embodiment, the electrode may be split into two metal nitride layers separated by an intervening metal layer.
US09029825B2
A semiconductor device includes multilayer interconnects and two variable resistance elements (22a, 22b) that are provided among the multilayer interconnects and that include first electrodes (5), second electrodes (10a, 10b), and variable resistance element films (9a, 9b) that are each interposed between first electrodes (5) and respective second electrodes (10a, 10b). Either the first electrodes (5) or the second electrodes (10a, 10b) of the two variable resistance elements (22a, 22b) are unified.
US09029824B2
A memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of parallel trenches therein, a memory region formed in the substrate including an array of memory cells having a plurality of vertical selection transistors with respective channels formed in trench sidewalls, a plurality of buried source electrodes in trench bottoms, a plurality of paired gate electrodes formed on paired trench sidewalls, a first and second stitch region disposed adjacent the memory region along a trench direction including a first and second row of gate contacts, respectively, and a row of source contacts disposed in the first or second stitch region with each of the source contacts coupled to a respective one of the source electrodes. One of each pair of the gate electrodes is coupled to a respective one of the first row of gate contacts and the other one of each pair of gate electrodes is coupled to a respective one of the second row of gate contacts.
US09029821B2
The invention relates to a device for reading out at least one especially flexible imaging plate. The readout device comprises a reader for reading out information stored on the imaging plate, and a transport device having at least one drive means for transporting the imaging plate relative to the reader along a guide means on the transport path. The shape of the transport path is adapted to the shape of a readout area of the reader. At least one substantially solid support for the imaging plate is provided. The shape and dimension of the support are adapted to the shape of the transport path. When the imaging plate is transported together with the support, the imaging plate does not come into contact with the drive means. The invention also relates to the support for the imaging plate.
US09029820B2
An image storage device includes a substrate including a plurality of voids and a septum disposed between the voids, and cells including a storage phosphor powder within the voids. In an embodiment, a computed radiography apparatus includes an image storage device, a stimulating radiation device to generate stimulating radiation, and a photosensor to detect light. In another embodiment, a method of forming an image storage device includes providing a patterned substrate that includes a plurality of voids and a septum disposed between the voids, adding a storage phosphor powder into the voids of the patterned substrate to form cells, and applying a topcoat layer that is substantially free of the storage phosphor powder.
US09029805B2
A method for inspecting contact between mating gears that includes applying a mixture to teeth of a first gear, teeth of a second gear, or the teeth of both the first and second gears. The mixture includes a lubricating oil and a fluorescing dye. The first gear is rotated to drive the second gear. While the second gear is being driven by the first gear, electromagnetic radiation, such as ultra-violet radiation, is applied to the teeth of at least one of the first and second gears to cause the teeth to fluoresce. The fluorescing teeth of the second gear are inspected to identify a tooth inspection zone that approximates a zone of contact between the teeth of the first and second gears.
US09029800B2
A compact analyzer includes a flow cell having a flow channel through which a sample is made to pass. First and second light sources are arranged to emit first and second excitation light into first and second overlapping portions of the flow channel, respectively. The first excitation light stimulates a first light emission from particles of a first particle type that may be present in the sample; the second excitation light stimulates a second light emission from particles of a second particle type. A detector receives the first and second light emission from the corresponding particles present in the sample in a detection portion of the flow channel, and provides a detector output based on the received light emission. The light sources are modulated at different frequencies so that a frequency analysis of the detector output can provide separate information about the first and second particle types.
US09029798B2
An element having an immersible portion for contact with an aqueous liquid, the immersible portion having a contact surface for contact with the aqueous liquid, the contact surface configured to have strong acidity, a radiation (e.g., ultraviolet radiation) source assembly, a radiation (e.g., ultraviolet radiation) source module and a fluid (e.g., water) treatment system incorporating this element applicable to any surface in contact with fluid that is susceptible to build-up of fouling materials. The embodiments obviate or mitigates the rate of accumulation of fouling on surfaces in contact with aqueous solution, such as the protective (e.g., quartz) sleeves in an ultraviolet radiation fluid treatment system, by modifying at least a portion of the surface of those sleeves in contact with fluid (e.g., water) to have an inherent strong surface acidity.
US09029792B2
An apparatus (200) for detecting slow or thermal neutrons (160). The apparatus (200) includes an alpha particle-detecting layer (240) that is a hydrogenated amorphous silicon p-i-n diode structure. The apparatus includes a bottom metal contact (220) and a top metal contact (250) with the diode structure (240) positioned between the two contacts (220, 250) to facilitate detection of alpha particles (170). The apparatus (200) includes a neutron conversion layer (230) formed of a material containing boron-10 isotopes. The top contact (250) is pixilated with each contact pixel extending to or proximate to an edge of the apparatus to facilitate electrical contacting. The contact pixels have elongated bodies to allow them to extend across the apparatus surface (242) with each pixel having a small surface area to match capacitance based upon a current spike detecting circuit or amplifier connected to each pixel. The neutron conversion layer (860) may be deposited on the contact pixels (830) such as with use of inkjet printing of nanoparticle ink.
US09029785B2
A method of fabricating a microlens includes forming layer of photoresist on a substrate, patterning the layer of photoresist, and then reflowing the photoresist pattern. The layer of photoresist is formed by coating the substrate with liquid photoresist whose viscosity is 150 to 250 cp. A depth sensor includes a substrate and photoelectric conversion elements at an upper portion of the substrate, a metal wiring section disposed on the substrate, an array of the microlenses for focusing incident light as beams onto the photoelectric conversion elements and which beams avoid the wirings of the metal wiring section. The depths sensor also includes a layer presenting a flat upper surface on which the microlenses are formed. The layer may be a dedicated planarization layer or an IR filter, interposed between the microlenses and the metal wiring section.
US09029778B1
Detecting characteristics of a test subject at a checkpoint. Embodiments may include exposing a single test subject to electromagnetic radiation at a security checkpoint. They may further include determining how the electromagnetic radiation interacts with different portions of the single test subject. They may further include determining different material properties for the different portions of the single test subject by examining how the electromagnetic radiation interacts with the different portions of the single test subject. They may further include providing an indication of the different material properties of the different portions of the single test subject, wherein providing an indication of the different material properties of the different portions of the single test subject comprises distinguishing between different material properties.
US09029767B2
The invention relates to a method for adjusting a Cs corrector in a STEM using a crystalline sample. The method comprises recording a through-focus series, converting the obtained images to Fourier space, thus forming a set of images alike diffraction images. By then determining the symmetry of the Fourier images, the corrector can be tuned for better symmetry, and the transfer limit can be determined by determining the maximum distance of the spots from the center. By repeatedly performing these steps, the corrector can be tuned to its optimum performance.
US09029766B2
To provide a low acceleration scanning electron microscope that can discriminate and detect reflected electrons and secondary electrons even with a low probe current, this scanning electron microscope is provided with an electron gun (29), an aperture (26), a sample table (3), an electron optical system (4-1) for making an electron beam (31) converge on a sample (2), a deflection means (10), a secondary electron detector (8), a reflected electron detector (9), and a cylindrical electron transport means (5) in a position between the electron gun (29) and sample (2). The reflected electron detector (9) is provided within the electron transport means (5) and on a side further away from the electron gun (29) than the secondary electron detector (8) and the deflection means (10). The reception surface (9-1) of the reflected electron detector (9) is electrically wired so as to have the same potential as the electron transport means (5).
US09029760B2
A liquid scintillator detector for three-dimensional dosimetric measurement of a radiation beam is provided wherein a volumetric phantom liquid scintillator is exposed to the radiation beam to produce light that is captured by the cameras that provide a three-dimensional image of the beam.
US09029759B2
A miniature camera module component is formed by creating replicated lens shapes on a protective cover wafer and depositing material to form multiple cavities with the replicated lens shapes respectively disposed therein. A carrier wafer is coupled to the protective cover wafer before it is diced. An intermediate wafer is coupled to the protective cover wafer, and the carrier wafer is removed. An image sensor wafer is coupled to the protective cover wafer, and the intermediate wafer is removed.
US09029751B2
There is provided an image sensor including a normal pixel group composed of a plurality of normal pixels, each of the normal pixels having a photoelectric conversion device for photoelectrically converting an incident light, and a detection pixel configured to detect a light incident from a neighboring pixel by the photoelectric conversion device within an effective pixel area of the normal pixel group.
US09029747B2
A solar thermal concentration system has a receiver, a rail system having a plurality of concentric rails circularly disposed about the receiver, a plurality of movable carts connected adjacent one another and spanning two concentric rails of the rail system, motor means on a movable cart dispersed in the plurality of movable carts, a heliostat mirror on a plurality of movable carts, and a controller for tracking the Sun and controlling a position of the array with respect to the receiver and the Sun. The plurality of movable carts over all of the concentric rails define an array of heliostat mirrors having a predetermined arc dimension configured to maximize mirror area based on cosine efficiency principle. Each heliostat mirror and each movable cart having motor means is in communication with the controller for moving the carts and heliostat mirrors with respect to the receiver and the Sun.
US09029746B2
An optical sensor for use in a placement detection system includes a pixel line defined by pixels, and an optical imaging means imaging the light of the light source onto a light strip being cross-directional to the detection line of the line-sensor. The optical imaging means is arranged with a distance from the line-sensor, so that the light strip has strip-boundary transitions on each of two edges in the direction of the detection line. The detection line includes a pixel line, in which there are gaps between the adjacent pixels, and the optical imaging means either increases the dimension of the strip-boundary transitions in the direction of the detection line, or creates at least four strip-boundary transitions along the detection line to ensure that at least one of the strip-boundary transitions always falls at least in part onto a pixel.
US09029743B2
A heating apparatus for heating a subcompartment in a compartment of an appliance is disclosed. The heating apparatus includes an electromagnetic member disposed in the compartment, and a metal member thermally coupled to the subcompartment. The metal member is magnetically coupled to the electromagnetic member to generate an eddy current in the metal member in response to a magnetic field generated by the electromagnetic member for heating the subcompartment. A related heating method and a refrigerator incorporating such a heating apparatus are also disclosed.
US09029739B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus and methods for performing rapid thermal processing. One embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus for processing a substrate. The apparatus includes a heating source disposed outside a chamber body and configured to provide thermal energy towards a processing volume. The substrate support defines a substrate supporting plane, and the substrate support is configured to support the substrate in the substrate supporting plane. The heating source includes a frame member having an inner wall surrounding an area large enough to encompass a surface area of the substrate, and a plurality of diode laser tiles mounted on the inner wall of the frame member. Each of the plurality of diode laser tiles is directed towards a corresponding area in the processing volume.
US09029738B2
A bottle includes at least one internal compartment delimited with a bottle casing. The bottle body has at least one filling and/or outlet hole, arranged parallel to the bottle's longitudinal axis, fitted with at least one removable cap. The internal part of the bottle is fitted with at least one heating device connected to a thermal source and/or one partition dividing the internal space of the bottle to at least two mutually separated compartments connected to the filling and/or outlet hole.
US09029735B2
The present invention relates to a heating element comprising: two or more heating units comprising two busbars and a conductive heating means electrically connected to the two busbars, in which the busbars of the heating units are connected with each other in series and power per unit area of each of the heating units in the heating element decreases as a length of the busbar increases, and a method of preparing the same.
US09029712B2
Read wiring traces and write wiring traces are formed on an insulating layer that is formed on a support substrate. Connection terminals that are electrically connectable to external circuits are formed at parts of the read wiring traces and write wiring traces on the insulating layer, respectively. Openings are formed in the support substrate so as to partially or entirely surround overlap regions that overlap with the connection terminals and have the same plane shape as the connection terminals. Parts of the insulating layer are exposed in the openings.
US09029706B2
Communication cables are provided in which a core lay length of the cable varies along the cable length. The cable may be provided with different segments that have different core lay lengths. It is desirable for neighboring core lay lengths in a cable to differ by a factor of two, to enable a reduction in power-sum alien near-end crosstalk (PSANEXT) when two cables are installed alongside one another. Segments of the cable having different core lay lengths may be spaced periodically along the length of the cable, and the periodicity of the spacing may be altered by a jitter distance. The introduction of jitter into the periodicity of the spacing of the segments increases the likelihood that a beneficial placement of core lay lengths will occur when two or more cables are installed alongside one another.
US09029705B2
A power cable having a water barrier laminate where the water barrier laminate has foil made of metal (1) laminated between at least two layers of non insulating polymer foils (2a, 2b) constituting a final laminate (3) that is non insulating.
US09029701B2
A splice housing projects from a bottom wall in a space on a side portion of a main pathway of a wire harness, the main pathway being bounded by the bottom wall and a circumferential wall of a main body of a protector. The splice housing includes dividing walls projecting at predetermined intervals and a sealing wall at one end of the dividing walls. A plurality of splice housing chambers are provided in alignment between the dividing walls. A side opposite the sealing wall of each of the splice housing chambers forms an opening for insertion. Each of the splice housing chambers has a height capable of accommodating splices on at least two vertical levels. Of the splices branching from the wire harness, splices having a splice sheet wrapped around an outer circumferential surface thereof and splices covered by an insulating resin cap are accommodated vertically adjacent.
US09029700B2
A splice housing projects from a bottom wall in a space on a side portion of a main pathway of a wire harness, the main pathway being bounded by the bottom wall and a circumferential wall of a main body of a protector. The splice housing includes an outer framing wall having two squared U-shaped side walls and a connecting wall, and further includes a medial dividing wall provided parallel to the two side walls. At least one flat board-shaped dividing plate configured with an insulating resin is provided fitted within the outer framing wall, the dividing plate including a through-hole for the medial dividing wall. Perpendicular walls, configured by the two side walls and the medial dividing wall of the splice housing, and horizontal walls, configured by the dividing plate, delimit a plurality of splice housing chambers provided on a plurality of vertical levels and rows.
US09029699B2
An outer periphery of a single core conductor having a round rod shape and configuring an electric wire is coated with an insulation film such as enamel, except for a partial conductor exposed part at an end portion of the single core conductor, an end portion of the single core conductor is inserted into a through-hole of a seal member made of an elastic material that is mounted to a waterproof casing with being closely contacted thereto, an inner periphery of the through-hole of the seal member is in close contact with an outer periphery of the coated insulation film, and a connection terminal is provided to the partial conductor exposed part at the end portion of the single core conductor.
US09029692B2
This disclosure relates to electroconductive paste formulations useful in solar panel technology. In one aspect, the disclosure relates to an inorganic reaction system for use in electroconductive paste compositions, wherein the inorganic reaction system comprises a lead containing matrix composition and a tellurium containing matrix composition. In another aspect, the disclosure relates to an electroconductive paste composition comprising a conductive metal component, an inorganic reaction system and an organic vehicle. Another aspect of the disclosure relates to a solar cell produced by applying an electroconductive paste composition of the invention to a silicon wafer. Yet another aspect relates to a solar cell module assembled using solar cells produced by applying an electroconductive paste composition to a silicon wafer, wherein the electroconductive paste composition comprises an conductive metal component, an inorganic reaction system and an organic vehicle.
US09029691B2
The present invention provides a solar-cell-integrated gas production device that can generate a first gas and a second gas by utilizing an electromotive force of a solar cell, and that can supply power to an external circuit by utilizing the same solar cell. The solar-cell-integrated gas production device according to the present invention comprises: a photoelectric conversion part having a light acceptance surface and its back surface; a first electrolysis electrode provided on the back surface of the photoelectric conversion part so as to be capable of being immersed into an electrolytic solution; a second electrolysis electrode provided on the back surface of the photoelectric conversion part so as to be capable of being immersed into the electrolytic solution; and a changeover part, wherein the first electrolysis electrode and the second electrolysis electrode are provided to be capable of electrolyzing the electrolytic solution to generate a first gas and a second gas by utilizing an electromotive force generated by irradiating the photoelectric conversion part with light, and the changeover part makes a changeover between a circuit that outputs the electromotive force, generated by irradiating the photoelectric conversion part outputs the electromotive force, generated by irradiating the photoelectric conversion part with light, to the first electrolysis electrode and the second electrolysis electrode.
US09029690B2
A semiconductor device, in particular a solar cell, comprises a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor substrate surface and a passivation composed of at least one passivation layer which surface-passivates the semiconductor substrate surface, wherein the passivation layer comprises a compound composed of aluminum oxide, aluminum nitride or aluminum oxynitride and at least one further element.
US09029689B2
A method of connecting two solar cells is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises gripping an interconnect with a head of positioning device, heating the interconnect with the head of the positioning device to between two predetermined temperatures, where one is higher than the other, positioning the interconnect so as to overlay two adjacent solar cells, coupling the interconnect to each of the two adjacent solar cells, and releasing the interconnect from the head.
