US07649068B2
A polymerized product is obtained from a mixture containing (i) a free radical polymerizable monomer, oligomer or polymer; (ii) an organoborane amine complex, (iii) a poor or non-solvent for the polymerized product of (i); and (iv) an amine reactive compound. The mixture may include (v) an active ingredient to be encapsulated by the polymerized product, and (vi) an optional component(s). Polymer particles are obtained by (A) forming a composition containing components (i)-(iv); (B) agitating components (i)-(iv) in the presence of oxygen to initiate polymerization, at a rate and for a time sufficient to provide a uniform dispersion and reaction of the components; (C) allowing the reaction to proceed to completion at room temperature; and (D) recovering the polymer particles by removing component (iii). The composition may include (v) the active ingredient to be encapsulated by the polymer particles.
US07649066B2
The present invention describes linear or star block copolymers, their process of preparation and their use in adhesive compositions, in particular as pressure-sensitive adhesive. The copolymers of the invention are prepared by controlled radical polymerization by nitroxides; they exhibit at least one soft block with a Tg of less than 0° C. and at least one hard block with a Tg of greater than ambient temperature.
US07649061B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a poly-1-olefin by polymerization of a 1-olefin of the formula R4CH═CH2, where R4 is hydrogen or an alkyl radical having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, in suspension, in solution or in the gas phase, at a temperature of from 20 to 200° C. and a pressure of from 0.5 to 50 bar, in the presence of a catalyst which comprises the reaction product of a magnesium alkoxide with a transition metal compound (=component a) and an organometallic compound (=component b) and whose component a has been prepared in a manner having the feature that a magnesium alkoxide powder having a mean particle size, expressed as the d50, in the range from 100 to 1000 μm is firstly processed by dry milling in a mill under inert conditions to produce magnesium alkoxide powder having a mean particle size, expressed as the d50, of less than 15 μm, then suspended in an inert hydrocarbon in which the magnesium alkoxide is insoluble, and is reacted immediately without further pretreatment with a transition metal compound of titanium, zirconium, vanadium or chromium.
US07649060B2
The present invention relates to curable compositions of benzoxazines, a combination of adducts one of which is prepared from hydroxy-containing compounds, isocyanate-containing compounds and phenolic compounds and the second of which is prepared from the first adduct and epoxy-containing compounds and phenolic compounds, epoxy resins and optionally tougheners.
US07649053B2
A toner binder for electrophotography excellent in low temperature fixing properties and anti-hot offset properties comprising styrene (co)polymer(s) (A) comprising a modified styrene (co)polymer modified by unsaturated dicarboxylic acids of C4 to C30, ester-forming derivatives thereof, (meth)acrylic acid, or alkyl (meth)acrylates (alkyl group of C1 to C24); said modified styrene (co)polymer containing constituent units derived from a monomer used in the modification is 0.1 to 9 wt %, and a toner using the toner binder. The (co)polymer(s) (A) includes a species that shows at least one GPC peak each in the regions of the molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000 and 50,000 to 5 million.
US07649050B2
A two package type clear coating composition which can form cured coating film excelling in all aspects of scratch resistance, acid resistance, stain resistance and finished appearance such as coated surface smoothness, comprising a hydroxyl-containing acrylic resin (A) having a hydroxyl value of 100-200 mgKOH/g and a number-average molecular weight of 5,000-10,000, which is obtained by copolymerization of a monomeric mixture comprising an aromatic vinyl monomer and a monomer having cyclohexyl ring; a trifunctional HMDI isocyanurate compound (B); and a polyester polyol (C) having a hydroxyl value of 250-350 mgKOH/g and a number-average molecular weight of 350-550, which is obtained by esterification reaction of C3-6 diol with dicarboxylic acid having cyclohexyl ring.
US07649049B2
Provided is a composition comprising a rubber and a polymer nano-particle comprising a poly(mono-vinyl aromatic) core and a poly(mono-vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene) surface layer, wherein the core of the polymeric nano-particle has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of between about 150° C. and about 600° C. Also provided is a composition comprising at least two (mono-vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene) copolymer rubbers and a polymeric nano-particle comprising a poly(mono-vinyl aromatic) core and a poly(mono-vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene) surface layer; wherein the core of the polymeric nano-particle has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of between about 150° C. and about 600° C., and the poly(mono-vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene) surface layer of the polymeric nano-particle comprises a mono-vinyl aromatic content that is between about 50 percent and about 150 percent that of the mono-vinyl content of one of the (mono-vinyl aromatic-conjugated diene) copolymer rubbers.
US07649045B2
Protective film forming compositions useful as medical films and other related wound care and treatment articles, including liquid bandages are prepared from emulsion polymers, including a polymer blend including at least one hard emulsion polymer component and at least one soft emulsion polymer component, having the required dynamic storage modulus and mean Tg of the hard and soft polymer blend components.
US07649043B2
A composition well suited to forming gas barrier layers in elastomeric articles is described. The barrier layer may be incorporated into, for instance, inflatable articles that are intended to contain a gas, such as air, under pressure. For example, in one embodiment, the barrier layer may be incorporated into a tire for preventing oxygen or other gaseous components from migrating through the tire. In general, the barrier layer is made from an elastomer that is combined with permeability reducing particles, such as a silicate, and a terpene hydrocarbon resin having a relatively high glass transition temperature. The terpene hydrocarbon resin can improve the processability of the composition and, in one embodiment, can even serve to improve the permeability characteristics of the barrier layer.
US07649036B2
Blended compositions and methods for the production of thermoset compositions of soy meal, which has been treated to remove non-thermoplastic materials associated with soy beans, and natural rubber. Also provided is a method for the preparation of a prepared granular soy meal by blowing a gas through a stream of granular natural soy meal to remove hulls and cellulose fiber materials which are lighter than the granular soy meal to provide the prepared granular soy meal for the compositions. The compositions are elastic and can be used in place of rubber bands and the like.
US07649029B2
The present invention features ionomer compositions containing nanozirconia fillers. The compositions can be used in a variety of dental and orthodontic applications, for example, as adhesives, cements, restoratives, coatings and sealants.
US07649019B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions, formulations and medicaments comprising a bupropion salt, in particular, modified-release tablets comprising an effective amount of bupropion hydrobromide, and the use of the bupropion salt to prepare a medicament to treat a condition.
US07649010B2
The present invention relates to a salt of carvedilol, corresponding compositions containing such a carvedilol salt or corresponding solvates thereof, and/or methods of using the aforementioned compound(s) in the treatment of certain disease states in mammals, in particular man. The present invention further relates to a novel crystalline form of carvedilol hydrobromide, which is the hydrobromide salt of 1-(carbazol-4-yloxy-3-[[2-(o-methoxyphenoxy)ethyl]amino]-2-propanol, and/or other carvedilol solvates thereof, compositions containing salts or solvates of carvedilol hydrobromide, and methods of using the aforementioned compound(s) to treat hypertension, congestive heart failure, and angina, etc.
US07649006B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein. The present invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and provides methods of treating cancer comprising administering a compound of formula (I).
US07649001B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the general formula: [wherein Ring A represents an optionally substituted 5- to 8-membered ring, Ring B represents a further optionally substituted 4- to 10-membered ring, Ring C represents a further optionally substituted benzene ring, X1 represents carbon atom, X2 represents a carbon atom, an oxygen atom, etc., W represents a nitrogen atom, etc., Y11 represents a group represented by the formula CR2R3′ (wherein R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, etc., and R3′ represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, etc., respectively), Y21 represents a group represented by the formula CR4R5′ (wherein R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, etc., and R5′ represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, etc., respectively), etc., and R1 represents an electron-withdrawing group, respectively. The formula represents a single bond or a double bond] or a salt thereof, which is useful as an androgen receptor modulator.
US07648997B2
Imidazo-containing compounds (e.g., imidazoquinolines, imidazonaphthyridines, imidazopyridines) with a hydrox-ylamine substituent at the 1-position, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.
US07648979B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein A, G and R1 to R3 are as defined in the description and claims, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases which are associated with the modulation of H3 receptors.
US07648978B2
The present invention provides compounds having formula (I) or (II): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, wherein m, p, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein, and additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of any of a number of diseases, disorders or conditions associated with HGF/SF or other cytokine activity.
US07648965B2
A method of inducing bone formation in a subject in need of such inducement comprises the steps of mechanically inducing an increase in osteoblast activity in the subject and elevating blood concentration of at least one bone anabolic agent in the subject. The method steps may be performed in any order, but in sufficient time proximity that the elevated concentration of the anabolic agent and the mechanically induced increase in osteoblast activity overlaps. The method may additionally comprise providing the subject with an elevated blood concentration of at least one antiresorptive agent, wherein the elevated concentration is sufficient to prevent resorption of new bone growth produced due to the osteoblast activity. Use of the method permits targeting of specific bones of the subject for bone production and preservation, faster bone production and earlier discontinuation of bone anabolic pharmaceuticals. Kits adapted for performing the method are provided.
US07648954B2
The present invention concerns substituted benzylic nitriles substituted with lower linear alkyl or alkylene groups. These compounds are useful perfuming ingredients, and can impart odor notes of the floral-green type. The invention concerns also the perfuming compositions or perfumed articles associated with the compound.
US07648948B2
The invention relates to compositions suitable as additive packages for lubricants and other functional fluids, the composition comprising sulfur-containing extreme pressure components, phosphorus-containing anti-wear additives, a triazole-containing species. A preferred use is in industrial gear oils. In embodiments, enhance protection in the areas of bearing wear and micropitting are obtained.
US07648931B2
The present invention relates to a sealing glass composition that excludes Pb, i.e., an environmentally harmful material, and a flat panel display apparatus using the same. A sealing glass composition of the present invention comprises Sb2O3 of 20 mol % to 50 mol %, B2O3 of 30 mol % to 70 mol %, SiO2 of 5 mol % to 15 mol % and Al2O3 of 0 mol % to 15 mol %. The flat display apparatus of the present invention has a front panel and a rear panel, which are combined together with a sealing glass composition with a predetermined distance therebetween.
US07648926B2
A method of forming (and an apparatus for forming) a metal oxide layer on a substrate, particularly a semiconductor substrate or substrate assembly, using a vapor deposition process and one or more precursor compounds that include diketonate ligands and/or ketoimine ligands.
US07648919B2
A method for defining patterns in an integrated circuit comprises defining a plurality of features in a first photoresist layer using photolithography over a first region of a substrate. The method further comprises using pitch multiplication to produce at least two features in a lower masking layer for each feature in the photoresist layer. The features in the lower masking layer include looped ends. The method further comprises covering with a second photoresist layer a second region of the substrate including the looped ends in the lower masking layer. The method further comprises etching a pattern of trenches in the substrate through the features in the lower masking layer without etching in the second region. The trenches have a trench width.
US07648915B2
Some embodiments include methods of recessing multiple materials to a common depth utilizing etchant comprising C4F6 and C4F8. The recessed materials may be within isolation regions, and the recessing may be utilized to form trenches for receiving gatelines. Some embodiments include structures having an island of semiconductor material laterally surrounded by electrically insulative material. Two gatelines extend across the insulative material and across the island of semiconductor material. One of the gatelines is recessed deeper into the electrically insulative material than the other.
US07648911B2
A semiconductor die has a first insulating material disposed around a periphery of the die. A portion of the first insulating material is removed to form a through hole via (THV). Conductive material is deposited in the THV. A second insulating layer is formed over an active surface of the die. A first passive circuit element is formed over the second insulating layer. A first passive via is formed over the THV. The first passive via is electrically connected to the conductive material in the THV. The first passive circuit element is electrically connected to the first passive via. A third insulating layer is formed over the first passive circuit element. A second passive circuit element is formed over the third insulating layer. A fourth insulating layer is formed over the second passive circuit element. A plurality of semiconductor die is stacked and electrically interconnected by the conductive via.
US07648903B2
A semiconductor die includes a plurality of drivers and a plurality of bonding pads. Each driver is formed by a plurality of interconnected modules and has an associated bonding pad to which at least one of the modules of the driver is electrically connected. The modules of some of the drivers are positioned outside of the associated bonding pad toward a periphery of the die. The bonding pads may be arranged, for example, in a double- or triple-staggered pattern around the periphery of the die.
US07648898B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device comprises depositing a first layer of oxide on at least a portion of a channel of a transistor. The method further comprises depositing a layer of nitride on the first layer of oxide and etching at least a portion of the layer of nitride to the first layer of oxide. The method further comprises depositing a second layer of oxide and planarizing the oxide to expose at least a portion of the layer of nitride. The method further comprises stripping at least a portion of the layer of nitride to create one or more notches and removing at least a portion of the first layer of oxide. The method further comprises depositing a layer of polysilicon, wherein at least a portion of the layer of polysilicon is deposited into at least one of the one or more notches.
US07648895B2
A vertical CVD apparatus is arranged to process a plurality of target substrates all together to form a silicon germanium film. The apparatus includes a reaction container having a process field configured to accommodate the target substrates, and a common supply system configured to supply a mixture gas into the process field. The mixture gas includes a first process gas of a silane family and a second process gas of a germane family. The common supply system includes a plurality of supply ports disposed at different heights.
US07648886B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) utilizes a shallow trench isolation (STI) technique. The shallow trench isolation technique is used in strained silicon (SMOS) process. The liner for the trench is formed to in a low temperature process which reduces germanium outgassing. The low temperature process can be a UVO, ALD, CVD, PECVD, or HDP process.
US07648881B2
A non-volatile memory device comprises a cell region defined at a substrate and a plurality of device isolation layers formed in the cell region to define a plurality of active regions. A charge storage insulator covers substantially the entire top surface of the cell region. A plurality of gate lines are formed on the charge storage insulator that cross over the device isolation layers. Conductive patterns are disposed between predetermined gate lines that penetrate the charge storage insulator to electrically connect with the active regions. According to the method of fabricating the device, a plurality of device isolation layers are formed in the substrate and then a charge storage insulator is formed on an entire surface of the substrate and the device isolation layers. A plurality of parallel gate lines that cross over the device isolation layers are formed on the charge storage insulator and then conductive patterns are formed between predetermined gate lines. The conductive patterns penetrate the charge storage insulator and electrically connect with the active regions.
US07648879B2
A high-voltage transistor includes first and second trenches that define a mesa in a semiconductor substrate. First and second field plate members are respectively disposed in the first and second trenches, with each of the first and second field plate members being separated from the mesa by a dielectric layer. The mesa includes a plurality of sections, each section having a substantially constant doping concentration gradient, the gradient of one section being at least 10% greater than the gradient of another section. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07648872B2
Methods of etching into silicon oxide-containing material with an etching ambient having at least 75 volume percent helium. The etching ambient may also include carbon monoxide, O2 and one or more fluorocarbons. The openings formed in the silicon oxide-containing material may be utilized for fabrication of container capacitors, and such capacitors may be incorporated into DRAM.
US07648866B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a driving-device for a unit pixel of an organic light emitting display having an improved manufacturing process in which the driving device can be manufactured with a smaller number of processes and in simpler processes. The method includes: forming an amorphous silicon layer including a first amorphous region and a second amorphous region disposed on the same plane of a substrate; forming an SAM (self-assembled monolayer) having a hydrophobic property on the first amorphous region; coating an aqueous solution in which nickel particles are dispersed, on the second amorphous region and the SAM, wherein a larger amount of nickel particles than on the SAM are dispersed on the second amorphous region using a hydrophilicity difference between the second amorphous region and the SAM; vaporizing the SAM through an annealing process and simultaneously performing metal induced crystallization in which the nanoparticles are used as a medium, to crystallize the first and second amorphous regions and to form first and second crystallization regions; patterning the first and second crystallization regions to form first and second channel regions; and forming first and second electrodes on the first and second channel regions.
US07648863B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device which can decrease the degradation of an element due to plasma in the LDD formation process is provided. The degradation of an element due to plasma is decreased by forming an element having an LDD structure according to a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device using a hard mask. Covering the substrate by an electrically conductive film allover, the density of electric charge accumulated in a gate electrode in the plasma process such as anisotropic etching can be reduced, and the degradation due to plasma process can be reduced.
US07648857B2
The present invention provides a process for manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) package and an integrated circuit (IC) package. The process, without limitation, includes providing an integrated circuit chip having a configuration, and forming a layer of overcoat material over the integrated circuit chip based upon the configuration.
US07648850B2
A method for producing many semiconductor chips, each having a semiconductor circuit disposed on the face thereof and a die bonding film stuck to the back thereof, from a semiconductor wafer in which many rectangular regions are defined on its face by streets arranged in a lattice pattern, and the semiconductor circuit is disposed in each of the rectangular regions. The method comprises: a groove formation step of forming grooves of a predetermined depth along the streets on the face of the semiconductor wafer; a protective film sticking step of sticking a protective film to the face of the semiconductor wafer, where the grooves have been formed; a division step of grinding the back of the semiconductor wafer to render the thickness of the semiconductor wafer equal to or smaller than the depth of the groove, thereby dividing the rectangular regions individually; a die bonding film/holding film sticking step of sticking a die bonding film and a holding film, in this order, to the ground back of the semiconductor wafer; a protective film peeling step of peeling the protective film from the face of the semiconductor wafer; a spacing increasing step of stretching the holding film to increase spacing between the individually divided rectangular regions; and a die bonding film cutting step of irradiating the die bonding film with a laser beam from the face side of the semiconductor wafer through the clearance between the rectangular regions to cut the die bonding film along the clearance between the rectangular regions.
US07648846B2
An active matrix substrate including a substrate, a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of driving lines, an electron static discharge (ESD) protection circuit and a floating line is provided. The substrate has an active region and a peripheral region connected with the active region. The pixel units are arranged in a matrix in the active region. The driving lines electrically connected to the pixels are disposed in the active region and the peripheral region. The ESD protection circuit and the floating line are disposed in the peripheral region of the substrate. The ESD protection circuit is electrically connected to the driving lines. The ESD protection circuit includes an outer short ring (OSR) and an inner short ring (ISR) disposed between the pixel units and the OSR. The floating line is located beside the outer driving line.
US07648837B2
A method for determining oxidation stability for a plurality of different lubricating oil composition samples is provided. The methods can advantageously be optimized using combinatorial chemistry, in which a database of combinations of lubricating oil compositions is generated. As market conditions vary and/or product requirements or customer specifications change, conditions suitable for forming desired products can be identified with little or no downtime.
US07648831B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a process for protection of enzymatic biocatalysts, constituted by a primary support, wrapped by a secondary matrix. More particularly, the invention is embodied as a bioreactor with a configuration that preserves the physical integrity and catalytic activity of the biocatalyst after long runs, and at the same time allows an easy separation of the protected biocatalyst from the solid, precipitated during the reaction course. Still more particularly, the invention refers to the use of the bioreactor herein described for the enzymatic synthesis of β-lactam antibiotics, including the insoluble enzymatic catalysts, which have a primary matrix for immobilization involved by a secondary matrix, which is able to preserve 100% of the catalyst physical integrity and approximately 100% of its catalytic activity.
US07648821B2
A multiple layer photosensitive element having at least three differently sensitised photosensitive layers on one side of a support, such as a, transparent flexible support, is imagewise exposed according to a desired circuit pattern and developed to form two layers of conductive track patterns from each photosensitive layer, which may then be connected together by forming vias by drilling or in situ generation. The resulting multiple layer conductive element has application in the field of printed circuit board manufacture or as the backplane electronic element of a flexible display device.
US07648820B2
Antireflective hardmask compositions and techniques for the use of antireflective hardmask compositions for processing of semiconductor devices are provided. In one aspect of the invention, an antireflective hardmask layer for lithography is provided. The antireflective hardmask layer comprises a carbosilane polymer backbone comprising at least one chromophore moiety and at least one transparent moiety; and a crosslinking component. In another aspect of the invention, a method for processing a semiconductor device is provided. The method comprises the steps of: providing a material layer on a substrate; forming an antireflective hardmask layer over the material layer. The antireflective hardmask layer comprises a carbosilane polymer backbone comprising at least one chromophore moiety and at least one transparent moiety; and a crosslinking component.
US07648814B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a black paste composition suitable for use in laser direct imaging devices employing a light source emitting a laser having a maximum wavelength of 350 to 420 nm, useful in forming a high-definition black matrix pattern efficiently, and superior in storage stability, a black matrix pattern formed by using the composition, a plasma display having the pattern, and a method of forming the black matrix pattern by using the composition. An alkali development-type black paste composition of the present invention comprises (A) a carboxyl group-containing resin, (B) a glass frit, (C) a black pigment, (D) a compound having at least one radically polymerizable unsaturated group in its molecule, and (E-1) an oxime-based photopolymerization initiator represented by the following general formula (I).
US07648812B2
A toner is provided including a binder resin; a release agent; a colorant; and a fatty acid amide compound, wherein the binder resin includes: an amorphous polyester (A) having a softening point of from 70 to 140° C.; an amorphous polyester (B) having a softening point of from 120 to 190° C.; and a crystalline polyester (C), and wherein the following relationship is satisfied: TmC
US07648805B2
Lithography masks and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. A preferred embodiment includes a method of generating an assist feature of a lithography mask. The method includes providing a layout for a material layer of a semiconductor device, the layout including a pattern for at least one feature of the semiconductor device. The method includes forming an assist feature in the pattern for the at least one feature, wherein the assist feature extends completely through the pattern for the at least one feature.
US07648804B2
A mask including a transparent substrate, a semi-transparent layer and a film layer is provided. The transparent substrate at least has a first region, a second region and a third region. The semi-transparent layer covers the second region and the third region of the transparent substrate and exposes the first region. The film layer covers the halftone layer disposed at the third region, to make the transmittance of the third region lower than that of the second region. The halftone layer and the film can be made of phase shift layers, to form a phase shift mask. Besides, several fabrication methods of the mask are also disclosed to form the above-mentioned mask.
US07648800B1
The present invention enables to obtain both of a cycle characteristic and a high load characteristic. The present invention discloses a positive electrode active material containing lithium composite manganese oxide having a spinel structure for a non-aqueous electrolyte cell and a non-aqueous electrolyte cell using this material. The lithium composite manganese oxide having spinel structure has its primary particle diameter not less than 0.05 μm and not greater than 10 μm, forming an aggregate, and a specific surface measured by the BET method in a range not less than 0.2 m2/g and not greater than 2 m2/g.
US07648798B2
A battery having an anode including an alkali metal as the active material, a cathode having, for example, iron disulfide as the active material, and an electrolyte including an organic solvent and an aluminum salt selected from the group consisting of aluminum iodide and aluminum tri(sec-butoxide).
US07648797B2
An integral cap assembly comprising a top cap mounted as a base plate to an opening of a battery can and a cap subassembly including a protective circuit module and the like integrally mounted on the top cap, a method for manufacturing a secondary battery comprising the same, and a secondary battery manufactured thereby are disclosed. The cap assembly is provided as an integral member comprising the top cap acting as the base plate, and the cap subassembly having the protective circuit module provided thereon, thereby simplifying a manufacturing process of the battery while minimizing frequency of defective products. Additionally, the integral cap assembly is manufactured through insert injection molding, thereby providing notable advantages over the conventional technology.
US07648776B2
A multi-layered brazing sheet with improved long life corrosion resistance achieved by balancing the Zn, Cu, Mn, Si and Mg content of the core and interliner alloy. The brazing sheet has a core of a 3xxx alloy, an inner braze cladding of a 4xxx alloy, and between core and inner braze cladding an interliner of a 3xxx alloy. The 3xxx alloy of the core has 0.55-1.0 wt % Cu, 0.7-1.8 wt % Mn, <0.3 wt % Mg, <0.4 wt % Zn. The 3xxx alloy of the interliner has <0.25 wt % Cu, 0.5-1.5 wt % Mn, <0.3 wt % Mg, 0.1-5.0 wt % Zn. A 1xxx or 7xxx alloy could be used for the interliner instead of the 3xxx alloy.
US07648773B2
To provide a thermal spray membrane contact material, contact member and contact part and an apparatus to which they are applied, showing excellent seizure resistance and wear resistance even under high surface pressure/low speed sliding, high speed/high temperature sliding, or high surface pressure/high speed sliding. In a bucket connecting apparatus connecting an arm and a bucket by a work implement connecting pin, the above-mentioned work implement connecting pin comprises a base material made of steel having an axis function and a contact surface formed of a thermal spray membrane contact material film-formed on the base material, said contact surface being placed at least on a supported surface site of the work implement connecting pin relative to a bracket and on a slipping contact surface with a work implement bushing, further, said thermal spray membrane contact material being composed of a Mo metal phase, or 10 vol % or more of a Mo metal phase and a metal phase and/or alloy phase containing one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Fe, Ni, Co, Cr, Cu and Zn.
US07648772B2
A sheet of cellulose based material having enhanced strength, particularly the dry strength, substantially unaffected repulpability is disclosed. The sheet of cellulose based materials generally includes a first cellulose based material connected with a second cellulose base material element. The first cellulose based material is formed by separating a portion of the fiber from a furnish, treating the separated portion with a cationic wet strength resin which is allowed to bond to the fiber. The treated fiber is them mixed with the untreated balance of the fiber at some point before the paper machine. The fiber that is separated may be secondary fiber, virgin fiber or combinations thereof. The second cellulose base material element is substantially free from any treatment. The second cellulose base material element may be include substantially all untreated fibers.
US07648771B2
A blended composition of unsaturated block copolymer with improved thermal stability and processing behavior includes at least one unsaturated block copolymer; and a compatibilizer selected from the group consisting of (1) high melt flow rate homopolymers or copolymers; (2) styrene-ethylenepropylene-styrene (SEPS); (3) ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA); (4) styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS), or styrene-isoprene-styrene (SIS) block copolymers; (5) single site catalyzed polyolefins, such as metallocene catalyzed and constrained geometry polyolefins; (6) amorphous poly alpha olefin homopolymer and copolymers; and (7) a combination of such.
US07648769B2
An absorbing layer of a low-E coating is designed to cause the coating to have a more bluish color at normal and/or certain off-axis viewing angles. In certain example embodiments, the metallic or substantially metallic absorbing layer (e.g., NiCr) is located in the middle section of the layer stack and has been found to unexpectedly provide desirable bluish glass side reflective color for the coated article at certain off-axis viewing angles (e.g., at a 45 degree off-axis viewing angle). In certain example embodiments, the absorbing layer is provided between first and second nitride inclusive or based layers in order to reduce or prevent oxidation thereof during heat treatment thereby permitting predictable coloration to be achieved following the heat treatment. Coated articles according to certain example embodiments of this invention may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, vehicle windows, other types of windows, or in any other suitable application.
US07648768B2
A coating includes a functional coating, such as a solar control coating having at least one metal layer. A topcoat is formed over at least a portion of the functional coating. The topcoat includes a first topcoat layer having a thickness in the range of 0.5 QWOT to 1.5 QWOT with respect to a reference wavelength of 550 nm and a first refractive index, and a second topcoat layer having a thickness in the range of 0.5 QWOT to 1.5 QWOT with respect to a reference wavelength of 550 nm and a second refractive index different from the first refractive index.
US07648764B2
An improved two-piece container seal suitable for sealing a container having a removable closure and for lining the closure comprises a flexible sealant sheet and a flexible liner sheet bonded thereto. The sealant sheet and liner sheet are of the same size and shape. The sealant sheet has a sealing surface and a first thermoplastic surface, and the liner sheet has an outer surface and a second thermoplastic surface. The first and second thermoplastic surfaces are in opposed, congruent contact with each other, and the first thermoplastic surface is ultrasonically welded to the second thermoplastic surface by an array of spaced, frangible ultrasonic welds, forming an adhesive-free interface therebetween. A method of manufacturing a two-piece container seal and a sealed container comprising a two-piece container seal are also described.
US07648753B2
A vehicle panel includes a care layer and a reinforcement layer positioned on one or both sides of the core layer. The core layer is made of a material with heat absorption or insulation properties, such as polypropylene, and the like. The reinforcement layer is comprised of fiberglass strands intermingled with a polymer to form a blended composition having a density in a range between about 50 and 200 g/m2. The vehicle panel may also include an adhesive layer between a cover material and the reinforcement layer on one side of the core layer. The vehicle panel may also include a scrim material adjacent the reinforcement layer on the opposite side of the core layer. The reinforcement layer provides dimensional stability to the vehicle panel, while reducing the overall weight and thickness of the vehicle panel as compared to conventional vehicle panels.
US07648746B2
An ink jet recording paper capable of compatible with high speed ink jet printers is provided. By using, as a fiber material, mercerized pulp obtained by applying an alkali treatment to pulp, an ink jet recording paper of high ink absorption speed and high ink coloring density is formed. Since the paper itself has excellent ink absorption speed, there is no requirement for applying coating for improving the ink absorption and it can be used as non-coated type ink jet recording paper.
US07648744B2
A tamper-indicating printable sheet. A preferred embodiment of the invention provides a tamper-indicating printable sheet comprising a retroreflective layer comprising a plurality of microbeads partially embedded in an inkjet receptive beadbond layer; and a reflector layer between one of the microbeads and the inkjet receptive beadbond layer. The present invention provides a method of making a tamper-indicating printable sheet.
US07648742B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula (I), wherein a, b, c, d, e, R1, R2, A1, A2, A3, A4, Y1, Y2, Y3, Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4 and are such as defined in claim 1, to a method for the production thereof, intermediates for the production and the thereof in the form of components in liquid crystalline media and to electrooptic display elements containing said liquid crystalline media.
US07648735B2
A composition, a medical implant constructed from the composition, and a method of making the composition are described. The composition is a composite material, comprising a porous, reticulated, open cell network having at least part of its surface coated with blue-black or black oxidized zirconium.
US07648728B2
A method for producing a calcium phosphate bone filler by preparing a mixed liquid comprising a calcium solution and a phosphoric acid solution in such a manner that a substrate of calcium phosphate exists in the mixed liquid, thereby precipitating calcium phosphate on the substrate to form a coating layer, and heat-treating the resultant composite comprising the substrate and the coating layer.
US07648722B2
A ready-to-eat cereal that is capable of changing color upon immersion into an aqueous medium such as milk. The cereal base has a non-dispersible first color. The cereal base has a coating comprising cornstarch, powdered sugar, and optionally food coloring. The coating is of a second color different from the first color and is in a quantity sufficient to obscure the first color. Preferably, glycerine is used to adhere the coating to the cereal base.Two methods of making the ready-to-eat cereal of the invention are also provided.
US07648720B2
A delivery system and method for delivering soluble dietary fibers in a chewable tablet form which is palatable and demonstrates a high degree of consumer acceptability.
US07648718B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising an extract of crude drug complex comprising Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer, Acanthopanax senticosus HARMS, Angelica sinensis DIELS, Scutellaria baicalensis GEORGI, prevention and treatment of stroke and neurodegenerative diseases such apoplexy, Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Pick's disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and senile dementia.
