US07748981B2
An intraoral device includes a one-piece, flexible, injection molded body made of a single homogeneous material. The body includes upper front and rear flaps, and lower front and rear flaps. Upper edges of the front flaps and lower edges of the lower flaps are sealed by respective upper and lower parts of a patient's mouth to form upper and lower evacuation channels when the body is disposed within the patient's mouth. Evacuation holes in the flaps are in communication with the evacuation channels. A connection section is in communication with the evacuation channels and is configured to extend outside of the patient's mouth to connect with a vacuum source for evacuating fluid from the patient's mouth through the evacuation holes and the evacuation channels.
US07748977B2
An igniter includes an igniter body provided with a liquefied gas reservoir, and a rod-like extension, which extends from the igniter body and has a flame port ejecting gas flame therethrough on its leading end. The base portion of the rod-like extension is supported for rotation with respect to the igniter body so that the angle made between the igniter body and the rod-like extension can be changed to change the direction of the flame port in a free state and locked when the igniting action is to be done.
US07748970B2
In an embodiment, a vacuum pump is capable of preventing adhesion of by-products to its surfaces. The vacuum pump includes a stator. The stator includes a cylinder wall and a pair of diaphragms disposed at opposite ends of the stator. A rotary shaft passes through the diaphragms, and a lobe is attached to the rotary shaft in the stator. The lobe may include a fluid port, and the fluid port may be disposed in sidewalls of the lobe to face the diaphragms. The rotary shaft may include a fluid supply path in communication with the fluid port.
US07748961B2
An apparatus is provided for handling rotor blades of wind power installations. An apparatus for simplified handling of rotor blades is afforded by a carrier element and at least one rotor blade receiving structure coupled to the carrier element. A rotor blade is received in the apparatus during a blade fitting procedure. The apparatus may reduce the effect of wind and the effect of mass inertia during the blade fitting procedure.
US07748950B2
A turbofan engine of the invention is provided with a fan first-stage moving blade for taking an air therein, and a spinner rotationally driving the fan first-stage moving blade, the spinner has a spiral blade extending spirally to an outer side in a radial direction, sucking the air from a front face of the spinner and supplying the air to the fan first-stage moving blade. Further, the fan first-stage moving blade and the spinner are integrally coupled, and the spiral blade and the fan first-stage moving blade are formed such that blade surfaces are smoothly connected.
US07748941B2
An apparatus for punching and binding a stack of papers is disclosed. The apparatus includes a paper clamp and a binding element insertion device that are movable relative to each other. The binding element insertion device is configured to receive and detect binding elements of different sizes. The apparatus also includes a punching mechanism, a controller, and a user interface. The controller controls movement of the paper clamp and the binding element insertion device based on the size of the binding element needed to bind the stack of papers together. The user interface is configured to provide information to a user of the apparatus and to receive input from the user before, during, and after the punching and binding operation.
US07748939B2
A captive fastener generally comprising a receptacle, a bayonet assembly, and a locking assembly for locking the bayonet assembly to the receptacle. The receptacle extends along a longitudinal axis and includes a pair of parallel extending spiral raceways formed in the inner surface of a central opening that extends therethrough, and a keyway formed adjacent its terminus. The bayonet assembly includes a pair of bayonets that are adapted to ride in the raceways and a key positioned at the end of a plunger and is adapted to engage the keyway thereby locking the bayonet assembly in the receptacle. The locking assembly includes the plunger that when manipulated by a tool either engages or disengages the key from the keyway.
US07748938B2
A fastening element (10; 40) having a bracket (11; 41) and a receiving fixture (20; 50) for a nut body (33), the bracket (11; 41) having at least one bearing surface (16, 17; 46) for the receiving fixture (20; 50) and at least one holding element (14, 15; 43,44, 45) reaching over the receiving fixture (20; 50), and the receiving fixture (20; 50) being held by the bracket (11; 41) with play. The fastening element (10; 40) serves as a cage nut for connecting structural parts.
US07748928B2
A load plate sleeve assembly for maintaining a load plate in position between adjacent concrete slabs and facilitating controlled lateral movement of the load plate includes a housing and an insert clip coupled to the housing. The housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall, opposing side walls extending between the top and bottom walls, and an end wall extending between the top and bottom walls, and between the side walls. The walls define an internal cavity, and the housing includes a cavity access opening. The insert clip includes a opposing side walls having a first end and a second end. The insert clip also includes an end wall extending between the side walls, a plurality of deformable centering fingers extending from the side walls, and a collapsible diamond shaped center support extending from the end wall. The insert clip is positioned inside the internal cavity of the housing.
US07748925B2
A rotating member fixing structure includes a shaft member and a rotating member. The rotating member has an axial bore section press-fitted to the shaft member. One of the shaft member and the axial bore section of the rotating member includes a margin adjusting part dimensioned to reduce a press-fitting margin between the shaft member and the axial bore section of the rotating member from an initial press-fitting margin to an effective press-fitting margin that is less than or equal to a prescribed value when the rotating member is press-fitted to the shaft member.
US07748920B2
The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for applying two or more lines of mortar to lines of bricks to tuckpoint the same. The tool and method of the present invention comprises a mortar inlet which can be connected, via suitable length hose, to a mortar pump which can pump mortar under pressure to an inlet. The tool and method includes means for taking the supplied mortar and splitting or dividing it into two or more streams and further includes means for discharging the mortar to means for applying the mortar to the bricks.
US07748908B2
A bearing device for uniformly distributing lubricating oil between first and second bushing sliding surfaces and a connection pin is provided. The connection pin is inserted into the first bushing that is inserted into a boss member. The second bushings are inserted into a pair of bracket members. An oil storage portion is formed at a middle part of the connection pin, and is communicated to an oil feed channel that feeds lubricating oil from the outside. First sealing members and second sealing members are disposed in the first bushing and the second bushings, respectively. A pair of first channels and a second channel are formed inside the connection pin. The first channels are opened in locations in proximity to the first sealing members. The second channel is communicated to this first channel and the oil storage chamber.
US07748904B2
Storage bags having two or more evacuable reclosable compartments. Each compartment can be opened (to allow an article or goods to be placed inside), hermetically sealed, and then evacuated without disturbing the vacuum in the other compartment(s). Each compartment has a respective zipper that provides a hermetic seal and a respective valve through which air is exhausted from the compartment interior.
US07748898B2
In a temperature sensor having a temperature sensitive element, a sheath pin connected to the temperature sensitive element, and a cover case. The cover case, filled with a filler, accommodates the temperature sensitive element and the sheath pin. A hardening temperature of the filler is not less than an actual usage environment of the temperature sensor. Another temperature sensor has a temperature sensitive element exposed at a high temperature of not less than 750° C., a thermistor element, a sheath pin, an anti-vibration filler, and a metal cover case fixed to an end part of the sheath pin. The metal cover case accommodates the sheath pin and the thermistor element. The filler is made of a porous insulation material having a pore ratio within a range of 30 to 70% and filled around the thermistor element in the metal cover case.
US07748894B2
A thermal analysis equipment includes a thermal analysis data preservation function that preserves, as thermal analysis data, signals from a temperature sensor and a physical quantity sensor that detect a temperature and a change in physical quantity, respectively, of a sample. An electromagnetic-wave data acquisition control function controls acquisition of electromagnetic wave data in accordance with setting of a trigger to acquire the electromagnetic wave data. An electromagnetic-wave data preservation function preserves the electromagnetic wave data. An electromagnetic-wave data correlation function correlates the preserved electromagnetic wave data to a position on the thermal analysis data when the trigger is set.
US07748879B2
A vehicle lamp can include a plurality of light sources and reflective surfaces in various combinations. Each light source can include at least one LED array that includes or consists of LED chips arranged in a row. Each reflective surface can be arranged in combination with a light source to generate a certain light distribution pattern. Two to twelve or more such combinations of light sources and reflective surfaces can be employed. The lights having light distribution patterns generated from the combinations can be combined to form an overall light distribution pattern.
US07748877B1
A three-way bulb including light emitting diodes is used to achieve a variety of light output colors and/or intensities. In some embodiments, the inputs to a three-way bulb are configured to perform other functions, such as power a motor. In some embodiments, a bulb including light emitting diodes includes a replicable cover. This cover may be configured to project images or support a shade made of a heat sensitive material.
US07748857B2
A vehicle external rear view mirror assembly comprising a bracket and a mirror head, a pair of parallel outer arm assemblies (20, 20′) having a front portion and a rear portion, the front portion having a rack (28, 28′), a pair of parallel inner arm assemblies (40, 40′) and extending into respective outer arm assemblies (20, 20′), each inner arm assembly (40, 40′) having a front portion and a rear portion, a pair of driving pinion gears (50, 50′), each engaging a respective rack (28, 28′), a pinion drive shaft (53), a drive motor (60), and a gear train, the drive motor (60) driving the inner arm assemblies (40, 40′) to move telescopically with respect to their respective outer arm assemblies (20, 20′), wherein each outer arm assembly (20, 20′) is recessed back from the distal end towards the bracket to allow the pinion drive shaft assembly to travel towards the bracket behind the front portion of the outer arm assembly (20, 20′).
US07748852B2
A digital planetarium apparatus includes an original image generator, an intermediate image generator, and a fish-eye lens. The original image generator is formed of two video projectors and generates semicircular images in display devices inside the respective video projectors. The intermediate image generator optically focuses the two semicircular images generated by the original image generator to thereby generate a circular image. The fish-eye lens projects the circular image generated by the intermediate image generator.
US07748850B2
An improved projector device and the cooling device therefor are provided. The provided projector device includes a light source including a lead wire, a first foil having a first front-end and a first rear-end, and a second foil having a second front-end and a second rear-end, and includes a first blower configured on a first side of the light source and generating a first air to cool the bulb portion and the second foil of the light source, and a second blower configured on a second side of the light source and generating a second air to cool the lead wire as well as the first foil.
US07748848B2
Systems, methods, and devices for determining an optical surface model for an optical tissue system of an eye are provided. Techniques include inputting a Fourier transform of optical data from the optical tissue system, inputting a conjugate Fourier transform of a basis function surface, determining a Fourier domain sum of the Fourier transform and the conjugate Fourier transform, calculating an estimated basis function coefficient based on the Fourier domain sum, and determining the optical surface model based on the estimated basis function coefficient. The approach is well suited for employing Fourier transform in wavefront reconstruction using Zernike representation.
US07748843B2
Watchband eyeglasses including a combination of flexible Pince-Nez reading glasses that rest securely on the wearer's nose, and a wrist-worn case for housing the reading glasses when not in use. Various embodiments of the case are disclosed including: (1) a bracelet or, (2) a universal attachment for any existing metal, plastic or fabric watchband; or (3) a dual-function case that is itself also a watchband. In all such embodiments the case incorporates a unique storage compartment or sleeve that facilitates carrying of the eyeglasses at all times, to make them more accessible.
US07748842B2
The present invention provides a rim which can increase a lens holding capacity by a simple structure and can apply a new decoration to a spectacle. In a rim (1) of a spectacle in which a fitting groove (3) is formed in such a manner as to be fitted to a fitting portion (5a) formed so as to protrude to a side surface of a lens (5) and hold the lens (5), a concave groove (4) is formed in a bottom portion of the fitting groove (3) along a top portion (5b) of the fitting portion (5a). A absorbing material may be filled in the concave groove (4) or a paint may be filled in or applied to the concave groove (4).
US07748839B2
Methods and apparatus include a handheld printer manipulated back and forth by an operator during use to print an image on a media. The media includes reference indicia upon which users maneuver the printer whenever a location of the printer is unknown or needs updating or validating. A controller of the printer correlates the location of a printhead to the image and when lost communicates to a direction indicator to provide user notification of where to move the housing to reacquire the location. Embodiments of the reference indicia include guide and location patterns, with the guide pattern pointing to the location pattern. Other indicia include related tick marks of substantially equal size and shape with substantially equal spacing there between. Supply items for applying on the media include a substrate with reference indicia thereon that matches stored reference indicia in the printer.
US07748838B2
The inkjet drawing device and method form an image on an image recording medium relatively transported in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to a main scanning direction by using photocurable ink with an inkjet head moving in the main scanning direction. The device and method cause the inkjet head to eject the photocurable ink as an ink droplet imagewise to perform direct drawing, irradiate an upper portion of the image recording medium with active light from a stationary, point or substantially point active light source by using a scanning mirror that scans and moves in the main scanning direction at a backward position distant from a position subjected to the drawing by the inkjet head by a predetermined distance toward a sub-scanning transport downstream side of the image recording medium and cure the photocurable ink ejected onto the image recording medium imagewise to form the image.
US07748834B2
An ink cartridge has a flexible ink bag accommodated in a casing. A plate fixed to the ink bag moves together with deflation of the ink bag as the ink is consumed. A pin attached to the plate slides in a groove formed in a lever pivotally connected to the casing. A reflecting plate inside the casing reflects detection light projected from the outside through an opening in the casing to indicate that ink remains in the ink bag. As the ink nears complete consumption, the lever pivots to a position blocking the detection light from the reflecting plate thereby indicating that the ink has been used up.
US07748832B2
Apparatuses and methods that utilize material-handling systems in which material in the systems has enhanced stability, e.g., during conveyance of the material from a reservoir to a printhead through a conduit, the conduit having a conduit wall defining an inner conduit space and including a material line for carrying the printing material in the inner conduit space, wherein the inner conduit space is configured to carry a heated liquid, being heated from a liquid heater, to contact the material line.
US07748828B2
A print engine is provided for a printer unit. The print engine includes a cradle unit and a replaceable cartridge unit received within the cradle unit in a releasable manner. The print engine further includes print media transport means which can transport print media. The cartridge unit includes a body. An ink storage module assembly includes a plurality of ink storage modules and is configured to be received in the body from one side. A printhead assembly is configured to be mounted to the body at an opposite side and is configured to print upon the transported print media.
US07748825B2
A droplet discharge method for discharging a liquid material from a discharge device and arranging the liquid material in a specified quantity on a substrate, the discharge device includes a nozzle for discharging the liquid material in droplets, and the droplet discharge method include the steps of cleaning the nozzle using the liquid material, and arranging at least a part of the liquid material used for cleaning on the substrate.
US07748819B2
The invention provides a liquid storage unit comprising: a case, a liquid storage part for storing a liquid in the case, with which a liquid port communicates; at least one gas accommodation part for accommodating a gas in the case, with which a gas port communicates, wherein the liquid in the liquid storage part is led out through the liquid port by a pressure of a gas introduced from the gas port; an inner case provided in the case having a pair of openings on opposite side faces thereof; and a pair of flexible partitioning members sealing said pair of openings of the inner case respectively, thereby partitioning the liquid storage part therebetween and defining said at least one of the gas accommodation part in cooperation with the case.
US07748818B2
A maintenance assembly for a pagewidth printer, said assembly operatively mounted between posts of a main body of the printer so that the maintenance assembly is positioned adjacent a printhead assembly of the printer. The maintenance assembly includes a maintenance chassis defining tongue portions and having ends which are shaped to fit over the posts of the main body to secure the maintenance assembly in position. The maintenance assembly also includes a retainer element operatively engaging the chassis, and a lower molding and an upper molding operatively fast with each other to sandwich an absorbent insert between them. The moldings are in turn sandwiched between the chassis and retainer element, so that the maintenance assembly is useable to wipe the printhead of the printer.
US07748813B2
Disclosed is a print apparatus including a rotating unit rotating a printed object, a print head printing visible information by ejecting ink droplets onto the printed object being rotated by the rotating unit, and a control unit generating ink ejection data based on the visible information and controlling the print head based on the ink ejection data. In the print apparatus, the control unit converts the visible information, which is expressed using biaxial perpendicular coordinate data, to polar coordinate data and carries out dot density correction that applies a correction weighting calculated in accordance with the number of dots per unit area for each dot in the polar coordinate data to a luminance value of each dot to generate the ink ejection data.
US07748810B2
An image processing device includes a calibrator that calibrates a pixel value of a pixel in image data. An output interface outputs to an image output device the image data calibrated by the calibrator, the image output device forming an image in accordance with the calibrated image data, wherein the reference pixel and the target pixel have a predetermined positional relationship.
US07748808B2
A droplet ejection apparatus includes a plurality of tanks, a plurality of sub-tanks, a replenishment amount detector, a liquid replenisher and a recording head. Each of the plurality of tanks is capable of storing a different kind of basic liquid. The plurality of sub-tanks includes a first sub-tank that includes a mixed liquid of two or more of the different kinds of the basic liquids from the plurality of tanks. The replenishment amount detector detects amount of each of the different kinds of the basic liquids to be transferred to the first sub-tank. The liquid replenisher transfers the basic liquids stored in the tanks into the sub-tanks until a predetermined amount for each of the basic liquids is detected by the replenishment amount detector. The recording head ejects the liquids supplied from the sub-tanks in a form of droplets.
US07748802B2
A rack mounted inside a cabinet in which a number of office files are supported, wherein the rack can be extended outward of the cabinet allowing all of the files to be visibly seen for easy identification along with the easy removal of any file. The files are supported one above the other so that each file tab is higher than the lower one.The rack is shaped to fit inside a cabinet that is substantially as tall and as wide as a conventional filing cabinet but is thinner and capable of being wall mounted and thereby consuming a minimum amount of floor space.
US07748797B2
A multi-drawer file cabinet having an upper cabinet that may be stacked on top of a lower file cabinet is provided. The lower cabinet includes a top surface having a peripheral edge with a first perimeter. The upper cabinet includes a base with a sidewall. The sidewall has a peripheral edge with a second perimeter. The second perimeter is larger than the first perimeter so that the sidewall fits around the peripheral edge of the top surface of the first cabinet. The cabinets include an extendable drawer assembly having a pair of slide members slidably positioned between a pair of outer tracks formed in a casing and tracks formed in a drawer frame. Furthermore, a locking assembly is associated with a recess in the casing and a ledge of a drawer head to allow the drawer assembly to remain in a locked position even if the cabinet sustains fire damage.
US07748796B2
A dishwasher tub includes a main body having opposing side walls that are interconnected by a rear wall, all formed from a multi-layered composite material. A cap member is joined atop the opposing side and rear walls, a base member is joined to lower edge portions of the opposing side walls and rear wall, and a frontal halo member is mounted between the cap and base member to define an overall washing chamber having a front opening. Preferably, the multi-layered composite material includes an inner stainless layer, a rigid layer and an outer protective layer, such as a layer of stainless steel, a rigid polyester mat, and a protective layer of hard plastic or aluminum foil. The outer layer also preferably serves as a shipping container for the dishwasher, enabling components of the dishwasher to be transported to a designated location for final assembly.
US07748792B2
A brake-by-wire automotive braking system includes a master cylinder connected to a number of wheel cylinders, with the master cylinder being actuated by a brake pedal assembly operatively connected with a master cylinder force simulator simulating the resistive force/displacement characteristics of the master cylinder itself. An electronically controlled compliance device selectively immobilizes the master cylinder force simulator so that the resistive force provided by the simulator may be applied selectively to the brake pedal. This produces a transparency in the brake pedal's operational feel, notwithstanding the presence or absence of force provided by the master cylinder force simulator.
US07748785B2
A machine includes a seat assembly and a mechanical strut attached to the seat assembly. The mechanical strut, free of pneumatic seals, is positioned to move at least a portion of an armrest of the seat assembly along a horizontal axis. A length adjustment mechanism is movable to release a friction lock mechanism within the mechanical strut. The mechanical strut is telescopically movable through a continuous range of armrest lengths when the friction lock mechanism is released.
US07748775B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle body which includes a storage area at the rear of the vehicle. A load floor located in the storage area is moveable between a first position and a second position relative to a stationary floor also located in the storage area.
US07748771B2
A device to alter and/or reduce the aerodynamic, base drag on and improve the stability of a bluff bodied vehicle, such as a heavy trailer with or without two aft vertically hinged doors, comprised of preformed, resilient, semi-circular airfoils permanently attached with hinges to the aft planar surface or the rear doors of the vehicle, at the vertical left and right corner edges, the horizontal top corner edge, the horizontal bottom corner edge of the vehicle, or at two or more of these positions. The airfoils self stow when the doors are opened and resume their initial shape when the doors are closed. If accidentally impacted, the airfoils deflect and then resume their initial shape. The airfoils can be fitted with compact air nozzles to blow air tangentially over their outer surfaces to enhance their effect. The device is inexpensive, lightweight and easily installed, replaced and retrofitted.
US07748766B2
A seat row assembly is provided, having a first rail and a first seat movably connected to the first rail. A second seat is moveable between a first position and a second position, such that the second seat in its second position does not occupy the same space as in its first position. The first seat is configured to selectively move from a first position into a second position, in which it occupies space occupied by the second seat in its respective first configuration. A second rail, perpendicular to the first rail, is movably connected to the first rail such that the first seat is selectively movable along both the first rail and the second rail. The seats may be configured to fold to a collapsed configuration. A method of allowing access to a third row of seats in a vehicle having a second row of seats is also provided.
US07748757B2
A connecting device (40) for a concealed-type latch of a lock for a panic exit door includes a connecting member (46) having an end (464) operably coupled to a latch (128). A draw rod (48) includes an end (484) pivotably coupled to the other end (462) of the connecting member (46) and pivotable between a first position parallel to the connecting member (46) and a second position perpendicular to the connecting member (46). The connecting device (40) can be installed via an end opening (104) in a top or bottom edge of a door (10) into an interior space (102) of the door (10) with the draw rod (48) in the first position. When the draw rod (48) reaches a side opening (106) of the door (10), it is pivoted to the second position for coupling with a follower device (30) of the lock.
US07748756B2
In a sidewall of a connector frame, a cantilevered lock arm is provided. A lower end of the lock arm is connected to the sidewall with a curved supporting unit interposed therebetween. The lock arm extends upward from the supporting unit with a space. The supporting unit has a slit to increase the flexibility of the lock arm. An engagement protrusion is provided on the lock arm. Moreover, a fitting sidewall is provided in a box body, and a lock wall having a lock protrusion is provided outside the fitting sidewall. The lock protrusion includes a downward-facing engagement surface. A mold hole used in molding the engagement surface is formed between the fitting sidewall and lock wall. An abutment surface is provided at an upper end of the fitting sidewall and contacted with the supporting unit to close communication between the mold hole and the slit.
US07748755B2
A coupling for joining a first pole section and a second pole section is provided. The coupling includes a male portion secured to the first pole section and a female portion secured to the second pole section. The male portion has a first male guide, a second male guide, and a first threaded section between the first and second male guides. The female portion has a first female guide, a second female guide, and a second threaded section between the first and second female guides. The guides are spaced from one another and from the first and second threaded sections so that the first male and female guides are engaged with one another and the second male and female guides are engaged with one another before the threaded sections engage with one another.
US07748754B2
A pipe section provided with a socket end part for accommodating a spigot end part of a second pipe section, the spigot end part having a sealing ring and the socket end part configured with an obliquely tapered part having areas of varying dimension for deforming the sealing ring to differing extent along the circumference of the sealing ring when the socket end part engages the spigot end part.
US07748753B2
A band coupling for straight line interconnection of flangeless pipes and a built in pipe grip mechanism to resist axial separation forces is provided. The band-clamp coupling comprises an outer housing of cross-section resembling a wide, low-wall channel, the walls thereof facing the center of the pipes, and a low-wall inner channel fitting into the outer channel. The inner channel being provided with spaced-apart inwardly-facing projection adjacent to each of the inner channel walls, each projection having a first sloping side axially facing the line of pipe abutment and a second sloping side axially facing away from the line of pipe abutment. A sloped internally-toothed grip washer is disposed along each of the projection second sides; and a seal member is disposed inside the inner channel and extending along the major portion of the width thereof to abut both the first sides axially facing the line of pipe abutment.
US07748741B2
An airbag assembly comprises a tensioning mechanism including a clutch is disclosed. The tensioning mechanism maintains the airbag in a desired position upon installation. In one embodiment, an inflatable curtain is coupled to a spool clutch and fastener via a tether to provide tension along the longitudinal mounting surface of the inflatable curtain during its installation adjacent the vehicle roof rail.
US07748733B2
An interior lining component of an automotive vehicle and method of making same having a support layer and a decorative layer. The decorative layer is joined, either indirectly via an intermediate layer or directly, to the support layer. A series of alternating slits and bridging elements are formed in the support layer along a desired predefined tear seam line. Blind holes of a predefined residual wall thickness and/or microperforation holes extend into the decorative layer along the predefined tear seam line in the region of the bridging elements and in the region of the slits so that the spacing between the holes in the slit regions is narrower than the spacing in the bridging element regions.
US07748727B2
A suspension structure is provided having a shock absorber for dampening the vibration from a wheel and a stabilizer for suppressing the up and down strokes in opposite phases generated from opposing wheels on a vehicle. The end portion of the stabilizer is connected to the lower end portion of the shock absorber.
US07748720B2
A roll control system comprising a front torsion bar; a front first hydraulic actuator; a front second hydraulic actuator; a rear torsion bar; a rear first hydraulic actuator; a rear second hydraulic actuator; and control means connected to the hydraulic actuators and controlling the operation thereof on detection of a predetermined vehicle condition; wherein each hydraulic actuator comprises a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber; wherein the control means comprises a source of fluid pressure, a fluid reservoir, a pressure control valve fluidly connected between the pressure source and the reservoir, and at least three pressure relief valves each having two positions to fluidly connect the fluid chambers of the hydraulic actuators either to the pressure source or to the fluid reservoir; wherein the pressure relief valves are positioned on detection of the predetermined vehicle condition to apply a fluid pressure to the first fluid chamber of the first front hydraulic actuator and to the second fluid chamber of the second front hydraulic actuator, and/or to apply a fluid pressure to the second fluid chamber of the first front hydraulic actuator and to the first fluid chamber of the second front hydraulic actuator, and/or to apply a fluid pressure to the first fluid chamber of the first rear hydraulic actuator and to the second fluid chamber of the second rear hydraulic actuator, and/or to apply a fluid pressure to the second fluid chamber of the first rear hydraulic actuator and to the first fluid chamber of the second rear hydraulic actuator.
US07748719B2
A chuck with a generally cylindrical body having a tail section configured to receive a drive shaft of a driver and a nose section having an axial bore formed therein. A plurality of jaws is movably disposed with respect to the body. A nut is rotatably mounted about the body and operatively engages the jaws. A sleeve is non-rotatably coupled to the nut. A shield cap is rotatably secured about the nose section of the body. The chuck also includes a first ring and a second ring that rotates relative to the nut over a limited arc. One of the first ring and the second ring defines a ratchet and the other defines at least one deflectable tab that is biased toward and engages the ratchet.
US07748713B2
A gaming apparatus for allowing players to explore decisions made in response to changing circumstances and to engage with the contradictions of competing needs. The gaming apparatus comprises a game board and game pieces. The game board is divided into an inner play area and an outer play area that surrounds the inner play area. An outer game piece traversing the outer play area determines functionality of one or more inner game pieces positioned on the inner play area. In each round of a game play, a player is either a Giver or a Taker, and moves inner game pieces according to their Point of View. Players' Points of View may exchange in every round. A player's goal is to be the Giver, since only the Giver can win. However, the Giver only wins when all four blue human being game pieces from a pyramid and meet Eye to Eye.
US07748708B2
A method and system for performing sheet registration are disclosed. Output values for a sheet may be identified within a reference frame. A difference between each output value and a corresponding desired output value may be determined. Input values may be determined based on at least the differences. State feedback values may be determined based on information received from one or more sensors. Acceleration values may be determined for multiple drive rolls based on the input values and the state feedback values. A desired angular velocity for each drive roll may be determined based on the corresponding acceleration value. A motor voltage may be determined for each drive roll that tracks an observed angular velocity value to the desired angular velocity value. The acceleration values may create a linear differential relationship between the input values and the output values. The steps may be performed multiple times.
US07748704B2
A post-processing apparatus has a standby tray to receive a paper sheet to be supplied from a digital copier, a processing tray to receive a paper sheet dropped from a standby tray, a feed member which guides the rear end of a paper sheet received in a standby tray in the feeding direction to a processing tray, and scrapes and sends the rear end of a paper sheet dropped onto a processing tray to a stopper, a press member which clamps the rear end of a paper sheet received in a standby tray by cooperating with two feed members, and a stapler to staple the aligned rear ends of paper sheets. When a first paper sheet is supplied to the standby tray, the press member presses the rear end of the first paper sheet, to receive a second paper.
US07748699B2
A feed device includes a feed roller and a return lever member. The feed roller picks up a first recording medium from recording media stacked on a stacking unit and feeds the first recording medium downstream via a feed path. The return lever member pushes back upstream a second recording medium that has unnecessarily entered the feed path in feeding the first recording medium downstream. The stacking unit includes an end support portion that supports a leading end of the recording media from below. The return lever member includes a lever unit capable of being protruded into and retracted from the feed path. The lever unit pushes back the second recording medium upstream when protruding into the feed path. The lever unit includes a return operative portion that pushes back the second recording medium upstream and a raising portion that raises the second recording medium above the end support portion.
US07748698B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a fluffer port in an image production device is disclosed. The method may include receiving an input from one or more sensors; the one or more sensing at least one of media type, media weight, temperature, and humidity, selecting a fluffer port configuration from a plurality of fluffer port configurations based on the received sensor input, and sending a signal to fluff a media stack using the selected fluffer port configuration.
US07748697B2
A sheet feeding apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes conveying suction belts which have a function of rotating an adsorbed sheet and a function of conveying the sheet; a suction fan 112 which adsorbs the sheet to the belts; CCDs which detect a position and an skew in a direction orthogonal to a sheet conveying direction while the sheet is adsorbed to the belts; and a control device for driving the belts to rotate the sheet according to signals of CCDs in order to correct an attitude of the sheet adsorbed to the belts.
US07748682B2
The invention relates to a pedestal stand for a laundry treatment machine (1) such as a washing machine, a washer dryer or a tumble dryer, having a housing (3) which comprises a supporting plate (6), side walls (5), front frame (25) [sic; (26)] and a rear wall plus a bottom plate (8) with bearing feet (9), whereby the supporting plate (6) has holes (12) into which threaded stud bolts (11) attached to the underside of the laundry treatment machine (1) can be inserted and screwed down. Within the housing (3), a stud bolt (14) is arranged on the essentially vertical axis (A) between the openings (12) in the supporting plate (6) and the bearing feet (9) on the bottom plate (8) of the housing (3).
US07748681B2
A support post assembly with mounting bracket assembly and hinge plate with defined bend lines and break points are provided to prevent or reduce damage to objects attached to the support post assembly. The hinge plate has an enhanced section having a channel formed transversely thereacross to function as a bend line when the support post assembly is subjected to a predetermined force. A section of reduced or removed material further directs the force to the weakened area to guide the bending, and openings in the bend line guide breaking or tearing of the plate. Damage is limited to the hinge plate, which is easily replaced. A mounting bracket assembly having a two-piece body for connecting or splicing support posts together includes a strap with crosspiece configured to provide a desired bend line or breakpoint.
US07748675B2
An apparatus for increasing the number of utility slots in an awning tube utility track is described. The apparatus comprises a track mount and at least two utility tracks coupled with and parallel to the track mount. In a specific example, each utility track comprises a first opening parallel to the track mount and a second opening orthogonal to the track mount.