US09029681B1
A microsystem enabled photovoltaic (MEPV) module including: an absorber layer; a fixed optic layer coupled to the absorber layer; a translatable optic layer; a translation stage coupled between the fixed and translatable optic layers; and a motion processor electrically coupled to the translation stage to controls motion of the translatable optic layer relative to the fixed optic layer. The absorber layer includes an array of photovoltaic (PV) elements. The fixed optic layer includes an array of quasi-collimating (QC) micro-optical elements designed and arranged to couple incident radiation from an intermediate image formed by the translatable optic layer into one of the PV elements such that it is quasi-collimated. The translatable optic layer includes an array of focusing micro-optical elements corresponding to the QC micro-optical element array. Each focusing micro-optical element is designed to produce a quasi-telecentric intermediate image from substantially collimated radiation incident within a predetermined field of view.
US09029663B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH832984. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH832984, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH832984 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH832984.
US09029662B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV436306. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV436306, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV436306 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV436306 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV436306.
US09029656B2
Two genes, A622 and NBB1, can be influenced to achieve a decrease of nicotinic alkaloid levels in plants. In particular, suppression of one or both of A622 and NBB1 may be used to decrease nicotine in tobacco plants.
US09029651B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01046192. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01046192. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01046192 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01046192 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09029649B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01045749. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01045749. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01045749 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01045749 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09029647B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety HI1110907 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety HI1110907 and its progeny, and methods of making HI1110907.
US09029641B2
This invention relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding WUS polypeptides. The invention further provides isolated WUS polypeptides. The invention also provides methods of using the polynucleotides to modulate the level of WUS, improve transformation efficiency, to stimulate plant cell growth, including stem cells, to stimulate organogenesis, to stimulate somatic embryogenesis, to induce apomixis, and to provide a positive selection for cells comprising the polynucleotide. The invention also relates to cells, plants and seeds comprising the polynucleotides of the invention or produced by the methods of the invention.
US09029639B2
The present invention relates to pyridazine compounds of formulae I or II and the salts and N-oxides thereof, wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted oxazole or thiazole or imidazole radical; V is C(Rv) or N; W is C(Rw) or N; with the proviso that either V or W is N; Rt, Ru, Rv, Rw are H, halogen, C1-C4-alkyl and the like; X1 is S, O or NR1a, wherein R1a is selected H, C1-C10-alkyl and the like; X2 is OR2a, NR2bR2c, S(O)mR2d, wherein m is 0, 1 or 2, R2a is C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl and the like, R2b, R2c are H, C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl and the like, or R2b and R2c together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bound form a heterocycle, and R2d is C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl and the like; and R1 is H, CN, C1-C10-alkyl and the like. The present invention further relates to a method for controlling invertebrate pests, to a method for protecting plant propagation material and/or the plants which grow therefrom, to plant propagation material, comprising at least one compound according to the present invention, to a method for treating or protecting an animal from infestation or infection by parasites and to an agricultural composition containing at least one compound according to the present invention.
US09029638B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for altering various aspects of plant growth and/or development by modulating expression in a plant of a nucleic acid encoding an UBiquitin-Specific Protease (UBP) of the UBP15 subfamily or a homologue thereof. The present invention also concerns plants having modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a UBP15 or a homologue thereof, which plants have altered growth and/or development relative to corresponding wild type plants or other control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
US09029637B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid molecules corresponding to regulatory portions of genes whose expression is predominant in cambium and/or xylem. The invention also relates to compositions and methods of using the same to regulate the expression, in a cambium/xylem-preferred manner, of genes and/or any kind of nucleotide sequences in a plant. Nucleic acid molecules and its compositions include novel nucleotide sequences for cambium/xylem-preferred promoters identified and isolated from poplar (Populus spp). Methods for expressing genes and/or any kind of nucleotide sequences in a plant using the promoter sequences disclosed herein are provided. The methods comprise stably incorporating into the genome of a plant cell a nucleotide sequence operably linked to a cambium/xylem-preferred promoter of the present invention and regenerating a stably transformed plant that expresses the nucleotide sequence.
US09029635B2
A nucleic acid suitable for reducing the enzymatic activity of an invertase for configuring a sucrose storage organ of a plant, wherein the sucrose concentration is increased relative to the sucrose concentration of an unchanged control sucrose storage organ of the same genotype at a comparable stage of development. The increase in sucrose concentration by X percentage points can thereby lead to a changed or unchanged sucrose storage organ yield, wherein, in the case of a reduction in the sucrose storage organ yield, the reduction is a maximum of 5X percent. The invention further relates to a method for increasing the sucrose yield in agricultural production of sugar beet or sugar cane plants, wherein sugar beet or sugar cane plants are used, the genetic makeup thereof being set up for reducing the enzymatic activity of an invertase.
US09029607B2
A para-methoxy protected benzaldehyde useful in preparation of treprostinil, and of formula: (Formula (1)) is prepared by subjecting to Claisen re-arrangement a substituted benzaldehyde of formula (1a): (Formula (Ia)) to form the m-hydroxy-substituted benzaldehyde of formula (1b): (Formula (Ib)) and then reacting compound (1b) with a p-methoxybenzyl (PMB) compound to form a PMB-substituted benzaldehyde of formula (1).
US09029599B2
A process for producing (meth)acrylic acid comprising the step of repeating a crystallization operation “n” times to produce purified (meth)acrylic acid from crude (meth)acrylic acid, wherein: the each crystallization operation comprises a crystallizing step and a melting step; a polymerization inhibitor is not added to a (meth)acrylic acid melt obtained in the melting step of the first to n−1th crystallization operation(s) and a (meth)acrylic acid solution subjected to the crystallizing step of the second to nth crystallization operation(s); and a concentration of a polymerization inhibitor in a (meth)acrylic acid solution subjected to the crystallizing step of the first crystallization operation is adjusted so that a concentration of the polymerization inhibitor in a (meth)acrylic acid solution subjected to the crystallizing step of the nth crystallization operation is 2 ppm by mass or higher.
US09029598B2
A method of producing arginine bicarbonate is provided including reacting an arginine slurry with a source of carbon dioxide gas under elevated temperature and low pressure to form a solution of at least 50% arginine bicarbonate, and recovering arginine bicarbonate from the solution.
US09029594B2
Isocyanates are produced in the gas phase and by-products such as ammonium halides are selectively separated from the gas phase by desublimation.
US09029583B2
This invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of green fatty acid methyl esters (FAME; commonly called as biodiesel) from different triglyceride oils using mixed metal oxides derived from layered double hydroxides (referred here as LDHs) as reusable solid heterogeneous base catalysts. This process uses very low alcohohoil molar ratio and catalyst and/or products are easily separable after the reaction through simple physical processes. The properties of thus obtained biodiesel meet the standard biodiesel values and can directly be used as transport fuel.
US09029577B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing methylene-1,3-dioxolanes of the general formula (I) in which R1 and R2 have the meanings stated in the description. Methylene-1,3-dioxolanes are important intermediates for preparing pyrazoles and anthranilic acid amides, which may be used as insecticides.
US09029567B2
The present invention relates to novel hypoglycemic compounds of formula (1) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention relates to novel amino acid derivatives of the formula (1), wherein, A is amino acid B is peptide bond R-NH- wherein R is defined in the specification.
US09029566B2
An epoxide agent for an epoxy resin system, the epoxide agent comprising at least one non-acid functional rosin moiety and at least one epoxide moiety. Another embodiment is a curing agent for an epoxy resin system comprising at least one non-acid functional rosin moiety and at least one moiety that is reactive with an epoxy.
US09029561B2
Compounds and methods related to the activation of the TrkB receptor are provided. The methods include administering a 7,8-dihydroxyflavone derivative with modified flavone or heterocyclic ring to a subject in need thereof. Methods and compounds for the treatment of disorders including neurologic disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, and metabolic disorders (e.g., obesity) are provided.
US09029550B2
Inhibitors of the soluble epoxide exemplary hydrolase (sEH) are provided that incorporate multiple pharmacophores and are useful in the treatment of diseases.
US09029542B2
A substituted phenoxyethyl(isopropyl)acyloxyalkyl phosphonate having phosphorusheterocyclic ring and having herbicidal activity, with a general formula of I, wherein R represents 5,5-dimethyl-1,3,2-dioxaphosphorinan-2-one-2-yl, or 1-oxo-1-phospha-2,6,7-trioxabicyclo[2,2,2]octan-4-yl, or 1-sulfo-1-phospha-2,6,7-trioxabicyclo 2,6,7-trioxabicyclo[2,2,2]octan-4-yl; R1 represents H, C1-C4 alkyl, phenyl, furyl, pyridyl, or phenyl substituted with methyl, methoxyl, nitro or chloro; R2 represents H, methyl, and methyl only if R in the general formula I is 1-sulfo-1-phospha-2,6,7-trioxabicyclo[2,2,2]octan-4-yl as phosphorusheterocyclic ring; X and Y represent H, halogen, C1-C4 alkyl or trifluoromethyl, and X and Y are the same or different. The compounds according to the present invention may be used as active component of dicotyledonous broadleaf weed herbicides.
US09029538B2
The present application provides compounds of Formula I or salt forms thereof, wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, D, W, R1a, R1b, R1c, Y, R3, X, E and G are as defined herein, compositions, methods of treatment and uses thereof.
US09029526B2
Polynucleotides and polypeptides which participate in influenza virus infection of cells and nucleic acid molecules, which include a polynucleotide sequence capable of specifically binding the polypeptides of the present invention. Also provided are methods of using such nucleic acid molecules, polynucleotides and antibodies directed thereagainst for diagnosing, treating and preventing influenza virus infection.
US09029521B2
The present inventors found that a fusion gene present in some cancer patients is an oncogene. The present invention relates to a polypeptide as a novel fusion protein, a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide, a vector comprising the polynucleotide, a transformed cell comprising the vector, a method for detecting the fusion protein or polynucleotide, a method for screening a therapeutic agent for cancer, and a method for treating cancer that is shown to be positive for the fusion gene. Further, the present invention relates kit, primer set, and probe useful in the detection of cancer that is shown to be positive for the fusion gene.
US09029518B2
The method of extracting kaempferol-based antioxidants from Solenostemma arghel provides a method of producing medicinal antioxidants for usage as anti-inflammatory and analgesic treatments. The kaempferol-based antioxidants are primarily kaempferol-3, 4′-diglucoside and kaempferol 3-rutinoside. The method includes the following steps: collecting aerial parts of Solenostemma arghel; drying the aerial parts; powdering the aerial parts; extracting the powdered aerial parts in ethanol and filtering to produce a filtrate; concentrating the filtrate to form a concentrated residue; dissolving the concentrated residue in water; and extracting the kaempferol-based antioxidant from the dissolved residue in ethyl acetate.
US09029508B2
The present invention relates to engineered multivalent and multispecific binding proteins, methods of making, and specifically to their uses in the prevention, diagnosis, and/or treatment of disease.
US09029505B2
The present invention provides modified Vasoactive Intestinal Peptides (VIPs), encoding polynucleotides and vectors, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. The invention further provides methods of making and using the modified VIP agents. In accordance with the invention the VIP exhibits an extended circulatory half-life, receptor-binding or biological potency, and/or altered receptor binding profile with respect to unmodified VIP.
US09029502B2
Provided herein are compounds that inhibit a binding interaction between an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and a heat shock protein 90 (HSP90), as well as compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions, comprising the same, and related kits. In some embodiments, the compound is an antibody or antibody analog, and, in other embodiments, the compound is a peptide or peptide analog. Also provided are methods of using the compounds, including methods of increasing degradation of an EGFR, methods of treating cancer, and methods of sensitizing tumors to radiation therapy.
US09029497B2
This disclosure provides a method of making polylactic acid using carbon dioxide adducts of carbenes, wherein the adducts of carbenes have a structure represented by formula (I) as follows:
US09029495B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing polyether polyols having primary hydroxyl end groups, comprising the steps of reacting a starter compound containing active hydrogen atoms with an epoxide under double metal cyanide catalysis, reacting the resulting product with a cyclic carboxylic anhydride and reacting this resulting product with ethylene oxide in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one nitrogen atom per molecule, excluding non-cyclic, identically substituted tertiary amines. The invention further relates to polyether polyols obtainable by this process, compositions containing said polyols and polyurethane polymers based on said polyols.
US09029491B2
A cross-linkable coating composition comprises (i) one or more silanes having either at least three hydrolysable groups, or at least two hydrolysable groups and at least one organofunctional group capable of forming chemical bonds upon curing, wherein (i.a) the sum of said silanes constitutes at least 20% of the total mass of the coating compositions combined solids and silanes, and (i.b) said silanes are possibly partly or completely hydrolyzed and possibly partly condensed, and (ii) at least one low surface energy additive, wherein (ii.a) said low surface energy additive comprises polydimethylsiloxane chemically bonded to at least one functional group, (ii.b) said functional group is configured for the polydimethylsiloxane moiety to cross-link with said coating composition, (ii.c) said polydimethylsiloxane constitutes 0.01% to 15% of the mass of said cured coating, when said coating composition is cured, and (ii.d) said polydimethylsiloxane moiety has a molecular weight of more than 1600 g/mol.
US09029490B2
The present invention provides a polymerizable compound represented by the following formula (I), a polymerizable composition that includes the polymerizable compound and an initiator, a polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable compound or the polymerizable composition, and an optically anisotropic article that includes the polymer. The polymerizable compound, polymerizable composition, and polymer have a practical low melting point, exhibit an excellent solubility in a general-purpose solvent, can be produced at low cost, and may produce an optical film that achieves uniform conversion of polarized light over a wide wavelength band, and an optically anisotropic article.
US09029489B2
The invention provides intermediates of the formula: as well as a method of their preparation by reacting a thiol having at least two hydroxyl groups with a mono-unsaturated organic compound in the presence of a base catalyst. A polymerizable urethane acrylate oligomer or urethane methacrylate oligomer is formed by reacting a polyisocyanate with the intermediate. The polymerizable urethane acrylate oligomer or urethane methacrylate is blended with a polymerization initiator to form a composition which is useful in such applications as adhesives.
US09029481B2
A method for producing a polymer, by continuously supplying and bringing at least a ring-opening polymerizable monomer and a compressive fluid into contact with each other, to thereby allow the ring-opening polymerizable monomer to carry out ring-opening polymerization to continuously generate a polymer.
US09029475B2
The present disclosure is directed to a process for producing a low VOC (volatile organic content) coating composition. The present disclosure is particularly directed to a process for producing a low VOC (volatile organic content) coating composition by mixing a water based crosslinking component and an organic solvent based crosslinkable component. The present disclosure is further directed to a low VOC coating composition produced by the process.
US09029473B2
Disclosed are polyvalent macromolecules, compositions comprising the macromolecules, and methods of use. The polyvalent macromolecules have a polymer backbone and pendent groups attached to the polymer backbone. Some or all of the pendent groups have optionally a linker, a surface-seeking group capable of binding strongly to a metal surface, and a spectroscopically detectable chromophore detectable.
US09029472B2
The first aspect in the present invention provides a composition that includes (A) 100 parts by mass of an organoalkoxysilane represented by the following formula (1) and/or a compound obtained by partial hydrolysis and condensation of said organoalkoxysilane: R1aSi(OR2)4-a . . . (1), (B) 0.3 to 20 parts by mass of an aluminum dicarboxylate represented by the following formula (2): (R3COO)2Al(OH) . . . (2), and (C) 0.3 to 20 parts by mass of an aliphatic acid having 6 to 24 carbon atoms. The second aspect in the present invention provides a composition that includes components (A), (B) and (C) and further (D) 0.01 to 10 parts by mass of a dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 30 carbon atoms. Further, the present invention provides a method for making a porous material less water-absorptive by applying the composition to a surface of said porous material and a porous material modified by the method.
US09029471B2
Various fluoropolymers have been proposed for imparting oil and water repellency to leather. Commonly, these fluoropolymers are amphiphilic; i.e., they are made from at least one monomer which is hydrophobic and at least one monomer which is hydrophilic. The present invention identifies and remedies disadvantages associated with the ability of amphiphilic fluoropolymers to impart oil and water repellency to leather. Contrary to conventional thinking, it has now been discovered that the incorporation of hydrophilic groups in a fluoropolymer undesirably reduces its ability to impart water resistance to leather. Correspondingly, it has also been discovered that a fluoropolymer incorporating fewer or no hydrophilic groups imparts superior oil and water repellency to leather when compared to fluoropolymers incorporating more hydrophilic groups. Therefore, this invention provides fluoropolymers which incorporate reduced levels of hydrophilic groups.
US09029465B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a multistage phosphorus acid functionalized latex polymer comprising the steps of: a) contacting a first acrylic monomer with a first phosphorus acid monomer under emulsion polymerization conditions to form a first stage polymer; then b) contacting the first stage polymer with a second acrylic monomer and a second phosphorus acid monomer under emulsion polymerization conditions to form the latex polymer. The latex polymer is useful as an absorbing polymer for pigment particles used, for example, in coatings formulations.