US07648716B2
An anti-microbial composition for providing a therapeutic application onto a living being. The composition includes from about 0.001 wt. % to about 0.20 wt. % chlorite compound and from about 0.001 wt. % to about 0.05 wt. % peroxy compound. The anti-microbial composition of the present invention is composed to remain intact without being degraded to generate chlorine dioxide during storage at about a room temperature. The anti-microbial composition of the present invention is at a pH range between about 6.0 and about 8.8.
US07648711B2
A sustained release formulation by using dimeticone as the dispersion medium, which includes active ingredient (e.g., drugs against parasites, insecticides, NSAIDs, antibiotics, sex hormone like agents or oily soluble vitamins) and dimeticone as the medium. Suitable stabilizer, antioxidant, local analgesics and material for sustained release may be added. The formulation is bio-compatible, stable and injectable.
US07648708B2
Protein antigens from Streptococcus pneumoniae are disclosed, together with nucleic acid sequences encoding them. Their use in vaccines and in screening methods is also described.
US07648698B2
The present invention relates to a novel vaccine, its use for immunoprophylaxis and/or the treatment of candidamycoses in human and veterinary medicine as well as methods for its preparation, wherein said vaccine consists of the combination of the Candida strains a1) Candida albicans CCM 8355 a2) Candida glabrata CCM 8356 a3) Candida krusei CCM 8357 and a4) an immunomudulating Propionibacterium acnes strain, and optionally pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, such as carriers, wherein the ratio of the components a1-a4 in the end product is a1:a2:a3:a4 is 10-20:10-20:10-20:40-70.
US07648689B2
The invention is to provide a process for industrially advantageously producing InP fine particles having a nano-meter size efficiently in a short period of time and an InP fine particle dispersion, and there are provided a process for the production of InP fine particles by reacting an In raw material containing two or more In compounds with a P raw material containing at least one P compound in a solvent wherein the process uses, as said two or more In compounds, at least one first In compound having a group that reacts with a functional group of P compound having a P atom adjacent to an In atom to be eliminated with the functional group in the formation of an In-P bond and at least one second In compound having a lower electron density of In atom in the compound than said first In compound and Lewis base solvent as said solvent, and InP fine particles obtained by the process.
US07648686B2
A catalytic reactor including a heat exchanger and a method are provided for transferring heat to a coolant and a reaction fluid. The catalytic reactor includes a reaction fluid flow path, a reaction region, and a coolant flow path. A reaction fluid catalytically reacts at a surface area in the reaction region thereby generating heat. The heat is transferred to a coolant and the reaction fluid based on the coolant and reaction fluid convective heat transfer coefficients respectively. In one embodiment, the ratio of the coolant convective heat transfer coefficient to the reaction fluid heat transfer coefficient is at least 5:1.
US07648674B2
A single treatment compartment has a liquid metal inlet and outlet and a connection to a liquid metal-input trough. A treatment gas is injected into the liquid metal arranged in at least one sidewall of a ladles. The liquid metal inlet and outlet have an orifice positioned so as to be entirely underneath a level of the liquid metal during the treatment, in order to prevent entry of ambient air into the compartment during treatment. The treatment compartment includes an upstream part and a downstream part. The gas injection is accomplished in the upstream part. The compartment further has a filter located in the downstream part for degassing and filtering the liquid metal. Injection and filtration occur in close proximity to one another and within the same single treatment compartment.
US07648665B2
The present invention relates to a substrate-supported process for continuous and automated manufacturing of microfibrous fuel cells and other electrochemical cells. Specifically, a removable substrate layer is formed around an inner current collector, followed by sequentially coating multiple structure layers, such as the inner catalyst layer, the membrane separator, and the outer catalyst layer, over such removable substrate layer, and subsequent removing such removable substrate layer, so as to form a lumen around the inner current collector, to allow passage of fluid therethrough. The removable substrate layer preferably comprises a water-soluble polymer, such as polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), or polyethylene glycol (PEG).
US07648656B2
The invention is directed to a silver-containing polarizing boroaluminosilicate glass composition that has been doped with a noble metal selected from the group consisting of Pt, Pd, Os, Ir, Rh and Ru, including mixtures thereof, to nucleate and precipitate silver ions to silver metal without the need for a reducing atmosphere step. The invention is further directed to a method for making the glass composition of the invention. Using the composition and method of the invention, one can prepare a glass having a selected null transmission range.
US07648655B2
The black bus electrode of plasma display panel is formed from a conductive composition comprising a conductive powder, glass powder, organic binder, organic solvent, and black pigment, wherein the conductive powder is coated with metal selected from the group of Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt and Au.
US07648647B2
The invention is generally related to a polymer/liquid crystal composite, which includes a liquid crystal material which exhibits an optically isotropic liquid crystal phase in the temperature range of approximately 5° C. or more in the elevated temperature process but does not exhibit a nematic phase; and a polymer, and which is used for an element driven in a state of the optically isotropic liquid crystal phase.
US07648639B2
A method for separating a volume of a composite liquid into at least a first component and a second component is performed in a centrifuge cooperating with a separation bag containing the volume of composite liquid. The separation bag is connected to at least a first component bag and a second component bag. The separation bag is spun so as to centrifuge the volume of composite liquid and cause the sedimentation of the at least first and second components. When the at least first and second components have sedimented, the first component is transferred at least one first transfer flow rate into the first component bag. When the first component has been transferred into the first component bag, the second component is transferred into the intermediate component bag at least one second transfer flow rate that is different from the at least one first transfer flow rate.
US07648638B2
A method and apparatus for treating wastewater. The apparatus comprises a reactor having a flow channel generally centrally located in a reactor and immersed in the water or wastewater in the reactor. An agitator is disposed within the flow channel and induces water or wastewater to enter the open upper end thereof and to move downwardly through the flow channel where the water or wastewater is discharged via a flow divider. A reagent is injected into the water or wastewater and the agitator within the flow channel serves to mix the reagent with the water or wastewater passing therethrough and in the process causes at least a slightly turbulent and downward axial flow through the flow channel.
US07648629B2
A portable filtration device filters water from a body of water within which the device can be buoyantly supported. The device generally comprises an inflatable floatation chamber arranged to support the device to float on the body of water and a filtration housing arranged to be suspended from the floating chamber in the body of water. The filtration housing has an inlet, an outlet, and a filtration medium arranged to filter water passing therethrough from the inlet to the outlet. The inlet is arranged for communication with the body of water and the outlet is arranged for communication with a filtered water reservoir for providing potable water to the reservoir.
US07648628B2
Water represents an important resource in an aircraft. In modern aircraft, sufficient water reserves are carried along in designated tanks that are regularly refilled by ground personnel. One embodiment relates to a water treatment system for aircraft that may make it possible to treat a gray water/black water mixture accumulated on board of an aircraft during its operation in sufficient quantity and quality for use in a downstream reformer. This means that the water circuit within the aircraft is closed and costly water tanks are eliminated.
US07648624B2
An oxygen sensor has a laminated body with a fluid sample inlet end and an electrical contact end, a fluid sample inlet, a substantially flat test chamber communicating with the fluid sample inlet where the test chamber is adapted to collect a fluid sample through the sample fluid inlet, a working electrode and a reference electrode within the test chamber, and a reagent matrix disposed on the working electrode where the reagent matrix contains an oxidase, a reduced form of a redox mediator and a peroxidase.
US07648612B2
A web of tissue is formed in a twin wire former, followed by an air press for water removal in the pressing section, passing onto a Yankee dryer. A headbox injects stock between upper and lower dryer fabrics brought together on a breast roll. The fabrics moves over vacuum boxes, and the web is heated with steam and passed between an upper pressure box and a lower vacuum box forming an air press which dewaters the web. A sheet transfer pickup vacuum box holds the sheet to the upper fabric as the lower fabric diverges from the upper fabric. A pressure roller transfers the web onto a Yankee dryer. The fabrics are cleaned on vertical runs before returning to the breast roll. A final forming fabric is arranged to operated at a lower speed than the penultimate forming fabric so that a rush transfer and creping like action takes place.
US07648610B2
The present invention provides a gas process apparatus that realizes uniform exhaust without depending on process conditions, a gas process chamber that constitutes the gas process apparatus, a baffle plate mounted on the gas process chamber, a method of producing the baffle plate, and an apparatus for producing the baffle plate. The baffle plate of the present invention serves as a partition between a process space in which a chemical process is carried out with a supplied gas, and a duct that is adjacent to the process space and functions to discharge exhaust gas generated as a result of the chemical process. In accordance with the difference between the pressures on both sides of the baffle plate, which difference varies depending on the location on the baffle plate, the baffle holes are disposed on a plurality of locations on the baffle plate.
US07648602B1
A method for chemically neutralizing a nitroarene explosive uses a nitroarene hypergol having an α,ω-amine and an accelerant that is applied to the explosive composition to cause ignition of the explosive composition. The method may be used to neutralize active mines.
US07648590B2
A stent that is at least partially formed of a novel metal alloy, which novel metal alloy improves the physical properties of the stent.
US07648587B2
A steel product for a line pipe according to the invention has a composition containing, in mass %, C : 0.03% to 0.15%, Si: 0.05% to 1.0%, Mn: 0.5% to 1.8%, P: 0.015% or less, S: 0.004% or less, O: 0.01% or less, N: 0.007% or less, sol. Al: 0.01% to 0.1%, Ti: 0.024% or less, Ca: 0.0003% to 0.02%, and the balance consisting of Fe and impurities. The size of TiN in the steel product for a line pipe is at most 30 μm. The steel product has high HIC resistance and its crack area ratio can be reduced to 3% or less.
US07648586B2
In a surface layer of an ultra-low carbon stainless steel comprising a seal function layer in the surface layer, an ion such as a nitrogen ion is implanted to form the seal function layer. Since the ultra-low carbon stainless steel comprising the seal function layer is excellent in elasticity, sealing properties, peelability and abrasion resistance, it can make a seal material which has been used unnecessary, and can realize all stainless-made products such as seal and joint system parts.
US07648579B2
A substrate support system comprises a substrate holder having a plurality of passages extending between top and bottom surfaces thereof. The substrate holder supports a peripheral portion of the substrate backside so that a thin gap is formed between the substrate and the substrate holder. A hollow support member provides support to an underside of, and is configured to convey gas upward into one or more of the passages of, the substrate holder. The upwardly conveyed gas flows into the gap between the substrate and the substrate holder. Depending upon the embodiment, the gas then flows either outward and upward around the substrate edge (to inhibit backside deposition of reactant gases above the substrate) or downward through passages of the substrate holder, if any, that do not lead back into the hollow support member (to inhibit autodoping by sweeping out-diffused dopant atoms away from the substrate backside).
US07648568B2
A gas storage system that stores a gas by cryo-adsorption on high surface materials. The gas storage system includes an outer container having insulated walls and a plurality of pressure vessels disposed therein. Each of the pressure vessels includes a high surface material. A manifold assembly distributes the gas under pressure to the pressure vessels where the gas is adsorbed by cryo-adsorption using the high surface materials. A cooling fluid is provided within voids between the pressure vessels to remove heat as the pressure vessels are being filled with the gas.
US07648565B2
A filter element (102) comprising a filter media (106) and a membrane (114). The filter media (106) filters impurities (e.g., water and/or contaminants) from a liquid (e.g., a liquid fuel initially containing impurities) as the liquid passes from the inlet side (110) to the outlet side (112) of the filter element (102). The membrane (114) is permeable to air and impermeable to the liquid and the impurities. The membrane (114) is positioned to provide a bypass from the inlet side (110) to the outlet side (112) of the filter element whereby air intermixed with the fluid will not accumulate on the inlet side (110) of the filter element (102).
US07648564B2
An air bypass system for a gas turbine inlet filter house having a power augmentation system. The air bypass system may include a duct positioned on the inlet filter house about the power augmentation system and a damper positioned within the duct so as to open and close the duct.
US07648548B2
Disclosed are ceramic articles, which in one aspect are composed predominately of a cordierite having a composition close to that of Mg2Al4Si5O18. The ceramic articles possess a microstructure characterized by a unique combination of relatively high porosity and relatively narrow pore size distribution, both as measured by mercury porosimetry, that render the ceramic structure useful for ceramic filter applications requiring high thermal durability and high filtration efficiency coupled with low pressure drop along the length of the filter. Such ceramic bodies are particularly well suited for filtration applications, such as diesel exhaust filters or DPFs. Also disclosed are methods for the manufacture of the ceramic articles described herein.
US07648547B2
A honeycomb filter for purifying exhaust gases that is free from occurrence of cracks and coming-off of plugs and is superior in durability upon its use. The honeycomb filter includes a columnar body made of porous ceramics, which has a number of through holes placed in parallel with one another in the length direction with wall portion interposed therebetween, designed so that predetermined of the through holes are filled with plugs at one end of the columnar body, while the through holes not filled with the plugs at the one end are filled with plugs at the other end of the columnar body, and part of or the entire wall portion functions as a plug for collecting particles. A bending strength Fα (MPa) of the honeycomb filter and a length L (mm) of the plug in the length direction of the through hole satisfy the relationship of Fα×L≧30.
US07648531B2
The invention relates to an inlay which is suitable for an endoprosthesis, in particular a joint prosthesis. This inlay essentially comprises a flexible pad 5, a first flexible membrane 2 resting on the pad, and a second membrane 3, extending parallel to and above said membrane, in which support elements 5 are clipped. The support elements 4 rest with their undersides 4e on the first membrane 2, and with their surfaces 4a form a sliding and bearing surface for the joint head which is to be connected to the bone. The pad 5, composed of a liquid or gel-like medium, is situated in a well 1, and the two membranes 2 and 3 are fixed to the lateral walls 1a of the well by means of screws 6 and nuts 7.
US07648525B2
There is disclosed a stent delivery system includes a first cylindrical member capable of being inserted into a forceps channel of an endoscope and including a through hole having a central axis; a second cylindrical member inserted into the through hole of the first cylindrical member and capable of advancing/retreating with respect to the first cylindrical member, the second cylindrical member including a holding mechanism which holds a relative position of the second cylindrical member with respect to the forceps channel of the endoscope, and a stent which is attached between the first and second cylindrical members in a state where a diameter of the stent is reduced by the first cylindrical member and which expands when the first cylindrical member is removed.
US07648524B2
An anchor for fixing a ligament or tendon replacement in a bore formed in a bone has two parts. A first partially cylindrical part has a semi-circular bore therethrough extending along an axis. The bore tapers conically inwardly with respect to the axis from a larger radius at a first end to a smaller radius at second end. The outer surface of the partially cylindrical part is spaced at a constant radius from the axis between the first and second ends. The first and second parts have side walls formed between the bore and the outer surface which walls extend along a plane which forms an angle with respect to the central axis. When the two parts are engaged along their side wails and slide with respect to the axis the outer diameter of the two parts enlarges.
US07648519B2
A surgical instrument that includes an instrument shaft having proximal and distal ends, a tool disposed from the distal end of the instrument shaft, a control handle disposed from the proximal end of the instrument shaft, a distal motion member for coupling the distal end of the instrument shaft to the tool, a proximal motion member for coupling the proximal end of the instrument shaft to the handle, actuation means extending between the distal and proximal motion members for coupling motion of the proximal motion member to the distal motion member for controlling the positioning of the tool and a locking mechanism for fixing the position of the tool at a selected position and having locked and unlocked states.
US07648513B2
The invention is directed to manipulator assembly (2) for holding and manipulating a surgical instrument (14) in a telerobotic system. The assembly comprises a base (6) fixable by passive or power driven positioning devices to a surface, such as an operating table, and an instrument holder (4) movably mounted on the base. The instrument holder comprises a chassis (6) and an instrument support (70) movably mounted on the body and having an interface engageable with the surgical instrument to releasably mount the instrument to the instrument holder. A drive assembly (7) is operatively coupled to the instrument holder for providing the instrument with at least two degrees of freedom. The instrument holder is separable from the base and the drive assembly so that the holder can be sterilized. The assembly further includes a force sensing element (52) mounted distal to the holder and the drive assembly for detecting forces exerted on the surgical instrument and providing feedback to the surgeon. The assembly is attached to a remote center positioner (300) for constraining the instrument to rotate a point coincident with the entry incision and an inclinometer (350) for preventing gravitational forces acting on the system's mechanisms from being felt by the surgeon.
US07648506B2
A medical inserter tool is provided for introducing medical implants into a surgical site, preferably using minimally invasive techniques. The inserter tool can have a variety of configurations, but in general, the inserter tool should be effective to engage and manipulate the implant into two or more positions. In an exemplary embodiment, the tool includes an elongate shaft having proximal and distal ends and defining a longitudinal axis extending therebetween, and a pivoting element that is coupled to the distal end of the shaft and that is adapted to engage a spinal implant. In use, the pivoting element is movable between first and second positions to allow an implant to be introduced through a percutaneous access device in a lengthwise orientation, and to be manipulated subcutaneously to be positioned in a desired orientation.
US07648493B2
The present invention provides a vascular insertion sheath with collapsible penetration locators. The collapsible penetration locators provide the insertion sheath with a small outer diameter and the added functionality of precise location indicator. The collapsible penetration locators comprise thin membranes that collapse upon insertion of a sealing device or vascular instrument into the insertion sheath. The insertion sheath includes a reinforced wall according to some embodiments, with a coiled or braided filament for reinforcement.
US07648491B2
Disclosed is a fluid transfer system for transferring a substance from one vessel to another vessel while avoiding leakage of liquid and gas contaminants. The transfer system includes a needle safe design that is facilitated by a housing that shrouds a tip of a fluid transfer cannula such that the cannula tip is not exposed for inadvertent puncture. This feature may also be enhanced by use of a blunt tipped cannula. The fluid transfer system permits multiple access by enabling the easy swabbing of a septum prior to use.
US07648476B2
A blood treatment apparatus includes a controller and a supervisor, which together monitor various sensors. The controller is equipped with a first alarm system and the supervisor is equipped with a second alarm system. To avoid competition between both alarm systems, the alarm system of the supervisor normally remains mute. A function monitoring device monitors the function of the first alarm system and signals a missing alarm to the supervisor. Only in this case will the second alarm system of the supervisor be activated.
US07648475B2
A non-invasive device for measuring blood temperature in a circuit for the extracorporeal circulation of blood includes a line in which blood taken from a patient flows. The device also includes a temperature sensor connected to the line and provided with a device for measuring the intensity of an electromagnetic radiation. The measuring device faces a connecting portion or window of the line that is permeable by electromagnetic radiation in a first wave band, and generates a first signal, correlated with the electromagnetic radiation in the first band and therefore with the temperature of the blood flowing in the line.
US07648472B2
The pneumatic Achilles sleeve assembly comprises a sleeve and at least one strap for fastening the sleeve around the ankle. The sleeve assembly positions an arch cell which contains a dynamic volume of air within the sleeve under a human foot. The arch cell is fabricated from a flexible material and is in communication with a conduit member. Upon application of external pressure to the arch cell, air is expelled from said air cell through said conduit member. The sleeve assembly also positions a tendon cell which contains a dynamic volume of air within the sleeve against the Achilles tendon. The tendon cell is in communication with the arch cell via the conduit member. The tendon cell is also fabricated from a flexible material. Upon the expelling of air from said arch cell, the air enters through the conduit member into the tendon cell which exerts a greater pressure against the Achilles tendon.
US07648461B2
A three-dimensional ultrasound imaging system color user interface generates a volumetrically-rendered ultrasound image. The ultrasound image is manipulable using three-dimensional image compositing functions. The interface presents to the user three-dimensional image controls for controlling the ultrasound image. The three-dimensional image controls have an operational similarity to two-dimensional image controls for controlling a two-dimensional ultrasound image. The interface further relates the three-dimensional ultrasound image controls to the plurality of three-dimensional image compositing functions for manipulating the ultrasound images. Additionally, the interface presents to the user a three-dimensional color image control for controllably manipulating the ultrasound image using three-dimensional image using compositing functions such as a color flow mapping function, a color flow overlay function for mapping fluid flow direction, a depth-based velocity visualization color mapping function; and an absolute velocity representation function for mapping absolute fluid flow velocity relating to said ultrasound object.
US07648455B2
A urinary incontinence treatment apparatus comprises a restriction device (56) implantable in a patient, for engaging the urethra or urine bladder to form a restricted urine passageway in the urethra or urine bladder. The restriction device is operable by an implantable operation device (60) to change the restriction of the urine passageway. A control device (62 and 64) is provided for controlling a source of energy, which may or may not be implanted, from outside the patient's body, to release energy for use in connection with the operation of the restriction device, i.e. to power the operation device.
US07648446B2
A stationary exercise machine includes a system for electronically controlling a pedal resistance so as to simulate the riding of a road-going bicycle. The exercise machine includes a control system that monitors pedal velocity and that controls the resistive load generated by an electronically-controlled resistance mechanism. In one example, an electromagnetic device may vary a resistive load placed on a flywheel, which, in turn, varies the pedal resistance experienced by a user. When the user increases the pedal velocity, the resistance mechanism increases the resistive load. When the user decreases the pedal velocity, the resistance mechanism decreases the resistive load. In another example, the resistance mechanism varies the resistive load based on a gear selection by the user. The control system may also take into account other factors, such as the grade of the simulated ride, simulated wind resistance, or other frictional forces when calculating the resistive load.
US07648441B2
A self-contained, real-time self-use gait therapy device with a gait sensor, actuator, output speaker, and battery receptacle enclosed in a component case with a belt clip. Based upon step duration, step impact force, or step form data generated by the gait sensor, the actuator drives the speaker, producing beeps on a real-time basis with the pitch of each beep being a function of the step duration, step impact force, or step form for each step of the user. The speaker output is monitored and used by the user on a real-time basis to modify and improve his or her gait.
US07648413B2
A system and method of controlling maximum available engine power of a combine harvester wherein the engine drives the harvester and additionally powers a threshing mechanism for separating harvested crop into grain and crop residue and at least one further crop processing subsystem that may be selectively configured and disengaged, including a straw chopper engageable for chopping the crop residue and propelling the chopped residue from the harvester, structure configurable for directing the crop residue into the chopper or to bypass the chopper, utilizing a controller for automatically reducing the maximum available engine power as a function of the status of the engagement of the subsystems, particularly the chopper and the configuration of the associated structure.
US07648411B2
A suspension loop for a portion pack, consisting of a tubular sleeve, sealed on its ends by clips, in particular sausages, is attached to the end of a tubular sleeve drawn together to form a string of sausages by a twist knot formed from the suspension loop. The suspension loop, kept ready, clamped in rectangular shape, is pulled through the loop around the string with the aid of a swivelable looping finger. The device suitable for this additionally has a holding fork and a movable clamping fork, both of which are two-pronged. The device can be swiveled into the sealing device when the tubular sleeve is sealed with clips.
US07648410B2
A polishing pad and a CMP apparatus are provided. The polishing pad includes a plurality of patterns formed of trenches having a predetermined size and may include a groove for slurry flow. The plurality of patterns can include herringbone shaped trenches in concentric rows, where the rows of herringbone shaped trenches alternate in direction.
US07648403B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes a PCB and a screwless terminal connection having a conductor rail and a clamping spring. The PCB has a recess on an edge. The conductor rail has a base part soldered to the PCB and bridging the PCB recess. The base part includes an end extending past the PCB edge. The clamping spring includes three spring legs. The first leg contacts the base part and is between the base part and the PCB recess. The first leg includes an end extending past the PCB edge and contacting the end of the base part. The second leg extends from the first leg through the PCB recess and is beneath the PCB. The third leg includes a clamping aperture and extends upward from the second leg above the PCB. The ends of the base part and the first leg extend through the clamping aperture.
US07648395B2
An electrical connector for interconnecting a camera module with a printed circuit board comprises a shield housing including a base wall and side wall.Wherein at least a grounding finger is formed on the side wall and extends from the inner surface of the side wall to the opposite wall for contacting with the periphery of the camera module. And a shield element, which can be compress and conductive, is attached to the bottom surface of the housing. Therefore, when the electrical connector is assembled into a chamber formed on the mobile phone for accommodating the electrical connector, the shield element can be compressed between the housing and the inner wall of the chamber, thus, the electricity from the camera module can be transmitted to the mobile phone via the shield element and the electrical connector is not interfered by the other electric equipment.
US07648381B2
An electrical plug connector part with a locking nut that is rotatable relative to the plug body and can be screwed onto an associated matching plug part and that is secured against unintentional rotation relative to the plug body by matched latch elements, wherein first latch elements are rigid and are molded onto the locking nut, and corresponding second latch elements are mounted rotation-proof and with spring action on the plug body. The locking nut and the plug body of the plug connector part have an equal number N of first and second latch elements that are spaced from each other and are arranged in sequence in circumferential direction, with the first latch elements being located on an inner circumference of the locking nut, and the second latch elements being located on an outer circumference of the plug body. The spacing of the first latch elements is different than that of second latch elements. The N first and second latch elements do not follow each other directly, with the first latch elements specifically not forming a locking ring gear.
US07648375B1
An electrical socket safety device is disclosed which comprises a base plate for an electrical receptacle exposing multiple electrical sockets thereon, a sliding plate slidably engaging the base plate for covering the electrical sockets, a spring urged to protrude through a slot in the base plate, a concave space on the sliding plate for accommodating the protruding spring, the concave space forcing a first slope on the spring to depress the same into the slot when the sliding plate sliding in one direction, the concave space forcing a second slope of the spring to depress the same into the slot when the sliding plate sliding in an opposite direction, wherein the engagement of the concave space and the spring holds the sliding plate in a predetermined position, and the disengagement of the concave space and the spring requires a predetermined amount of force.
US07648367B1
Anatomical models representing one or more anatomical structures of a human or non-human animal and related methods for demonstrating, training, promotion and sale of medical, cosmetic and surgical products or procedures. A working device is inserted into the anatomical model and used to perform a simulated procedure, thereby causing an indicator apparatus (e.g., a removable business card) to become perceptibly altered. The indicator apparatus may then be removed and provided a potential user, consumer or purchaser of the medical, surgical or cosmetic product.
US07648359B2
A mold-conveying device for an plastic blow-molding machines includes a machine base and an auxiliary mold base. The machine base is located under a main mold base for positioning the lower mold of a shaping mold thereon, provided with plural correcting rods fitted in correcting rod holes in the bottom base of the auxiliary mold base. Further, a power member is provided under the auxiliary mold base for raising or lowering the auxiliary mold base, and the auxiliary mold base is provided with a transmitting device having a transmitting member to match with a rack provided in the machine base for shifting the auxiliary mold base rightward and leftward in accordance with the blow-molding movements of the plastic blow-molding machines for carrying out mold conveying.
US07648356B2
A system for producing a strip of dough from a strip of raw dough has a bottom pressing device and an upper pressing device with an interposed processing gap for the strip of dough. The pressing devices each have a plurality of planetary rollers that are rotatably driven about their longitudinal axes in each case. In the circumferential direction the planetary rollers are equidistantly distributed about a common central primary axis that extends parallel to the planetary longitudinal axes. The planetary rollers are jointly driveable so as to rotate about the primary axes. Each planetary roller has a middle part coming into contact with the strip of dough, and removably connected to the ends thereof and integral in rotation therewith shaft stubs. The latter are axially and radially supported on frontal head plates of the pressing devices. The dough-strip production system is easy to clean. A set of planetary rollers for use in the system has at least two planetary rollers that may differ in their dimension or material parameters. This increases the versatility of the dough-strip production system.
US07648350B2
A conveying device for a vehicle brake system, to convey pressure fluids into at least one vehicle brake, or to convey pressure fluids into a pressure fluid accumulator, or to convey pressure fluids into a master brake cylinder with at least one moveable piston (2) in a receptacle (4) to displace pressure fluids from a working chamber (5′), has at least one non-return valve (9, 9′) to vent the working chamber (5) and to temporarily separate a hydraulic connection between the working chamber (5) and a hydraulic channel, whereby the non-return valve (9) must have at least one valve seat (11) and one valve body (12).To achieve the simplest possible assembly of the non-return valve (9), the valve seat (11) is assembled from several special valve seat segments (13,14).
US07648347B2
A device for the local cooling or heating of an object by means of a fluid is disclosed. The device comprises a circulation pump for the fluid. A thermal contact element for making thermal contact with the object is integrated in the circulation pump. The circulation pump has a housing part which is flexible and/or movable, the housing part being the thermal contact element.
US07648346B2
A variable displacement compressor in which variable control of displacement is effected through adjustment of a crank chamber pressure, includes: a suction port; a suction chamber; a suction passage establishing communication between the suction port and the suction chamber; and an opening control valve arranged in the suction passage and adapted to adjust the opening of the suction passage based on a pressure difference between a suction pressure in the suction port and the crank chamber pressure.
US07648329B2
A method and system for automatically loading and unloading a transport is disclosed. A first guidance system is used to travel near the transport and a second guidance system is used to travel on the transport.
US07648325B2
An industrial truck, in particular a stacker vehicle, having a mobile base, a cab, which can be moved in relation to the mobile base, for an operator, a load-receiver and a device, which is arranged on the mobile base, for moving the load-receiver in relation to the mobile base, wherein the device for moving the load-receiver has a multiple-element articulated arm as a support, which can be moved in a controllable manner, for the load-receiver, and wherein the articulated arm, starting from a base-side articulation point beneath the cab or starting from a base-side articulation point above the cab, extends to the load-receiver, the elements of the articulated arm being connected to one another by pivot bearings—and being capable of being moved in relation to one another in order to manipulate the load-receiver.
US07648315B2
A lock body in a locked state is inserted radially inward of an outer surface. A stopper body in a contact state holds the lock body in an unlocked state. The stopper body in a non-contact state is retracted from the lock body. A pressing body is switchable between a standby state and a retracted state. The pressing body in the standby state selectively contacts a central shaft when an insertion portion is inserted in a support cylinder. The pressing body in the retracted state is retracted from the stopper body. An urging member urges the pressing body into the standby state, and urges the stopper body into the contact state. The urging member detachably engages the pressing body to the stopper body. Thus, the structure of the cutter holder is simple.
US07648305B2
Coupler has a safety lock and a latching hook. The safety lock pivots between an unlocked position in which it does not contact a first implement pin receivable within a pair of apertures, and a locked position in which it retains the first pin within the apertures. The latching hook pivots between an unlatched position in which it does not contact a second implement pin receivable within another pair of apertures, and a latched position in which it retains the second pin within the apertures. A spring biases the safety lock toward the locked position, maintaining engagement of the safety lock with the first pin and preventing its withdrawal from the apertures in the event of a hydraulic system failure. When the implement is released, the spring continues to bias the safety lock toward the locked position, preventing withdrawal of the first pin from the apertures in the event of a hydraulic system failure before completion of the release operation.
US07648301B2
A cosmetic container in which a cap having a brush formed therein is rotated to open a discharge port of cosmetic liquid. The cosmetic liquid is discharged into the brush so that a proper amount is uniformly coated. The cap is rotated in the reverse direction so as to close the discharge port to block the discharge of cosmetic liquid. The cosmetic container includes a container, a lower cap that is screw-coupled to the opening section of the container, a packing body being inserted and fixed to a hole formed in the center of the lower cap, a middle cap that is rotatably coupled to the upper portion of the lower cap and has a shaft tube formed in the center thereof, the shaft tube having a cutaway portion formed by cutting in the position corresponding to an open hole of the packing body, a brush that is formed in the upper portion of the shaft tube, and an external cap that is coupled to the upper portion of the middle cap.