US07748670B1
A television rotational support apparatus provides unlimited rotation of a removably mounted viewing screen, through a full 360 degree rotation. Pivot of the viewing screen mount provides for pivotal positioning of a viewing screen. The apparatus is compact with regard to size and with regard to distance between a mounting object and a viewing screen. The relatively short distance between mounting object and removably mounted viewing screen insures that minimal leverage force is imposed on the mounting object. Components of the apparatus such as the motor, gears, and battery/receiver provide for removal for replacement or service. A remote control provides for remotely rotating the viewing screen mount and hence the viewing screen.
US07748661B2
An aircraft structure, for example a wing (20), includes a structural skeleton having structural elements (for example, spars (60) and ribs (70)) enclosed within a skin (200). A fastener (110a,b) is fastened to the skeleton and wholly within the skin (200). The fastener (110a,b) fastens to the structure (20) a bracket (120) for carrying stores (80). The fastener (110a,b) includes a body (300) defining an internal bore (230). The body (300) includes an internal threaded region (330), within the internal bore (230), for fastening the bracket (120) to the aircraft structure (20).
US07748648B2
Dispensing member for a fluid product comprising a post and a spray nozzle, said post having an abutment surface and said spray nozzle comprising a transverse wall, an outlet orifice extending across said transverse wall, said outlet orifice being delimited by a lateral surface, at least one duct for supplying the fluid product to the outlet orifice, the said supply duct being delimited by the transverse wall and the abutment surface, being supplied with fluid product via a supply channel, emerging substantially tangentially relative to the lateral surface of the outlet orifice, and forming the only fluidic communication between the supply channel and the outlet orifice.
US07748640B2
The invention relates to a thermostat including a user interface module. The user interface module has a display, a plurality of user interface buttons, and a first power and communications interface. The thermostat also includes an I/O module, the I/O module electrically coupled to a HVAC plant and the I/O module having a plurality of switches to control the HVAC plant, and a second power and communications interface. The user interface module and the I/O module are communicatively coupled and exchange power via the power and communications interfaces and the thermostat can be mounted and operated in one of two user selectable installations: a stacked configuration comprising a thermostat having the user interface module directly mounted to the I/O module, or a remote configuration comprising a thermostat having the user interface module remotely mounted from the I/O module.
US07748636B2
A portable RFID reader apparatus having a contactless interface and slots or recesses for insertion of contactless smart card fobs, including ID card, and having a wireless interface for communicating with a token plugged into a computer, provides physical and logical access.
US07748633B2
A medium management system includes an identification information acquisition unit that acquires first identification information uniquely identifying a first medium surface and second identification information uniquely identifying a second medium surface and being associated with the first identification information, and a code image generating unit that generates a first code image to be printed on the first medium surface from the first identification information, and a second code image to be printed on the second medium surface from the second identification information.
US07748629B2
A method and apparatus for reading a target object having areas of differing light reflectivity on the target such as a handheld bar code reader having a first illumination pattern, a detector for measuring a distance from the reader to a target object, a system threshold, and a comparator for evaluating the measured distance against the threshold. Should the reader's internal circuitry and/or software determine that the measured distance is greater than the threshold, a second illumination pattern is activated that has power effective illumination for increasing the operable reading distance between the reader and the target object. The second illumination pattern can be generated from a secondary illumination source or through a lens internal to the reader.
US07748626B2
An electronic menu display system for use in a restaurant, including a plurality of portable menus. Each portable menu includes an electronic-ink display label for displaying graphical indicia on the electronic-ink display label. One or more activation modules are located within the restaurant, for providing instructions employed in the determination of graphic indicia to be displayed on the electronic-ink display labels of said portable menus. The electronic-ink display label employs an addressable display assembly including a layer of electronic ink including a bi-stable non-volatile imaging material. The electronic-ink display label includes an integrated circuit structure having a storage element for storing instructions, programs and data, and a programmed processor in communication with storage element. A signal receiving structure receives electromagnetic signals from the activation module, using the antenna structure. The electronic-ink display label displays graphical indicia representing information relating to the restaurant and/or food and/or beverages being served therein.
US07748625B2
A magnetic ink character reading apparatus has a magnetic detection unit for detecting magnetic ink characters on the check and generating magnetic detection signals, a noise data generator for generating magnetic noise data by accumulating magnetic detection signals before the check passes the magnetic detection unit, and a magnetic noise cancellation unit for removing magnetic noise by subtracting the magnetic noise data from the magnetic detection signals.
US07748623B2
A container screener apparatus that uses container barcode (e.g. Universal Product Code) scanning, and one or more container and/or container content property measurements (e.g. photograph, description, weighing, acoustic measurement), and container comparison data stored in a database to determine if a container passes or fails a container screening based on predetermined pass/fail criteria.
US07748614B2
A money management network including a money management network, a bank web site hosted by a bank, and a vendor web site hosted by a vendor. The bank web site is accessible by a bank/vendor customer. The vendor web site is accessible by the bank/vendor customer. The bank web site has means for accepting authorization for a purchase transaction from the bank/vendor customer such that the authorization verifies the bank/vendor customer's identification for the vendor. In one preferred embodiment the vendor receives authorization for a purchase without the vendor receiving customer account information from the bank/vendor customer, the bank, or the money management network.
US07748595B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for hot bonding metal plates having advantages that removing an oxidation film of the metal plates and bonding the metal plates are simultaneously accomplished and a bonding force between the metal plates is enhanced by applying a strong bonding pressure to the metal plates. The present invention has advantages that overlapped metal plates are compressed vertically and a shaving blade is formed at a shaving mold. Therefore, as the metal plates move, an oxidation film coated on the overlapped surfaces of the metal plates is removed. In addition, a home is formed at the shaving mold so that excess metal together with an oxidation film coated on front portions of the metal plates are removed and simultaneously the metal plates are bonded with a strong pressure.
US07748591B2
Apparatus and methods for clamping and controlling flash around a manufacturing tool engaging a workpiece and preventing fill within the workpiece. In one embodiment, a clamp for securing a workpiece during a manufacturing operation includes a housing and a foot biased away from the housing, the foot defining an opening through which a manufacturing tool may pass to engage the workpiece. In another embodiment, the manufacturing tool is a rotating or counter-rotating shoulder friction stir spot welding tool. In accordance with other aspects of the invention, the foot defines at least one recess for holding flashing.
US07748590B2
An ultrasonic welding apparatus having an extractable sonotrode. The sonotrode having a non-threaded outer peripheral surface and a tapered mating surface that meets with a correspondingly tapered aperture formed in the end of the reed of the ultrasonic welding apparatus. In the preferred embodiment the ultrasonic welding apparatus includes a sonotrode removal mechanism for extracting the sonotrode from the reed.
US07748589B2
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.
US07748585B2
An automatic sensing and outputting device for an object mainly includes a housing, a control portion and an output unit. The housing has a surface on which a fixing rod is disposed, and accommodates a driving mechanism. The control portion is disposed at a predetermined position in the housing. A control circuit board in the control portion includes a sensor and a zeroing sensor for object output sensing. The output unit includes a reel, which engages with and moved by the driving mechanism in the housing, and a pressing plate, which normally and slightly presses against the reel through an elastic member.
US07748574B2
A spring mechanism comprising an elongate cantilevered spring member extending along a longitudinal coupled at a first end to a first member and with a distal, second end of the spring member engaging a second member such that the spring member biases the first and second members relative to each other. The spring member has an unbiased condition and being resiliently deflectable generally normal to its longitudinal to assume deflected conditions from which the spring member inherently attempts to return to its unbiased condition. The longitudinal of the spring member preferably remains disposed in a flat plane in deflecting of the spring member between the unbiased condition and the deflected conditions. The spring member preferably has, in cross-section normal to its longitudinal, a shape including two legs disposed to lie in planes parallel the flat plane and joined by a bight normal to the flat plane. Preferably, the spring member is provided with resiliency substantially by the resilient deflection of opposed portions of the two legs towards and/or away from each other normal to the flat plane. The spring member preferably consists of plastic material and may be formed as an integral element injection molded from plastic as a unitary element together with the first member to which it is coupled.
US07748572B2
An aerosol fluid dispenser includes a movable actuator for controlling dispensing of the liquid or fluid product from the dispenser and a locking mechanism for locking the actuator.
US07748570B2
A beverage dispensing apparatus adapted for use in a refrigerator, which may comprise, inter alia, a beverage-dispensing nozzle, a perforated beverage container drain nozzle connected to the beverage-dispensing piping, an electronically actuated valve means, a beverage container holder, a thermal insulating chamber surrounding the beverage container holder, an access door for selectively providing access to the chamber, and a safety interlock switch on the access door, and electronic beverage dispenser control means and devices connected thereto.
US07748568B2
An assembly for packaging and a dispensing a product includes at least one container containing a product, with the container including an actuation rod. A dispensing device is provided which can actuate the actuation rod in order to dispense the product through a dispensing aperture. Advantageously, the dispensing device is positionable in at least two different positions, including: (1) a use position in which the actuation device can rock or tilt the actuation rod to dispense the product, but in which the dispensing device does not move the actuation rod along its longitudinal axis, and (2) an intermediate position in which the dispensing device is not in fluid communication with the actuation rod. The arrangement can advantageously avoid dispensing of the product or products when such dispensing is not desired.
US07748563B2
An end member (130) for a container has a central panel (12) extending radially outwardly from a central axis. A first panel radius (114) is located along a peripheral edge of the central panel (12). A countersink (16) is integral with the first panel radius (114). A chuckwall (15) extends upwardly from the countersink (16) to a seaming curl (14) located at an outer perimeter of the end member (130). An approach point (134) is defined by a lower outer position of an axially stacked second end member (132). A bend (108) is located on the chuckwall (15). The bend (108) having an outwardly directed angle with a radius of curvature (RCW1) which adapted to position the chuckwall (15) radially outwardly of the approach point (134) and in spaced relationship thereto.
US07748560B2
An atmosphere controlled, resealable foodstuff container includes a base tray and a cover. The cover and base tray are constructed of a substantially gas impermeable material. The cover and base tray include resealing members. When connected, the cover and base tray define a generally enclosed and sealed interior space for foodstuffs. The container includes at least one atmosphere control member, such as a membrane, which controls the flow of gases through an opening in the container. The member may be located over a recessed opening in the cover to permit the containers to be stacked without gas flow interference. A label extends over the recess, thus obscuring the membrane from view to the purchaser without affecting the membrane atmosphere control function. The base tray may be opaque for use as a serving tray and the cover transparent to permit viewing of the product.
US07748557B2
A beverage container having multiple openings for enhancing the enjoyment of a beverage is disclosed. The container has openings for drinking or emptying a beverage or liquid, in addition to openings designed for experiencing the aroma of a contained beverage. A modified pull-tab is present for manipulating the drink and aroma openings without bending or otherwise deforming. The container can take the form of a one-use container or a refillable, travel-type container having a removable cover.
US07748554B2
A unified container includes a plurality of individual storage units that are interlocked, each storage unit including at least one compartment and at least one lid. Each storage unit further includes an interlocking mechanism, for example, a tooth and groove mechanism. Through the interlocking mechanism each storage unit interlocks to adjacent storage units, thereby forming the unified container. However, the interlocking mechanism also allows each storage unit to be detached from adjacent units and thereafter reattached/interlocked with any other unit, thereby forming unified containers of varying sizes. According to one example application, the interlocked storage units form a pill case, each unit holding medication for a different week-day. Through the interlocking mechanism, users can detach one or more storage units and take them as they travel, the individual units being easier to carry. Thereafter, the detached units can be reattached and reused.
US07748552B2
A molded polymeric container generally symmetric about a vertical axis includes at least two rows of panels disposed circumferentially around the body, the panels having central portions that are sufficiently flexible to be dimensionally responsive to changes in pressure within the container. At least one row of the panels has a margin having a horizontal width exceeding the vertical height, thus being laterally elongate with a height/width aspect ratio of less than one. The pressure responsive central portion of each laterally elongate panel is a smooth outwardly projecting dome from a peripheral root of a generally radially projecting wall defining the margins of circumferential rings and posts separating the panels. Panels in another row can have an ovate step connecting the perimeter of the panel to the central portion of the panel. Outward protrusions can be provided within the central portion to provide support for a surrounding label.
US07748547B2
A movable independent crane system for moving or replacing components during maintenance operations and for mounting wind generators, including an auxiliary portal crane providing a portal structure designed to be movable around a pod about a rotation shaft. The mobile independent crane system includes raising devices being part of the crane system and designed to allow self-raising of the crane system because the mobile independent crane system is anchored to the pod through an anchoring unit and because the mobile independent crane system is designed to operate over the pod and outside the pod sides.
US07748539B2
A packaged body includes: a prism-shaped packaging box 1 having a bottom; a pair of top and bottom shock absorbers 30 accommodated inside packaging box 1 for sandwiching a substrate storage container 10; elastic members 50 disposed between substrate storage container 10 and each shock absorber 30; and reinforcements 60 for reinforcing each of shock absorbers 30. Further, shock absorber 30 is formed as a shock absorbing element 31 that fits substrate storage container 10, a surrounding wall 32 of the shock absorbing element 31 is constructed of an inner wall 35 that is bent and formed along the periphery of shock absorbing element 31, a protrusion 36 that is formed from inner wall 35 so as to project outwards and an outer wall 37 that is formed from protrusion 36 so as to be spaced from, and oppose, inner wall 35 of shock absorbing element 31.
US07748537B1
A removable insert for Lazy Susan type rotatable tray having a base with a continuous side wall, the base supported by a vertical support post. The insert is wedge-shaped and has a curved contour for engaging the tray post and side wall. The insert has a raised perimeter, a variety of optional flat bottom walls with non-slip feet at each corner. The bottom wall may be solid or have circular cutouts having a diameter of about 2½ inches to fit a beverage can bottom end. A lid is provided to fit the raised perimeter. A shelf with attached legs permits stacking of inserts. The insert holds items, such as beverage cans, jars, and canned goods, upright and organized and permits tray spinning for item access without spilling or knocking over the items. The present device is durable, space-saving, and reasonably priced.
US07748535B2
A blister pack for dispensing pills that is childproof yet senior-friendly. The blister pack includes a housing, which may be substantially tear-resistant, that encloses one or more blisters contained on a blister sheet. In one embodiment, the cavities of the blisters are positioned such that pills or other objects are dispensed into a chamber. A neck extends outward from the chamber to permit a childproof cap to be removably attached thereto to permit the selective dispensing of the pills in a controlled fashion. In another embodiment, the blister pack may include a chamber for dispensing a first type of pill and a plurality of blisters not aligned with the chamber for dispensing a second type of pill.
US07748518B2
A method and a device for transporting containers, which present a support ring or similar part, where the containers to be transported move through at least one transfer area, in which they are held by gripping elements alternately on different sides of the support ring, and the gripping elements present an identical direction of movement at least in the transfer area.
US07748515B2
A storage conveyor that secures a number of stored workpieces while saving space is provided. When a sprocket on a driving side is driven to rotate in a forward/reverse direction by a chain drive motor, opposing bend suppression members between a pair of chains are successively engaged/disengaged, and an opposing portion between the pair of chains is extended/retracted with respect to a workpiece conveyance surface. Thus, workpieces are passed between the workpiece conveyance surface and workpiece receivers. Consequently, the workpieces can be stored in a vertical direction (up-down direction), making it possible to secure the number of stored workpieces while saving space.
US07748506B2
A bicycle shock absorber and methods for differentiating between rider-induced forces and terrain-induced forces includes a first fluid chamber having fluid contained therein, a piston for compressing the fluid within the fluid chamber, a second fluid chamber coupled to the first fluid chamber by a fluid communication hose, and an inertial valve disposed within the second fluid chamber. The inertial valve opens in response to terrain-induced forces and provides communication of fluid compressed by the piston from the first fluid chamber to the second fluid chamber. The inertial valve does not open in response to rider-induced forces.
US07748497B2
A foldable climbing tree stand platform includes a first section having a first arm rotatably coupled to the first section and a second section having a second arm rotatably coupled to the second section. A hinge rotatably couples the first section to the second section, wherein a platform position is obtained when the first section and the second section are substantially coplanar, and a packed position is obtained when the first section and the second section are rotationally folded onto each other and the first arm and the second arm are contained therein. A securing member is connected between the arms, wherein the sections may selectively engage an upright support and the securing member selectively surrounds the upright support for providing cantilevered support when folded into the platform position. A foldable climbing tree stand system is also provided.
US07748492B2
An electric power steering device (1) is provided which transmits output rotation of an electric motor for generating a steering assist force (16) to a steering mechanism (64) via a driving gear (22) and a driven gear (21). A housing (8) has a support hole (28) for supporting one end portion (23) of a shaft (20) co-rotatable with the driving gear (22) via a bearing (26) in such a manner as to permit the one end portion (23) to be offset toward the driven gear (21) radially of the driving gear (22). A biasing member (33) which biases the driving gear (22) toward the driven gear (21) includes an arcuate main portion (47) fitted around an outer peripheral surface (58) of an outer ring (36) of the bearing (26) and opposed to an inner peripheral surface (42) of the support hole (28). A pair of movement restriction portions (50, 51) which restrict circumferential movement of the main portion (47) are respectively provided at a pair of arc ends (48, 49) of the main portion (47). A resilient tongue (52) which biases the driving gear (22) toward the driven gear (21) via the bearing (26) is provided only on one of the movement restriction portions (50).
US07748491B2
To enhance assembly and maintenance of a rear wheel suspension. Rear wheel axles extend to the left and right from a final case supported on a rear portion of a vehicle body frame, and rear wheels are independently suspended from left and right portions of a vehicle body. On the left and right sides of the final case, the rear wheel axles are connected to a left-side joint and a right-side joint, and the left-side joint is detachably attached to a side surface of the final case by a separate holder fitted with a driven sprocket meshed with a chain. A joint portion shaft of the right-side joint is borne on the final case through a bearing, a brake disk is attached thereto, and the joint portion shafts are spline connected. In assembling or disassembling, the separate holder can be attached and detached through petal-like cutouts formed in the driven sprocket.
US07748471B2
An apparatus and method for horizontal drilling are provided. The apparatus has: (A) a thrust frame; (B) a carriage on the thrust frame; (C) a wheel truck, wherein a rearward portion of the thrust frame can be supported in a lowered position on the wheel truck; (D) a king pin for operatively connecting a forward portion of the thrust frame to a tractor; (E) a trailer-leg assembly that can be connected operatively between: (i) the forward portion of the thrust frame; and (ii) the ground; and wherein the trailer-leg assembly is capable of assisting in supporting the forward portion of the thrust frame: (a) in a raised position so a tractor can be connected for towing; and (b) in a lowered position where the forward portion of the thrust frame is in a lowered position adjacent the ground to assist in positioning the thrust frame in a position for drilling.
US07748468B2
Sealing devices such as packers comprise a metal foam material disposed on a surface. The metal foam material comprises an initial position comprising a plurality of pockets each having an initial volume and a compressed position in which at least one of the initial volumes of at least one of the plurality of pockets is reduced by compression of the metal foam material, thereby forming a seal. The seal may be formed directly between the metal foam material and a sealing surface such as an inner wall surface of a wellbore to divide an annulus of the wellbore. Alternatively, the seal may be at least partially formed between a sealing material disposed within one or more of the plurality of pockets that is extruded from at least one of the plurality of pockets during compression of the metal foam material.
US07748448B2
An oil and gas well production unit for the retrieval of oil and gas from a diminishing oil and gas production field. The unit comprises a well casing within the field attached to a lubricator assembly. A plunger is arranged for reciprocable travel within a tubing in the casing and the lubricator to assist in the production of oil and gas removal from the oil and gas well production unit. A plunger examination port is arranged within the lubricator assembly to permit determination of the amount of wear of the plunger without having to remove the plunger from the lubricator assembly.
US07748447B2
A torque anchor for use with progressive cavity pumps (PC Pumps) for preventing rotation of the PC Pumps and any related tool string within a well bore, possessing a connector constructed and adapted to connect a tube, which in a preferred embodiment is a diluent cable, between the two fixed slips. A method is also recited for running coiled tubing or a diluent cable downhole using the torque anchor.
US07748445B2
A top drive system for wellbore drilling operations, the top drive system including a main shaft having an upper shaft seal system with a raised platform for supporting the seal system. The top drive may also have a shroud for covering the seal(s), and contaminants may flow down from the seals, since the seals are raised by the platform.
US07748442B2
A plate heat exchanger for cooling a first fluid by a second fluid, including a plurality of stacked heat exchanger plates forming separate flow channels therebetween with a cover plate on one side and a base plate on the other side of the stacked plates. The plates have a plurality of aligned openings defining inlet and outlet channels each communicating with selected ones of connected flow channels. In one form, the cover plate includes a conveying channel guiding one of the fluids to a desired position along the length of the heat exchanger, and the base plate includes a conveying channel guiding the other of the fluids to a desired position along the length of the heat exchanger. In another form, the conveying channels for both of the fluids are in the same one of the cover or base plate.
US07748433B2
A support assembly for a collapsible automobile shade such as a pleated or folding screen which can be selectively moved between a collapsed position for storage and an open position for placement in a vehicle window. The support assembly consists of one or more arcuate compressible members which extend beyond the perimeter of the pleated or folding screen. Each of the arcuate compressible members is resiliently compressible, for the purpose of conforming to an edge or perimeter of an automobile window in which the shade is installed, while maintaining the screen in an open position, thereby supplying an expansive force to hold the shade in place in the open position. The shade can also be provided with a pocket.
US07748416B2
A fueling assembly for a fuel tank positioned in an engine driven welder. The fueling assembly includes a filler tube, a fuel level monitor and a grommet. The filler tube has a bottom portion and a top portion. The fuel level monitor includes a fuel level sensor position in the fuel tank and/or filler tube. The fuel level monitor includes a fuel level indicator positioned on the housing to enable an operator to view the fuel level indicator and the opening used to direct fuel into the filler tube during the filling of the fuel tank.
US07748414B2
An apparatus (1) for the insertion of weft threads in a weaving machine is presented. The apparatus includes a nozzle holder (9) and, secured thereto, at least one nozzle (3) with a mixing tube (6) for the insertion of a weft thread (2) as well as a clamping device (7) which can be charged with a medium in order to firmly clamp a weft thread which is introduced into the nozzle. In addition the apparatus (1) contains at least one control valve (8) which is arranged at or in the nozzle holder (9) or nozzle (3) in order to control the clamping device (7).
US07748413B2
A collapsible loom, comprising a folding loom, a removable weaving assembly, including a warp beam (26) with its warps, harness shafts (38), a reed (52), and a cloth beam (19) with its cloth, wherein the removable weaving assembly, which is detachable and transferable to another loom, further includes bars (30) confined in a bar cassette (31), transfer bars (37), tying members (32) for treadles (15), and a number of harness shafts (38) actuated by the treadles (15).
US07748403B2
A pressure-holding valve for a fuel injection system with a high-pressure region and a low-pressure region, the valve having with a valve housing having a first connection that can be connected to the low-pressure region and a second connection that can be connected to the return of a fuel injection valve device. The housing contains a reciprocating valve cup prestressed in opposition to the force of a first spring device and a through opening which can be closed by a closing element prestressed in opposition to the force of a second spring device to maintain a minimum pressure in the return. The valve housing, between the first connection and the valve cup includes with a pressure relief device that can be actuated from outside the housing.
US07748399B2
A vehicle (1) equipped with a tank (2) for storage of a fluid under pressure on the vehicle, the tank being connected to at least one vent channel (3 and 33), the vent channel leading to a discharge orifice (34), the vent channel being connected to the tank by means of at least one safety valve, wherein in that the safety valve is a thermal release valve (5), normally closed and capable of opening spontaneously under the effect of a rise in temperature, the safety valve being installed in a predefined zone of the vehicle and the discharge orifice being remote from the predefined zone.
US07748384B2
A patient interface gas delivery mask having a forehead and chin support system including a forehead support, a chin support, and a system for supplying a flow of gas to a patient that incorporates such a mask, forehead support, and chin support. The forehead support includes a supporting arm which is adjustably mounted to the mask shell, thereby allowing the adjustment of the distance between the forehead support bracket and the mask shell in order to adjust for patient's of different sizes. A forehead support bracket is pivotally connected to the support arm. Likewise the chin support is also adjustably mounted to the mask shell.
US07748382B2
Signals may be generated in a drug delivering apparatus through which a person inhales to generate a inhaled airstream to signal to the person to cease inhalation after a pre-set period of time has elapsed from detection of the commencement breathing by that person. The pre-set period of time for subsequent inhalations is adjusted depending on the time the person takes to stop inhaling after being signalled.
US07748375B2
A pneumatic signal conditioning device may have a first fluid path and a second fluid path. The first fluid path includes a first inlet and a first outlet, and is configured such that the first outlet provides a first conditioned signal representing a pressure at the first inlet. Similarly, the second fluid path is configured such that the second outlet provides a second conditioned signal representing a pressure at the second inlet. A pressure switch may be disposed in fluid communication with the first fluid path and the second fluid path such that the first fluid path and the second fluid path pass through the pressure switch.
US07748367B2
A fungo batting assisting machine having a frame; a cradle mounted upon the frame, the cradle having a ball percussion port; a hammer; a first pivot joint interconnecting the hammer and the frame so that the hammer may move between a spring energy position underlying the ball percussion port and a ball driving position overlying the spring energy position; a ball driving spring normally positioning the hammer between its spring energy and ball driving positions; a trip arm extending from the hammer; a pawl arm; a second pivot joint interconnecting the pawl arm and the frame so that the a pawl arm may move between a trip arm carrying position and a trip arm releasing position; and an actuation lever extending from the pawl arm.
US07748356B2
The invention relates to a valve train for internal combustion engines, comprising a camshaft and valve actuation elements for one or more valves, the elements being located in the cylinder head. The aim of the invention is to provide a valve train for an internal combustion engine, with which a reliable stroke adjustment of the valves can be made, without the need for complex technical resources, while at the same time allowing a forward or rear displacement of the valve orifice region. To achieve this, in order to modify the valve stroke curve, the contact point between the transfer member and the cam can be displaced along the periphery of the cam and the contact point between the transfer member and a control curve of the support body can be displaced, forcing the part of the transfer member that interacts with the cam to be guided, by shifting the transfer member in relation to the camshaft.
US07748355B2
A method of transitioning a cylinder of an engine from a spark ignition mode to a homogeneous charge compression ignition mode, the cylinder having at least one electrically actuated intake valve and at least one exhaust valve, the method comprising of before a transition, operating the cylinder with at least some overlap between an opening event of the intake valve and an opening event of the exhaust valve in the spark ignition mode; in response to a transition request, operating the cylinder with at least some negative overlap between an opening event of the intake valve and an opening event of the exhaust valve, retarding the intake valve opening and closing timing by different amounts and retarding ignition timing; and further increasing negative overlap and performing the homogeneous charge compression ignition mode.
US07748352B2
Constant pressure internal combustion engine having compression and expansion chambers of variable volume, an elongated combustion chamber of substantially constant volume between the compression and expansion chambers, and a fuel inlet for introducing fuel into the combustion chamber where it mixes with compressed air from the compression chamber to form a mixture of fuel and air that burns as it travels through the combustion chamber. The pressure remains substantially constant within the combustion chamber over a wide range of operating and load conditions.
US07748350B2
An apparatus and blade assembly includes a first array of single-edged parallel metal blades, each blade in the first array having rounded ends with a sharpened interior curve, and a second array of parallel double-edged blades with a sharpened interior curve, both arrays being fixably attached such that the first array and the second array are sufficiently spaced to create a blade assembly. A two-sided blade assembly includes a first shorter projecting side including a first plurality of blades configured with interior cutting curves, the first plurality of blades including single-edged blades; and a second projecting side coupled to the first shorter projecting side, the second projecting side including a second plurality of blades having a decreased number of blades as compared to the first plurality of blades, each blade in the second plurality of blades being double-edged including a blade edge for the first shorter projecting side and a second blade edge configured for the second projecting side.
US07748346B2
A feeding chamber is reached by an ascending ramp and an entrance passage, the top of said feeding chamber being defined by a first grid through which feed descends into said feeding chamber and the floor of said feeding chamber being defined by a second grid which allows food to fall from within said feeding chamber into a spillage chamber.
US07748345B2
A highly automated method and system for providing individual animal electronic identification, measurement and value based management of cattle in a large cattle feedlot. Through the use of (1) a computer system integrated with (2) automatic individual animal identification (3) multiple measurement and remeasurement systems with automatic data input and (4) a cattle handling and sorting system, animals are individually (a) identified and (b) measured by weight, external dimensions and characteristics of internal body tissue. With this information together with animal physiological characteristics and historical data, the computer system calculates the optimum (c) slaughter weight, (d) economic end point and (e) marketing date for shipment to a packing plant. After measurement, individual animals are (f) sorted by direction of the computer in response to calculations from the measurements. The computer system also calculates from individual animal data and other data (g) each animal's pro rata share of total feed intake for the animal's feed group. The computer system (h) stores individual animal measurement, performance and location data, which is used by management to (i) select animals for shipment from the feedlot for slaughter at the optimum time. Following an animal's shipment to a slaughter facility, its identification in the computer system is used to (j) correlate the live animal physical characteristics and performance data to the measured and evaluated carcass characteristics data obtained during the slaughter process and (k) build a data base to more accurately identify and measure value-based characteristics in subsequent animals produced and fed for more effective value-based selection and management of those animals.
US07748342B2
A sealant forming device, a sealant forming method and a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device using the same are disclosed. According to the present invention, a sealant coagulated in a nozzle can be minimized or prevented by performing an instantaneous suction process. A sealant forming device includes a dispenser including a syringe, and a nozzle connected to a lower end of the syringe to discharge a sealant therethrough; a dispensing tube connected to the syringe to apply a pressure to the syringe; and an instantaneous suction tube connected to the syringe to extract the sealant remaining in the nozzle after discharging the sealant.
US07748339B2
A rigid inflatable boat has a structure to position and protect an inflatable tube without having to separate the tube from a boat body. The rigid inflatable boat may include a rubber tube that is attached to each side of a boat body. A folding panel includes one hinged end on each lower side of the boat body and another end including a hook for coupling with a fastener formed on a top portion of the boat body. The rubber tube is connected to an inner surface of the folding panel and a side portion of the boat body by a connection mechanism. The connection mechanism is configured to connect the tube to an inner surface of the folding panel and to the side of the boat body including a pair of guide plates and a pair of insertion bars. The guide plates have one side attached to the inner surface of the moveable plate and the boat body and another side formed with guide grooves disposed longitudinally along the length of boat body. The insertion bars are wrapped with protective fabric and attached to an outer surface of the tube and configured to be inserted longitudinally into the guide grooves.
US07748327B2
A moving device in a pipeline, including: more than three segments, including a front segment, arranged in series; an extendable interconnecting element to connect adjacent segments; and an engaging force changing component to change engaging force of a segment that is to be moved with the inside of the pipeline to a smaller force, smaller than the engaging force of a remaining segment with the inside of the pipeline. The front segment has a head part, a body part, a joint part to turn the head part centering around the body part, and a drive unit to move the head part around the body part. The drive unit have a magnet provided in the head part and an electromagnet provided in the body part.
