US07754736B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and m are as defined in the description and claims, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as well as to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to methods for their preparation. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases which are associated with the modulation of H3 receptors.
US07754731B2
Potassium salts of Compound A and methods for their preparation are disclosed, wherein Compound A is of formula: Compound A is an HIV integrase inhibitor useful for treating or prophylaxis of HIV infection, for delaying the onset of AIDS, and for treating or prophylaxis of AIDS.
US07754730B2
This invention provides novel arylindenopyridines and arylindenopyrimidines of the formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and X are as defined above, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising same, useful for treating disorders ameliorated by antagonizing adenosine A2a receptors. This invention also provides therapeutic and prophylactic methods using the instant compounds and pharmaceutical compositions.
US07754728B2
A drug for topically administration which is effective as an antiallergic agent. The drug for topically administration contains as an active ingredient an adenine compound represented by the general formula (1): [wherein ring A represents a 6 to 10 membered, mono or bicyclic, aromatic hydrocarbon or a 5 to 10 membered, mono or bicyclic, aromatic heterocycle containing one to three heteroatoms selected among 0 to 2 nitrogen atoms, 0 or 1 oxygen atom, and 0 or 1 sulfur atom; n is an integer of 0 to 2; m is an integer of 0 to 2; R represents halogeno, (un)substituted alkyl, etc.; X1 represents oxygen, sulfur, NR1 (R1 represents hydrogen or alkyl), or a single bond; Y1 represents a single bond, alkylene, etc.; Y2 represents a single bond, alkylene, etc.; Z represents alkylene; and at least one of Q1 and Q2 represents —COOR10 (wherein R10 represents (un)substituted alkyl, etc.), etc.] or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound.
US07754725B2
Compounds having the formula (I): and in particular, those of subgenus VIIa are disclosed as inhibits or modulators of the activity of the heat shock protein Hsp90. As such they are useful for treating cancer, particularly hematopoietic tumors of lymphoid or myeloid lineage, prostate cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, breast cancer and melanoma.
US07754721B2
Compounds of the formula: or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein m, n, X, Y, Z, Ar, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, methods of using, and methods of preparing the compounds.
US07754717B2
The present invention comprises a new class of compounds useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of protein kinase mediated diseases, including autoimmune disease and inflammation. In one embodiment, the compounds have a general Formula I wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, L, R1, R2 and R3 are defined herein. The invention also comprises pharmaceutical compositions including one or more compounds of the present invention, methods of use such as treatment of Lck and/or c-Kit kinase mediated diseases by administering the compounds of the invention, or compositions including one or more compounds of the invention, and intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of the present invention.
US07754716B2
Combination comprising a vasculostatic compound and an alkylating agent for the treatment of a tumor
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical combination which comprises (a) a vasculostatic compound, (b) an alkylating agent and (c) optionally at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for simultaneous, separate or sequential use for the treatment of a tumor disease; a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a combination; the use of such a combination for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of a tumor disease; a commercial package or product comprising such a combination as a combined preparation for simultaneous, separate or sequential use; and to a method of treatment of a warm-blooded animal, especially a human.
US07754712B2
The invention provides N-cyclic sulfonamido compounds and salts of Formula I: wherein A is as described in the specification and R1 and R2 combine to form a [3.3.1] or a [3.2.1] ring system, where the nitrogen is attached to the two bridgehead carbons, and the [3.3.1] or [3.2.1] ring systems are optionally fused with an heteroaryl or heterocycloalkyl ring. Compounds of Formula I are useful in treating or preventing cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's Disease. The invention also encompasses pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, methods of treating cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, and the intermediates useful in preparing the compounds of Formula I.
US07754711B2
Methods of treating an SCD-mediated disease or condition in a mammal, preferably a human, are disclosed, wherein the methods comprise administering to a mammal in need thereof a compound of formula (Ia): where x, y, W, V, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R6a, R7, R7a, R8, R8a, R9 and R9a are defined herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I) are also disclosed.
US07754707B2
Methods for treating a host suffering from a chronic immune disease, e.g., MS or CFS, are provided. In practicing the subject methods, an effective amount of an elastase inhibitory agent, e.g., a β-lactam containing compound, is administered to the host. Also provided are compositions for use in practicing the subject methods.
US07754706B2
The use of SOD mimics, particularly Mn(III) salen SOD mimics, for the treatment of AMD, DR, and retinal edema is disclosed.
US07754701B2
The present invention relates to a difructose anhydride (DFA)-containing composition and use thereof. DFA is a cyclic disaccharide in which the reducing termini of two fructose molecules bind each other to hydroxyl groups at the other nonreducing termini.According to the present invention, it has been revealed that DFA is effective in accelerating the absorption of magnesium, zinc or copper, accelerating bone formation, accelerating diuretic action, and improving bowel movement and is useful in inhibiting dental caries.A composition of the present invention can be used as a composition for a medicinal product and a food or drink product (including feed for animal use). Examples of a medicinal product and a food or drink product for human or animal use include formulated powder milk, parenteral nutrients, health food and drink products, and additives for feed and are not particularly limited as long as they are ultimately in an orally administrable form.
US07754699B2
Compounds having the formula I wherein R1 is as herein defined are Hepatitis C virus NS5b polymerase inhibitors. Also disclosed are compositions and methods for inhibiting hepatitis replication, and processes for making the compounds of formula I
US07754696B2
A stable, palatable solution of Ivermectin in water is provided for the mass medication of animals. The present formulation does not require the use of benzyl alcohol and is stable indefinitely in the concentrated form and for up to 30 days when mixed with water.
US07754694B2
The present invention provides pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine-glycoside prodrug of general formula 1a-b, useful as selective anticancer agents. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepine-glycoside prodrugs of general formula 1a-b. This invention also provides activation of these prodrugs by E.coli β galactosidase and envisaged that these molecules are toxic to human cancer cell lines in the presence of the enzyme E.coli β-galactosidase. The prodrugs 1a and 1b were also found to be toxic to human cancer HepG2 cells even in the absence of the E.coli β-galactosidase. The toxic effect of the molecules when activated was similar to that of the parent molecules 6a and 6b, respectively.
US07754676B2
The present invention relates to a vaccine for increasing the immunogenicity of a tumor antigen thus allowing treatment of cancer, as well as a vaccine that increases the immunogenicity of a viral antigen, thus allowing treatment of viral infection, including immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. In particular, the present invention provides a fusion protein comprising a defensin fused to either a tumor antigen or viral antigen which is administered as either a protein or nucleic acid vaccine to elicit an immune response effective in treating cancer or effective in treating or preventing viral infection.
US07754672B2
The present invention relates to cleaning compositions comprising polymer bound manganese compounds as reducing agents and the use of such manganese compounds in cleaning compositions, particularly to machine dishwashing compositions comprising a protein bound manganese compound as a silver corrosion protection agent and the use of such a manganese compound in dishwashing compositions.
US07754668B2
The invention provides cleaning compositions for cleaning microelectronic substrates that are able to essentially completely clean such substrates and inhibit metal corrosion or produce essentially no corrosion of the metal elements of such substrates, and to do so at relatively short cleaning times and relatively low temperatures compared to the cleaning times required for prior art alkaline-containing cleaning compositions. The invention also provides method of using such cleaning compositions to clean microelectronic substrates without producing any significant corrosion of the metal elements of the microelectronic substrate. The cleaning compositions of this invention comprise (a) at least one organic solvent, (b) at least one unneutralized inorganic phosphorus-containing acid, and (c) water. The cleaning compositions of this invention optionally can have present in the compositions other components, such as for example surfactants, metal complexing or chelating agents, corrosion inhibitors, and the like. The cleaning compositions of this invention are characterized by an absence of organic amines, hydroxylamines or other strong bases such as ammonium bases and the like that would neutralize the inorganic phosphorus-containing acid component. The cleaning and residue removal compositions of this invention are especially suitable for cleaning microelectronic substrates containing aluminum, titanium, and tungsten.