US07648300B2
A dispenser includes an outer housing having a top defining an applicator surface and at least one dispensing opening in the applicator surface; and an inner housing defining a product space and having a top comprising at least one passage and at least one vane structure, the top being substantially adjacent to the dispensing opening of the outer housing, wherein the inner housing is rotatable relative to the outer housing around an axis so as to sequentially position the inner housing and the outer housing in an open position wherein the at least one passage of the inner housing is aligned with the at least one dispensing opening of the outer housing, and a closed position wherein the at least one vane structure of the inner housing is aligned with and blocks the at least one dispensing opening in the outer housing.
US07648288B2
An optical transmission device of the invention has an optical transmitter unit 1 in which a light emitting element and a light receiving element are sealed with resin by transfer molding, and a holder 2 which holds the optical transmitter unit 1 being contained therein and which holds an optical plug being fitted therein with an optical fiber cable fixed to the optical plug. The holder 2 holds the optical plug that has been inserted from a direction generally at right angles to optical axes of the optical transmitter unit 1. The optical transmission device can easily be mounted on a printed board without necessity of a dead area for insertion/extraction of optical plug and can be small in size and thickness.
US07648287B2
A compact optical transceiver is provided in which a substrate provides for an alignment surface for optical fibers and a lens assembly provides the necessary optical paths for coupling to photodiode and photodetector structures. Appropriate electrical connections on the substrate enable the substrate to be directly connected to a printed circuit board, grid array socket, and the like.
US07648282B2
A spherical bearing arrangement comprising: a bearing housing; a plurality of split-ball portions which are together arranged in the housing to produce a composite ball having a spherical bearing surface, the composite ball having a bore passing therethrough, the bore having a central axis; and a bushing secured in the bore of the composite ball. A method of assembling a spherical bearing arrangement is also disclosed.
US07648275B2
The inventions (variants) are intended for improvement of calibration precision of digital X-ray apparatuses: computed tomographs, as well as digital X-ray apparatuses equipped with C-arm and U-arm type stands, which method is based on calculation of mechanical instability of the stand. Calibration method for X-ray apparatus, in which one or two X-ray contrast balls of different diameters are placed in the scanning field, excluding its centre, a series of images of the scanning field with different angles of the stand rotation are obtained, the X-direction and Y-direction regular components of mechanical instability of the X-ray apparatus stand are determined using the coordinates of projection centre of the ball, X-direction and Y-direction calibration modifications set for mechanical instability of the stand are formed, which modifications are used for correction of the images, according to the invention the additional regular component of mechanical instability of digital X-ray stand is determined using the scales of projections, and the calibration data set for mechanical instability of the stand, which includes the scale calibration modifications, is formed.
US07648273B2
A radiation shield (24) for use with a tomographic scanner (10) provides a shielded region which at which a clinician or other person is shielded from radiation generated during a scan of a patient. A support (20) supports the first radiation shield (24) in a location near the scanner (10). The shield support (20) may be attached to the scanner (10).
US07648270B2
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) is provided with a thermal diode and a constant current source. In this embodiment, the saturation current of the diode may be determined by means external to the IC. During normal operation of the IC, the constant current source drives a current to the diode, and the forward bias voltage of the diode is used as a temperature indicator. In another embodiment, an IC is provided with a pair of thermal diodes and a constant current source. During normal operation of the IC, each of the diodes receives a current of different magnitude from the constant current source, and a comparison of the diodes' forward bias voltages is used as a temperature indicator.
US07648267B2
A performance testing apparatus for a heat pipe includes an immovable portion and a movable portion each having a heating member for heating an evaporating section of a heat pipe requiring test. The movable portion is movable relative to the immovable portion. A receiving structure is defined between the immovable portion and the movable portion for receiving the evaporating section of the heat pipe therein. A concavo-convex cooperating structure is defined in the immovable portion and the movable portion to ensure the receiving structure being capable of receiving the heat pipe precisely. Temperature sensors are attached in the immovable portion and the movable portion for detecting temperature of the heat pipe.
US07648265B2
A regulatorless oscillating system for a watch includes a spiral balance spring having an inner fastening point attached to a collet which can be connected to a balance staff, an outer fastening point connected to a balance spring stud, and an end region adjacent to the stud. The end region is held so that it can be adjustably positioned in a plane which is perpendicular to the balance staff, thereby decentralizing the balance spring in order to compensate for isochronism errors.
US07648263B2
The invention provides an apparatus for engaging and disengaging a track lighting assembly with respect to a track in a track lighting system. The apparatus includes a track engaging apparatus that includes a housing. The housing includes a rotation inhibitor that has a protruding end that protrudes from the housing for engaging with the track and preventing the track engaging apparatus from rotating with respect to the track. The rotation inhibitor further includes a receiving member for translating a force in a first direction into motion of the rotation inhibitor in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. The apparatus further includes an actuator for applying the force in the first direction to the receiving member.
US07648262B2
By a convex lens arranged on an optical axis extending in a front and rear direction of a lamp unit, direct light from a light emitting element arranged rearward of the convex lens is deflected to emit so that the light is made to be parallel light in a vertical face and diffused light toward left and right sides in a horizontal face. An entire region of a left side lens region of the convex lens is constituted as upper deflecting regions for deflecting light to a direction upward with respect to a direction of light of a right side lens region. Light emitted to the front side by transmitting the respective upper deflecting regions is made to be light directed upward from light emitted from the right side lens region to thereby form a laterally elongated light distribution pattern in which an upper end edge of a portion of being disposed on a left side relative to the optical axis is stepped up from an upper end edge of a portion thereof disposed on a right side.
US07648261B2
An adjustable utility light having a body section, two independently movable hooks, a pivoting lamp section having fluorescent tubes and/or light emitting diodes, a component retention tray, at least one keyhole mounting slot, and a movable reflector, wherein the pivoting lamp section and the movable reflector pivot about the same pivot axis.
US07648259B1
A lamp assembly comprises a lamp cover formed with a plurality of through holes on a peripheral surface thereof. The lamp cover accommodates a positioning element made of a tough material for framing a light-penetrable element therein. The lamp cover fitted with the light-penetrable element allows a plurality of resilient catch elements formed on a periphery of a reflective housing to engage with the through holes formed on the lamp cover at corresponding locations, so that the lamp assembly can be assembled, and have its components rapidly positioned in place, by engaging the components to one another, rather than by screwing with threaded fasteners, thereby simplifying fabrication of the lamp assembly.
US07648251B2
A strip light assembly including an elongated light carrying member with a series of lights extending along the length thereof, and an elongated translucent tubular cover member in which the light carrying member is removably slidably mounted, the interior of the cover member having radially spaced internal projections positioned to receive the light carrying member therebetween to maintain the light carrying member in selectable different angular orientations in the cover member.
US07648242B2
An apparatus for imaging an eye includes a housing and a system of optical components disposed in the housing. The apparatus is capable of operating in a line scanning laser ophthalmoscope (LSLO) mode and an optical coherence tomography (OCT) mode. The system of optical components can include a first source to provide a first beam of light for the OCT mode and a second source to provide a second beam of light for the LSLO mode. In the OCT mode, a first optic is used that (i) scans, using a first surface of the first optic, the first beam of light along a retina of an eye in a first dimension, and (ii) descans, using the first surface, a first light returning from the eye in the first dimension to a detection system in the OCT mode. In the LSLO mode, the first optic is used where the second beam of light passes through a second surface of the first optic.
US07648237B2
An automatic suction device for an eyeglass lens and a method for determining suction jig installation position, capable of recognizing that a frame exchange lens holder is being installed on a placement table, making transition to installation work of a frame exchange mode, and avoiding an erroneous contact between the frame exchange frame and a lens holding frame. The kind of holding means placed on the placement table is determined from an image of the inside of an opening (141), which image is taken by a CCD camera (105), and the installation position of a suction jig (121) at an eyeglass lens (L) placed on a frame exchange lens holder (300) is obtained.
US07648236B1
An multi-use eyeglass apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus generally comprises a frame, a display device, at least one sensor and a transceiver. The frame may have a plurality of lens openings defining an optical path. The display device may be mounted to the frame and configured to display an image to a user wearing the frame, wherein the image is located outside of the optical path. The at least one sensor is generally mounted to the frame and configured to sense a response from the user. The transceiver may be mounted to the frame and configured to (i) receive the image in a first receive message from external of the frame and (ii) transmit the response in a first transmit message to external of the frame.
US07648228B2
The liquid ejection head includes: a plurality of nozzles having openings through which liquid is ejected; a plurality of pressure chambers which are connected to the nozzles, respectively; a space section forming member which defines a plurality of space sections arranged adjacently to the openings of the nozzles, respectively; and a liquid transmission hole forming member which is formed with a plurality of liquid transmission holes in coaxial positions with respect to the nozzles so as to oppose the openings of the nozzles across the space sections, respectively, wherein in terms of cross-sectional areas parallel to a plane including the openings of the nozzles, each of the space sections is smaller than each of the pressure chambers, and larger than each of the openings of the nozzles and the liquid transmission holes.
US07648221B2
A droplet ejecting apparatus, including: a head unit including (a) a cavity unit constituted by plate members stacked on and adhered to each other, having a first and a second outer surface respectively defined by a first and a second outermost plate member of the plate members which are opposite to each other and one of which has nozzles, and having liquid flow channels formed therein and respectively communicating with the nozzles, and (b) an actuator attached to the cavity unit and operable such that the head unit ejects droplets through the nozzles, a holder holding the head unit, a reinforcing plate adhered to the cavity unit so that the holder holds the head unit, an adhesive layer between the first outer surface and a first surface of the reinforcing plate as one of opposite surfaces thereof so as to adhere the cavity unit and the reinforcing plate to each other, and having a non-adhesive area in which no adhesive exists, and a measuring section configured such that a measurement for estimating a thickness of the adhesive layer by using the non-adhesive area is performed therein.
US07648217B2
A printing system includes a media transport pathway, a marking system disposed along the media transport pathway and a sheet media sensor capable of identifying associated sheets of media. An operating module is capable of switching the printing system between a productive condition and a non-productive condition. An advancement module is capable of advancing associated sheets of media along the media transport pathway while the printing system is in the non-productive condition. A method is also included.
US07648209B2
A seat belt buckle positioning system for use with a child booster seat having a seat belt buckle holder that can grasp or envelope a vehicle seat belt buckle, and a seat belt buckle holder positioner to which the seat belt buckle holder can attach and be positioned at the side of the child booster seat.
US07648206B2
A vehicle seat arrangement includes a seat component that is adapted to be slidably attached to a vehicle and configured to move between a sitting position and an entry position. A backrest is pivotally connected to the seat component and pivots about an axis A between a seating position and a tilted entry position. A locking mechanism releasably locks the backrest in the tilted entry position. The locking mechanism has a slotted link that is fixed with respect to the seat component. The slotted link has a locking edge. A locking group moves with the backrest and is configured to contact the locking edge. The locking group has a principal element that pivots relative to the backrest about an axis B. A lock bar is configured to pivot with respect to the principal element about an axis C and to engage the locking edge.
US07648205B2
A vehicle seat has a seat back and a seat cushion and a pair of recliners hingedly mounting the seat back to the seat cushion providing pivotal movement of a seat back relative to a seat cushion. Each of the recliners has a memory plate that holds the recliners in an unlocked condition during a predetermined amount of travel enabling return movement of the seat back from a forwardly folded position to a memory position. The memory position being within a range of recline seatback positions.
US07648200B2
A headrest device for supporting a headrest with respect to a seat. A lower frame is connectable to the seat, and an upper frame is provided for supporting the headrest thereon. A pair of link brackets connects the lower frame to the upper frame for pivotal motion of the upper frame with respect to the lower frame through a limited range of motion between a forward tilt limit position and a rearward tilt limit position. A motor is operatively connected one of the link brackets to move the upper frame between the forward tilt limit position and the rearward tilt limit position in response to a control signal.
US07648185B2
A mirror assembly (30) has a housing (32) that houses a mirrored reflecting surface (40) for enabling a person in a driver's compartment of a vehicle cab (10) to look through a side door window opening (20) and see a field of view toward the rear of the vehicle. The mirror assembly mounting (32) includes a mounting bar (42) that is attached to the side door, that has a length running along the top margin of the door, and that along at least a portion of that length comprises an upwardly open channel (50) for collecting rainwater runoff from the roof and carrying it rearward before the runoff can wash across the window opening.
US07648171B2
A seat belt buckle system includes a seat belt with a latch plate, and a seat belt buckle assembly. The seat belt buckle assembly includes a buckle head for receiving the latch plate, a scabbard covering a portion of the buckle head, and a buckle stalk connecting the buckle head to a vehicle body portion. The scabbard includes at least one tear seam located at an intersection of the first wall and the third wall. The scabbard is configured such that a separation force of the tear seam is less than a buckling load of the scabbard, such that when the buckle is impacted and undergoes a shock load during buckle pretensioning, the tear seam will separate and allow the buckle head to slide down the ramped surface preventing a shock load from a hard contact point that would cause the latch plate to delatch from the buckle head.
US07648169B2
A motorcycle includes a guard frame provided near an upper portion of a vehicle body of the motorcycle that is arranged to reduce or prevent damage to the components of the motorcycle in the event of an overturn of the motorcycle. The guard frame includes a pair of guard frame rails, each rail extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle body. A connecting portion connects the rear end portions of the rails. The front end portion of each rail is fixed to a body frame of the motorcycle. The connecting portion is supported by the body frame for pivotal movement about a pivot axis. The rails have a normal bow shape that projects outwardly. In some arrangements, an intermediate portion of each rail is formed of a material having lower rigidity than a material of the front and rear end portions of the rail.
US07648164B2
Method for controlling flow of gas into an airbag includes generating gas, directing the gas into the airbag, and controlling the flow of gas into the airbag based on conditions at the time of deployment such that the airbag is variably deployed dependent on ambient conditions. A related arrangement for controlling flow of gas into an airbag includes a system for generating gas, a system for directing the gas into the airbag and a system for controlling the flow of gas into the airbag based on conditions at the time of deployment such that the airbag is variably deployed dependent on ambient conditions.
US07648159B2
An airbag apparatus is provided in which constraint of a rider in case of front collision is achieved. In one form, an airbag apparatus to be mounted to a motorcycle includes an airbag which is deployed and inflated in case of front collision of a vehicle. The airbag forms a constraining surface for constraining a rider when deployed and inflated, and is configured to be deployed and inflated while extending the constraining surface along the direction connecting the abdominal portion and the chest portion of the rider when constraining the rider.
US07648157B2
An airbag apparatus mounted on a motor vehicle is constructed such that a folded shape of an airbag is held by an airbag-holding member disposed in a manner to wrap an external surface of the folded airbag, which is housed in a retainer. The airbag-holding member is constructed such that a film sheet, in which a plurality of resin layers is laminated together, is configured to have a bag-shape that wraps around an entire external surface of the folded airbag.
US07648154B2
The subject invention pertains to a method and apparatus for providing a trailer jack mount. The subject invention also pertains to a method and apparatus for providing a trailer jack mount for use with towable trailers. The subject invention is advantageous for use with trailers, such as utility trailers, which are frequently moved between various locations. The subject apparatus can also enable the mounting of a trailer jack to a trailer such that the trailer jack can quickly transition up or down relative to the trailer. In a specific embodiment, the subject invention includes a first piece mountable to a trailer and a second piece to which a trailer jack can be secured. In this embodiment, the subject apparatus also includes means for securely attaching the second piece to the first piece and allowing the second piece to pivot relative to the first piece. Advantageously, the subject invention can either be retrofitted to an existing trailer with jack, or installed at original manufacture. In another specific embodiment, the second piece is slidably attached to the first piece to allow an individual to adjust the height of the trailer jack.
US07648149B2
A track bar for a rear suspension of a vehicle has a first tubular member, an energy dissipating member wrapped around the first tubular member, and a second tubular member encompassing the energy dissipating member. Together, the tubular members and energy dissipating member dampen vibration transmitted through the track bar to lessen the audible vibrations that rear the interior of a vehicle cabin.
US07648148B1
A leaning vehicle has a frame pivotally connected to the lower end of a shock tower, the pivotal connection defining a frame leaning axis wherein the frame is adapted to lean to a right side and to a left side relative to the shock tower about the frame leaning axis. The leaning vehicle includes an actuator operatively connected to the frame and to the shock tower which is adapted to impart a leaning motion to the frame relative to the shock tower about the frame leaning axis.
US07648146B2
A skate blade has a front curved section having a front balance point, a rear curved section having a rear balance point, and a middle section having a center balance point. Each balance point is a point on the skate blade over which a skater's center of gravity lies depending on the skater's position. The skate blade is shaped such that the middle section is substantially flat. Additionally, the blade is shaped such that more of the blade extends away from a blade holder at the rear balance point than at the front balance point.
US07648143B2
A sealing system for use with at least one rotating shaft has a tandem seal arrangement contacting a surface of the at least one rotating shaft. The tandem seal arrangement includes at least one pair of segmented ring assemblies. Each of the segmented ring assemblies contacts the surface of the at least one shaft.
US07648128B2
An apparatus is provided for improved gas/liquid contact in a chemical process tower, resulting in better performance. The apparatus includes a tower having a series of tray decks and downcomers. Tray decks provide gas/liquid contact for mass transfer and the downcomers are required to clarify the liquid before entering the tray below. In this invention, the trays have at least one downcomer and one adjacent active sump. The sump has at least one row of apertures for bubbling vapor through liquid flowing therein, and is separated from the downcomer by a baffle. The clarified liquid at the bottom of the sump is sent to the downcomer. The liquid entering the next tray can be assured to divide evenly for multiple-downcomer applications. Gas/liquid contact is thereby enhanced through the installation of these apertures, and clarification of the liquid from bubbles is thereby improved through the addition of the active sump. Benefits to the tower operation include higher tray capacity and efficiency.
US07648126B2
A rope control device comprising a main part and a bar part. The main part defines a central opening, first and second side portions, first and second end portions, at least one projection portion extending from each end portion, and a friction surface formed at junctures of each end portion and the at least one projection portion adjacent thereto. The bar part is pivotably attached to the first side portion. The bar part may be in a closed position in which the bar part engages the second side portion of the main part. The rope control device may be in an open configuration in which the bar part does not engage the second side portion. When the bar part is in the closed position, the main part and the bar part define first and second opening portions of the central opening.
US07648124B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a receptacle for a boat drain plug, the receptacle being adapted to support the boat drain plug relative to a boat trailer, the boat trailer having a boat trailer winch, the boat trailer winch including a winch handle shaft, and the receptacle including an aperture sized to receive the boat drain plug, wherein the aperture is located in the winch handle shaft of the boat trailer winch.
US07648116B2
An apparatus for absorbing vibrations of components of heavy construction equipment is disclosed, which comprises an elastic support ring which has a tightening part at both ends of a longitudinally extended body for thereby absorbing and decreasing vibrations transferred from heavy construction equipment to components by connecting and fixing the fixing part and the vibration part as the elastic support ring is tightened wherein the apparatus for absorbing vibrations of components of heavy construction equipment is installed between a fixing part for mounting components of heavy construction equipment such as a handrail, work mirror, etc. and a vibration part which generates lots of vibrations for thereby absorbing and decreasing vibrations of components of heavy construction equipment.
US07648112B2
A flat panel display mounting device for securing a flat panel display, such as an LCD or plasma television, to a support surface, such as a wall, is disclosed. The flat panel display mounting device comprises a plurality of members in the form of support panels pivotally connected together and a rotation control mechanism connected thereto so that the flat panel display mounted on the device can be rotated to a desired angle and the center of gravity of the flat panel display during rotation can be maintained as close to the support surface as possible, so as not to generate additional burden to the flat panel display mounting device.
US07648111B2
An end of a curtain rod is provided with a hook for grasping a mounting tube extending transversely from a wall-mounted flange. The hook may be offset from the longitudinal axis of the curtain rod to permit two rods with similar offset hooks to the mounted end to end, in axial alignment, on a common mounting tube. Alternatively, one rod may be provided with a centrally mounted hook and the other rod with a claw having spaced hooks for receiving the single centrally mounted hook of an axially aligned rod therebetween. Each hook an claw may be mounted on a connector which can be fitted over the end of a segment of a tubular curtain rod, with or without an adapter, depending upon whether the segment is an inner segment or outer segment of a telescoping curtain rod.
US07648107B2
Brace or pipe clamp with a deformable, essentially cylindrical housing, which has at least one longitudinal slot. The regions of the housing that are situated opposite one another at the longitudinal slot are formed as bent over lugs. The lugs are used to accommodate hollow bolts. The housing can be braced by means of clamping bolts, which penetrate the hollow bolts transversely and are arranged approximately tangentially to the housing, and nuts which can be connected to said clamping bolts. At least one of the clamping bolts is connected directly or indirectly with a handle for manually pretensioning the brace or pipe clamp and/or for operating the clamping bolt.
US07648099B2
A power cord arranging device for a vacuum cleaner according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises first and second cord grips pivotably mounted and capable of being opened and closed about a hinge, and having at least two openings that receives a power cord when the cord grips are closed, and a resilient member biasing the first and second cord grips closed.
US07648089B2
The present invention relates generally to tabs that activate shredder safety interlock switches. Specifically, this invention discloses a break-resistant tab which can readily activate a shredder safety interlock switch. The disclosed tab is comprised of a tab extension with at least one flexing member or spring which allows for limited flexibility.
US07648083B2
A dispenser adapted to be coupled to a fluid container. The dispenser comprises a dispensing head, an energy source, and a fluid pathway. The dispensing head includes a fluid pump, a motor adapted to power the pump, a trigger adapted to control the motor, and a nozzle orifice in fluid communication with a discharge end of the pump. The fluid pathway has one portion in fluid communication with an intake end of the pump and another portion inside the container. In one embodiment, the fluid pump is a peristaltic pump. The present invention may further include a valve having a membrane for controlling flow through the valve, the membrane having open and closed positions; and an element urges the membrane to the closed position, and a vacuum pressure at one end of the valve may overcome the urging of the element, thereby moving the membrane to the open position.
US07648077B2
A system for communicating across conventional HVAC wiring is provided. The system includes a communication device having a communication module capable of inducing low power, high frequency current signals into a single control wire coupling, for example, a thermostat with a compressor. The communication module includes a power supply module that draws power sufficient to operate the communication module from the existing HVAC wiring, so as to eliminate any need for batteries or external power sources. A second communication module may be coupled to the single control wire. The second communication module operates as a transceiver sending communication signals to, and receiving communication signals from, the communication module. In one embodiment, the communication module is disposed within a building, for example coupled to an electronic thermostat, while the second communication module is disposed outside the building near the compressor. The communication signals are RF modulated signals between 5 and 50 MHz so as to take advantage of and pass across parasitic capacitances found inherent in transformers or other coils disposed within HVAC loads.
US07648074B2
A value or security document (2) contains a security feature (4) in the form of a film laser with an emitter layer (12) and preferably a protective layer (14). A spatial, periodic modulation (8), preferably of the surface of a substrate, permits fine adjustment of a laser wavelength within a range of possible wavelengths. This permits a coding of the security feature by different portions of different wavelengths.
US07648072B2
A two-dimensional-code detection system includes a reading unit, a recognizing unit, a calculating unit and a position specifying unit. The reading unit reads an image including plural two-dimensional codes. The recognizing unit recognizes position detection patterns of the respective two-dimensional codes from the read image, which includes the plural two-dimensional codes. The calculating unit that selects at least two of the position detection patterns of the two-dimensional codes. The calculating unit calculates a minimum unit forming each of the selected position detection patterns. The position specifying unit judges whether or not the minimum units forming the selected at least two position detection patterns are substantially equal to each other. When judging that the minimum units forming the selected at least two position detection patterns are substantially equal to each other, the position specifying unit specifies a position of a two-dimensional code using the selected at least two position detection patterns.
US07648069B2
Apparatus including a conveyor for identifying a plurality of items each of which has a radio frequency transponder. A three dimensional (3D) radio frequency antenna is positioned on one side of the conveyor. The conveyor has a movable part for moving the items into and out of the antenna such that the items when in the antenna are completely surrounded by the antenna. A reader sends interrogation signals to the transponders via the antenna and reads identification information from the transponders. The 3D antenna includes a plurality of coils mounted in a 3D arrangement such as to provide a 3D reading field in which all transponders in the reading field may be interrogated. The 3D antenna also includes noise compensation coils at opposite ends of the reading field to minimize electromagnetic radiation from the antenna and also minimize noise from external sources affecting reading of the transponders. The radio frequency transponder includes a housing a substrate within the housing and a printed circuit board mounted on the substrate. A coil is mounted on the substrate such as to be spaced therefrom. The substrate, the printed circuit board, the integrated circuit chip and the coil are encapsulated with the spacing of the coil from the substrate enabling the encapsulant to completely surround the coil.
US07648065B2
A system for reading RFID tags of articles within a cabinet includes a repositionable shelf. The repositionable shelf includes an antenna assembly having three antenna pairs. Each antenna pair has a loop antenna and a figure eight antenna. The antenna pairs are on a PC board. The PC board includes an RJ45 connector which provides both power to the antenna assembly as well as a communication interface for the antenna assembly. The RJ45 connector could be used to provide the RF signals from the antenna to a reader. The system could also include a repositionable divider for placement perpendicular to the repositionable shelf. The repositionable divider also includes a loop antenna and a figure eight antenna.
US07648064B2
A workstation and a method for providing remote lockout override is disclosed. The workstation includes lockout functionality, wherein at least a portion of the functionality of the workstation is locked when a lockout module in the workstation detects a violation of a predetermined rule. The workstation includes an override request module that provides a user with a menu of active supervisors and sends an override request message to a supervisor selected from the menu of active supervisors. When the workstation receives an override response message that authorizes overriding the rule, the workstation is unlocked.
US07648063B2
An embossed sheet of substrate material has a plurality of card portions defined thereon, each card portion having indicia embossed thereon. A first group of the plurality of card portions has first embossed indicia, and a second group of the plurality of card portions has second embossed indicia. The first and second embossed indicia provide the same information, but the second embossed indicia have a text characteristic that is different from the text characteristic of the first embossed indicia. The first embossed indicia and the second embossed indicia are embossed in the same location on each respective card portion. The card portions are arranged into rows and columns on the substrate material, and the first group of card portions and the second group of card portions form either alternating rows or alternating columns.
US07648057B2
In an ultrasonic joining method for joining a flange portion of a first member to a portion of a second member, a first horn and a second horn are arranged on the flange portion on a side opposite to the second member, and the first horn is vibrated in a condition that the second horn is biased against the first horn and the first horn and the second horn are pressed against the flange portion such that the flange portion is vibrated while being pressed against the portion of the second member. Because the first horn is vibrated in a condition that the first horn and the second horn are pressed against each other at press-contact portions thereof, vibration of the first horn is transferred to the second horn through the press-contact portions.
US07648056B1
A solder machine uses various linear actuators to move a PWB carrier in three degrees of freedom relative to a solder bath, to facilitate safe loading and unloading of PWBs onto the carrier while the carrier is distanced from the bath, and then to move the carrier over the bath, lower it, and tilt it as necessary to effect soldering.
US07648054B2
A desktop stapler uses a spring to store energy to install staples by impact blow. The force required to fasten papers together is reduced. A very compact mechanism is used, including a dual coil power spring with a nested lever. A multi-function base provides a sloped front all the way to down to a desk top surface to guide paper sheets atop the base, easy access for lifting the stapler off a desk, horizontal or vertical resting positions, and integrated soft grip under-surface. The base surrounds the rear of the stapler body to provide a smooth exterior so that the device is natural to use both horizontally and vertically. A simple re-set spring provides a smooth re-set action as the handle is raised. A staple track includes enlargement features to fit a larger staple pusher spring.
US07648049B1
A mixing drink dispenser (10) having a source of water (26) for mixing with a beverage ingredient in a hopper (12) to make a drink having a tooless removable mixing chamber assembly (34) with cylindrical upper body 130 for receipt of beverage ingredient and water and vertical axis, high rotation mixing propellers (36, 180, 182) and a lower section with a slanted bottom (164) joined to and in open fluid communication with the upper section and having a non-closable beverage outlet (148) for free, unobstructed passage of freshly mixed beverage out of the mixing chamber assembly (34) and into a beverage container (46). The propellers (36, 180, 183) are driven by a motor (39) with a drive axle extending through a non-sealed opening in the slanted bottom (164) and removably linked to the propellers via a magnetic linkage (166, 170). An upwardly facing inlet (210) in a domed, splash reflective top (208) is in communication with a tooless removable hopper assembly (12) having a horizontally rotatable feed auger (252) releasably linked to and driven by an external auger drive motor (268). An agitation wheel within the hopper is driven by direct linkage with the auger (252) to stir ingredient within the hopper during operation of the auger.
US07648048B2
A combination shipping container and dispenser is described herein. A regular slotted container (RSC) is modified to include at least a first and second dispensing feature such that the RSC can dispense product when it is configured in either a horizontal or in a vertical orientation.
US07648042B2
The present invention relates to a metal nozzle boss provided with a sealing device, which has highly improved tightness and is combined with a plastic liner of a composite vessel used as a high-pressure vessel. The metal nozzle boss uses an elastic seal ring and a tightening piece in the plastic liner, so that the nozzle boss reliably seals the junction of the nozzle boss and the liner and prevents gas leakage from the vessel. The blade part of the nozzle boss has a dovetail-shaped locking groove, with locking ridges formed in the locking groove. Thus, when the plastic liner is produced by injecting molten resin into the locking groove, the plastic liner is securely combined with the metal nozzle boss. The composite vessel having the metal nozzle boss can be used as a fuel tank for natural gas vehicles or a hydrogen tank for fuel cell vehicles.
US07648041B2
A uniquely shaped gasket (6) suitable for a container for storage of substrate plates requiring precision packaging. When such plates are stored into a container body (2), and a container lid (3) is closed and then a lid lock is applied, a gasket's outward ledge (6b, 6c, 6d) is pressed downward by an outward adjacent surface (3f) and deformed; consequently, the end of the ledge's tip (6d) will extend to fall in a seal channel (2d), in other words, to abut on a sectionally downward concave (2d), wherein the gasket (6) still keeps its elastic resiliency. As a result, if an air pressure difference occurs, the tip end (6d) will shift its abutting point. While the tip end (6d) moves, a minimum gap between the tip end (6d) and the channel surface (2d) occurs, and this gap will act as ventilation route to equalize the air pressure difference.
US07648033B2
A method of producing a particle-dispersed liquid, using a channel of micro width having a core flow channel, includes: sending the particle-dispersed liquid containing larger particles to an inner portion of the core flow channel; separating and removing the larger particles from the particle-dispersed liquid; and sending the removed larger particles to an outermost part of the core flow channel. An outer diameter of the core flow channel is 50 to 5,000 μm.