US07748323B2
There is provided a semiconductor bridge device wherein a reaction time for generating sparks is short and a spark generating amount is large. This semiconductor bridge device comprises a substrate, a pair of land portions, a bridge portion electrically connecting between the pair of the land portions, and an electrode pad arranged on each upper surface in the pair of the land portions and emitting sparks at the bridge portion through an electric current passed between the electrode pads, in which the pair of the land portions and the bridge portion consist of a laminate formed by alternately laminating a metal layer and a metal oxide layer plural times, and an outermost layer in the laminate is a metal layer, and a metal oxide having a decomposition temperature of higher than 1500° C. is used in the metal oxide layer.
US07748320B2
A sheet feeding device which feeds a sheet by loosening a sheet by loosening sheets by blowing air to the end portions of the sheets, comprising: a sheet tray provided to be capable of lifting up/down supporting the sheets; air blowing means which loosens the sheets by blowing air to the end portion at the topside of the sheets supported by the sheet tray; and a pair of restricting members which restricts both end portions in the direction perpendicular to the sheet feeding direction of the sheet with sheet opposing faces opposing the end portions of the sheets, wherein the interval between the sheet opposing faces at the top side of the pair of the restricting members is set larger than the interval between the sheet opposing faces below the position in which air is blown to the sheets with the air blowing means.
US07748316B2
Disclosed is a method of adding moisture to a double compressed bale. The method includes the steps of receiving a forage and separating the forage to form a separated forage. The method further includes applying a moisture stream to the separated forage to form a moisten forage. The moisten forage is then compacted to a density of greater than 20 pounds per cubic foot. Furthermore, the moisten forage may be compacted and reduced in volume from about 10:1 to 30:1.
US07748314B2
The present invention relates to a fermentation apparatus comprising a storage compartment which is formed with an accommodating space for storing food and at least one of a heating part and a cooling part to ferment the food in the storage compartment, further comprising a sensor to sense a fermentation level of the food; an input part comprising a memory button allowing to memorize the fermentation level in a state that the food is fermented to an extent that a user wants to memorize; and a controller to control operation of at least one of the heating part and the cooling part, and store a fermentation value from the sensor as a custom fermentation value if the memory button is selected. Thus, the present invention provides a fermentation apparatus for customizing a fermentation level and a method thereof, which memorizes a desired fermentation level and repeatedly provides food at a desired fermentation level by selecting a memorized fermentation level.
US07748313B2
A continuous flow pressurized cooker/blancher cooks a food product by continuously transporting the product on a conveyor system and by forcing steam through or over the surface of the food product. The food product to be cooked may be, but is not limited to, seafood and preferably crustaceans. The cooker/blancher includes an exterior pressurized housing, an infeed weigh hopper, an infeed and an outfeed transfer device, and an internal conveyor system. Each transfer device comprises an internal and an external transfer chamber. A pressure assembly forces steam into the exterior pressurized housing while the transfer device is adapted to maintain a selected pressurized environment.
US07748307B2
A shield for shielding a structural member from an explosive blast or accidental or malicious destruction is provided. The shield includes a plurality of shield members which include cast ultra high strength concrete, wherein the shield members are capable of being assembled to enclose at least a portion of the structural member to provide protection to the enclosed portion from, for example, an explosive blast. In one embodiment, the shield members include a chassis, at least one ballistic liner disposed on the energy absorbing layer, and a concrete-integrating structure.
US07748302B2
A workpiece exchanging apparatus for exchanging a machined workpiece with an unmachined workpiece is provided, the workpiece exchanging apparatus including a gripping arm provided at its two longitudinal end sections with gripping sections for gripping, respectively, a machined workpiece and an unmachined workpiece, the gripping arm being able to turn around a turn axis that is positioned at a longitudinal center section of the gripping arm and being able to move linearly in the axial direction of that turn axis; a first cam mechanism for making the gripping arm turn; and a second cam mechanism for making the gripping arm linearly move.
US07748293B2
A container opener that is used by a user to remove a cap of a bottle or container such as, but not limited to, a medicine bottle or container that includes a childproof cap. The container opener includes a cavity that is designed to at least partially receive the cap of a bottle or container. The cavity can include one or more gripping elements designed to engage the cap when inserted in the cavity. The cavity can be designed to receive a plurality of different sized caps. The container can include a magnifier.
US07748288B2
An apparatus for controlling backlash comprising an intermediate gear capable of adjustably meshed engagement between a first driving gear and a second driven gear, and a body rotatably supporting the intermediate gear and capable of movement in a direction that reduces the center distance between the intermediate gear and either the first gear, the second gear, or both. The movement of the body utilizes both resilient urging and hysteretic damping to supply appropriately light resilient biasing while being fortified against rapid retraction or repulsion.
US07748276B2
A manufacturing method of a pressure sensor that includes a pressure detector having a bottomed cylindrical member with a bottom including a thin-wall portion and a strain detecting mechanism provided on one side of the bottom for detecting a strain of the bottom and a pressure-introducing joint for introducing the fluid to be measured into the bottomed cylindrical member is provided. The method includes: first welding for butt-welding an end of the cylindrical portion of the bottomed cylindrical member and an end of the pressure-introducing joint; and second welding for welding the pressure-introducing joint in parallel to a first weld bead formed by the first welding.
US07748275B2
A pressure sensor for an extracorporeal circulating circuit includes a liquid chamber, a pressure measuring means, and a liquid flow path. The liquid chamber includes a reference surface not deformed by a pressure in the extracorporeal circulating circuit, a deforming surface disposed separated from the reference surface and deformed at least partially by a pressure in the extracorporeal circulating circuit, a first connection surface that joins the deforming surface with the reference surface to form a closed liquid-tight space inside them and is not deformed by a pressure in the extracorporeal circulating circuit, a liquid inflowing port provided in the side surface of the first connection surface, and a liquid outflowing port disposed away by ½ to less than one round from the inflowing port in the flowing direction of liquid introduced along the inner periphery of the side surface of the first connection surface. The pressure measuring means measures the deformation amount of the deforming surface, and is disposed outside the liquid chamber; and the liquid flow path is liquid-tightly connected with the liquid inflowing port so that liquid to be introduced into the liquid chamber flows in along the inner periphery of the side surface of the first connection surface.
US07748260B2
A drive actuator for a measurement instrument having a probe, the drive actuator including a heating element in a thermally conductive relationship with the probe such that application of electric current to the heating element modifies a characteristic of the probe. The probe device includes a probe including a cantilever having a lever made of a material having a selected thermal expansivity and a drive actuator in operable cooperation with the cantilever lever made of a material having a thermal expansivity different than the thermal expansivity of the material of which the cantilever lever is made.
US07748255B2
A device and method for measuring the back pressure in chemical reactor tubes includes many automated features. Inflatable tube seals may be automatically inflated. The device may measure several tubes at once. It may transmit data electronically to a remote computer for analysis and graphic display.
US07748253B2
A method and apparatus are provided for maintaining pressure inside a closed chamber equal to the changing outside pressure, detecting leaks in the plumbing (i.e., air handling system) of a trace gas flux measurement system, and estimating the kinetic volume, e.g., of such a system.
US07748240B1
Disclosed herein is a hosiery garment for providing grip to a person's foot between the foot and the hosiery garment, and for simultaneously providing grip to the person's foot between the hosiery garment and the inside of a footwear. The hosiery garment comprises a foot enclosure configured to conform to the person's foot. The foot enclosure defines an inner surface and an outer surface. A first pair comprising a first tacky thread and a first supplementary thread defines the inner surface. A second pair comprising a second tacky thread and a second supplementary thread defines the outer surface. The inner surface defined by the first pair provides grip to the person's foot between the foot and the hosiery garment, and the outer surface defined by the second pair simultaneously provides grip to the person's foot between the hosiery garment and the inside of the footwear.
US07748239B2
A circular knitting machine is described which has a plurality of knitting systems which are arranged on the circumference of the needle cylinder and a corresponding plurality of drawing frames which are assigned individually to the knitting systems for feeding substantially untwisted fibrous materials to knitting tools which can be deployed in the knitting systems into in each case a fibre-receiving position. According to the invention, the drawing frames are configured as miniature bars which have at least four and at most eight adjacent drawing frames and a central housing (25) which is designed to receive the drives and from which the upper and lower rolls (26b, 27b, 28b) of the drawing frame assembly protrude on both sides.
US07748235B1
A portable cooling apparatus and associated method include an ice chest having an inner cavity defined by one or more side walls extending upwardly from a floor forming a lower end of the ice chest and having a lid positioned at an upper end of the ice chest so as to close access to the inner cavity; a manifold removably positioned on the floor of the inner cavity of the ice chest, the manifold having an inlet and an outlet extending through the one or more side walls to outside the ice chest; and an electric fan associated with the manifold outlet for drawing air from the inlet through the manifold so as to blow air through the outlet.
US07748233B2
A method and apparatus for sanitizing a water dispenser that dispenses water for human consumption is disclosed. The dispenser can be in the form of any dispenser that dispenses water for human consumption employing a reservoir that dispenses water through one or more spigots. Water in the reservoir is sanitized with an air/ozone gas mixture that is transmitted to a porous polymeric diffuser having a central bore and a porous wall. The porosity of the porous wall defines bubble size.
US07748231B2
An ice-cube complete filling detector and a refrigerator comprising the same comprise a cam, an arm lever rotated by the cam, a detector driving gear rotated by the arm lever, a detector driven gear rotated by the detector driving gear, and an ice-cube detection lever connected to the detector driven gear, so that the detector driven gear is rotated via gear engagement by the detector driving gear and the detector driven gear, and the ice-cube detection lever can be rotated in a large range of about 180 degrees, thereby ensuring high accuracy of detection.
US07748230B2
A refrigerator includes an ice container storing the ice made in an ice making device and including an opening through which the ice is discharged and a carrying shaft carrying the stored ice to the opening; an outlet, into which ice carried through the opening is supplied, discharging the ice to an outside of the refrigerator; and a three rotating blades coupled with the carrying shaft and carrying the ice discharged from the opening to the outlet, wherein the outlet is arranged to deviate from an ice discharging axis of the opening.
US07748227B2
To provide a compact and well serviceable heat pump water boiler.The heat pump water boiler is constituted to have a body unit (1) by integrating: a refrigerant cycle, in which a compressor (2), a radiator (3), a radiator (4), pressure reducing means (5) and an evaporator (6) are connected; a blower fan (8) for blowing wind to the evaporator (6); a hot-water supplying water-refrigerant heat exchanger (9) acting integrally with the radiator (3) for converting water into hot water; a hot-water supplying circulation water pump (15) for feeding water to the hot-water supplying water-refrigerant heat exchanger (9); a bath warming/heating water-refrigerant heat exchanger (17) acting integrally with the radiator (4) for further raising the temperature of the hot water of the bath tab; a bath water circulating pump (18) for circulating the hot water of the bath; and hot-water reserving tank (10) for reserving the hot water. The body unit (1) is provided with an extending portion (40a) at a jacket back (40) confronting the hot-water reserving tank (10).
US07748226B2
A waste heat collecting system for an internal combustion engine has an object to collect waste heat from the engine and make most use of the collected waste heat to achieve the maximum effect of improving fuel consumption ratio. The waste heat utilizing system has a waste heat collecting cycle for collecting waste heat from an internal combustion engine and having an expansion device for generating rotational driving force from the collected waste heat, a refrigerating cycle having a compressor device for compressing a refrigerant and a power transmitting means rotationally driven by a driving force generating means and operatively connected to the compressor device to rotationally drive the same. In this system, the expansion device is operatively connected to the compressor device to rotationally drive the same.
US07748210B2
A system is provided and includes a first condenser configured to fluidly receive a first steam supply and tower water and to output a first water supply, a second condenser configured to fluidly receive a first portion of a second steam supply and the first water supply and to output a second water supply, and a vapor-absorption-machine (VAM) configured to fluidly receive a second portion of the second steam supply and the second water supply by which a refrigeration cycle is conducted to thereby cool at least one of the tower water and a third water supply used to cool the tower water.
US07748206B1
The harvester incorporates a system and method for detecting rigid standing objects such as reinforced posts in the harvester's path and responsively reducing forces exerted by harvesting apparatus of the harvester against the object. The harvesting apparatus including at least one member movable in contact with the plants by a drive for exerting forces for detaching the fruit. At least one sensor is disposed and operable for sensing a rigid object in advance of being contacted by the member or members. In response, the movements of the member or members will be reduced or altered at an appropriate time and duration for reducing forces exerted against the object while protecting harvest yield.
US07748198B2
Described is an apparatus and method for applying to a palletized load protective corner elements having first and second sides designed to protect contiguous sides of at least one corner of the load. The apparatus comprises a transfer system for conveying at least one corner element from an initial position to a position where the sides of the corner element are close to the corresponding edges of the corner to be protected, this transfer system comprising an actuating system for transferring the corner element by a rotational movement through predetermined angles α and β from the initial position to a position where at least a first side of the corner element is substantially aligned with a first side of the corner of the load.
US07748192B2
A building block (2) comprising two side panels (6, 8) with at least one open side, the side panels spaced apart by two bridging parts (10, 12), a removable section (17) on at least one bridging part (10, 12), and a pair of recessed or protruding formations (20) on opposite inner faces of the open end of the side panels (6, 8) to enable building blocks to be interconnected. A location device (40) comprising two members (44) spaced apart by cross members (42), where the two members (44) extend beyond the cross members (42) to engage with formations (26) of one or more building blocks (2) is also disclosed. A wall constructed from building blocks (2) and utilising location devices (40) and a method of constructing such a wall are similarly disclosed.
US07748190B1
A cleat for tying together two or more structural elements in either one or both of a horizontal and a vertical plane. The cleat comprises a first set of protrusions located on a first half of a plate, and a second set of protrusions located on a second half of the plate, wherein the first set of protrusions are mirror images of the second set of protrusions. Additionally, both the first and second set of protrusions are arranged in rows, wherein each successive row comprises protrusions having a height less than the height of the protrusions located in the immediately preceding row. Furthermore, the protrusions in the various rows are staggered in position relative to the protrusions located in the other rows.
US07748184B1
A damping system includes a base substrate, a constraining substrate and a non-foam damping layer between them. The base substrate has greater lateral dimensions than the constraining substrate. Consequently, the damping system is provided in a localized region of the base substrate. The damping system can be provided, for example, at a region of the base substrate where a longitudinal projection or moving linkage extends through an opening in the base substrate, such as a steering column through a dashboard panel. In this embodiment, a composite opening is provided through the damping system to accommodate the extending projection or linkage, and the damping system is effective to provide localized damping against vibrations due to the through-the-panel linkage. The damping system provides these benefits without increasing the overall thickness of the body part, and without providing damping and constraining layers across its entire lateral expanse, saving cost and weight. Methods of making such a damping system are also provided.
US07748182B2
A modular wall system is described that includes a plurality of wall panels, a horizontal main bracket having a length; and a plurality of wall panel brackets. Each wall panel bracket is configured for attachment to a corresponding one of the wall panels. Each wall panel bracket is configured to engage the horizontal main bracket so as to hang the corresponding the wall panel while allowing movement of the wall panels in substantially horizontal directions.
US07748175B2
The specification and drawing figures describe and show a low profile mounting system that includes a at least one rail. A plurality of tracks is formed in the rail with opposing jaws. The opposing jaws define a slot. The opposing jaws are disposed in the rail asymmetrically to the longitudinal axis of the rail. At least one ledge monolithically extends from the rail for holding an object such as a solar panel. A coupler is provided for demountably connecting a solar panel to the rail. A cleat also is provided for attaching the system to a surface. A connector connects the rail to the cleat. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure, but this abstract is not to be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of any claim.
US07748167B2
The invention relates to a drive device, particularly for doors, garage doors, etc., comprising a guide device, particularly a rail or guide rail, extending in movement direction of the door. The invention is characterised in that the feed means comprises a first insert body which can be plugged at the ends of the guide rail into this and is provided with a connecting cable and which is held at the guide rail end and constructed in such a manner that it fulfils its function not only at one end of the guide rail, but also at the other end of the guide rail.
US07748164B2
The present invention provides a micro gravity environmental control apparatus, such as a plant cultivating apparatus, an animal raising apparatus, and a micro gravity environmental control method, such as a plant cultivating method, an animal raising method, a breeding method, capable of cultivating a plant and raising an animal by using soil and also capable of recovering moisture supplied to the soil so as to reuse the moisture, under a weightless environment or a micro gravity environment. There is provided a micro gravity environmental control apparatus comprising a chamber, an air suction pipe arranged in the vicinity of a lower end portion within the chamber, and an air sucking part communicated and connected with the air suction pipe and used for sucking air within the chamber out of the chamber.
US07748163B2
The invention relates to a method for treating seeds, comprising the following steps: (a) a sterilization step wherein, for 0.1 to 60 seconds and at a minimum pressure of 0.5 bar absolute, the seeds are contacted with a condensing medium having a condensation temperature of 80-200 DEG C, wherein the medium condenses on the seeds and the temperature of the surface of the seeds is raised to 200 DEG C at most; and (b) a cooling step wherein the sterilized seeds obtained in step (a) are cooled, wherein the temperature of the surface of the seeds is lowered, within 30 seconds at most, to 50 DEG C at most, and wherein the conditions of steps (a) and (b) are set such that the germination capacity of the seeds is relatively preserved or increases. The invention further relates to seeds obtainable with the method according to the invention.
US07748162B1
A modular greenhouse system for permitting a greenhouse of desired size to be created in a desired location includes a container defined by a plurality of panels removably coupled together and forming a perimeter wall. Each of a plurality of locking pins is engageable to the panels of the container. Each of a plurality of stanchions slidably receives a portion of the locking pins extending upwardly from the panels. Each of a plurality of ceiling joists is coupled to a pair of the stanchions opposite the container and extending across a width of the container. Each of a plurality of spanners extends between and is engageable to the ceiling joists and is configured to maintain positioning of the ceiling joists.
US07748158B2
A box for storing fishing flies including a cover assembly having two dish-like cover portions, each having a continuous distal edge portion; and a hinge affording pivotal movement of the cover portions between an open position and a closed position with the distal edge portions of the cover portions opposed to and closely spaced from each other. A fly retaining assembly included in the box comprises a support plate that extends between the distal edge portions of the cover portions in their closed position, can be engaged by flies, can pivot relative to the hinge independent of the cover portions, and can be removed from between the cover portions when they are open. A layer of over molded sealing material provided on the support plate is in sealing engagement with the edge portions of the adjacent cover portions when they are in their closed position.
US07748153B2
A grip (10) of a firearm (12), particularly of a gun, comprises a body (14) extending substantially in a development direction (16) and a gripping portion (20) removably mounted on the body (14) in a rear area with reference to a trigger of the weapon. The gripping portion (20) at least partially envelops and covers a rear surface (14a) and a tract of side surfaces (14b) of the body (14). Means for locking the gripping portion (20) on the body (14) operating in an inserting direction (24) transversal to the development direction (16) are arranged in at least one side portion of the body (14) and the gripping portion (20) and comprise first strikes (52) associated with the gripping portion (20) and offset in the development direction (16) relative to second strikes (54) associated with the body. Interference means are interposed between the first and second strikes (52, 54) for locking the gripping portion (20).
US07748151B2
An improved A-frame sign stand is disclosed. The sign stand includes front and rear panels hingedly attached. A support rod is removably attachable to the panels and prevents both separation and buckling of the panels. The support rod can be placed into various storage positions. In one such position, the rod may be used as a handle. In another embodiment, the rod can be pivoted upward and stored on an inner surface of the panel.
US07748147B2
A method and system for automated operation of a work vehicle comprises a boom having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. A first hydraulic cylinder is associated with the boom. A first sensor detects a boom angle of a boom with respect to a support near the first end. An attachment is coupled to the second end of the boom. A second sensor detects an attachment angle of attachment with respect to the boom. A second cylinder is associated with the attachment. A switch accepts a command to move to or enter a preset position from another position. A controller controls the first hydraulic cylinder to attain a boom angle within a target boom angular range and for controlling the second cylinder to attain an attachment angle within a target attachment angular range associated with the preset position in response to the command.
US07748141B2
An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole assembly secured to the upper. The sole assembly has an upper plate and a plurality of support assemblies. Each support assembly includes a web spaced from the upper plate and a plurality of elastomeric support columns extending between the upper plate and the web. An outsole is secured to at least one of the support assemblies.
US07748140B2
Therapeutic footwear includes upper and lower portions formed of resilient material sized and shaped to fit beneath and above a foot of a user. The upper portion is hingedly attached to the lower portion. A removable pouch is formed of flexible, permeable material and sized and shaped to fit beneath the foot above the lower portion. The pouch contains at least one of aromatherapy and thermal reservoir materials. A cavity is located between the upper portion and the lower portion and is sized and shaped to receive the removable pouch. Stitching through the removable pouch at least partially divides the compartment into at least two subspaces to control movement of the contents. When the removable pouch is heated or cooled and placed in the cavity, the footwear will heat or cool while providing aromatherapy benefits. The footwear includes an outer sole formed of resilient material and suitable for outdoor use.
US07748137B2
A method of drying comprises placing a moist material inside a substantially enclosed solar greenhouse. The greenhouse comprises at least one light transmission roof and/or wall panel that is substantially transparent to solar radiation, but resistant to convective and conductive heat transfer. The interior temperature and humidity of the greenhouse are maintained within their pre-determined ranges while the interior moisture of the greenhouse is effectively reduced to allow a controlled drying of the material. A solar greenhouse for the drying process is also disclosed.
US07748135B1
A measuring template for measuring both outside and inside diameters. The template includes a plate inscribed with a plurality of arcs with a common centerline and tangent. It also includes two pins attached perpendicularly to the plate such that their centerline intersects the centerline of the arcs at right angle.
US07748133B2
An exemplary workpiece inspecting device includes a base, a slider, a handle, a number of magnets, a number of probes and a measuring block. The slider is slidably mounted on the base and supports the handle thereon. The magnets are respectively embedded into the base for attracting and fixing a workpiece on the base. The probes are separately disposed on both the base and the slider for inspecting the perforations defined on a workpiece. The measuring block is attached on the slider for sliding and inspecting a thickness of the workpiece during the movement of the slider.
US07748132B1
A substrate has front and rear faces, short first and second end edges, long side edges and interior and exterior side edges. First and second setting slides have front and rear faces, short end edges, long side edges and interior and exterior side edges. A measuring slide has front and rear faces, short first and second end edges and long side edges. Couplers adjustably interconnect the measuring slide to the substrate. The side edges of the measuring slide are provided parallel with the end edges of the substrate. The two setting slides are adjustably interconnected to the substrate. The side edges of the setting slides are provided parallel with the side edges of the substrate.
US07748131B2
The invention relates to a method of inspecting gears during their manufacture in the gear cutting machine, wherein the respective workpiece is traveled to by the tool at specific reference points to determine any deviations. The setting of the tool can be corrected by means of these deviations via a control loop.
US07748122B2
A folding knife incorporates an opening assist mechanism that functions to drive the blade from the closed to the open position. A pair of torsion springs held axially on the blade axis pin and within a pair of bushings are stationary relative to the knife handle. One leg of each spring is fixed to a bushing. The opposite leg of the spring rides in a pocket formed in the surface on the blade axially around the opening through which the blade axis pin is inserted. As the blade rotates from the closed position toward the open position, the legs of the springs rotate through and cooperate with structures formed on the bushings to transfer the spring pressure instantly to the blade to drive the blade open.
US07748118B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a rigid internal gear for a wave gear device comprising an internally toothed portion and a gear main body portion comprised of different materials. In this method, a gear main body ring for forming a gear main body portion is preformed using a first aluminum alloy powder; an internal teeth-forming ring is preformed using a second aluminum alloy powder that has lower processability, is less durable, has higher abrasion resistance, and is harder than the first aluminum alloy powder; the internal teeth-forming ring is fitted inside the gear main body ring and the assembly is integrated by powder forging; and the resulting ring-shaped forging is subjected to post-processing, including cutting teeth. The gear main body portion and internally toothed portion are securely integrated by powder forging, and a lightweight rigid internal gear with high durability can therefore be obtained.
US07748117B2
A method for producing electric contact parts includes the following stages: a) stamping a strip of electric conducting parts connected together in the longitudinal direction (X-X) by a continuous strip; b) inserting said strip inside a mould; c) over-moulding the conducting parts with insulating material depending on the final form envisaged for the electric contact part; d) cutting the continuous strip in the region of the flat pins; e) extracting the finished parts.
US07748110B2
A connection member can be produced without a via-forming step. The connection member includes an insulating substrate which has an upper surface, a lower surface opposed to the upper surface, and a side surface which connects these surfaces; and at least one wiring which extends from the upper surface to the lower surface through the side surface.
US07748109B2
A crimping apparatus includes an anvil for supporting a metal terminal including a base plate portion for mounting an electric wire thereon and a pair of crimping piece portions extending upwardly respectively from opposite side edges of the base plate portion, and a crimper which has a press-fastening portion for press-fastening the crimping piece portions. The anvil and the press-fastening portion of the crimper cooperate to press-fasten the crimping piece portions for crimping the crimping piece portions to the electric wire mounted on the metal terminal. The press-fastening portion is subjected to a mirror finish.
US07748102B2
A conduction-cooled superconducting power transmission cable wherein a High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) wire is surrounded by an inner layer of thermal insulator, one or more layers of high thermal conductivity material, such as copper, and an outer layer of thermal insulator with cryogenic coolant sources distributed along the power transmission cable and coupled to the copper layers or both the copper layers and the HTS wire. The cryogenic coolant sources can be reservoirs, a distribution system of coolant or stand alone refrigeration systems. He H2 or N2 liquid coolant can be used. A method for calculating the parameters to maintain the critical temperature of the HTS wire and a method for calculating the cool down time from ambient conditions are disclosed.
US07748091B2
The present invention concerns a coupling (1) including a first part (2) and a second part (3), where the first part (2) includes a housing (4) with a displaceable locking ring (8). The locking ring having a locking device (9) for receiving and fixing a projecting part (5). The housing is provided with an internal cylindrical surface with an annular recess (11) arranged for accommodating the locking device (9). The locking ring is connected with a spring-biased locking unit (17) for moving and locking the locking ring in at least two positions in the housing (4). The locking unit (17) includes an insert (18) connected to the locking ring (8) at one end and at an oppsoite end is provided with a number of oblique teeth (23).
US07748090B2
The present invention concerns breathable fasteners for use with hook fastener systems. The breathable fastening system comprises a first breathable mechanical fastener surface, which is generally a loop or fibrous type surface that can optionally be joined to a breathable backing loop, and a recon large area breathable hook type fastener. The hook type fastener generally has an integral film backing which film backing has a porosity of from 0.0001 to 0.005 cm3, a backing thickness of from 25 to 200 μm, a stiffness of from 10 to 2000 Gurley units and a hook or projection containing surface area of at least 10 cm2.
US07748080B2
A refrigerator comprises a body defining a refrigerated enclosure, a door movable between a closed position and an open position, a hinge comprising a first member coupled to the body and a second member coupled to the door and pivotably coupled to the first member, and a closure mechanism configured to provide a varying force to the door depending on the position of the door relative to the body. The closure mechanism includes a guide slidably mounted in a slot on the first member, a biasing mechanism coupled to the first member, and a closer arm coupled to the door and to the biasing mechanism through the guide.
US07748078B2
The present invention relates to a portable blower-vacuum device which comprises a motor (3) operated by a switch (7) and located in a main body (2) and a fan (4) drivable by the motor. A vacuum nozzle (11) and a blower nozzle (12) are associated with the main body and the vacuum nozzle comprises a main portion (14a) extending in a direction of an axis (Z1) of the main portion and a terminal portion (14b) with an axis (Z2) angularly disposed with respect to the axis (Z1) of the main portion.
US07748077B2
A windscreen wiper with a link arm arrangement (4) including a first pair of arms (5) and a second pair of arms (6) to which the first pair of arms (5) is connected in such a way that they can pivot, the first pair of arms (5) being attached to a chassis in such a way that they can pivot and the second pair of arms (6) being attached to a windscreen wiper blade (7) in such way that they can pivot. The windscreen wiper further including an adjustment mechanism (8) for controlling the size of an angle between the first pair of arms (5) and the second pair of arms (6) in synchrony with the pivoting of the first pair of arms (5).
US07748062B2
A body transfer system, includes a housing having a substantially planar top portion configured to support a body and having a substantially planar bottom portion; a bottom translation mechanism disposed at the bottom portion and configured to translate the system across a first surface upon which a body rests; and a top translation mechanism disposed at the top portion and configured to burrow the system between the first surface and the body as the bottom translation mechanism translates the first surface. A method of transferring a body is also included.
US07752663B2
An analysis unit which effectively detects incidents on the basis of events detected by a security unit such as an intrusion detection system (IDS) or a firewall (FW) installed in a network stores statistical information that is frequency-distributed information of event information obtained from the collection unit, frequency component information obtained by frequency-analyzing the statistical information and the result obtained by making analysis on the basis of the frequency component. The collection unit collects and normalizes event log information outputted by IDS or FW to be stored in an event database (DB). An alert notification unit includes an alert database (DB) for storing an alert instruction transmitted from the analysis unit and an alert notification destination and reports occurrence of incidents to a manager or the like in accordance with the instruction.
US07752659B2
A method and system is described for selectively downloading antidotes onto a client computer. The client computer is connected via a network interface card (NIC) to a network that contains an anti-virus server. The NIC is initially logically isolated from the client computer, thus permitting the NIC to autonomously examine packets to and from the client computer and the network. The NIC selectively accepts packets only from trusted Internet Protocol (IP) addresses that conform to a security format such as Internet Protocol Security (IPSec).
US07752653B1
A method and apparatus for registering auto-configured network addresses includes receiving first data at a networking device connected to a host at a physical connection. The first data is received from a first server and indicates authentication information associated with the host. A first message is received at the networking device from the host. The first message requests configuration information and includes a logical network address for the host determined at least in part by the host. A second message is generated based on the first message and the first data. The second message is sent to a second server that registers the host by associating the logical network address with the first data.
US07752642B2
Disclosed is a method and system in which “labels,” comprising supplemental information such as advertising, promotional, or informational elements including interactive elements, may be superimposed post-production into a video stream. This can be done by using overlay screens including interactive overlay screens or by combining video segments. As such, the labels do not have to physically be part of the actual scene during filming. Once a video stream is created, a space for available advertising is designated either manually or automatically by pattern recognition techniques. A list of available advertising space is generated. During viewing of television broadcasts, advertisements are placed in the video signal. Labels are displayed by superimposing an HTML page that is blank except for the advertisement onto the video signal. Advertisements can be superimposed post-production, and can be personalized and localized. The advertisements can be customized on a per-household basis.
US07752641B2
A disk apparatus includes a bracket, a loading motor, a gear unit, and a slider cam. The loading motor is attached to the bracket. The gear unit is installed in the bracket and is connected with the loading motor for power transmission from the loading motor. The slider cam is transversely movable between a transverse loading/unloading position and a transverse reading position. The slider cam operatively mates with the gear unit and slidably engages with the bracket at a first cam portion and a second cam portion thereof. The first cam portion is engageable with the bracket in a plane different from the second cam portion.
US07752634B1
A method and apparatus to employ a service proxy to personalize service messages by automatically supplying the interface parameters used for communications between a Service provider and its client businesses. The service proxy does this according to context parameters that the client businesses specify during configuration of the messages used to communicate with one or more services. For simpler administration, the context variables may be organized in multiple kinds of hierarchies by which communications parameters specified at a higher level are automatically applied to categories at a lower level, although parameters specified directly for a lower-level category will override parameters from a higher category.