US07754664B2
A lubricant or lubricant additive is an ionic liquid alkylammonium salt. The alkylammonium salt has the structure RxNH(4-x)+,[F3C(CF2)yS(O)2]2N− where x is 1 to 3, R is independently C1 to C12 straight chain alkyl, branched chain alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkyl substituted cycloalkyl, cycloalkyl substituted alkyl, or, optionally, when x is greater than 1, two R groups comprise a cyclic structure including the nitrogen atom and 4 to 12 carbon atoms, and y is independently 0 to 11. The lubricant is effective for the lubrication of many surfaces including aluminum and ceramics surfaces.
US07754660B2
Process to prepare zirconium-based cross-linker compositions and their use in oil field applications
A process to prepare a solution of zirconium-alkanolamine-hydroxycarboxylic acid complex is disclosed and use of the solution in oil field applications such as hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones. The process comprises contacting an alcohol solution of a zirconium complex with an alkanolamine, then with an α-hydroxycarboxylic acid to produce a solution of zirconium-alkanolamine-hydroxycarboxylic acid complex. The solution is particularly suitable for use in a cross-linking composition in hydraulic fracturing and plugging of permeable zones of subterranean formations at temperatures of 275° F. (135° C.) and higher in the formation.
US07754659B2
A composite proppant having a proppant substrate such as a porous ceramic or silica sand coated with magnetic particles and a method of propping a subterranean formation using a composition consisting essentially of the composite proppant.
US07754657B2
Compositions comprising at least one C4-C30 olefin or oxidation product thereof and kerosene or an aromatic solvent are particularly effective for use in removing asphaltene and asphaltene-containing organic deposits and in preventing or reducing the precipitation and deposition of asphaltenes from hydrocarbon fluids. When added to heavy oils comprising asphaltenes, alone or in combination with dispersants and further inhibitors, the invented compositions lower viscosity and pour point, and aid in preventing asphaltene precipitation during transport and in combustion.
US07754648B2
A composite material includes a substrate and a self-cleanable hydrophilic surface layer. The surface layer includes a plurality of components: a first component having a photocatalyst which functions as a catalyst upon exposure to light; a second component having one or more of aluminum oxide, zinc oxide, strontium oxide, barium oxide, magnesium oxide, calcium oxide, rubidium oxide, sodium oxide, potassium oxide and phosphorus pentoxide; and a third component having one or more of silicon dioxide, zirconium dioxide, germanium dioxide and thorium dioxide. The first through third components are all situated within the surface layer, which is provided as a single surface layer, such that all of the components are in close proximity to one another within the single surface layer.
US07754646B2
Highly functionalized, porous organosilica particles and methods of their synthesis are described that employ high amounts of functional silane such as 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxysilane. Silane particle diameters are controlled from less than 1 μm to over 100 μm. The particles have a high surface area due to their advantageous internal structures, which consist of large pores, typically up to 10 μm that are linked by small channels of typically about 20 nm diameter. Isothiocyanate modified fluorescent dyes can enter and react with thiol groups inside the pores. The invention also provides clear silica shells of controlled thicknesses to protect fluorescent signals and provide an independent parameter for distinguishing particle types based on light scattering off different sized particles. The particles are stable and useful for many purposes, particularly for optical bar coding in combinatorial synthesis of polymers such as nucleic acid, polypeptide, and other synthesized molecules.
US07754643B2
The present invention provides a novel transesterification catalyst having the general formula: Zn3M2(CN)n(ROH).xZnCl2.yH2O wherein R is tertiary-butyl and M is a transition metal ion selected from Fe, Co and Cr, x varies from 0 to 0.5, y varies from 3-5 and n is 10 or 12. The above said catalyst is useful for an efficient transesterification of glycerides, fatty acid esters and cyclic carbonates on reactions with alcohols.
US07754640B2
A magnesium compound obtainable by reacting metal magnesium, ethanol, an alcohol having from 3 to 10 carbon atoms and a halogen and/or a halogen-containing compound containing at least 0.0001 gram atom of a halogen atom relative to one gram atom of the metal magnesium at 0 to 70° C., which comprises composition represented by the formula (I), and which has a particle diameter D50 corresponding to 50% of cumulative weight fraction of from 4 to 20 μm and a particle size distribution index (P) of P<4.0: Mg(OC2H5)2−n(OR1)n (I) where n is a numerical value satisfying 0
US07754626B2
An article of apparel is disclosed that includes a textile with at least one property that changes upon exposure to a physical stimulus. The textile has a modifiable structure formed from one or more yarns that exhibit a dimensional transformation upon exposure to the physical stimulus. The yarns have a first set of dimensions when unexposed to the physical stimulus, and the yarns have a second set of dimensions when exposed to the physical stimulus. The structure of the textile is modified by exposing the textile to the physical stimulus such that the yarns transform from the first set of dimensions to the second set of dimensions and change the property of the textile. Reinforcing structures, incisions, partial incisions, and coatings may also be utilized to enhance the textile structures.
US07754621B2
This invention concerns a process for producing oxide thin film on a substrate by an ALD type process. According to the process, alternating vapor-phase pulses of at least one metal source material, and at least one oxygen source material are fed into a reaction space and contacted with the substrate. According to the invention, an yttrium source material and a zirconium source material are alternately used as the metal source material so as to form an yttrium-stabilized zirconium oxide (YSZ) thin film on a substrate.
US07754617B2
A method of forming a thick polysilicon layer for a MEMS inertial sensor includes forming a first amorphous polysilicon film on a substrate in an elevated temperature environment for a period of time such that a portion of the amorphous polysilicon film undergoes crystallization and grain growth at least near the substrate. The method also includes forming an oxide layer on the first amorphous polysilicon film, annealing the first amorphous polysilicon film in an environment of about 1100° C. or greater to produce a crystalline film, and removing the oxide layer. Lastly, the method includes forming a second amorphous polysilicon film on a surface of the crystalline polysilicon film in an elevated temperature environment for a period of time such that a portion of the second amorphous polysilicon film undergoes crystallization and grain growth at least near the surface of the crystalline polysilicon film.
US07754616B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a mask layer on a layer that is to be subjected to etching and contains at least one of silicon carbonate, silicon oxide, sapphire, gallium nitride, aluminum gallium nitride, indium gallium nitride, and aluminum nitride, the mask layer having an opening and including a nickel chrome film, a gold film, and a nickel film in this order when seen from the layer to be subjected to etching; and performing etching on the layer to be subjected to etching, with the mask layer serving as a mask.
US07754615B2
A method and apparatus for detecting the endpoint in a dry plasma etching system comprising a first electrode (e.g., upper electrode) and a second electrode (e.g., lower electrode) upon which a substrate rests is described. A direct current (DC) voltage is applied between the first electrode and a ring electrode surrounding the second electrode, and the DC current is monitored to determine the endpoint of the etching process. The DC current is affected by the impedance of the plasma, and therefore responds to many variations including, for example, the plasma density, electron/ion flux to exposed surfaces, the electron temperature, etc.
US07754613B2
Etching and protective-film deposition operations E and D are in alternation repeatedly executed on a silicon substrate carried on a platform within a processing chamber. With gas inside the processing chamber having been exhausted to pump down the chamber interior, in the etching operation E, the substrate is etched by supplying etching gas into the chamber and converting it into plasma and applying a bias potential to the platform, and in the protective-film deposition operation D, a protective film is formed on the silicon substrate by supplying protective-film deposition gas into the processing chamber and converting it into plasma. When a predetermined time prior to the close of operations E and D (time intervals indicated by reference marks Ee and De) is reached, the supply of etching or protective-film deposition gas is halted, and the exhaust flow rate of gas exhausted from the chamber is made greater than that previously.
US07754612B2
Methods and apparatuses for removing polysilicon material from a semiconductor workpiece are disclosed. A particular method includes contacting a polishing pad with a semiconductor workpiece having a surface polysilicon material. The method also includes disposing a polishing liquid between the polysilicon material and the polishing pad. The polishing liquid contains an oxidizer that does not include metal elements. The method further includes moving at least one of the semiconductor workpiece and the polishing pad relative to the other while the semiconductor workpiece contacts the polishing pad and the polishing liquid. At least some of the polysilicon material is removed while the polysilicon material contacts the oxidizer in the polishing liquid, as at least one of the semiconductor workpiece and the polishing pad moves relative to the other.