US07648024B2
Provided is a pocket-sized, hand-held container including a receptacle at least partially housed in an outer housing and a tray, contained within the outer housing and positioned around the receptacle. Preferably, the tray is sealed with a membrane. The receptacle is used to contain spent product. Preferably, the outer housing includes an upper housing and a lower housing. A lid in the upper housing slides open to reveal an openable window in the membrane. In an embodiment, at least one thumb ridge is located on the lid to facilitate opening and closing of the lid.
US07648016B2
A method of deriving a function for classifying items of currency. The method comprises processing training data vectors corresponding to features of a plurality of currency items, and derives a support vector machine classification function involving a plurality of support vectors.
US07648011B2
A drive assembly for the driveline of a motor vehicle with an axle which can be driven when required. The drive assembly includes a drive and a multi-plate coupling. The drive comprises a drive housing with a sleeve-shaped projection in which a drive input shaft is rotatably supported. The multi-plate coupling which is rotatably supported in a coupling housing connected to the drive housing comprises a coupling input part for introducing torque and a coupling output part connected to the drive input shaft in a rotationally fast way. The multi-plate coupling is arranged coaxially on the outside relative to the sleeve-shaped projection and partially axially covers the latter.
US07648010B2
A starting clutch includes a clutch inner that is secured to and supported by a drive plate boss fitted to a crankshaft near the end thereof. A one-way clutch is fitted to the outer periphery of the cylindrical portion extending inwardly. A clutch outer forms an annular portion that covers the outer periphery of the drive plate. A hollow disk portion covers the inner surface and is rotatably supported by the crankshaft. The one-way clutch is clamped by the inner peripheral edge of the hollow disk portion of the clutch outer from the outer peripheral side in cooperation with the cylindrical portion of the drive plate boss, and the inner peripheral edge of the hollow disk portion of the clutch outer abuts against a flange portion of the drive plate boss extending along the inner surface of the drive plate in the centrifugal direction thereof.
US07647983B2
A linkage positioning system for a machine is disclosed. The linkage positioning system has a lock pin, a linkage member having a plurality of holes configured to receive the lock pin, an actuator configured to selectively extend and retract the lock pin, and a control module in communication with the actuator. The control module is configured to receive a request for lock pin engagement with the linkage member, and retract the lock pin from a first of the plurality of holes in the linkage member. The control module is also configured to move the linkage member to align a second of the plurality of holes with the lock pin, and extend the lock pin into the second of the plurality of holes.
US07647981B2
In the system or method for sprinklering a building, the building has a water delivery pipe for delivery of water to at least two different floors of the building. On at least two floors, a respective sprinkler pipe with a plurality of sprinklers is installed. Also a respective pump is installed whose outlet is connected to the respective sprinkler pipe, and whose inlet is connected to the water delivery pipe. A respective sensor for the respective pump automatically activates the pump when at least one of the sprinklers is activated.
US07647980B2
A packer assembly for use in wellbore operations includes a first packer and a second packer interconnected by an adjustable length spacer. The spacer provides a mechanism for adjusting the distance between the first packer and the second packer when the assembly is positioned in a wellbore.
US07647977B2
A system for forming a liner downhole within a well bore has a rig comprising a tool string driving mechanism and an aperture proximate an opening of a well bore. The system also has first and second tool string components and each component has a central bore disposed intermediate first and second tool joints of the component. The first tool joint of the first component is disposed proximate the aperture and the second tool joint of the second component. First and second resilient lining materials are disposed within the central bore of the first and second tool string components respectively. At least one lining material connecting mechanism is disposed proximate the aperture. The system also comprises at least one downhole dispenser that is adapted to direct a resilient continuous lining material against the well bore to form a liner.
US07647974B2
A subsea wellhead assembly has separable tree modules that interconnect together. The lower tree module has a lower tree member having a bore with a valve for controlling production fluid flow. The upper tree module has an upper tree member with a bore and interface devices for monitoring the fluid flow as well as controlling the flow. A production line sub is carried alongside the upper tree member. The sub has a stab interface that stabs sealingly into a stab interface mounted alongside the lower tree member.
US07647972B2
A method of lowering the temperature of a subsurface formation, e.g., a subsurface formation including oil shale, includes completing a well having fluid communication with the subsurface formation at a first depth and a second lower depth. A fracturing fluid is injected into the well so as to form a fracture at a depth of the subsurface formation, and thereby provides fluid communication between the first and second depths in the well. A cooling fluid is circulated under pressure through the well and into the fracture so as to cause the cooling fluid to flow from the well, into subsurface formation at the first depth, to the subsurface formation at the second depth, and back into the well, thereby lowering the temperature of the subsurface formation.
US07647971B2
A method of lowering the temperature of a subsurface formation, e.g., comprising oil shale, includes injecting a cooling fluid under pressure into a wellbore. The wellbore is completed at or below a depth of the subsurface formation, and the wellbore includes a bore formed through the subsurface formation defining a diameter. The cooling fluid comprises a slurry having particles of frozen material. The cooling fluid is circulated across the formation in order to lower the temperature of at least a portion of the formation to a point that is at or below the freezing point of water.
US07647970B2
A cement composition is provided including a cement and a low reactivity particle coated with a swellable polymeric material. The low reactivity particle is coated with a swellable polymeric material at a concentration of about 10 weight percent to about 50 weight percent, based on the weight of the cement. The swellable polymeric material swells to a larger volume when exposed to one or more hydrocarbons, depending on the selected polymeric material. The cement composition is used in a method as a self-sealing cement for cementing an oil and gas well, thereby minimizing or mitigating the unwanted migration of water or hydrocarbons.
US07647969B1
A method for growth of a hydraulic fracture or a tall frac is described wherein the tall frac is disposed next to a well bore using a sandpacked annulus. Also, a method for creating a permeable well bore annulus is disclosed. The method for creating the tall frac includes creating a linear-sourced, cylindrical stress field by maneuvering the intersection of two independent friction-controlled pressure gradients of a frac pad fluid. The intersection of these two frac pad fluid pressure gradients can be controlled when the frac pad fluid traverses along a well bore sandpacked annulus. The first pressure gradient is created by controlling the fluid flow rate and the consequent, friction pressure loss in the frac pad fluid flow through a portion of the sandpacked annulus, located above the top of the upwardly propagating tall frac hydraulic fracture. The first pressure gradient must be significantly greater than the average gradient of the formation, frac-extension pressure gradient. The second pressure gradient is created by the friction loss of the volume flow rate of the frac pad fluid flowing through the combined parallel paths of the sandpacked annulus and the open hydraulic fracture which is propagating outward in the adjacent rock formation below the top of the upwardly propagating tall frac. The second pressure gradient, below the top of the upward-propagating tall frac, should be about equal to or less than the average gradient of the formation, frac-extension pressure gradient at this location.
US07647963B2
A device for coupling a driver system to a downhole string of sucker rods in a petroleum well employs a polish rod construction in which the polish rod is strengthened by an attached sleeve providing a transverse should in a predetermined plane. The sleeve is shrink fit in place and mechanically adhered to withstand the stresses and shocks encountered in long-term cyclic operation. The device provides specific benefits for an improved sucker rod connection which prestresses the sucker rod pin ends and the coupling in a fashion to resist the development of microcracks and fatigue failures.
US07647961B2
A flexible heat pipe is disclosed for use with evaporator and condenser elements for removing heat from electronic components. The flexible heat pipe comprises a bellows member fixed at one end to a condenser member and at an opposite end to an evaporator member. A cable artery is disposed within the bellows and is fixed at one end to the evaporator, and slidingly engages the condenser at the opposite end. The bellows acts as a flexible vapor envelope, and the cable artery acts as a flexible wick for directing condensed working fluid from the condenser back to the evaporator. The sliding connection between the cable artery and the condenser allows relative axial movement, and the inherent flexibility of the cable artery allows relative lateral movement. Thus, the condenser and evaporator can move in all directions with respect to each other, which can provide desired vibration isolation of the two components.
US07647959B2
A bonding machine for fabricating an liquid crystal display (LCD) panel to which a liquid crystal dropping method been performed includes a bonding chamber of a one pieced body for carrying out bonding of substrates, at least two or more than two air extraction tubes in communication with an interior space of the bonding chamber, and at least two vacuum means respectively connected to the air extraction tubes each for generating an air suction power to evacuate the bonding chamber. A method for fabricating an LCD panel by using the bonding machine includes loading a first substrate onto which liquid crystal has been dropped and a second substrate having sealant coated thereon into a bonding chamber, evacuating the bonding chamber, bonding the first and second substrates, applying varying bonding pressure, and unloading the bonded first and second substrates.
US07647943B2
A solenoid including an armature movable in an armature room, and a coil which can be flowed through by current. When flowed through by current the armature moves. The armature immerses in a control cone. The mean gap width between the armature and the control cone changes with the immersion path of the armature in the control cone.
US07647928B2
The invention relates to a component for an inhalation device comprising a first flow channel for inhalation, a second flow channel for exhalation, a mouthpiece forming a part of the first flow channel, a filter assigned to the second flow channel and a protection element which circumferentially surrounds the mouthpiece and is sealingly connected the mouthpiece at the end opposing the tip of the mouthpiece.
US07647913B2
A portable, hand-held, combustion engine powered working machine comprises a tool unit (1) including a rotatable working tool (3), and a machine unit (2) including an internal combustion engine (11), an assembly (16) for supplying air and fuel to the engine, and an air cleaning system, which comprises a filter assembly (10) including at least two filters (84, 85), referred to as pre-filter (84) and main filter (85), for cleaning the air that shall be supplied to the engine. The pre-filter is accommodated in an upper filter chamber (86) between a top cover (83) and a pre-filter bottom (9), and the main filter is accommodated in a lower filter chamber under the pre-filter bottom, said lower filter chamber being defined by the underside of the pre-filter bottom, a second filter bottom (125) at a distance from the pre-filter bottom, and a closed, circumferential wall (120) between the pre-filter bottom and the second filter bottom, said closed, circumferential wall forming a downwards directed protrusion on the underside of the upper filter bottom.
US07647909B2
A valve seal for a rotary valve assembly for use in an internal combustion engine of the piston and cylinder type, the valve seal having a valve seal body member having a curved annular upper surface conforming to the spherical periphery of a spherical rotary valve, the valve seal body member having a centrally disposed aperture there through defined by an inner circular side wall, the valve seal body member further having an outer circumferential side wall having a plurality of mounting ribs for the positioning of lateral sealing rings, the valve seal body member further having a plurality of vertical axial throughbores formed between the inner circular side wall and the outer circumferential side wall for pressure equalization.
US07647904B2
A cam phaser apparatus comprising a triple member gear system for transferring a driving torque from a drive member to a driven member and for selectively adjusting the angular relationship between the drive and driven members, said triple member gear system comprising a first member comprising a driving part, a second member comprising a driven part connectable to a cam sprocket or pulley, and a third member comprising an adjusting means connectable to a camshaft, said third member being connected to means for rotating said third member or applying a braking torque and/or a motoring torque to said third member to vary the angular relationship between the first and second members, wherein the cam phaser apparatus further comprises a selectively actuable coupling means for selectively coupling two of said first, second and third members. In one embodiment the coupling means comprises a magnetic coupling.
US07647895B2
A control for a water heater is provided that comprises a pressure switch for sensing a predetermined level of airflow sufficient for maintaining proper burner operation, and a temperature sensing means for sensing the temperature of the water in the tank. The control further comprises a processor for controlling the operation of the burner to maintain the water temperature above a predetermined value. When the processor receives a signal from the pressure switch or temperature switch indicating a malfunction, the processor shuts down the burner and subsequently attempts to restart the burner. The processor will lock-out further burner operation after a predetermined number of consecutive shut downs occurs, and will communicate any malfunction information to a remote display device.
US07647891B2
A method and apparatus for safer and more effective deep trans-cervical intra-uterine artificial insemination (AI) is provided. Such a deep AI catheter causes minimal discomfort and risk of trauma, and does not require the services of a highly trained AI professional. First, a catheter is inserted into the cervical tract of the animal. A membrane, initially positioned inside a tube section of the catheter, is then extended from an opening in the tube and into the tract under pressure. The membrane extends into the tract without friction thereby reducing the discomfort and the risk of trauma or injury to the animal. When the membrane is fully extended into the tract, pressure causes the tip of the membrane to open thereby releasing the AI fluid and depositing the genetic material suspended in the fluid into the reproductive tract. In addition to AI and embryo transplant, other applications for the pathway include other therapeutic, diagnostic or procedures, such as introducing fluoroscopic cameras, instruments, and drug delivery.
US07647889B2
A litter box has two unit assemblies and a waste receptacle. The first unit assembly has an unenclosed litter compartment; a compartment to temporarily hold filtered litter; and a pivotally mounted screen that filters out waste material from the litter. The second unit assembly is a support base having a motor mounted thereto that manipulates the first unit assembly, and contains a motion sensor and controller. The first unit assembly is partially rotated by the motor which causes litter and waste to move away from the litter compartment towards the temporary compartment. The screen filters litter and waste only allowing filtered litter to enter the temporary receptacle, forcing waste solids to pass by the temporary compartment into the waste receptacle. The motor reverses, and the filtered litter in the temporary receptacle is communicated back into the litter compartment by passing through and under or back through the screen.
US07647887B2
A thin film forming apparatus includes: a first electrode having a first discharge surface and a second electrode having a second discharge surface, the first discharge surface facing opposite to the second discharge surface to form a discharge space; a gas supply unit for supplying a gas including a thin film formation gas to the discharge space; a power source for discharging and activating the gas by applying a high frequency electric field across the discharge space; and a film transporting mechanism for transporting a protecting film for preventing at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode from being exposed to the activated gas, wherein a thin film is formed by exposing a substrate to the activated gas and, the protecting film is transported in contact with at least one of the first discharge surface and the second discharge surface and with at least a part of a surface other than the discharge surface which continues to the discharge surface.
US07647883B2
A fluid supply apparatus is provided for feeding a fluid to two faces relatively moving in a clearance direction, a continuous flow supplied from the fluid supply apparatus is converted to an intermittent flow by utilizing pressure change caused by a fluctuation of a clearance space of the relative moving faces, and an intermittent discharge quantity per dot is adjusted by the number of revolutions of the fluid supply apparatus.
US07647878B1
An apparatus for anchoring a boat to a bottom of a body of water is disclosed. The apparatus includes a base securely coupled to a transom of a boat and an elongated member having a proximal end hingably coupled to the base. The apparatus further includes a spear hingably coupled to a distal end of the elongated member, such that when the elongated member is positioned substantially horizontally, the spear is positioned substantially vertically so as to extend below a hull of the boat. The apparatus further includes a maneuvering arm hingably coupled to the elongated member for manually lowering the elongated member into a substantially horizontal position. The apparatus further includes a stopping member perpendicularly coupled to the distal end of the elongated member, so as to halt the spear from rotating beyond ninety degrees from the elongated member.
US07647869B2
A multi-ink marking structure for a hand stamp is made. A unitary foam member is provided and has a front surface, a rear surface and peripheral edges extending between the front surface and the rear surface. Selected locations of the foam member are sealed to form a barrier which extends at least substantially between the front surface and the rear surface and which divides the foam member into first and second regions adapted to store first and second inks, respectively. The barrier remains permanently connected to the first and second regions of the foam member. The barrier is adapted to prevent migration of inks between the first and the second regions. Print patterns are defined at the front surface.
US07647866B2
A griddle for cooking and preparing foods and more specifically a griddle for use with a gas or a propane outdoor grill or barbeque. The griddle can include a cooking surface, a trip tray, a first sidewall, a rear wall, a second sidewall, a first cross brace, and a second cross brace. The first sidewall can include a first upper sidewall and a first lower sidewall. The rear wall can include an upper rear wall and a lower rear wall. The second sidewall can include a second upper sidewall and a second lower sidewall. The griddle can include at least one aperture located in each of the first lower sidewall, the lower rear wall, the second lower sidewall, the first cross brace, and the second cross brace. The griddle can be made of a metal, which can be a stainless steel.
US07647860B2
A diaphragm for a diaphragm pump, which diaphragm is asymmetrical about its longitudinal axis wherein the diaphragm has a central portion and a surrounding annular convolute portion. The convolute portion has a minimum depth and a maximum depth at diametrically opposed positions of the annular convolute. The convolute depth gradually increases from the minimum depth to the maximum depth between the diametrically opposed positions along each opposing half-section of the annular convolute. The invention also provides a diaphragm pump with the asymmetrical diaphragm.
US07647855B2
An electrically-operated chuck opening-closing device includes a chuck that grasps workpiece, a conversion device with a control gear provided to the outer circumference, a drawbar that couples the conversion device and the chuck, a transmission gear provided to a main spindle, a second rotary shaft rotatably pivoted to be parallel to the main spindle, a first gear and a second gear rotatably provided on the second rotary shaft, an auxiliary motor that drives the first gear, a first clutch that can couple and decouple the auxiliary motor and the second rotary shaft, and a second clutch that can couple and decouple the second rotary shaft and the second gear.
US07647853B2
Feed back vibrations of a metallic tool generated during the machining of metallic workpieces are damped by detecting an oscillatory motion of the tool, identifying a frequency of the oscillatory motion and generating a mechanical camping force having the same frequency as the oscillatory motion and applied to the tool in counter-direction to a velocity of the oscillatory motion. The damping force can be of constant amplitude or gradually decreasing amplitude.
US07647846B2
The object of this invention is to provide a gas sampling system capable of taking discreet samples from a continuous flow of gas or fluid. Said apparatus offers a frame (1) and mounting components in the form of a fixed chuck (4) and a spring-loaded chuck with a sample container (5) mounted there between. The sampling container has self-sealing end cap valve assemblies (76) that automatically open when the sample container (5) communicates with the fixed chuck (4) and the spring loaded chuck (6) and the end cap valve assembly automatically closes when the sample container is removed. A value system allows the gas flow to be directed from one sample container to the other alternatively opening and closing a gas flow path. A sample extraction assembly (14) allows the efficient removal of samples from the sample containers. An extension rod pressurizer (117) in conjunction with the end cap value assembly, such as first end cap valve assembly (76) allow the sample to be pressurized to facilitate easy sample removal.
US07647841B2
A process for operating a Coriolis mass flow rate measurement device which has at least one measurement tube, the measurement tube being excited into vibrations with a predetermined excitation frequency and a predetermined excitation phase. The response phase which is achieved thereby and the rate of change of the response phase are detected and the excitation frequency is changed by the frequency amount which arises based on a predetermined function from the detected rate of change of the response phase. This makes it possible to maintain continuous measurement of the mass rate of flow even if two-phase flows occur.
US07647838B2
A sensor element capable of appropriately detecting an external force operating three-dimensionally is provided. The sensor element has an electrically conductive elastic member whose electrical property changes when compressed or expanded by an external force, and a plurality of electrode elements, which are capable of receiving power supply, for measuring electric properties from outside. The plurality of electrode elements are grouped into one or more sets, each having a predetermined number of electrode elements, for measuring electrical properties, and the electrode elements constituting a set are arranged three-dimensionally inside and on the surface of the conductive elastic member.
US07647835B2
A pressure sensor stress isolation pedestal including a pressure sensor mounted in a housing with a circuit board. The sensor is bonded to a relatively tall pedestal. The height of the pedestal creates a stiff mounting structure that isolates the sensor from mechanical stress. The pedestal is formed by making a recess or moat-like structure around the pressure sensor in the housing that supports the sensor. Preferred sensors are MEMS type Pressure Sensors.
US07647833B1
A pressure sensing apparatus (1) includes an elastically deformable pressure-sensitive diaphragm assembly (13) having a pressure-sensitive metal or metal alloy diaphragm (14). A functional filled dielectric layer (25) is on the diaphragm and includes a base dielectric material and at least one CTE raising filler. A CTE of the functional filled dielectric layer provides a CTE @ 800° C.≧8 ppm/° C., such as ≧10 ppm/° C. A plurality of piezoresistive elements (27) are on the functional filled dielectric layer (25).
US07647829B2
A method of examining a steam generator heat exchange tube from the outside surface employing ultrasonic nondestructive inspection techniques. An ultrasonic transducer contacts the outside surface of the tube and transmits a pseudo helical Lamb wave into the wall of the tube chosen to have a mode that does not significantly interact with water in the tube. The reflected waves are then analyzed for changes in modes to identify defects in the wall of the tube.
US07647822B2
Modifications to the indenter probe tips and transducer, and proper selection of optics in an indentation system allow straight down optical viewing of the sample surface under the indentation tip by a microscope, by providing an optical path through the transducer from the sample surface under the tip to a microscope objective, thereby simplifying alignment of the tip to features on the sample.
US07647814B2
An environment difference detector includes an elastic surface wave element equipped with a substrate including a surface having an annular surface acoustic wave circulating path, a surface acoustic wave exciting/receiving unit exciting a surface acoustic wave along the circular path and receiving the circulated surface acoustic wave, and a sensitive film disposed on the circular path to change an elastic nature in accordance with a change in an adjacent environment, a speed/intensity measuring unit measuring a circulating speed and intensity of the surface acoustic wave from an electric signal generated by the unit when the unit receives the circulating surface acoustic wave, and an environment evaluation unit evaluating an environment adjacent to the sensitive film from at least one of the circulating speed and the intensity measured by the unit.
US07647810B2
A solid particle counting system for measuring solid particle number concentrations from engine or vehicle exhausts in real-time includes an evaporation unit, a diluter arrangement, and a particle counter. The diluter arrangement mixes the dilution gas with the gases from the evaporation unit at a dilution ratio, and the diluter arrangement includes a flow meter located upstream of the evaporation unit for measuring the flow of gases into the evaporation unit which, in turn, flow into the diluter arrangement.
US07647801B2
A system for ultrasonically peeing surfaces includes a sonotrode comprising a body material and a vibrating surface, the vibrating surface coated with a coating material having a hardness greater than the body material, a treatment chamber defined at least in part by the vibrating surface, and at least one piece of shot within the treatment chamber to be excited by the vibrating surface of the sonotrode, the at least one piece of shot having a hardness greater than or equal to 800 HV.
US07647783B2
A diagnostic system and method for a compressor assembly including a compressor and a motor protector includes logic circuitry associated with the motor protector and operable to analyze a status of the motor protector as a function of time and identify a specific fault cause. The diagnostic system also includes a demand signal sensor and a current sensor, wherein the logic circuitry is associated with the sensors to further enable the diagnostic system to determine a specific fault cause.
US07647779B2
A combustion system for an engine, such as a gas turbine engine is provided. The combustion system has a ceramic component, such as ceramic combustor liner, and at least one metal support component, such as a metal ring or a plurality of metal cones, for providing radial and axial support to the ceramic component. The at least one metal support component includes a structure, such as axial slots or radial slots, for minimizing stress and for increasing compliance of the metal support component with respect to the ceramic component.
US07647774B2
A cryogenic and thermal source cogeneration method for converting energy from a heat source, through a cryogenic heat transfer process, into mechanical and/or electrical energy, comprising, utilizing a vapor compression cycle (2) to absorb heat from the heat source and, utilizing a Rankine cycle (4) for energy transfer, for converting thermal energy to mechanical and/or electrical energy.
US07647773B1
The present invention features geothermal systems that use of a well field open loop scheme by interconnecting the well field through a system of mains and controlled branches, the latter composed of multiple (2-5) wells. The proposed design lends itself to the use of modular well field kits that minimize installation cost, insures equal return water distribution to the active wells, creates standardization and insures best practices. The benefits of individual branch control include the ability to serve the building load in staged delivery, thereby minimizing well field parasitic load, and maximizing the time available for well field thermal relaxation and availability.
US07647768B1
An automatic transmission consisting of a housing to support multiple torque converters in series with each other. The housing is used to align the converters, direct the output of the first converter to the second and so on. The housing also provides paths for the fluid to enter and leave the converter and to operate the lock-up feature of each converter. The output of each torque converter turbine is fed to the next torque converter so that the next converter can further act on the ratio as needed until the final output is fed to a gear set to provide a reverse gear or locking mechanism.
US07647767B2
Subject To enable an appropriate operation of an exhaust gas purifying apparatus which uses urea or the like as a reducing agent, and further, to enable the stable concentration detection and the stable supply of the reducing agent during the cold months and also to prevent the generation of ammonia series gas during the severe hot months.Means for solving the SubjectAn exhaust gas purifying apparatus in an engine 1 is for supplying the urea water in a storage tank 20 to a reduction catalyst 3 disposed in an exhaust system. In this exhaust gas purifying apparatus, a concentration detecting device 60 is disposed in the storage tank 20, and the detected concentration of the urea water is adopted as basic information for the supply control of the reducing agent. Further, a heating device heating the reducing agent in the storage tank 20 and a cooling device cooling this reducing agent are disposed, to heat, preferably, the reducing agent in the vicinity of a detecting section 61 of the concentration detecting device 60 and the reducing agent in the vicinity of an inlet port 12 of a supply pipe 12.
US07647758B1
A scraper device for connection to the knife connector in a rotary cutterhead and for rotation therewith that prevents debris from accumulating in the space between the knife and the cutterhead housing and which also dislodges accumulated debris from areas adjacent to the space between the knife and the cutterhead housing.
US07647754B2
This invention relates to a lawn mower. In certain example embodiments, the lawn mower may be of the walk-behind type. In certain example embodiments of this invention, the lawn mower may have one or more of: (a) an improved handlebar weldment assembly, (b) an improved operator presence control (OPC) system and structure, (c) an improved speed control system structure, (d) an improve cam bar system for hydraulic pump control, (e) a return-to-neutral biasing system that biases hand lever(s) toward a neutral position but only from a reverse position (not from a forward position), and/or (f) an improved tracking adjustment system.
US07647746B2
A capper head for general purpose usable even when the specifications of a cap including thread pitches are changed without using a fixed gear and a lifting cam determining a lifting stroke and the timing thereof. The rotational output of a servo motor (2) is transmitted to a screw mechanism (4) through a sliding engagement section (3), and a screw shaft (17) is lowered while rotating for capping. The lowering stroke of the screw shaft (17) is allowed by the sliding engagement section (3). In capping, even if the strokes of a rotating chuck (7) and an output shaft (31) are different from the lowering stroke by the screw mechanism (4), a stroke difference absorption section (5) absorbs the stroke difference therebetween since a spring (23) in combination with a spline transmitting the rotation is deflected in the axial direction.
US07647742B2
A method for constructing a high rise building having a core and a residence space around the core, the method including (a) installing a steel-frame pillar on a shaft portion of the core; (b) connecting a girder to the steel-frame pillar, the girder includes an anchor-connecting member to which a steel-frame beam is connected, a portion of the anchor-connecting member being buried in a core wall; (a) assembling the steel-frame beam on the anchor-connecting member; (d) arranging reinforcing bars in a deck plate or a slab type mold installed on the steel-frame beam, and in the core wall; and (e) applying a slab concrete and a core concrete simultaneously or in this order. The quality of the core and slab structure is improved, while providing the construction safety and saving the construction costs.
US07647736B2
A protective device for use in protecting an end of an I beam, the protective device comprising a front element having a front, a rear and a pair of sides, the sides being formed of first and second side walls which taper inwardly from the rear to form a narrow front surface, and an element for securing the front element to the end of the I beam.
US07647731B2
A prefabricated building module includes a rectangular floor structure, three walls and a trussed roof structure enclosing a ceiling space with two end walls pivoted about the short sides of the floor structure, the third wall pivoted at its lower end to a long side of the floor structure and the roof structure pivoted at the upper end of said side wall such that said walls and roof structure fold onto the floor structure to form a flat pack with the same footprint as the floor structure. The roof structure comprises a ceiling and upright roof trusses pivoted to the ceiling which fold down within the plan of the roof and the walls have provision for doors and windows.
US07647728B2
Sliding doors with cam guides for coplanar closing, particularly for pieces of furniture or similars
Sliding doors, e.g., for pieces of furniture, particularly of the kind with two shutters and reduced height, having coplanar closing and opening by overlapping of the shutters. Support and translation of each shutter is provided by a respective clamp placed on the edge of the outer side, the clamp being linked to a pair of little carriages that can slide transversally with respect to the same shutter, because they are supported and guided by a respective carriage, which in turn can slide longitudinally along the edge of an opening, the respective carriage being led by a rail and control tracks, and engaged by a loose roller that constrains the respective carriage into a couple of longitudinal cams or grooves.
US07647726B2
The present invention relates to a device for covering a plant growing medium. The device includes a sheet that defines an aperture. One or more protrusions extends from the sheet to engage a top surface of the plant growing medium. A wall is integrally attached to each edge of the sheet. Each wall has a series of ridges.
US07647719B2
The present invention is a replacement gunstock assembly for rifles. The assembly comprises a stock body with a uniform mounting structure and one of a series of adapters made to accept the mounting structure and then mount, in turn, on a given rifle platform. Also disclosed is attachment structure for holding the stock body and adapter together, specifically a pair of plates and a set of bores in the modules through which a pair of bolts pass and other interfacing surface geometry.
US07647718B2
A multi-panel fold-out device made from a blank includes at least first, second, and third panels which are joined together in sequence, and formed by separation lines between the first, second, and third panels. The first and second panels each have an internal panel portion including a score line adjacent to an edge of the panel. Each internal panel portion is releasably secured to its panel such that the internal panel portion can be pivoted around its score line relative to its panel. The first panel is foldable over, along the first separation line, to secure the first panel to the second panel. The first and second panels are foldable under, along the second separation line, to secure the first and second panels to the third panel. The first and second internal panel portions are of different sizes so that these panels can be folded out in sequence.
US07647714B2
An attachment structure for a load bearing fabric. The attachment structure includes interfitted inner and outer rings. The outer ring includes a fabric leg 74 carrying a load bearing fabric. The inner ring defines a channel receiving the fabric leg 74. The inner ring and outer ring are configured to stretch the fabric upon insertion of the fabric leg 74 into the channel. The present invention also provides a method for securing a load bearing fabric to a support structure, generally including the steps of (a) providing an outer ring having fabric leg 74, (b) attaching a section of load bearing fabric to the fabric leg 74, (c) providing an inner ring having a channel adapted to receive the leg of the outer ring and (d) installing the outer ring to the inner ring by inserting the leg into the channel, the insertion forcing the fabric down into the channel and stretching the fabric to the desired tension.
US07647706B2
A method for scanning a surface of a workpiece 1 at a constant scanning speed /va/ using a scanning probe 2 mounted on a support 3 on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) 4. The CMM contains a first set of drive means (6, 7, 8) to move the support according to three linear axis (x,y,z), and the support 3 contains a second set of drive means (14, 17) for actuating the movement of the scanning probe 2 with two degrees of freedom relative to said support 3. The method involves control means 33 coupled to the sets of drive means (6, 14, 17), and memory means for storing theoretical profiles and coordinates of the surface to scan.