US07752630B2
Techniques for adaptive load balancing using behavior modification hints are disclosed, including, in at least one embodiment, monitoring a server's operating conditions; determining, based on the server's operating conditions, when to send a behavior modification hint to one or more clients that are being served by the server; generating the behavior modification hint based on the server's operating conditions; and sending the behavior modification hint to the one or more clients. In at least one embodiment, a client receives the behavior modification hint and, based on the behavior modification hint, alters a timeout value related to the server or alters its preferred server.
US07752623B1
In one embodiment, a method for allocating resources in a shared resource domain comprises gathering performance data for multiple applications, determining that an application of the multiple applications is not achieving a service level objective (SLO), calculating an additional amount of a resource for the application estimated to cause the application to achieve the SLO, and examining, before initiating reallocation operations, at least one system characteristic to determine whether the calculated additional amount of the resource would improve performance of the application.
US07752622B1
A method for scheduling computing jobs in a scheduling event includes selecting a computing job that is ready for scheduling the first computing job being associated with at least one required resource. A computing node is identified that is able to satisfy the at least one required resource during a first time period having a start time and an end time. A second computing job is determined to have previously been scheduled to execute during a second time period; wherein the second time period overlaps the first time period. At a time prior to scheduling the first computing job, a determination is made as to whether the second computing job is preemptible by the first computing job. If so, execution of the second computing job is preempted by the first computing job if the second computing job has been determined to be preemptible by the first computing job if the priority of the first computing job is greater than the priority of the second computing job by at least a threshold amount, and if preempting the second job frees at least one of the at least one required resource for use by the first computing job. Execution of the first computing job is scheduled to take place on a first computing node during the first time period, where a start time associated with the first time period is a time selected from the group consisting of a current time and a future time.
US07752620B2
Administration of locks for critical sections of computer programs in a computer that supports a multiplicity of logical partitions that include determining by a thread executing on a virtual processor executing in a time slice on a physical processor whether an expected lock time for a critical section of the thread exceeds a remaining entitlement of the virtual processor in the time slice and deferring acquisition of a lock if the expected lock time exceeds the remaining entitlement.
US07752608B1
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, domain knowledge is translated into a knowledge-based system. In some embodiments, a formal specification is derived from rules of a knowledge-based system, the formal specification is analyzed, and flaws in the formal specification are used to identify and correct errors in the domain knowledge, from which a knowledge-based system is translated.
US07752605B2
A data race detection system is described which precisely identifies data races in concurrent programs. The system and techniques described utilize locksets to maintain information while searching through executions of a concurrent program. The locksets are updated according to program statements in the concurrent program. The dynamic updating of the locksets, combined with a less conservative approach then used in existing lockset data race detection techniques, allows the technique to be precise; that is, the technique does not report false positives when searching a program.
US07752604B2
An architecture that allows target service interactions to be realistically simulated in a development environment. The architecture includes a proxy service, an interaction recorder, an interaction store and an emulator service. The proxy service delegates service requests received from a client component to a target service. If it is in “record” mode, the proxy service routes any interaction data corresponding to the interaction (between the target service and the client component) to the interaction recorder. Upon receipt, the interaction recorder records the interaction data in the interaction store. Later, the proxy service can be placed in “replay” mode so that a subsequent service request for the target service is delegated to the emulator service. Upon receipt, the emulator service retrieves the corresponding interaction data from the data store and replays the same to emulate/simulate the target service.
US07752603B2
Data element values are shared between a first software component and a second software component of a document processing framework. The components can capture, process, or route a digital image of a document and access a configuration file that is generated for the image. A data element attribute and value pair is placed in the configuration file. The value of the data element is a tag that includes an identifier identifying the first software component and a tag name. The first software component is executed on the image, produces a tag value corresponding to the tag name, searches the configuration file for the tag by the identifier, replaces the tag with the tag value in the configuration file, and terminates. The second software component is executed on the image after the first software component has terminated and reads the data element attribute and value pair.
US07752594B2
A failure analysis apparatus 10 is composed of an inspection information acquirer 11 for acquiring at least a pattern image P1 of a semiconductor device, a layout information acquirer 12 for acquiring a layout image P3, a failure analyzer 13 for analyzing a failure of the semiconductor device, and an analysis screen display controller 14 for letting a display device 40 display information about the failure analysis. The analysis screen display controller 14 generates a superimposed image in which the pattern image P1 and the layout image P3 are superimposed, as an image of the semiconductor device to be displayed by the display device 40, and sets a transmittance of the layout image P3 relative to the pattern image P1 in the superimposed image. This substantializes a semiconductor failure analysis apparatus, analysis method, analysis program, and analysis system capable of securely and efficiently carrying out the analysis of the failure of the semiconductor device.
US07752588B2
Techniques for placement of integrated circuit elements include global placement, detailed placement, timing closure, and routing. The integrated circuit is described by a netlist specifying interconnections of morphable devices. The detailed placement uses, for example, Simultaneous Dynamical Integration, wherein the morphable-devices correspond to nodes influenced by forces, including timing forces. The timing forces are derived, for example, from a timing graph; path delay; slack; and drive resistance of the elements. The timing closure uses timing-driven buffering and timing-driven resizing to reduce maximum delay and/or transition time, and/or to fix hold time. Nets having high capacitance and/or fanout, and timing critical nets are preferentially processed. Timing-driven buffering applies buffering solutions to segments of route trees, combines solutions of adjoining segments, and prunes sets of solutions. Timing-driven resizing morphably replaces selected elements with upsized versions thereof.
US07752585B2
Best and most recent NDR types are selected for all RLM's in a design in order to achieve timing closure. The selection employed uses two levels of filtering to examine the NDR types for each RLM, and based on the outcome of the filtering selects the most appropriate NDR type for input to the timing analysis. In one arrangement, the selection scheme is completely automated and is performed at the beginning of a timing analysis via script-driven processes.
US07752583B2
A method of verifying a digital design is disclosed. The method comprises generating a reference model for a first digital design and creating an operational model for a second digital design, wherein the first digital design and the second digital design are intended to have a same logical function. A plurality of testcase types are then created by constraining one or more internal signals, and one or more test scripts representing the plurality of testcase types are produced. The method also includes verifying the second digital design with a testing simulation program by comparing results of the test scripts from the operational model and the reference model.
US07752580B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a system and an associated method for analyzing an integrated circuit to determine the value of a particular attribute (i.e., a physical or electrical property) in that integrated circuit. In the embodiments, an open deterministic sequencing technique is used to select a sequence of points representing centers of sample windows in an integrated circuit layout. Then, the value of the particular attribute is determined for each sample window and the results are accumulated in order to infer an overall value for that particular attribute for the entire integrated circuit layout. This sequencing technique has the advantage of allowing additional sample windows to be added and/or the sizes and shapes of the windows to be varied without hindering the quality of the sample.
US07752557B2
A method and system of visually coding search results is provided. Using a search query containing a plurality of search terms, a web search is conducted and a set of search results is obtained. Occurrence frequencies of the search terms in the returned document are tallied and used to formulate a number of occurrence indicators having color shades based on the occurrence frequencies of the search terms. The search results are then displayed in two levels of detail with a first portion of the search results displayed in a first format and a second portion displayed in a second format. The occurrence indicators for the search terms are displayed beside each returned document to indicate to a user the frequency of the search terms in the search results.
US07752554B2
Various embodiments employ methods and techniques to enable users, and others, to manage or otherwise become more informed about applications or bots with which they interact. The methods and techniques, in at least some embodiments, can provide various types of indications, visual or otherwise, that pertain to various types of ratings that can be assigned to applications or bots and which can enable a user and others to assess the propriety, level and nature of their interaction with an application or bot.
US07752553B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an aggregated event stream that indicates activities to a user across a range of online services. Embodiments may include a web site, a client application, or mobile device. In particular, a display is provided to a user that indicates various events in a “stacked” format. Each block of the stacked format represents one or more events originating from the user's own activities or activities of the user's contacts in their social network. Activities may originate from accounts on other online services that the user linked to their account or profile. The stacked format is updated in substantially real time to provide the user a sense of the activities of their social network around them.
US07752552B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a way of embedding a display of activities relevant to a social network in a third party website. In particular, embodiments of the present invention provide for an embedded aggregated event stream. In particular, a display is provided to a user that indicates various events in a “stacked” format. Each block of the stacked format represents one or more events originating from the user's own activities or activities of the user's contacts in their social network. Activities may originate from accounts on other online services that the user linked to their account or profile. The stacked format is updated in substantially real time to provide the user a sense of the activities of their social network around them.
US07752543B2
Effects are applied to a shape that is generated from a merged text path. The merged text path is created from text paths that are associated with a text run. Boolean operations may be used to create the merged text path. The merged text path removes any overlap and redundancy of the characters within the text run. The shape that is generated from the merged text path maintains the text path information that is associated with the text run such that additional effects may be applied to the shape.
US07752541B2
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for displaying pages in a viewer program on a computer display monitor. The viewer program displays an application window. The viewer program downloads a first and second pages from one of multiple servers over a network and then automatically concurrently displays the first page in a first pane and the second page in a second pane in the application window according to predefined settings specifying how pages are to be displayed in the first and second panes. The viewer program then downloads a third page from one of multiple servers over the network and automatically concurrently displays the third page in one of the first and second panes and one of the first and second pages in the other pane according to the predefined settings. A fourth page is then downloaded from one of multiple servers over the network and the viewer program then automatically concurrently displays the third and fourth pages in the first and second panes according to the predefined settings.
US07752536B2
For standalone spreadsheet applications and/or Web-based spreadsheet services, the ability to designate, discover and set parameters for spreadsheet documents is provided. When creating a spreadsheet document, the ability to designate certain cells or ranges of cells as parameters to a spreadsheet is enabled. Furthermore, whether viewed in a standalone spreadsheet application or via a Web service, the ability to discover these parameters through the user interface or object model is provided. The ability to set or change these parameters one at a time or in bulk and drive the changes into the calculation model is also provided. Accordingly, whether viewed in a standalone spreadsheet application or via a Web rendering service, the effect of the parameters entered by the user can be calculated and viewed at once. The ability to suspend recalculation of a workbook until all relevant values, such as a current set of parameters, are obtained is also enabled.
US07752532B2
Methods and apparatus for providing linear erasure codes. In one aspect, a method is provided for encoding a set of data values into a code symbol. The method includes determining an index sequence that defines selected data values to be used to generate the code symbol, and determining a value sequence that defines factors to be multiplied by the selected data values to generate the code symbol. The method also includes generating a packet header that describes the index sequence and the value sequence.
US07752531B2
A detector includes a Viterbi based detector and an erasure detector that detects as erasures one or more bits associated with a decoding window in which survivor paths do not merge within the decoding window.
US07752529B2
Combined LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) encoder and syndrome checker. A novel approach is presented by which the encoding processing and at least a portion of the decoding processing of an LDPC coded signal can be performed using a shared circuitry. The LDPC encoding processing and syndrome calculation operations (in accordance with the LDPC decoding processing) can be performed using a common circuitry having a portion of which whose connectivity is only slightly modified depending on whether encoding or decoding is being performed. To effectuate this selection (between encoding and decoding), any of a variety of means can be employed including the use of multiplexers that are operable to select a first connectivity (for encoding) and a second connectivity (for decoding). This can result in a hardware savings of space, cost, and complexity since a shared circuitry can perform both encoding and at least part of the decoding processing.
US07752515B2
An architecture and methodology for test data compression using combinational functions to provide serial coupling between consecutive segments of a scan-chain are described. Compressed serial-scan sequences are derived starting from scan state identifying desired Care_In values and using symbolic computations iteratively in order to determine the necessary previous scan-chain state until computed previous scan-chain state matches given known starting scan-chain state. A novel design for a new flip-flop is also presented that allows implementing scan-chains that can be easily started and stopped without requiring an additional control signal. Extensions of the architecture and methodology are discussed to handle unknown (X) values in scan-chains, proper clocking of compressed data into multiple scan-chains, the use of a data-spreading network and the use of a pseudo-random signal generator to feed the segmented scan-chains in order to implement Built In Self Test (BIST).
US07752512B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: a first circuit having a plurality of scan chains; a second circuit connected with input/output signals of the first circuit; and a third circuit connected with the second circuit through the first circuit. The plurality of scan chains comprises a first scan chain that contains flip-flops whose input/output signals are connected with the second circuit, and a second scan chain that does not contain any flip-flop whose input/output signal is connected with the second circuit. The flip-flops operate as a shift register at a scan path test, and when the third circuit exchanges signals with the second circuit through the flip-flops of the first scan chain, the second scan chain of the first circuit operates as a shift register.
US07752511B2
A method for providing a signal indicative of a set single bit flag, which is set for a scan cycle responsive to a detection of a fault in an Input/Output (I/O) device of a programmable logic controller (PLC) system or an I/O interface of the PLC system. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US07752510B2
An integrated device comprises a functional circuit, a test circuit for testing the functional circuit and for providing an error data item and a register element for storing the error data item and for outputting the error data item at an error data output of the integrated device responsive to an output signal. The register element is connected to a data input of the integrated device in order to accept a data item, which is applied to the data input, responsive to the output signal.
US07752507B2
A circuit arrangement for supporting and monitoring a microcontroller, which is constructed externally of the microcontroller, comprises a watchdog circuit for monitoring the microcontroller, which circuit outputs an error signal if not reset by the microcontroller within a watchdog period, and an interrupt circuit, which feeds important system messages to the microcontroller as interrupt events for processing. In order correctly to combine interrupt processing and watchdog operation, the watchdog circuit is connected to the interrupt circuit and cooperates therewith in such a way that the interrupt circuit feeds at most a predetermined number of interrupt events to the microcontroller within a watchdog period.
US07752503B2
A Controller Area Network (CAN) controller for a plurality of electronic devices electrically connected to form a control circuit in a CAN system, includes a controller and a circuit configuring device. The controller is electrically connected with the electronic devices to form two circuit terminals of the control circuit. The circuit configuring device is electrically connected with the controller in such a manner that when the electrical disconnection occurs in the CAN system, the circuit configuring device will re-configure the control circuit for switching the two circuit terminals at the electrical disconnection of the respective electronic device to by-pass the electrical disconnection from the control circuit, such that the circuit configuring device is electrically re-connected to the two circuit terminals for completing the control circuit in a closed manner so as to keep the electronic devices functioning in the CAN system.
US07752502B2
A state table includes a plurality of possible states of a computer system and the corresponding actions which produce transitions between source and target states. A set of test programs is stored, each test program performing an action in the state table. A test selects an action corresponding to the current state of the computer system; executes the test program which performs the selected action; determines the state of the computer system after the test program has executed; and compares the determined state to the state indicated in the state table as the target state to the selected action on the source state. When an error is found, instead of stopping execution, the test operations to be performed are dynamically reconfigured. Weightings are dynamically allocated to actions in the state table to create a weighted set, and selection of the next test is carried out using random selection over the weighted set. Thus, the continued testing is biased over time towards particular transitions and/or states near to the error location. This enables a tester to discover any other bugs in the same area and also to obtain further diagnostic data on the failure.
US07752500B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus to collect and dynamically update processor polling information. In one method embodiment, the present invention collects processor polling information at boot time to be provided to an operating system. The processor polling information describes operating conditions of an integrated processing system. The operating system is then notified that a triggering event has occurred that may potentially alter the operating conditions of the integrated processor system. Providing to the operating system updated processor polling information during runtime to reflect the operating conditions of the integrated processor system after the occurrence of the triggering event.
US07752499B2
A system and method for using resource pools and instruction pools for processor design verification and validation is presented. A test case generator organizes processor resources into resource pools using a resource pool mask. Next, the test case generator separates instructions into instruction pools based upon the resources that each instruction requires. The test case generator then creates a test case using one or more sub test cases by assigning a resource pool to each sub test case, identifying instruction pools that correspond the assigned test case, and building each sub test case using instructions included in the identified instruction pools.
US07752494B2
Aligning execution point of duplicate copies of a user program by exchanging information about instructions executed. At least some of the exemplary embodiments may be a method of operating duplicate copies of a user program in a first and second processor, allowing at least one of the user programs to execute until retired instruction counter values in each processor are substantially the same, and then executing a number of instructions of each user program. Of the instructions executed, at least some of the instructions are decoded and the inputs of each decoded instruction determined (the decoding substantially simultaneously with executing in each processor). The method further may include exchanging among the processors addresses of decoded instructions and values indicative of inputs of the decoded instructions, determining that an execution point of the user program in the first processor lags with respect to an execution point of the user program in the second processor using at least the addresses of the decoded instructions, and advancing the first processor until the execution point within each user program is substantially aligned.
US07752490B2
A memory system includes normal memory modules serially connected, and a backup memory module, and a switch circuit for replacing a failed one of the normal memory modules by the backup memory module. The switch circuit inserts the backup memory module in the serial connection of the normal memory modules excepting the failed normal memory module.
US07752488B2
A method is disclosed to adjust error thresholds in a data storage and retrieval system. The method supplies a data storage and retrieval system comprising memory and microcode, wherein that microcode comprises one or more default error thresholds. The method determines if the memory comprises one or more operational error thresholds. If the method determines that the memory comprises one or more operational error thresholds, then the method operates the data storage and retrieval system using those one or more operational error thresholds. Alternatively, if the method determines that the memory does not comprise one or more operational error thresholds, then the method sets the one or more default error thresholds as the one or more operational error thresholds.
US07752487B1
A method, system and program product for group policy backup management in an enterprise network having a plurality of domains. A list of group policies for a domain is retrieved and a digital signature is determined for each policy on the list of policies for the domain. The digital signature for each policy in the domain is compared with a corresponding previous digital signature for the same policy. If the current digital signature for each policy matches the corresponding previous digital signature for the same policy, no backup is performed. Each policy having a current digital signature that does not match the corresponding previous digital signature for the same policy is backed up. The preceding steps are repeated for each domain in a plurality of domains within the enterprise network computing environment. Individual policies can also be backed up or restored upon user request. The system contains a group policy backup component for automatically backing up each modified policy in each domain, and a group policy backup manager component for backing up and restoring individual policies in a domain.
US07752480B2
A system and method for switching digital circuit clock net driver without losing clock pulses is presented. A device uses glitchless clock selection logic, which includes an edge detector, to select a clock signal to provide to device circuitry based upon the device circuitry's performance requirements. When the rising edges of a first clock signal and a second clock signal align, the edge detector momentarily pulses a clock switch signal, which is used to clock in a clock selection signal to a multiplexer. As a result, when the clock selection signal is high, the device waits until the clock edges are aligned before switching clock signals.
US07752477B2
A signal processor includes a reference clock generator configured to generate a reference clock as a synchronization reference for a signal processing. A counter is configured to count the reference clock. A frequency controller is configured to sample a count value of the counter by utilizing an input clock, to compare an increment value increased from the last sampled value with an expected value, and to control a frequency of the reference clock in accordance with a comparison result.
US07752472B2
A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In a computing environment made up of one or more personal computing devices (PCD) and/or one or more powered devices (PD), power source equipment (PSE) determines an allocated amount of power to be supplied to each device. The personal computing devices include a unified LAN-On-Motherboard (LOM) that combines the functionality of a powered device (PD) controller of a conventional PD and a LOM of a conventional personal computing device into a single unified subsystem. The unified LOM includes a standard or universal interface between the LOM and PD controller so that different types of PD devices with differing functionality can be easily married to the LOM, without requiring significant hardware or software redesign. The universal or standard interface includes a physical interface between the LOM and the PD controller and a compatible communication protocol to govern the communications between the LOM and the PD controller. This allows the LOM to be mixed and matched with any PD controller, enabling OEMs to economically provide multiple product models with varying degrees of PD and LOM functionality.
US07752470B2
A method and system for power management including device controller-based device use evaluation and power-state control provides improved performance in a power-managed processing system. Per-device usage information is measured and evaluated during process execution and is retrieved from the device controller upon a context switch, so that upon reactivation of the process, the previous usage evaluation state can be restored. The device controller can then provide for per-process control of attached device power management states without intervention by the processor and without losing the historical evaluation state when a process is switched out. The device controller can control power-saving states of connected devices in conformity with the usage evaluation without processor intervention and across multiple process execution slices. The device controller may be a memory controller and the controlled devices memory modules or banks within modules if individual banks can be power-managed. Local thresholds provide the decision-making mechanism for each controlled device. The thresholds may be history-based, fixed or adaptive and are generally set initially by the operating system and may be updated by the memory controller adaptively or using historical collected usage evaluation counts or alternatively by the operating system via a system processor.
US07752453B2
A method of encrypting and transmitting data and a system for transmitting encrypted data. The method includes one or more different encryption algorithms, and may include employing different encryption algorithms to achieve multiple levels of encryption. A first encryption algorithm is based upon multiple rearrangements of bits representing data to obtain encoded data. A second encryption algorithm is based upon performing multiple XOR operations on bits representing data so that each data word is at least encoded with previous data words. The system comprises first and second computers and a plurality of communication parameters. The two computers are communicably connected to a network, and the second computer is adapted to route a transmission to the first computer. The transmission includes a data part and a header part, both of which are encrypted by the second computer utilizing the communication parameters. The first computer decrypts the transmission utilizing the communication parameters.
US07752447B2
A processing apparatus for transmitting electronic information on copyrighted work, which has a predetermined amount of data, with an electronic signature being added thereto, includes division-processing device which divides the electronic information on copyrighted work into at least two parts, electronic-signature-operating device which operates to add the electronic signature for every part of the electronic information on copyrighted work divided by the division-processing device, and information-transmitting device which synthesizes the electronic information on copyrighted work to which the electronic-signature-operating device operates to add the electronic signature and electronic signature information for determining whether the electronic signature is legitimate and transmits the synthesized information.
US07752445B2
Authentication of a hardware token connected to a computer includes storing, in the hardware token, a computer public key Ck generated in the computer; reading out, from the hardware token to the computer, a user public key Uk, registering the user public key Uk from the computer with a certificate authority, and receiving a certificate issued from the certificate authority with respect to the user public key Uk, and storing the issued certificate for the user public key Uk in the hardware token.
US07752439B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for process-based access controls on computer resources to processes. An access mechanism is provided in which a specific invoker obtains an object access identity (ACI). Another mechanism is provided in which a specific object, such as a file system resource, requires a specific object access identity to obtain one of the forms of access denoted by an access control list. A process may “grant” an identifier that is later “required” for a system resource access. Objects may specify their own access requirements and permitted access modes. The granted identifier, ACI, is stored in the process's credentials once these credentials match a specific “grant” entry in the access control list. This identifier has no meaning outside of being used to make an access decision for a specific resource. When a process tries to access the object, the object's access control list is scanned for “required” entries. If a match occurs between the “required” entry's identifier and the ACI stored, access to the object is granted with access rights specified in the “require” entries.
US07752428B2
In some embodiments, the invention involves extending trusted computing environments to the boot firmware. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to enable the trusted environment to be extended forward to the pre-boot environment in addition to post-OS load environment. Embodiments of the present invention enable the trusted environment to extend to the firmware at power-on. The firmware is integrated within the secure perimeter which was previously only available to the OS. In other words, the BIOS is made to be a trusted entity, as well as the OS. Extensible firmware interface (EFI) modules are signed with a public key. The processor has an embedded private key. EFI modules are verified using the keys to ensure a trusted environment from boot to OS launch. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07752414B2
A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for storing data items in a computer. A plurality of hash functions of data values in a data item are computed. A corresponding memory location is determined for one of the plurality of hash functions. The data item and a key portion and a payload portion of all data items are stored contiguously within the memory location.Also provided for are retrieving data items in a computer. A plurality of hash functions of data values in a probe key are computed. A corresponding memory location is determined for each of the plurality of hash functions. Data items in each memory location are examined to determine a match with the probe key. Responsive to a match, a payload of the matching stored data item is returned. All of the steps are performed free of conditional branch instructions.
US07752413B2
A method and apparatus for communicating between threads in a processor. The method includes reserving a first portion of a cache in a processor for an inbox. The inbox is associated with a first thread being executed by the processor. The method also includes receiving a packet from a second thread, wherein the packet includes an access request. The method further includes using inbox control circuitry for the inbox to process the received packet and determine whether to grant the access request included in the packet.
US07752411B2
In some embodiments, a chip includes a link interface, monitoring circuitry to provide an activity indicator that is indicative of activity of the chip, and scheduling circuitry to schedule commands. The chip also includes mode selection circuitry to select a first mode or a second mode for the scheduling circuitry depending on the activity indicator, wherein in the first mode the scheduling circuitry schedules certain commands as separate single commands and in the second mode the scheduling circuitry schedules at least one consolidated command to represent more than one of the separate single commands. Other embodiments are described.
US07752407B1
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for storing application data, keys, authorization codes, or other information in a volatile memory on an FPGA. To prevent erasure of the stored information when power to the FPGA is removed, or when the FPGA is configured, or when applications are installed, a battery powers the memory. The battery power may be interrupted, for example if a tamper is detected, in order to erase the contents of the memory. Access to data stored in memory may also be limited by using authorization codes or encryption. For example, an application may only be granted access if it provides the correct authorization code. Alternately, an application may encrypt data with a key before it is stored. Only an application with the correct key can make further use of the data.
US07752406B2
Memory corruption can be suppressed. When data stored in a random access area are read, the read data (physical block) are retrieved by a logic block number and newest data are read by referring to an incremental counter of data having that logic block number. When data are stored in the random access area, the incremental counter and the logic block number of data already stored in the random access area are referred and a physical block set to be unnecessary is set to a writer buffer, and then the data are written to this write buffer.
US07752403B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing and maintaining secure distributed randomly redundant data storage.
US07752395B1
A network storage server has a non-volatile mass storage facility, a main cache and a victim cache. A technique of intelligently determining whether to cache a data block in the victim cache includes determining whether to store the data block in the victim cache based on a first caching policy and the type of data contained within the data block. The first caching policy may be a global policy. The determination of whether to store the data block in the victim cache further may be based on a second caching policy, which may be a volume-specific control of service (CoS) policy.
US07752386B1
Responding to IO requests made by an application to an operating system within a computing device implements IO performance acceleration that interfaces with the logical and physical disk management components of the operating system and within that pathway provides a system memory based disk block cache. The logical disk management component of the operating system identifies logical disk addresses for IO requests sent from the application to the operating system. These addresses are translated to physical disk addresses that correspond to disk blocks available on a physical storage resource. The disk block cache stores cached disk blocks that correspond to the disk blocks available on the physical storage resource, such that IO requests may be fulfilled from the disk block cache. Provision of the disk block cache between the logical and physical disk management components accommodates tailoring of efficiency to any applications making IO requests, and flexible interaction with various different physical disks.
US07752382B2
A flash memory storage system includes a memory array containing a plurality of memory cells and a controller for controlling the flash memory array. The controller dedicates a first group of memory cells to operate with a first number of bits per cell and a second, separate group of memory cells to operate with a second number of bits per cell. A mechanism is provided to apply wear leveling techniques separately to the two groups of cells to evenly wear out the memory cells.
US07752373B2
A system and method for controlling memory operations is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the system includes a memory controller that can request control of a contact that is shared between a first memory device and a second memory device. In a particular embodiment, the memory controller includes a state machine to request and receive control of the contact. In another particular embodiment, the first memory device is a non-volatile memory device and the second memory device is a volatile memory device.
US07752372B2
A device, system and method adapted to expand a high speed data bus, such as a PCI Express (PCIe) bus, over a serial link with an expansion unit having a high speed data bus, such as a PCIe bus, without using a bridging or switching device. One primary advantage of not using a bridge or switch is that the expansion interface is completely transparent to the BIOS, processor, CPU, OS, or any other component(s) on the host motherboard be they hardware, firmware, or software. This invention does not require additional protocols such as TCP/IP, Serial ATA, Gigabit Ethernet, etc. There is also no implicit hardware or device driver latency resulting from a bridge or switch.
US07752369B2
A system for formal verification of bounded fairness properties of pseudo random number generators and arbiters that use random priority-based arbitration schemes. The formal verification system determines an upper bound of a request-to-grant delay of an arbiter in terms of a number of complete random sequences. The formal verification system also determines, in terms of a number of clock cycles, an upper bound and a lower bound of a length of a complete random sequence in the random number sequence generated by a random number generator used by the arbiter. The formal verification system then determines a worst case request-to-grant delay bounds of the arbiter system, in terms of a number of clock cycles, by combining the upper bound of the request-to-grant delay of the arbiter with the upper bound of the length of the complete random sequence and the lower bound of the length of the complete random sequence.
US07752368B2
A computer system associated with a plurality of interrupt sources that produce interrupt signals may include interrupt signal processing blocks corresponding to the interrupt sources, respectively. Each of the interrupt processing blocks can include: a counter for generating an interrupt count value associated with the number of interrupt signals received from the corresponding interrupt source; a first register for storing the interrupt count value; a logic circuit for to generate an interrupt request signal according to the interrupt count value; and a second register for storing a service routine address associated with the interrupt source.
US07752361B2
A system including a storage processing device with an input/output module. The input/output module has port processors to receive and transmit network traffic. The input/output module also has a switch connecting the port processors. Each port processor categorizes the network traffic as fast path network traffic or control path network traffic. The switch routes fast path network traffic from an ingress port processor to a specified egress port processor. The storage processing device also includes a control module to process the control path network traffic received from the ingress port processor. The control module routes processed control path network traffic to the switch for routing to a defined egress port processor. The control module is connected to the input/output module. The input/output module and the control module are configured to interactively support data virtualization, data migration, data journaling, and snapshotting. The distributed control and fast path processors achieve scaling of storage network software. The storage processors provide line-speed processing of storage data using a rich set of storage-optimized hardware acceleration engines. The multi-protocol switching fabric provides a low-latency, protocol-neutral interconnect that integrally links all components with any-to-any non-blocking throughput.
US07752355B2
An asynchronous data transfer interface is provided across a boundary that allows high bandwidth data transfers which are packet based as defined by PCI_Express architecture, and has general utility in processor-based applications like servers, desktop applications, and mobile applications. A shared set of multi-port RAM buffers allow both an application layer AL and a transaction layer TL access to a communication protocol layer in a defined process that allows both the application layer AL and the transaction layer TL to read and manage the buffers in a 16 byte boundary in a manner that allows a data credit to be decoupled from a header credit.
US07752354B2
A management system that controls a restart interface in a data processing system. The management system switches control of the interface from a distributed network managed by the caches to the management system. The management system is capable of detecting errors and seizing control of the interface in order to remedy any errors that occur within the interface.
US07752352B2
Host computing systems with the ability to efficiently identify the Infiniband™ (IB) addressing parameters corresponding to Fiber Channel I/O devices that are accessible through IB-to-Fiber Channel adapters. An efficient apparatus and program product is described to store the IB addressing parameters pertaining to individual Fiber Channel I/O devices on a subnet administration database, and an efficient mechanism to recover from the database, the IB addressing parameters corresponding to all physical paths by which a desired Fiber Channel I/O device is accessible.