US07754611B2
A chemical mechanical polishing method is disclosed. The method includes forming a film on a wafer having at least one trench structure thereon; polishing the surface of the film by providing a polishing composition to provide a first polished surface; rinsing the first polished surface with a rinse composition to provide a rinsed surface; and polishing the rinsed surface by providing a second polishing composition to provide a second polished surface.
US07754610B2
A method of plasma etching tungsten silicide over polysilicon particularly useful in fabricating flash memory having both a densely packed area and an open (iso) area requiring a long over etch due to microloading. Wafer biasing is decreased in the over etch. The principal etchant include NF3 and Cl2. Argon is added to prevent undercutting at the dense/iso interface. Oxygen and nitrogen oxidize any exposed silicon to increase etch selectivity and straightens the etch profile. SiCl4 may be added for additional selectivity.
US07754607B2
A method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display, the method includes steps of depositing a transparent conductive layer, forming a pixel electrode, and four bottom layers, depositing a semiconductor insulation layer on the pixel electrode and the four bottom layers, defining the semiconductor insulation layer to form two contact openings two of the bottom layers, depositing and defining two top layers and two scanning lines both with an indentation at an edge thereof, and the indentations face the first pixel electrode by an opposite direction, and forming four metal-insulation-metal (MIM) diodes.
US07754606B2
A method and apparatus if provided for shielding a capacitor structure formed in a semiconductor device. In a capacitor formed in an integrated circuit, one or more shields are disposed around layers of conductive strips to shield the capacitor. The shields confine the electric fields between the limits of the shields.
US07754605B2
The surface of a conductive layer such as a conductive nitride, a conductive silicide, a metal, or metal alloy or compound, is exposed to a dopant gas which provides an n-type or p-type dopant. The dopant gas may be included in a plasma. Semiconductor material, such as silicon, germanium, or their alloys, is deposited directly on the surface which has been exposed to the dopant gas. During and subsequent to deposition, dopant atoms diffuse into the deposited semiconductor, forming a thin heavily doped region and making a good ohmic contact between the semiconductor material and the underlying conductive layer.
US07754604B2
The present invention provides improved methods of depositing tungsten-containing films on substrates, particularly on silicon substrates. The methods involve depositing an interfacial or “flash” layer of tungsten on the silicon prior to deposition of tungsten nitride. The tungsten flash layer is typically deposited by a CVD reaction of a tungsten precursor and a reducing agent. According to various embodiments, the tungsten flash layer may be deposited with a high reducing agent to tungsten-precursor ratio and/or at low temperature to reduce attack by the tungsten precursor. In many cases, the substrate is a semiconductor wafer or a partially fabricated semiconductor wafer. Applications include depositing tungsten nitride as (or as part of) a diffusion barrier and/or adhesion layer for tungsten contacts.
US07754597B2
A method for fabricating a bonding pad 45 includes disposing a droplet L including a liquid containing a conductive material on a substrate P by a droplet ejection method and solidifying the disposed droplet L to forms the pad. The bonding pad 45 formed has a cylindrical shape and includes a concave part 47.
US07754580B2
An epitaxial layer is formed on a high-resistance semiconductor substrate containing interstitial oxygen at a high concentration, and then a heat treatment is performed to the semiconductor substrate at a high temperature in an oxidizing atmosphere. Accordingly, a stratiform region of SiO2 is formed by deposition at an interface between the epitaxial layer and the semiconductor substrate. As a result, an apparent SOI substrate for an SOI semiconductor device can be manufactured at a low cost.
US07754579B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes depositing a fill material (4) on a substrate portion (2) and on a dielectric layer (3) being disposed on the substrate (1) and having an opening (10) located above the substrate portion (2), removing the fill material (4) disposed above the dielectric layer (3), thereby leaving an exposed top surface (6) of the dielectric layer (3) and residual fill material (15) within the opening (10), forming a hard mask material (5) on the exposed top surface (6) of the dielectric layer (3) and on the residual fill material (15), patterning the hard mask material (5) for forming a hard mask (25) having trenches (8a, 8b) extending along a lateral direction (X) and exposing portions of the residual fill material (15) adjacent to the dielectric layer (3) and portions of the dielectric layer (3) adjacent to the residual fill material (15), anisotropically etching the dielectric layer (3), the residual fill material (15) and the substrate (1) selectively to the hard mask (5), thereby forming at least a first and a second isolation trench (11a, 11b) extending along the lateral direction (X).
US07754575B2
A method for manufacturing an inductor according to the embodiment comprises the steps of: forming a first photoresist pattern; forming an impurity region forming the inductor by implanting an impurity ion to the substrate by means of the first photoresist pattern and a pad region applying current across the impurity region; forming a second photoresist pattern so that a position spaced by a predetermined interval from the impurity region is opened; and forming a guard impurity region in the position spaced from the impurity region by implanting the same impurity ion as the impurity ion by means of the second photoresist pattern.
US07754568B2
A semiconductor device such as a flash memory includes a semiconductor substrate, two gate insulating films formed on the substrate so as to have a first film thickness and a second film thickness smaller than the first film thickness respectively, and a polycrystalline silicon film formed on the gate insulating films so that parts of the polycrystalline silicon film on the respective gate insulating films are on a level with each other and serving as a gate electrode. The substrate is formed with a recess defined by a bottom and sidewalls substantially perpendicular to the bottom, the recess corresponding to the part of the gate insulating film with the first film thickness.
US07754562B2
A semiconductor device, having a memory cell region and a peripheral circuit region, includes an insulating film, having an upper surface, formed on a major surface of a semiconductor substrate to extend from the memory cell region to the peripheral circuit region. A capacitor lower electrode assembly is formed in the memory cell region to upwardly extend to substantially the same height as the upper surface of the insulating film on the major surface of the semiconductor substrate. Additionally, the lower electrode assembly includes first and second lower electrodes that are adjacent through the insulating film. A capacitor upper electrode is formed on the capacitor lower electrode through a dielectric film, to extend onto the upper surface of the insulating film. The capacitor lower electrode includes a capacitor lower electrode part having a top surface and a bottom surface. A semiconductor device organized as just described, permits implementation having a high density of integration while ensuring the capacitor exhibits high reliability and a constant capacitance.
US07754557B2
A method for manufacturing a vertical CMOS image sensor related to a semiconductor device is disclosed. A high-temperature double annealing process and/or an additional passivation nitride film are selectively applied in order to improve dark leakage characteristics and also to prevent or reduce an incidence of circular defects, thereby enhancing the quality and reliability of the vertical CMOS image sensor.
US07754556B2
By recessing portions of the drain and source areas on the basis of a spacer structure, the subsequent implantation process for forming the deep drain and source regions may result in a moderately high dopant concentration extending down to the buried insulating layer of an SOI transistor. Furthermore, the spacer structure maintains a significant amount of a strained semiconductor alloy with its original thickness, thereby providing an efficient strain-inducing mechanism. By using sophisticated anneal techniques, undue lateral diffusion may be avoided, thereby allowing a reduction of the lateral width of the respective spacers and thus a reduction of the length of the transistor devices. Hence, enhanced charge carrier mobility in combination with reduced junction capacitance may be accomplished on the basis of reduced lateral dimensions.
US07754551B2
This invention proposes a method for making very low threshold voltage (Vt) metal-gate/high-κ CMOSFETs using novel self-aligned low-temperature ultra shallow junctions with gate-first process compatible with VLSI. At 1.2 nm equivalent-oxide thickness (EOT), good effective work-function of 5.3 and 4.1 eV, low Vt of +0.05 and 0.03 V, high mobility of 90 and 243 cm2/Vs, and small 85° C. bias-temperature-instability <32 mV (10 MV/cm, 1 hr) are measured for p- and n-MOS.
US07754550B2
The gate oxide in the trenches of a trench type Schottky device are formed by oxidizing a layer of polysilicon deposited in trenches of a silicon or silicon carbide substrate. A small amount of the substrate is also oxidized to create a good interface between the substrate and the oxide layer which is formed. The corners of the trench are rounded by the initial formation and removal of a sacrificial oxide layer.