US07647701B1
A guard for a folding knife which guard protects the fingers of the user when the blade is open. The guards may be lifted by the movement of the blade by a link, spring, lifting pin, gears, underside of the blade or hooked by thumb stud or back of blade or by a flipping motion due to the contour of the handles. The guards may be of various shapes and may be recessed in an out-of-the-way position when the blade is closed. The guards may extend at opposite sides of the blade and opposite sides of the handle. The guards are adaptable to a wide variety of folding knife styles.
US07647690B2
A sleeve housing for a motor includes a bearing member, which includes a cylindrical portion and a collar portion and is formed by press working or by forging. The bearing member is retained by a retaining portion which is a portion of a cutting tool and which relatively rotates with respect to the cutting tool in a concentric manner with a predetermined rotation axis in order to execute a cutting process on a lower portion of the collar portion with reference to an upper portion thereof, so as to effectively form the sleeve housing with very high precision.
US07647680B2
A nose assembly for fitting onto a fastener installation tool for installing fasteners of the type in which a part of the fastener is broken off during the installation process, the nose being provided with a housing and a sleeve, the sleeve having a spring, and a collar which is movable within the housing against resistance of the spring, wherein plunger means are provided on the collar, and wherein the sleeve is threadably engaged with the collar, such that movement of the sleeve causes corresponding movement of the collar and plunger means, the plunger means being arranged to actuate a trigger thereby to open an air valve and allow a flow of compressed air through the tool, thereby to allow installation of the fastener into a workpiece.
US07647677B2
A double locking snap hook (100, 200, 300) includes a gate (120, 220, 320) reinforced by a lock (160, 260, 360), which enables the double locking snap hook (100, 200, 300) to withstand a tensile load of up to at least 3,600 pounds.
US07647676B2
A universal cradle apparatus having a telescoping clamping mechanism formed of a drive frame and a cooperating drive shaft that is movable along a common operating axis with first and second mounting surfaces each positioned on a respective one of the drive frame and the drive shaft, and first and second jaw structures each being coupled to a respective one of the drive frame and the drive shaft adjacent to the respective mounting surface thereof, each of the jaw structures having a respective clamping surface thereon and forming mutually opposing interior clamping surfaces arranged adjacent to the mounting surfaces positioned therebetween, and the clamping surface on the second jaw structure being spaced above and inclined toward the respective mounting surface and resiliently flexible relative thereto.
US07647675B2
A suspension belt end connector has first and second wrapping elements that are arranged in a housing. The housing may have a back wall, side walls and an open side opposite to the back wall. The side walls taper and form with the back wall and a yoke a suspension unit to accommodate a suspension bolt. The end connector supports a poly V belt which serves as a suspension element. The belt is laid around the first wrapping element in a first loop, around the second wrapping element in a second loop, and again around the first wrapping element in a third loop that runs opposite to the first loop. The end of the belt is then held fast by means of a clamp or wedging device. Ribs of the first and third loops mutually engage, as a result of which the coefficient of friction in the engaged section of the belt is increased.
US07647669B2
A novel blade assembly for windshield wipers is provided herein. The blade assembly mainly contains a number of tubular segments cascaded in series by a number of connectors. At least a flexible strip is threaded through the series-connected tubular segments to provide even distribution of pressure against the windshield. Each connector has a body for sticking into the two neighboring tubular segments so as to cascade the two tubular segments together. The body of the connectors has at least a through channel for the flexible strip's passing through. The aperture of the through channel decreases from the two ends towards the center of the body, making the blade assembly easier to bend and more conforming to the windshield's curvature.
US07647656B2
A segmented sleeping bag is provided that can be used as a sleeping bag or can be transversely separated into constituent parts for alternative uses. In one alternative, one or more of the constituent parts may be used with a host sleeping bag to provide enhanced performance properties. In another alternative, one or more of the constituent parts of the segmented sleeping bag may be used as an article of clothing, such as a parka or cagoule.
US07647653B1
An exemplary embodiment includes a soap dispenser designed to fit into a water faucet having a stopper-closing lift rod. The rod is removed, and the dispenser tube is inserted into the faucet base hole and down under the counter where the tube is connected to a reservoir of liquid soap. Pressing down on the top of the soap dispenser produces liquid soap through a soap spout above the water faucet spout. Pulling up on the dispenser closes the sink stopper, and pushing down opens the sink stopper. The method of doing the retrofit is also claimed, as well as electrically and mechanically operated versions.
US07647648B2
A medical isolation gown is disclosed. The gown is to be used by medical personnel treating isolated patients with contagious diseases. The gown comprises slots and pouches that can be used to isolate the worker and his or her instruments from contamination when examining or attending the patient.
US07650645B1
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide for trusted transactions between a device and system memory. In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a host processor asserts and de-asserts trust over a virtual wire. The device accesses certain data if the host processor provides a trusted instruction for it to do so. Once the device attempts to access this certain data, or perform a certain type of data access, a memory controller allows the access on the condition that the host processor previously made the trusted instruction. The device then accepts data if trust is asserted during the data transfer.
US07650643B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a data management system, apparatus and process for uniquely identifying and protecting data. In preferred embodiments, the data management system comprises a data management server, a key generator, a source print generator and a source print detector. In some preferred embodiments, the data management system further comprises a data embedding system. Keys are created by the data management system for application to source files to create a fingerprint for the source file. The fingerprint is compared to unknown files to identify uses of the source file.
US07650640B1
Data streams are scanned to detect malicious jump-call-pop shellcode constructs used in attacks against stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities on software executing in the IA32 architecture prior to execution. Upon a detection of a malicious jump-call-pop shellcode construct, protective action is taken, such as preventing the malicious shellcode from executing.
US07650638B1
The present invention provides for the receipt of a heartbeat message transmitted from a software agent within a host machine to a server-based agent manager. The server-based agent manager analyzes the heartbeat message to determine the identity of the sending software agent. The server-based agent manager then determines what information is to be included in a response message to the software agent. The server-based agent manager prepares the response message to be sent to the software agent. The server-based agent manager transmits the response message to the software agent over a bi-directional communication link between the software agent and the server-based agent manager. The software agent receives the response message; deserializes the response message; reviews the instructions within the response message; and performs operations necessary to carry out the instructions delivered in the response message.
US07650632B2
A password management solution which provides a user with convenient access to multiple resources (e.g. systems and services), and also provides the flexibility to establish varying password security requirements for each resource is disclosed. In an embodiment, there is provided a password registry for registering resources and securely storing user ID and encrypted password information. An unencrypted user-provided password may be encrypted by a process associated with each resource, using an encryption algorithm specific to that resource, before storage of the encrypted password in the password registry. An encrypted password retrieved from the password registry may be decrypted by a process associated with each resource using a decryption algorithm specific to that resource.
US07650630B2
UIMID of a UIM 50 owned by the owner of a portable phone 40 is stored in an owner information registration area 410b of phone 40. A CPU 405 of portable phone 40, upon receiving content, compares a UIMID of a UIM 50 inserted in phone 40 to the UIMID registered in owner information registration area 410b. The storing of the content in a nonvolatile memory 410 is permitted only when the two UIMIDs agree with each other.
US07650629B2
Architecture for providing access to an IEEE 802.1x network. A trust relationship is created between a switch of the network and an access point of the network such that the access point is authorized to communicate over the network. The trust relationship is then extended from the access point to a wireless client requesting connection to the network such that access to the network by said wireless client is authorized.
US07650626B2
The present invention provides a service system of a thumbnail image and transmitting/receiving method thereof, by which a thumbnail image service of high quality of service and various application services can be provided to a user and by which a broadcasting station or thumbnail image service provider produces to transmit the thumbnail image to reduce a price of a broadcast receiver. The present invention includes a transmitting unit generating at least one thumbnail image for a specific program to transfer on a transport channel and a receiving unit demodulating the transferred at least one thumbnail image to display or store.
US07650612B2
A transport arm device for carrying at least one disc includes a driving mechanism, a sway control member, and a swaying mechanism. The sway control member comprises a hole substantially in the middle of the sway control member for receiving a portion of the driving mechanism and two leaf springs extending up from two sides of the sway control member respectively. The swaying mechanism is capable of grabbing the discs. The swaying mechanism comprises a rotating connection for engaging with a suspension of the transport arm device. The two leaf springs are contacted with the swaying mechanism. The sway control member is moved by the driving mechanism so as to rotate the swaying mechanism along a rotary axis on the rotating connection, and the two leaf springs provide elasticity for the swaying mechanism rotating back.
US07650610B2
A detection hole 34 is provided in a tray 30, on which a cartridge type recording medium is mounted and housed, at a position corresponding to an information hole of a cartridge, a detection lever 35 is provided on a back surface of the tray 30 on the lower surface side of the detection hole 34, and a switch section 111 is provided on a frame 10 on the lower surface side of the detection lever 35 while the tray 30 is housed within the frame 10. Accordingly, the switch section 111 can be separated from the motion of a base since the switch section 111 is fixed to the frame 10, and consequently, the structure can be simplified and the space efficiency can be enhanced.
US07650605B2
A multi-streaming processor has a plurality of streams for streaming one or more instruction threads, a set of functional resources for processing instructions from streams, and a lock mechanism for locking selected memory locations shared by streams of the processor, the hardware-lock mechanism operating to set a lock when an atomic memory sequence is started and to clear a lock when an atomic memory sequence is completed. In preferred embodiments the lock mechanism comprises one or more storage locations associated with each stream of the processor, each storage location enabled to store a memory address a lock bit, and a stall bit. Methods for practicing the invention using the apparatus are also taught.
US07650584B2
An ASIC includes a first-wire extended in a first-direction and a second-wire extended in a parallel direction to the first-wire and both are placed on a first-wire layer; and a third-wire placed on a second-wire layer above the first-wire layer and is extended above the wire and above the second-wire in a second-direction which intersects the first-direction and passing through a first via-hole is connected to the first-wire, and a fourth-wire separated from the third-wire extended in a parallel direction above the first-wire and above the second-wire and a fifth-wire separated from both the third-wire and the fourth-wire and extended in a parallel direction in a smallest space and passing through a second via-hole is connected to the second-wire, wherein, one end of the fifth-wire is extended to the center between the second-wire and the first-wire from above the second-wire.
US07650568B2
Handwritten shorthand is used and interpreted in a stylus-based interface to trigger expanded text, implement functions, and/or launch executable programs. A user may be able to select a type of shorthand entry to define, such as a text-expansion-type shorthand entry, a function-type shorthand entry, or a program-type shorthand entry. Upon receiving handwritten input, a computer may determine whether or not to interpret the handwritten input as shorthand, or whether to act upon the handwritten shorthand, depending upon the context in which it is written.
US07650555B2
A test system is disclosed wherein a device under test (DUT) includes a trace logic analyzer (TLA) that receives and stores test data. The test system includes both a master tester and a slave tester. The slave tester operates at a high speed data rate substantially faster than that of the master tester. The master tester instructs the TLA to monitor data that the DUT receives from the slave tester to detect a predetermined data pattern within the data. The slave tester transmits data including the predetermined data pattern to the DUT. The DUT receives the data. When the TLA in the DUT detects the predetermined data pattern in the received data, the TLA stores that data pattern as a stored data pattern. The master tester retrieves the stored data pattern and compares the stored data pattern with the original predetermined data pattern. If the master tester determines that the stored data pattern is the same as the original predetermined data pattern, then the master tester generates a pass result. Otherwise, the master tester generates a fail result. In one embodiment, the DUT includes multiple receivers and the system determines a pass/fail rating on a per receiver basis.
US07650548B2
A scannable flip-flop and method are provided. The flip-flop includes a clock input, a normal data input, a test data input, a normal data output and a scan data output. The flip-flop has a normal operating mode during which the normal data output is enabled and the scan data output disabled and has a scan-shift mode during which the normal data output is disabled and the scan data output is enabled.
US07650547B2
An apparatus for locating a defect in a scan chain by recording the last bit position in a serial data stream at which a certain data state is observed during a test comprising a plurality of patterns.
US07650546B2
A circuit comprises two or more chains of components, each chain comprising a plurality of components serially connected by designated pins on each component and at least one chain including one or more components of another chain, the designated pins being designated for data for one or more specific purposes. A selector is included for selecting one chain from the two or more chains over which to data is to be sent. Another circuit comprises a chain of components serially connected by designated pins on each component, and two or more controllers, each controller capable of controlling the chain for one or more of the specific purposes. A wiring board for implementing the circuit is also provided.
US07650544B2
Provided is a test mode control circuit capable of preventing an MRS (mode register set) from changing in a test mode exit after a test mode entry. In the test mode control circuit, an MRS controller logically combines an MRS signal, a bank address, an MRS address, and a test mode control signal to output a latch control signal. A test mode control unit detects a test mode entry and a test mode exit to selectively activate one of a test mode set signal and a test mode exit signal, and outputs the test mode control signal having different voltage levels according to an activation state of the test mode set signal or the test mode exit signal. An address latch latches an input address when the MRS signal is activated, and outputs the latched input address as the MRS address when the latch control signal is activated.
US07650543B2
A method and apparatus for conveying test stimulus data from an ATE system to an integrated circuit (IC) via a plesiochronous interconnect. The IC includes a core logic unit and a first receiver coupled to the core logic unit by a first data path. The first receiver includes an input having an interconnect coupled thereto. In a normal mode of operation, the first receiver is configured to receive data transmitted plesiochronously over the interconnect and to convey the data, via the first data path, to the core logic unit. The integrated circuit also includes a second data path coupled between the core logic unit and the interconnect. In a test mode, the core logic unit is configured to receive test stimulus data conveyed synchronously over the second data path, wherein the test stimulus data is received by the IC from the ATE via the interconnect.
US07650538B2
A method and system for ordering and aggregating log streams. Log streams for events from different sources are received. If different sources have different recording cycles, or time epochs, that lead to different temporal granularities, then all of the log streams are combined into a single time epoch that is equal to the longest time epoch. Log streams from sources having shorter time epochs continue to retain information about their original time epochs, in order to retain information about the order of the events in those log streams. The log streams are reordered, both before and after being integrated into the aggregate log, by acquiring additional data from the different sources, thus permitting the likely cause/effect relationship between events.
US07650536B2
To terminate startup of an application on an ASP side irrespective of checking on a user side whether or not the application is in the middle of processing. A monitoring device includes means monitoring an operating status of an information processing device for providing a service by starting up an information processing program to a user terminal specified by user identifying information, means judging whether or not the operating status of the information processing device meets a predetermined condition, means terminating the startup of the information processing program if the operating status meets the predetermined condition, and means notifying the user terminal of the termination of the startup of the information processing program.
US07650530B2
EEH methods are used during the boot process to actively disable a defective PCI adapter, thereby allowing the system boot to continue without disruption. This allows faulty adapters to be present in the machine without interrupting the boot process. The slots appear to be empty and the devices/adapters residing therein can be actively “hot swapped” out without altering the rest of the machine state.
US07650528B2
A system and method for making efficient use of fuse ROM redundancy to increase yield and security. Some embodiments provide a memory repair system including a non-volatile memory component and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory component. The non-volatile memory component includes a plurality of memory locations. The plurality of memory locations includes a replacement memory location to replace a faulty memory location and a replacement indicia memory location to store replacement memory location indicia. The controller coupled to the non-volatile memory component reads replacement memory location indicia from the replacement indicia memory location, determines an address for the replacement memory location using the indicia, reads the replacement memory location, and transfers a data value contained in the replacement memory location to a second memory component to repair a defective memory location of the second memory component.
US07650525B1
A method and apparatus for receiving clocked data signals such as SPI-4.2 data signals is described. In one embodiment, each data signal lane is deskewed with respect to the clock by oversampling the signal on that lane, and considering multiple versions of a data sequence at different temporal offsets to the clock for correct reception of a training sequence. One of the temporal offsets is subsequently selected to provide the received bit sequence for that lane. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07650524B2
The application relates to a circuit for storing a signal during sleep mode, said embodiments of the circuit comprising: a sleep signal input operable to receive a sleep signal; a clock signal input operable to receive a clock signal; a plurality of latches clocked by said clock signal, at least one tristateable device clocked by said clock signal, said at least one tristateable device being arranged at an input of at least one of said plurality of latches, said at least one tristateable device being operable to selectively isolate said input of said at least one latch in response to a predetermined clock signal value; clock signal distribution means operable to distribute said clock signal to said plurality of latches and said at least one tristateable device; wherein in response to a sleep signal said circuit is operable to: reduce a voltage difference across at least a portion of said circuit such that said portion of said circuit is powered down; and maintain a voltage difference across at least one storage latch, said at least one storage latch being said at least one of said plurality of latches; said clock signal distribution means being operable to hold said clock signal at said predetermined value such that said input of said storage latch is isolated.
US07650523B2
An interface apparatus is provided having a first register device and a second register device, which is connected in parallel with it. The register devices are configured to receive a data word. The interface apparatus includes a synchronization circuit, to which a first and a second clock signal is supplied and which is configured to emit a selection signal, which is derived from the first clock signal, for selection of the first or second register device for storage of a data word. The synchronization circuit is also configured to emit a control signal derived from the selection signal and the second clock signal, at a control output. The control output is coupled to a selection circuit, by means of which the output of one of the two register devices can be connected to the data output of the interface apparatus. Comparison of the selection signal with the second clock signal means that there is no need for an additional registration device.
US07650509B1
A password authentication mechanism is capable of determining whether a password has expired without referring to a database or other information repository. Additional information can be encoded in the password without unduly lengthening the password, so that the additional information can be extracted from the password when the user provides the password for authentication purposes. Thus, the password serves as an information-carrying data item as well as acting as an authentication mechanism. Such a password can be used, for example, to provide time-limited access to a vehicle in response to receipt of timely payment, and to disable the vehicle if payment is not made.
US07650505B1
A method for remote services authentication in an internet hosted environment includes a high level process and functionality for a secure, practical and logically optimized inter-network authentication mechanism by employees, partners and customers of an enterprise into the hosted Internet site. The lightweight authentication and authorization mechanism can be most effectively implemented in Java as part of the application or web server servlet. The method for remote services authentication includes initial secure password establishment, subsequent authentication and authorization, as well as authentication and authorization upon resuming previously run sessions with the hosted server using Internet cookies.
US07650500B2
An encryption communication system, comprising a communication relay device that connects a first network and a second network, for encrypting a communication within the first network and a communication within the second network in a network system configured so that communications are performed between a client in the first network and a server in the second network via the communication relay device, wherein the communication relay device comprises key generation unit generating an encryption key and a decryption key with respect to the client, and key transfer unit transmitting the encryption key and the decryption key to the server, and the server comprises frame receiving unit decrypting a receipt frame by use of the decryption key, and frame transmitting unit encrypting the frame by use of the encryption key and thus transmitting the frame.
US07650488B2
In an embodiment, a method is provided that may include providing a first address space exclusively and coherently accessible by a first processor core partition in a platform. A second address space may be provided in this embodiment that is exclusively and coherently accessible by a second processor core partition in the platform. Also in this embodiment, a third address space in the platform may be provided that is accessible, at least in part, by both the first and second processor core partitions and may be to permit communication between the first and second processor core partitions of at least one packet and at least one descriptor associated with the at least one packet. The at least one descriptor may indicate, at least in part, one or more locations in the third address space to store, at least in part, the at least one packet. Of course, many alternatives, modifications, and variations are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07650482B2
Enhanced shadow page table algorithms are presented for enhancing typical page table algorithms. In a virtual machine environment, where an operating system may be running within a partition, the operating system maintains it's own guest page tables. These page tables are not the real page tables that map to the real physical memory. Instead, the memory is mapped by shadow page tables maintained by a virtualing program, such as a hypervisor, that virtualizes the partition containing the operating system. Enhanced shadow page table algorithms provide efficient ways to harmonize the shadow page tables and the guest page tables. Specifically, by using tagged translation lookaside buffers, batched shadow page table population, lazy flags, and cross-processor shoot downs, the algorithms make sure that changes in the guest pages tables are reflected in the shadow page tables.
US07650473B1
A method of securely deleting data from a storage medium includes generating a bitmap that corresponds to unused locations on the storage medium; initiating a background process that wipes the unused locations, where the background process runs asynchronously with a user application; wiping the unused locations; and updating the bitmap to reflect that the unused locations have been wiped. The wiping replaces data at the unused locations with random sequences, with pseudo-random sequences, with data generated by a secure deletion algorithm, with application data from the user application, or with all zeros. The wiping includes repeated writing of predetermined sequences to the unused locations. The wiping replaces data at unused locations that represent portions of any of blocks, clusters and sectors, and can wipe any metadata associated with files previously stored at any of the unused locations. Upon a request for access of data from a wiped location, data that does not correspond to data originally stored at the wiped location can be returned.
US07650471B2
A technique includes identifying an address of a head end of a queue and monitoring a coherent interconnect to identify a data transfer that is communicated by a producer, which targets the address. The technique includes storing the data of the data transfer in the queue and selectively storing at least a portion of the data in a head-of-queue cache memory based at least in part on whether the monitoring identifies the address. At least a portion of the data is selectively retrieved from the head-of-queue cache memory instead of from the queue for transmission to a consumer.
US07650470B2
A storage apparatus is proposed for facilitating wireless communication between a computer device and one or more external portable electronic devices, or between those external devices. The storage apparatus includes a wireless transceiver for entering communication with any of one the devices. When the storage apparatus is communicating with any of the devices, it can transmit to that device any data stored in its memory for transmission to that device. Furthermore, the storage apparatus can receive from that device, and transmit to its memory, data to be relayed to another of the devices.
US07650462B2
In this invention, when execution of an special function executable only by a second storage control apparatus connected to a first storage control apparatus is requested by a higher-level apparatus, the special function is caused to be executed by a second storage control apparatus, and appropriate load balancing is achieved. An executing apparatus judgment section, upon receiving an execution request from a host, uses a function management section and a state detection section to decide which storage control apparatus should execute the function. An execution instruction section issues an instruction to execute the function to the function execution section of the storage control apparatus determined to be the executing apparatus. By this means, even in the case of an special function executable only by a storage control apparatus, the function can be caused to be executed. Hence a connection source storage control apparatus can appear to have increased functionality, without installing the function on the connection source storage control apparatus.
US07650461B2
A magnetic tape cartridge, a recording system, and a magnetic tape drive are configured to, for example, guard against tampering with a write once overwrite protection pointer which allows a rewritable magnetic tape to be treated as write once. In one embodiment, the magnetic tape cartridge comprises a magnetic tape and a cartridge memory. The magnetic tape is configured to provide at least one overwrite protection pointer, the overwrite protection pointer identifying data to be protected from being overwritten; and the cartridge memory is configured to provide the at least one overwrite protection pointer, the overwrite protection pointer identifying magnetic tape data to be protected from being overwritten.
US07650456B2
Conventionally, it has been impossible to use a virtual tape volume having the same volume serial number and different media. A computer implemented virtual tape system enables making definition of a virtual tape volume of another medium with the same volume serial number and definition of a virtual tape magazine of grouped virtual tape in a virtual tape management table. A virtual tape control mounts a virtual tape volume of a virtual tape magazine used in a job or a virtual tape volume on a virtual tape device based on a management table correlating the job with the virtual tape magazine or a command.
US07650455B2
A data communications apparatus includes a central device and a plurality of communication devices. The central device includes a plurality of central port pairs, in which each central port pair includes an input port and an output port. The plurality of communication devices is arranged in a spoke and ring configuration, in which each communication device is part of a communication spoke. Each communication spoke is in communication with a different central port pair. Each communication device is also a part of a communication ring, so that each communication device in a selected communication ring belongs to a different communication spoke.
US07650441B2
An electronic apparatus including a device capable of simultaneously reading and writing, and a method thereof. The present electronic apparatus includes a first device to generate and output a Command containing a Read_Start_Address, a Write_Start_Address, and Write_Data in a header, and a second device to receive the Command to enable data to be recorded. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the time required to communicate data between devices.
US07650440B2
A method of performing a direct memory access has the steps of selecting a peripheral device for performing a direct memory access through a direct memory access controller; providing a partial address by the peripheral device to the direct memory access controller; and forming the source or destination address by combining the partial address with selected bits from a source register within the direct memory access controller.
US07650429B2
A method is disclosed for preventing compressed keys from being aliased across multiple hash tables. A special hashing technique is used to produce hash keys and compressed keys that make such aliasing avoidable. Given a first input key K, a second and different input key K′, a first hash function H0 that produces a first hash key as an index into a first hash table, a second hash function H1 that produces a second hash key as an index into a second hash table, a first compression function L0 that produces a first compressed key for the first hash table, and a second compression function L1 that produces a second compressed key for the second hash table, functions H0, H1, L0, and L1 are selected in such a way that H0(K)=H0(K′) and L0(K)=L0(K′) if and only if H1(K)=H1(K′) and L1(K)=L1 (K′).
US07650427B1
Techniques are provided for using the mobility support features of IPv6 to allow client and server nodes to communicate without the continuing intervention of a load-balancing node that selected the server node. A load-balancing node intercepts a TCP SYN packet addressed to a virtual IP address. The load-balancing node selects a server node from among multiple server nodes, and sends the packet toward the server node. The server node sends an IPv6 packet toward the client node. The packet contains a Binding Update option that specifies the virtual IP address as a Home Address. This information causes the client node to replace destination addresses in outgoing IP packets so that packets that the client node would have sent toward the virtual IP address are sent toward the selected server node's IP address instead. Consequently, the IP packets are routed toward the selected server node instead of the load-balancing node.
US07650424B2
A subnet of an information network includes one or more mobile hosts, and a first interface of a home router. The first interface and the mobile hosts are assigned corresponding group addresses. Unicast addresses of packets received at a second interface of the home router and destined to members of the subnet, are mapped to the member's group addresses. Each mobile host sends a request to join a group corresponding to the group address assigned to the host, whenever the host links with the network at a new point of attachment. Thus, network routers can track the host as it moves its link with the network from one point of attachment to another, and unicast packets destined to the mobile host from a host outside the subnet are routed to the mobile host over the virtual link created between the home router and the mobile host.
US07650423B2
A system and a method for providing update information. The system includes a client computer which is operably connected to a program information server. The program information server maintains one or more program information items. The system also includes a program selection server which allows the user to select which of the program information items are to viewed by the user. Based upon a dynamically adjustable polling period, the client computer requests the program information server to provide the client computer new program information items. The program information items include one or more media items that may be selected for viewing by a user positioned at the client computer. The client computer provides a newness indicator to the user, the newness indicator indicating to the user when one or more items of the media content is new and has not been previously viewed by the user.
US07650414B2
A system and method for the management of common consumption of media in a media exchange network is disclosed. Various embodiments of the present invention provide for control by a first user at a first location in a media exchange network of the simultaneous consumption of media content by other users at other locations in the media exchange network. The media content consumed may comprise audio, still pictures, video, and data. The first user may consume the media content simultaneous with the consumption of the other users, and the media content may be stored at the location of the first user, or at other locations in the media exchange network.
US07650412B2
A system and method for disk ownership in a network storage system. Each disk has two ownership attributes set to show that a particular file server owns the disk. In a preferred embodiment the first ownership attribute is the serial number of the file server being written to a specific location on each disk and the second ownership attribute is setting a SCSI-3 persistent reservation. In a system utilizing this disk ownership method, multiple file servers can read data from a given disk, but only the file server that owns a particular disk can write data to the disk.
US07650410B2
The Web service-providing device receives a request message demanding the Web service through a communication device. When the Web service-providing device transfers the processing of the Web service demanded by the request message to another Web service-providing device and demands the return of a response message containing the request result, it sends a request message with a destination-of-return information header appointing itself as the receiver of the response message through the communication device and executes the transfer. If the Web service-providing device itself has executed the processing transferred through a request message containing the destination-of-return information header, it sends a response message containing the request result to the destination designated in the destination-of-return information header through the communication device.
US07650405B2
A system that facilitates tracking and tracing products in an industrial environment comprises a reception component that receives data indicative of location of entities within an industrial environment, wherein the data conforms to a hierarchically structured data model. A monitoring component facilitates tracking and tracing the entities across process boundaries. Tracking refers to a process of uniformly building a track of objects that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in, or disposed of usage. Similarly, tracing is the process of uniformly generating a sample of traces of objects that are forwarded to, processed for, applied in, or disposed of usage.
US07650402B1
A method for tracking information in a network environment is provided that includes receiving a packet included within a request that is associated with an end user and communicating the packet to a selected one of a plurality of gateways. An object may be built that correlates an internet protocol (IP) address associated with the end user to the selected gateway such that the object may be used to direct subsequently received packets associated with the end user to the selected gateway. Subsequently received packets may be directed based on end-user IP address information included in the subsequently received packets.
US07650395B2
Network connectivity management can manage (e.g., harmonize) network connectivity services and network connectivity modules. By way of example only, network connectivity management is applicable to connections to a network through a network connectivity service via a network connectivity module. In a described implementation, network connectivity configuration information is scanned to locate data that corresponds to a preferred network connectivity service for a given connection scenario. The network connectivity module used in the given connection scenario is extracted. It is detected if the extracted network connectivity module is a preferred network connectivity module that is associated with the preferred network connectivity service. If not, the connection scenario can be redirected away from the non-preferred network connectivity module and toward the preferred network connectivity module. A user may optionally be given an opportunity to elect to connect via the preferred network connectivity module.
US07650394B2
A client replication component of a replication system sends to a server replication component of the replication system a request to update a target email recipient list. In response to the request, the server replication component sends to the client replication component a list of hashed blocks representing the target email recipient list. The client replication component generates a list of hashed blocks representing a local email recipient list, and compares the locally-generated list of hashed blocks to the list of hashed blocks received from the server replication component to identify the hashed blocks in the lists of hashed blocks that are different. The client replication component then sends to the server replication component the blocks of the local email recipient list that correspond to the identified, different hashed blocks for updating on the target email recipient list.
US07650388B2
Systems and methods provide an acknowledgement protocol on completion of data transmission. A coupler board of a wireless identification system interfaces between a host processor of the wireless identification system and a replaceable unit monitor. The coupler board transmits data to the replaceable unit monitor. The replaceable unit monitor transmits an acknowledgement signal to the coupler board to indicate successful completion of the data transmission.
US07650382B1
A domain (101) has a primary e-mail server (103) with an e-mail delivery address (109), and at least one backup e-mail server (105) with an e-mail delivery address (111). A trap manager (115) adds at least one trap e-mail delivery address (113) to an e-mail delivery address list (107) associated with the domain (101), the trap e-mail delivery address (113) resembling a backup e-mail server delivery address (111) and pointing to the trap manager (115). The trap manager (115) receives (201) e-mail sent to the trap address (113), and determines whether received e-mail comprises spam (119).
US07650378B2
A method and system for enabling a script on a first computer to communicate and exchange data with a script on a second computer so as to provide access by the script to data typically inaccessible by a script. The method and system enable a first computer to control the Internet navigation of a second computer, and also enable instant messaging between a first computer and a member of a synchronization group. The computers may be connectable with each other over any type of network (e.g., LAN, WAN, intranet, Internet, cellular, etc.).