US09029462B2
The present invention provides an adhesive composition that may improve both adhesiveness to a film layer and adhesiveness to a rubber layer, and an adhesion method using the same, as well as a laminate and a tire. The adhesive composition according to the present invention includes a rubber component, at least 80 mass % of which rubber component is an epoxidized natural rubber.
US09029456B2
The invention relates to a method for making cemented carbide or cermet parts, comprises mixing a binder system with cemented carbide powder or cermet powder to form a feedstock, and injection molding or extruding the feedstock to form the cemented carbide or cermet parts, wherein the binder system comprises 30-60 wt % olefinic polymers, 40-70 wt % waxes, and 2.5-10 wt % petroleum jelly CAS 8009-03-8, the feedstock has a solids loading of φ=0.54-0.56.
US09029447B2
The purpose of the present invention is to propose a composition of slip additive agents for use in thermoplastic resins, preferably polyolefins, and consequently the presence of this composition on at least one of the layers of mono-extruded or coextruded, laminated or non-laminated films. More particularly, the invention comprehends a composition of additives which comprises at least one primary amide of the generic formula R—CO—NH2 and a secondary amide of the bis amide type of the generic formula R′—CO—NH—CH2—CH2—NH—CO—R″. Films comprising this composition stand out by achieving Coefficient of Friction (CoF) values lower than 0.35 and particularly by their ability to maintain good control over these values for use in the automated packaging industry.
US09029446B2
Disclosed are polypropylene articles with improved optical properties and/or an increased temperature of crystallization comprising a polypropylene resin and uniformly dispersed therein from about 1 ppm to about 10 ppm of one or more polycyclic organic pigments selected from blue, green, magenta, red, yellow, orange and violet polycyclic organic pigments and from about 50 ppm to about 250 ppm of one or more aromatic trisamide nucleating agents, where the ppm levels are by weight based on the weight of the polypropylene resin. The polypropylene is for example polypropylene homopolymer. The articles exhibit reduced haze, increased temperature of crystallization and excellent clarity.
US09029444B2
The present invention provides a dispersant for a hydraulic composition, containing (A) a polymer composed of structural units, not less than 70% by weight of which are derived from a monomer represented by the following formula (1) and (B) a naphthalenesulfonic acid-formaldehyde condensate at a weight ratio of components (A) to (B), (A)/(B), of 1/99 to 75/25: H2C═CHCOOCH2CH2OH (1).
US09029441B2
Disclosed is a low toxicity aprotic alkyl amide solvent system used for the dissolution and application of polyamideimide and polyamide amic acid polymer resins. The solvent system can be used for the dissolution of polyamideimide and polyamide amic acid resins as an efficient method for incorporating these resins into functional coating compositions with the use of the solvent system.
US09029440B2
The present invention relates to a polymer composition including a transparent thermoplastic plastic, an inorganic infrared absorber, also referred to as IR absorber hereinbelow, optionally an inorganic nano-scale pigment, and the combination of at least one organic coloring agent of a specific structure, and to the preparation and use of the polymer compositions according to the invention and to products produced therefrom.
US09029439B2
An additive for a bitumen or polymer modified bitumen product, which is prepared by mixing together a sulphur-based product, a vulcanized rubber, for example, a waste vulcanized rubber, preferably a fatty acid, and a bitumen, is described. The use of this additive for preparing, with very limited gaseous emissions, elastomer-containing bituminous product is also described. Such use may be especially suitable for making bituminous coated material including, for example, asphalt concrete.
US09029436B2
An artificial silica marble comprises a matrix and a line pattern portion. The line pattern portion comprises fine lines having a width of about 50 to about 500 μm and forms a web- or net-like pattern. The line pattern portion divides or partitions the artificial silica marble into a plurality of irregularly shaped pattern portions to form an amorphous pattern in the cross section of the artificial silica marble.
US09029435B2
[Problem] To provide a photocurable sealing material which exhibits stable physical properties, particularly permanent compression set when subjected to a heat resistance test in an atmosphere of 100 to 150° C., and has a stable applying shape and storage stability.[Solution] A photocurable composition containing components (A) to (C) mentioned below, in which the mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B) is 3:7 to 8:2; component (A): a compound having a polymer of a (meth)acrylic monomer as a main skeleton and having one (meth)acryl group at each of the both terminals; component (B): a compound having a polymer of a (meth)acrylic monomer as a main skeleton and having one (meth)acryl group at only one terminal; and component (C): a photoinitiator.
US09029429B2
The present invention is directed to a process for the production of hydrocarbon product from two different hydrocarbonaceous feedstocks comprising the steps of preparing a feed syngas having a hydrogen/carbon monoxide [H2/CO] molar feed ratio suitable for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, wherein the feed syngas is prepared by combining a first syngas having a H2/CO molar ratio below the molar feed ratio and a second syngas having a H2/CO molar ratio above the molar feed ratio; the first syngas is prepared from a liquid hydrocarbon comprising feedstock as the sole source of carbon in a first syngas manufacturing process comprising a non-catalytic partial oxidation step; the second syngas is prepared from a methane comprising feedstock as the sole source of carbon in a second syngas manufacturing process comprising a heat exchange reforming step and an auto-thermal reforming step; and the first and second syngas manufacturing processes are operated in parallel.
US09029428B2
Provided is an oil-in-water silicone emulsion composition that has a low silicone oligomer content, and that can form, even without the use of an organotin compound as a curing catalyst, a cured film that exhibits satisfactory strength and satisfactory adherence to a substrate, through the removal of water fraction. An oil-in-water silicone emulsion composition comprising (A) 100 mass parts of a polyorganosiloxane that contains in each molecule at least two groups selected from the group consisting of a silicon-bonded hydroxyl group, alkoxy group, and alkoxyalkoxy group, (B) 0.1 to 200 mass parts of a colloidal silica, (C) 0.1 to 100 mass parts of an aminoxy group-containing organosilicon compound that has in each molecule an average of two silicon-bonded aminoxy groups, (D) 1 to 100 mass parts of an ionic emulsifying agent, (E) 0.1 to 50 mass parts of a non-ionic emulsifying agent, and (F) 10 to 500 mass parts of water.
US09029427B2
Disclosed is a solid preparation which comprises at least one active ingredient and at least one dissolution-controlling base substance and can be formed by compression molding, wherein the dissolution-controlling base substance contains 5.0 to 99.9% by weight (inclusive) of a modified starch having a moisture retaining capacity of 400% or more and a gel indentation load of 200 g or more, containing a water-soluble ingredient in an amount of 40 to 95% by weight, having particles passing through a 75 μm-mesh sieve in the proportion of 90% by weight or more and particles passing through a 32 μm-mesh sieve in the proportion of 20% by weight or more, and having an average particle diameter of not smaller than 20 μm and smaller than 50 μm.
US09029415B2
The invention relates to a cooling mixture comprising or consisting of 5-methyl-2-(propane-2-yl)cyclohexyl-N-ethyloxamate and one, two, three or more certain polyols. It further relates to a cosmetic composition comprising such a cooling mixture or to a sanitary article comprising such a cooling mixture. The invention also relates to the use of certain polyols for enhancing the cooling effect of 5-methyl-2-(propane-2-yl)cyclohexyl-N-ethyloxamate on the skin or a mucous membrane, a method for generating an enhanced cooling effect of 5-methyl-2-(propane-2-yl)cyclohexyl-N-ethyloxamate on the skin or a mucous membrane as well as a method for generating a corresponding cooling mixture.
US09029414B2
The present invention provides therapeutically active compounds and compositions as receptor antagonists and methods of use thereof. In one aspect, the compounds are useful in modulating pain, inflammation and acute phase reactions by inhibiting the PGE2 receptors including PGE2 EP1, EP2 and EP4 receptors.
US09029411B2
This invention provides thiophene compounds of formula I: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, n, p, and m are as described in the specification. The compounds are inhibitors of PI3K and are thus useful for treating proliferative, inflammatory, or cardiovascular disorders.
US09029410B2
A pharmaceutical composition, medical food, dietary supplement or micronutrient for the treatment of a movement disorder comprising an NMDAR agonist or partial agonist as active ingredient therein in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US09029408B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula XXII and a compound of formula 17ya, which are defined as anywhere in the specification, to a composition comprising the same, and to a method of using thereof in the treatment of various forms of cancer.
US09029406B2
The present application relates to new derivatives, substituted on the N terminus by a carboxyalkyl group, of monomethylauristatin E and monomethylauristatin F, to processes for preparing these derivatives, to the use of these derivatives for treating and/or preventing diseases, and to the use of these derivatives for producing medicaments for treating and/or preventing diseases, more particularly hyperproliferative and/or angiogenic disorders such as cancer disorders, for example. Such treatments may be applied as a monotherapy or else in combination with other medicaments or further therapeutic measures.
US09029403B2
Methods for inhibiting the growth of ovarian cancer cells or other serosal cancer cells are disclosed. The method involves exposing the cells to a benzylidinebenzohydrazide of formula: wherein X is carbon or nitrogen.
US09029401B2
The present invention provides compounds for the inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase and associated disease conditions.
US09029399B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein. The compounds of the present invention have been found to be useful as 17α-hydroxylase/C17,20-lyase inhibitors.
US09029397B2
The invention provides a compound of formula I: wherein A1, A2, A3, R1, X, Y, and B have any of the values described herein, as well as salts of such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and therapeutic methods that comprise the administration of such compounds. The compounds are inhibitors of monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) enzyme function and are useful for improving cognitive function and for treating psychiatric disorders in animals.
US09029394B2
2-aryl-4-quinolones are converted into phosphates by reacting with tetrabenzyl pyrophosphate to form dibenzyl phosphates thereof, which are then subject to hydrogenation to replace dibenzyl groups with H, followed by reacting with Amberlite IR-120(Na+ form) to form disodium salts. The results of preliminary screening revealed that these phosphates showed significant anti-cancer activity. A novel intermediate, 2-selenophene 4-quinolone and N,N-dialkylaminoalkyl derivatives of 2-phenyl-4-quinolones are also synthesized. These novel intermediates exhibited significant anticancer activities.
US09029391B2
Provided are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, their pharmaceutical compositions, their methods of preparation, and their use for treating viral infections mediated by a member of the retrovirus family of viruses such as the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
US09029390B2
The invention relates to non hemolytic compositions containing an antiplatelet agent such as clopidogrel or ticlopidine; these compositions being characterized in that the antiplatelet agent is in the form of free base, and the composition contains at least one hydrophilic non ionic surfactant. The invention relates also a galenic form, a method of preparation of thereof, as well as therapeutic uses of thereof, especially in patients who suffer from undesirable effects related to hemolysis and/or gastrointestinal acidity.
US09029386B2
Derivatives of pyridine of the formula wherein one of Y and A is CR and the other is N are kinase inhibitors useful in treating conditions associated with excess kinase activity.
US09029384B2
The present disclosure provides phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitors of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, in which n, m, R1, R2, and R3 are as defined herein. These compounds are useful for treatment of conditions mediated by one or more PI3K isoforms, such as PI3Kδ. The present disclosure further provides pharmaceutical compositions that include a compound of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of using these compounds and compositions to treat conditions mediated by one or more PI3K isoforms, such as PI3Kδ.
US09029381B2
Disclosed herein is at least one cyclopropyl amide derivative, at least one pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one cyclopropyl amide derivative disclosed herein, and at least one method of using at least one cyclopropyl amide derivative disclosed herein for treating at least one histamine H3 receptor associated condition therewith.
US09029377B2
Cyclohexyl sulfonamide compounds which are platelet-activating factor (PAF) receptor antagonists. Said compounds may be useful, for example, for the treatment of atherosclerosis or other PAF-mediated disorders, including inflammatory, cardiovascular, and immune disorders.
US09029376B2
Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating viral infections, by administering certain compounds in therapeutically effective amounts are disclosed. Methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are also disclosed. In particular, the treatment and prophylaxis of viral infections such as caused by flavivirus is disclosed, i.e., including but not limited to, Dengue virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, and tick-borne encephalitis virus.
US09029374B2
The invention concerns chromenone derivatives of Formula I or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, n and R9 has any of the meanings defined hereinbefore in the description; processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment of cell proliferative disorders.
US09029361B2
This invention relates to: (a) compounds and salts thereof that, inter alia, treat pain; (b) intermediates useful for the preparation of such compounds and salts; (c) compositions comprising such compounds and salts; (d) methods for preparing such intermediates, compounds, salts, and compositions; (e) methods of use of such compounds, salts, and compositions; and (f) kits comprising such compounds, salts, and compositions.
US09029356B2
Substituted indazole derivatives of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, as defined in the specification; the compounds of the invention may be useful in therapy in the treatment of diseases associated with a deregulated protein kinase activity, like cancer.
US09029355B2
In certain embodiments, the invention is directed to composition comprising stable particles comprising ganaxolone, wherein the volume weighted median diameter (D50) of the particles is from about 50 nm to about 500 nm.
US09029353B2
Methods of treating anti-inflammatory conditions through the use of boron-containing small molecules are disclosed.
US09029345B2
An agent for inhibiting P-glycoproteins comprises a non-natural adenine ribose analog.
US09029340B2
Compositions and methods are provided for sensitizing neoplastic cells to radiotherapy. The invention provides aptamer-inhibitory nucleic acid chimeras that selectively inliibit the expression of radiosensitizing genes in neoplastic cells expressing a cell surface molecule that binds the aptamer.
US09029335B2
Provided herein are novel bicyclic nucleosides, oligomeric compounds that include such bicyclic nucleosides and methods of using the oligomeric compounds. More particularly, the novel bicyclic nucleosides comprise a furanose ring system having a bridge comprising a 4′-methylene group attached to a 2′-sulfoxide or sulfone group and optionally including one or more substituent groups attached to the 4′-methylene and or the 5′-position. In certain embodiments, the oligomeric compounds provided herein are expected to hybridize to a portion of a target RNA resulting in loss of normal function of the target RNA.
US09029334B2
Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of metabolic bone diseases, comprising a spinasterol glucoside derivative, or an optical isomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a hydrate or a solvate thereof. The pharmaceutical composition is effectively useful for preventing or treating metabolic bone diseases.
US09029329B2
The invention relates to peptidic compounds of general formula (I) R1-(AA)n-X1-X2-Ile-Gln-Ala-Cys-Arg-Gly-X3-(AA)p-R2 as caspase-14 activators. The invention also relates to a cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one peptide of general formula (I), in a physiologically acceptable medium, and to the use of said composition for preventing and/or repairing damage to deoxyribonucleic acid, for preventing and/or treating cutaneous signs of ageing and photo-ageing, and for improving the skin barrier function. The invention further relates to a cosmetic treatment method for preventing and/or treating cutaneous signs of ageing and photo-ageing, and for preventing and/or repairing damage caused by ultraviolet radiation.
US09029326B2
A polypeptide, a nucleic acid molecule encoding the polypeptide and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the polypeptide are provided. The polypeptide is as defined in the description, can bind to insulin receptors, and is effective in reducing blood sugar, reducing glycated hemoglobin, and ameliorating hepato-renal disorders caused by diabetes.
US09029324B2
The present invention provides methods for preventing and/or treating bleeding episodes by administering a single dose of a Factor VIIa equivalent. Preferably, the single dose comprises between about 150 and about 500 ug/kg Factor VIIa equivalent.
US09029319B1
The present disclosure relates to antimicrobial agents and methods of using such agents. The disclosure includes antimicrobial agents having broad spectrum antimicrobial activity, nucleic acids and amino acid sequences encoding such antimicrobial agents, as well as methods of using the antimicrobial agents. The antimicrobial agents of the disclosure may be used to reduce survival of a microbe, as an antimicrobial therapeutic, in microbial treatment protocols, and in research, as well as other uses related to reducing microbe survival. In addition, the disclosure also includes compositions, as well as articles of manufacture, that comprise a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent.
US09029318B2
Compositions comprising an isolated peptide, which may for example optionally comprise a sequence selected from the group consisting of YDYNWY (SEQ ID NO: 1), YDYNLY (SEQ ID NO: 2), YDYSFY (SEQ ID NO: 63), FDYNFY (SEQ ID NO: 3), FDYNLY (SEQ ID NO: 4), FDYNWY (SEQ ID NO: 5), YDWNLY (SEQ ID NO: 6), YDWHLY (SEQ ID NO: 7) and WDYNLY (SEQ ID NO: 8), extracted from organisms such as aquatic organisms and moss or any other sequence described herein, and methods of using same, including for treatment of or prevention of formation of microbial biofilms and against adhesion of a cell to a surface.
US09029306B2
A water-soluble metalworking oil agent is provided by blending the following components A, B, C and D: (A) at least one of a condensed fatty acid obtained by dehydration-condensing a ricinoleic acid, and a condensed fatty acid obtained by dehydration-condensing a monovalent carboxylic acid with an alcoholic hydroxyl group of a condensed fatty acid obtained by dehydration-condensing a ricinoleic acid; (B) an ester compound provided by a dehydration condensate of a monovalent or multivalent alcohol and a monovalent carboxylic acid; (C) an amine compound; and (D) water. A blend ratio of the component A is 10 mass % or more of a total amount of the oil agent and a blend ratio of the component B is 5 mass % or more of the total amount of the oil agent.