US07752345B2
Aspects of the invention relate to methods for automatically configuring a device and a device capable of being automatically configured. According to one embodiment the device is a printer and a dynamic IP address is obtained using a wired connection; a connection is established with a server using the wired connection and the dynamic IP address; configuration information is downloaded from the server; a static IP address is assigned to the printer using the configuration information; and a connection is established with a server using a wireless connection and the static IP address. The configuration information may include setting information and address information. The setting information may be used to configure the settings of the printer and the address information may be used to assign a static IP address to the printer. The configuration information may include information relating to a wireless network.
US07752344B2
The invention is based on the object of specifying a parameterization device which is particularly user-friendly and which makes it possible to parameterize electrical devices with little expenditure of time and therefore in a particularly cost-effective manner. This object is achieved according to the invention by a parameterization device for generating parameterization signals determining device-specific operating parameters for one or more electrical devices of an electrical arrangement, having an input device, to which operating functions desired on the part of the user for the individual devices can be input independently of the device, having a memory device, in which a large number of electrical devices are recorded with their operating functions and their respective device-specific operating parameters, a processing device, which evaluates the operating functions input on the part of the user and reads a list of all those devices which fulfil the operating functions desired on the part of the user from the memory device, an output device, by means of which the list is supplied to the user for the purpose of selecting the device, and a signal generation device, which generates, for each device selected on the part of the user, in each case those parameterization signals which correspond to the operating parameters stored in the memory device.
US07752336B2
A method and apparatus for resource locator identifier rewrite have been presented. A security device receives from a resource host over a non-secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) session a response to a request received from a client over a secure HTTP session. The response includes a uniform resource locator (URL) that is supposed to be for a resource host, but the URL does not designate a secure resource access protocol and the resource host requires the secure resource access protocol. The URL is located in the response and modified to designate the secure resource access protocol. After modification, the response is transmitted via the secure resource access protocol session to the client.
US07752332B2
Routing in a wireless network of communication devices that are located within a network boundary moves network traffic from a first communication device to a second communication device. A geometric indicator of network connectivity is constructed that identifies a curve on which network nodes are located and a network location for each node of the wireless network is determined, so that the network location of a node p identifies a node on the geometric indicator curve that is closest to the node p and indicates connectivity from the node p to the closest node of the geometric indicator curve. A routing scheme is determined, to route in the wireless network from the first communication device to the second communication device based on the respective determined network locations for the first and second communication devices.
US07752330B2
A computer program product includes instructions for causing a processor to: alert a client of the configuration of said computer program product; use a memory space for buffering the network application data destined for the client; release the network application data to the client, based on at least one occurrence of a specified condition that promotes energy savings; and purposely delay at least some of said data with an amount of time greater than zero to promote energy savings.
US07752329B1
Techniques are provided for the configuration of a home-networking system. Home-networking configuration information may be stored on a host system in a manner accessible to the home-networking system and migrated to a home-networking gateway or router that has not yet been configured. Wireless configuration information may be stored on a home-networking gateway or router and used to configure one or more wireless access points through the use of a physical connection, such as a wired communications pathway. One or more wireless home-networking devices may be configured based on wireless configuration information stored in a central repository on a host system or a home-networking system. The wireless configuration information may be accessible only through the use of a security code.
US07752319B2
In one aspect a method for implementation of a firewall application is provided, whereby, in one step of the initiation of a connection from the first to the second terminal, authentication of the first terminal is transmitted and, after successful authentication a selected address is communicated to the firewall device. In another aspect, an arrangement for carrying out the method is provided.
US07752317B1
Systems and methods for insuring that a client computer has up-to-date virus protection are provided, and include initiating a boot sequence pursuant to a boot image on a client computer for accessing a network, accessing a remote management server according to a preliminary instruction from the boot image, determining whether the client includes a latest virus file and forwarding the latest virus file if the client does not include the latest virus file.
US07752313B2
An example embodiment for using a Partner Web Site within a Web Hosting Community starts with a Hosting Provider creating the Partner Web Site, a Community Web Site, and operating one or more Hosting Servers. A Partner, from the Partner Web Site, may make an application available for purchase and use to a plurality of Hosting Customers. At least one of the Hosting Customers, from the Community Web Site, may purchase and utilize the application with their Hosted Web Site.
US07752306B2
Methods of managing a network comprising a plurality of agents. The methods may comprise the step of receiving a periodic status message from each of a first group of agents selected from the plurality of agents The methods may also comprise the steps of querying a router on a local portion of the network positioned to handle communications between components on the local portion of the network and components on a remote portion of the network, and receiving from the router an indication of a second group of agents from the plurality of agents that are communicating through the router. In addition, the methods may comprise the steps of comparing the first group of agents to the second group of agents, and generating a list of agents communicating through the router from which periodic status messages are not being received.
US07752303B2
Application data is reported in response to monitoring an application transaction. Application data is obtained for an initial period of time. A function which estimates the application data is then identified for the reported application data. After identifying the function, subsequent application data is obtained, and function data is generated from the subsequent application data. The function data may be associated with function parameters associated with the identified function. A function can then be constructed from the reported function data. The function constructed from the function data may estimate application data associated with the monitored transactions.
US07752290B2
A method having the following steps for managing device drivers in an information processing apparatus connectable to peripheral devices is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining version information for device drivers in the information processing apparatus and information on peripheral devices that can be controlled by the device drivers, a recognizing unnecessary device drivers among possibly multiple versions of device drivers that reside in the storage device of the information processing apparatus and correspond to a particular peripheral device, based on the obtained version information and peripheral devices information, and controlling deletion of device drivers that have been recognized as unnecessary.
US07752286B2
An electronic item management and archival system for managing and archiving items. Each item includes at least one of image data, audio data, and video data. The system includes a server configured to receive items, archive at least one of the received items to an archive, and retrieve at least one of the archived items from the archive. In some embodiments, the server also includes architecture that supports a pool of threads promoting multiple, independent archive and retrieve operations concurrently.
US07752281B2
A system for managing data in multiple data processing devices using common data paths. Embodiments of the invention comprise a first data processing system comprising a cacheable coherent memory space; and a second data processing system communicatively coupled to the first data processing system with the second data processing system comprising at least one bridge, wherein the bridge is operable to perform an uncacheable remote access to the cacheable coherent memory space of the first data processing system. In some embodiments, the access performed by the bridge comprises a data write to the memory of the first data processing system for incorporation into the cacheable coherent memory space of the first data system. In other embodiments, the access performed by the bridge comprises a data read from the cacheable coherent memory space of the first data system.
US07752279B2
To perform thread-based message prioritization, metadata may be extracted from a received electronic message. Based on the extracted message metadata and accumulated metadata extracted from previously received messages, a message thread to which the received electronic message belongs may be identified. Based on a set of thread priority assessment criteria, a priority level for the message thread may be determined. At least part of the message thread may be processed according to the priority level. The processing may be altering a notification behavior of an electronic messaging client for electronic messages of the message thread. Thread priority assessment may be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface. Message thread identification may also be based on user-configurable criteria that may be set via a graphical user interface.
US07752275B2
An event manager is disclosed for sending services through an email communication. The event manager provides a template through which a user may select an available service that he wishes to send as an attachment to an email. The event manager enables the user to attach electronic services such as an audio file, a video file, a gift certificate, or a money transfer, among others, to an email message and package it with items such as wallpaper or background music, among others, to send to another email user.
US07752274B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for selectively filtering and inspecting incoming e-mail. The steps to selectively filter and inspect incoming e-mail include: assigning a risk value to each section of an incoming e-mail, presenting the incoming e-mail with sections blocked based on the risk value, and selectively disclosing blocked sections of the e-mail to a reviewer based on input from the reviewer. The method provides a way for a reviewer to filter risky e-mails based on multiple criteria, and safely review filtered e-mails to ensure legitimate e-mails are not incorrectly filtered.
US07752273B2
When the status of a client X is changed to a status i, a group management unit generates a group agent Xi, corresponding to the status i and registers the generated group agent in the server S, and the presence issuing unit issues the status i and the identifier of the group agent Xi. Initially, a member management unit of the group agent xi manages the client X only. When other clients, such as clients B and C, that are observing the status of the client X send an instant message (IM) to the group agent Xi identified by the issued identifier, an IM delivery unit of the group agent Xi adds the clients B and C, which are IM senders, to the members managed by the member management unit and sends the IM to all members.
US07752271B2
Described is a method for retracting an instant message from a receiver in an instant messaging session. A request is made to retract the instant message from the receiver. If the receiver is present in the session, the instant message is removed from the user interface of the receiver. Notification is sent to the requestor to indicate whether the instant message was successfully retracted and whether the instant message was saved by the receiver. Optionally, the method allows an entry made in an instant messaging log to be retracted when the corresponding instant message is retracted.
US07752267B2
A scanner capable of functioning as a data transmission management device that makes a determination as to whether data should be allowed to be reused at a file transmission destination based on the nature of the particular destination, produces a reusable file, and transmits it to the destination, if it determines that the reuse of the data is allowed because the destination is within the area of the first network N1 to which the scanner is connected; or it produces difficult-to-reuse file and transmits it to the destination, if it determines that the reuse of the data is disallowed because the destination is outside of the area of the first network N1.
US07752265B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing source indicators for one or more elements of an aggregate media collection of a user in a media sharing system. In one embodiment, a local media collection of a user is aggregated with one or more shared media collections hosted by corresponding user devices of other users participating in the media sharing system to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. Via a Graphical User Interface (GUI), for each element of at least a subset of elements of the aggregate media collection, one or more source indicators are presented in association with the element to identify a source or sources of the element in the media sharing system. The elements of the aggregate media collection include at least a subset of media items in the aggregate media collection, playlists including media items from the aggregate media collection, or both.
US07752264B2
A method for adjusting an instant messaging control mechanism can include the steps of determining a control setting for an instant messaging control mechanism based upon a calendar application entry, and responsive to the determining step, automatically adjusting the instant messaging control mechanism to the control setting. In one embodiment, the determining step can be performed by a calendar application to which the calendar application entry corresponds and can be performed responsive to a calendar event. In a further embodiment, the calendar application can establish a time at which the control setting is to be adjusted. The adjusting step can occur at approximately the established time, where the calendar event can occur in advance of the established time.
US07752259B2
The public service message location broadcast system and method provides for broadcasting a message to communication receiving devices located within a defined geographic broadcast target area. The broadcast target area is defined by a broadcast agent using a broadcast agent webpage and a broadcast service bureau transmits the broadcast message to one or more local carriers who provide telecommunication service to the broadcast target area. The local carrier transmits the broadcast message to targeted users within the broadcast target area.
US07752251B1
An method and system for hosting information exchange groups on a wide area network is disclosed, using various tools for promoting topical organization and self-evolution of the information exchange groups, and of a system of information exchange groups. These tools include methods for providing user rating of posts within the exchange group, for rating and ranking users of the exchange group, for rating and ranking links to related information pages and especially to related exchange groups operating according to the methods of the invention, and for continuously updating rating and ranking information. Additionally, methods are provided for users to found exchange groups, to filter information in exchange groups according to specified user preferences, and to protect private information from inadvertent disclosure to other users of the exchange group.
US07752228B2
Methods and systems are provided for processing data objects in a computer system. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises (a) storing a first data object in a database in a non volatile storage, (b) creating a second data object assigned to the first data object, step (b) being triggered by step (a), and (c) processing the second data object by means of an object processor, the object processor creating a third data object using data contained in the second data object, data contained in the first data object and data contained in the database by applying a set of one or more pre-settable rules to the data contained in the first and second data objects and in the database.
US07752225B2
Techniques for migrating duration trees from a source database server (or instance) to a destination database server (or instance) are provided. A duration is a memory management construct that allows database components to group related areas of memory together. A source duration tree is captured at the source database server and combined with a destination duration tree at the destination database server. Any duration identifiers in the source duration tree that conflict with (i.e., are the same as) a duration identifier in the destination duration tree are mapped to new duration identifiers.
US07752220B2
A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After scoring, at least one candidate is chosen and may be used as a possible alternate query choice for a user or used to serve bidded advertisements to the user.
US07752214B2
An extended environment data structure that is part of a digital asset that is transmittable over one or more multi-tiered networks. The data structure has one or more common descriptors to provide a unique identification of the digital asset on the networks; one or more asset dependency descriptors to identify one or more associated digital assets, associated digital assets are associated with the digital asset by a joint membership as parts of a whole; and has one or more target server dependencies descriptors to identify a base execution environment on one or more target computers. In an alternative exemplary embodiment and/or exemplary method, one or more EIS server dependencies descriptors are included to identify an EIS execution environment on the respective EIS from which the asset resides. In still other exemplary embodiments and/or exemplary methods, other descriptors are included in the extended environment data structure.
US07752211B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for tracking a plurality of objects being stored are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises determining an application associated with the objects being stored, selecting a hint or longest pathname containing the plurality of objects, and storing the selection in the index. The hint may be generated by concatenating at least a portion of a name of each object being stored into the hint, concatenating hash values of the names of the objects, or producing a bitmap of hash values of the names of the objects, depending on available space. In an embodiment, each hint generation may be tried in succession based on determining whether the previous hint fits into the space available for storing the hint.
US07752209B2
Improved capabilities for positioning content on a mobile communication facility, based in part on the likelihood of interaction with the content, are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. These and other capabilities are employed to improve the likelihood of user interaction with content presented to a mobile communication facility, such as positioning content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.
US07752208B2
A method and system are provided for detection of authors across different types of information sources such as across documents on the Web. The method includes obtaining a compression signature for a document, and determining the similarity between compression signatures of two or more documents. If the similarity is greater than a threshold measure, the two or more documents are considered to be by the same author. Scored pairs of documents are clustered to provide a group of documents by the same author.The group of documents by the same author can be used for user profiling, noise reduction, contribution sizing, detecting fraudulent contributions, obtaining other search results by the same author, or mating a document with undisclosed authorship to a document of known author.
US07752206B2
Managing a mass storage system that comprises a first and second storage space. A file index is generated listing each file along with a first characteristic quantity (FCQ), a second characteristic quantity (SCQ), and status information. Status information specifies if the file is held on the first or second storage space. A sample of files is selected from the file index containing a given number of files, wherein status information of each file specifies the first storage space. The FCQ of each file in the sample is used to determine the first critical value (FCV). The SCQ of each file in the sample is used to determine the second critical value (SCV). A first subset of files comprising each file where FCQ is larger than FCV, SCQ is larger than SCV, and specified by status information to be held on the first storage device is determined.
US07752205B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing content management security to federated content repositories in a content management system and for interacting with a virtual content repository. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide secure access to repositories based upon policies defined at a federated repository level and to secure repository access at the federated level based upon policies defined for differing classes of users. These abilities of embodiments can enable users to create services and applications by integrating content from unsecured repositories.
US07752193B2
An indexing engine generates a full text index of English and non-English files provided to the indexing engine. The indexing engine receives an input file for indexing, and normalizes the unique words contained in the input file. The normalizing includes stripping the words of any diacritical marks, taking into account different multilingual issues, case folding the words into lowercase, and the like. The normalized words are stored in a dictionary, and a word record is generated for each stored word. Each word record includes a flag that indicates whether one or more variations exist in the input file for the normalized word. One or more tables store information on the variations for the normalized words. When a query engine is invoked to search for an input query word, the variations are searched only if the user has set an option to consider such variations.
US07752192B2
The present invention provides a computer implemented method, an apparatus, and a computer usable program product for indexing data. A controller identifies a set of data to be indexed, wherein a set of data structure trees represents the set of data. The controller merges the set of data structure trees to form a unified tree, wherein the unified tree contains a node for each unit of data in the set of data. The controller assigns an identifier to the node for each unit of data in the set of data that describes the node within the unified tree. The controller then serializes the unified tree to form a set of sequential series that represents the set of data structure trees, wherein the set of sequential series forms an index for the set of data.
US07752183B2
A method, system, and computer instructions for using MD4 checksum to link transactions across machines. Transaction information is received, wherein transaction information comprises a checksum and topology information, and wherein the checksum serves as a unique identifier of the current transaction. A first data structure is populated with the checksum and attribute information for the current transaction. A second data structure is then populated with the checksum and topology information for the current transaction, wherein populating the second table preserves a root/parent/current transaction relationship. Preserving the root/parent/current transaction relationship allows for automatically linking a transaction to its related transactions when the transaction is uploaded from a client to a transaction database.
US07752182B1
A filtering method and apparatus for a portable electronic device such as a palmtop computer. The operating system's program registry is copied and then modified to direct all application data to a filter program such as a virus scanning filter program. If the filter program determines that the object is virus free, the copy of the program registry (filter registry) is queried by the filter program to determine the application program associated with the data object. The data object is then forwarded to the appropriate application program.
US07752179B1
A method for extracting a consistent set of entity identifiers including associating each of a first plurality of entity identifiers with at least one of a first plurality of GroupIDs, associating each of a second plurality of entity identifiers with at least one of a second plurality of GroupIDs, combining the first plurality of entity identifiers with the second plurality of entity identifiers to generate a third plurality of entity identifiers, where each of the third plurality of entity identifiers is associated with at least one of a third plurality of GroupIDs, linking at least one of the third plurality of GroupIDs with at least one of the first plurality of GroupIDs based on the third plurality of entity identifiers and the first plurality of entity identifiers, removing a contaminated entity identifier from the third plurality of entity identifiers to extract the consistent set of entity identifiers.
US07752175B2
A system, method and computer-readable media are provided for repairing corrupted data related to a software database. An electronic information technology system includes (1.) a logical page index; (2.) a free page map; and (3.) a computer-readable medium. The logical page index includes a plurality of logical page index pairs, each logical page index pair having a logical page number and a physical page location address of the computer-readable medium that reference a same record. The database system also includes a means to detect a logical page index pair having a logical page number and a physical page location that are not referencing a same record, and another means to search for a free page map entry that references the physical page address of the record referenced by the logical page index pair.
US07752171B2
A system and method for efficiently backing up and restoring computer files to a central storage system. A hashing key is computed for each file to be backed up on a target computer. The hashing key is compared to a list of hashing keys stored locally to see if the local file has been previously backed up. If the hashing key is not listed locally, then the hashing key is compared to a list of hashing keys of centrally backed up files. Only if the hashing key is not present in both the local and the central list is the file backed up. Backed up files may be renamed to their hashing key for further efficiencies.
US07752170B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program product implement enhanced dynamic copy-on-write storage compression. For a write operation, a freed block is detected by the COW storage for compressing freed blocks from the COW storage. Responsive to the detected freed block being a previously written block in the COW storage, the previously written block in the COW storage is deleted from the COW storage. Responsive to the detected freed block not being a previously written block in the COW storage, the block is marked as zero in the COW storage.
US07752167B1
A method and system for importing and exporting selected directory and calendar information of a first format found in various electronic media to and from personal information management computer applications of a second format is described. Specifically, the present invention discloses a method and system for importing directory and calendar information that is structured in standardized vCard and vCalendar formats from a first application to corresponding electronic address book and calendar applications via clipboard and automatic translator applications. The invention includes an automatic translator that takes the standardized information from the clipboard application and translates the vCard and vCalendar information into a format that is native to the corresponding target application, e.g., electronic address book and calendar applications. Additionally, the present invention discloses a method and system for exporting directory and calendar information by translating record entries from the databases of the address book and calendar applications of particular native formats to corresponding standardized vCard and vCalendar formats and exporting the standardized information via electronic mail.
US07752142B2
An on-line system and method for buyers and sellers of international container transportation services is disclosed. Specifically, the system offers importing and exporting customers the opportunity to request and select specific service patterns offered by participating carriers in the booking of full container shipments. The system includes user interfaces that allow a shipper to track and trace containers across multiple carriers and an event notifications system, which notifies the user when an event has or has not occurred.
US07752141B1
An on-line value bearing item (VBI) printing system that includes one or more cryptographic modules and a central database is disclosed. The cryptographic modules are capable of implementing the USPS Information Based Indicia Program Postal Security Device Performance Criteria and other required VBI standards. The modules encipher the information stored in the central database for all of the on-line VBI system customers and are capable of preventing access to the database by unauthorized users. Additionally, the cryptographic module is capable of preventing unauthorized and undetected modification, including the unauthorized modification, substitution, insertion, and deletion of VBI related data and cryptographically critical security parameters.
US07752140B1
A licensing server source distributes a so-called license configuration file to a client for purposes of enabling operation of a software application installed on a computer. When a user initiates execution of the vendor software for the first time, code associated with the software application accesses the license configuration file for purposes of obtaining authorization (e.g., one or more activation certificates) to operate the software application. Depending on the type of license configuration file forwarded to the respective client, the license configuration file can include either a corresponding activation certificate to operate the software or include an address of a remote source (e.g., address) in which to register and obtain authorization to operate the software application. Enabling retrieval of the activation certificate directly from the license configuration file (as a possible alternative to requiring remote registering and authentication to obtain authorization) enables immediate use of the software application.
US07752139B2
A method and system for software license management that allows a user to easily move a software license from one computer to another and the software vendor to control unlicensed use. A server maintains user account information including computers licensed to run the software and computers no longer licensed to run the software. A computer is enabled to run the software in an initialization process, and re-enabled by the server from time to time in an automatic re-enable process. If a non-enabled computer attempts to run the software, the user is given a choice to acquire a new license for the computer, move the license from an existing licensed computer to the current computer, or exit. If a new license is bought or an existing license moved, the server updates the information of enabled and no-longer-enabled computers accordingly.
US07752138B1
A method and system is disclosed for dynamic licensing of software products in a distributed system. A job is generated by a master (or client) and the tasks in the job are distributed to a cluster of workers for the distributed execution of the job. The tasks are distributed with information on the software products for which the master is licensed. The workers receive the tasks with the information on the software products for which the master is licensed. The workers dynamically provide licenses for the software products which the master is licensed for. The workers execute the tasks using the dynamically provided licenses for the software products. The results from the execution of the tasks are returned to the client.
US07752137B2
A subset of unique codes are generated from a set of codes. The subset of codes are stored in a database on a secure server and each of the codes is marked on a corresponding instantiation of the product. The marked instantiations are distributed. During their distribution, the marked instantiations are verified for authenticity and for routing. This verification is performed by reading or scanning the codes on the instantiations, and transmitting that information to the secure server for comparison against the codes and other information located in the database contained therein.
US07752131B1
Methods and apparatus for child support payment processing and child support disbursement processing
This disclosure describes a child support payment and child support disbursement system at a processing entity (such as a state disbursement unit or any other commercial, governmental, or other entity), wherein an employee (who is a noncustodial parent who owes a child support obligation) authorizes a child support payment and child support disbursement to an employer and the employer processes the child support payment and child support disbursement through a processing entity. The processing entity processes the child support payment as a debit-based transaction and processes the child support disbursement as an addendum-based transaction. The payment may be made to the processing entity, to a state, or to any other entity. The disbursement may be made to a custodial parent, to a state, to a state entity, or to any other recipient.
US07752125B1
A modern business enterprise will have a large number of heterogeneous assets. The risk associated with a selected asset from the heterogeneous assets can be assessed. In one embodiment, the present invention includes selecting the asset from a plurality of heterogeneous assets for risk analysis, and collecting a plurality of risk factors associated with the selected asset. The risk associated with the asset can be determined by providing the plurality of risk factors to a non-linear statistical data model to derive a risk score associated with the asset.
US07752119B2
An auction analysis system predicts auction results. The analysis system may determine item, seller, or auction characteristics from prior or pending auctions. The analysis system also obtains item characteristics of an item for which a result prediction is sought, either by a buyer or by a seller. A price predictor in the system accepts the auction and item characteristics and predicts an auction result based on the characteristics.
US07752115B2
A fair exchange is disclosed to reduce potential inequities in an electronic trading environment. Market data is sent from a host system to client devices through one or more synchronized local communication servers such that the data can be displayed simultaneously or nearly simultaneously at each client device. Market data sent to client devices might include price information. Likewise, a host system may transaction data sent from client devices via the local communication servers. The ordering of transaction data is based, at least in part, on when the local communication servers received the transaction data from the client devices. Transaction data sent to a host system might include order information.
US07752109B2
There is disclosed a technique for determining parameters of a long-term lease of an asset. The method involves determining a set of payments defining an amortisation path from an initial value (A) to a final residual value (M) of said asset over a long-term lease period, and determining a plurality of sets of short-term lease payments such that the plurality of sets of short-term lease paths define respectively one or more interim short-term lease paths (ADF, DGI, GJL) and a final short-term lease path (JM), each interim short-term lease path (ADF, DGI, GJL) consisting of an amortisation portion that corresponds to said amortisation path (AD, DG, GJ) for a respective short-term lease period and a termination amortisation portion (DF, GI, JL) that links the amortisation portion to a short-term termination value falling on a residual value path to said final residual value at a position such that the short-term lease corresponding to the short-term lease path satisfies a predetermined value condition, and the final short-term lease path (JM) consisting of an amortisation portion, whereby the plurality of amortisation portions of the interim and final short-term lease paths correspond collectively to said amortisation path.
US07752091B2
An automated accounting and reporting system supports flexible assignments of accounting objects to financial statements. At a reporting time, financial statement items may be generated from accounting objects by surveying the stored accounting objects and copying and aggregating key figures from the accounting object to the financial statement items. The financial statement items form the basis of the financial statements. The copying and aggregating may occur as specified in a plurality of rule sets. To change assignments between the accounting objects and financial statements, it is sufficient to provide a replacement rule set that specifies different copy and aggregation operations.
US07752087B2
Systems and methods are provide for optimizing the result of an availability check of a required quantity of products, wherein a plurality of rounding algorithms are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises a first step of rounding, according to at least one predetermined rounding algorithm, the required quantity of products. The method may also comprise a second step of checking availability of the rounded quantity of products and a third step of rounding down, according to the at least one predetermined rounding algorithm, the available quantity of products if the available quantity of products is lower than the rounded required quantity of products.
US07752080B1
An invention is provided for affording interaction between service consumers and service providers via centralized hub. The invention includes a service session scheduling component that schedules a service session between a service consumer and a selected service provider selected by the service consumer. The invention also includes a service management session delivery component capable of provisioning communication for the service session between the service consumer and the selected service provider. A service payment management component is also included that facilitates a payment from the service consumer to the service provider. In addition, the service payment management component facilitates a payment from the service provider to a system account.
US07752064B2
The present invention relates generally to a system and method for operations management. More specifically, the present invention determines robust processes for performing one or more tasks.
US07752062B1
A pension insurance plan system and method protect the outstanding balance of a defined contribution plan loan secured by participant's plan assets, eliminating adverse tax consequences to the plan beneficiary in the event of the death or disability of the participant and ensuring that the full plan account balance passes intact to beneficiary in such event.
US07752056B2
A system and method for controlling patient access to an entertainment program to encourage a patient to comply with a treatment plan. The method includes the step of collecting compliance data from the patient. In one embodiment, the compliance data includes measurements of a physiological condition of the patient as well as patient answers to compliance questions. The method further includes the step of comparing the compliance data to evaluation criteria selected by a healthcare provider to determine if the patient is in compliance with the treatment plan. If the patient is in compliance, access is granted to the entertainment program. If the patient is not in compliance, access to the entertainment program is restricted. In the preferred embodiment, the method includes the additional steps of transmitting and displaying the patient's compliance data and compliance status to the healthcare provider.
US07752055B1
A method is provided for determining a return on investment for software testing. The method includes determining an average cost to correct software errors found in production. The method further includes classifying these software errors based on the size of the application and the size of the error and averaging the cost to correct the errors within each classification. The method additionally includes determining software faults during software testing and classifying these faults based upon the same classifications set forth for the software errors found in production. The method then requires transferring the average cost to correct production errors within each classification to each software fault found during testing with the same classification. The method additionally adds all of the average costs to correct the software errors for each software fault found during testing and subtracts the cost of the testing. The method concludes by displaying the result.
US07752047B2
An ambient condition detector incorporates speech recognition circuitry for the receipt of verbal commands in a selected language. The commands can be used to initiate functions, such as tests of various components of the detector, or over-all detector operation. Test results can be reported audible, for example by tones, verbally or optically. Recognizable commands and messages can be pre-recorded and not user alterable. Other types of functions can be verbally initiated. Alternately, the user can expand upon the pre-recorded set of commands, or, can record a user specific set of commands.
US07752037B2
A method of determining a pitch period of an audio signal using a correlation-based signal derived from the audio signal. The correlation-based signal includes known peaks each corresponding to a respective one of known time lags. The known peaks includes a global maximum peak. The method comprises: (a) determining if a candidate peak among the local peaks exceeds a peak threshold; (b) determining if a candidate time lag corresponding to the candidate peak is within a predetermined range of at least one integer sub-multiple of the time lag corresponding to the global maximum peak; and (c) setting the pitch period equal to the candidate time lag when the determinations of both steps (a) and (b) are true.
US07752024B2
A network management system includes a fault diagnosis engine, a topology mapper, an impact analyzer and a help desk system. The topology mapper includes a discovery module, a memory, and a presentation module. The discovery module is constructed and arranged to discover network elements in a communications network. The memory constructed and arranged to store topology data received from the discovery module. The presentation module constructed and arranged to present data related to topology of the communication network.
US07752022B2
The invention is a method, having applications for the development of reservoirs, for predicting the production of an underground reservoir, comprising generating and updating a parameterized geologic model from production data and seismic data and in particular 4D seismic data which may be used in development of oil reservoirs. According to the method, production data are simulated from the geologic model and a flow simulator, and a petro-elastic depth model is deduced therefrom. A depth/time conversion model is then defined, by means of which the petro-elastic model is converted into time. The model is adjusted by correcting the lag induced by the depth/time conversion and by recalibrating the model. The geologic model is optimized by comparing, through an objective function, the real measurements with the simulation responses (production responses and seismic attributes in time) by updating in particular the depth/time conversion model.
US07752014B2
A method includes accessing a first non-volatile memory associated with a compressor using a processor associated with at least one of a second non-volatile memory and an operating memory. A method further includes storing compressor data from at least one of the second non-volatile memory and the operating memory in the first non-volatile memory and accessing the compressor data in the first non-volatile memory to evaluate compressor performance.
US07752013B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for of identifying one or more servers associated with meaningful variance characteristics, including receiving a set of current performance data associated with a server; comparing at least a portion of the current performance data against former performance data; determining whether the current performance data varies from the former utilization by a threshold amount; and if so, identifying the server as a candidate for potentially approaching operating capacity.
US07752011B2
A portable apparatus including a first interface configured to input speed data of a user or location data of the user from a positioning unit utilizing external reference points is disclosed. The portable apparatus also includes a second interface configured to input motion data of a user from a self-contained activity determining unit. Furthermore, the portable apparatus includes a processing unit configured to constitute, if the first interface only inputs the location data, speed data from the location data, select filtering characteristics based on the motion data, filter the speed data with the selected filtering characteristics, and determine physiological data of the user with the filtered speed data.
US07752009B2
A method of checking the height of a mail item relative to at least one dimensional threshold SH defining a change in postage. The mail items are advanced at a constant speed V along a reference surface. The presence of a mail item is detected relative to a given point of the reference surface. First and second times t1, t2 for which the same mail item is present at the first and second distances d1, d2 relative to the reference surface is detected. The ratio t2/t1 is compared with a value equal to (1−ε), where ε represents a correction coefficient of less than 1 that depends on the tolerances for detection of the presence of a mail item. The height of a mail item is considered greater than the dimensional threshold SH if, and only if, the relationship t2/t1>1−ε is true.