US07650376B1
The invention facilitates the distribution of content over a network (e.g., the Internet, a television network) and, in particular, the distribution of high-bandwidth (i.e., data intensive) content, such as video content or customized content. At least one of the sites of the network (a “core server”) is controlled (at least in part) by an entity that desires to distribute content to one or more other network sites (“client(s)”) at which the content is to be used. In accordance with the invention, a core server uses one or more other network sites (“node server(s)”) to distribute content on behalf of the core server to one or more clients. In particular, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, the entit(ies) having control (at least in part) of each of one or more network sites (node server(s)) can be recruited to use their site(s) to distribute content on behalf of a core server to one or more clients.
US07650371B2
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a software transactional memory system that supports allocation and use of finalizable objects inside transactions. By supporting such finalizable object usage inside a software transactional memory system, correct behavior is maintained when a garbage collector must determine when a particular one or more of the objects are eligible for finalization. A to-be-finalized set is provided for a transaction. An object is placed into the to-be-finalized set for the transaction whenever a finalizable object is allocated within the transaction. A finalize indicator is set for each object in the to-be-finalized set at an appropriate time to indicate that the objects are eligible for finalization. For example, if the transaction is ready to commit and the transaction is an open transaction, then the to-be-finalized set is traversed and a finalize indicator is set for each object to indicate they are eligible for finalization.
US07650369B2
A control device 10 at a main center, in order for an update carried out in an operation database device M to be also conducted in an operation database device S at a sub-center, generates and transmits a differential log file 16 to a control device 20 at the sub-center. The control device 20 at the sub-center, when receiving a differential log file 22, updates the operation database device S on the basis of the log information in the differential log file 22, and accumulates the log information in a recovery log file 26. The log information of a recovery point set at the main center is incorporated into this recovery log file 26.
US07650362B2
In one embodiment, the method includes reading control information including version information from a specific area of the recording medium. The version information includes a first version information and a second version information. At least one of the first version information and the second version information is used to determine a backward compatibility with respect to reading or writing of the recording medium. A recording/reproducing of data on/from the recording medium is controlled based on the version information.
US07650349B2
The subject invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates prescribing a navigation within an application utilizing a topology and a navigation path. The topology is created based upon received metadata and is a network of node objects and link objects. The navigation path is a sequential list over the topology that represents a sub-graph thereof. A prescribing component can create the topology and navigation path such that a prescribed navigation can be utilized by an application during navigation (e.g., exploration) during runtime.
US07650348B2
Standard word lists that are often used for such operations as predictive text, spell checking, and word completion are based on general linguistic data that might not accurately reflect actual text usage patterns of particular users. Systems and methods of building and using a custom word list for use in text operations on an electronic device are provided. A collection of text items associated with a user of the electronic device is scanned to identify words in the text items. A weighting is then assigned to each identified word, and the words and corresponding weightings are stored.
US07650331B1
A large-scale data processing system and method includes one or more application-independent map modules configured to read input data and to apply at least one application-specific map operation to the input data to produce intermediate data values, wherein the map operation is automatically parallelized across multiple processors in the parallel processing environment. A plurality of intermediate data structures are used to store the intermediate data values. One or more application-independent reduce modules are configured to retrieve the intermediate data values and to apply at least one application-specific reduce operation to the intermediate data values to provide output data.
US07650318B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided with a behavior determining apparatus including: an elemental-behavior extracting unit configured to extract, from trajectory data in which positions of a traveling body in an observation area are held at predetermined time intervals, L (L is an integer equal to or larger than 1) elemental behavior quantities among a stopping time, a stop frequency, a walking time, a running time, a direction change frequency, a sum of angle change quantities at the times when the traveling body changes a traveling direction, a sum of absolute values of angle change quantities at the times when the traveling body changes a traveling direction, a gravitational center set vector, and a pre-stop average speed; and a behavior determining unit configured to determine a behavior of the traveling body from the L elemental behavior quantities.
US07650312B2
A method and a system for securely transmitting a digital content in a digital right management (DRM) network, the method comprising partitioning the digital content into a plurality of fragments. The method further comprises associating each fragment with a license key. Each fragment is encrypted with the corresponding license key and are sent to an electronic device in response to receiving a request for the digital content.
US07650311B2
The present invention provides according to an embodiment a method of reproducing digital content, comprising the steps of: (a) reading a position information where a sample data is present, the sample data being same as a portion of digital content and not encrypted; and (b) reproducing the sample data based on the read position information without a key information, the key information required for decrypting an encrypted digital content.
US07650308B2
A flexible spending account system can be implemented according to one embodiment of the invention so as to automatically substantiate purchases made at a retailer merchant. For example, according to one embodiment of the invention, a method of authorizing products for purchase can be implemented by determining via a computer that a product requested for purchase at a point of sale by a consumer matches a qualified product category under the flexible spending account, sending an authorization request message for requesting use of said flexible spending account of said consumer, wherein said authorization request message comprises a total purchase amount field and a first qualified amount field for a first type of qualified items.
US07650306B2
Transaction structures for issuing inflation-linked securities are disclosed. According to various embodiments, the transaction structure includes an entity purchasing fixed income securities issued by an issuer. The fixed income securities may have been previously issued by the issuer as part of a single, previous offering by the issuer or they could be newly issued by the issuer to the entity. The method also includes the entity and a swap counterparty entering into an inflation swap agreement. The inflation swap agreement obligates the entity to make periodic fixed payments to the swap counterparty in exchange for periodic floating payments from the swap counterparty dependent upon an inflation index, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The method further comprises issuing, by the entity, inflation-linked securities to investors. The inflation-linked securities, which may be bonds, may have a principal amount and/or an interest rate that is indexed to the inflation index.
US07650294B1
A system and method for managing and processing supply and demand information in an equipment market comprises a business logic engine, a database and interface engine and communications engine on a web host server. The communications engine is configured to enable the community of participants in the market to send market inquiries from the demand side of the market, and the business logic engine is configured to process market inquiries and responses to include them in the database of supply and demand information. The database is configured to enable the search engine to retrieve all types of data relevant to business planning and executing of equipment contracts and activities from community data and published data. The business logic engine comprises tools for collaboration, calculation, optimization and forecasting in the equipment market. In the exemplary embodiment the equipment is offshore drilling rigs.
US07650292B2
A method of structuring a life insurance product includes: selecting one or more insureds from a pool of applicants; collecting at least one premium payment, the at least one premium payment comprising a charge for cost of insurance; issuing at least one policy covering the one or more insureds, the at least one policy having a cash value and a death benefit; placing the at least one premium payment into an account, thereby populating the account with assets; investing the assets thereby generating a rate of return; tying the cash value and death benefit amounts to the rate of return; creating a mortality fluctuation reserve, adding the mortality fluctuation reserve to the account, and investing the reserve; and calculating a mortality experience credit upon satisfying certain criteria. Associated data processing methods and systems are also described.
US07650291B2
A video visitation system and method for dispersed health care locations. A patient data server, a teleconferencing server, a patient visual monitoring system and a visitor visual monitoring system are connected to a network. A patient data server receives patient data indicative of the condition of a patient and serves the patient data continuously and in real time to the teleconferencing server. The patient visual monitoring system acquires patient imaging data from a patient location and conveys the patient imaging data to the teleconferencing server. The visitor visual monitoring system acquires visitor imaging data from a visitor location and conveys the visitor imaging data to the teleconferencing server. The patient visual monitoring system displays the visitor imaging data and the visitor visual monitoring system simultaneously displays patient imaging data and the continuous real time feed of the patient data.
US07650287B2
In a regional attribute determination method for determining a regional attribute representing an attribute of people gathering in each region, user information including the locations and attributes of a number of users is acquired from a number of portable information terminal devices used by the number of users, the acquired user information of the number of users is stored in a user information storage part, and the regional attribute is determined on the basis of the user information of the number of users stored in the user information storage part.
US07650285B2
In a packet communication network, to compensate for rate mismatches between transmitting and receiving devices, an apparatus and method provides for adjusting the playback sampling rate and for monitoring the buffer. The receiving device will monitor its buffer; relevant buffer data can comprise whether the buffer is approaching capacity or approaching depletion and the speed in which the buffer is approaching capacity of approaching depletion. The receiving device will then trigger an adjustment to the playback sampling rate to attune the rates of the transmitting and receiving devices or to compensate for jitters from any number of network complications. The receiving device may also store the buffer data for later action, for example, to formulate specific adjustment procedures or to compile specific conference profiles. The present invention may function alone or function in conjunction with other known methods in the art.
US07650281B1
A method of comparing voice samples to reduce false alarms by receiving a first voice sample, generating a model of the first voice sample, reordering the first voice sample, generating a model of the reordered first voice sample; receiving a second voice sample; generating a model of the second voice sample; reordering the second voice sample, generating a model of the reordered second voice sample, comparing at least one pairings of the models, and determining if the first voice sample matches the second voice sample if the model comparisons are within a user-definable threshold.
US07650276B2
A system and method for dynamically binding a user interface to information, comprising specifying with a first language a first action; specifying with a second language a first data source associated with the first action; rendering output with a third language based at least partially on the first action; wherein the second language is embedded in the first language; and wherein the first action can set or get the first data source.
US07650266B2
A method of simulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape.
US07650264B2
A computer-implemented system and method for generating a hardware implementation of graphical code. The method comprises first creating a graphical program. A first portion of the graphical program may optionally be compiled into machine code for execution by a CPU. A second portion of the graphical program is converted into a hardware implementation according to the present invention. The operation of converting the graphical program into a hardware implementation comprises exporting the second portion of the graphical program into a hardware description, wherein the hardware description describes a hardware implementation of the second portion of the graphical program, and then configuring a programmable hardware element utilizing the hardware description to produce a configured hardware element. The configured hardware element thus implements a hardware implementation of the second portion of the graphical program.
US07650260B1
A method and apparatus for designing objects using functional object representation are described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving behavioral parameters associated with each design feature of an object from a user and determining a correspondence between each design feature and one or more body partitions from a predefined set of body partitions that compose the body of the object. The determination is made based on the behavioral parameters received from the user. The method further includes assigning a contributing volume to each of the corresponding body partitions and computing the digital model of the object using contributing volumes of all design features of the object.
US07650255B2
A method of multi-site testing a batch of semiconductor units using a multi-site automated tester (100). The tester (300) includes a handler (320) coupled to a contactor (330) including a first plurality of contact sites. The method includes the step of loading the first plurality of units into the first plurality of contact sites (201). The first plurality of units are simultaneously tested (202) using a test program to determine bin information for each of the first plurality of units, wherein the bin information defines each of the first plurality units as being a passed unit or a reject unit. The passed units are offloaded from respective contact sites of the first plurality of contact sites to create vacant contact sites (203), while keeping the reject unit(s) at respective contact sites of the first plurality of contact sites. Untested units from the batch are then loaded to fill the vacant contact sites (204). Simultaneously, the reject units retested and untested units are tested using the test program (205).
US07650250B2
What has been developed is a method for testing ophthalmic plastic lenses and ophthalmic plastic lens-making processes for compliance with federal safety performance requirements. The method of the invention provides an easier, less costly, and more effective means for complying with these safety performance requirements than what current methods provide.
US07650248B1
In-system signal monitoring using an integrated circuit such as a programmable logic device is described. An analog-to-digital converter is disposed in the programmable logic device. A sampling bridge is coupled to provide an analog input to the analog-to-digital converter and to receive first signaling of a first frequency. A signal generator is configured to provide second signaling at a second frequency which is a fraction of the first frequency. Sample window circuitry is coupled to receive the second signaling and configured to provide third signaling to the sampling bridge at least partially responsive to the second signaling and at least partially responsive to an adjustable impedance setting of the sample window circuitry. The sample window circuitry is configured to provide an adjustable sample window within a pulse-width range.
US07650247B2
A method is provided for the electrical protection of an electrical household appliance that is used to prepare food. The appliance includes an electric pump which is supplied with alternating current in order to convey a liquid through a conduit, and a heating element to raise the temperature of the liquid. The instantaneous value of the current I supplied to the pump is measured at regular time intervals. The method includes calculating the average value αn of m current I measurements taken over a pre-determined time period T; comparing the average value αn with a reference value αref calculated as the average value of the current I measurements taken over an earlier period of the same length; and opening the pump's power supply circuit when the difference between the average values αref and αn exceeds a pre-determined threshold value Δ1 for at least two successive time periods T as a result of low average current indicative of dry running.
US07650245B2
An impulse line-clogging detecting apparatus. The apparatus is provide with: a differential pressure detecting unit that detects a differential pressure of a fluid, and outputs time-series data of the differential pressure. Fluctuations are determined by a differential pressure fluctuation calculating unit that calculates a differential pressure fluctuation, and a fluctuation variance calculating unit that calculates a variance of the differential pressure fluctuation. Based upon the calculated variance, a variance ratio calculating unit calculates a variance ratio of the differential pressure fluctuation variance to a differential pressure fluctuation variance obtained in advance in a normal state of the high and low pressure side impulse lines. A variance ratio correcting unit calculates a correction value for suppressing a change of the variance ratio. Finally; a clogging determining unit determines whether the high and low pressure side impulse lines are clogged, based on the variance ratio corrected by the variance ratio correcting unit.
US07650242B2
This invention relates to methods and systems for in silico or bioinformatic modeling of cellular metabolism. The invention includes methods and systems for modeling cellular metabolism of an organism, comprising constructing a flux balance analysis model, and applying constraints to the flux balance analysis model, the constraints selected from the set consisting of: qualitative kinetic information constraints, qualitative regulatory information constraints, and differential DNA microarray experimental data constraints. In addition, the present invention provides for computational procedures for solving metabolic problems.
US07650241B2
A drilling system provides indications of the lithology of the formation being drilled by dynamically measuring at least one parameter of interest that is affected by the lithology of the formation being drilled. Suitably positioned sensors make dynamic measurements of parameters such as downhole weight on bit, bit torque, bit revolutions, rate of penetration and bit axial acceleration. One or more processors use the sensor measurements in conjunction with predetermined lithological models to determine whether the measurements indicate a change in formation lithology. Suitable models can be on derived expressions such as rock drillability, drilling response, dynamic drilling response, normalized or dimensionless torque; and formation shear strength. The lithological indications provided by the processor can be used to adjust drilling parameters, steer the BHA, monitor BHA health, and provide depth locations for bed boundaries and formation interfaces.
US07650225B2
An engine controller comprises a combustion state detection or estimation means for detecting or estimating a combustion state in the combustion chamber, a combustion air-fuel ratio estimation means for estimating a combustion air-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber according to an exhaust air-fuel ratio and the detected or estimated combustion state, and a means for calculating engine control parameters according to the estimated combustion air-fuel ratio.
US07650211B2
A method is provided to monitor operation of a sensing system for a motor vehicle equipped with inter-vehicle communications capability. The method comprises comparing analogous signals communicated from a plurality of vehicles in close proximity thereto.
US07650210B2
Vehicular diagnostic arrangement includes a diagnostic system arranged on the vehicle to determine whether any vehicular components is operating non-optimally, is expected to fail or has failed and generate an output indicative or representative thereof, and a communications device coupled to the diagnostic system and arranged to direct a transmission of the output of the diagnostic system to a remote location. Remote locations encompasses remote facilities which handle maintenance or monitoring of the vehicle such as a dealer of the vehicle, the manufacturer of the vehicle or the manufacturer of the components for which non-optimal operation has been detected. The communications device may be arranged to direct the transmission of the output of the diagnostic system to the remote location via the Internet, the remote location including or being an Internet-enabled device possessed by the dealer, manufacturer or owner of the vehicle.
US07650204B2
Techniques are provided for controlling a human-exoskeleton system including an ankle-foot orthosis by receiving system parameters for the human-exoskeleton system, receiving generalized coordinates such as an orientation of the foot, and determining a joint torque for controlling the ankle-foot orthosis to compensate for one or more components of forces acting on the foot. Forces selected for compensation include gravitational forces as well as external forces such as ground reaction forces. Techniques are provided for determining an ankle joint torque for partial or complete compensation of forces acting on the foot about an axis of rotation. The provided techniques mitigate the amount of interference between voluntary control and assist control, thereby allowing humans to quickly humans adapt to an exoskeleton system.
US07650202B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a motor vehicle or a motor vehicle part, wherein the motor vehicle or the motor vehicle part is assembled from components, wherein at least two components are each connected to at least one transponder in order to transmit an identification information item, wherein an identification information item transmitted by a transponder is received by means of a first antenna, wherein an identification information item transmitted by a transponder is received by means of a second antenna and wherein it is checked whether a component can be installed or is correctly installed, wherein the component is installed or is classified as correctly installed only if at least one identification information item received by means of the first antenna corresponds both to an identification information item received by means of the second antenna and to a predefined identification information item.
US07650199B1
A method, apparatus, and a system for performing post processing modeling is provided. A predicted end of line parameter relating to a workpiece is determined. The predicted end of line parameter is stored. An interface for accessing the end of line parameters provided.
US07650193B2
This document discusses, among other things, a lead assembly including a porous polyethylene cover. In an example, the cover includes sections that have differing pore sizes. In an example, a section of the cover near a distal end portion of a lead assembly includes pores that are large enough to allow tissue ingrowth. In another example, a lead assembly includes two or more polyethylene covers having different porosities.
US07650191B1
An implantable medical device comprises a hermetically sealed casing enclosing electrical stimulation and/or sensing circuitry. A header on the casing comprises a longitudinal receptacle for receiving the electrical connector assembly of an electrical medical lead that senses cardiac blood pressure. The receptacle has electrical contacts engageable by corresponding electrical terminals on the connector assembly. A telemetry circuit assembly, mounted vertically within the confines of the header adjacent to the receptacle, comprises a winding having ends connected across the electrical contacts of the receptacle.
US07650183B2
Alternate embodiments of an impedance spectroscopy method are disclosed for monitoring ischemic mucosal damage in hollow viscous organs. In each embodiment, a sensor catheter is placed inside a patient's hollow viscous organ. Afterwards, the catheter is electrically driven to obtain a complex impedance spectrum by causing two electrodes in the tip of the catheter to inject a current into the mucosal tissue at different frequencies, while two other electrodes measure the resulting voltages. A pattern recognition system is then used to analyze the complex impedance spectrum and to quantify the severity of the mucosal injury. Alternatively, the complex impedance spectrum can be appropriately plotted against the spectrum of normal tissue, allowing for a visual comparison by trained personnel.
US07650180B2
A system and method for receiving an in vivo signal, using for example a receiver, a recorder and an antenna array. The receiver may include for example a switching unit and an amplifier, and may be in proximity to the antenna array.
US07650172B2
A plurality of operation portions are arranged at a surface on a sub-display side of a cellular phone with a camera so that various kinds of setting, selection and control can be performed without opening the cellular phone in its folded state, and the cellular phone can achieve improved operability and convenience. Cellular phone includes a first display portion at a surface of a first body opposed to a second body in the folded state, and includes a second display portion, an image taking portion and a plurality of operation portions arranged at a rear surface of the first body remote from the first display portion.
US07650168B2
A wearable wireless telecommunications headset may include at least a microphone, a speaker, a transceiver, a processor and a memory. The headset processes audio commands from a user, recognizing the commands and executing them appropriately. The headset communicates with multiple communication devices, answering incoming communications from any devices in range and announcing identity information about an initiator of the communication, as well as initiating outgoing communications by recognizing a spoken communications address, or recognizing and looking up a spoken name in a locally or remotely stored address book.
US07650162B2
A wireless communication system for high-speed motion use, capable of shortening the frequency channel search time and increasing the communication time available for service. The system includes an access point communicating on a designated one frequency channel and a mobile terminal communicating on the same received channel by receiving radio waves transmitted by the same access point. As for mobile terminal, in a storage, priority data is stored for a channel search in which arbitrary priorities can be set respectively for the channels. Frequency channel search sequence data, set up so that the number of times of appearance becomes greater for channels for which the priority data are set higher, are generated on the basis of the relative data, and a search of communication-capable channels is carried out in accordance with the same channel search sequence data.
US07650160B2
A method of determining at least an estimate of media latency for push-to-talk communications includes determining a first time associated with transmitting a first packet from a push-to-talk transceiver device. In a disclosed example, the same device receives a second packet that corresponds to the first packet and includes an indication of the first time, a second time associated with receipt of the first packet by another device such as a push-to-talk server and a third time associated with transmission of the second packet to the push-to-talk transceiver device. That same device determines a fourth time associated with receipt of the second packet. In a disclosed example, the push-to-talk transceiver device uses a relationship between the first time, second time, third time and fourth time for determining at least an estimate of media latency associated with the push-to-talk communication corresponding to the first and second packets. A plurality of latency test procedures are disclosed.
US07650155B2
The propagation time (1605) of signals between a terminal (1304) and a base station (1302) is calculated from the round-trip time (1601) of signals between the terminal (1304) and the base station (1302) and the turn-around time (1603) from the reception by terminal (1304) of a signal from base station (1302) until the transmission of the signal to the base station (1302). The propagation time (1606) of signals between the terminal (1304) and another base station (1303) is similarly calculated. The difference between the propagation times (1605 and 1606) and the arrival time difference (1607) that is calculated in the terminal (1304) are then compared to calculate the transmission time difference (1608) between the base stations (1302 and 1303).
US07650154B2
The invention provides a method, system, and network entity for adaptive setting or reservation of channelization codes and/or power for downlink channel in a communication network, in particular for DSCH and HS-DSCH, using parameters (PtxDSCHallowed, SFmin) for minimum allowed Spreading Factor, SF, and/or allowed power level, the parameters being set depending on the traffic load, the total cell load and/or the availability of channelization codes.
US07650151B2
The present application discloses, inter alia, a system for improving the aggregate throughput of a wireless local area network which includes: at least one access point that is equipped with at least one transceiver configured to simultaneously transmit and receive at multiple frequencies using multiple channels; and the access point being configured to acquire channel conditions of users and to pool sets of users on the channels based on the channel conditions.
US07650150B1
Methods, devices and systems for WLAN communication are described. Intercell interference between overlapping WLAN cells is mitigated by a combination of frequency reuse, code division and time resource negotiation. Information used for time resource negotiation can be broadcast via beacon signal or communicated via a wireline backbone system which interconnects access points.
US07650142B2
A method for setting up a conference call where the subscribers are not only concentrated in one area but also more widely dispersed. The method allows both groups of subscribers to be contacted for a conference call with individuals close to the point of origination of the conference call being connected to a shared channel call and any members further out being connected to the conference call using individual channels. Members who initially started with an individual channel can move closer to the point of origin and automatically join the shared channel. This is of particular use to the emergency services where they may need to co-ordinate members arriving at the scene or performing related actions further away from the scene of the emergency.
US07650135B2
A transceiver includes a two-way communication component capable of powering down to conserve energy and capable of powering up in response to an electronic signal, the two-way communication component including a transmitter and a first receiver; and a second receiver that is configured to screen a radio frequency broadcast and provide the electronic signal to the two-way communication component in order to power up the two-way wireless communication component. The second receiver is configured to screen the radio frequency broadcast for first criteria, and screen the radio frequency broadcast for second criteria. The electric current may be an order of magnitude larger when screening for the first criteria than the second criteria. Screening also may be performed for third criteria, namely, specific data. The second receiver is adapted to draw substantially less current while awaiting receipt of and listening for a radio frequency broadcast than the two-way wireless communication component.
US07650131B2
A wireless receiver which is used for a digital signal transmission system to wirelessly transmit a digital signal by packetizing and modifying it, selectively sets the shortest arithmetical bit length satisfying a required communication quality when performs demodulation arithmetical processing to demodulate a digital signal to be packet-transmitted, inputs a demodulation arithmetical result by the arithmetical bit length to calculate an error vector magnitude value that is a measure indicating a difference between the arithmetical result and a known ideal result, predicts a bit error rate by using the EVM value as an evaluation criterion, selects an arithmetical bit length by which the bit error rate becomes optimum, and executes the demodulating arithmetical processing by the selected arithmetical bit length.
US07650123B2
A receiver for receiving a radio frequency signal includes an attenuator for attenuating a disturbance signal such as an image signal which causes disturbance to a received frequency of the radio frequency signal, on the basis of set information of the received frequency. The attenuator includes a trap circuit for producing a resonance frequency in accordance with the set information. The trap circuit is connected on a supply line for the radio frequency signal and suppresses the disturbance signal by the resonance frequency.
US07650120B2
A high frequency module comprises: a switch circuit connected to two antenna terminals; a diplexer connected to two reception signal terminals and the switch circuit; and a diplexer connected to two transmission signal terminals and the switch circuit. Each of the diplexers incorporates two band-pass filters and a low-pass filter. Each of the band-pass filters is formed by using a resonant circuit.
US07650116B2
Method and device for interference cancellation. A radio access unit comprises a plurality of directionally separated antenna elements (41k, K=1, 2, . . . , L) for receiving signals transmitted by a plurality of remote units. From signals received by each of the antenna elements (41k) first weighing factors (g(1)k) are determined (49), for optimally selecting signal of a first remote unit (521). A first radio signal (s1) of the first communication unit (521) is provided by weighing (44) the received signals using the first weighing factors (g(1)k). For a further radio communication unit (52i) further weighing factors (g(i)k) are determined. A corrected further radio signal (s′i) is provided each time by subtracting (46) from the further radio signal (si), previously obtained corrected radio signal (S′i-1, S′i-1, . . . ) weighed by the further weighing factors (g(i)k), till a stop criterium has been satisfied.
US07650114B2
A system having a UHF RFID transceiver is adapted to communicate exclusively with a single electro-magnetically coupled transponder located in a predetermined confined transponder operating region. The system includes a near field coupling device comprising a plurality of lines connected in parallel with an unmatched load. The near field coupling device may be formed, for example on a printed circuit board with a plurality of electrically interconnected traces and a ground plane. The system establishes, at predetermined transceiver power levels, a mutual electro-magnetic coupling which is selective exclusively for a single transponder located in a defined transponder operating region. Also included are methods for selective communication with the transponder in an apparatus such as a printer-encoder.
US07650109B2
A surveyor carries a terminal device 200 and travels to a survey point preliminarily instructed. The surveyor obtains survey position information by using a GPS unit in the terminal device 200 at the survey point. The surveyor also photographs an object of a survey by using a camera in the terminal device 200 at the survey point. After completion of a series of surveys, the surveyor transmits survey results including the survey position information to an analyzing apparatus 100 by using the terminal device 200. The analyzing apparatus 100 determines reliability by using survey position information included in the survey results and carries out a predetermined analysis by using a survey result of high reliability. Consequently, a survey result of low reliability can be eliminated from objects to be analyzed.
US07650092B2
In an image forming apparatus of the present invention, an allowable temperature range of a fixing unit is divided into a plurality of fixing temperature ranges, and image data conversion γ tables respectively suitable for the divided fixing temperature ranges are prepared. A fixing temperature of the fixing unit is measured during image forming. A γ table suitable for the measured fixing temperature can be selected and used. Consequently, even when a reduction in fixing temperature within the allowable temperature range is caused in the fixing unit in the case of continuously outputting color images at a high speed, the resulting change in tint of output images can be reduced.
US07650089B2
A developer unit used in xerographic printing retains a mixture of at least a first colorant and a second colorant. An illuminator directs toward at least a portion of the mixture a first light of one color, a second light of a second color, and a third light substantially outside of a visible range. A photosensor records a first reflectance signal based on light reflected from the mixture substantially in a visible range, and a second reflectance signal based on light reflected from the mixture substantially outside a visible range. The signals can be used to maintain the mixture at the desired total color and other properties.
US07650085B2
A system for automatically detecting the need to service a machine. The system includes a processor and at least one of a device component and a supply component. The processor determines a time at which the device component will require repair or replacement and when the supply component will need replenishment and sends an electronic message addressed to a communication device accessible by the user or supplier. The electronic message includes data which facilitates ordering services and sending the supplies to the user of the machine.
US07650077B2
An optical transceiver module includes an optical-to-electrical converter configured to convert a first optical signal to a first electric signal, a first amplifier configured to amplify the first electric signal, a bandwidth controller coupled to the first amplifier, configured to control the frequency response characteristics of the amplification of the first amplifier to produce a first amplified electric signal, a driver circuit configured to receive a second electric signal and to produce a second amplified electric signal in response to the second electric signal and an optical feedback signal, an electrical-to-optical converter coupled to the micro-controller and configured to convert the second amplified electrical signal to a second optical signal, and a photo diode configured to detect the second optical signal and to produce the optical feedback signal to be received by the driver circuit.
US07650073B2
A system and method of wavelength discovery in network elements having an optical architecture. In one embodiment, a first wavelength topology map is generated for wavelengths inserted in a first direction at each network element. A second wavelength topology map is generated for wavelengths inserted in a second direction at each network element. The first wavelength topology maps are transmitted in the first direction to adjacent network elements over a dedicated overhead wavelength channel. Similarly, the second wavelength topology maps are transmitted in the second direction to adjacent network elements over the dedicated overhead wavelength channel. Responsive to messaging via the dedicated overhead wavelength channel, each of the first and second topology maps are updated at each of the network elements.
US07650071B2
An optical signal receiver is provided which is capable of making an optical signal receiver come into common and shared use even when a plurality of transmission methods is to be performed and of constructing a simplified optical transmission system. In a performance monitoring circuit, a switching control section transmits a connecting control signal to make a switching section operate so that the switching section selects a monitoring section to be connected based on bit-rate information corresponding to information about a transmission method type fed from a frequency detecting circuit and the selected monitoring section is connected to a clock/data regenerating circuit. The monitoring section extracts alarm information from a data signal fed from the clock/data regenerating circuit and transfers the alarm information to the selection connecting section. When the switching control section receives alarm information, the alarm information is transferred to devices mounted on a downstream side.
US07650070B2
An operational optical transceiver microcontroller configured to initiate a self-test using internalized loop backs. The microcontroller includes a memory, at least one processor and a number of input and output terminals. The output terminals are coupled to internally corresponding input terminals by a configurable switch. The memory receives microcode that, when executed by the processor, causes the microcontroller to close the switches so as to internally connect the output and input terminals. A signal is then asserted on the output terminal. This signal loops back and is received by the input terminal. The processor may then detect the microcontroller's response to the signal.
US07650064B2
An ophthalmic apparatus which is easy to operate. The ophthalmic apparatus includes a measurement unit which measures characteristics of an examinee's eye, an image-pickup optical system for picking up an image of an anterior segment of the eye, a monitor having a screen where the picked-up anterior-segment image is displayed, a plurality of operation switches arranged on the screen or in the vicinity of the screen, a display control part which controls to display function information items indicating functions of the operation switches on the screen, and a changer which makes a selective changeover between a first operation mode in which a state where the function information items are not displayed on the screen is set as a standard state, and a second operation mode in which a state where the function information items are displayed on the screen is set as a standard state.