US09029302B2
[Task]In a sliding member comprising a substrate and a coating layer provided thereon, the coating layer has a sliding surface and is formed of a resin-based coating and particles of a solid lubricant dispersed therein. The orientation ratio of (001) plane of the solid lubricant is enhanced.[Means for Solution]The coating layer of a sliding layer has an average thickness of 3 μm or less. The particles of the solid lubricant have 2 μm or more of an average particle diameter as measured by the laser diffraction method. The solid lubricant dispersed has 90% or more of relative C-axis intensity ratio.
US09029294B2
Penoxsulam, 2-(2,2-difluoroethoxy)-N-(5,8-dimethoxy[1,2,4]-triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidin-2-yl)-6-(trifluoromethyl)benzenesulfonamide, is useful in controlling broadleaf weeds and sedges in turfgrass and in vine and orchard floors.
US09029291B2
The present invention provides a metal passivator/trap comprising a rare earth oxide dispersed on a matrix containing a calcined hydrous kaolin.
US09029290B2
The present invention relates to a composite of a porous substrate and one-dimensional nanomaterial, which is manufactured by a hydrothermal method. The method for manufacturing the composite of the present invention is simple and low-cost, and the one-dimensional nanomaterial is homogeneously distributed on the porous substrate with tight binding at the interface. The present invention also relates to a surface-modified composite and a method for preparing the same. The composite of the present invention which is hydrophobically modified at the surface can adsorb organic solvents such as toluene, dichlorobenzene, petroleum ether and the like, and greases such as gasoline, lubricating oil, motor oil, crude oil and the like, with a weight adsorption ratio of >10.
US09029284B2
A solid particulate catalyst free from an external carrier comprising: (i) a complex of formula (I): wherein M is zirconium or hafnium; each X is a sigma ligand; L is a divalent bridge selected from —R′2C—, —R′2C—CR′2—, —R′2Si—, —R′2Si—SiR′2—, —R′2Ge—, wherein each R′ is independently a hydrogen atom, C1-C20-alkyl, tri(C1-C20-alkyl)silyl, C6-C20-aryl, C7-C20-arylalkyl or C7-C20-alkylaryl; each R1 independently is hydrogen or a linear or branched C1-C20 hydrocarbyl radical optionally containing one or more heteroatoms from groups 14-16 of the Periodic Table of the Elements; each R2 and R3 taken together form a 4-7 membered ring condensed to the benzene ring of the indenyl moiety, said ring optionally containing heteroatoms from groups 14-16, each atom forming said ring being optionally substituted with at least one R18 radical; each R18 is the same or different and may be a C1-C20 hydrocarbyl radical optionally containing one or more heteroatoms belonging to groups 14-16; each R4 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-6-hydrocarbyl radical optionally containing one or more heteroatoms belonging to groups 14-16; each W is independently a 5 or 6 membered aryl or heteroaryl ring wherein each atom of said ring is optionally substituted with an R5 group; each R5 is the same of different and is a C1-C20 hydrocarbyl radical optionally containing one or more heteroatoms belonging to groups 14-16; and optionally two adjacent R5 groups taken together can form a further mono or multicyclic ring condensed to W optionally substituted by one or two groups R5; and (ii) a cocatalyst comprising an organometallic compound of a Group 13 metal, preferably aluminoxane.
US09029278B2
An alumino-borosilicate glass for the confinement, isolation of a radioactive liquid effluent of medium activity, and a method for treating a radioactive liquid effluent of medium activity, wherein calcination of said effluent is carried out in order to obtain a calcinate, and a vitrification adjuvant is added to said calcinate.
US09029268B2
Processes are described to etch metals. In an embodiment, a process may include contacting a substrate with a stripping solution to remove photoresist from the substrate to produce a stripped substrate. The stripped substrate may include a plurality of solder pillars and a plurality of metal-containing field regions disposed around the plurality of solder pillars. In an illustrative embodiment, the plurality field regions may include copper. Additionally, the process may include rinsing the stripped substrate to produce a rinsed substrate. The rinsed substrate may be substantially free of a Sn layer or a Sn oxide layer. Further, the process may include contacting the rinsed substrate with an etch solution that is capable of removing an amount of one or more metals from the plurality of field regions.
US09029266B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device manufacturing method includes depositing a silicon film above a semiconductor substrate, forming an insulating film which includes silicon oxide or silicon nitride on the silicon film, forming a physical guide having a depressed portion above the insulating film, forming a directed self-assembly material layer which includes a first polymer and a second polymer in the depressed portion of the physical guide, phase-separating the directed self-assembly material layer into a first region which includes the first polymer and a second region which includes the second polymer, removing the second region, processing the insulating film by using the physical guide and the first region as masks, and transferring a pattern corresponding to the second region to the insulating film. Further, the silicon film is processed by using the pattern transferred onto the insulating film as a mask.
US09029261B2
There is provided a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, the method including: forming a semiconductor component portion at a first surface of a substrate; applying a grinding treatment to a second surface of the substrate that is opposite from the first surface to form a fracture surface; applying a fracture surface removal treatment to predetermined positions of the fracture surface of the second surface; and forming an electrode at the second surface.
US09029258B2
To achieve the foregoing and in accordance with the purpose of the present invention, a method for filling through silicon vias is provided. A dielectric layer is formed over the through silicon vias. A barrier layer, comprising tungsten, is deposited by CVD or ALD over the dielectric layer. The through silicon vias are filled with a conductive material.
US09029253B2
Nitrogen-containing phase-stabilized films, methods of forming phase-stabilized films, and structures and devices including the phase-stabilized films are disclosed. The phase-stabilized films include a matrix material and a phase stabilizer, which provides a morphologically stabilizing effect to a matrix material within the films. The phase-stabilized films may be used as, for example, gate electrodes and similar films in microelectronic devices.
US09029235B2
A trench isolation metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) P-N junction diode device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The trench isolation MOS P-N junction diode device is a combination of an N-channel MOS structure and a lateral P-N junction diode, wherein a polysilicon-filled trench oxide layer is buried in the P-type structure to replace the majority of the P-type structure. As a consequence, the trench isolation MOS P-N junction diode device of the present invention has the benefits of the Schottky diode and the P-N junction diode. That is, the trench isolation MOS P-N junction diode device has rapid switching speed, low forward voltage drop, low reverse leakage current and short reverse recovery time.
US09029234B2
One of the wafers in a semiconductor wafer to wafer stack can be rotated a predefined number of positions, relative to a previous wafer in the stack, and bonded in the position in which the maximum number of good die are aligned. An adjustment circuit on each die reroutes signals received from a pad that has been relocated due to rotation. A communication channel formed from a pair of pads that are interconnected by a Through Substrate Vias can be placed in each die and can convey selected information from one die to the next. A code representative of the position orientation of each die can be recorded in a Programmable Read Only Memory located on each die, or may be down loaded from a remote source. Any additional wafer may be stacked serially, and each one may be rotated relative to the wafer that precedes it in the stack.
US09029229B2
Disclosed are devices and methods of forming the devices wherein pair(s) of first openings are formed through a dielectric layer and a first semiconductor layer into a substrate and, within the substrate, the first openings of each pair are expanded laterally and merged to form a corresponding trench. Dielectric material is deposited, filling the upper portions of the first openings and creating trench isolation region(s). A second semiconductor layer is deposited and second opening(s) are formed through the second semiconductor and dielectric layers, exposing monocrystalline portion(s) of the first semiconductor layer between the each pair of first openings. A third semiconductor layer is epitaxially deposited with a polycrystalline section on the second semiconductor layer and monocrystalline section(s) on the exposed monocrystalline portion(s) of the first semiconductor layer. A crystallization anneal is performed and a device (e.g., a bipolar device) is formed incorporating the resulting monocrystalline second and third semiconductor layers.
US09029228B2
The invention generally related to a method for preparing a layer of graphene directly on the surface of a substrate, such as a semiconductor substrate. The layer of graphene may be formed in direct contact with the surface of the substrate, or an intervening layer of a material may be formed between the substrate surface and the graphene layer.
US09029225B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing an N-type MOSFET, comprising: forming a part of the MOSFET on a semiconductor substrate, the part of the MOSFET comprising source/drain regions in the semiconductor substrate, a replacement gate stack between the source/drain regions above the semiconductor substrate, and a gate spacer surrounding the replacement gate stack; removing the replacement gate stack of the MOSFET to form a gate opening exposing a surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming an interface oxide layer on the exposed surface of the semiconductor; forming a high-K gate dielectric layer on the interface oxide layer in the gate opening; forming a first metal gate layer on the high-K gate dielectric layer; implanting dopant ions into the first metal gate layer; and performing annealing to cause the dopant ions to diffuse and accumulate at an upper interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the first metal gate layer and a lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the interface oxide layer, and also to generate electric dipoles by interfacial reaction at the lower interface between the high-K gate dielectric layer and the interface oxide layer.
US09029223B1
A method for fabricating a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) device with isolated drain. The method performing operations of: forming a first well region embedded in a portion of a semiconductor substrate; forming a first patterned mask layer over the semiconductor substrate, exposing portions of the semiconductor substrate; performing a first ion implant process on the portions of the semiconductor substrate exposed by the first patterned mask layer; performing a second ion implant process to a second well region exposed, forming a fourth well region between the first well region and the second well region; performing a third implant process to the second well region, forming a fifth well region overlying the fourth well region; forming a source region in a portion of the third well region; and forming a drain region in a portion of the fifth well region.
US09029212B2
A MEMS capacitive pressure sensor is provided. The pressure sensor includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, and a first dielectric layer formed on the substrate. The pressure sensor also includes a first electrode layer formed on the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer having first openings formed on the first electrode layer. Further, the pressure sensor includes conductive sidewalls connecting with the first electrode layer formed on sidewalls of the first openings, and a second electrode layer with a portion formed on the second dielectric layer in the second region and the rest suspended over the conductive sidewalls in the first region. Further, the pressure sensor also includes a chamber between the conductive sidewalls and the second electrode layer; and a third dielectric layer formed on the second electrode layer exposing a portion of the second electrode layer in the first region.
US09029197B2
To improve the reliability in applying a tape to the rear surface of a substrate while securing the heat resistance of the tape applied to the rear surface of the substrate. There is a gap between a bottom surface of a ditch provided in a support member and an upper surface of a driver IC chip. On the other hand, the upper surface side of a lead frame is supported by the support member so that the bottom surface of the ditch contacts the upper surface of a Low-MOS clip mounted over a Low-MOS chip. Thus, even in a state where the driver IC chip and the Low-MOS chip are mounted on the upper surface side of the lead frame, the tape can be reliably applied to the rear surface of the lead frame (in particular, to the rear surface of the product region).
US09029188B2
A method for manufacturing a solar cell is discussed. The method may include injecting first impurity ions at a first surface of a substrate by using a first ion implantation method to form a first impurity region, the substrate having a first conductivity type and the first impurity ions having a second conductivity type, and the first impurity region having the second conductivity type; heating the substrate with the first impurity region to activate the first impurity region to form an emitter region from the first impurity region; etching the emitter region from a surface of the emitter region to a predetermined depth to form an emitter part from the emitter region; and forming a first electrode on the emitter part to connect to the emitter part and a second electrode on a second surface of the substrate to connect to the second surface of the substrate.
US09029187B1
Selector devices that can be suitable for memory device applications can have low leakage currents at low voltages to reduce sneak current paths for non selected devices, and high leakage currents at high voltages to minimize voltage drops during device switching. The selector device can include a first electrode, a tri-layer dielectric layer, and a second electrode. The tri-layer dielectric layer can include a low band gap dielectric layer disposed between two higher band gap dielectric layers. The high band gap dielectric layers can be doped with doping materials to form traps at energy levels higher than the operating voltage of the memory device.
US09029185B2
A method for manufacturing a solar cell according to an embodiment of the present invention includes preparing a semiconductor substrate having a first conductivity type dopant; ion-implanting a pre-amorphization elements into a front surface of the semiconductor substrate to form an amorphous layer; and forming an emitter layer by ion-implanting second conductivity type dopant into the front surface of the semiconductor substrate. The method then further includes heat-treating the layers to activate the second conductivity type dopant. The method further includes forming a back surface field layer at a back surface of the semiconductor substrate by ion-implanting a first conductivity type dopant.
US09029182B2
A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor having a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region, includes forming an oxide film on a semiconductor substrate, forming an insulating film on the oxide film, forming a first opening in the insulating film and the oxide film in the peripheral circuit region, forming a trench in the semiconductor substrate in the peripheral circuit region by etching the semiconductor substrate through the first opening using the insulating film as a mask, forming a second opening in the insulating film to penetrate through the insulating film in the pixel region and to reach a predetermined depth of the oxide film, and forming insulators in the trench and the second opening.
US09029177B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip has a first semiconductor layer sequence which comprises a multiplicity of microdiodes, and a second semiconductor layer sequence which comprises an active region The first semiconductor layer sequence and the second semiconductor layer sequence are based on a nitride compound semiconductor material, the first semiconductor layer sequence is before the first semiconductor layer sequence in the direction of growth, and the microdiodes form an ESD protection for the active region.
US09029175B2
A photonic device generates light from a full spectrum of lights including white light. The device includes two or more LEDs grown on a substrate, each generating light of a different wavelength and separately controlled. A light-emitting structure is formed on the substrate and apportioned into the two or more LEDs by etching to separate the light-emitting structure into different portions. At least one of the LEDs is coated with a phosphor material so that different wavelengths of light are generated by the LEDs while the same wavelength of light is emitted from the light-emitting structure.
US09029171B2
The present disclosure relates to a structure and method to create a self-repairing dielectric material for semiconductor device applications. A porous dielectric material is deposited on a substrate, and exposed with treating agent particles such that the treating agent particles diffuse into the dielectric material. A dense non-porous cap is formed above the dielectric material which encapsulates the treating agent particles within the dielectric material. The dielectric material is then subjected to a process which creates damage to the dielectric material. A chemical reaction is initiated between the treating agent particles and the damage, repairing the damage. A gradient concentration resulting from the consumption of treating agent particles by the chemical reaction promotes continuous diffusion the treating agent particles towards the damaged region of the dielectric material, continuously repairing the damage.
US09029167B2
This invention relates to the field of preparation technology of optical pH sensor by co-intercalated fluorescein and 1-heptanesulfonic acid sodium into layered double hydroxide. The sensor is composed by conductive materials and the surface LDH films by co-interacted FLU and HES. The synthesis method is: first: synthesis of LDH colloid suspension, subsequently, the FLU and HES co-intercalated LDH colloid solution was prepared following the ion-exchange method, then the thin film of FLU-HES/LDH was spreaded on the surface of the conductive material by electrophoretic deposition, and the oriental pH sensor was synthesized. The advantages of the present invention is: first, the LDH matrix provides chromophore molecules with a confined and stable environment; the novel electrophoretic deposition strategy in this work provides a method for precise control of thickness (ranging from nanometers to micrometers), and the oriental pH sensor show good pH responsive.
US09029166B2
The present invention relates to a method of identifying a natural substance that is capable of complexation with Ni2+, Cu2+ and/or Fe2+ ions, wherein an extract containing natural substances is led over a stationary phase loaded with Ni2+, Cu2+ and/or Fe2+ ions, which is suitable for immobilized metal affinity chromatography (IMAC).
US09029158B2
Described herein are particular embodiments relating to a microfluidic device that may be utilized for cell sensing, counting, and/or sorting. Particular aspects relate to a microfabricated device that is capable of differentiating single cell types from dense cell populations. One particular embodiment relates a device and methods of using the same for sensing, counting, and/or sorting leukocytes from whole, undiluted blood samples.
US09029154B2
A biological reaction apparatus for receiving at least one substrate having a sample located in a sample region, and a separate cover, such that a reaction chamber is formed between the cover and substrate over the sample region. The apparatus includes a substrate locator for locating the substrate; a cover locator for locating and moving the cover with respect to the substrate; a fluid dispenser for dispensing fluid into the reaction chamber; and a draining mechanism which includes a wick.
US09029152B2
This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a Group H nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.
US09029138B2
The present invention provides a method for fixing and/or stabilizing a sample, in which the sample is put into a permeable container, the permeable container having an opening, which is pressed into the sample, then a portion of the sample brought into the permeable container in this way is separated from the rest of the sample, and the container filled with the sample in this way is immersed in fixing and/or stabilizing agents and the sample is fixed and/or stabilized.
US09029137B2
Isolated nucleotide sequences encoding a promoter of the Acyl Carrier Protein (“ACP”).
US09029131B2
In a microfluidic processor with integrated active elements for handling process media, the active elements act by changes in their volume, swelling degree, material composition, their strength and/or viscosity. The procedures to be performed are defined already by the constructive configuration of the microfluidic processor by an appropriate logic connection of the individual active elements defined in their function, by the sequence of the temporal activation of the individual elements, and with respect to their processing speed and their precision. The process is enabled by action of a substantially non-directional collectively acting environmental parameter, in particular, the presence of a solvent or environmental temperature or both.