US07754549B2
A method of manufacturing a thin film transistor array panel includes forming an amorphous silicon film on an insulating substrate; forming a sacrificial film having an embossed surface on the amorphous silicon film; contacting a metal plate with the sacrificial film and performing heat-treatment for crystallizing the amorphous silicon film to change the amorphous silicon film to a polycrystalline silicon film; removing the metal plate and the sacrificial film; patterning the polycrystalline silicon film to form a semiconductor; forming a gate insulating layer which covers the semiconductor; forming a gate line on the gate insulating layer, a portion of the gate line overlapping the semiconductor; heavily doping a conductive impurity into portions of the semiconductor to form a source region and a drain region; forming an interlayer insulating layer which covers the gate line and the semiconductor; and forming a data line and an output electrode connected to the source and drain regions, respectively, on the interlayer insulating layer.
US07754529B2
Flip chip mounting body and method for mounting such flip chip mounting body and bump forming method
In a flip chip mounted body in which a semiconductor chip (20) having a plurality of electrode terminals (21) is disposed so as to be opposed to a wiring board (10) having a plurality of connection terminals (11), with the connection terminals (11) and the electrode terminals (21) being connected electrically, a resin (13) containing electrically conductive particles (12) is supplied between the connection terminals (11) and the electrode terminals (21), the electrically conductive particles (12) and the resin (13) are heated and melted, and vibrations are applied so as to make them flow. The molten electrically conductive particles (12) are allowed to self-assemble between the connection terminals (11) and the electrode terminals (21), thereby forming connectors (22) that connect them electrically. It becomes more likely that the molten electrically conductive particles in the resin contact the connection terminals or the electrode terminals, whereby the molten electrically conductive particles self-assemble between the electrode terminals and the connection terminals that have a high wettability, making it possible to form connectors for establishing an electric connection between these terminals in a uniform manner.
US07754522B2
Methods, devices, and systems associated with phase change memory structures are described herein. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure can reduce thermal crosstalk associated with phase change memory cells, which can provide various benefits including improved data reliability and retention and decreased read and/or write times, among various other benefits. One or more embodiments can reduce the number of processing steps associated with providing local interconnects to phase change memory arrays.
US07754518B2
A method and apparatus for thermally processing a substrate is provided. A substrate is disposed within a processing chamber configured for thermal processing by directing electromagnetic energy toward a surface of the substrate. An energy blocker is provided to block at least a portion of the energy directed toward the substrate. The blocker prevents damage to the substrate from thermal stresses as the incident energy approaches an edge of the substrate.
US07754514B2
A method of making a light emitting element, the light emitting element with a semiconductor layer represented by: AlXInYGa1−X−YN (0≦X≦1, 0≦Y≦1, 0≦X+Y≦1), has the step of wet-etching a surface of the semiconductor layer by using an etching solution to have a roughened surface on the semiconductor layer. The wet-etching is conducted without irradiating the surface of the semiconductor layer with a light with a wavelength region corresponding to energy higher than bandgap energy of the semiconductor layer.
US07754513B2
Latch-up resistant semiconductor structures formed on a hybrid substrate and methods of forming such latch-up resistant semiconductor structures. The hybrid substrate is characterized by first and second semiconductor regions that are formed on a bulk semiconductor region. The second semiconductor region is separated from the bulk semiconductor region by an insulating layer. The first semiconductor region is separated from the bulk semiconductor region by a conductive region of an opposite conductivity type from the bulk semiconductor region. The buried conductive region thereby the susceptibility of devices built using the first semiconductor region to latch-up.
US07754495B2
Methods are provided for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with increased risk of preeclampsia. The methods involve measuring levels of TGF-β3, receptors of cytokines of the TGβ family, or HIF-1α.
US07754484B2
Use of esters of unsaturated, physiologically active fatty acids as nutrient media for cell cultures
The disclosed invention relates to the use of esters of unsaturated, physiologically active fatty acids as nutrient media for cell cultivation and, more particularly, as a substitute for foetal bovine serum. In one aspect, the esters comprise more than 50 mol-% of physiologically active fatty acids containing 16 to 24 carbon atoms and 2 to 5 double bonds as the acid component and a lower C1-4 alcohol, preferably ethanol, or a sterol as ester component. In another aspect, the esters comprise a transesterification product of natural or synthetic oils or a mixture of such oils having greater than 50 mol-% of unsaturated, physiologically active fatty acids, based on the acyl group, and a lower C1-4 alcohol or a sterol. In a further aspect, the esters are used together with sterols, phospholipids and/or vegetable proteins or are liposomally encapsulated.
US07754481B2
The invention relates to new keratinocytes which may be cultured in vitro and the advantageous use thereof for preparing a product which can be used to treat acute and chronic wounds.
US07754480B2
The present invention relates, in general, to stem cells, and in particular, to a method of isolating stem cells and to reagents suitable for use in such a method. The invention further relates to stem cell populations isolatable in accordance with the present method.
US07754467B2
Methods and compositions for targeting heterologous polypeptides to bacterial cell walls are provided.
US07754466B2
The present invention provides a method of producing a dipeptide from starting materials that are available at low costs through a route industrially advantageous and simple. Dipeptides are produced from amino acid esters and amino acids by using a culture of a microbe having an ability to produce a dipeptide from an amino acid ester and an amino acid, microbial cells separated from the culture, or treated microbial cell product.
US07754455B2
A biocatalytic method for the synthesis of 2-(N,N-dimethyl amino)ethanol and/or choline esters of acrylic acid and/or methacrylic acid comprising reacting 2-(N,N-dimethylamino)ethanol and/or choline with acrylyl-CoA and/or methacrylyl-coA in the presence of a biocatalyst with choline acetyltransferase activity. The acrylyl-CoA and/or the methacrylyl CoA is formed by the reaction of acrylate and/or methacrylate with coenzyme A in the presence of ATP and a biocatalyst with S-acetyl coenzyme A synthetase activity.
US07754453B2
Methods and compositions are provided for detecting a primer extension product in a reaction mixture. In the subject methods, a primer extension reaction is conducted in the presence of a polymerase having 3′→5′ exonuclease activity and at least one FET labeled oligonucleotide probe that includes a 3′→5′ exonuclease resistant quencher domain. Also provided are systems and kits for practicing the subject methods. The subject invention finds use in a variety of different applications, and are particularly suited for use in high fidelity PCR based reactions, including SNP detection applications, allelic variation detection applications, and the like.
US07754449B2
Disclosed is a method of treating a wart in a subject by administering to the subject a composition containing (1) a heat shock protein or an immunostimulatory fragment thereof, and (2) a protein of a human papilloma virus or an antigenic fragment thereof. Also disclosed is a method of treating a human papilloma virus infection in a subject infected or suspected of being infected with a human papilloma virus of a first type by administering to the subject a composition containing (1) a heat shock protein or an antigenic fragment thereof, and (2) a protein of a human papilloma virus of a second type or an antigenic fragment thereof, where the first type and second type are different.
US07754444B2
This invention provides a method of detecting pathogens comprising the steps of: (a) contacting a sufficient amount of biofunctional magnetic nanoparticles with an appropriate sample for an appropriate period of time to permit the formation of complexes between the pathogens in the sample and the nanoparticles; (b) using a magnetic field to aggregate said complexes; and (c) detecting said complexes. The method may further comprise the additional step of removing said complexes. The biofunctional magnetic nanoparticles are preferably a conjugate of vancomycin and FePt. The pathogens may be bacteria or viruses, and the sample may be a solid, liquid, or gas. Detection may involve conventional fluorescence assay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), optical microscope, electron microscope, or a combination thereof. The sensitivity of detection for the method is at least as low as 10 colony forming units (cfu) of the pathogens in one milliliter of solution within one hour.
US07754436B2
Heart and brain fatty acid binding proteins (H-FABP, B-FABP) are markers for stroke. The invention provides a diagnostic assay for either of these markers, preferably by ELISA using a anti-H-FABP or B-FABP antibody. Since H-FABP is also a marker for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), to distinguish stroke from AMI requires an assay specific to AMI, e.g. using troponin-1 or CK-MB as a marker, also to be carried out.