US07650063B2
A method and apparatus for reproducing audio/visual data in an Enhanced Navigation mode, and an information storage medium thereof. The information storage medium stores audio/visual data, and at least one Enhanced Navigation application including at least one Enhanced Navigation file, the Enhanced Navigation file being reproduced together with the audio/visual data, wherein the Enhanced Navigation application includes a loading information file, which includes preload information specifying the location of the Enhanced Navigation file to be buffered before reproduction of the Enhanced Navigation application, as the Enhanced Navigation file. Accordingly, it is possible to guarantee seamless reproduction of audio/visual data for an Enhanced Navigation application.
US07650057B2
When a face image can not detected by an individual authentication unit from an image photographed by a camera unit for a predetermined time or more, a control unit records a recording position of a corresponding time, and makes a receiving program continuously recorded by a recording reproducing unit in a common recording state in which a time shift function becomes invalid such that the face image is detected again by the individual authentication unit from the image photographed from the camera unit. When it is determined that a detected person is the same person as a first person based on a recognition result on the basis of features of the face image, the control unit makes a recorded program return to the recorded position so as to be reproduced while maintaining the common recording state.
US07650056B2
For manufacturing a light-guiding plate and a key module having the light-guiding plate, a mold is prepared first. Then, a material having high light transmittance is injected into the mold. After the plastic material is formed, the mold is released, so that the plastic material is formed into a sheet-like light-guiding plate, and one surface of the light-guiding plate is formed with a plurality of light-guiding portions thereon. The light-guiding plate is disposed in the key module of an electronic device. The light generated by light-emitting elements within the electronic device is introduced from the front end of a substrate of the light-guiding plate, and the light is refracted by the light-guiding portion to a corresponding key, thereby to display the numeral or pattern of the surface of a key cap of the key.
US07650053B2
A method and system for high bit rate fiber-optic communications utilize a wavelength tunable transmitter controlled by a feedback signal from an error analyzer associated with a received optical data stream without utilizing a dispersion compensation module in the transmitter and/or receiver portion.
US07650052B2
A first optical coupler is configured to direct optical signals from an optical fiber onto one or more first optical channels located on a semiconductor chip, wherein the one or more first optical channels have dimensions that are within a specified tolerance of the dimensions of the optical fiber. One or more second optical couplers are configured to direct the optical signals from the one or more first optical channels to one or more second optical channels located on the semiconductor chip, wherein the one or more second optical channels have a specified sub-micron size.
US07650051B2
Distributed fiber optic chemical and physical sensors can provide a relatively highly uniform response over the length of the fiber by, for example, varying such properties as the core/cladding index of refraction ratio to compensate for the non-linearity in sensitivity. The phenomenon of spatial transient over a length of a fiber introduces such a nonlinearity that can be compensated for by varying at least one parameter of the optical fiber.
US07650041B2
Described is a system and method for optical character recognition in an image. The method comprising identifying a connected component in an image, computing at least one parameter for the connected component and selecting a portion of the image corresponding to the connected component for optical character recognition when the at least one parameter is within a predetermined threshold range.
US07650035B2
Techniques for shape clustering and applications in processing various documents, including an output of an optical character recognition (OCR) process.
US07650034B2
A human eye is detected in a video image by identifying potential eye candidates using horizontal and vertical projection filtering on a specified portion of the image, coupled with rudimentary appearance-based testing. The identified eye candidates are clustered and winning eye candidates are selected based on appearance, spatial-geometric and anthropomorphic considerations. The winning eye candidates are subjected to additional appearance-based testing, and high confidence eye candidates are accepted if they favorably compare with identified eye candidates from previous video image frames.
US07650031B2
Methods and systems for identifying black frames within a sequence of frames are provided. In one embodiment, the detection system detects black frames within a sequence of frames by fully decoding base frames and then partially decoding non-black, non-base frames in a way that ensures the blackness of each frame can be determined. The detection system decodes base frames before decoding dependent frames, which is referred to as processing frames in reverse order of dependency since a frame is processed before the frames that depend on it are processed. In another embodiment, the detection system determines the blackness of frames within a sequence of frames by processing the frames in order of their dependency and following chains of block dependency to decode and determine the blackness of blocks.
US07650023B2
A method is for filtering tomographic 3D images of an examination object. The examination object is imaged by using a volume model that divides the volume of the examination object into a multiplicity of three-dimensional image voxels with individual image values, wherein the image value of each voxel reproduces an object-specific property of the examination object in this volume. After the reconstruction of the total volume for each voxel, variances are calculated in a prescribed region or radius R in order to determine contrast jumps and their spatial orientation with their tangential planes T. The image values in the tangential plane T are filtered with a two-dimensional convolution, and subsequently the original voxel data are mixed in weighted fashion with the filtered voxel data.
US07650022B2
Methods and systems for combining a plurality of radiographic images. Software can be used to provide various stitching and blending methods to join first and second images into a composite, larger image.
US07650021B2
With the aid of an X-ray CT (5, 6), the spatial position (r) of a body cavity that is filled with blood is determined, which for example can be a part of the aorta or of the left ventricle of the heart of a patient (1). Subsequently, a TOF-PET unit that includes two detector elements (3a, 3b) is positioned to place a predefined volume element (2) in the blood filled body cavity. From pairs of annihilation quanta received from the volume element (2) a concentration of the tracer in this volume element (2) and thus in the blood is determined. This concentration can for example be used within the framework of pharmaco-kinetic examinations which are carried out on the patient (1) with the aid of a three-dimensional PET unit (4).
US07650013B2
A system and methods for map and position determination enhancement. The method includes obtaining at least one image of a view in an area. Also, identifying at least one high-contrast feature in the image of the area and, embedding the high-contrast feature in a map of the area. The result is the generation of an enhanced map of the area which can be used to determine the position of any device or object.
US07650003B1
A flat panel speaker. The speaker includes a drive unit made up of a signal oscillation radiator the winding of which promotes oscillating rather than translational movement of the radiator. Such a configuration allows the speaker to operate at a broad range of frequencies. In one form, the radiator includes a magnet, a coil former and a coil winding formed around the coil former in such a way that a magnetic field produced in the magnet can cooperate with a magnetic field induced by a current that corresponds to an audio signal flowing in the winding to produce an oscillating force in the radiator that can be converted into the oscillating movement imparted to the panel.
US07650001B2
A dummy sound generating apparatus includes a dummy sound information storage unit that stores one or more dummy sounds, and an outer generating unit that generates one of the one or more dummy sounds outside of the vehicle upon reception of a dummy sound generation instruction signal. The dummy sound generating apparatus also includes a generation place information storage unit that stores information on a place where a dummy sound is to be generated a current position information acquiring unit that acquires information on a current position of the vehicle, and a control unit that outputs a dummy sound generation instruction signal to the outer generating unit when the current position acquired by the current position information acquiring unit matches with information on a place stored in the generation place information storage unit.
US07649991B2
The public-key encryption method uses the sender-side apparatus by the creator of a ciphertest and creates the ciphertext of a plaintext x (ε{0, 1}n), in y1=f(x0k1G(r)), y2=H(x0k1G(r))r with respect to the published trapdoor-equipped unidirectional function f and the random functions G, H. Meanwhile, the receiver of the ciphertext, who has received the ciphertext by the receiver-side apparatus via the communications line, performs the decryption processing with the use of f−1, i.e., the secret key, in accordance with the steps inverse to those of the encryption processing.
US07649985B1
The present invention relates to a computer system and method for displaying line unit performance details of equipment in a telecommunications network. The system includes a report display component for displaying a line unit performance report. The system further includes a line unit performance details component for displaying details regarding line usage information in a telecommunications network.
US07649964B2
A radio receiver includes a channel estimation unit, phase difference vector generation unit, correction coefficient setting unit, and noise estimation unit. The channel estimation unit obtains a channel estimated value from a received signal at a predetermined period by using a known pilot signal. The phase difference vector generation unit obtains a phase difference vector between the preceding channel estimated value and the current channel estimated value. The correction coefficient setting unit sets a correction coefficient corresponding to the phase difference vector. The noise estimation unit obtains a corrected noise estimated value by correcting a noise estimated value on the basis of the received signal and the correction coefficient. A noise estimated value correction method is also disclosed.
US07649963B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for estimating and compensating a carrier frequency offset, and a data receiving method in a receiver of a wireless communication system. The apparatus correlates a received signal with a signal delayed by a predetermined period of the received signal in a correlation window, wherein the correlation window is set based on a Cycle Prefix (CP) and a preamble repetition length from a predetermined position, converts the correlated value into a phase value, compensates a phase of the converted result according to preamble segment numbers, and estimates an initial carrier frequency offset value.
US07649942B2
A video encoding method comprises selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations each including a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture, generating a prediction picture signal in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination, generating a predictive error signal representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal, and encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination.
US07649939B2
An apparatus to determine the inverse transform of a block of encoded data the block of encoded data comprising a plurality of compressed frequency domain data elements. An input register is configured to receive a predetermined quantity of data elements. At least one butterfly processor is coupled to the input register and is configured to perform at least one mathematical operation on selected pairs of data elements to produce an output of processed data elements. At least one intermediate register is coupled to the butterfly processor and configured to temporarily store the processed data. A feedback loop is coupled to the intermediate register and the butterfly processor, and where if enabled, is configured to transfer a first portion of processed data elements to the appropriate butterfly processor to perform additional mathematical operations and where if disabled, is configured to transfer a second portion of processed data elements to at least one holding register.
US07649938B2
An apparatus, a method, and a software product to control a plurality of surveillance video camera/encoder combinations. The method includes receiving a plurality of encoded video streams from a respective surveillance camera/encoder combination, and accepting a measure of the level of activity for each encoded video stream. Each measure is obtained from the output of the camera of the corresponding camera/encoder combination. The method further includes assigning output bit rates for each encoded stream according to the accepted level of activity such that a maximum overall bit rate is not exceeded. One version is for controlling camera/encoder combinations that accept remote bit rate control, and a second is for controlling camera/encoder combinations that send at a pre-set bit rate. One version includes a network connection between the camera/encoder combinations, and the method or apparatus for central control.
US07649936B2
A device for detecting a correlation maximum value from a sequence of correlation magnitude values includes a means for determining a reference value from correlation magnitude values within an interval of the sequence of correlation magnitude values, the correlation magnitude value to be assessed lying external to interval. A means for determining a threshold value provides the threshold value in dependence on the reference value. A means for comparing the correlation magnitude value to be assessed with the threshold value ascertained for the correlation magnitude value to be assessed is configured to provide, depending on the comparison result, a trigger signal which indicates whether a correlation magnitude value to be assessed is a correlation maximum value.
US07649922B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor laser. The semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor chip that includes an active layer and emits radiation in a main radiating direction. The active layer is structured in a direction perpendicular to the main radiating direction to reduce heating of the semiconductor chip by spontaneously emitted radiation, and the active layer has the form of a mesa that comprises side walls that form a resonator in such a way as to reduce the spontaneous emission in the active layer in a direction perpendicular to the main radiating direction.
US07649918B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a frequency-converted laser source is provided wherein the wavelength conversion device comprises a plurality of waveguide components comprising respective input faces positioned in an effective focal field of the laser source. Individual ones of the waveguide components contribute different elements to a set of distinct wavelength conversion properties, defining a set of distinct wavelength conversion properties attributable to the waveguide components. The set of distinct wavelength conversion properties comprises properties representing phase matching wavelengths of the waveguide components, spectral widths of the waveguide components, conversion efficiency of the waveguide components, or combinations thereof. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US07649915B2
Various embodiments include modelocked fiber laser resonators that may be coupled with optical amplifiers. An isolator may separate the laser resonator from the amplifier, although certain embodiments exclude such an isolator. A reflective optical element on one end of the resonator having a relatively low reflectivity may be employed to couple light from the laser resonator to the amplifier. Enhanced pulse-width control may be provided with concatenated sections of both polarization-maintaining and non-polarization-maintaining fibers. Apodized fiber Bragg gratings and integrated fiber polarizers may be also be included in the laser cavity to assist in linearly polarizing the output of the cavity. Very short pulses with a large optical bandwidth may be obtained by matching the dispersion value of the fiber Bragg grating to the inverse of the dispersion of the intra-cavity fiber. Frequency comb sources may be constructed from such modelocked fiber oscillators. In various exemplary embodiments, low dispersion and an in-line interferometer that provides feedback, assist in controlling the frequency components output from the comb source.
US07649913B2
A method for mitigating traffic congestions in a communication network uses concatenated data packets to transmit information between terminals, e.g., edge proxies, of the network. Embodiments of the invention are directed to packet communications over military or commercial networks. In one application, the method is implemented in a network using High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryption (HAIPE).
US07649902B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates buffering data at a kernel in a computer system, wherein the data is buffered based on the structure of a message contained in the data. The system operates by receiving data at a computer system from an external source. Next, the system buffers the data at a kernel on the computer system. As the system buffers the data, the system also determines if the buffered data constitutes a complete message as defined by a communication protocol. If so, the system forwards the buffered data to an application on the computer system.
US07649901B2
A context-selection mechanism is provided for selecting a best context from a pool of contexts for processing a data packet. The context selection mechanism comprises, an interface for communicating with a multi-streaming processor; circuitry for computing input data into a result value according to logic rule and for selecting a context based on the computed value and a loading mechanism for preloading the packet information into the selected context for subsequent processing. The computation of the input data functions to enable identification and selection of a best context for processing a data packet according to the logic rule at the instant time such that a multitude of subsequent context selections over a period of time acts to balance load pressure on functional units housed within the multi-streaming processor and required for packet processing. In preferred aspects, programmable singular or multiple predictive rules of logic are utilized in the selection process.
US07649898B1
Converting a media stream includes communicating a call for a first system according to a first protocol. A media stream is retrieved from a second system, where the media stream communicated according to a second protocol distinguishable from the first protocol. The media stream is converted from the second protocol to the first protocol, and is associated with the call. The media stream is transmitted to the first system according to the first protocol.
US07649897B2
There are provided an apparatus and method for transmitting data in a network system using network address translation. The method for transmitting data includes the steps of receiving a global network address corresponding to a local network address from a router using network address translation; encoding data using the global network address; and transmitting the encoded data to an external host on the global network via the router. Since the network address to be translated through the network address translation can be anticipated and substituted in real time during the transmission of the data, a variety of security services can be provided without significant modifications to the existing system, and accordingly, it is anticipated that the Internet protocol version 6 can be increasingly used.
US07649894B2
The invention provides a system and method of a selecting an egress connection from egress connections at a node for a call being established in a network along a path being associated with the node. Each connection has sufficient bandwidth to carry the call and terminates at a same destination point in said path. The system and method comprise utilizing at least a bandwidth load balance value for each connection in a set of the connections to select the egress connection from the set. An administrative factor score may be used to further define members of the set.
US07649892B2
A method and system of network communication receive load balancing. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising determining communication path cost information by a computer system (the computer system coupled to plurality of clients over a network), configuring communications from the plurality of clients to the computer system such that the communications are distributed across a plurality of teamed communication ports (the distribution proportional to communication path cost information associated with each communication port), and receiving message packets distributed across the plurality of teamed communication ports.
US07649883B2
An improved architecture in a circuit switched communications network is provided in which a plurality of network service provider devices, eg intelligent peripherals are arranged to provide network service data to a plurality of time division multiplex circuits and trunks by converting these circuits and trunks to streams of packets, and providing network service data packetized in a set of network service data packet streams to the circuit packet streams without incurring delays to the circuit packet streams. The circuit packet streams may be duplicated and forwarded to the network service provider devices without incurring delay to the ongoing through put packetized circuits, and similarly packet streams containing network service data may be superimposed into the circuit packet streams, without the requirement for the circuit packet streams to be switched to the network service provider devices. The architecture comprises a plurality of TDM interfaces, a plurality of conversion means for converting from time division multiplexed mode to a plurality of packet streams; a plurality of packet streams switching devices and a plurality of network service provider devices.
US07649880B2
Systems and methods for quickly resolving storage area commands from packet addresses are presented. Clients exchange packets comprising addresses and payloads with physical storage areas that have controllers using a stateless protocol. Modules use the addresses in addition to payloads to derive commands that are understandable by the controller. Furthermore, the neither the module nor the controller require use of a file system to interact with the physical storage area. Modules can derive the storage area commands through resolving a context associated with physical storage area. In some embodiments, modules split addresses into portions that can be used as indices into context lookup tables. In other embodiments, modules can employ variants to router address lookup algorithms to quickly resolve storage area commands.
US07649875B2
A device, for example a ZigBee device, includes an 802.15.4 MAC layer 4 and a ZigBee networking layer 2. A switch layer 10 is provided, having an interface 12 imitating a MAC layer interface and a database 18. The switch layer 10 is able to parse commands from the ZigBee networking layer 2 and route them if appropriate to an alternative lower layer 14.
US07649874B2
Methods and apparatus for providing power efficient time management for mobile media. In an aspect, a method is provided that operates to provide time management for mobile media that is distributed over a network. The method includes receiving the mobile media comprising source video frames that are associated with a source time reference, and capturing a portion of the source video frames. The method also includes re-labeling the portion of the source video frames based on a system time reference to produce synchronized video frames, wherein the network provides communications based on the system time reference, and assembling a transmission frame that comprises the synchronized video frames.
US07649873B2
During operation, nodes that receive beacons from a different network will synchronize to the different network when a predetermined condition is met. Synchronization to the differing network will only take place if the node receiving the beacon from a different network does not have access to a fixed network coordinator and the predetermined condition is met. The predetermined condition may comprise such things as a Network ID for the different network being larger than the Network ID for the current network, or alternatively, the size of the different network being larger than a size of the current network.
US07649869B2
A terminal obtains a monitored set containing GSM neighbor cells and/or UMTS neighbor cells. The terminal operates in a compressed mode and obtains from a UMTS network at least two transmission gap pattern sequences for different measurement purposes, e.g., for “GSM carrier RSSI measurements” (GAP1), “GSM initial BSIC identification” (GAP2), and “GSM BSIC re-confirmation” (GAP3). The terminal makes RSSI measurements for the GSM cells using multiple transmission gap pattern sequences, e.g., using GAP1, GAP2 and GAP3. The terminal identifies the BSIC for at least one GSM cell by (1) detecting the tone on the FCCH using multiple transmission gap pattern sequences, e.g., using GAP2 and GAP3, and (2) decoding the SCH using multiple transmission gap pattern sequences, e.g., using GAP2 and GAP3. The use of multiple transmission gap pattern sequences for RSSI measurement and BSIC identification allows the terminal to complete the cell measurements and send a report sooner, which may improve performance.
US07649868B2
A wireless link between a first transmitter and a first receiver in a multiple access communications system is evaluated by receiving, at the first transmitter, information that is intended for a second receiver and that is transmitted in a second transmission mode that is different from the current transmission mode and obtaining an error measure for the information that is received at the first receiver and intended for the second receiver. The obtained error measure is then used to determine if the second transmission mode is an acceptable transmission mode. In an embodiment, if the second transmission mode is determined to be acceptable, then the current transmission mode of the first receiver can be replaced by the second transmission mode. In an embodiment, the current transmission mode is replaced by the second transmission mode only if the second transmission mode is a “higher” transmission mode than the current transmission.
US07649864B2
An allocation period for packet data in a packet data communication system is determined. Measurements from mobile stations are collected and a maximum allocation period for at least one possible base station for transmitting data packets to the mobile station is determined on the basis of the collected measurements. A base station and a corresponding allocation period are selected on the basis of the at least one determined maximum allocation period.
US07649862B2
The flexible through-connection process, operational in a Mobile Switch Center, that provides support for allowing the call routing processor of the Mobile Switch Center to independently perform a through-connection/switch-connection based on different types of calls so that the Mobile Switch Center can make a through-connection at different stages of the outgoing call leg. In operation, the present flexible through-connection process includes in the call control processor of the switching system a new parameter in the existing inter-process message which is sent to the call routing processor at call setup time. The values supported for this new parameter will be pre-defined in the Mobile Switch Center and used by the call routing processor to determine when to perform through-connection/switch-connection for an outgoing call leg. When the call routing processor routs the call out and the outgoing call is at the stage, in which the value of the parameter received is defined for, it performs a through-connection operation. Additionally this flexible through-connection process automatically disconnects the other call leg, i.e., switches the connection from one called leg to another called leg when multiple call legs are involved for an incoming call.
US07649856B2
The system for transmitting and receiving a wideband speech signal includes an A/D converter for receiving an analog speech signal to convert it into a digital speech signal, a transmitter analysis filter for receiving the digital speech signal and dividing it into a baseband signal and an enhancement residual band signal, a standard baseband encoder for accepting the baseband signal and coding it using an ITU-T encoder, an additional baseband encoder for reducing standard coding distortion in the baseband signal, an enhancement residual band encoder for coding a signal obtained by removing the coded baseband signal from the original digital speech signal, and an IP network interface for multiplexing the coded standard and additional baseband signals and enhancement residual band signal.
US07649841B2
An end-to-end congestion control is provided that emulates a different service differentiation than the common low-normal priority. This protocol is referred to as 4CP (Competitive, Considerate Congestion Control). The target service differentiation enables provisioning of per-flow average bandwidth guarantees to “normal” traffic, but not at the expense of potentially starving the “low” priority traffic (4CP). It thus features incentive compatibility to file-transfer applications that are throughput-greedy but want to be considerate to other traffic. 4CP is implemented and configured as a sender-only adaptation of standard TCP, and requires no special network feedback. Configuration of the bandwidth guarantee is either statically configured or automatically adjusted by 4CP. The automatic mode aims to be TCP-friendly over appropriately large timescale.
US07649839B2
A method is provided for managing a data rate in a communication system that includes a first device. The first device receives (202) at least one data packet from a second device over a link, wherein the at least one data packet is sent at a first data rate, and monitors (204) a frequency of occurrence of early termination of transmissions on the link. The first device further determines (206) a second different data rate for the link based on the frequency of occurrence of early termination of transmissions and sends (208) a request to the second device to adjust the first data rate to the second data rate for subsequent transmission of data packets. Thereafter, the first device receives (210) at least one data packet from the second device over the link at the second data rate.
US07649837B1
The invention relates to controlling selection of a gateway support node of a packet-switched network. The invention includes defining at least one condition for the gateway support node. When the condition is fulfilled, another gateway support node is more suitable for transmitting packets. When fulfillment of the condition is detected, a first message indicating the other gateway support node is transmitted to the serving support node.
US07649832B2
A receiving method receiving an OFDM signal including a first OFDM symbol having first and second pilot signals allocated to first and second subcarriers positioned symmetric on the frequency axis, and a second OFDM symbol having third and fourth pilot signals allocated to the first and the second subcarriers, a difference between a product of the first pilot signal and a complex conjugate of the fourth pilot signal and a product of the third pilot signal and a complex conjugate of the second pilot signal being non-zero, estimating a first coefficient representing a change components of an amplitude and a phase, and a second coefficient representing an interference component, using first and second received pilot signals corresponding to the first and third pilot signals, estimating from the first and second coefficients IQ imbalance, and compensating the influence of amplitude and phase errors in accordance with the IQ imbalance.
US07649826B2
An optical information recording reproduction device is disclosed which finds the correlation between the ratio of the minimum pit amplitude to the maximum pit amplitude of an RF signal obtained from the light reflected by the pits recorded on an optical disk in a tracking servo mode and spherical aberration in advance, and stores it. In recoding information on the optical disk, the optical information recording reproduction device calculates the ratio of the minimum pit amplitude to the maximum pit amplitude of the RF signal, and compares the calculation to the stored correlation, and feeds back to an aberration correction optical system and a driving mechanical system to correct the aberration into an aplanatic state.
US07649819B2
Disclosed herein are a high-density recording medium and a method and apparatus for controlling data playback thereof. Playback control information, such as channel bit length information, is recorded in a burst cutting area (BCA) of a high-density optical disc in a wobble type. When the high-density optical disc is reproduced, the playback control information is detected in a push-pull signal detection mode and the optimum data playback operation corresponding to the recording capacity of the optical disc is performed on the basis of the detected playback control information. Alternatively, bit error rates (BERs) are calculated while a plurality of predetermined bit detection modes are sequentially performed, one of the bit detection modes corresponding to the smallest one of the calculated BERs is selected and the data playback operation is performed in the selected bit detection mode. Therefore, it is possible to perform a data playback operation optimal to the recording capacity of a BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc-ROM) even through disc information (DI) is recorded in a PIC (Permanent Information & Control data) zone of the BD-ROM in a recording format necessitating a decoding process and the recording capacity is any of different values such as 23 Gbytes, 25 Gbytes, 27 Gbytes, etc.
US07649815B2
In a repetitive control device used for processing a servo signal, a memory (7) is used as a delay element for a filter (6), and a filtering process by the filter (6) is carried out using a clock signal that is an integral multiple of an operation frequency of a driving signal. Therefore, the gain can be increased without generating phase rotation with respect to a compensated signal, and high followability can be achieved to fluctuations in the track position which are caused by the shape of a disc such as decentering or surface wobbling, during recording and playback in an optical disc device.
US07649803B2
A method for retrieval of self-contained, autonomous ocean bottom seismic data acquisition units secured to a non-rigid, non-conducing cable, wherein the cable is retrieved over the trailing edge of a working vessel on the surface of the water so as to permit the cable to billow out in the water column behind the vessel, thereby reducing stress on the cable and permitting greater control in cable handling.
US07649799B2
This semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of sub-arrays with a plurality of memory cells arranged in matrix form. Each local bit line is connected to a plurality of memory cells that are arranged in column direction in the sub-arrays. In addition, a global bit line is connected to the plural local bit lines. A column decoder is connected to the global bit line. The global bit line extends from the column decoder toward the plurality of sub-arrays, and it is cut before the furthest sub-array formed in the furthest region from that column decoder.
US07649796B2
A semiconductor memory has a memory cell array having dynamic memory cells. An access control circuit accesses the memory cells in response to an access command which is supplied externally. A refresh control circuit generates, during a test mode, a test refresh request signal in synchronization with the access command so as to execute a refresh operation of the memory cells when a refresh mask signal is at an invalid level. Also, the refresh control circuit prohibits generation of the test refresh request signal when the refresh mask signal is at a valid level. The test refresh request signal is generated or prohibited from being generated according to the level of the refresh mask signal. Thus, only a refresh operation needed for a test can be executed, and hence test efficiency can be improved.
US07649792B2
A sense amplifier according to an example of the present invention has first, second, third and fourth FETs with a flip-flop connection. A drain of a fifth FET is connected to a first input node, and its source is connected to a power source node. A drain of a sixth FET is connected to a second input node, and its source is connected to the power source node. A sense operation is started by charging a first output node from the first input node with a first current and by charging a second output node from the second input node with a second current. The fifth and sixth FET are turned on after starting the sense operation.
US07649791B2
A non volatile memory device architecture, suitable for speeding up and synchronize the programming steps of the cells in particular of the Flash-Nor type, of the type comprising a matrix of memory cells organized into rows and columns, at least one group of these columns being selected by at least one first enable signal by a second enable signal generated by a first decoder; the group of columns being associated with at least one Program Load PL controlled by a logic circuit comprising a first centralized portion and plural second portions associated with a respective program load sequentially updated and driven in a synchronous way to the first centralized portion.
US07649789B2
A memory device includes a delay circuit and a delay selection unit. The delay circuit delays a pulse signal to generate a delayed pulse signal. The pulse signal is used to generate a write enable signal and a read enable signal. The delay selection unit selects one of the delayed pulse signal output from the delay circuit in a test mode and the pulse signal in a normal mode.
US07649787B2
A memory circuit includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of memory cells. Configurations of the plurality of memory cells are determined depending on the data (“high” or “low”) which is stored in the memory cells. Data array such as a program stored in the memory circuit is analyzed in advance. In the case where “high” is the majority data, memory cells storing “high” are formed with vacant cells in which a semiconductor element is not formed.
US07649781B2
A memory device is disclosed. A reference device of the memory includes a trimmable current source and a fixed current source. Currents provided by each source are summed to provide a reference current to a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier senses the state of a bit cell by comparing a current from the bit cell, representative of a logic value, to the reference current. By basing the reference current on both a fixed and a trimmable current source, the reference device can be trimmed to compensate for process and operating characteristics of the device, while maintaining a minimum reference current in the event of a disturb mechanism that results in loss of the current provided by the trimmable current source.
US07649761B2
Shunt regions are formed at certain intervals in a memory cell array region as extending in a second direction. The shunt regions each include a contact formed to connect a word line or a signal line wired in the same direction to another metal wire. Extension regions are each formed of an extension of the shunt region in the data cache array region. Data input/output lines extend in a first direction and transfer data on bit lines simultaneously via a data cache array. Sense circuits are arranged around the data cache array and connected to the data input/output lines respectively. The data input/output lines are divided at a certain interval in the first direction. The divided portions are connected to respective leads formed in the extension region in the longitudinal direction thereof and connected to the sense circuits via the leads.
US07649759B2
A technique is presented for implementing a content addressable memory (CAM) function using traditional memory, where the input data is serially loaded into a serial CAM. Various additions, which allow for predicting the result of a serial CAM access coincident with the completion of serially inputting the data are also presented.
US07649754B1
The subject invention reveals a new three terminal canonical cell for non-isolated power conversion. The canonical cell achieves reduced semiconductor component stresses for applications with limited line voltage range for small step up and step down ratios or for large step up and step down ratios. Some of the canonical cells can be used to form buck, boost, and buck boost converters. The new canonical cell achieves zero voltage switching over a broad range of line and load voltages and is self limiting without the addition of additional components to sense and respond to over load current.
US07649752B2
A riser card module includes a riser card and a mounting rack. The riser card is inserted in a slot of a main board vertically and has a first hook member arranged on the side of the slot. The mounting rack includes an upright board and an engagement member. The upright board mounts the riser card in parallel. The engagement member has a mounted portion, a force portion, and a hook portion. The mounted portion is mounted on the upright board. The force portion and the mounted portion form a predetermined angle. The hook member is connected on the force portion and has a second hook member hooking on the first hook member. When the force portion is pressed toward a direction reducing the predetermined angle, the second hook member is disengaged from the first hook member.
US07649751B2
An alignment system for a mezzanine-type printed circuit board is provided. The alignment system includes tab portions formed from the insulating material of the printed circuit board, in which the tab portions engage receptacles and limit movement of the printed circuit board.
US07649745B2
A circuit board may include first and second sides, a plurality of circuit board layers between the sides, and a plurality of signal traces located in respective circuit board layers. The circuit board layers and the signal traces may extend from a first component connection region at the first side of the circuit board to a second component connection region at the first side of the circuit board. The signal traces may thus form stubless signal paths through the circuit board between the component connection regions. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07649744B2
A handheld computing device and handheld music player are disclosed. The handheld computing device includes a seamless enclosure formed from an extruded tube. The extruded tube includes open ends and internal rails which serve as a guide for slidably assembling an operational assembly through the open ends of the extruded tube, a reference surface for positioning the operational assembly relative to an access opening in the seamless enclosure, and a support structure for supporting the operational assembly during use. The handheld music player includes an elongated extruded tube extending along a longitudinal axis. The elongated extruded tube has a first open end and a second open end opposite the first open end, and defines an internal lumen which is sized and dimensioned for slidable receipt of operational components of the handheld music player. The lumen includes rails for guiding the operational components to their desired position within the lumen.