US09029122B2
Methods for increasing C18 to C20 elongation conversion efficiency and/or Δ4 desaturation conversion efficiency in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid [“LC-PUFA”]-producing recombinant oleaginous microbial host cells are provided herein, based on over-expression of acyl-CoA:lysophospholipid acyltransferases [“LPLATs”] (e.g., Ale1, LPAAT, LPCAT). Production host cells and oils produced by the methods of the invention are also claimed.
US09029119B2
The present invention relates to a composition for the cultivation of sophisticated bacteria, preferably of the genus Bartonella, and to a method for the cultivation of these bacteria.
US09029114B2
Isolated and/or purified polypeptides and nucleic acid sequences encoding polypeptides from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius are provided. Further provided are methods for modulating or altering recombination inside or outside of a cell using isolated and/or purified polypeptides and/or nucleic acid sequences from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius.
US09029113B2
Provided is a method for efficiently producing from a ketone compound an optically active amino compound useful as an intermediate of a drug, an agricultural chemical, or the like. Provided are: a polypeptide having aminotransferase activity that is increased in stereoselectivity, heat resistance, and resistance to amine compounds compared to the wild type enzyme by means of modifying an aminotransferase derived from Pseudomonas fluorescens; a gene encoding the polypeptide; and a transformant that expresses the gene at a high level.
US09029110B2
A functional microbially fermented tea extract containing a novel polyphenol derivative and a method for producing the same are provided. A functional microbially fermented tea extract containing various extracts and a novel polyphenol derivative is produced by subjecting, to an extraction treatment, a microbially fermented tea leaf obtained by culturing one species selected from Aspergillus sp. (PK-1), Aspergillus oryzae (NBRS 4214) sp. (AO-1), Aspergillus awamori (NBRS 4122) sp. (SK-1), and Eurotium sp. (KA-1) with a tea leaf. Furthermore, for example, a functional fermented tea extract enriched with a novel polyphenol derivative is produced.
US09029107B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel hydrolase, which is used when dialkyl 2-vinylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylate is hydrolyzed with an enzyme, so as to efficiently obtain (1S,2S)-1-alkoxycarbonyl-2-vinylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid that is useful as an intermediate for synthesizing therapeutic agents for hepatitis C. According to the present invention, there is provided a hydrolase protein, which consists of the amino acid sequence shown in any one of SEQ ID NOS. 2 to 5 and which has activity of catalyzing, at higher selectivity than the protein consisting of the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO. 1, a reaction of producing (1S,2S)-1-ethoxycarbonyl-2-vinylcyclopropanecarboxylic acid from diethyl 2-vinylcyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylate.
US09029106B2
The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type transaminase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered transaminase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds.
US09029093B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in subjects suffering from or suspected of having a renal injury. In particular, the invention relates to using a plurality of assays configured to detect a kidney injury marker as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in renal injuries.
US09029092B2
Methods, reagents, kits and systems are disclosed for determining an analyte in a sample suspected of containing the analyte where all reagents are soluble in aqueous solution. One assay method includes treating a sample suspected of containing the analyte under conditions such that if the analyte is present, an activator is brought into reactive configuration with a chemiluminescent compound to activates it. The sample is also treated with an agent to reduce signal not related to analyte. Finally, the sample is treated with a trigger solution thereby producing light from the activated chemiluminescent compound. No reagents are associated with a surface or other solid phase.
US09029088B2
Disclosed are methods for human identification utilizing newly discovered single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within CODIS loci D13S317, TH01, vWA, D12S391 and D6S1043, which can cause allelic dropout. Also disclosed are kits useful in human identification.
US09029083B2
The invention describes a method for isolating one or more genetic elements encoding a gene product having a desired activity, comprising the steps of: (a) compartmentalising genetic elements into microcapsules; and (b) sorting the genetic elements which express the gene product having the desired activity; wherein at least one step is under microfluidic control. The invention enables the in vitro evolution of nucleic acids and proteins by repeated mutagenesis and iterative applications of the method of the invention.
US09029071B2
The present invention provides a silicon oxynitride film formation method capable of reducing energy cost, and also provides a substrate equipped with a silicon oxynitride film formed thereby. This method comprises the steps of: casting a film-formable coating composition containing a polysilazane compound on a substrate surface to form a coat; drying the coat to remove excess of the solvent therein; and then irradiating the dried coat with UV light at a temperature lower than 150° C.
US09029070B2
There are provided a method of forming a resist pattern includes: a step (1) in which a resist composition containing a base component (A) that generates base upon exposure and exhibits increased solubility in an alkali developing solution by the action of acid is applied to a substrate to form a resist film; a step (2) in which the resist film 2 is subjected to exposure; a step (3) in which baking is conducted after the step (2); and a step (4) in which the resist film 2 is subjected to an alkali development, thereby forming a negative-tone resist pattern in which the unexposed portion 2b of the resist film 2 has been dissolved and removed, and the resist composition used in the step (1).
US09029068B2
Allowing the rate of phase change to be controlled at the time period of phonons (approx. 270 fs) for the purpose of achieving a substantially higher recording-erasing speed compared to what can be achieved with conventional technologies relating to optical recording media using phase change. A femtosecond pulse laser is shaped into pulse trains each having a first pulse and a second pulse using a Michelson interferometer, and the time interval of first and second pulses is matched with the time period of lattice vibration of a material constituting the phase change recording film to be irradiated, thereby inducing phase change.
US09029065B2
A compound having the formula (I): wherein a is an integer of from 1 to 10, and x is an integer of from 1 to 3, X1 comprises a fluoroalcohol, fluorinated ester, or fluorinated anhydride, Y is a single bond, C1-20 alkylene group, O, S, NR, ester, carbonate, sulfonate, sulfone, or sulfonamide, wherein R is H or C1-20 alkyl, and wherein the C1-20 alkylene group is structurally only carbon, or one or more structural carbon atoms in the C1-20 alkylene group is replaced by oxygen, carbonyl, ester, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing, Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted, C5 or greater monocyclic, polycyclic, or fused polycyclic cycloalkyl; or a substituted or unsubstituted, C5 or greater monocyclic, polycyclic, or fused polycyclic aryl group, wherein the cycloalkyl or aryl is a carbocycle or comprises a heteroatom comprising O, S, N, F, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing, each R1 is independently a substituted C5-40 aryl, substituted C5-40 heteroaryl, C1-40 alkyl, a C3-40 cycloalkyl, wherein when x is 1, the two groups R1 are separate or bonded to each other to form a C4-40 ring structure, and Z− is a carboxylate, sulfate, sulfonate, sulfamate, or the anion of a sulfonimide, wherein when Y is a single bond, Z− is not sulfonate.
US09029064B2
A pattern is formed by applying a resist composition comprising a polymer comprising recurring units having a nitrogen atom bonded to an acid labile group, an acid generator, and an organic solvent onto a substrate, prebaking to form a resist film, exposing the resist film to high-energy radiation, baking, and developing the exposed film with an organic solvent developer to form a negative pattern wherein the unexposed region of film is dissolved and the exposed region of film is not dissolved.
US09029056B2
Provided is a toner having high charging rapidity to reach a sufficient charging amount in a short time, high stability of charging from the initial stage to a time when a large amount of sheets is printed out, and high stability of charging under a high temperature and high humidity. In a toner including toner particles, each of which contains at least a binder resin, a colorant, and a charge controlling resin, the charge controlling resin is a copolymer of a structure A having at least a specific salicylic acid derivative structure and a structure B having sulfonic acid or sulfonic acid ester as a substituent.
US09029048B2
The present invention is a mask blank used to fabricate a transfer mask, which has a laminated structure of a light shielding film and an etching mask film in this order on a transparent substrate, wherein the etching mask film comprises a material containing chromium, the light shielding film comprises a material containing tantalum, a highly oxidized layer is formed on the surface layer of the light shielding film on the opposite side from the transparent substrate, and a Ta 4 f narrow spectrum of the highly oxidized layer analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has a maximum peak at a binding energy of more than 23 eV.
US09029046B2
One embodiment disclosed includes a product comprising: a fuel cell component comprising a substrate and a first coating overlying the substrate, the coating comprising a compound comprising at least one Si—O group, at least one polar group and at least one group including a saturated or unsaturated carbon chain.
US09029040B2
A fuel cell stack and a compression system for providing compressive force to a fuel cell stack having first and second ends is provided. The compression system includes asymmetric leaf springs operatively connected to first and second ends of the fuel cell stack. Each leaf spring includes a slot having first and second connector positions. The compression system also includes tension members connected to the leaf springs. The tension members compress the leaf springs to provide a compressive load to the fuel cell stack.
US09029039B2
A cell stack comprising a plurality of fuel cells or electrolysis cells has a combination of flow patterns between anode gas and cathode gas internally in each of the cells and between the cells relative to each other such that cathode and anode gas internally in a cell flows in either co-flow, counter-flow or cross-flow and further that anode and cathode gas flow in one cell has co-flow, counter-flow or cross-flow relative to the anode and cathode gas flow in adjacent cells.
US09029029B2
A fuel cell system, and a method of controlling an operation of a plurality of fuel cells. The fuel cell system controls the operation of the plurality of fuel cells according to a power consumed in a load and the performance of the plurality of fuel cells, thereby increasing a power conversion efficiency of the plurality of fuel cells while preventing considerable performance degradation of the plurality of fuel cells. The fuel cell system includes: a plurality of fuel cells; a control unit controlling an operation of the plurality of fuel cells according to a power consumed in a load and the performance of the plurality of fuel cells; and a converter converting a power output by at least one of the plurality of fuel cells into a power according to the control of the control unit.
US09029023B2
Provided are a multi-layered structure electrolyte including a gel polymer electrolyte on opposite surfaces of a ceramic solid electrolyte, for a lithium ion secondary battery including positive and negative electrodes capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium ions, and a lithium ion secondary battery including the electrode. The electrolyte includes a gel polymer electrolyte on opposite surfaces of a ceramic solid electrolyte.
US09029022B2
A lithium secondary battery is provided. The battery comprises: a positive electrode and a negative electrode which each has a specific composition and specific properties; and a nonaqueous electrolyte which contains a cyclic siloxane compound of formula (1), a fluorosilane compound of formula (2), a compound of formula (3), compound having an S—F bond in the molecule, nitric acid salt, nitrous acid salt, monofluorophosphoric acid salt, difluorophosphoric acid salt, acetic acid salt, or propionic acid salt in an amount of 10 ppm or more of the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
US09029014B2
An anode includes an anode active material including a lithium titanium oxide, a binder, and 0 to about 2 parts by weight of a carbon-based conductive agent based on 100 parts by weight of the lithium titanium oxide.
US09029013B2
An electroactive composition includes an anodic material; a poly(arylene oxide); and stabilized lithium metal particles; where the stabilized lithium metal particles have a size less than about 200 μm in diameter, are coated with a lithium salt, are present in an amount of about 0.1 wt % to about 5 wt %, and are dispersed throughout the composition. Lithium secondary batteries including the electroactive composition along with methods of making the electroactive composition are also discussed.
US09029007B2
A rechargeable battery configured to prevent or substantially prevent explosion resulting from overheating. In one embodiment, a rechargeable battery includes: a first metallic plate; a second metallic plate coupled to the first metallic plate to together include five sides of a hexahedron and define a cavity and an opening to the cavity being a sixth side of the hexahedron, at least one of the first metallic plate or the second metallic plate including a base and walls extending from at least two opposing peripheral sides of the base; a generation member in the cavity and including at least one connection member at a side of the generation member proximate the opening; and a cap assembly including an insulator and at least one electrode lead coupled to the at least one connection member, the cap assembly closing the opening.
US09029006B2
A coupling structure for electrode tabs of a stacked-type secondary battery and a secondary battery using the same are disclosed. A coupling structure for electrode tabs of a secondary battery comprises: an electrode assembly formed by stacking a plurality of electrode plates; a tab portion formed by stacking electrode tabs protruding from one side of the electrode plates of the electrode assembly; and a coupling member that surrounds an outer surface of the tab portion so that the electrode tabs of the tab portion are connected to one another.
US09028998B2
The battery cell design includes a battery cell component comprises a current conducting element, that includes at least a portion that is hollow, further component is configured to be located within a battery cell. Another embodiment of the component comprises a first element that defines a first fluid path therein; and a second element that defines a second fluid path, wherein the two fluid paths are in communication with each other, further wherein the battery cell component is configured to conduct electric current. A battery cell and battery cell assembly that uses the component, and a method of cooling a battery assembly is also disclosed. The present invention has been described in terms of specific embodiment(s), and it is recognized that equivalents, alternatives, and modifications, aside from those expressly stated, are possible and within the scope of the appending claims.
US09028995B2
A secondary battery including an electrode assembly comprises: an outermost electrode an electrode assembly comprising an outermost electrode, an inner electrode, and a separator disposed between the outermost and inner electrodes, wherein the outermost electrode, the inner electrode and the separator are wound together; a case that accommodates the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to the case, wherein the outermost electrode and the separator disposed under the outermost electrode extend beyond the inner electrode disposed under the separator in a lengthwise direction of the winding by 3 cm or greater.
US09028989B2
A fuel cell system includes a water vapor transfer unit and a fluid flow distribution feature, the water vapor transfer unit including a first plate having a plurality of first flow channels for receiving a flow of a first fluid therein, and a second plate having a plurality of second flow channels for receiving a flow of a second fluid therein. The fluid flow distribution feature is configured to control at least one of a volume of flow of the first fluid through the first flow channels and a volume of flow of the second fluid through the second flow channels, wherein at least one of a flow distribution of the first fluid across the first plate and a flow distribution of the second fluid across the second plate is varied.
US09028986B2
A battery system comprises a battery cell having a cell body and a voltage terminal extending out of the cell body and having first and second terminal edges; a busbar to which an upper end of the voltage terminal is electrically connected; and a zipper fuse formed in a portion of the terminal between the cell body and the busbar, wherein the zipper fuse comprises an array of perforations through the voltage terminal and extending across the voltage terminal from the first edge to the second edge.
US09028984B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, and a soft magnetic layer, a first orientation control layer, a second orientation control layer, a nonmagnetic intermediate layer, a magnetic recording layer, and a protective layer layered sequentially on the nonmagnetic substrate. The first orientation control layer includes a thin film having a face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. The magnetic recording layer includes a thin film layer having ferromagnetic crystal grains and nonmagnetic grain boundaries surrounding the ferromagnetic crystal grains, the ferromagnetic crystal grains including a CoPt alloy having ferromagnetic properties, and the nonmagnetic grain boundaries including an oxide or a nitride. The nonmagnetic intermediate layer includes a thin film containing Ru. The second orientation control layer includes an alloy thin film having an element selected from among Ni and Fe and having the fcc structure, the second orientation control layer having a saturation magnetic flux density Bs of 1 T or lower.
US09028982B2
Disclosed is a composite material wherein adhesion between a silicon surface and a plating material is enhanced. A method and an apparatus for producing the composite material are also disclosed. The method for producing a composite material comprises a dispersion/allocation step wherein the surface of a silicon substrate (102), which is a matrix provided with a silicon layer at least as the outermost layer, is immersed into a first solution containing gold (Au) ions, so that particulate or island-shaped gold (Au) serving as a first metal and substituted with a part of the silicon layer are dispersed/allocated on the matrix surface, and a plating step wherein the silicon substrate (102) is immersed into a second solution (24), which contains a reducing agent to which gold (Au) exhibits catalyst activity and metal ions which can be reduced by the reducing agent, so that the surface of the silicon substrate (102) is covered with the metal or an alloy of the metal (108) which is formed by autocatalytic electroless plating using gold (Au) as a starting point.
US09028981B2
A metal magnet 10 including a magnet body 12 and a coating layer 14 over the magnet body 12, in which the coating layer 14 has a Martens hardness of 2000 N/mm2 or more and an elastic resilience of 25% or less, and a motor including the metal magnet 10.
US09028978B2
A compound represented by Formula 1 below and an organic light-emitting device including an organic layer containing the compound of Formula 1: wherein R1 to R4, X and Y, a and b, and m and n are defined as in the specification.
US09028964B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing activated nano carbon from food waste material and a method for preparing a polymer nano composite, wherein the activated nano carbon at least one polymer are blended.
US09028959B2
A composite member suitable for a heat radiation member of a semiconductor element and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. This composite member is a composite of magnesium or a magnesium alloy and SiC, and it has porosity lower than 3%. This composite member can be manufactured by forming an oxide film on a surface of raw material SiC, arranging coated SiC having the oxide film formed in a cast, and infiltrating this coated SiC aggregate with a molten metal (magnesium or the magnesium alloy). The porosity of the composite member can be lowered by improving wettability between SiC and the molten metal by forming the oxide film. According to this manufacturing method, a composite member having excellent thermal characteristics such as a coefficient of thermal expansion not lower than 4 ppm/K and not higher than 10 ppm/K and thermal conductivity not lower than 180 W/m·K can be manufactured.