US07754434B2
The present invention provides a diagnostic agent for eating disorders comprising as an active ingredient an antibody against brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and a method for detecting eating disorders comprising measuring of the concentration of a brain-derived neurotrophic factor in blood. Particularly, the eating disorders can easily be diagnosed by measuring the concentration of a brain-derived neurotrophic factor in blood of the patients with an antibody against brain-derived neurotrophic factor and a labeled antibody against brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
US07754425B2
The subject of the present invention is a process for aligning a macromolecule (macromolecules) on the surface S of a support, characterized in that the triple line S/A/B (meniscus) resulting from the contact between a solvent A and the surface S and a medium B is caused to move on the said surface S, the said macromolecules having a part, especially an end, anchored on the surface S, the other part, especially the other end, being in solution in the solvent A.The subject of the present invention is also a process for detecting, measuring the intramolecular distance of, separating and/or assaying a macromolecule in a sample in which a process of alignment according to the invention is used.
US07754422B2
The object of the present invention is to determine inflammatory diseases such as myocardial infarction by identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with myocardial infarction and utilizing these SNPs. The present invention provides a method for determining an inflammatory disease, which comprises detecting at least one gene polymorphism existing in at least one gene selected from the group consisting of a lymphotoxin-α (LT-α) gene, an I Kappa B-like (IKBL) gene, and a BAT1 gene; an oligonucleotide used in said method; a kit for diagnosing an inflammatory disease which comprises said oligonucleotide; and use thereof. The present invention further provides a method for treating an inflammatory disease; and a method for screening for a therapeutic agent for an inflammatory disease.
US07754418B2
The present invention provides a novel family of apoptosis-modulating proteins. Nucleotide and amino acid residue sequences and methods of use thereof are also provided.
US07754409B2
The present invention is a method of manufacturing toner particles that includes providing a first emulsion of a first aqueous phase comprising a pore stabilizing hydrocolloid dispersed in an organic solution containing a polymer. The first emulsion is dispersed in a second aqueous phase to form a second emulsion that is sheared in the presence of a stabilizing agent to form droplets of the first emulsion in the second aqueous phase. The organic solution is evaporated from the droplets to form porous toner particles.
US07754407B2
A toner for developing electrostatic charge images in which offset phenomenon and winding phenomenon do not occur in a wide temperature range, even if the binding resin contains the alicyclic olefinic resin, that is, a toner for developing electrostatic charge images which is superior in fixability in a high temperature range, and which is superior in melt contamination resistance, is provided.In the toner for developing electrostatic charge images comprises at least binder resin and colorant, the binding resin containing alicyclic olefinic resin (A) and thermoplastic elastomer (B). It is preferable that the alicyclic olefinic resin (A) be a copolymer comprising cyclic olefin (A1) and an acyclic unsaturated monomer (A2) as an element. Additionally, it is preferable that the melting point of the thermoplastic elastomer (B) be 60 to 190° C.
US07754406B2
Toner compositions comprising toner particles including an amorphous resin, a crystalline resin and a charge control agent. The toner compositions having the charge control agent exhibit improved charge performance in the C-zone and the A-zone, and improved RH sensitivity.
US07754405B2
Toners having toner matrix particles having conductive fine particles, a heat decomposable binder resin and glass frit, and heat decomposable organic resin fine particles attached on the surface of the toner matrix particles. The heat decomposition temperature of the organic resin in the heat decomposable organic resin fine particles is lower than the heat decomposition temperature of the heat decomposable binder resin.
US07754403B2
An organic photoconductive material which is useful as a raw material compound for a variety of functional materials and makes it possible to implement an electrophotoconductor which is excellent in terms of the charge transporting performance, excellent in terms of dissolution in solvents and compatibility with resins, and excellent in terms of both the electrical properties and durability is provided. An example is an asymmetric bishydroxy compound which can be represented by the following structural formula (1aa). This compound is contained in a charge transforming layer 4 or a surface protective layer 5 of an electrophotoconductor 18. As a result, an electrophotoconductor 18 which is excellent in terms of the electrical properties and durability and can stably form high quality images without image defects such as black dots can be implemented.
US07754401B2
A method is disclosed in which a plurality of variable shaped beam (VSB) shots is used to form a desired pattern on a surface. Shots within the plurality of shots are allowed to overlap each other. Dosages of the shots may also be allowed to vary. The union of the plurality of shots may deviate from the desired pattern. The plurality of shots may be determined such that a pattern on the surface calculated from the plurality of shots is within a predetermined tolerance of the desired pattern. In some embodiments, an optimization technique may be used to minimize shot count. In other embodiments, the plurality of shots may be optionally selected from one or more pre-computed VSB shots or groups of VSB shots. The method of the present disclosure may be used, for example, in the process of manufacturing an integrated circuit by optical lithography using a reticle, or in the process of manufacturing an integrated circuit using direct write.
US07754390B2
A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolytic rechargeable battery capable of storing and discharging lithium ions is manufactured in the steps of forming a lithium metal layer on a carrier substrate by a gas phase method, superimposing the surface of the lithium metal layer formed on the carrier substrate on a negative electrode active material layer formed on a collecting body, storing the lithium metal layer into the negative electrode active material layer in nonaqueous electrolyte, and removing the carrier substrate from the negative electrode active material layer.
US07754386B2
Rechargeable galvanic cells are disclosed which comprise a manganese dioxide cathode, a zinc anode and a potassium hydroxide electrolyte wherein the cathode includes additive compounds to increase the cycle life and cumulative discharge capacity of the cell. The additives comprise at least a strontium compound and optionally a barium and/or calcium compound. Cells including the additive(s) desirably have an individual discharge capacity after 50 deep discharge-charge cycles of at least 0.100 Ah/gMnO2.
US07754366B2
A tubular fuel cell module is provided with a tubular cell of a tubular fuel cell, and a heat transfer pipe through which a heating/cooling medium flows to selectively heat and cool the tubular fuel cell. The heat transfer pipe includes a first straight portion, a second straight portion, and a bent portion that connects the first straight portion with the second straight portion. At least a portion of the tubular cell is arranged on at least one of the first straight portion and the second straight portion. As a result, the reliability of a seal of the tubular fuel cell module is improved.
US07754360B2
A fuel cell module has a fuel cell that supplies a drive power to a vehicle, a case that covers the fuel cell, and a current breaker that is attached to the case. The current breaker is manually operable from outside the case, and is capable of interrupting an output of the fuel cell to outside the case. The current breaker interrupts current at the time of a manual operation, thereby securing safety from high voltage of the fuel cell module during a vehicle maintenance operation and the like.
US07754355B2
A magnetic recording medium is provided that includes a non-magnetic support, a radiation-cured layer cured by exposing a layer containing a radiation curing compound to radiation, and a magnetic layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a binder. The radiation-cured layer and the magnetic layer are provided in that order above the non-magnetic support. The radiation curing compound has a C2 to C18 alkyl group, a C6 to C10 cyclic structure, and two or more radiation curing functional groups per molecule.
US07754352B2
Metal oxide thin films and production thereof are disclosed. An exemplary method of producing a metal oxide thin film may comprise introducing at least two metallic elements and oxygen into a process chamber to form a metal oxide. The method may also comprise depositing the metal oxide on a substrate in the process chamber. The method may also comprise simultaneously controlling a ratio of the at least two metallic elements and a stoichiometry of the oxygen during deposition. Exemplary amorphous metal oxide thin films produced according to the methods herein may exhibit highly transparent properties, highly conductive properties, and/or other opto-electronic properties.
US07754350B2
A coating suitable for use as a wear-resistant coating for a gas turbine engine component comprises titanium chrome carbonitride and nickel cobalt.
US07754349B2
A silanylamine-based compound is represented by Formula 1 below. An organic light-emitting device includes an organic layer that includes the silanylamine-based compound: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, Ar1, Ar2, and Ar3 are as defined in the specification. The silanylamine-based compound has good electrical characteristics and charge transport capability, and thus, is useful as a hole injection material, a hole transport material, and/or an emitting material for fluorescent or phosphorescent devices capable of producing light of a full spectrum of colors, including red, green, blue, and white. Thus, the organic light-emitting device including the organic layer including the silanylamine-based compound shows high efficiency, a low driving voltage, and high brightness.
US07754344B2
A ferritic stainless steel welded pipe is ferritic stainless steel welded pipe contains, by wt %, C: 0.001 to 0.015%, N: 0.001 to 0.020%, Cr: 11 to 25%, Mo: 0.01 to 2.0%, one or both of Ti and Nb in 0.05 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0003 to 0.0030%, having an elongation of the welded pipe material in the direction becoming the circumferential direction of 30% or more, and having an average Lankford value of 1.5 or more, which is formed, welded, and sized by 0.5 to 2.0% in terms of circumferential length, then annealed at 700 to 850° C., and has the hardness difference between the weld zone and the matrix is 10 to 40 in range and a ratio between the bead thickness of the weld zone and the thickness of the matrix is 1.05 to 1.3.