US07649741B2
A case structure for card-type electronic product includes an intermediate frame having insertion slots spaced thereon; a lower cover connected to a lower side of the intermediate frame by lower hooking members upward inserted into the insertion slots, and each of the lower hooking members including two spaced latch legs; and an upper cover connected to an upper side of the intermediate frame by upper hooking members downward inserted into the insertion slots corresponding to the lower hooking members, and each of the upper hooking members including two laterally outward extended latch hooks. When the upper and lower covers are assembled to the upper and lower sides of the intermediate frame, the latch hooks of the upper hooking members are abutted on lower edges of the latch legs of the lower hooking members to firmly hold the lower cover to the upper cover in three directions.
US07649728B2
The present invention relates to suppressing wear and contamination of the electrode needle as well as effectively removing the electricity from a charged body. An electricity removal mode in which the electrode needle is applied with a high voltage to produce ions and a halt mode in which the electrode needle is halted are provided, that are alternatively selected based on a selection of a user. The halt mode includes a halt period during which the high voltage is not basically applied on the electrode needle. When a self discharge occurs by approach of a charged body in this halt period and an absolute value of current that flows through the resistance exceeds the first threshold value, the electricity removal operation is initiated in which the high voltage is applied on the electrode needle to produce ions. Subsequently, after a predetermined time period passes, for example, the electricity removal operation is terminated and the halt period is resumed.
US07649720B2
A method of constructing a superconducting coil. The method includes embedding a plurality of heater elements throughout a superconducting coil. The heater elements are positioned according to a predetermined distribution and substantially in thermal contact with the coil for heating the coil in response to a quench condition. Other aspects of the invention involve an active protection circuit and a high temperature superconductor magnet that includes such an active protection circuit for internally dissipating stored magnetic energy in the event of a quench.
US07649705B2
For performing a retry in a data storage device, a spin jitter value corresponding to a desired sector of a disc is determined. A read timing is adjusted according to the spin jitter value of the desired sector. A retry of a data read is performed for the desired sector with the adjusted read timing. Thus, the present invention accounts for eccentricity of the disc as indicated by the spin jitter value during retry of the data read operation.
US07649704B1
A disk drive is disclosed including a disk having a plurality of tracks, and a head actuated over the disk. A refresh monitor is maintained for refreshing data stored on the disk. A need for a refresh operation is detected when the refresh monitor exceeds a first threshold, wherein the refresh operation is deferred based on an environmental condition.
US07649698B2
Laser light is emitted from a laser oscillator, and the laser light is made to enter a beam expander optical system including a concave lens through a correction lens. The laser oscillator, the correction lens and the concave lens are disposed so that, when an emission point of the laser oscillator is a first conjugate point, a point at which an image at the first conjugate point is formed through the correction lens is a second conjugate point, a distance between the correction lens and the second conjugate point is b, a focal length of the concave lens is f, and a distance between the correction lens and the concave lens is X, the X satisfies b−3|f|≦X≦b+|f|.
US07649687B2
A reflective screen includes a light reflecting layer, and a light diffusing layer provided on the light reflecting layer. The light diffusing layer has the diffusion property that in one (A axis) of two perpendicular axial directions on a light diffusion plane, a luminance distribution curve versus incidence angle is asymmetric with respect to the zero-incidence-angle axis, and the side on which the incidence angle (half-luminance incidence angle) with half of a peak luminance on the A axis in the normal direction to the screen plane is small faces in a direction in which external light has the highest strength.
US07649675B2
Toner particles and a dry-powder electrophoretic display employing such particles are disclosed herein. The toner particles adapted for a dry-powder electrophoretic display comprise emulsion/aggregation particles having a negative charge. At least a portion of the toner particles include a surface coating, comprising a methacrylate polymer, disposed on the surface of the toner particles to impart a positive charge to a set of toner particles. The emulsion/aggregation toner particles have a particle size generally less than about 10 micrometers that allows for improved image quality as compared to conventional toners utilized in dry-powder electrophoretic displays.
US07649657B2
A method and apparatus for an image adaptive color adjustment of pixels in a color gamut is disclosed. The method includes calculating a representative value that shows color characteristics of pixels included in a color gamut, calculating a final target color required to convert the representative value to approach a reference target point existing in the color gamut, and converting the pixels included in the color gamut to approach the final target color. The apparatus includes a color gamut boundary storage module; a reference target point storage module; a target color determination module which calculates a representative value that shows color characteristics of pixels included in a color gamut and calculates a final target color required to convert the representative value to approach the reference target point; and a color conversion module which converts the pixels included in the color gamut to approach the final target color.
US07649656B2
An image reading device capable of detecting foreign particles on a transparent member by including the transparent member, a conveyance unit that conveys an original document to the transparent member, a reading unit that reads via the transparent member an image of the original document being conveyed on the transparent member at multiple reading positions that exist with a prescribed distance therebetween along an original document conveyance direction, an output unit that outputs signals for different color components corresponding to each of the reading positions, a transparent member moving unit that moves the transparent member in a prescribed direction such that the original document slides over the transparent member while being conveyed to the reading positions during image reading, and a detector that detects noise components caused by foreign particles on the transparent member based on the output signals from the output unit.
US07649654B2
An in-line laser scanning unit (LSU) with multiple light beams is disclosed. The LSU includes a minimized in-line mirror set composed by a plurality of vertically stacked Micro Electronic Mechanical System (MEMS) oscillatory mirrors and a linear corresponding scanning lens set formed by a plurality of F-Sin θ lens stacked vertically so as to correct the variation of reflective angle of the oscillatory mirror that is sinusoidal in time. Thus the scanning speed of multiple laser beams on the image plane is constant. Therefore, the volume of color printers is effectively reduced and the scanning efficiency is improved when the LSU in accordance with the present invention is applied to the optical engines of color printers.
US07649639B2
A usage limiting method for a device executing a job generated by a driver, in which a driver corresponding to a device manages a usage state of the device, and when the usage state agrees with a predetermined condition, the driver stops generation of a job corresponding to the device.
US07649632B2
Apparatus for analyzing thin surface layers. An acoustic wave generating laser beam is amplitude modulated with continuous wave modulation of a frequency in the megahertz to gigahertz range and an optical system directs the modulated radiation to a surface of a thin surface layer. This in turn causes an acoustic wave that is sensed and analyzed to provide an indication of properties of thin surface layer.
US07649630B2
A method, apparatus and system for optimizing the magnitude of reference levels in non-invasive imaging and analysis is disclosed. Optimizing the magnitude of reference levels enables improving signal to noise ratios and thereby improving the sensitivity and performance of the imaging and analysis system. The invention includes dynamically modifying the magnitude of one or more reference beams and significantly reducing the magnitude of undesirable reference radiation components. It may further include one or more stabilizing feedback systems.
US07649625B2
An optical apparatus includes a laser light source for emitting a beam of light, an integrator for dividing the beam of light into plural beams of light, and a light focusing optical system for focusing the beams of light passed through the integrator. The optical apparatus also includes a stage, on which the light concentrated by the light focusing optical system is irradiated and on which an object may be placed, and includes a projecting optical system for projecting the light transmitted through the object. The following conditions satisfy the following numerical formula (1). The projecting optical system has a visual field including an effective visual field, and the integrator has a division number N corresponding to a predetermined direction in a predetermined effective visual field. A ghost image is formed in the effective visual field in the predetermined direction and has contrast γ. The light focusing optical system has numerical aperture NA1, the projecting optical system has numerical aperture NA2, and (NA1/NA2) defines a coherence factor σ. The object has a light blocking portion with an amplitude transmittance T. N ≧ σ π 8 π C 2 3 ( C = γ / T ) ( 1 )
US07649624B1
A method of detecting one or more scratches on a surface of a wafer made of a non-semiconductor material is provided. A UV beam is produced from a UV illumination source. The UV beam is incident on a front surface of the wafer. The UV beam being characterized that for scratches of a given material having a UV cutoff wavelength λcutoff, over 90% of the spectral system response SSR is at wavelengths below μcutoff−5 nm and expressed as: ∫ 0 λ cutoff - 5 nm SSR ( λ ) > 0.90 · ∫ 0 ∞ SSR ( λ ) A reflected beam of scattering of the UV beam is detected in response to scratches on a surface of the wafer. The scattering is captured.
US07649621B2
The invention relates to an optical inclinometer. According to the invention, an incline-dependent medium, e.g. a liquid surface, is positioned in the pupil of an optical subsystem and a detectable wave front is imaged onto a detector by means of said medium. A phase displacement of radiation emitted from a radiation source is caused by said medium; the interaction of the radiation and the medium can take place during reflection or transmission. An aberration of the wave front caused by the medium can be analyzed by means of a wave front sensor and compensated by an evaluation unit or the detector. A wave front sensor having a diffractive structure formed upstream of each subaperture is compact and increases the resolution and the detectable angular region of the inclinometer.
US07649606B2
An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a plurality of external connection terminals provided on the substrate, an electronic component mounted on the substrate and having a plurality of terminals, and a plurality of wires that electrically connect the plurality of external connection terminals to the plurality of terminals of the electronic component. A constant-potential wire is provided in the vicinity of locations of connections of at least some of the plurality of wires with the respective terminals of the electronic component.
US07649603B2
Provided are an in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The device comprises a thin film transistor array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal. The thin film transistor array substrate has a common electrode and a pixel electrode arranged in an alternating pattern with each other, and has a first alignment film provided on the common electrode and the pixel electrode so as to align liquid crystal molecules in a vertical direction. The color filter substrate faces the thin film transistor array substrate, and has a second alignment film that aligns the liquid crystal molecules in a vertical direction. Liquid crystal is injected between the thin film transistor array substrate and the color filter substrate.
US07649601B2
The invention relates to liquid crystal displays used in display sections of electronic apparatus and provides a liquid crystal display in which high anti-pressure characteristics can be achieved with a high aperture ratio maintained. A configuration is provided, which includes a pair of substrates provided opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, a plurality of pixel regions provided on the substrates, and protrusion-like structures provided in the pixel regions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal and maintaining a cell thickness between the substrates.
US07649599B2
An LCD according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a liquid crystal panel assembly including two panels facing each other and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the two panels and having positive dielectric anisotropy. A pair of polarization films are attached to the outer surfaces of the liquid crystal panel assembly, respectively. A positive or negative a-plate compensation film having reverse wavelength dispersion that ¥Än increases as the light wavelength increases and a negative hybrid c-plate compensation film are inserted between the liquid crystal panel assembly and each of the polarization films.
US07649593B2
A backlight unit comprises an arrangement surface and a plurality of point light sources arranged on the arrangement surface, wherein the arrangement surface is divided into an array of hexagonal cells, a plurality of the cells comprising a white light providing unit. An LCD comprising a backlight unit on which a point light source is efficiently disposed and an efficient arrangement method of a point light source are provided.
US07649591B2
In an LCD apparatus having an optical member, the optical member has a base body having a light incident surface and a light emitting surface faced the light incident surface. A first resin layer is formed on the light emitting surface and a light diffusing pattern is uniformly formed on the first resin layer so as to diffuse a first light and emit a second light. Accordingly, the LCD apparatus can improve display quality and can be fabricated in low-cost manufacture. Also, since the light diffusing pattern is formed with a curable material, the light diffusing pattern can have various shapes and superior reproducibility.
US07649579B2
A line-on-glass type liquid crystal display device, which includes a gate drive integrated circuit mounted on a liquid crystal display panel for supplying a gate signal to the liquid crystal display panel, and a data drive integrated circuit for supplying a data voltage to the liquid crystal display panel. Further, the data drive integrated circuit includes an output circuit having effective output channels to which the data voltage is supplied and dummy output channels to which at least any one of the data voltage and a common voltage is supplied. Also included is a channel selecting part for selectively supplying any one of the data voltage and the common voltage to at least anyone of the dummy output channels.
US07649577B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) exhibiting enhanced optical viewing performance. In a preferred embodiment, the LCD comprises a liquid crystal display panel, the liquid crystal display panel comprising a pair of transparent substrates, liquid crystal material sandwiched between the transparent substrates and transparent electrodes positioned between the liquid crystal material and the transparent substrates. The LCD also comprises a rear polarizer assembly comprising a compensation film, a polarizer mounted on the rear surface of the compensation film, and a first index-matched, pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) mounted on the front surface of the compensation film, the PSA being adhered to the rear surface of the LCD panel. The LCD also comprises a front polarizer assembly, the front polarizer assembly comprising a front polarizer, a compensation film mounted on the rear surface of the front polarizer and an index-matched PSA mounted on the front surface of the front polarizer. The front polarizer is crossed relative to the rear polarizer. The front polarizer assembly may be adhered to the front of the LCD panel with a second index-matched, optical bonding material or may be spaced therefrom by an air gap. A transparent cover is mounted on the second index-matched PSA. The transparent cover is preferably a plastic plate. The plastic plate may be textured to reduce glare or may have an anti-reflection coating or an anti-reflection film applied to the front surface thereof. Instead of a plastic plate, the transparent cover may be a glass plate or a touch panel.
US07649572B2
A VSB reception system includes a sequence generator for decoding a symbol corresponding to the supplemental data and generating a predefined sequence included in the supplemental data at VSB transmission system. The reception system also includes a modified legacy VSB receiver for processing the data received from the VSB transmission system in a reverse order of the VSB transmission system by using the sequence, and a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the data from the modified legacy VSB receiver into the MPEG data and the supplemental data. The VSB reception system also includes a supplemental data processor for processing the supplemental data segment from the demultiplexer in a reverse order of the transmission system, to obtain the supplemental data, thereby carrying out the slicer prediction, decoding, and symbol decision more accurately by using the predefined sequence, to improve a performance.
US07649568B2
An image data decoding method of an image vertical blanking interval (VBI) and device thereof can adjust a run-in clock signal of data lines of teletext to a data phase of teletext data lines. The method can accurately decode data of the teletext data lines to avoid a phase bias and an erroneous decoding result. A main technical method to decode the data of the VBI is to extract the data of the teletext data lines to determine corresponding bit logical values of the image data and then to output a decode result and also output a phase adjustment value. The phase adjustment value is used to adjust a read phase value of the extracted image so as to synchronize a data phase in VBI.
US07649563B2
Provided are a digital photographing apparatus that displays a preview image and overlaps setting icons indicating set operating conditions of the digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus. If a user does not generate a signal within a set period of time, the setting icons are no longer displayed.
US07649557B2
An apparatus for processing a digital image signal includes a pseudo-luminance generator configured to generate pseudo-luminance signals from the image signal. An edge detector detects an edge in the image signal using a part of an interpolated image signal as a luminance signal for a line of the image signal including a pixel subjected to edge detection and using the pseudo-luminance signals for adjacent lines. A color suppressor suppresses pseudo-color present in the chrominance component of the image signal in response to a detected edge. A compensator may be provided to generate a second edge metric relative to the image signal to compensate for an edge detection error occurring in the edge detector. A color suppression coefficient calculator to generate a color suppression coefficient using a first edge metric generated by the edge detector and the second edge metric. Corresponding systems and methods are disclosed.
US07649548B1
A method transfers image information from a camera module (1) to an electronic device, such as a mobile station (23). In the camera module (1), an image is formed by an image sensor (2) having pixels, where the light to which the pixel (P1,1-Pm,n) is exposed is converted into an analog signal which is converted into digital image information. The image information is transferred in serial form, and the transfer of the image information is controlled by the electronic device (23).
US07649541B2
A gamma correction apparatus comprising a digital to analog converter (DAC), a plurality of compensating circuits, and at least one adjusting circuit is provided. The DAC is used to receive RGB digital signals to further generate analog signals. The analog signals are then transferred to the relative pixel devices through the signal lines on the LCD panel. The compensating circuits inserted between the DAC and the signal lines are used to adjust the analog signals to correct the displaying brightness of the pixel devices. The adjusting circuit connecting to the compensating circuits is used to control the operation of the compensation circuits. In addition, a method for adjusting gamma curves by providing three common voltage levels related to RGB colors individually is also provided to achieve better white balance.
US07649522B2
A method and system for transmitting data to and from a hand-held host device are disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with a host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bidirectional data link between the accessory device and the host device. The accessory device also includes a storage unit communicatively coupled to the communication channel. The storage unit is designed to store various data. In addition, at least a first data is selectively transmitted from the stored data of the accessory device to the host device through the established bidirectional data link.
US07649518B2
A liquid crystal display driving circuit is provided. The liquid crystal display driving circuit includes a front driving stage and a plurality of serially connected subsequent driving stages. The front driving stage receives a first trigger pulse and a second trigger pulse consecutively in a testing operation. The serially connected subsequent driving stages coupled to the front driving stage such that the output terminal of each driving stage is electrically connected to the input terminal of the following driving stage as well as the input terminal of the one after. The output terminal of the front driving stage is electrically connected to the input terminal of first subsequent driving stage and the one immediately thereafter.
US07649516B2
A pixel having a structure in which low voltage drive is possible is provided by a simple process. A digital image signal input from a source signal line is input to the pixel through a switching TFT. At this point, a voltage compensation circuit amplifies the voltage amplitude of the digital image signal or transforms the amplitude, and applies the result to a gate electrode of a driver TFT. On-off control of TFTs within the pixel can thus be performed normally even if the voltage of a power source for driving gate signal lines becomes lower.
US07649515B2
To reduce the time for writing a voltage onto a gate of a driving transistor. In an initialization period, a node B is fixed to an initial voltage VINI, transistors are turned on, and a current flows into an OLED element, such that a voltage according to the current is held at the node A. Thereafter, the transistors are sequentially turned off, such that a threshold voltage of a driving transistor is held at the node A. In a writing period, a transistor is turned on and a data signal X-j is supplied, such that a voltage of the node B varies by the amount according to the current flowing into the OLED element. The voltage of the node A varies from the threshold voltage by the amount which is obtained by dividing the voltage variation by a capacitance ratio. In a light-emitting period, the transistor is turned on, such that a current according to the voltage of the node A flows into the OLED element.
US07649508B2
A plasma display apparatus may be provided that reduces a noise generating in a waveform applied to a scan electrode or a sustain electrode and that stabilizes address discharge by improving applying time point of a waveform applied in an address period, so that driving stability of a panel may increase. The plasma display apparatus may include a plasma display panel in which a plurality of scan electrodes and a plurality of address electrodes intersecting the scan electrodes are formed, and a data driver dividing the address electrode into a plurality of electrode groups, corresponding to a scan waveform applied to the scan electrode, and the data driver applying an address waveform to one address electrode group, and the address waveform having an applying time point that is different from an applying time point of the scan waveform.
US07649505B2
A circularly polarized, omnidirectional, corporate-feed pylon antenna uses multiple helically-oriented dipoles in each bay, and includes a vertical and diagonal support arrangement of simple structural shapes configured to provide a frame strong enough to sustain mechanical top loads applied externally. The radiators in each bay fit within the vertical supports. The radiators are integrally formed with cross-braces, and are fed with manifold feed straps incorporating tuning paddles. A single cylindrical radome surrounds the radiative parts and the vertical supports. The antenna admits of application to the upper L-band at the full FCC-allowed ERP. Beam tilt, null fill, and vertical null can be readily accommodated.
US07649503B2
A combination Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) terminal and rear view mirror for vehicles is disclosed. The rear view mirror includes a Radio Frequency (RF) antenna, and an ETC module. The RF antenna is fastened to the upper end of a stay in order to transmit and receive RF signals to and from an RF module, which is provided in a tollgate gantry. The ETC module is connected with the RF antenna using a wire, and is mounted in a housing. Thus, the uninterrupted transmission and reception of RF signals between the ECT terminal and the RF module can be stably performed even when a vehicle passes through a tollgate at a high speed.
US07649502B2
A multi-band antenna used in a portable electrical device can work in WWAN and GPS at the same time. The multi-band antenna includes a PCB having a through hole, a first antenna body comprising a first radiating element and a first grounding element formed on a first surface of the PCB, a second antenna body formed on a second surface of the PCB, and a feeding line having an inner conductor electrically connecting to the first radiating element and an outer conductor electrically connecting to the first grounding element. The second antenna body comprises a second radiating element, a second grounding element, and a connecting element connecting the second radiating element and the second grounding element. The first radiating element and the second radiating element electrically connect with each other via the through hole of the PCB.
US07649501B2
An ultra-wideband antenna structure is provided. The ultra-wideband antenna structure includes a substrate with an edge, a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a ground surface mounted on the first surface; a radiating element mounted on the second surface and near the edge, and being a bent metal piece; and a short-circuited metal unit mounted on the first surface having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is electrically connected to the ground surface and the second end is electrically connected to the radiating element.
US07649499B2
In a high-frequency module, an antenna device is disposed on a first principal surface of a second substrate, a first principal surface of a first substrate and a second principal surface of the second substrate face each other and are connected to each other by conductive connecting members, electronic components including an IC chip are mounted on the first principal surface of the first substrate, ground electrodes are disposed on the first and second substrates, the conductive connecting members are connected to a ground potential, and thus the IC chip is surrounded by the ground electrodes of the first and second substrates and the conductive connecting members.
US07649498B2
Disclosed is an antenna apparatus including a dielectric substrate, an antenna element formed of a metallic plate which is disposed by having a predetermined space from the dielectric substrate, a plurality of leg pieces which extend toward the dielectric substrate from the antenna element, a chip capacitor which is electrically connected to the leg pieces and the dielectric substrate and an insert member made of resin which is inserted between the dielectric substrate and the antenna element.
US07649496B1
A rectenna capable of power conversion from electromagnetic (EM) waves of high frequencies is provided. In one embodiment, a rectenna element generates currents from two sources—based upon the power of the incident EM wave and from an n-type semiconductor, or another electron source attached to a maximum voltage point of an antenna element. The combined current from both sources increases the power output of the antenna, thereby increasing the detection sensitivity of the antenna of a low power signal. Full wave rectification is achieved using a novel diode connected to a gap in the antenna element of an rectenna element. The diode is conductive at a zero bias voltage, and rectifies the antenna signal generated by the desired EM wave received by antenna. Further, the diode may provide a fixed output voltage regardless of the input signal level. The rectenna element of the present invention may be used as a building block to create large rectenna arrays.
US07649481B2
A sigma-delta ADC (200A) uses blue-noise (random, pseudo-random) modulation (202) to reduce the effect of the substrate noise. Pairs of blue-noise multipliers (202) are placed before and after each non-delayed integrator (106). In the case of a sample-delayed integrator, the integrator is first separated into a non-delayed integrator (110) followed by the delay element (112). The multiplying sequence is a sequence of 1's and −1 's that has blue-noise spectral characteristics (i.e., the spectrum has a low frequency deficiency).
US07649470B2
A method and apparatus for detection of spark activity in an electrical machine having a shaft, wherein at least one of the shaft voltage and the shaft current is measured and analyzed for components which are characteristic of spark activity. The method uses the shaft voltages and/or shaft currents which are normally generally regarded only as being damaging has been found to be accurate and to be suitable for long-term monitoring of spark activities such as brush sparking, spark erosion, spark flashovers between parts of the shaft bearings and can be implemented physically very easily and in a reliable manner, since the existing grounding devices are used.
US07649466B2
In particular situations it may be desirable to follow, trace or otherwise localize specific (groups of) objects or animals, in particular people. The invention relates to a localization system. The invention also relates to a method for localizing objects or animals using such a localization system.
US07649462B2
An improved tracking system for garments provided to a customer by a garment provider.
US07649456B2
A system, device and method for wirelessly controlling a plurality of electronic appliances arranged within a local area include an electronic device having a location detection circuit, a user interface circuit and a display device. The location detection circuit is operative to determine a general location of the electronic device within the local area, and the user interface circuit is operative to receive the determined general location. Based thereon, the user interface circuit configures at least one user interface for control of at least one electronic appliance located in the same general location as the electronic device. The display device may display the user interface configured by the user interface circuit.
US07649442B2
A vehicle detection apparatus detects vehicles traveling on a road with their lights turned on. The apparatus captures images of a road, detects a light spot from captured images, and detects a first vertical coordinate of the light spot in the images. The apparatus further calculates a distance to the light spot based on a horizontal length of the light spot in the images and detects a second vertical coordinate corresponding to the calculated distance, based on correlated data in which vertical coordinates and distances in an image are correlated in advance. The apparatus further calculates a pitching amount that indicates a difference between the first and second coordinates and determines whether or not the light spot originates from a vehicle, based on the pitching amount.
US07649441B2
A method, apparatus, and system for periodically measuring the level of ambient noise found on a radio frequency channel used by a radio frequency identification interrogator to read radio frequency identification tags. The ambient noise is measured after the radio frequency identification interrogator has transmitted a signal. The measured level of ambient noise is then used to dynamically adjust a threshold value used to predict collisions on the channel.
US07649431B2
There is provided a multi-layered band pass filter capable of improving a stop characteristic out of a pass band and reducing the entire size of the filter. The multi-layered band pass filter includes a ceramic laminated body having at least first to fifth dielectric layers laminated sequentially therein; first and second resonators having symmetrical patterns of first and second inductors formed on the first dielectric layer, and symmetrical patterns of first and second capacitors formed on the second dielectric layer so that they are at least partially overlapped with the patterns of the first and second inductors; a pattern of first and second load capacitors electrically capacitively coupled respectively to ends of the first and second resonators formed on the third dielectric layer; a pattern of first and second notching capacitors electrically capacitively coupled respectively to the other ends of the first and second resonators formed on the third dielectric layer; and first and second ground planes formed respectively on the fourth and fifth dielectric layers, wherein each of the patterns of the first and second inductors is composed of a low impedance portion formed of wide-width lines and a high impedance portion formed of meander-type narrow-width lines from the low impedance portion.
US07649425B2
A free running clock circuit includes a switching circuit for switching between first and second logic states at a predetermined frequency based upon a trip voltage. The switching circuit has an inherent temperature profile associated therewith. A voltage divider circuit outputs a defined trip voltage that is compensated over the temperature to offset the temperature profile of said switching circuit to provide an overall temperature compensated operation for the free running clock circuit. The voltage divider circuit has a top programmable resistor array connected in series with at least two programmable resistor arrays between two supply terminals of differing voltages.
US07649420B2
A frequency detecting and converting apparatus comprises a plurality of frequency-dividers, a multiplexer, a pulse width detector, a comparing unit and an encoder. The invention automatically detects the operating frequency of an input clock signal, divides the frequency of the input clock signal by a pre-defined integer according to the detected operating frequency and finally generates an output clock signal with an operating frequency required for an integrated circuit.
US07649417B1
An input bias cancellation stage for an audio operational amplifier is provided. The input bias cancellation stage includes an input differential pair, a current mirror, and a bias duplicator transistor that substantially duplicates the input bias current. The bias duplicator transistor receives substantially the same emitter current as the transistors in the input differential pair, and has substantially the same Vce as the transistors in the input differential pair. The current mirror mirrors the duplicated bias current and subtracts it from the bases of the transistors in the input differential pair so that the input bias current is substantially cancelled.
US07649414B2
Methods and apparatus to reduce substrate voltage bounces and spike voltages in switching amplifiers
Methods and apparatus to reduce voltage bounces and spike voltages in switching amplifiers are disclosed. An example apparatus to reduce spike voltages in a switching amplifier disclosed herein comprises an input to sense an output voltage of the switching amplifier, and a pull-down circuit to electrically couple the apparatus with a transistor in the switching amplifier, wherein the pull-down circuit is configured to vary in strength based on the output voltage sensed by the input.
US07649410B2
Systems and methods in which an ultrasonic signal is introduced into an audio signal before the audio signal is amplified by a switching amplifier. The added ultrasonic signal (e.g., a tone at half the amplifier's switching frequency) shifts the signals input to a set of power switches so that they do not switch nearly simultaneously. The ultrasonic signal causes the output current to be well defined to eliminate dead time distortion at low signal levels. Adding the tone ultrasonic signal causes the distortion to shift to an amplitude greater than zero. Signals that exceed this amplitude will experience the distortion, but the distortion will be less noticeable than in lower-amplitude signals. Signals that do not exceed this amplitude will not experience the distortion at all. Adding an ultrasonic signal may also draw energy away from the switch frequency and its harmonics to interference with AM radio reception.
US07649407B2
An integrated, multi-band radio frequency (RF) filter is capable of modifying a filter response thereof in response to control information. Switching elements within the filter can be changed between on and off conditions to modify the filter response. In one implementation, the integrated, multi-band filter is integrated on a front end module chip to be used within a multi-radio wireless device. In at least one embodiment, linearity enhancement circuitry is provided within a multi-band filter to improve linearity and reduce insertion loss.
US07649389B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) circuit includes a basic loop, a coarse loop, a delay model and a fine loop. The basic loop generates a plurality of first clock signals, based at least in part on an input clock signal, a feedback clock signal and a fine loop output signal. The first clock signals respectively have a phase difference. The coarse loop generates a plurality of output clock signals, based at least in part on the input clock signal, the feedback clock signal and the first clock signals. The plurality of output clock signals respectively have a phase difference. The delay model generates the feedback clock signal by delaying one of the output clock signals by a first time period. The fine loop generates the fine loop output signal, based at least in part on the input clock signal and the feedback clock signal.
US07649388B2
In an embodiment, an analog voltage recovery circuit comprising a plurality of capacitors having first terminals connected to a node having the analog voltage, and comprising a state machine, where during an operating mode the second terminals of the plurality of capacitors are coupled to a first rail, and where during a digitization mode the state machine couples the second terminals of a set of the plurality of capacitors to a second rail so that the analog voltage is closer to the second rail voltage than during the beginning of the digitization mode. In an embodiment, the analog voltage recovery circuit brings the node voltage to the second rail voltage at the end of the digitization mode, and then floats the node and couples the second terminals of the plurality of capacitors to the first rail to approximately restore the analog voltage. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07649382B2
The present invention provides for a device to reduce the voltage swing for control signals. An input signal with a maximum potential of DVDD and minimum potential of AVSS is level shifted to a maximum potential of AVDD and a minimum potential of AVDD-DVDD. A series of control signals are generated from the level shifted input signal by standard logic cells. The shifting of the input signal reduces the voltage swing for the control signals. These control signals are then used to drive a device operating at a potential of AVDD.
US07649381B2
A level conversion circuit capable of realizing low-power/high-speed operation and suppression of variations in input/output characteristics due to variations in source voltage and temperature and device variation. The level conversion circuit comprises: a source follower circuit including a first transistor to input an AC signal of CML level thereto and a second transistor to input a control voltage thereto; and a control-voltage generating circuit to generate the control voltage to be inputted to the second transistor. The control-voltage generating circuit comprises: a replica source follower circuit which is a replica of the source follower circuit including a third transistor to input a central voltage of CML level thereto and a fourth transistor to input the control voltage thereto; and a comparator which controls the control voltage, thereby equalizing an output voltage of the replica source follower and a threshold voltage of a CMOS circuit.