US09028955B1
An electrochemical cell comprises an ion permeable, liquid and vapor impermeable, membrane made by a solvent casting process. Two mutually insoluble polymers are cast together with the aide of mutually soluble co-solvents. The ion permeable membrane comprises a high molecular weight polyisobutylene polymer structural component. The linearized poly(acrylic acid) polymer ion conducting component comprises which is 4 wt % to 6 wt % of the membrane. The dried ion permeable membrane has a thickness of about 0.1 millimeters. The membrane is hydrated and used for transporting ions in an electrochemical cell. The cell demonstrates good reversibility, i.e. rechargability.
US09028946B2
A skin is applied to a ceramic honeycomb. The skin is formed by applying a skin-forming composition and drying it. The skin-forming composition includes a carrier liquid, colloidal silica and/or colloidal alumina, and an inorganic filler. The filler includes an inorganic fiber. The filler may contain low aspect ratio particles that have the same or nearly the same CTE as the inorganic fiber. The filler may include a small proportion of a low aspect ratio filler particle that has a different CTE than the inorganic fiber.
US09028937B2
A multilayer textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has an outer layer constructed at least in part from a first warp yarn extending along a length direction of the sleeve and a weft yarn extending transversely to the length direction. The sleeve further includes an inner layer constructed at least in part from a second warp yarn extending along the length direction and a weft yarn extending transversely to the length direction, with the second warp yarn being a different type of yarn than the first warp yarn. The outer layer and inner layer are connected to one another by interlinking the weft yarn of the outer layer with at least some of the second warp yarns of the inner layer and by interlinking the weft yarn of the inner layer with at least some of the first warp yarns of the outer layer.
US09028934B2
A label has a part that is to stand out at a defined angle from a curved surface to which the label is applied. There is a reinforcement area that has an edge curvature at the transition part of the label, between the part that is to be raised up and the part that is attached to the curved surface. The edge curvature is implemented such that it fixes the part to be raised up at a defined angle during or after placement of the label on a specific object.
US09028928B2
According to embodiments described in the specification, a method and apparatus are provided for producing an acoustic component. The acoustic component comprises a first compression-molded member comprising a first material; and a second injection-molded member coupled to and substantially surrounding the first member, the second member comprising a second material.
US09028906B2
The invention provides a sweetener composition comprising a combination of cellulose and a sweetener carbohydrate formed from a combination of at least two carbohydrates selected from the group consisting of sucrose, glucose and fructose, and a method for the preparation thereof.
US09028900B2
A device (1) for extracting an ingredient in a cartridge (9) by supplying an extraction liquid such as heated water into such cartridge, includes upstream and downstream cartridge enclosing parts (7,8) relatively movable between an open position for inserting and/or removing such cartridge and a closed position for forming an extraction chamber (11) enclosing such cartridge during extraction; and a cartridge handling arrangement including a cartridge holder (10), in particular a holder fixed to or integral with the upstream part or the downstream part, for receiving and holding such cartridge against gravity when inserted and descending under gravity between the enclosing parts in the open position prior to forming the extraction chamber (11). The handling arrangement further includes at least one cartridge positioning element (39), in particular a pair of positioning elements, that horizontally guides such cartridge (9) upon reception by the holder (10) in a cartridge extraction alignment (3,3′) between the upstream and downstream parts (7,8), optionally the positioning element (s) (39) being fixed to or integral with the downstream part (8) and/or having an arched portion (39′) for contacting such cartridge.
US09028897B2
Disclosed is a beverage extraction filter that can extract in a plurality of extraction machine types. The beverage extraction filter comprises a filter unit (40) where coffee powder is housed and a planar lid unit (41) mounted to the top section of the filter unit (40). The lid unit (41) is formed in a layer structure created by a non-permeable first sheet member (42) positioned on the filter unit side (40) and a permeable second sheet member (43) layered on top of the first sheet member (42), and a hole section (42a) through which hot water is made to pass is formed in the center of the first sheet member (42).
US09028883B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, health foods and medical device compositions comprising polysaccharides from Opuntia Ficus Indica cladodes in combination with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory plant extracts as well as those from Olive leaf, Capparis Spinosa buttons, anthocianosides from red oranges, black rice or from other natural sources and their combinations, useful for prevention and therapy of hemorrhoidal disease and related diseases. The invention compositions may, be applied topically or administered by oral route.
US09028871B2
Particular aspects provide bioresorbable and biocompatible compositions for bioengineering, restoring or regenerating tissue or bone, comprising a three-dimensional porous or non-porous scaffold material comprising a calcium phosphate-based ceramic having at least one dopant therein selected from metal ion or ion dopants and metal oxide dopants, wherein the composition is sufficiently biocompatible to provide for a cell or tissue scaffold, and resorbable at a controlled resorption rate for controlled strength loss, depending on dopant composition, under body, body fluid or simulated body fluid conditions. Preferably, the at least one dopant is selected from the group consisting of Zn2+, Mg2+, Si2+, Na+, K+, Sr2+, Cu2+, Fe3+/Fe2+, Ag+, Ti4+, CO32−, F−, MgO, ZnO, NaF, KF, FeO/Fe2O3, SrO, CuO, SiO2, TiO2, Ag2O and CaCO3, present in an amount between 0 and about 10 w %, from about 0.5 to about 5 w %, or from about 1 to about 3 w %, and methods of using same.
US09028869B2
The present invention is a solid dosage form for oral administration of ibuprofen comprising a modified release formulation of ibuprofen which provides an immediate burst effect and thereafter a sustained release of sufficient ibuprofen to maintain blood levels at least 6.4 μg/ml over an extended period of at least 8 hours following administering of a single dose.
US09028867B2
The present invention provides a tablet comprising a plurality of drug-containing parts and at least one connecting part adhered to the drug-containing parts, and having a scored line capable of dividing the whole tablet on the connecting part; particularly, a coated tablet in which a connecting part and a coating layer have the same or different drug release controlling functions; a tablet having an insoluble coating on a drug-containing part having a scored line, wherein the drug-containing part has a structure or composition such that the drug is substantially released after the tablet is divided along the scored line and then ingested; and a tablet comprising a plurality of drug-containing parts and at least one connecting part adhered to the drug-containing parts, wherein at least two drug-containing parts have different compositions.In addition, the present invention provides a method of manufacturing a tablet, wherein a column comprising a plurality of columnar pharmaceutical composition layers having the same cross-section and laminated in the axial direction of the column is compression molded and then compression molded in a direction different from the axial direction of the column.
US09028864B2
A concentrated inhalable formulation of an antibiotic drug such as ciprofloxacin is disclosed. The antibiotic is formulated with sodium acetate and liposome which incorporate antibiotic. The formulation is aerosolized and inhaled for treatment of respiratory tract infections and other medical conditions.
US09028861B2
Compositions (including pharmaceutical compositions, foods, supplements, toys and treats) comprising a microbial exopolysaccharide are provided as well as methods for preventing or reducing diarrhea in a mammal wherein the method comprises administering a therapeutically amount of a microbial exopolysaccharide to a mammal in need thereof.
US09028856B2
The present invention relates to compositions that include a combination of one or more pesticides and one or more adjuvants.
US09028849B2
A cosmetic composition comprising at least one volatile solvent, at least one crosslinked silicone film former, at least one silicone gum, and at least one pigment composition present in an amount sufficient to provide the cosmetic composition with a pigment contrast ratio of greater than 35 and a method for maximizing the intensity and opacity of a color cosmetic composition.
US09028838B2
Polypeptides, polynucleotides, methods, compositions, and vaccines comprising (avian pandemic) influenza hemagglutinin and neuraminidase variants are provided.
US09028837B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating an immune response in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an A35R protein or active fragment thereof of vaccinia virus or other poxvirus.
US09028835B2
Random three- and four-amino acid copolymers having lengths of 14-, 35- and 50-amino acid residues are provided. The random copolymers have amino acids alanine, lysine and one or more of the hydrophobic amino acids valine, phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine. Random three-amino acid copolymer FAK efficiently suppressed EAE induced in SJL/J (H-2S) mice with the encephalitogenic epitope PLP 139-151. Random four-amino acid copolymers VYAK and tryptophan-containing VWAK were efficacious in alleviating severity and duration of symptoms of EAE induced by MBP 85-99 (SEQ ID NO:2), in a humanized mouse model expressing genes for both an HLA-DR-2 linked to multiple sclerosis (MS) in humans and for a T cell receptor from an MS patient.
US09028834B2
Provided are newly identified pneumoviruses that can infect mammals, including dogs cats and potentially humans. Isolated polynucleotides and proteins of the viruses, as well as the isolated viruses themselves are provided. The invention includes compositions and methods for detecting the viruses, methods and compositions for prophylaxis and/or therapy of disease signs that are positively correlated with the presence of the viruses, and isolated cells comprising the viruses. Intact virions, viral proteins, and fragments thereof are also provided.
US09028831B2
The invention relates to the identification of aprataxin (APTX) expression levels as a marker for the response to topoisomerase I inhibitor-based therapies in patients with cancer and, more particularly, colon cancer. The invention also relates to methods for treating patients with cancer who have low APTX expression levels by means of administering a topoisomerase I inhibitor to said patients.
US09028830B2
The invention provides monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to CD122, which is one component of receptors for IL-2 and IL-15. The monoclonal antibodies have the capacity for substantial inhibition of both IL-2 and IL-15 mediated functions by inhibiting binding of these cytokines to their receptors. The monoclonal antibodies can be used for inhibiting undesired immune responses or treatment of cancer, among other applications.
US09028827B2
The present invention relates to a method for treating hepatitis virus infection comprising administering to a subject infected with a hepatitis virus an effective amount of a yolk or yolk antibody obtained from an egg of a fowl which has been immunized using Helicobacter pylori as an antigen. In particular, the method is effective in reducing virus titer and/or decreasing a level of glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT) or glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT) in the subject. Also provided is a composition for treating hepatitis virus infection which comprises the yolk or yolk antibody in combination with one or more supplemental ingredients such as Salviae Miltiorrhiza Radix, Oldennlandiae Hb., Zingiberis Radix, Ginseng Radix, Atractylodis Radix, Curcumae Radix, Angelicae Sinensis Radix, bee propolis, calcium lactate, soy proteins, probiotics, and grain bran.
US09028826B2
Improved anti-CD154 antibodies are provided herein which have ablated FcR binding and/or complement binding/activation. The use of these antibodies for inducing tolerance and treating immune diseases including autoimmunity, inflammation and allergic disorders is disclosed herein.
US09028814B2
Beneficial and synergistic effects for alleviating joint pain and symptoms of osteoarthritis and/or rheumatoid arthritis have been found using a mixture of fish oil and fish oil derived, choline based, phospholipid bound fatty acid mixture including polyunsaturated EPA and DHA either alone or in combination with other active constituents, including astaxanthin and polymeric hyaluronic acid or sodium hyaluronate (hyaluronan) in an oral dosage form.
US09028808B2
The present invention relates to a cytokine for use in the treatment and/or control of dependent and/or addictive behavior, in particular addiction and/or dependency to nicotine, food addiction, alcohol addiction and/or sex addiction. The present invention also relates to treatment and/or control of withdrawal and/or symptoms of withdrawal from an addiction, in particular nicotine addiction, food addiction, alcohol addiction and/or sex addiction. The present invention further relates to the induction of loss of interest or aversion to the addictive substance or behavior, such as nicotine, over-indulgence in high-calorie, high-fat foods, and to other behaviors or addictions that are hazardous to the health.
US09028799B2
A hypoxia contrast medium including nitroimidazole-amino acid chelate with a positively charged radioactive nuclide, a preparation method and use thereof. The contrast medium can be used in imaging cerebral thrombosis, tumors or other diseases such as ulceration, thrombosis, and so on.
US09028790B2
Provided is an aggregate of carbon nanotubes wherein a mixture of 10 mg of aggregate of carbon nanotubes, 30 mg of sodium polystyrene sulfonate and 10 mL of water is subjected to ultrasonic homogenizer treatment, subsequently subjected to centrifugal treatment at 20000 G, then 9 mL of supernatant is sampled, and the content of aggregate of carbon nanotubes in the supernatant is 0.6 mg/mL or more. The aggregate of carbon nanotubes of the present invention can provide a dispersion of an aggregate of carbon nanotubes having a high concentration through very good dispersibility.
US09028784B2
The present application relates to a system and a process for gas cleaning.
US09028783B2
An exhaust after-treatment system is described. Generally speaking, the system includes separate primary and secondary NOx reducing systems for delivering reductant to an exhaust stream, a sensor system for determining relevant operating conditions and an electronic control module for activating the reducing systems. Methods for reducing NOx in an exhaust stream are also described. Generally speaking, the methods include the steps of determining a need for NOx reduction in an exhaust stream, determining exhaust temperature, determining ambient temperature, and injecting at least one of a primary reductant and a secondary reductant into the exhaust stream based on the determined temperature. The system and method are particularly useful during cold start conditions, as well as lightly loaded application in conditions where the ambient temperature is below 45 F where the SCR catalyst may not fully function.
US09028780B2
Described is a compound sample needle for a liquid chromatography system. In one embodiment, the compound sample needle includes a rigid needle having a coupling end with a face and a counterbore. The compound sample needle also includes a flexible tubing having an outer surface and a coupling end disposed in the counterbore of the rigid needle. The coupling end of the flexible tubing has a face adjacent to a base of the counterbore. The coupling ends of the rigid needle and flexible tubing are secured to each other by a weld formed along a circumference of the outer surface and the face of the rigid needle. A rigid sleeve protects the welded joint. The compound sample needle is suitable for injection into the high pressure mobile phase of ultra performance liquid chromatography systems.
US09028777B2
Provided are cartridges and systems for effecting automated extraction, isolation, and purification of cellular components—such as nucleic acids—from a cellular sample in assay-ready form. Also provided are related methods of effecting such sample processing.
US09028771B2
The invention provides a modified form of saturation assay, which is based on the measurement of a free or unbound labelled reagent fraction (such that there is an increase in signal in the presence of analyte) and employs trapping zones to concentrate said unbound or free labelled fraction to avoid loss of sensitivity. Preferably, the assay is a membrane assay.
US09028769B2
The oxygen generation system includes a chemical oxygen generator that creates oxygen through an exothermic chemical reaction that creates sufficient heat to pose a serious risk to a user. The oxygen generation system therefore includes a containment layer to permit safer administration of oxygen from a chemical oxygen generator by shielding a user from and/or dissipating the heat generated by the chemical generator. The oxygen generation system may be handheld and portable for use in extreme, remote, and/or hostile conditions, locations, environments, and situations with a simple activation method easily operated under stress without any preparation or maintenance.
US09028766B2
A radial-flow plate heat exchanger (5) embedded in the catalytic bed of an isothermal chemical reactor (1) has heat exchange plates (10) comprising fluid passages (13) between a first metal sheet (20) and a second metal sheet (21) joined by perimeter weld seams (23) on a first surface (A) of the plate, a feeding channel (14) and a collecting channel (15) for the heat exchange fluid are formed with suitable metal sheets which are seam welded (25) directly to the opposite surface (B) of the plate, this structure allows the manufacturing of the plate (10) with an automated seam welding process, such as laser beam welding.
US09028765B2
Porogen accumulation in a UV-cure chamber may be reduced by removing outgassed porogen by flowing a purge gas across a window through which a wafer is exposed to UV light. Porogens in the purge gas stream may, as they flow through the chamber and into an exhaust baffle, deposit on surfaces within the chamber, including on the exhaust baffle. The exhaust baffle may have particular features that cause such porogen deposition to be more uniformly distributed across the exhaust baffle, thus reducing the amount of time that may be required to fully clean the baffle of accumulated porogens during a cleaning process.
US09028756B2
A specimen analyzing method and a specimen analyzing apparatus capable of measuring interference substances before analyzing a specimen. The method comprises a step for sucking the specimen stored in a specimen container (150) and sampling it in a first container (153), a step for optically measuring the specimen in the first container, a step for sampling the specimen in a second container (154) and preparing a specimen for measurement by mixing the specimen with a reagent in the second container, and a step for analyzing the specimen for measurement according to the results of the optical measurement of the specimen.
US09028751B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for dynamically controlling odor emission. The system comprises an odor measurement tool, a weather condition measurement tool, a processing module and a controller. The odor measurement tool is adapted to measure an odor level. The weather condition measurement tool is adapted to measure at least one weather condition. The processing module is adapted to calculate an odor emission threshold based on the measured odor level, the at least one weather condition, an atmospheric dispersion model and a predetermined remote odor level threshold. The controller is adapted to control the odor emission below the odor emission threshold.