US07754335B2
A vehicle window glass which is capable of preventing a film formed on a surface of a glass plate from peeling off to thereby improve the appearance quality of an edge portion of the glass plate. The vehicle window glass comprises a polished edge portion of a glass plate and a surface of the glass plate. A film is integrally formed on the surface of the glass plate and on at least one side of the polished edge portion of the glass plate, and a side of the edge portion on which the film is integrally formed is exposed outside when the vehicle window glass is mounted on a vehicle.
US07754334B2
Disclosed is a method of making a laminate that includes a) preparing an adhesive composition, where the preparing includes combining a first part that includes (meth)acrylate functional, polyisocyanate prepolymer, and polyisocyanate monomer, the first part including at least 10% by weight isocyanate functional groups, and a second part that includes polyol, at least one of the first part and the second part includes photoinitiator, b) coating a first flexible substrate with the adhesive composition, c) exposing the adhesive composition to radiation to partially cure the adhesive composition, and d) contacting the adhesive composition with a second flexible substrate.
US07754326B2
To provide a release film which does not need to be changed often for hot press and is easy to be changed; a releasable cushion material which can reduce the frequency of changing a cushion material main body; and a process for producing a printed board with good productivity and low cost.A release film 10 which is to be provided on a surface of a cushion material made of silicone rubber, and which has a layer 14 containing Si on one side of a substrate 12 made of a fluororesin; a releasable cushion material wherein the release film is provided on a surface of the cushion material made of silicone rubber so that the layer containing Si is located on the cushion material side; and a process for producing a printed board wherein, when a laminate of a printed board main body and coverlay films is subjected to hot press as sandwiched between press boards, the release film is disposed on a surface of the cushion material of the coverlay film side so that the layer containing Si is located on the cushion material side.
US07754323B2
According to the present invention, a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article in which monofilamentous carbon fibers are contained in a thermoplastic resin in a high content, such fibers having long fiber lengths and being randomly arranged, is provided. Also, a molding material comprising monofilamentous carbon fibers and monofilamentous thermoplastic resin fibers, in which the carbon fibers are contained in a high content, such fibers having long fiber lengths and being randomly arranged, is provided. In addition, a method for producing a fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article, comprising molding the molding material by compression molding, is provided.
US07754318B2
The present invention relates to a water-soluble film, which is a polyvinyl alcohol film comprising a polyvinyl alcohol resin (A), wherein the water-soluble film has a time for dissolution in water at 20° C. of not more than 60 seconds in terms of a film thickness of 76 μm, a b-value of the film is not more than 0.5, and a b-value of the film after leaving at 80° C. for 72 hr is not more than 1.0, preferably a water-soluble film comprising: a polyvinyl alcohol resin (A); at least two kinds of plasticizers (B); and a sulfite salt (C), wherein the content of the plasticizer (B) based on 100 parts by weight of the polyvinyl alcohol resin (A) is 5 to 50 parts by weight and the content ratio of the sulfite salt (C) to the plasticizer (B) (C/B: weight ratio) is more than 0.02 and not more than 0.35. According to the invention, there is provided a water-soluble film comprising a PVA resin as a main component, wherein the film is less likely to cause coloration at the time of film formation and coloration with time even upon contact with a chemical.
US07754315B2
The invention relates to a toner receiver element comprising a marking enhancement layer comprising inorganic particles and a polymer film-forming binder.
US07754310B2
A packaging buffer material includes a pair of outer sidewalls having concave grooves in a length direction, and bottom wall having a concave groove in the length direction, and stoppers, preventing a packing object from being displaced, attached between the sidewalls. If external pressure is applied to the packaging buffer material, the outer sidewalls and concave groove bottoms are deformed. However, because of narrow widths of the concave grooves, the outer sidewalls are not entirely deformed but only the concave grooves are deformed. Due to this, a space can be kept between the sidewalls even if high external pressure is applied to the packaging buffer material.
US07754302B2
The present invention provides a plastic container or bottle having an inner wall surface coated with a DLC film which has the same level of oxygen barrier property as prior art DLC coated containers while at the same time preventing the coloration of the neck portion found in the containers of the prior art. The DLC film formed on the neck portion of the inventive bottle has a lower graphite mixing proportion than the DLC film formed on body portion, and the oxygen permeability of the container is less than or equal to 0.0050 ml/container (500 ml PET container)/day. The apparatus and the method of producing such a bottle are also described.
US07754281B2
A system of fabricating a composite membrane from a membrane substrate using solvent-less vapor deposition followed by in-situ polymerization. A first monomer and a second monomer are directed into a mixing chamber in a deposition chamber. The first monomer and the second monomer are mixed in the mixing chamber providing a mixed first monomer and second monomer. The mixed first monomer and second monomer are solvent-less vapor deposited onto the membrane substrate in the deposition chamber. The membrane substrate and the mixed first monomer and second monomer are heated to produce in-situ polymerization and provide the composite membrane.
US07754275B2
A device includes a bank, a film disposed in a region surrounded by the bank, and a groove extending along the periphery of the region. A method for forming a film by providing a liquid containing a functional material in a region surrounded by a bank includes forming a groove extending along the periphery of the region, providing the liquid in the region, and drying the liquid to form the film. The film is made of the functional material and is disposed over the groove. A method for manufacturing a device includes forming a film by providing a liquid in a region surrounded by a bank, the film being formed by the film-forming method.
US07754273B2
The present invention relates to a method of printing a substrate, comprising (a) printing onto the substrate at least one time temperature indicator with chromic properties based on an azo coupling reaction between a capped diazonium component and a coupling component.
US07754271B2
The present invention relates to a method, system and apparatus for making egg patties which have been cooked, folded, frozen and which may be reheated to provide an egg patty which resembles an egg patty made form fresh eggs. The invention includes an egg folding apparatus, a method for folding cooked liquid whole egg and a system for cooking and folding a cooked egg composition. The egg folding apparatus includes an endless linear array of egg cooking pans movable as an endless conveyor. One side of the pans has a ramp which extends downward to the bottom pan. A plurality of spatulas are disposed above the pans in an array above the pans. The spatulas are rotatable about an axis which is perpendicular to the linear array of pans, the pans movable upwardly away from the pans and downwardly toward the pans. As the pans move toward the spatulas, the spatulas move downwardly onto the ramp of the pan, move under the coagulated egg composition and rotate such that they fold cooked eggs in the pans onto themselves as the pans move past the spatulas. The invention also relates to a method of packaging, freezing and thawing packaged frozen folded egg patties.
US07754269B2
The present invention provides a method wherein flavored sugarcane juice containing 18-20% soluble solids and can be preserved after suitable dilution in aseptic unit packs.
US07754263B2
Methods are provided for isolating a nutrient from coffee cherries or for producing a food product that comprises a coffee cherry or portion thereof. It is particularly preferred that coffee cherries will have an extremely low concentration of mycotoxins, including various aflatoxins, fumonisins, ochratoxins, and/or vomitoxin (DON, deoxynivalenol).
US07754260B2
A composite ice confectionery article is made by bringing ice confectionery into contact with a biscuit-like mass, wherein the biscuit-like mass is liquid and pumpable at a temperature of 10° C. and above and has a biscuit-like consistency on storage and consumption.
US07754258B2
A porcine collagen film is made from an extrudable collagen gel. The porcine collagen is essentially sow collagen. The ratio of collagen to fat is usually above 10:1, for example in the range 25:1 to 50:1.
US07754256B2
A dietary supplement for dogs is disclosed. The composition is a blend of methyl sulfonyl methane, glucosamine sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, ascorbic acid, phylloquinone, yucca powder and stabilized rice bran. The composition may be added to a variety of meat products for dogs, preferably beef and/or beef by-products.
US07754255B2
A bone metabolism improving agent characterized by containing as the active ingredient fermented soybean milk which is obtained by fermenting soybean milk with a lactic acid bacterium or a bifidobacterium. The bone metabolism improving agent is efficacious in treating and preventing diseases in association with lowered bone metabolism such as osteoporosis and, at the same time, satisfies requirements in cost and smooth intake.