US07752007B2
A setting information management method executed by a backup program stored in a portable storage medium by a processing computer of an analyzer, comprising: determining a type of the analyzer in which the backup program is executed from a plurality of types of analyzers; acquiring setting information of a program introduced to the processing computer based on the determination result; and storing the acquired setting information in the portable storage medium. A setting information management system, a setting information management device, and a computer program product is also disclosed.
US07752001B2
The present invention provides a method of correcting coordinates so as to quickly and properly arrange a sample in a field of view in a review apparatus for moving a sample stage onto the specified coordinates to review the sample. A review apparatus according to the present invention, which is a review apparatus for moving a sample stage onto coordinates previously calculated by a checking apparatus to review the sample, has a function of retaining a plurality of coordinate correction tables to correct a deviation between a coordinate value previously calculated by a checking apparatus and an actual sample position detected by the review apparatus. The review apparatus evaluates correction accuracy of the plurality of coordinate correction tables and applies one of the coordinate correction tables with the maximum evaluation value.
US07751995B2
A capacitance measurement method employing a floating gate of a semiconductor device in a circuit having a MOSFET in which a drain is connected to a ground and a source and a gate are connected to each other, and a capacitor having a capacitance Cr connected to the gate, includes: obtaining a slope S from a relationship between voltage Vs of the source and a voltage Vf applied to the capacitor; setting a standard slope S0 as a y-intercept of a first-order linear equation obtained from a relationship between the slope S depending on the source current Is and the Vo(Is); and calculating a gate-to-drain overlap capacitance Cdgo of the MOSFET based on a capacitance Cr of the capacitor and the standard slop S0.
US07751994B2
A method and apparatus for intelligent battery safety management. Some embodiments of a method for managing battery operation may include receiving a battery pack in a device, where the battery pack is rechargeable and includes a battery cell. In some embodiments data may be collected regarding the operation of the battery cell in the device, and the collected data may be compared with a set of battery reference data. In some embodiments a determination may be made whether the battery cell is non-authentic or defective based at least in part on the comparison between the collected data and the battery reference data.
US07751984B2
A method and a computer system, for providing an assessment for disease status of a disease, such as a cardiovascular disease, employ construction of image-based 3D computational model of an organ representative of the disease status; computationally obtaining a certain mechanical distribution using the 3D-organ model; and computational, quantitative analysis of the mechanical distribution to provide an assessment for disease status of a disease. The image-based 3D computational model includes a fluid-structure interaction and multiple components within the organ.
US07751983B2
The invention relates to a table of botanical ingredients useful for blending combinations that produce a pleasing, desired organoleptic effect. The botanical ingredients are, for example, essential oils or herbs and spices. The table includes different groups of cells of the table. Each group includes ingredients that possess varying degrees of similarity in one or more characteristics. Each cell corresponds to a single ingredient. The groups are arranged such that adjacent cells in the same or different groups correspond to ingredients that possess the closest similarities in one or more characteristics. The invention further relates to methods of preparing the table.
US07751978B1
A method of presenting weather phenomenon information including receiving weather data. At least one weather phenomenon represented by the weather data is identified. A plurality of current parameters related to the current state of the at least one weather phenomenon is determined. A plurality of historical parameters corresponding to one or more previous states of the at least one weather phenomenon is associated with the current state of the at least one weather phenomenon if at least one previous state of the at least one weather phenomenon has been identified. A plurality of forecasted parameters for the at least one weather phenomenon is calculated. Characteristics of the at least one weather phenomenon based on at least a first subset of the current parameters, the historical parameters, and the forecasted parameters are displayed.
US07751965B2
When a start command of an engine is given in the presence of the driver's power demand, the start control sets the ignition timing of the engine to a power demand ignition timing, in order to enable quick output of a large power from the engine in response to the driver's power demand. When the start command of the engine is given in the absence of the driver's power demand in a vehicle drive state, there is little possibility of the occurrence of gear chattering noise because of application of a torque to a driveshaft. The start control accordingly sets the ignition timing of the engine to a vibration control ignition timing, in order to reduce the vibration of the vehicle body. When the start command of the engine is given in the absence of the driver's power demand in a vehicle stop state, on the other hand, application of a small torque may cause the occurrence of chattering noise. The start control accordingly sets the ignition timing of the engine to a chattering control ignition timing, in order to generate a certain level of torque that prevents repeated contact and separation of gears in a gear mechanism even in the event of an engine-induced torque variation.
US07751963B2
An active engine mount assembly for counteracting resultant forces in active fuel management systems, wherein resultant forces are transmitted to a frame of a motorized vehicle generated by the deactivation of at least one cylinder in an internal combustion engine. The active engine mount assembly is fluidly connected to a hydraulic circuit. The hydraulic circuit is operatively connected to an engine crankshaft and operable to actively generate pressure pulses having frequencies self-synchronized with the rotational speed of the crankshaft.
US07751962B2
A vehicle travel controlling apparatus and method in which a target vehicle speed for when a vehicle travels along a curve is calculated based on a radius of the curve, and the vehicle speed is controlled based on the calculated target vehicle speed. When an accelerator operation performed by a driver is detected, the controller corrects the target vehicle speed based on a vehicle position where the acceleration operation is performed.
US07751960B2
A vehicle stability enhancement system that is adapted for an estimated driver workload. The system includes a driver workload estimation processor that estimates the driver workload based on certain factors, such as the vehicle speed or driver-behavior factors. The driver workload estimation is used to adjust the damping ratio and natural frequency in dynamic filters in a command interpreter to adjust a desired yaw rate signal and a desired side-slip signal. The driver workload estimation is also used to generate a yaw rate multiplication factor and a side-slip multiplication factor that modify a yaw rate stability signal and a side-slip stability signal in a feedback control processor that generates a stability control signal.
US07751954B2
The operating system for a construction machine gives advice on efficient operation to an operator. A specified state value relating to the operational condition of the construction machine, for example, the hydraulic oil pressure or engine speed, is detected (S101), and the frequency distribution of the state value in prescribed time intervals is calculated (S102). The variable range of the state value is classified into plural regions beforehand, and different target values are pre-set for each these regions. For each region, the frequency distribution is compared with the target value (S104, 106, 108, 110, 112), and as a result of the comparison, a applicable message is selected from the prescribed messages and output (S105, 107, 109, 111, 113). The output message may also be selected according to the combination of the comparison results for the plural state values such as the hydraulic oil pressure and engine speed.
US07751941B2
The present technique provides for the use of spectroscopic probes, such as Raman probes, within the conduits or other equipment of a polyolefin production system and upstream systems. The Raman probe or other spectroscopic probes may be used to obtain spectroscopic measurements of the contents of the conduits or other equipment. The spectroscopic measurements may be processed and analyzed to determine one or more properties of interest of the contents.
US07751939B2
An apparatus and method of optimally correcting a static deflection caused by a weight of an end effector coupled to a robot arm or a load on the end effector when the end effector is activated to handle a large sheet of glass. A deflection angle of the end effector is corrected by inserting a compensation member into a joint of the robot arm, and the static deflection caused by the weight of the handling robot when conveying the sheet of glass is also corrected in real time.
US07751935B2
A method of controlling vibration of a moving system having driving and driven units includes measuring an acceleration of the driven unit, generating a nominal acceleration by subtracting gravity from the measured acceleration, generating a control driving force according to the nominal acceleration, the driving force having a direction opposite to that of the measured acceleration, and applying the control driving force to the driven unit.
US07751934B2
The invention relates to a program controlled stirrer for producing pharmaceutical or cosmetic recipes, comprising a stirring unit which consists of a stirring tool which engages with a mixing receptacle. According to the invention, the stirring unit is coupled to a micro-processor which determines the length of stirring time and stirring speed at the stirring unit in a program-controlled manner. The micro-processor executes a data-processing program with the following steps: input of variable data; input of constant data; determination of the length of stirring time and stirring speed in order to produce the desired amount of the recipe by combining the variable and constant data; conversion of the determined length of stirring time and stirring speed into corresponding first current or voltage values; control of the stirring unit with said first current or voltage values. Preferably, the size of the receptacle is inputted as variable data, whereby the data-processing program calculates the number of necessary rotations of the stirring tool using the constant data stored in the data memory, then controls the stirring unit correspondingly.
US07751932B1
A system for monitoring and dispensing medical items includes a plurality of hook registers (10). Each of the hook registers includes sensors (48, 60, 62, 64) sensing the removal or addition of a medical item to the storage location on the hook register. Each hook register has a microprocessor (66) connected to the sensor which stores a count of the items added or removed from the location. The microprocessor also includes location identifying information specifically associated with the particular hook register. The microprocessor is periodically polled by a controller (72) which reads and stores the count and location identifying information from each of the hook registers. The controller information is periodically read by a data terminal (76) which is connected through a local area network (82) to a remote computer (84) having a processor and data store. A user of the data terminal is enabled to specify a patient for whom medical items will be used when the items are removed from the hook registers or other storage locations. In addition, the system also monitors inventories of items and levels of usage by users. The system also monitors and controls the dispense of other medical items from box registers (110) as well as controls the dispense of items from secure storage locations such as electronic lock drawers (96) and medicine dispensers (100).
US07751926B2
A computerized method for aiding a user in selecting a proper power source for a welding, heating, or cutting application is provided. The user is prompted to provide data about the process type, power source type, and materials used in the application, and is provided with data regarding typical applications and skill levels required for various applications. By applying the process information provided and providing data prompted by the computer system, the user is guided to select an appropriate power source for the user's application and general requirements.
US07751924B2
An apparatus for placing solder bumps on a mold plate includes: a solder fill head configured for dispensing molten solder onto the mold plate, the solder fill head also configured for relative movement over the mold plate; and a control mechanism configured for controlling positions of the solder fill head relative to the mold plate. The control mechanism includes: a control input signal containing data about an ideal positioning of the solder fill head; a plurality of sensors positioned on the solder fill head, the sensors configured for providing data about a gap between the solder fill head and the mold plate; a position controller configured for receiving the gap data and comparing the gap data with the control input signal, wherein the position controller provides an inequality signal if the gap data and the control input signal are not equal; an amplifier configured for receiving the inequality signal and amplifying it; and an actuator configured for receiving the amplified inequality signal and controlling movement of the solder fill head in response to the inequality signal received. The control mechanism may be a servo control mechanism. The sensors may be gap sensors.
US07751923B2
A process for the automatic control of the thickness of extruded film lowers the deviations in the thickness of the film more quickly after the start of the extrusion process. The process includes the measurement of the thickness profile of the film just extruded by means of a thickness-measuring probe. The thickness-measuring probe is moved along the surface of the film substantially perpendicular to the conveying direction of the extruded film. The thickness-measuring probe records a thickness profile of the film for each measuring cycle at least over parts of the expansion of the film perpendicular to its conveying direction. While providing statistical values in relation to older measured values, the latest measured values during a predetermined time-frame at the start of the extrusion process are more heavily weighted by a computer than those measured during the normal operation.
US07751920B2
A computing system, method, and computer program product facilitates data mining of information, for example image data, relating to a surface of a manufactured product when the manufactured product is processed using a tool relative to which the manufactured product may be randomly oriented. For each manufactured object, data pertaining to the surface is converted into a weight distribution. A rotational axis along which each surface would tend to rotate under the action of gravity with the surface supported at its geometric centroid is determined. The sets of data can then be properly oriented relative to one another for data mining by aligning the rotational axis of each set of data.
US07751918B2
Methods of configuring a cooling subassembly for an electronics system are provided, that is, for establishing a coolant-carrying tube layout for interconnecting multiple liquid-cooled cold plates in series-fluid communication for cooling multiple heat-generating electronic components of an electronics system. The electronic components are to be plugged in fixed relation into a preconfigured motherboard, and the tube layout includes at least one rigid coolant-carrying tube. Simplified analysis is initially performed to evaluate stress on the rigid tube(s) and determine if loss of actuation load on the electronic components exceeds an acceptable threshold, and if so, at least one tube having high stress is identified and reconfigured. Thereafter, analysis is performed to determine whether, with available actuation load on the cooling subassembly, electrical connection loading between the electronic components and the supporting motherboard is above an acceptable minimum level. If so, the coolant-carrying tube layout is chosen as a final design.
US07751911B2
A failure alarm device includes: an operation instruction capturing unit; an operation status signal capturing unit; and a timing and alarming unit for starting timing when the operation instruction capturing unit captures a start-operation instruction and the operation status signal capturing unit captures an operation status signal indicative of that the CMP apparatus is in the preset operation status, and for alarming if a duration of the operation status signal indicative times out. During operation of the CMP apparatus, when there occurs an unexpected failure in a computer or control software or the CMP apparatus is powered off, an alarm can be initiated in a timely way so as to inform an apparatus engineer to obviate the failure, and wafer rejects in the CMP apparatus can be avoided. A failure alarm method is also provided.
US07751910B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that estimates the value of a virtual sensor. The system first samples values for performance metrics using external sensors that are coupled to a system and internal sensors that are built into the system. Next, the system generates an inferential sensing model for the system from the sampled values. Then, during operation, the system samples values of performance metrics using the internal sensors and uses the inferential sensing model and the sampled values from the internal sensors to estimate the values of performance metrics for removed external sensors (i.e., virtual sensors).
US07751908B2
A thermal process system. The thermal process system comprises a thermal processor, a metrology tool, and a controller. The thermal processor performs a thermal process as defined by a heating model to form a film on a wafer surface. The metrology tool, interfaced with the thermal processor, inspects thickness of the film. The controller, coupled with the thermal processor and the metrology tool, generates the heating model of the thermal processor and calibrates the heating model according to a preset slope coefficient matrix and the measured thickness.
US07751906B2
The object is to provide a method for operating and/or observing at least one field device in the simplest possible manner. A first central control device which executes the automation engineering software generates a first command to control the at least one field device and transmits the first command to the at least one field device. At least a second central control device which executes the automation engineering software generates a similar second command for controlling the at least one field device and transmits the second command to the at least one field device. The at least one field device receives the transmitted first and second commands and executes at least one of the received commands. An automation system for carrying out the method is also provided.
US07751902B1
A push-pull amplifier efficiency provides a 4:1 (12 dB) course adjustment of power output by using a single digital control input. The amplifier is provided with an input voltage (VDD) having sixteen steps ranging from 1.25 volts to 3.00 volts. Based on the digital control, an integrated circuit switches between a high power mode and a low power mode. In the low power mode, the output voltage is equivalent to the input voltage. In the high power mode, the amplifier provides an output of twice the input voltage (or four times the power).
US07751894B1
Various systems and methods are provided for intervening where aberrant heart and/or respiratory functionality is detected. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide a monitor capable of detecting the occurrence of various aberrant events, and in some cases for intervening in the event. In some cases, a pacemaker or some other medical device detects an abnormality, and an information signal indicating the detected abnormality is transmitted from the pacemaker to a bedside monitor or some other monitor associated with the patient. Based on the received information signal, the bedside monitor can deliver an appropriate therapy. Such a therapy can be, but are not limited to, the sounding of an audible alarm to awake the patient, and/or the programming of a medical device implanted in the patient. Further, in some cases, the detected aberrant behavior and/or events surrounding the aberrant behavior can be transmitted from the bedside monitor to a remote monitor. Information can be retrieved from the remote monitor by a clinician and used in real time, or at a later time to diagnose and/or treat the patient.
US07751891B2
A method and an apparatus for projecting an end of service (EOS) and/or an elective replacement indication (ERI) of a component in an implantable device and for determining an impedance experienced by a lead associated with the implantable device. An active charge depletion of an implantable device is determined. An inactive charge depletion of the implantable device is determined. A time period until an end of service (EOS) and/or elective replacement indication (ERI) of a power supply associated with the IMD based upon the active charge depletion, the inactive charge depletion, and the initial and final (EOS) battery charges, is determined. Furthermore, to determine the impedance described above, a substantially constant current signal is provided through a first terminal and a second terminal of the lead. A voltage across the first and second terminals is measured. An impedance across the first and second terminals is determined based upon the constant current signal and the measured voltage.
US07751883B2
Systems and methods for promoting coronary angiogenesis employ a combination of mechanical, metabolic and biochemical stimuli.
US07751875B2
The invention relates to the analysis of ECG data by exploiting computerized three-dimensional spatial presentation of the measured data using the vector concept. A three-dimensional presentation of the human heart may be correlated with waveforms specific for standard ECG or derived ECG signals based on the dipole approximation of the heart electrical activity. The three-dimensional heart model may be rotated, and the ECG signals are interactively linked to the model. In the visualization process, different types of signal presentation may be used, including graphical presentation of the heart vector hodograph, graphical presentation of the signal waveform in an arbitrary chosen point on the heart, and graphical presentation of the map of equipotential lines on the heart in a chosen moment. Additional tools for analyzing ECG data are also provided which may be interactively used with the display tools.
US07751874B2
A medical display for analyzing heart signals includes a cardiographic display which displays an electrocardiograph (ECG) heart signal segment of a patient having a magnitude and location in vector format within a single three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system (vectorcardiograph) sampled at incremental time intervals. The display communicates with a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an algorithm to permit a user to selectively and visually display a comparison of the patient ECG with at least one known display in vector format within a single three-dimensional (3D) coordinate system. The display also permits a user to selectively and visually convert and display an ECG heart signal segment into a color-coded projection of a time sequence, A method for analyzing heart signals includes implementing the algorithm to selectively and visually compare the ECG heart signal with at least one known display in vector format selected from the group.
US07751871B2
Disclosed is an optical imaging method and device enabling display and 3D measurement of tridimensional objects (1), whereby at least two individual images are captured one after the other and the image conversion is controlled or regulated differently for these individual images. By employing adustable optical means (10-14) for the illumination of the object or in the optical path for the imaging of the object on the image converter (15) it is possible to acquire a larger amount of visual information on the object observed than that which is available in an individual image due to the limitations imposed by the design of the converter used (15). The invention relates to processes and design forms of the device enabling recording units to be designed, using simply and generally commercial components, which are able to display and measure larger objects (1) despite a reduced field of vision imposed by the design. This is especially useful for diagnosis in invasive applications in the bodies of humans or animals.
US07751867B2
A method is provided for establishing contact of a medical device against a three-dimensional surface geometry within a subject body, the method comprising obtaining a three-dimensional tissue surface geometry of an anatomical region within the subject body, obtaining a target location on the surface for the device to contact, determining local surface geometry information in a neighborhood of the target location, and using this information to determine a change of at least one control variable for effecting an over-torque of the medical device to enhance contact of the device with the target surface.
US07751860B2
A variable configuration apparatus has components or sub-systems. At least some components (200 and 201) have mechanical coupling elements (101 and 102 and 103) that enable the configuration of the apparatus to be varied by changing at least one of the relative orientation and position of those components or subsystems. These mechanical coupling elements (101 and 102 and 103) incorporate wireless signal coupling elements (205 and 206) that cooperate to provide a wireless coupling which enables wireless coupling between the components. The wireless coupling may be used to transfer at least one of data and power between the components. The wireless signal coupling elements may be capacitive coupling elements that provide capacitive coupling between the components or sub-systems. In an example, the apparatus is a video camera and one component or sub-system is a display screen (201) and another component or sub-system is the main body (200) of the video camera (200).
US07751854B2
A method and apparatus is described for modifying a smart antenna processing strategy determined from a set of signals received at an array of antenna elements of a wireless station, such as a set of weights for processing received antenna signals or forming a set of antenna signals for transmission. The method and apparatus uses the signatures of one or more interferers to produce a modified processing strategy that improves the nulling to the one or more interferers in that, when the modified strategy is applied on the downlink, the transmit signal strength in the direction of the one or more interferers is decreased, and, when the modified strategy is applied on the uplink, the sensitivity to signals from the direction of the one or more interferers is decreased.
US07751852B2
Generally, the present invention provides stations for one or more portable electronic devices (PEDs) and methods for such stations. A station can support a PED, and sense when the PED would be notifying its user about a wireless signal that is received from a remote transmitter. When the station so senses, it further generates a human-perceptible indication to help notify the user, who might have walked away. The human-perceptible indication can include, a call sound, a light signal, etc. This way, for example, when the PED is only vibrating, the call sound can be such that the station rings like a regular home telephone, and/or the light signal can be such that the station lights up without distracting coworkers as much. As such, the user can always keep the PED at the “Silent” annunciation mode.
US07751850B2
A multimode communication integrated circuit comprising baseband processing circuitry with a shared radio interface. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a processor module adapted to perform various processing (e.g., baseband processing) in support of multimode communications. A first radio module may be communicatively coupled to the processor module through a common communication interface. A second radio module may also be communicatively coupled to the processor module through the common communication interface. The common communication interface may, for example, be adapted to communicate information over a communication bus that is shared between the processor module and a plurality of radio modules (e.g., the first and second radio modules).
US07751842B2
Disclosed is a method for enabling a receiving-side Push-To-Talk (PTT)-over-Cellular (PoC) user to acquire ad-hoc group invitee information and selectively establishing a PoC session according to preference when a pre-established session and an auto-answer mode have been set between a receiving-side PoC user equipment and a PoC server in a PoC system. Particularly, in order to efficiently utilize the receiving-side Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) session setting, disclosed are a solution for transferring information related to other users expected to participate in group communication through user-plane signaling, and in addition, access rules, service setting, timers and a method for changing a response set between the client and server in order to support the solution.
US07751839B2
A method for the bandwidth optimization of at least one sector in a communication network is provided. The communication network comprises at least one mobile device (106) and a base station controller (102). A Data Rate Control (DRC) cover value of a first mobile device (106) is set for a first sector. The method includes comparing a number of active users of the first sector with a threshold bandwidth when a DRC of the first sector is in lock for the first mobile device. Further, a second sector with available bandwidth and a DRC in lock for the first mobile device (106) is searched, when the number of active users of the first sector is greater than the threshold bandwidth. Furthermore, the first mobile device (106) is removed from the first sector and redirected to the second sector when the second sector exists.
US07751837B2
A method and system are provided for processing a message, which is being delivered from one mobile network to another. A request to send routing instructions of the message to a store-and-forward center of a transmitting mobile network is received at a moderator server of a receiving mobile network. The routing instructions are generated in the moderator server, so that the routing instructions instruct the store-and-forward center to route the message to a gateway server of the receiving mobile network. The routing instructions are transmitted from the moderator server to the store-and-forward center. Then the message, which has been sent according to the routing instructions from the store-and-forward center of the transmitting mobile network, is received at the gateway server. From the gateway server the message is forwarded for modifying and archiving purposes of the message.
US07751836B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for preventing the delivery of unwanted SMS messages, such as those containing unsolicited commercial messages or spam, in a communications network. More particularly, SMS messages are intercepted prior to delivery and at least a portion of the SMS message content is encapsulated within an electronic mail (e-mail) message. The e-mail message is communicated to an e-mail spam filtering resource in a data network, where spam screening/filtering algorithms are applied. The e-mail message is discarded at the e-mail spam filtering resource if the message fails spam screening. Alternatively, or in addition, the results of the spam screening may be returned with the original message for another network node to process accordingly. In any case, if the message passes spam screening, the original SMS message that is associated with the e-mail message may be delivered to/toward the intended message recipient.
US07751833B2
A system and method for determining the location of a base transceiver station (BTS) are provided. A personal BTS can determine its location using information transmitted by neighboring BTSs or from mobile station transmissions to neighboring BTSs. If the personal BTS cannot determine its location using information from neighboring BTSs or from mobile station transmissions, the personal BTS can contact a cellular network operator to request that a technician come out to verify the location.
US07751827B2
A method of estimating the location of a mobile device, comprising the steps of: collecting location information; selecting at least one of a plurality of different location methods to provide a location estimate; and providing a location estimate based on the at least one selected location method.
US07751820B2
There are a wireless access network comprising a radio network gateway apparatus (101), radio access network control apparatus (102a), (102b) and a base stations (103a), (103b) and a terminal (104) accommodated in the wireless access network and when the terminal (104) enters into a new cell B, a packet data is transmitted from the source radio access network control apparatus (102a) to the target radio access network control apparatus (102b). Further, when the terminal (104) switches the radio access network control apparatus (102) with which the terminal (104) communicates, the target radio access network control apparatus (102b) switches a transmission line of a data to be transmitted to the terminal (104) from a wireless data to a packet data in the source radio access network control apparatus (102a), and from the source packet data to a target packet data in a synchronized manner at each timing. This reduces traffic which occurs when switching a radio access network control apparatus to be communicated while the terminal moves between cells and prevent packet interruption in a wireless access network providing packet transmission service.
US07751815B2
The present non-terrestrial feature transparency system spoofs the Air-to-Ground Network and the ground-based cellular communication network into thinking that the wireless subscriber devices have no special considerations associated with their operation, even though the wireless subscriber devices are located on an aircraft in flight. This architecture requires that the non-terrestrial feature transparency system on board the aircraft replicate the full functionality of a given wireless subscriber device, that has a certain predetermined feature set from a ground-based wireless service provider, at another wireless subscriber device located within the aircraft. This mirroring of wireless subscriber device attributes enables a localized cell for in-cabin communication yet retains the same wireless subscriber device attributes for the air-to-ground link. The Air-to-Ground Network transmits both the subscriber data (comprising voice and/or other data) as well as feature set data between the Aircraft in-Cabin Network and the ground-based cellular communication network to thereby enable the wireless subscriber devices that are located in the aircraft to receive consistent wireless communication services in both the terrestrial (ground-based) and non-terrestrial regions.
US07751813B2
A method and system for testing a wireless device, the system comprising: a remote user interface for interacting with the data device from a remote location; and a wireless network for communication with the wireless data device from a remote location, wherein a tester can send information to and receive information from the wireless device over said wireless network and can monitor said wireless device and send inputs to the wireless device over the remote user interface thereby forming a closed loop communications path.
US07751800B2
The present invention relates to a communication system and method, an information processing terminal and method, and an information processing device and method which enable simple and secure restricted access. When a PDA 11 is brought close, a reader 2 of a personal computer 1 reads a device ID form an IC tag 12. The personal computer 1 registers device IDs on a connection permission list, and permits only devices registered on the list to connect. When being instructed to perform accessing, the PDA 11 controls a communication unit to access the personal computer 1 and to transmits its device ID. The personal computer 1 determines whether or not the transmitted ID is registered on the connection permission list, and permits the connection when determining that the ID is registered. The present invention can be applied to various information processing devices such as a personal computer and a PDA.
US07751795B2
A method and system for communicating audio signals between an input device and an output device via a network. The output device can include loudspeakers and headphones. In some embodiments an output device, for example a center channel speaker, transmits audio signals to other output devices. In some embodiments, the output device is coupled to, or combined with, a speaker stand or speaker bracket. The network can be wireless, wired, infrared, RF, and powerline.
US07751785B2
A system and method for wireless communication. The system can include a transmitter that transmits a data signal having a time period without data transmission. The system can also include a receiver including a first antenna, a second antenna, a switch that activates one of the first antenna and the second antenna, and a processor that estimates a first signal-to-noise ratio for the first antenna and a second signal-to-noise ratio for the second antenna during the time period without data transmission. The processor can control the switch to select one of the first antenna and the second antenna based on a comparison between the first signal-to-noise ratio and the second signal-to-noise ratio.
US07751778B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for improving data transmission rates in a wireless communication system. An example method may be implemented in a wireless communication system including a plurality of base stations defining a plurality of wireless coverage areas in which a mobile station can engage in radio frequency (RF) communication with the base stations where the method includes determining a location of the mobile station. Based on the determined location of the mobile station, the method further includes determining whether activating an inactive signal repeater would increase a rate at which data is able to be communicated from the base stations to the mobile station. In the event that that it is determined that activating the signal repeater would increase the rate at which data is able to be communicated, the method still further includes activating the signal repeater.
US07751772B2
According to one embodiment, when a recording process of transferring, via an output buffer, received broadcast contents over a network and recording them on external recording equipment and an acquisition process of acquiring, via an input buffer, AV contents obtained from external equipment over the network are carried out concurrently, the amount of data to be acquired by the acquisition process is limited when the amount of data stored in the output buffer has reached a preset value.
US07751771B2
The present invention relates to a sheet transport apparatus comprising; sheet transport means capable of conveying sheets at a transfer speed that is the same as a transfer speed α of sheet in an image forming position where an image is formed on the sheet, and at a transfer speed β that is faster than the transfer speed α, skew feeding correction means which corrects skew feeding of sheet conveyed by the sheet transport means and which feeds the sheet to the image forming position where the image is formed, and sheet interval control means for controlling a distance between a sheet and a next sheet by changing timing at which the transfer speed of the sheet is reduced from the transfer speed β to the transfer speed α at upstream side from the skew feeding correction means in a sheet conveying direction.
US07751770B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which comprises an image bearing member on which a toner image is formed, a sweep roller for removing residual toner particles from the image bearing member, and a recovery roller for recovering the toner particles from the sweep roller. The recovery roller has a diameter of 10 mm or less, and a surface roughness Rz of 1.6 μm to 6.4 μm.
US07751760B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developer bearing member for transporting developer to an opposing position opposing an image bearing member. Regularly-disposed concave sections are formed on a surface of the developer bearing member. An alternating voltage that includes a first voltage for moving developer from the developer bearing member toward the image bearing member, and a second voltage for moving developer from the image bearing member toward the developer bearing member is applied to the developer bearing member. A cycle period of the alternating voltage is larger than a minimum width of the concave section in a circumferential direction of the developer bearing member divided by a moving velocity of a surface of the rotating developer bearing member.
US07751759B2
An image forming apparatus is provided with an apparatus main body including a developing device, a toner container detachably mountable into the apparatus main body and adapted to replenish the developing device with toner particles, and a lever member settable to a locking position by a biasing force of a specified biasing member to interlock the toner container with the apparatus main body while being pressed down against the biasing force of the biasing member to unlock the toner container. The lever member has an operation surface to be pressed, and the operation surface includes an inclined surface sloped downward toward a side where an operator would face.
US07751755B2
A disclosed image forming apparatus includes plural image creating units arranged along a belt surface of a transfer belt; a first electric motor for driving a fixing unit; a second electric motor for driving one of the image creating units and the transfer belt; a third electric motor for driving the rest of the image creating units; a detecting unit for detecting a remaining toner amount in each image creating unit; a timing setting unit for determining a startup timing according to the remaining toner amount and delaying the startup timing if the remaining toner amount is large; and a startup control unit for starting up each of the first electric motor, the second electric motor, and, according to need, the third electric motor, one at a time after the preceding one has been started up, according to the determined startup timings.
US07751752B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable brush in contact with an image bearing member at a position downstream of transfer means and upstream of charging means in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. The rotational brush is configured to supply electrical charge to residual toner that remains on the image bearing member. The image forming apparatus executes a mode for removing toner particles attached to the brush by setting a peripheral speed of the brush to be lower than that of the image bearing member during an image forming time period and setting the peripheral speed of the brush to be higher than that of the image bearing member during at least part of a non-image forming time period.
US07751748B2
An image-forming device includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, a plurality of drum gears, a plurality of drive gears and a removal allowing unit. Each drum gear has a first target portion. Each drive gear has a second target portion. The removal allowing unit allows each photosensitive drum to be removed from the casing only when the first target portion of the drum gear is positionally in coincidence with a first position and when the second target portion of the drive gear is positionally in coincidence with a second position.