US09028750B2
Fumigation systems and processes that are especially applicable for the fumigation of perishable (or otherwise sensitive to temperature) agricultural products as the temperature conditions under which the product is being treated are closely controlled to advantageously prevent the product from being exposed to temperature drops and/or spikes during the fumigation cycle. In addition, the present invention incorporates an air filtration system as a part of the fumigation system to substantially remove the toxic fumigant residuals from the air before it is exhausted into the open atmosphere, which typically occurs at the completion of a fumigation cycle. As such, the harmful effect of the fumigant on the products and the surrounding environment and work areas is greatly minimized. In summary, the systems and processes of the present invention provide the ability to conduct fumigations in a well-controlled environment.
US09028713B2
The present invention provides a mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same. The mixture for liquid crystal medium comprises: at least one anisotropic liquid crystal material and a polymerizable monomer which will polymerize under UV irradiation. The weight percentage of the polymerizable monomer accounts for 0.1% to 1% of the total mixture for liquid crystal medium. In the mixture for liquid crystal medium and a liquid crystal display using the same according to the present invention, by using a polymerizable monomer which will polymerize under UV irradiation and the appropriate content ratio, the polymer bump with small size and good uniformity can be obtained within the mixture for liquid crystal medium after the polymerization, which avoids the bad liquid crystal alignment and the light spot occurred at the dark state of the liquid crystal panel, and then increases the response rapid of the liquid crystal panel to obtain high contrast ratio and stable mass production.
US09028696B2
Disclosed herein are methods and processes for the recovery of oleaginous compounds from biomass and in particular biomass comprises photosynthetic microorganisms. Also disclosure are oleaginous compounds obtained using the disclosed methods.
US09028694B2
A non-particulate organic porous material with optical resolution capability, the non-particulate organic porous material having a continuous pore structure, which comprises macropores and mesopores, the macropores being interconnected forming mesopores with a radius of 0.01-100 μm in the interconnected parts, and optically active groups uniformly introduced therein possesses high physical stability, can be used under wide separating conditions, and has a large capacity for separating optically active substances (enantiometers).
US09028686B2
A simple inlet filter element for use primarily in power steering columns which is comprised of a mesh filter, a magnet attached to the mesh filter and a button cap. The filter is installed in a port or conduit through which steering fluid flows and is held in place by the button cap element.
US09028681B2
A drainage device for draining liquid out of a closed chamber includes a main body, a piston assembly, and a transmission assembly. The main body defines a receiving chamber and a liquid inlet communicating with the receiving chamber to the closed chamber. The piston assembly is fixed in the receiving chamber of the main body. The transmission assembly is partially received in the receiving chamber. The transmission assembly and the piston assembly cooperatively separate the receiving chamber to a first chamber adjacent to the liquid inlet and a second chamber away from the liquid inlet. The transmission assembly is slidably received in the receiving chamber, thereby causing air pressure differences between the first chamber and the second chamber, to pump the liquid from the closed chamber to the second chamber. The main body further defines a plurality of discharge holes for draining liquid out of the second chamber.
US09028679B2
Embodiments of the present invention are generally related to a system and method to remove hydrogen sulfide from sour water and sour oil. In particular, hydrogen sulfide is removed from sour water and sour oil without the need for special chemicals, such as catalyst chemicals, scavenger chemicals, hydrocarbon sources, or a large scale facility. The system and method in the present invention is particularly useful in exploratory oil and gas fields, where large facilities to remove hydrogen sulfide may be inaccessible. The present invention addresses the need for safe and cost effective transport of the deadly neurotoxin. Particular embodiments involve a system and method that can be executed both on a small and large scale to sweeten sour water and sour oil.
US09028678B2
This application provides an H2S scrubbing system, a column packed with an inert material, wherein an inert gas passes counter to a flow of a hydrotreated product containing H2S through said column. There is also provided a method for scrubbing H2S from a hydrotreated product, comprising providing a hydrotreated product containing H2S; and passing the hydrotreated product over a column packed with an inert material, wherein an inert gas passed counter to a flow of the hydrotreated product.
US09028669B2
Reduced glutathione is produced by a process for producing reduced glutathione by electroreduction of oxidized glutathione using a cathode cell and an anode cell separated from each other by a separating membrane, comprising using, as a solution in the cathode cell, an aqueous oxidized glutathione solution having a pH adjusted to higher than 3.0 and not more than 7.0 by adding a base, in which oxidized glutathione itself also acts as a conducting agent.
US09028662B2
Methods, arrays, and systems for electrochemical sensing are provided. An example of a method includes forming a number of first electrodes, forming a fluidic level having a number of walls that extend substantially vertically from each of the number of first electrodes, and forming a number of second electrodes in contact with the number of walls. In some examples, forming the fluidic level having the number of walls includes embossing an embossing resin.
US09028661B2
A blood glucose meter comprises a blood sample test strip, a constant current source, a precision timer, a digital processor and memory, and an analog measurement circuit, e.g., voltage comparator, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), etc., that eliminates the complex analog front end and other related circuits of present technology glucose meters. When a blood sample is applied to the blood sample test strip a charge, Q, develops from the reaction between an enzyme in the test strip and the blood sample. The constant current source injects a constant current value, I, into the charge, Q, on the blood sample test strip over a precisely measured time determined by when the excess charge, Q, has been removed from the test strip. The amount of charge, Q, is determined by Q=I*T, the charge, Q, is then converted into a blood glucose level for display.
US09028649B2
Provided is a semiconductor die pick-up apparatus including a stage, a suction opening, a cover that opens and closes a suction opening, and projections and primary holes arranged at a circumferential edge of the suction opening and project from a contact surface. When picking up a semiconductor die, in a state in which at least a portion of a contour of the semiconductor die sticks out from the projections toward the outer circumference of the stage, a retaining sheet at the portion sticking out from the primary holes is suctioned, a tip end of the cover is caused to advance upward, the cover is caused to slide while pushing the retaining sheet and the semiconductor die upward to open the suction opening sequentially, the opened suction opening is caused to suction the retaining sheet sequentially to separate the retaining sheet from the semiconductor die.
US09028643B2
A method of bonding a polymer film to a mating part, including: placing a mating part in a nest; contacting the polymer film and the mating part; heating a die including a thermally conductive silicone to a temperature at or above a glass transition temperature of the polymer film, the mating part, or both; actuating the die onto the polymer film, wherein the thermally conductive silicone contacts the polymer film and bonds the polymer film to the mating part to form a bonded article; and actuating the die away from the polymer film.
US09028642B2
A method for inverting a tubular liner in a hollow conduit involves: forming a cuff from the tubular liner, the cuff having an opening through which the liner is fed; and while feeding the liner through the cuff opening, feeding a gas under pressure through a gas inlet port formed in the liner to a space between the cuff and the remainder of the liner, thereby causing inversion and inflation of the liner into and through the conduit. After a portion of the liner has been inverted in the conduit, a region of the cuff and liner upstream of the gas inlet port is sealed off, thereby causing inversion of the remainder of the liner in the conduit. Optionally, before a trailing end of the liner is fed through the opening of the cuff, the trailing end is sealed to prevent flow of gas therefrom. When the liner is intended to line the conduit, the liner resin-impregnated either outside or in the conduit and, after complete inversion of the liner in the conduit, the resin is cured and the ends of the liner are sealed to the inside surfaces of the conduit. An apparatus and system for conducting the method are also provided.
US09028641B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for manufacturing a label including providing a release sheet having an adhesive layer on a releasable surface thereof, forming the film-like label portion by electrophotography which includes developing a latent image using the label forming composition to form a solid image of a label shape on a photoconductor, transferring the developed image on the adhesive layer of the release sheet, and fixing the transferred image by applying heat and pressure thereto, and irradiating the film-like label portion and an exposed portion of the adhesive layer other than the film-like label portion with rays to cure the exposed portion.
US09028639B2
There is provided a method of manufacturing a stamp for a plasmonic nanolithography apparatus. The method includes forming metal patterns on a substrate, coating a hydrophobic thin film on external surfaces of the metal patterns to hydrophobic processing the external surfaces of the metal patterns, selectively hydrophilic processing only the external surfaces of the metal patterns, laminating a buffer layer on the substrate and the metal patterns, and transcribing the metal patterns and the buffer layer from the substrate to a base formed of light transmission material to be combined with the base.
US09028638B2
Provided is a multilayer adhesive sheet which enables easy separation between an adhesive layer and a die attach film during the pick-up even in cases where an acrylate ester copolymer is used in the die attach film, thereby making the pick-up work of semiconductor chips after the dicing easy. The multilayer adhesive sheet comprises a base film, an adhesive layer that is disposed on one surface of the base film, and a die attach film that is disposed on an exposed surface of the adhesive layer. The adhesive that constitutes the adhesive layer contains: (A) a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer; (B) an ultraviolet polymerizable compound; (C) a multifunctional isocyanate curing agent; (D) a photopolymerization initiator; and (E) a silicone polymer.
US09028635B2
A fiber reinforced plastic bolt(FRP) and a method for producing the same are disclosed. The FRP bolt is useful in the industrial areas which require a bolt having electric-insulation, anti-corrosive, thermal-insulation, and non-magnetic properties. The method for producing the FRP bolt includes the steps of: winding a prepreg around a surface of an internal body, wherein the internal body includes a first reinforcing fiber which is unidirectionally aligned along the axis of the bolt, and a synthetic resin which is impregnated into the first reinforcing fiber, and the prepreg includes a second reinforcing fiber and a thermosetting resin which is impregnated into the second reinforcing fiber; forming a fiber reinforced plastic round bar by heat-hardening the prepreg; and forming a screw thread on the surface of the fiber reinforced plastic round bar.
US09028629B2
A composite comprising adhered components and method of refurbishing such composites are described herein. The composite includes a first component, a second component, and the first component being adhered to the second component using an adhesive stack. The adhesive stack comprises a first adhesive-impregnated scrim layer disposed between the first component and the second component and a bulk adhesive layer disposed between the first component and the second component.
US09028622B2
A method for cleaning a film separating device involves: a) performing positive-direction water cleaning when the ratio between the film filter resistance and the preliminary film filter resistance is less than 1.2; b) performing reverse water cleaning when the ratio between the film filter resistance and the preliminary film filter resistance is greater-than or equal-to 1.2; c) performing reverse chemical cleaning when the ratio between the film filter resistance and the preliminary film filter resistance is greater-than or equal-to 2; d) performing positive-direction chemical cleaning when the ratio between the film filter resistance and the preliminary film filter resistance is greater-than or equal-to 3.
US09028620B2
Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a method for selectively etching or otherwise removing copper or other metallic contaminants from a substrate, such as a gallium arsenide wafer. In one embodiment, a method for selectively removing metallic contaminants from a substrate surface is provided which includes exposing a substrate to a peroxide clean solution, exposing the substrate to a hydroxide clean solution, and exposing the substrate to a selective etch solution containing potassium iodide, iodine, sulfuric acid, and water during a selective etch process. The substrate generally contains gallium arsenide material, such as crystalline gallium arsenide, and is usually a growth substrate for an epitaxial lift off (ELO) process. The copper or other metallic contaminants disposed on the substrate may be selectively etched at a rate of about 500 times, about 1,000 times, about 2,000 times, or about 4,000 times or greater than the gallium arsenide material.
US09028617B2
A cleaning device may include a solution tank configured to store cleaning solution. The solution tank may include an inlet and an outlet. The cleaning device may include at least one discharge line filter in fluid communication with the solution tank and a pump having a pump intake and a pump discharge. The pump may be configured to direct cleaning solution from the solution tank outlet through the at least one discharge line filter. The cleaning device may include a cleaning head in fluid communication with the pump discharge and a bypass line in fluid communication with the pump discharge and the inlet. The bypass line may be configured to divert cleaning solution received from the pump discharge away from the cleaning head and toward the solution tank.
US09028612B2
In various embodiments, non-zero thermal gradients are formed within a growth chamber both substantially parallel and substantially perpendicular to the growth direction during formation of semiconductor crystals, where the ratio of the two thermal gradients (parallel to perpendicular) is less than 10, by, e.g., arrangement of thermal shields outside of the growth chamber.
US09028605B2
Disclosed herein are architectural coating compositions comprising spheroid shaped silica or silicate. The compositions exhibit a number of improved properties and are useful on a variety of substrates.
US09028602B2
The invention provides a bituminous composition comprising a bitumen in an amount ranging from 20 to 90% wt, a carboxylic additive in an amount of from 0.25 to 5% wt, and sulphur in an amount of 5 to 75% wt, all percentages based on the weight of bitumen, carboxylic additive and sulphur, wherein the carboxylic additive is selected from carboxylic acids, carboxylic esters and carboxylic anhydrides. It further provides a process for making this composition and asphalt compositions comprising such bituminous composition.
US09028599B2
Provided is a copper film-forming composition, which is in the form of a solution and can obtain a copper film having sufficient electrical conductivity when heated at a relatively low temperature. This copper film-forming composition contains 0.01 to 3.0 mol/kg of copper formate or its hydrate, 0.01 to 3.0 mol/kg of copper acetate or its hydrate, at least one diol compound selected from a group of diols of formula (1) and diols of formula (1′), a piperidine compound of formula (2), and an organic solvent. When a content of the copper formate or its hydrate is assumed to be 1 mol/kg, the diol compound is contained in a range of 0.1 to 6.0 mol/kg and the piperidine compound is contained in a range of 0.1 to 6.0 mol/kg.
US09028595B2
A process for separating methane from a natural gas mixture employs pressure swing adsorption in one or more vessels. Each vessel has an adsorbent material having a kinetic selectivity for contaminants over methane greater than 5. Contaminants within the natural gas mixture become gases kinetically adsorbed within the adsorbent material. The vessel is placed under pressure to cause contaminants to be adsorbed in the surfaces and micro-pores of the adsorbent material. The process includes releasing a product stream comprised at least 95% by volume methane from a first gas outlet in the vessel, and desorbing the contaminant gases from the adsorbent material by reducing the pressure within the vessel. The desorbing step is done without applying heat to the vessel, thereby delivering a waste gas stream comprised at least 95% by volume of the contaminant gases. An improved fractionation vessel having both major and minor flow channels is also provided.
US09028594B2
A self service kiosk station employing a water repellant air filter is provided. The self service kiosk may take many forms including a vending machine, gaming station, ATM, DVD rental machine, or the like. Positive pressure within the housing may be employed as well to keep contaminants outs and ensure air flow into the housing is through the water repellant air filter.
US09028589B2
A method for separating particles from particle-laden gas. Charged particles are formed by charging particles of a particle-laden gas. A gas jet is provided by guiding the particle-laden gas by a flow guide. Particles from the gas jet are collected to a collecting electrode by an electric field. An effective collecting area of the collecting electrode is positioned such that gas velocity gradient at each point of the effective collecting area is smaller than 10% of the maximum gas velocity in the gas jet divided by the height dimension of the jet.
US09028585B2
Novel systems and methods are described for reducing iron oxide to metallic iron in an integrated steel mill or the like that has a coke oven and/or an oxygen steelmaking furnace. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel systems and methods for reducing iron oxide to metallic iron using coke oven gas (COG) or COG and basic oxygen furnace gas (BOFG).
US09028584B2
The method for forming a 3-D metal object by 3-D printing or injection molding comprising providing as a feed material metal particles formed by establishing multiple metal components in a primary billet of a ductile material, working the primary billet through a series of reduction steps to form the components into elongated elements, leaching the ductile material from the elongated elements and reducing the length to short uniform lengths.
US09028582B2
Seizure resistance and wear resistance of Cu—Bi—In copper-alloy sliding material are enhanced by forming a soft phase of as pure as possible Bi. Mixed powder of Cu—In cuprous alloy powder and Cu—Bi containing Cu-based alloy powder is used. A sintering condition is set such that Bi moves outside particles of said Cu—Bi containing Cu-based powder and forms a Bi grain-boundary phase free of In, and In diffuses from said Cu—In containing Cu-based powder to said Cu—Bi containing Cu-based powder.
US09028581B2
The invention relates to methods and devices for breaking up ore. The methods and devices are characterized in particular in that ore mineral or ore minerals can be subsequently easily extracted. For this purpose coherent NIR radiation, non-coherent NIR radiation, at least one electric alternating field having a frequency greater than 300 GHz, at least one magnetic alternating field having a frequency greater than 300 GHz, at least one electromagnetic alternating field having a frequency greater than 300 GHz, or a combination thereof are respectively applied to the ore at least once by means of a device for generating the radiation, the at least one alternating field, or the radiation and the at least one alternating field, wherein ore mineral, ore minerals, absorbent components, or ore minerals and absorbent components of the ore absorb(s) energy from the radiation, the alternating field, or the radiation and the alternating field and said energy is not or is only slightly absorbed by the lode matter. Thus, advantageously, cracks are formed in the ore or the ore splits by means of the resulting stresses.
US09028572B2
The inventive method comprises chemically-mechanically polishing a substrate with an inventive polishing composition comprising a liquid carrier and abrasive particles that have been treated with a compound.