US07754246B2
The invention provides a particulate composition adapted for forming a bone graft substitute cement upon mixing with an aqueous solution, including i) a calcium sulfate hemihydrate powder having a bimodal particle distribution and a median particle size of about 5 to about 20 microns, wherein the calcium sulfate hemihydrate is present at a concentration of at least about 70 weight percent based on the total weight of the particulate composition; ii) a monocalcium phosphate monohydrate powder; and iii) a β-tricalcium phosphate powder having a median particle size of less than about 20 microns. Bone graft substitute cements made therefrom, a bone graft substitute kit comprising the particulate composition, methods of making and using the particulate composition, and articles made from the bone graft substitute cement are also provided.
US07754241B1
A degradable hydrogel and a method of making a degradable hydrogel is disclosed herein. The method comprises obtaining a hydrophilic polymer having at least two hydroxyl groups, reacting the hydrophilic polymer with a di-functional monomer comprised of an acid halide group and an alkyl halide group to form an intermediate having an ester bond and a terminal alkyl halide group, reacting the terminal alkyl halide group of the intermediate with a metallic salt of a vinyl acid monomer to form a macromonomer comprised of an ester, an alkyl group spacer, and a terminal vinyl group, and polymerizing the macromonomer to form a degradable hydrogel. A method is also disclosed for varying the degradation rate of the hydrogel as a function of the chemical composition of the alkyl group spacer in the terminal linkage of the macromonomer.
US07754240B2
In certain embodiments, the present invention is directed to a pharmaceutical formulation for topical administration on a mammal, comprising a unit dose of a therapeutically effective amount of a therapeutic agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier medium therefor, said formulation being solid at ambient temperature and having a softening point of not higher than 35° C., such that when the formulation is placed in continuous contact with the skin of a mammalian patient, it is softened to a consistency to effect substantial application of the unit dose of said therapeutic agent onto a desired skin area of the mammalian patient within a time period of less than 10 minutes.
US07754232B2
The present invention provides a method of, and apparatus for, utilizing ultrasonic energy so as to mechanically disrupt the collagenous architecture of biological matrices in a controlled manner so that the tissue can be rapidly recellularized in continuous form. The present invention also provides for the production of tissue matrices with improved recellularization properties, cell stratification or patterning.
US07754218B2
To improve the stability of vaccines comprising aluminum salt(s), the invention uses the amino acid histidine. This can improve pH stability and adjuvant adsorption and can reduce antigen hydrolysis. Histidine is preferably present during adsorption to the aluminum salt(s). The antigen in the vaccine may be a protein or a saccharide and is preferably from N. meningitidis.
US07754213B2
High affinity antibody antagonists of human interleukin-13 receptor alpha 1 are disclosed. The antibody molecules are effective in the inhibition of IL-13Rα1-mediated activities and, accordingly, present desirable antagonists for the use in the treatment of conditions associated with hIL-13Rα1 activity. The present invention also discloses nucleic acid encoding said antibody molecules, vectors, host cells, and compositions comprising the antibody molecules. Methods of using the antibody molecules for inhibiting or antagonizing IL-13Rα1-mediated activities are also disclosed.
US07754210B2
Antibodies binding to sites on the α-subunit (Na++K+)-ATPase increase cardiac contraction of both ventricular myocytes and mouse heart. In particular, antibodies binding to the RSATEEEPPNDD (SEQ ID NO: 1) or DVEDSYGQQWTYEQR (SEQ ID NO: 2) peptides (or isoforms/derivatives thereof) of the α-subunit of the (Na++K+)-ATPase, have been found to be highly inotropic. Both the antibodies and the peptides are important for the treatment of human heart failure and other contractile disorders.
US07754202B1
This invention involves methods and materials for conferring a direct proliferative advantage on a genetically modified subpopulation of cells. Selection is then accomplished by exerting a positive selective stimulus on the engineered cells rather than a negative pressure on nonengineered cells.
US07754198B2
A translucent-to-clear, plasticized PVC thermoplastic polymeric matrix gel composition comprising (i) a high loading of fragrance composition and/or odor counteractant(s)—preferably greater than about 85%; (ii) from about 4% to about 25% of a plastisol with a Shore hardness of from about 60 to about 95 that is liquid at room temperature; and, optionally, (iii) an evaporation/firmness controlling agent. The high loading of fragrance and/or odor counteractants in the polymeric matrix gel composition of the invention provides a desired aroma to an environment in a persistent manner over an extended period of time.
US07754194B2
A composition used for relaxing/straightening hair containing: (a) at least one hydroxide generator in an amount sufficient to relax/straighten keratin fibers; (b) at least one bioactive glass component; and (c) optionally, at least one complexing agent.
US07754191B2
A method of quenching fluorescence of a naphthalate polyester that is subjected to UV-radiation in an amount sufficient to cause the naphthalate polyester to reach an excited state and fluoresce, comprising adding to the naphthalate polyester a fluorescence quenching amount of a compound of formula (1): wherein R1 is an alkoxy; R2 is an organic linker; k is either zero or one; l is either zero or one, wherein the sum of k+l is one; and m is an integer in a range from zero to about twenty.
US07754174B2
A method for producing tri-calcium phosphate admixes water, hydrated lime, and phosphoric acid in a reaction vessel to form a tri-calcium phosphate slurry. The slurry is then placed in physical contact with heated air through a spray head to evaporate water from the slurry. The preferred embodiment of the method utilizes an agitated air dryer.
US07754173B2
A method of forming rare earth oxide nanocrystals include the steps of dissolving a rare earth including compound in a solution containing at least one organic solvent, heating the solution to a temperature of at least 160° C., wherein a concentration of the rare earth including compound provided upon decomposition is sufficient to provide critical supersaturation of at least one active intermediate in the solution to nucleate a plurality of rare earth oxide nanocrystals. The plurality of rare earth nanocrystals are then grown, wherein the growing step proceeds at least in part in the absence of critical supersaturation of the active intermediate. The rare earth nanocrystals can assemble into at least one close-packed, ordered nanocrystal superlattice.
US07754162B2
A process for hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feedstock includes the steps of providing a hydrocarbon feed having an initial characteristic; providing a first hydrogen-containing gas; feeding the hydrocarbon feed and the first hydrogen-containing gas cocurrently to a first hydroprocessing zone so as to provide a first hydrocarbon product; providing a plurality of additional hydroprocessing zones including a final zone and an upstream zone; feeding the first hydrocarbon product cocurrently with a recycled gas to the upstream zone so as to provide an intermediate hydrocarbon product; and feeding the intermediate hydrocarbon product cocurrently with a second hydrogen-containing gas to the final zone so as to provide a final hydrocarbon product having a final characteristic which is improved as compared to the initial characteristic.
US07754159B2
A fluidized bed reactor configured for reduced backflow of fluid is provided. The fluidized bed reactor comprises a vessel configured to contain a level of fluid, a feed conduit positioned to deliver feed into the vessel from an elevation above the level of fluid and a vacuum relief valve coupled to said feed conduit to introduce gas into the feed conduit.
US07754156B2
Methods and systems for surveying and sterilizing one or more areas or one or more portions of one or more areas are described.
US07754141B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an ultrasonic horn for transporting ultrasonic energy to an operating location.
US07754133B2
A product and method where a multi-colored product is rotationally molded with no or essentially no blending of the colors. A separation sheet is positioned in the mold to separate relatively adjacent portions of the mold cavity that contain differently colored resins. The separation sheet acts as a barrier to prevent the differently colored resins from blending during the molding process. During the molding process, the molten resins may fuse to opposite sides of the separation sheet, or the separation sheet may melt and disperse, all or in part, within the mold while maintaining a distinct color difference between the differently colored portions of the molded product.
US07754128B2
An adhesive agent is uniformly applied to a back surface of a window pane, the application made to an area where a covering member is planned to be adhered and to an area where a positioning fixture and a holding portion are planned to be adhered, the application is also made continuously such that adhesive agent layers of both planned adhesion areas being continuous with an adhesive agent continuous area in between. After that, the window pane and the positioning fixture are set in an injection mold and a polymer material is injected in the mold. This results that the covering member and the holding portion are formed into a shape where they are connected by a connection portion for material flow, which connection portion is formed at a position other than the adhesive agent continuous area. The forming results that the covering member and the holding portion are adhered and fixed to the back surface of the window pane with the adhesive agent layers in between. After the forming process above, the connection portion for material flow is removed.