US07751741B2
An optical sensor includes a light-emitting element for directing light to an image, a light-receiving element for receiving light reflected by the image, a normal detection optical path for allowing the light emitted by the light-emitting element and the light reflected from the image to follow a normal detection optical path during normal operation, a calibration reflecting plate disposed inside the optical sensor for reflecting light from the light-emitting element when sensitivity is calibrated, a calibration optical path for allowing the light emitted by the light-emitting element to follow a calibration optical path to the light-receiving element when the emitted light is reflected by the calibration reflecting plate, and a first optical function element disposed in the calibration optical path and switchable between a light permeating state, in which the light passes therethrough, and a light intercepting state, in which the light is blocked, when voltage is applied.
US07751736B2
In an image density correction method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an image density correction is carried out by obtaining an actual toner amount through obtaining a density of a between-sheet patch image having been formed during continuous printing, reconstructing relational characteristics in which the actual toner amount is associated with each variation in developing biases, by considering that the actual toner amount and a reference toner amount are to be made in agreement, when a determination that the actual toner amount disagrees with the reference toner amount is made, and resetting a developing bias for realizing the reference toner amount based on the reconstructed relational characteristics and the reference toner amount. By this means, a high quality image can be obtained by suppressing color fluctuations with printing efficiency maintained at a high level even if large color fluctuations occur during continuous printing.
US07751727B2
An expense recovery system for a digital MFD in the form of a modification to the application program interface of the MFD to allow input of identifiers for the user, the client and the job and to transmit this information and other transaction data to a host computer for billing purposes. Data entry is made faster and more accurate by minimizing keystrokes. The information is transmitted over a network and, optionally, the host computer may be located remote from the MFD.
US07751725B2
The present invention provides an optical receiver that includes a monitoring unit with a function to prevent the unit from misjudging of the loss-of-signal state. In particular, the present invention is applicable to the monitoring unit that receives the signal to be judged from the processing unit posterior to the optical converting unit that couples with the processing unit via the capacitor. The signal reflects the second or higher order response lag due to the coupling capacitor. The monitoring unit of the invention generates the loss-of-alarm signal when the signal is continuously smaller than the first reference by a preset time and continuously greater than the second reference by the present time.
US07751717B2
An optical transceiver host computing system (hereinafter simply referred as the “host”) printed circuit board has multiple optical transceivers directly mounted to it. Each optical transceiver is configured to convert an electrical signal into an optical signal and to transmit the optical signal and to receive an optical signal and convert the received signal into an electrical signal. By directly mounting the optical transceivers to the host printed circuit board, an increased number of transceivers may be supported by a single host without increasing the overall size of the host.
US07751708B2
An optical transmission system capable of time difference correction without lengthening guard times, thereby improving optical packet transmission efficiency. A switching processor sets identical switching timing for input ports thereof such that signals input from the input ports are switched at the same timing. When an optical dummy packet is received, the switching processor switches the optical dummy packet to be returned to the originating node. A time difference corrector detects synchroneity of the switched and looped-back optical dummy packet and, if asynchronism is detected, varies readout timing until synchroneity is attained, thereby correcting the time difference so that the optical dummy packet may fit in the switching time range and thus can be switched normally.
US07751701B2
A human face is detected from an image. On the basis of a size of the detected face and a focal length of a taking lens, a subject distance is calculated. Further, a depth of field is calculated on the basis of the calculated subject distance, the focal length of the taking lens and a stop diameter. The calculated depth of field is analyzed. When it is judged that the depth of field is deep, shooting is performed as it is. When it is judged that the depth of field is shallow, the stop diameter is reduced to deepen the depth of field. In addition, sensitivity of a CCD image sensor is heightened to correct brightness of the image.
US07751697B2
A housing for underwater imaging comprising a first section for housing an optical instrument; a second section secured to the first section adapted to house a window; a window disposed within the second section; and a buffer ring disposed between the window and the first section. The buffer ring is a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion approximately equal to that of the window. In the best mode, the window is optical grade glass and the buffer ring is aluminum foil. In the illustrative embodiment, a mounting ring is disposed between the buffer ring and the second section of the housing. The mounting ring is steel and must be polished, lapped, stainless steel as well. The buffer ring protects the glass window from the mounting ring. A third ring is disposed over the window and secures it to the second section of the housing. The second section is removable relative to the first section to allow for a camera to be placed within the housing and secured thereby for deep-sea underwater use at high pressure.
US07751696B2
A camera according to the present invention has a housing that has a first hole and a second hole, a microphone, a loudspeaker, and a waterproof sheet that covers the microphone and the loudspeaker, and allows air-vibration to be transmitted. The microphone is arranged in the housing, in accordance with a position of the first hole. The loudspeaker is arranged in the housing, in accordance with a position of the second hole. The loudspeaker and the microphone are adjacent to each other, and the waterproof sheet is constructed as one-piece sheet.
US07751691B2
A reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing unit that reproduces a video data sequence including video data of a plurality of pictures from a recording medium. The video data sequence is encoded by a coding method in which the amount of data per picture changes from one picture to another. The reproducing apparatus further includes an error correcting unit that corrects the reproduced video data sequence for an error, and a control unit that substitutes data of a picture including an error that is uncorrectable by the error correcting unit with predetermined encoded data so as to output the same image as a picture immediately previous to the picture including the uncorrectable error when the video data sequence is decoded.
US07751684B2
A signal processor includes a buffer memory for storing the image signal for output as a main image signal; a point setting section for storing a position on a temporal axis of the main image signal as a registration point in response to a given capture command, the main image signal corresponding to the capture command; a playback control section for causing the buffer memory to output an image frame following the registration point in response to a given playback command; a video capture section for generating a registration image based on at least one image frame in a neighborhood of the registration point of the main image signal outputted from the buffer memory, and storing the registration image; and an image superimposing section for superimposing the registration image onto the main image signal for display in a signal screen to generate a composite image signal.
US07751683B1
A technique for marking scene changes within video files. A video file with multiple frames is stored on a data store connected to a computer. Initially, the video file is received by an encoder or other processor. The frames of the video file are analyzed to identify scene changes between frames. Each frame of the video file includes a field that is marked with scene change data. Within the encoder, fields of frames are marked to represent scene changes.
US07751674B2
The present invention provides modular cassettes for fiber management applications. Cassettes in accordance with the present invention comprise plural functional components that nest into a main housing portion to support various application and fiber types. In accordance with the present invention, such components can be added or removed depending on the application and configuration needs of the use environment. Advantageously, cassettes in accordance with the present invention incorporate resilient connections and nested internal components for easy assembly and disassembly with minimal tools.
US07751671B1
A mounting assembly for mounting an optical member to a panel can comprise a mounting portion configured to contact a top surface of the panel when mounted to the panel and a receiving portion to receive optical hardware such as an optical detector so that a field of view of the optical detector substantially encompasses the top surface of the panel when the mounting assembly is mounted thereto. The assembly can include an attachment member to attach the mounting portion to the panel and to limit axial movement along or about an axis parallel to an edge of the panel when the mounting assembly is mounted to the panel. The body of the mounting portion may also be shaped to limit axial movement, such as by including a lip in contact with edges of the panel and/or a base portion that contacts the top surface of the panel when mounted.
US07751670B2
A laser display device, which eliminates speckles generated in the transmission of laser beams and uniformly mixes laser beams of various colors, and an optical coupler therefor. The laser display device includes light sources emitting laser beams; an image display unit displaying an image by the laser beams; and a speckle elimination unit located on a path of the laser beams, and including at least one panel having an uneven part and disposed on an optical axis of the light sources.
US07751669B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a waveguide, which includes a three-dimensional photonic crystal including a first linear defect and a second linear defect. The first linear defect is disposed at part of columnar structures and is formed of a medium different from the columnar structures. The second linear defect is disposed at part of columnar structures extending in the longitudinal direction of the first linear defect and is formed of a medium having a refractive index different from that of the medium used for the columnar structures. The second linear defect is separated from the first linear defect by a distance of at least 0.5 times the out-of-plane lattice period of the three-dimensional photonic crystal in a direction in which layers including the columnar structures are stacked.
US07751664B2
A door handle apparatus for a vehicle, opening and closing a vehicle door, the door handle apparatus includes an informing portion for visually informing a state of the vehicle door, including a locking/unlocking state thereof, to a user by a decorative light, which is a visible light, an operation detecting portion for optically detecting an active-direct operation to the door handle apparatus by the user based on changes in an detection light, and an optical waveguide for transmitting the decorative light and the detection light, which is inputted from a first end portion of the optical waveguide, to a second end portion of the optical waveguide, the optical waveguide functioning as the informing portion by leaking the decorative light on a transmission path so as to be outwardly emitted and as the operation detecting portion by outputting the detection light from the second end portion of the optical waveguide.
US07751661B2
There is provided a light emitting device using an optical component capable of emitting light having a wavelength different from that of light exit from an optical fiber and obtaining light of high output, and capable of being easily attached to an end of the optical fiber. The optical component includes an optical fiber holding member for holding an optical fiber, a light conversion member, and a cap having an inner hole allowing the light conversion member and the optical fiber holding member to be inserted into and an engagement part with an opening for engaging inserted members at one end of the inner hole. The light conversion member inserted into the inner hole of the cap is fitted into the inner hole with the optical fiber holding member pressed against the engagement part. The opening of the engagement part is smaller than a maximum diameter of the light conversion member.
US07751641B2
Disclosed systems and methods for enhancing digital images to reduce visual noise and artifacts. In particular, the systems and methods include detecting information edges in images and processing an image at different spatial frequencies.
US07751640B2
Sharpness is adjusted for more appropriately representing a predetermined structure in an image. A parameter acquisition unit obtains a weighting parameter for a principal component representing a degree of sharpness in a face region detected by a face detection unit as an example of the predetermined structure in the image, by fitting to the face region a mathematical model generated by a statistical method such as AAM based on a plurality of sample images representing human faces in different degrees of sharpness. Based on a value of the parameter, sharpness is adjusted in at least a part of the image. For example, a parameter changing unit changes the value of the parameter to a preset optimal face sharpness value, and an image reconstruction unit reconstructs the image based on the parameter having been changed and outputs the image having been subjected to the sharpness adjustment processing.
US07751636B2
A method of decoding CAVLC transform coefficients encoded from an image uses a plurality of registers for storing coefficients and flags and a plurality of MUX devices for selecting data input for corresponding registers. The method includes receiving transform coefficients including first and second encoded data corresponding to an image, generating a trailing-one coefficient with a sign indicated by the first encoded data together with a flag value corresponding to a status of the trailing-one coefficient, and generating a non-trailing zero coefficient according to the second encoded data together with a flag value corresponding to a status of the non-trailing zero coefficient.
US07751633B1
In a method for compressing an image, source data is converted into a series of blocks each containing one or more colors. A baseline target block size is determined based upon a target compression ratio for the source data. For each block in turn, a compression mode is selected from mode families, where the mode families include an n-color mode family, an interpolated mode family, a raw mode family, a BTC-VQ mode family, a lossless mode family, and a 4×4 transform mode family. In addition, for each block in turn, the block is compressed using the selected compression mode to yield a corresponding compressed block.
US07751629B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for decoding a mixed code that is a combination of first and second code images. In the method, a mixed code image is obtained by receiving the original image having the mixed code image and removing noise from the original image. Next, the colors, shades, and brightnesses of pixels of the mixed code image are categorized into groups based on a predetermined threshold, the mixed code image is divided into first and second code images, and first and second information are extracted by decoding the first and second code images, respectively. The first and second code images can be effectively decoded by decoding interpretation information, construction information, error control information, and code direction information stored in the first and/or second code images.
US07751609B1
A method and apparatus is provided for determining thickness of films or layers during chemical-mechanical planarization/polishing (CMP) of a semiconductor substrate or wafer in situ. The method may be used to determine end-point during CMP especially of oxide films deposited on the substrate or wafer. In one embodiment, the method includes: a) capturing images of the surface of the substrate using high speed imaging; b) performing pattern recognition on the captured images; c) selecting one of the captured images based on the pattern recognition; and d) converting the selected image into a thickness measurement. In one form, the high speed imaging comprises a high speed camera, while in another form, the high speed imaging comprises a conventional camera and a laser pulse or flash tube. In yet another embodiment, reflective laser interference patterns of the substrate are captured and analyzed for interference pattern changes that can signal a practical end-point.
US07751607B2
The present invention is a multi-stage detection algorithm using a successive nodule candidate refinement approach. The detection algorithm involves four major steps. First, the lung region is segmented from a whole lung CT scan. This is followed by a hypothesis generation stage in which nodule candidate locations are identified from the lung region. In the third stage, nodule candidate sub-images pass through a streaking artifact removal process. The nodule candidates are then successively refined using a sequence of filters of increasing complexity. A first filter uses attachment area information to remove vessels and large vessel bifurcation points from the nodule candidate list. A second filter removes small bifurcation points. The invention also improves the consistency of nodule segmentations. This invention uses rigid-body registration, histogram-matching, and a rule-based adjustment system to remove missegmented voxels between two segmentations of the same nodule at different times.
US07751591B2
A method of representing a 2-dimensional image comprises deriving at least one 1-dimensional representation of the image by projecting the image onto at least one axis, and applying a Fourier transform to said 1-dimensional representation. The representation can be used for estimation of dominant motion between images.
US07751589B2
Estimation of a 3D layout of roads and paths traveled by pedestrians is achieved by observing the pedestrians and estimating road parameters from the pedestrian's size and position in a sequence of video frames. The system includes a foreground object detection unit to analyze video frames of a 3D scene and detect objects and object positions in video frames, an object scale prediction unit to estimate 3D transformation parameters for the objects and to predict heights of the objects based at least in part on the parameters, and a road map detection unit to estimate road boundaries of the 3D scene using the object positions to generate the road map.
US07751579B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for protecting acoustic devices. In particular embodiments, barriers are useful for preventing a variety of solid, liquid, and vapor contaminants from modifiying or damaging the performance of acoustic transducers, while at the same time providing essentially an acoustically transparent passage of sound.
US07751576B2
A loudspeaker apparatus has an improved reproduction characteristic of signals of small sound volumes. The loudspeaker apparatus includes a small-signal loudspeaker unit operable to output first signals in the range of a predetermined level or below of the input audio signals, with a characteristic in which the linearity of output frequency with respect to input signals is substantially secured in the range of the predetermined level or below; and a large-signal loudspeaker unit operable to output signals in the range of a predetermined level or above of the input audio signals, with a characteristic in which the linearity of output frequency with respect to input signals is substantially secured in the range of the predetermined level or above, wherein the linearity of an input-output characteristic is secured regarding both small-amplitude and large-amplitude signals.
US07751572B2
An audio signal having at least two channels can be efficiently down-mixed into a downmixe signal and a residual signal, when the down-mixing rule used depends on a spatial parameter that is derived from the audio signal and that is post-processed by a limiter to apply a certain limit to the derived spatial parameter with the aim of avoiding instabilities during the up-mixing or down-mixing process. By having a down-mixing rule that dynamically depends on parameters describing an interrelation between the audio channels, one can assure that the energy within the down-mixed residual signal is as minimal as possible, which is advantageous in the view of coding efficiency. By post processing the spatial parameter with a limiter prior to using it in the down-mixing, one can avoid instabilities in the down- or up-mixing, which otherwise could result in a disturbance of the spatial perception of the encoded or decoded audio signal.
US07751570B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for managing keys. During operation, the system receives a request from a user at a database to encrypt/decrypt data at the database. In response to this request, the system sends a user-token to the user, wherein the user-token includes a user-key encrypted with a user-secret thereby enabling the user to decrypt the user-key with the user-secret. Next, the system receives the decrypted user-key from the user. The system then uses the user-key to encrypt/decrypt the data at the database. Finally, the system deletes the user-key at the database.
US07751567B2
Methods and apparatus are presented for providing local authentication of subscribers traveling outside their home systems. A subscriber identification token 230 provides authentication support by generating a signature 370 based upon a key that is held secret from a mobile unit 220. A mobile unit 220 that is programmed to wrongfully retain keys from a subscriber identification token 230 after a subscriber has removed his or her token is prevented from subsequently accessing the subscriber's account.
US07751566B2
Systems including both distributed and centralized architectures for providing multiple levels of security using “virtual” switches. Ports and channels are assigned the same time slots on a TDMA bus only when they have matching security levels.
US07751564B2
In certain embodiments, a method of partially dual encrypting a digital video signal involves examining unencrypted packets of data in the digital video signal to identify a specified packet type. The specified packet type includes packets occurring in a star pattern approximately situated at approximately a center of an image; encrypting packets identified as being of the specified packet type using a first encryption method to produce first encrypted packets; encrypting the packets identified as being of the specified packet type using a second encryption method to produce second encrypted packets; and replacing the unencrypted packets of the specified packet type with the first encrypted packets and the second encrypted packets in the digital video signal to produce a partially dual encrypted video signal. This abstract should not be considered limiting since embodiments consistent with the present invention may involve more, different or fewer elements.
US07751562B2
To supply of a data set, e.g. the content of a copy protected audio CD, which is stored in a database (6), e.g. to a user PC (2) on which said content of a copy protected audio CD cannot be accessed, the following steps are performed: receiving a serial code of a set of serial codes assigned to said data set (S3); verifying of said received serial code (S4); in case of a positive verification, accessing said data set corresponding to said received and positively verified serial code from said database (S5, S6); and outputting of at least parts of said accessed data (S7).
US07751560B2
A method of processing digital content consistent with certain embodiments involves receiving a signal containing the digital content, wherein the digital content has a first encrypted sample of the digital content, the sample being encrypted under a first encryption method, a second encrypted sample of the digital content, the sample being encrypted under a second encryption method, and an unencrypted portion; and decrypting the first encrypted sample to produce a decrypted sample. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US07751559B2
Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture, wherein a cryptographic key generator generates a cryptographic key. The cryptographic key generator encrypts the cryptographic key with a session key that is available to both the cryptographic key generator and a cryptographic unit. The encrypted cryptographic key is transmitted across a link from the cryptographic key generator to the cryptographic unit.
US07751558B2
A digital message can be sent from a sender to a recipient in a public-key based cryptosystem comprising a hierarchy of authorizers. A message recipient can decrypt a message from a message sender only if the recipient possesses up-to-date authority from an authorizer. Other features are also provided.
US07751553B2
Methods and apparatus to provide voice control of dial tone and audio message in a telephone in an initial off-hook period. A telephone system has a telephone with a receiver having an off-hook position. The telephone system provides a user with control of a telephone function. The telephone system includes an audio output to provide an audio message to the receiver in the off-hook position. The audio message includes an option for playing the audio message or a dial tone the next instance the receiver is in the off-hook position. A control interface receives a selected option in response to a user command.
US07751545B2
In one embodiment, a method for enhanced call pickup includes accessing data indicating a current status of each of one or more users in a call pickup group (CPG) with respect to an incoming phone call to a phone number corresponding to the CPG and communicating the data to one or more endpoints of one or more users in the CPG for display to one or more users in the CPG. A display of the data to a first user in the CPG facilitates the first user determining a current status of each of one or more second users in the CPG to facilitate a decision by the first user regarding whether to pick up the incoming phone call.
US07751532B2
The embodiments relate to methods and apparatuses for tracking data calls placed to or from a terminal of a call service subscriber using of an advanced intelligent network in real time in a communications network. A SDS query to an SCP in communication with a database is made when a specific trigger for a call assigned to a subscriber is detected. Call information and subscriber number data is extracted from the SDS query and saved in the database.
US07751529B2
A radiation image radiographing system 1 including a radiation image detector 5 detecting a radiated radiation to obtain image information, a console 6 operating the radiation image detector 5, and associating means for performing the association with the console 6 operating the radiation image detector 5 at the time of radiography, wherein the radiation image detector 5 includes a power supplying means 21 controlling the state of power supply according to the operation status of the console 6 associated by the associating means.
US07751525B2
The invention relates to a method for correcting x-ray scatter in projection radiography or in x-ray computer tomography, in which, for different observed objects, different scatter-correction convolution cores G are determined and in the examination of the respective objects object-specific scatter-correction convolution cores are applied to detector data which is created during the x-raying of these objects. The invention also relates to a projection radiography or x-ray computer tomography system which features programs in a processing system which executes the method described above when the system is operating.
US07751524B2
An X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes a gantry, a reconstruction processing unit which generates first volume data on the basis of a projection data set which covers an angle range of 180°+a fan angle and also generates second volume data on the basis of a projection data set which covers an angle range of 360°, a correction data generating unit which generates correction data for reducing a cone beam artifact on the basis of a difference between the first volume data and the second volume data, and a correction unit which corrects the first volume data on the basis of the correction data.
US07751521B2
A clock and data recovery apparatus reduces current consumption and enables easy integration. The inventive apparatus includes a first loop including a frequency/phase detection unit, a first charge pump unit, a multiplexing unit, a filtering unit, and a voltage controlled oscillator unit operating at a speed ¼ as fast as that of received data; a second loop having a phase detection unit operating at a speed ¼ as fast as a speed of received data, a second charge pump unit suitable for the phase detection unit, the multiplexing unit, the filtering unit, and the voltage controlled oscillator unit; a frequency lock detection unit for judging whether a frequency of a feedback clock signal falls within a desired frequency range; and a data recovery unit for recovering data from received data.
US07751517B2
System and method for data transfer with buffer control. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a system for synchronized data communication. The system includes a first communication interface for receiving data and a first clock signal. For example, the first clock signal is associated with a transmitting source. The system also includes a second communication interface for transmitting data. The system further includes a processing component for separating a single data stream into multiple data streams. The system additionally includes a clock that is configured to provide a second clock signal. Also, the system includes a plurality of buffer components for providing temporary storage for data streams. For example, each of the buffer components can be characterized by a predetermined buffer size. The plurality of buffering component includes a first buffer component and a second buffer component.
US07751513B2
A first signal path having an amplifier and a second signal path having an amplifier with adjustable gain factor are provided. A signal applied to the first and second signal paths is amplified and demodulated on the first signal path. Concurrently, the signal is amplified on the second signal path with a gain factor, and a power of the signal amplified by the second signal path is determined and used for determining the gain factor. A signal conditioning circuit has first and second signal paths and a first and a second operating state. In the first operating state, the first signal path is arranged for amplification for a demodulation, and the second signal path is arranged for amplification for determination of a power of the signal present. In the second operating state, one of the two signal paths is inactive and the other is arranged for demodulating the signal present.
US07751510B2
Estimation of channel characteristics and interference level in a time-varying multi-carrier multi-user systems is carried out concurrently. To perform the estimation, a multitude of data symbols and dedicated pilot symbols are transmitted over the channel. The estimate of the interference level is used to estimate the channel parameters.
US07751507B2
A circular Viterbi decoder is capable of improving a data decoding speed without being limited by a sampling speed of a sampling and holding circuit. An analog Viterbi decoder includes: a clock divider which generates a plurality of clock signals by dividing a clock frequency of an externally-input clock signal, a plurality of sampling and holding units which sample and hold input analog data according to the clock signals generated from the clock divider, and a multiplexer which sequentially and alternately outputs the analog data sampled and held by the sampling and holding units.
US07751504B2
A frequency modulation-frequency shift keying (FM/FSK) demodulator is provided, including a modulation signal input terminal for receiving a first modulation signal; a phase shifter for receiving the first modulation signal and then shifting its phase to output a second modulation signal; a multiplier connected to the modulation signal input terminal and the output of the phase shifter for multiplying the first modulation signal and the second modulation signal together to output a demodulation signal; an adder having at least two input terminals and an output terminal where the first input terminal receives the demodulation signal; a direct current (DC) compensation unit connected to the output terminal of the adder for compensating the DC of the demodulation signal and low-frequency offsets, and a demodulation signal output terminal connected to the output of the adder for outputting the demodulation signal.
US07751503B2
Embodiments of the invention consist in a method of carrier synchronization, comprising determining a frequency offset estimate from a rate of change of a phase difference between a local oscillator signal and a carrier signal of a received signal; and adjusting a frequency of the local oscillator signal by the frequency offset estimate.
US07751501B2
The present invention relates to a tracking system comprised in a receiver, which tracking system is operable to track rapid changes in frequency and phase offset. The tracking system comprises a first system operable to perform a pilot-based phase and frequency tracking. The tracking system also comprises a second system operable to perform data-based phase and frequency tracking. The tracking system also comprises a control means connected to said first system and to said second system, which control means is operable to gradually reduce the effect of said first system, i.e. said pilot-based phase and frequency tracking.
US07751500B2
A method and apparatus for efficiently selecting a demodulation scheme for a particular channel in a digital broadcast receiver supporting a plurality of demodulation schemes are provided. The method includes receiving the digital broadcast signal of the channel; attempting demodulation of the digital broadcast signal using a demodulation scheme corresponding to a sequential index; and if the demodulation attempt succeeds, restoring data and if the demodulation attempt does not succeed, attempting demodulation again using a demodulation scheme corresponding to a next sequential index.
US07751497B2
The present invention provides a method, receiver and transmitter for use in a SDAR system. The method involves generating a first modulated signal based on first input data. Additional modulation is superimposed on the first modulated signal based on additional input data, being spread across a plurality of symbols in the first modulated signal in a predetermined pattern to generate a modified signal which is then transmitted. The modified signal is decoded by performing a first demodulation of the first modulated signal then additional demodulation is performed to obtain additional input data. The superimposing step uses a plurality of offset sequence values to add the additional modulation to the first modulated signal. The offset sequence may appear as a pseudo-random distribution of offset sequence values, and may include at least one zero offset value. Alternatively, the additional modulated signal may be a formed as a direct sequence spread spectrum modulation and the offset sequence appearing as a pseudo-noise distribution. A Hadamard matrix sequence may be used as the direct sequence code.
US07751493B2
A method for rate adaptation with extended MCS set for wideband eigen-beamforming transmission. A signaling method over multiple channels in a wireless telecommunication system including a transmitter and a receiver, performs the steps of obtaining an information bit stream, selecting the number of transmission streams, selecting different transmission rates for each MIMO OFDM transmission, and transmitting the information bit stream from the transmitter via said multiple channels over a plurality of transmitter antennas to the receiver according to the selected transmission rate per channel. Selecting transmission rates further includes the steps of selecting the transmission rates based on the diversity order of each stream. The method selects different transmission modes for each MIMO OFDM transmission and provides a simple, fast and efficient scheme to select the transmission rate for each eigen-mode transmission.
US07751486B2
Presented herein are systems, methods, and devices for transmitting data comprising by comparing a new message with a buffered message representative of a previous message, recording an integer number of differences between the new message and the buffered message, generating a diff-word representative of the integer number of differences between the new message and the buffered message, appending the diff-word to the new message, and sending the new message with the diff-word to a receiver. The diff-word is used by the receiver to determine whether a received new message has the expected number of differences, and to determine whether to accept the new message.
US07751479B2
A method and apparatus for nonlinear multiple motion model and moving boundary extraction are disclosed. In one embodiment, an input image is received, the input image is partitioned into regions/blocks, and the new multiple motion model is applied to each region to extract the motions and associated moving boundaries.
US07751471B2
A pulse width modulation (PWM) Regulator System with automatically switching pulse skipping mode (PSM) is disclosed. The PWM regulator system comprises a PWM regulator, a PSM switching module and a pulse generator. The PWM regulator converts the input voltage by PWM. The PSM switching module determines to enter or exit the PSM. The pulse generator adaptively produces pulse signal for the switching regulator to operate in PSM.
US07751462B2
A YAG/Nd:YAG block where an Nd:YAG block ends in a peak integrated inside a YAG block. The YAG block has reflective surfaces positioned at 45° to one another. The angled reflective surfaces serve as a “mirror” within the laser cavity to effectively increase the length of the cavity by a factor greater than 2. Fused to the output end of the laser cavity are a polarizer, an active/passive Q-switch, a one quarter waveplate and an output coupler. In operation, the laser cavity is pumped either from the side or the end of the cavity. The optical components of the present invention are bonded to form one optical ‘block’. All the components are prealigned during the crystal manufacturing process to form the optical laser cavity. The width of the cavity should be selected such that nearly all of the laser diode pump output is absorbed by the cavity.
US07751456B2
A method for manufacturing an laser diode includes: providing a wafer having thereon a semiconductor structure; depositing an SiO2 film; forming channels and a waveguide ridge between the channels in the wafer; forming an SiO2 film over the wafer; forming a resist pattern covering the SiO2 film in the channels such that the top surfaces of the resist pattern are lower than the top surface of the deposited SiO2 film on the top of the waveguide ridge, the resist pattern exposing the SiO2 film on the top of the waveguide ridge; removing the SiO2 film and the deposited SiO2 film by wet etching, using the resist pattern as a mask, to expose a p-GaN layer in the waveguide ridge; and forming an electrode layer on the top surface of the p-GaN layer.
US07751441B2
In a third generation (UMTS) mobile radiotelephone system, data are transmitted between a base station and a mobile station in packet form via the air interface. A connection control protocol with the task of, inter alia, establishing whether and which of the data packets have been lost during the transmission, using control data, functions in both stations. These control data are added to each packet that is sent by the connection control protocol. Several packets can be transmitted within the transmission interval and the number of packets can vary from interval to interval. This allows different data transmission rates. The inventive method enables the number of packets that are sent via the air interface to be reduced, by transmitting larger, rather than more, packets within a predetermined interval, while not affecting the possibility of varying the data transmission rate.
US07751435B2
A node in a computer network predefines a threshold number (Max) as the maximum number of allowed call set up messages (CSMs) to be processed from a plurality of sources by the network node, and predefines a time frame window as the time within which no more than the threshold number (Max) CSMs are accepted for processing by the network node. The node detects each new incoming CSM in the network node. The node rejects each new incoming CSM if the number of CSMs accepted for processing during the current time frame window equals the threshold number (Max). Otherwise, the node accepts each new incoming CSM that is not rejected. Also the node rejects each new incoming CSM if the number of CSMs currently being processed by the network node equals the threshold number (Max).
US07751432B2
Systems and methods for a dispatch communication router are provided. The dispatch communication router allows calls between two or more dispatch communication networks which operate using different dispatch communication protocols. The dispatch communication router includes a protocol interworking function, a media control stack and a transcoding function. The dispatch communication router also includes a dispatch technology protocol stack for each different dispatch communication protocol supported by the router. The dispatch technology protocol stack converts dispatch communication signaling of a particular dispatch communication technology into a common protocol. The dispatch technology protocol stack can also convert dispatch communication media into a common dispatch communication media protocol and media format, or a separate transcoder can be provided to perform such conversion. The dispatch communication router of the present invention allows support of new dispatch communication technologies by adding a new dispatch technology protocol stack and communication coders (if necessary).
US07751419B2
A switching network for efficiently receiving and transmitting data packets having both frames and messages includes a crossbar switch with a plurality of surrounding ports for exclusively switching frames which normally consist of large data streams of 40 to 60 bytes. Then the ports are connected together in a message ring and small data entity messages, for example 4, 8, or 12 bytes, are switched from an input port to an output port around the ring avoiding congestion of the crossbar switch.
US07751418B2
An interface for controlling the transmission of data between integrated circuit (IC) chips. The interface comprises a data bus for transmitting data from a first integrated circuit chip to a second integrated circuit chip, and a control bus for transmitting control signals between the first and second integrated circuits. The first IC has a memory for receiving data for transmission to the second IC, and the second IC has a scheduler and a data output port, the scheduler being arranged to control the transfer of data from the memory of the first IC to the data output port of the second IC via the data bus. The interface is capable of stopping and reinitiating data transmission on detection of errors in transmitted data, and the interface may include a code transfer bus for transferring error detection code separately from associated data.