US09028571B2
A process and system for cooling syngas provides effective syngas cooling and results in reduced levels of fouling in syngas cooling equipment. A process for cooling syngas includes blending syngas with cooled recycled syngas in an amount effective for providing a blended syngas with a temperature at an inlet of a syngas cooler of about 600° F. to about 1400° F. The blended syngas changes direction of flow at least once prior to the inlet of the syngas cooler.
US09028570B2
An odorant addition device for adding odorant to fuel gas in a gas system that consumes the fuel gas, the device including: an addition unit for adding the odorant to fuel gas to be consumed by the gas system; an environmental condition detection unit for detecting in the gas system an environmental condition regarding diffusion of odorant in fuel gas; and an addition adjustment unit for adjusting mode of odorant addition by the addition unit based on the environmental condition detected by the environmental condition detection unit. In this way, it is possible to detect leakage of fuel gas more reliably and improve safety dramatically, in a gas system that consumes the fuel gas as fuel.
US09028561B2
A bluing composition concentrate comprises an aqueous medium and at least one colorant that exhibits a blue or violet shade when deposited onto a textile material. The concentrate can be used to produce a bluing composition, and the bluing composition can be used to treat textile materials in such a way as to decrease the visually-perceived yellow coloration of textile articles that can occur with repeated use and laundering.
US09028547B2
A surgical device includes a member having first and second opposing surfaces. The member includes an intermediate portion in which the first surface has a recessed surface portion. The intermediate portion defines a hole extending from the recessed surface portion to the second surface. End portions extend from the intermediate portion, and each end portion defines a hole extending from the first surface to the second surface. The member has a tapered surface portion on the second surface. The surgical device includes a second member sized to be received within the recessed surface portion. A method includes locating a tissue fixation device at an opening to a bone hole, and increasing the size of the tissue fixation device by placing the tissue fixation device within a larger device.
US09028546B2
An artificial heart valve consists of two or more valve members (10, 20) stacked one upon the other in a housing (40) and having blood flow passages (13, 23) that can be aligned with each other in order to open the valve and allow blood flow through the valve and that can be disaligned to close the valve. The valve members are maintained in continuous rotation and the alignment and disalignment of the valve members is achieved by slowing down and reaccelerating one or more of the valve members using a drive (18, 28) appropriately controlled by a control unit (C).
US09028541B2
A stent and method comprising inserting within a vessel an unexpanded stent that includes a first zone comprising a plurality of adjacent ring elements, not less than three in number, that are distributed along the stent with a first spacing, and a second zone comprising a plurality of adjacent ring elements that are distributed along the stent with a second spacing, and expanding the stent to cause the plurality of ring elements in the first zone to redistribute to a third spacing that is smaller than the first spacing and to cause ring elements in the second zone to distribute to a fourth spacing larger than the first spacing.
US09028540B2
A medical device is provided. The medical device includes a vessel-engaging member attached to a distal end of a delivery wire via a connection mechanism. The vessel-engaging member includes a plurality of rows and a plurality of bridges positioned between each adjacent row, each of the bridges connecting a vertex of a first row with a corresponding vertex of a second row. The vessel-engaging member further includes first and second tapered sections coupled to the connection mechanism, each of the tapered sections projecting from a proximal row and tapering in a direction from the proximal row toward the connection mechanism, each of the tapered sections having a length measured along a longitudinal axis, wherein the length of the first tapered section is less than the length of the second tapered section.
US09028539B2
An inventive flanged graft for end-to-side anastomosis includes a tubular graft member and a flanged section The type and size of the flanged section is determined by various factors such as identity of the receiving artery, position of the arteriotomy on the receiving artery, and luminal diameter of the graft. The graft is preferably anastomosed to the receiving artery using continuous sutures to join the arteriotomy to the peripheral edges flanged section.
US09028526B2
A method is disclosed for preparing a soft tissue site, and augmenting the soft tissue site, such as the breast(s), scar, depression, or other defect, of a subject through use of devices that exert a distractive force on the breast(s) and grafting of autologous fat tissue such as domes with sealing rims for surrounding each of the soft tissue site and a regulated pump. The method for preparing the soft tissue site, and enhancing fat graft results, entails application of the distracting force to the targeted soft tissue site at least intermittently for some period of time and preferably several weeks prior to the graft procedure. A related aspect of the invention includes following the preparation steps by transfer of fat from other areas of the subject to the subject's soft tissue site, and then reapplication of the distractive force to the soft tissue site that received the autologous fat graft. Alternatively, fat from genetically related sources may be used, and the fat may be further processed prior to injection. Substantial soft tissue augmentation, high rates of graft survival and negligible graft necrosis (data demonstrating 80% survival and only 20% necrosis is presented) or calcification result from the practice of these methods.
US09028524B2
In one embodiment of the present invention there is provided an endovascular device having a multi-lumen tubular structure; a pharmacological agent filing a first lumen of the multi-lumen tubular structure; and a support member extending through a second lumen of the multi-lumen tubular structure wherein the multi-lumen tubular structure conforms to the shape of the metal support member when the support member is inserted into the second lumen. In one aspect, the support member includes a pair of opposing spiral support members that form a slidable crossover point. In one aspect, a filter is provided having a pair of opposing spiral support members that form a slidable crossover point and a first and second loop; and a material capture structure that can be coated with a pharmacological agent.
US09028523B2
Medical systems, devices and methods are provided for accessing a bodily opening that, among other things, are safe and reliable, and facilitate manipulation of a medical instrument. The medical access device generally includes an elongated flexible sheath and an expandable frame connected to the distal end of the flexible sheath. The sheath and expandable frame are operable between expanded and collapsed configurations to provide a pathway from a natural orifice to the bodily opening. Medical systems and methods are also provided for delivering the medical device.
US09028517B2
The disclosure provides a tissue removal device including customizable tips. The tissue removal device may include an outer shaft and a threaded shaft. One aspect of disclosure may include a shaft cutting tool that emerges from the end of the outer shaft. Another aspect of the disclosure may include a flexible cutting blade extending from the threaded shaft. Threaded shaft may be driven by a driving mechanism in order to provide an auger-like suction mechanism to facilitate the transfer of removed tissue to a collection chamber that is coupled to the outer shaft and the threaded shaft.
US09028515B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument is provided. The ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a housing having an elongated shaft extending therefrom. The shaft has a jaw member disposed at a distal end thereof. The jaw member is movable between an open configuration and a clamping configuration and includes a tissue contacting surface thereon. A cutting blade extends from a distal end of the shaft and operably couples to the housing and adjacent the jaw member to treat tissue. A selectively removable laminate liner is positionable over the tissue contacting surface of the jaw member and configured to prevent contact between the tissue contacting surface and the cutting blade when the cutting blade is treating tissue.
US09028500B2
The invention relates to a surgical instrument, in particular a sliding shaft instrument, with a main part, and a moveable part relative thereto, with a handle attached to the main part, comprising a fixed grip and a grip actuating the moveable part, with at least one guide, through which, in relation to the main part, the moveable part is moveable between an initial position and a working position, and with a sliding surface attached to the movable part and pointing towards the main part, the sliding surface being slid along a guide surface attached to the main part and pointing towards the sliding surface, with at least the sliding surface or the guide surface are assigned to each other for the formation of a washable gap.
US09028488B2
A device for performing a surgical procedure comprising an elongated shaft extending between a proximal end and a distal end and including an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a passageway. A stylet is configured for moveable disposal within the passageway of the elongated shaft. The stylet includes a blunt distal tip configured for disposal outside the distal end of the elongated shaft and to prevent damage to adjacent tissue. An expandable member includes a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end of the expandable member is disposed with the distal end of the elongated shaft and the distal end of the expandable member is connected to the distal end of the stylet. At least one electrode disposed with the expandable member.
US09028482B2
An electrosurgical system and method for performing electrosurgery is disclosed. The electrosurgical system includes an electrosurgical generator adapted to supply electrosurgical energy to tissue. The electrosurgical system includes an electrosurgical instrument, such as an electrosurgical antenna, knife, forceps, suction coagulator, or vessel sealer. The disclosed system includes an impedance sensor, a controller, dynamic impedance matching network, and an electrosurgical energy generator. The dynamic impedance matching network includes a PIN diode switching array configured to selectively activate a plurality of reactive elements. The disclosed arrangement of reactive elements provides real-time impedance correction over a wide range of impedance mismatch conditions.
US09028480B2
An apparatus for cosmetic RF skin treatment where the RF energy supply is isolated from the patient treated, such that in course of treatment no undesired current flows through the subject body.
US09028478B2
An endoscopic instrument includes a housing having shaft extending therefrom that defines a longitudinal axis therethrough. The shaft includes an articulating section disposed thereon. The articulating section has a central annulus extending therealong and first and second pluralities of bores. The first plurality of bores configured to receive corresponding tendons therethrough and the second plurality of bores configured to receive corresponding conductive leads therethrough. An end effector assembly operatively connected to a distal end of the shaft including a pair of first and second jaw members. The corresponding conductive leads transition from a first state for enabling articulation of the shaft about the articulating section, to a second state for disabling articulation of the shaft about the articulating section.
US09028476B2
A system for generating microwave energy includes a microwave generator that generates first and second microwave signals, a transmission line and a dual antenna microwave device. The transmission line transmits the first and second microwave signals to the microwave device. The microwave device includes a first antenna proximal a second antenna and a dual-sided choke positioned therebetween. The first antenna receives the first microwave signal from the transmission line between a first conductor and a second conductor and the second antenna receives the second microwave signal between the second conductor and a third conductor. The dual-sided choke includes a first and a second antenna choke circuit. The first antenna choke circuit limits the propagation of electromagnetic fields generated by the first antenna toward the second antenna and the second antenna choke circuit limits the propagation of electromagnetic fields generated by the second antenna toward the first antenna.
US09028467B2
Embodiments of a system including a remotely controlled osmotic pump device and associated controller are described. Methods of use and control of the device are also disclosed. According to some embodiments, an osmotic pump device is placed in an environment in order to pump a material into the environment or into an additional fluid handling structure within the osmotic pump device. Exemplary environments include a body of an organism, a body of water, or an enclosed volume of a fluid. In selected embodiments, a magnetic field, an electric field, or electromagnetic control signal may be used.
US09028465B2
Devices, systems, and methods for delivery of therapeutics, in particular thrombolytic agents, in particular plasmin, are provided. The devices, systems, and methods also provide for occlusion of a vessel or graft distal and/or proximal to a treatment zone. Also provided are devices, systems, and methods that trap emboli.
US09028463B2
The present invention provides a method for enhancing the immunogenicity using a microneedle device capable of enhancing the immunogenicity of an influenza vaccine. According to the method for enhancing the immunogenicity using the present microneedle device, a microneedle device having microneedles made of polylactic acid, coated with an influenza vaccine composed of an antigen having type A strain (H1N1), type A strain (H3N2), and type B strain as active ingredients is brought into direct contact with the skin so as to transcutaneously administer the aforementioned influenza vaccine. After the transcutaneous administration, lauryl alcohol is applied to the site of the skin where the microneedle device has been brought into direct contact.
US09028459B2
Wounds dressings, systems, and methods are presented for removing liquid from a wound site into a dressing and moving air through the dressing to evaporate at least a portion of the removed liquid. The air is moved in one instance by a Coanda device incorporated into the dressing. Other systems, dressings, and methods are presented.
US09028458B2
The illustrative embodiments described herein are directed to a manually-actuated pump and method for applying reduced pressure at a tissue site. The manually-actuated pump includes at least one variable volume chamber that is manually compressible into a plurality of positions. The manually-actuated pump includes a fixed volume chamber in communication with the at least one variable volume chamber. The manually-actuated pump also includes a filter housing having a hydrophobic filter that prevents liquid from entering the at least one variable volume chamber. The fixed volume chamber is coupled to the at least one variable volume chamber via the filter housing. The filter housing is located in between the at least one variable volume chamber and the fixed volume chamber. The fixed volume chamber has reduced pressure that is applied to the tissue site in response to a movement of the at least one variable volume chamber from a compressed position in the plurality of positions to an uncompressed position in the plurality of positions.
US09028452B2
A safety needle pack has a safe needle device contained within a housing 10, for use with a syringe 20. The device has a needle hub 16 supporting a needle 17 and a sleeve 22 is slidably mounted on the hub for movement between an initial position to an intermediate position where the tip region 31 of the needle 17 projects from the sleeve 22 and a protecting position. Following use of the safe needle device, the sleeve 22 is moved under the action of a spring 24,29,30 to the protecting position, a locking mechanism 29,40 then restraining the sleeve in that position. The rotational connection of a syringe 20 to the needle hub 16 turns the safe needle device within its housing 10, this causing the sleeve 22 to move rearwardly with respect to the housing from its initial position to its intermediate position so as to be ready for performing a medical procedure.
US09028451B2
An injection device 110 is described having a housing 112 and a cap 130. The injection device 110 houses a syringe 114 having a needle which is sealed by a boot 118. The cap 130 is arranged so that the boot 118 can be connected to the cap 130 while exerting a minimal force on the syringe, but cannot be removed from the cap 130 without applying a significantly greater force to the syringe. The housing 112 and cap 130 are arranged so that upon removal of the cap 130 from the housing 112, the boot 118 is removed from the syringe 114.
US09028442B2
A method for localized delivery of a therapeutic or diagnostic agent within a vessel is provided. The method provides for adjustability of the length of the treatment area and for reducing of pressure within the treatment area. A catheter system includes an inner elongated element, an outer elongated element positioned coaxially with respect to the inner elongated element, and a blood-release element at a distal end of the inner elongated element. A proximal occlusion element is positioned at the distal end of the outer elongated element, proximal to an outlet port. A distal occlusion element is positioned at a distal end of the inner elongated element. The distal end of the inner elongated element is distal to and movable with respect to the outer elongated element distal end.
US09028441B2
In one example embodiment, the tube assembly is configured to be used in conjunction with a tube assembly guidance system. The tube assembly includes a first connector, a feeding tube connected to the first connector, a second connector connected to the feeding tube, and a suctioning tube connected to the second connector. The suctioning tube is configured to receive the feeding tube. The feeding tube is configured to allow enteral feeding while the suctioning tube is configured to allow suctioning or decompression of a patient's stomach.
US09028440B2
An occluder, and methods for occlusion, that employs first and second opposed occluding members associated with each other, a tube contacting member connected to, or comprising at least a portion of, at least one of the first and second occluding members, and a force actuator constructed and positioned to apply a force to at least one of the first and second occluding members. Application of the force by the force actuator may cause the tube contacting member to move between a tube occluding and an open position. A release member may be configured and positioned to enable an operator to manually move the tube contacting member from the tube occluding position to the open position even with no force applied to the at least one of the first and second occluding members by the force actuator. In one embodiment, the force actuator may apply a force sufficient to bend both the first and second occluding members, so that upon application of the force by the force actuator (such as an air bladder), the first and second occluding members (e.g., spring plates pivotally connected at opposite ends) bend and the tube contacting member may move between the tube occluding and the open position.
US09028436B2
A hemodialysis system includes: (i) a dialyzer; (ii) a dialysate source; a dialysate pump; (iii) a dialysate cassette operatively connected to the dialysate pump such that the dialysate pump can pump dialysate through the dialysate cassette when the dialysate cassette is in fluid communication with the dialysate source, the dialysate cassette in fluid communication with the dialyzer; (iv) a blood pump; and (v) a blood cassette separate from the dialysate cassette, the blood cassette operatively connected to the blood pump such that the blood pump can pump blood through the blood cassette, the blood cassette including a housing, the housing including a from-patient tube connector, a to-patient tube connector, a saline/priming tube connector, a to-dialyzer tube connector, a from-dialyzer tube connector, and an internal air separation chamber.
US09028427B2
A guide wire includes an elongate wire body, and a marker at least at a distal-side portion of the wire body over the whole circumference to indicate the intracorporeal position of the wire body. The marker has a first line-forming portion and a second line-forming portion which intersect each other at a plurality of locations so that the marker has a grid-like shape as a whole. According to another aspect, a guide wire includes a member with a core wire, a marker-forming layer partly encircling the outer surface of the member and differing in color from the member, and a coating layer covering the marker-forming layer and the member at least in the marker-forming layer region and having transparency making the marker-forming layer visible. The marker-forming and coating layers can be formed from mutually miscible resins, while the marker-forming layer functions as a visible marker.
US09028426B2
The invention relates to a device for removing body fluid with a puncture element that can puncture the skin of a body part. The device includes a housing structure for body fluids obtained from the skin puncture and a puncture drive for a back and forth movement of the puncture element. The duration of withdrawal movement is longer than the duration of the forward movement. The puncture drive is designed to withdraw the puncture element in a first withdrawal phase of the withdrawal movement with a maximum withdrawal speed of more than 0.02 m/s. A second retraction phase follows the first retraction phase. Body fluid is collected during the second retraction phase, which has a duration of between 0.3 and 0.8 seconds and/or a retraction speed of between 0.6 and 2 mm/s.