US07751415B2
Telecommunication systems with packet-switched multimedia terminals (1) and nodes (8,9) for packet-switched multimedia sessions and with servers (2,3) for exchanging multimedia signaling information for the packet-switched multimedia sessions and with terminating units (4) are provided with gateways (7) for in response to transferral messages originating from the packet-switched multimedia terminals (1) and arriving at the servers (2,3) transferring packet-switched multimedia sessions between packet-switched multimedia terminals (1) and nodes (8,9) to circuit-switched calls between gateways (7) and circuit-switched terminals (5) via switches (6), to continue possibly interrupted sessions via replacing calls. The servers (2,3) send invitation messages to gateways (7), which send setup messages to switches (6) for setting up circuit-switched calls via partly alternative communication paths. The servers (2,3) send information messages to terminating units (4) for bringing the terminating units (4) from session level to call level. Transferral messages are session Initiation Protocol REFER messages comprising predefined Uniform Resource Locators to be converted into call numbers defining circuit-switched terminals (5). Preferably, a packet-switched multimedia terminal (1) and a circuit-switched terminal (5) are one and the same terminal (99).
US07751412B1
New virtual circuits (VCs) may be configured by a router as they are brought up, eliminating any need for preconfiguration. Specific ports may be set up to autoconfigure (and certain ports may be excluded for security or other reasons). When a packet from an unconfigured VC arrives, the router may then determine if the source VC it is a valid VC, such as whether it is in a valid range and unique to the interface. The Operating System may then send a message configuring the VC once it has been determine it is valid. The configuration used may be one that is part of a standard template. The next time a packet comes in from the VC, it may then be handled in accordance with the template.
US07751411B2
A method of interfacing for packet and cell transfer between a first layer device and a second layer device, which includes dividing control information into an in-band portion and an out-of-band portion, transmitting the in-band portion in the data path, and transmitting the out-of-band portion outside of the data path.
US07751401B2
A method for processing packets. The method includes receiving a first packet by a first socket on a host, determining by the first socket to process the first packet using a first virtual Transmission Control Protocol offload engine (VTOE), transmitting the first packet to the first VTOE, wherein transmitting the first packet to the first VTOE bypasses a first virtual network stack interposed between the first socket and first VTOE, transmitting the first packet to a HW TOE operatively connected to the host, processing the first packet, using the HW TOE, to obtain a first processed packet; and transmitting the first processed packet to a network operatively connected to the HW TOE, where the HW TOE is associated with the first VTOE and a second VTOE in the host.
US07751396B2
Various embodiments are disclosed relating to multicast address signaling for power save delivery in a wireless network. According to an example embodiment, a wireless node may transmit a management frame (e.g., a PSMP frame) to identify a scheduled data transmission time for one or more receiver nodes in a wireless network. The management frame, for example, may include a number of fields relating to a multicast transmission, such as one or more of a first field set to a value indicating a multicast transmission, a second field identifying a multicast address, a third field identifying a time for the multicast transmission, and a fourth field identifying a duration for the multicast transmission.
US07751386B2
A CPU in an IP telephone apparatus automatically controls to transmit, from a network I/F to an ENUM server, a request for deleting a NAPTR record when an absent key is pressed. The CPU regularly transmits, from the network I/F to the ENUM server, an inquiry for a NAPTR record of another IP telephone apparatus. When the CPU receives, from the ENUM server via the network I/F, a response indicating that the NAPTR record of another IP telephone apparatus has been deleted, in response to the inquiry, the CPU turns OFF a lamp indicating that the user is available.
US07751374B2
A wireless network device comprises an RF transceiver that transmits and receives data packets and that periodically transmits or receives a beacon. A control module communicates with the RF transceiver, determines a default interframe space (IFS) time based on the beacon, and selects one of the default IFS time and a second IFS time that is less than or equal to the default IFS time based on a number of data packets received after the beacon.
US07751373B2
Synchronized UWB piconets for SOP (Simultaneously Operating Piconet) performance. A common backbone (either wired or wireless) is employed that provides a common CLK (clock signal) to all of the various PNCs (piconet coordinators) of various piconets that may operate within a sufficiently close region such that interference could undesirably occur. By providing a very reliable CLK signal from a common backbone to all of the PNCs of the various piconets operating within a substantially close proximity to one another, very precise synchronization may be ensured for all of the communications performed therein. The various piconets may then even operate using TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access)—whose performance would be substantially compromised without effective synchronization. In addition, combined TFC (time frequency code) and TDMA may also be employed to support the communications therein thereby providing even another degree of orthogonality that provided by TDMA alone.
US07751367B2
Improved serving sector selection mechanisms are provided which convey sector load information to a wireless communicator. The wireless communicator can use carrier-to-interference (C/I) ratio measurements and sector load information for each of its Active Set (AS) sectors (or all sectors in its Active Set (AS)) to determine the best serving sector.
US07751365B2
A wireless access point apparatus which is capable of configuring an efficient transmission frame for a plurality of wireless communication terminals connected to or accommodated in the wireless access point apparatus, and therefore flexibly coping with the plurality of wireless communication terminals having various communicating functions. A data transmission area including a non-collision area capable of exclusively using a wireless medium and a collision area where random access communication is carried out is set in a data transmission frame. It is determined whether or not a specific wireless communicating apparatus has been connected to or accommodated in the wireless access point apparatus, and the data transmission area is changed according to the determination result. Information indicative of a new data transmission area is sent to wireless communication terminals connected to or accommodated in the wireless access point apparatus, including the specific wireless communicating apparatus.
US07751363B1
Systems and methods for allocating traffic and associated control channels are provided. A downlink traffic control message can include an identification of a downlink traffic channel and an identification of an associated uplink control channel. An uplink traffic control message can include an identification of an uplink traffic channel and an identification of an associated downlink control channel in a frame subsequent to the frame of the uplink traffic channel. The associated control channels can be a feedback channel, which can provide power control information, retransmission request information, channel quality indication information and/or the like.
US07751359B1
A system and a method in a wireless network utilizing session initiation protocol (SIP) for call control. The SIP payload (SDP) contains a list of voice codecs to coordinate the selection of voice bearer resources (between a calling party and a called party) such that the number of transcoders in the voice bearer path is minimized. An additional aspect of the embodiment of the present invention includes a serving MSCe that is operable to determine whether to initiate or discontinue ringback to the calling party. If ring back is to be initiated, ringback can be initiated from a Serving MGW controlled by the serving MSCe. The call negotiation process according to the described embodiment of the invention eliminates the requirement for any transcoding in specific situations to result in the number of transcoders used in the voice bearer path to be reduced to 0 (TrFO, Transcoder Free Operation) or to 1 (RTO, remote transmitter operation).
US07751358B2
A data transmission method transmits data to a group of receiving communication devices in a communication system comprising at least one cellular network. The method includes defining, by an application server situated beyond a cellular network, a group of receiving communication devices in the cellular network, the application server having no visibility to locations of receiving devices in the cellular network. The method also includes receiving, in a broadcast/multicast network entity configured to provide broadcast and multicast services in the cellular network, data to be transmitted from the application server to the group. The method also includes transmitting the data from the broadcast/multicast network entity to the group using broadcast and/or multicast transmission. Furthermore, a network entity in a cellular network and a communication system are provided configured to implement the method.
US07751357B2
According to an embodiment of the invention the timing of one or more local communication windows can be defined using equations such that one or more local communication windows for two or more devices overlap. For example the periods between two consecutive local communication windows can be defined using a periodic equation such as: LAP Cycle Period=Δ*2n. In this equation n=0, 1, 2, . . . , N, where N and Δ can be fixed. For example, N and Δ can be numbers that are predetermined for a given network, a given set of network devices, etc. In one embodiment every device can become active every Δ*2n superframes. The frequency (n) can be determined based on, for example, incoming or outgoing message traffic, power consumption needs, etc.
US07751350B1
A full duplex radio bridge using two transceivers coupled to a first packet network, one for transmitting data toward another radio bridge coupled to a second packet network, and the other for receiving data transmitted from the first packet network toward said second packet network by a transceiver of the other radio bridge. Each radio bridge is coupled to its packet network through one network port whose transmit data path is coupled to one of the transceivers, and whose receive data path is coupled to receive data from the other transceiver. An inner loop and outer loop is used. Management packets are routed to the various transceivers using the inner loop and outer loop by routing and filtering functions. Payload packets are transmitted from one packet network to the other using only the outer loop.
US07751340B2
A method and system is provided for determining reliability of data from a network or federated device. In one example, data from different devices in the network are compared and a relationship between the devices is determined. The reliability may be based on the relationship of the devices and/or similarity of data from the devices. In another example, reliability of devices and/or data from the devices may be based on a historical reliability of the devices.
US07751338B2
A process for grouping cable modems by type/modulation profile and/or throughput ability into different logical groups. Each logical group is commanded to transmit on an upstream which has a burst profile set to effectively use the throughput ability of the cable modem. Some species monitor initial ranging bursts and separate CMs with inadequate power onto a lower throughput upstream. Some species monitor post registration data transmissions for various factors and subdivide groups into subgroups of overperformers and underperformers.
US07751335B2
A failure handling system capable of performing failure notification and shutoff control, thereby improving network operability. When failure is detected, an outgoing frame shutoff controller performs shutoff control on the local device such that the local device stops outputting communication frames to a receiving client device. A failure notifier notifies a network manager that the failure has been detected. On receiving a shutoff command, an incoming frame shutoff controller performs shutoff control on an originating client device such that the originating client device stops outputting the communication frames. A communication route manager manages communication routes through which the client devices communicate with each other across the network. On receiving a failure notification from a first transmission device, a shutoff information sender looks up the communication routes to identify a second transmission device connected with the originating client device, and sends a shutoff command to the second transmission device.
US07751334B2
Networks carry various kinds of traffic and ISPs are keen to analyze the traffic so as to be able to support QoS on the distinct traffic flows. Traffic can be broadly categorized into two types: plain traffic and encrypted traffic. Further, each of these traffic types is based on either a standard protocol or a proprietary protocol. While it is fairly straightforward to analyze traffic that are based on standard protocols, it is extremely difficult to analyze encrypted traffic based on proprietary protocols. A system for Skype traffic detection involves analyzing encrypted traffic based on proprietary peer to peer protocol. The proposed approach is based on building Skype traffic models and using the same to determine Skype traffic in the network traffic.
US07751332B2
A data routing method and system, the data routing method including: locating a destination node using a destination locating packet; establishing a preliminary route including anchor nodes based on a route where the destination locating packet is transmitted to the destination node; determining a link cost between neighbor nodes of each of the anchor nodes, and also between the anchor nodes and the neighbor nodes of each of the anchor nodes; generating minimum cost information with respect to a route consuming a minimum cost from the destination node to a source node using the link cost; and forming a data route from the destination node to the source node using the minimum cost information.
US07751327B2
Load balancing manager assigns to each cluster member a filter rule so as to divide traffic processing by a predetermined rule. According to the assigned rule, each cluster member obtains a packet multicast by a neighbor node, on a data link with the neighbor node. Each cluster member detects a session of the obtained packet to perform predetermined processing such as recording and updating of a state and application of a firewall packet filter.
US07751319B2
In a method for classifying data packet units, each comprising a group of data packet parameters which comprises a plurality of data packet parameters, a subgroup of data packet parameters for configuring a classification key is selected, the data packet units are divided into data packet classes on the basis of the classification key and a selected classification algorithm, and the data packet units are allocated to further data packet parameters which correspond to the respective data packet class.
US07751313B2
In a data transmission method and apparatus which can perform a switchover of all of the main lines without requiring much construction cost, a transmission apparatus sets, upon frame transmission or reception, combinations of a plurality of main lines with virtual paths established so as to include at least a part of a bandwidth of the main lines in one or more protection lines as redundant configurations. Upon frame transmission, the apparatus copies frames received in the main lines, assigns identifiers of the redundant configurations to the copied frames, and transmits the copied frames to the virtual paths of the redundant configurations. Upon frame reception, the apparatus determines whether the main lines or the virtual paths forming the redundant configurations are valid, deletes the identifiers of the redundant configurations assigned to frames received from the protection lines, and determines whether the frames from which the identifiers have been deleted should be respectively discarded or transferred depending on validity or invalidity of the main lines.
US07751305B2
A method for providing two or more broadcast services in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) wireless communication system. The method comprises the steps of separately receiving broadcast services to be transmitted, and independently performing coding, interleaving and modulation on the broadcast services according to a required quality for each of the broadcast services; segmenting each of the modulated broadcast signals into minimum transmission units; time-division-multiplexing the segmented broadcast service signals; configuring a frame comprising information on the broadcast service in physical layer transmission information transmitted together with the broadcast service; and transmitting the frame.
US07751302B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for reproducing information using a semiconductor probe. The apparatus includes a storage media including a ferroelectric recording layer which stores information by arranging a polarization direction of polarization domains of the ferroelectric recording layer and a physical recording layer disposed on the ferroelectric recording layer and whereupon information is written by forming pits in the physical recording layer, a semiconductor probe generating a composite signal including an electric field signal generated by an electric field variation of the ferroelectric recording layer of the storage media and a thermal signal generated by a temperature variation generated due to a variation in a shape of the physical recording layer, a signal detector detecting the composite signal from the semiconductor probe, and a demodulator demodulating the composite signal from the signal detector and extracting the electric field signal and the thermal signal from the composite signal.
US07751300B2
An optical disc includes a plurality of recording layers, each layer having a lead-in area, a data area, and a lead-out area. A dedicated-reproducing area having a disc-related information zone, and a rewritable area are provided in at least one of the lead-in and lead-out areas of the optical disc. Accordingly, a reliability of a data recording/reproducing with respect to the optical disc is improved.
US07751298B2
A liquid crystal element for correcting wave aberration included in an optical disc apparatus, is controlled by a liquid crystal element control unit which has a memory portion that stores information about a variation with time of orientation direction of liquid crystal in the case where a voltage is applied to the liquid crystal, with respect to at least one type of voltage value. The liquid crystal element control unit has a drive voltage deciding portion that obtains time period after a predetermined drive voltage is applied to the liquid crystal element until a reproduced signal obtained by processing an electric signal converted by the light detecting unit becomes optimal, and decides a drive voltage to be applied to the liquid crystal element based on the obtained time period, the information stored in the memory portion, and the predetermined drive voltage.
US07751293B2
A test-write method for accurately and quickly determining recording conditions, and an apparatus suitable therefor. In a 2T-based strategy, recording pulse conditions are determined by separately test-writing an even-number length mark and an odd-number length mark, and then the relative positions of the even-number length mark and the odd-number length mark at the recording pulse start time are adjusted.
US07751288B2
A write power adjustment method and optical read/write apparatus for accurate optimum write power setup. Different levels of write power Pwm are used to perform a test write and calculate a modulation Mm corresponding to each level of write power Pwm. Different write power compensated values Pcn are used to calculate an evaluated value Smn=Mm×(Pwm−Pcn). Pcn that maximizes the linearity of the relationship between compensated write power (Pwm−Pcn) and evaluated value Smn is determined as an optimum write power compensated value PcO. Compensated write power PthO that provides a modulation of zero, that is, an evaluated value SmO of zero, when the relationship between compensated write power (Pwm−PcO) for PcO and evaluated value SmO is subjected to linear approximation is determined. PthO and optimum write power compensated value PcO are used to calculate a write power threshold Pth=PthO+PcO. A predetermined calculation is performed on Pth to determine optimum write power Popt. In contrast to a conventional write power adjustment method (κ method), the present invention makes it possible to accurately adjust for the optimum write power even when the optical disc's write power Pwm-to-evaluated value M×Pw relationship is not linear or its modulation M varies.
US07751273B2
A layout structure of a Sub-Word Line Driver (SWD) and a forming method thereof. A layout structure of an SWD may include first through fourth metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors. The layout structure may include a first area including an active area of the first MOS transistor, wherein a gate-poly (GP) of the first MOS transistor may be disposed in a predefined direction over a portion of the first area. The layout structure may also include a second area including an active area of the second through fourth MOS transistors. Each GP of the second through fourth MOS transistors may be disposed in parallel to each other. The GP of the first MOS transistor disposed in the predefined direction may be substantially perpendicular to each GP of the second through fourth MOS transistors. The layout structure of an SWD can improve a driving capability without increasing an area of the chip.
US07751270B2
Disclosed herein are memory devices comprising a plurality of memory cells to which a standby voltage is to be supplied during standby mode to avoid loss of data, and methods of operating said memory devices, the methods comprising: (a) determining an actual value of a bit integrity parameter of the memory cells; (b) comparing said actual value with a predetermined minimal value of the bit integrity parameter which takes into account possible variations in cell properties as a result of process variations; and (c) adjusting the standby voltage towards a more optimal value based on the result of the comparison in such a way that said bit integrity parameter determined for said more optimal value of the standby voltage approaches the predetermined minimal value. The circuitry for measuring the bit integrity parameter preferably comprises a plurality of replica test cells which are added to the memory matrix.
US07751264B1
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises a memory module that stores at least one of data and code. A memory repair database stores data relating to defective memory addresses. A memory control module detects defective memory locations in the memory module, locates redundant memory elements in the memory module, and stores information that associates memory addresses of the defective memory locations with the redundant memory elements in the memory repair database. Storing said information includes electrically altering at least one of a plurality of electrical fuses. A redundant memory decoder module receives the information and physically remaps the memory addresses to the redundant memory locations.
US07751258B2
A magnetic random access memory includes a memory cell having a first magnetoresistive effect element, a reference cell having a second magnetoresistive effect element set in a low-resistance state, a first bit line connected to the memory cell, and set at a first bias potential in a read operation, a second bit line connected to the reference cell, and set at a second bias potential in the read operation, and a reference voltage generator including a reference current generator having a third magnetoresistive effect element set in the high-resistance state, and a current-voltage converter having a fourth magnetoresistive effect element set in the low-resistance state, the reference current generator generating a first electric current by applying the first bias potential to the third magnetoresistive effect element, and the current-voltage converter generating the second bias potential by supplying a second electric current to the fourth magnetoresistive effect element.
US07751257B2
A semiconductor memory device can generate an under_drive voltage that maintains a predetermined level stably even in case of a change in the operation mode of the semiconductor memory device or the level of an external power supply voltage. The semiconductor memory device, which includes an external power supply voltage detector configured to detect a level of an external power supply voltage to generate the external voltage detection signal, an under_drive voltage detector configured to detect a voltage level of an under_drive voltage to generate the under_drive voltage detection signal, and an under_drive voltage generator configured to generate the under_drive voltage in response to the under_drive voltage detection signal with a variable driving force in response to the external voltage detection signal.
US07751252B2
A semiconductor memory capable of storing and reading data in a memory cell for holding the data corresponding to a threshold voltage has a reference current generating circuit having a reference current generating section and an amplifier section.
US07751245B2
An analog voltage NAND architecture non-volatile memory device and programming process is described that reduce the effects of NAND string resistance in source follower sensing by programming the cells in NAND memory cell strings to maintain the resistance presented by the unselected cells on the source-side of a given selected memory cell of the NAND string during both the verify and read. In particular, in one embodiment of the present invention, the cells in the NAND string are programmed sequentially in order from the cells closest the bit line to the final cell that is closest the source line in the string. This allows the source follower sensing of the verify and later read operations to read the programmed threshold voltage across the same stable source-side resistance 602, as the source-side unselected memory cells 20831-208N+1 will already have been programmed and thus will present the same channel resistance to both the source follower verify of the program operation and following source follower read operations, maintaining the compensation for the source-side resistance 602 of the source-side unselected memory cells 20831-208N+1.
US07751238B2
A method of reading a memory system including a flash memory includes: reading data from a page in a first block of the flash memory, incrementing a counter each time data is read from the page to store a corresponding number of read-out cycles of the flash memory, and copying data from the first block of the flash memory to a second block of the flash memory when the counter exceeds a reference number of read-out cycles. The data from the first block includes data from the page.
US07751236B2
A carrier storage node such as a floating gate is formed on a moving electrode with a control gate to form a suspended gate non-volatile memory, reducing floating gate to floating gate coupling and leakage current, and increasing data retention.
US07751235B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first to fourth resistance change elements sequentially arranged apart from each other in a first direction, a first electrode which connects one terminals of the first and second resistance change elements, a second electrode which connects one terminals of the third and fourth resistance change elements, a bit line which connects the other terminals of the second and third resistance change elements, first to fourth word lines respectively paired with the first to fourth resistance change elements, arranged apart from the first and second electrodes, and running in a second direction, a first current source which supplies a first electric current to a chain structure, when writing data in a selected element, and a second current source which supplies a second electric current to a selected word line which corresponds to the selected element, when writing the data in the selected element.
US07751234B2
A phase change memory device includes a memory cell having a phase change material, a write driver adapted to supply a program current to the memory cell during a programming interval, and a pump circuit adapted to enhance a current supply capacity of the write driver during the programming interval. The pump circuit is activated prior to the programming interval in response to an external control signal.
US07751233B2
A method for efficiently driving a phase change memory device is presented that includes the operational procedures of writing, reading, comparing and changing. The phase change memory device has a resistor configured to sense a crystallization state changed by currents so as to store data corresponding to the crystallization state. The writing operation writes data having a first state in a corresponding unit cell of the phase change memory device. The reading operation reads a cell data stored in the unit cell. The comparing operation compares the data having the first state with the cell data read from the unit cell to verify whether or not the data having the first state is the same as the cell data. The changing operation changes a write condition when the data having a first state is different from that of the cell data.
US07751226B2
A phase change memory including a threshold device, such as an ovonic threshold switch, and a storage device may be read. Reading the cell may involve applying a first voltage to a selected cell and then a second voltage, lower than the first voltage. The first voltage may be sufficient to threshold the ovonic threshold switch if the storage device is in the set state.
US07751224B2
A method of data recording and reading for a memory device employing magnetic domain wall movement. The memory device includes a writing track, an interconnecting layer formed on the writing track, and a recording track formed on the interconnecting layer.
US07751222B2
A basic cell comprises a memory cell capable of retaining data having at least a binary value, a first selecting transistor connected between a first terminal of the memory cell and the Mth bit line, and a second selecting transistor connected between the first terminal of the memory cell and the M+1th bit line. A gate of the first selecting transistor is connected to the 2·N−1th selecting line, and a gate of the second selecting transistor is connected to the 2·Nth selecting line.
US07751219B2
A novel schematic for executing search, write and valid bit clear operations in one cycle in a CAM system that includes a plurality of CAM blocks is disclosed. In one embodiment, the plurality of CAM blocks are organized into at least one rectangular array having rows each having a plurality of CAM blocks, a group of CAM cells and associated read/write bit lines connecting the group of CAM cells to an addressed search circuit. The write operation depends on the output of the search operation, wherein the same data is written in to the CAM when the search operation results in a miss in a given cycle. Further, during the same cycle a valid bit clear operation is also performed. The resulting CAM cell provides a high speed three port operation.
US07751217B2
Content addressable memory device utilizing phase change devices. An aspect of the content addressable memory device is the use of a comparatively lower power search-line access element and a comparatively higher power word-line access element. The word-line access element is only utilized during write operations and the search-line access element is only utilized during search operations. The word-line access element being electrically coupled to a second end of a phase change memory element and a word-line. The search-line access element also being electrically coupled to the second end of the phase change memory element and a search-line. The search-line being electrically coupled to a match-line. A bit-line is electrically coupled to a first end of the phase change memory element. Additionally, a complementary set of access elements, a complementary phase change memory element, a complementary search-line, and a complementary bit-line are also included in the content addressable memory device.
US07751214B2
A power control apparatus and power control method that reduce harmonic noise produced when modulating a carrier wave frequency over predetermined cycles. A command value signal is generated for obtaining a desired output voltage, and a carrier wave is output. The frequency of the carrier wave is modulated by a desired frequency over predetermined cycles, and the desired frequency also modulates. The carrier wave is compared to a command value signal and a resulting control signal is provided to a switching unit. Harmonic noise caused by the modulation frequency can be spread, and the peak of the harmonic noise caused by the first modulation frequency can be reduced. Therefore, noise caused by a modulation frequency can be reduced.
US07751213B2
A self-driven synchronous DC-DC converter (100) includes an input circuit (101) having a switching device (110) for selectively generating a pulsed DC input voltage responsive to an input switch control signal, the pulsed DC input voltage being one of a plurality of DC voltage pulses; an output circuit (113) coupled to the input circuit (101) and including an active device (114) having device input, device output, and device control nodes, the device control node responsive to a control voltage for selectively varying the conductivity between the device input node and the device output node; and a control circuit (115) coupled to the device control node and configured for generating the control voltage responsive to the pulsed DC input voltage. In the converter (100), the control voltage is synchronized with the pulsed DC input voltage and varies non-linearly during an interval between the DC voltage pulses for selectively reducing the conductivity in accordance with a non-linear function.
US07751211B2
An instantaneous voltage-drop compensation circuit including: a first voltage detector detecting three-phase voltages to be input to a power converter converting three-phase AC to DC based on control pulse signals, and outputting three-phase voltage signals; a first three-phase to two-phase converter converting the detected signals to two-phase voltage signals; a first current detector detecting three-phase currents to be input to the power converter and outputting three-phase current signals; a second three-phase to two-phase converter converting the detected current signals to two-phase current signals; a first subtracter generating a first deviation signal from input current command signals and the two-phase current signals; an input current controller generating input current control signals based on the first deviation signal; and a first adder adding the two-phase voltage signals to the input current control signals, to generate control pulse signals for the power converter.
US07751206B2
A cable management system includes a cable base comprising a first end, a second end, and a resilient member that is operable to allow a rest distance between the first end and the second end to be changed. A plurality of cables are partially housed in the cable base, wherein each cable includes a first section that extends from the first end of the cable base and a second section that extends from the second end of the cable base.
US07751200B2
According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a housing, a display panel contained in the housing, a longitudinal frame extending vertically along a back surface of the display panel and secured to the display panel, a circuit board electrically connected to the display panel, and a chassis member on which the circuit board is mounted. The chassis member is a plate-like member of a size greater than or equal to that of the circuit board, arranged between the longitudinal frame and an horizontal edge part of the display panel, supported by the longitudinal frame to be opposed to the back surface of the display panel, and provided with a stud pin to which the circuit board is secured.
US07751199B2
The present invention can relate to an electronic device having one or more support tabs that protect a circuit board disposed inside the device from externally applied compressive forces. In particular, when a force is applied to a housing of the device, the support tabs can buttress the housing of the device, either directly or through other intervening components disposed within the device, to reduce the likelihood that the housing or intervening components will contact and damage the circuit board. The present invention also can relate to methods for manufacturing such an electronic device.
US07751198B2
The present invention can relate to multiple-connector assemblies for use in, for example, electronic devices. Each of the connectors are constrained to another connector by aligning one or more complementary sets of reference features. A locating bracket may be used to couple multiple connectors together. Alternatively, the connectors may be coupled to each other directly. The electronic device also may include a retainer coupled to the connectors (either directly or indirectly through the locating bracket). The retainer and a surface of one of the connectors may form a single plane to which an end cap of the housing may be coupled, thereby accurately locating the end cap with respect to the connectors. The present invention also can relate to methods of manufacturing such an electronic device.
US07751195B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a housing, electronic circuitry, a first arm member, and a spring. The housing includes a first housing section and a second housing section. The electronic circuitry is mounted in the housing. The first arm member is connected between the first housing section and the second housing section. The first arm member is configured to move a portion of the second housing section away from the first housing section. The spring is connected between the second housing section and the first arm member. The spring is configured to exert a torque between the second housing section and the first arm member.
US07751192B2
A heatsink having tapered geometry that improves passive cooling efficiency is discussed. A tapered geometry between heatsink heat dissipation elements, as a function of distance along a z-axis opposing gravity, decreases resistance to rarification of passively flowing cooling gas upon heating. Thus, the tapered heatsink elements result in higher velocity of gas flow and increased cooling efficiency of the heatsink. Optionally, the heatsink is made from a thermally conductive polymer allowing the heatsink to be created in complex shapes using injection molding.
US07751186B2
A chassis having a bypass channel for air flow is disclosed. The chassis include a bypass channel that is proximate one side of the chassis. The bypass channel may be formed by the side of the chassis and a module of the computing system, such as the processor module of the computing system. A second module exists in the rear of the chassis. A physical barrier may be used to direct air from the bypass channel to the second module, which may be an I/O module. A plenum is placed on the opposite side of I/O module from the air flow. The presence of the plenum creates a negative pressure on the opposite side of the second module, causing air to cross the second module into the plenum. A fan in the rear of the chassis causes air to leave the plenum and exit the chassis.
US07751185B2
A docking station applied to a portable electronic device includes a casing module, a circuit module, a first input/output module and a second input/output module. The casing module has a casing, an opening formed on the casing, and a cover pivoting around the casing in order to selectively open or close the opening. The circuit module is disposed inside the casing. The first input/output module is disposed on the casing and electrically connected between the circuit module and a plurality of different peripherals. The second input/output module is disposed on the casing and electrically connected between the circuit module and an external connector of the portable electronic device. Therefore, when a rear side of the portable electronic device pushes the cover, the cover is opened in order to make one part of the rear side of the portable electronic device pass through the opening and receive in the casing.
US07751179B2
Replacing, and in particular extending, the body of an outdoor distributor cabinet includes removing the body of the old distributor cabinet, slipping a new hollow base over the old assembly frame and the old base. A new body, which has at least the same inner capacity as the old body, is placed on top of the old assembly frame, aligned therewith, and secured. Accordingly, the distributor cabinet remains in its original position, whereby no new authorization for installation or building permit is required.
US07751174B2
The present invention is intended to solve the problem of a conventional thermosetting conductive paste with respect to bonding-property between an internal electrode(s) and an external electrode(s) so as to provide a multilayer ceramic electronic part suitable for its mounting on a substrate and for its plating-treatment. The present invention relates to a multilayer ceramic electronic part, characterized in that it has an external electrode(s) formed from a thermosetting conductive paste comprising conductive particles having a high melting point, metal powder having a melting point of 300° C. or less and a resin(s).
US07751169B2
The present invention contemplates systems and methods for distributing RF and DC signals and detecting, logging and suppressing surge energy associated with surge events such as lightning and power line surges. The detection and logging is provided in order to determine possible causes of a failure and who might be responsible for the repair. The suppression is provided in order to protect electrical equipment such as split mount wireless radio systems from catastrophic failure due to surge events.
US07751168B2
A power supply supplying electric power through parallel operation of power supply units is disclosed. Each of the power supply units includes a transformer; a stopped state latch part configured to latch a control signal for controlling outputting of the power supply unit in a predetermined stopped state to stop the outputting, after passage of a first time in response to detection of an overcurrent on a primary side of the transformer; and an outputting restriction part configured to set the control signal in a predetermined restricted state to restrict the outputting of the power supply unit without stopping the outputting, after passage of a second time in response to detection of an overcurrent on a secondary side of the transformer. The second time is shorter than the first time.
US07751163B2
An electric device protection circuit comprises at least one conductive bridging unit which electrically connects a terminal of the electric device to a protection node set to a protection potential, the protection potential being chosen such that the conductive bridging unit switches from a resistive state to a conductive state in case that the voltage or current at the terminal exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