US07754126B2
A method of manufacturing a turbine engine component is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of ceramic cloth plies, each ply having woven ceramic fiber tows and at least one fugitive fiber tow, laying up the plurality of plies in a preselected arrangement to form a turbine engine component shape, oxidizing the fugitive fibers to produce fugitive fiber void regions in the ply, rigidizing the component shape to form a coated component preform using chemical vapor infiltration, partially densifying the coated component preform using carbon-containing slurry, and further densifying the coated component preform with at least silicon to form a ceramic matrix composite turbine engine component having matrix rich regions.
US07754125B2
A camera for capturing a casting bead is provided at each side end of a discharge port in a width direction thereof. Plural speakers are provided at the vicinity of an opening of a decompression chamber. The camera continuously captures the casting bead, and outputs image data thereof to a control unit. The control unit includes a vibration detector and a suppressing vibration generator. The vibration detector detects vibration of the casting bead based on the plural image data. The suppressing vibration generator generates suppressing vibration signal representing the phase and amplitude of the suppressing vibration for suppressing the vibration generated in the thickness direction of the casting bead. The control unit controls the speakers based on the suppressing vibration signal to output sound wave. Thereby, the suppressing vibration is applied to the casting bead.
US07754122B2
A polymeric fiber liner insulation includes of a resilient, insulation blanket core of randomly oriented entangled fibers with between 60% and 90% by weight of the fibers being standard polymeric fibers and/or flame retardant polymeric fibers and between 10% and 40% by weight of the fibers being polymeric lofting and bonding fibers. The first major surface the liner insulation has a low porosity or air and/or liquid impervious surface layer. The surface layer is formed by melting and consolidating fibers at and adjacent the first major surface of the blanket core or by coating the first major surface of the blanket core with a polymeric coating. The liner insulation exhibits a flame spread/smoke developed index of ≦ 25/50.
US07754113B2
The invention is a mold and method for using the mold to make a multi-stage intraocular lens. The mold is provided with a gate in fluid communication with a lens portion and/or haptic portion of the mold core. In addition, a gasket is provided around the mold core. As molding material is introduced into the mold via the gate, a vacuum is drawn around and through the gasket to evacuate air trapped in the mold core and to help pull the material through the mold core.
US07754108B2
A polyimide powder for an antistatic polyimide molded product is disclosed. The polyimide powder comprises a polyimide-powder prepared from an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid component and a diamine component, and a conductive carbon black having a DBP oil absorption of 300 ml/100 g or more; wherein the amount of the conductive carbon black is within a range of 0.75 wt % to 5 wt % relative to the polyimide-powder. A polyimide molded product with sufficient antistatic property can be formed by molding the above polyimide powder.
US07754099B2
A reducing water purification material having a reducing iron-based precipitate selected from green rust, iron ferrite, reducing iron hydroxide, and a mixture thereof. A wastewater treatment process having steps of adding a reducing iron compound to wastewater, leading the wastewater to which the reducing iron compound is added to a reaction tank and forming a precipitate, separating the formed precipitate by a solid-liquid separation to obtain a sludge, and alkalinizing all or a portion of the separated sludge to form an alkaline sludge followed by returning to the reaction tank, wherein in the precipitation step, the wastewater to which the reducing iron compound is added and the alkaline sludge are mixed and are allowed to react in a non-oxidizing atmosphere under alkaline condition to form a reducing iron compound precipitate as the precipitate, thereby incorporating contaminants in the precipitate to remove the contaminants from the wastewater.
US07754098B2
The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing composition comprising: (a) silica particles, (b) about 5×10−3 to about 10 millimoles per kilogram of at least one alkaline earth metal selected from the group consisting of calcium, strontium, barium, and mixtures thereof, based on the total weight of the polishing composition, (c) about 0.1 to about 15 wt. % of an oxidizing agent, and (d) a liquid carrier comprising water. The invention also provides a polishing composition, which optionally comprises an oxidizing agent, comprising about 5×10−3 to about 10 millimoles per kilogram of at least one alkaline earth metal selected from the group consisting of calcium, strontium, and mixtures thereof. The invention further provides methods for polishing a substrate using the aforementioned polishing compositions.
US07754089B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring an underdrain in a filter system for filtering water or wastewater. At least one diagnostic condition relating to the performance of the underdrain is monitored to determine if the underdrain is operating in an acceptable manner.
US07754081B2
A method of wastewater treatment that reduced equipment cost and running cost and realizes high efficiency implementation and further tank miniaturization, and that reduces excess sludge withdrawal. There is provided a method of wastewater treatment with excess sludge withdrawal reduced, characterized in that there are installed an aeration tank wherein wastewater is brought into contact with carrier particles under aerobic conditions, a total oxidization tank and a sedimentation tank, and that operation is made while maintaining the BOD sludge load in the total oxidization tank at 0.08 kg-BOD/Kg-MLSS*day or smaller, and that a coagulant is charged in the complete oxidization tank in order to improve the setting in the sedimentation tank.
US07754075B2
Gradient performance with high pressure gradient solvent delivery system is optimized by approximation of infinite stroke volume of high pressure pumps by the addition of pulse dampening with backflow prevention to each high pressure pump. The backflow prevention adds sufficient minimum flow resistance, thereby enhancing the performance of the pulse dampening over a wider range of flow rates resulting in consistent gradient performance.
US07754073B2
Apparatus for removing solids such as sludge from a liquid reservoir comprising a float, a suction head assembly carrying a pump, and elongated guides interconnecting the suction head assembly and float. The float also carries a winch for raising and lowering the suction head assembly. The guides are slidably engaged with the float and serve to indicate the depth of operation of the suction head assembly.
US07754064B2
Methods, apparatus, and applications for the on-site production of hydrogen peroxide are described. An embodiment of the apparatus comprises at least one anolyte chamber coupled to at least one anode, at least one catholyte chamber, wherein the at least one catholyte chamber is coupled to at least one cathode, at least one anode membrane and at least one cathode membrane, wherein the anode membrane is adjacent to the at least one anode, wherein the cathode membrane is adjacent to the at least one cathode, at least one central chamber disposed between the at least one anolyte chamber and the at least one catholyte chamber. Hydrogen peroxide is produced by reduction of an oxygen-containing gas at the cathode.
US07754061B2
A plating apparatus and method for deposition of a conductive material on a semiconductor wafer having surface portions and cavity portions. A differential in an adsorbed concentration of an additive, including accelerators or suppressors, between a surface portion and a cavity portion of a wafer surface is established in a chamber. A mask or sweeper may be used to establish the differential. After establishing the differential in the chamber, the conductive material is electrodeposited to form a conductive layer on the surface in another chamber.
US07754059B2
A biosensor for determining the concentration of an analyte in a biological sample. The biosensor comprises a support, a reference electrode or a counter electrode or both disposed on the support, a working electrode disposed on the support, the working electrode spaced apart from the other electrode or electrodes on the support, a covering layer defining a sample chamber over the electrodes, an aperture in the covering layer for receiving a sample, and at least one layer of mesh in the sample chamber between the covering layer and the electrodes. The at least one layer of mesh has coated thereon a silicone surfactant. Certain silicone surfactants are as effective as fluorinated surfactants with respect to performance of biosensors. These surfactants, when coated onto the mesh layer of the biosensor, are effective in facilitating the transport of aqueous test samples, such as blood, in the sample chamber.
US07754041B2
A pleated filter is made from a monocomponent monolayer nonwoven web containing a bimodal mass fraction/fiber size mixture of intermingled larger size and smaller size continuous monocomponent polymeric fibers of the same polymeric composition. Rows of pleats are formed in the nonwoven web, and the pleated web is cut to a desired size and shape to provide a filter element containing a self-supporting porous monocomponent monolayer matrix of fibers bonded to one another at at least some points of fiber intersection and having an average initial submicron efficiency of at least 15% at a 1.52 meters/sec face velocity. The filter element is deformation resistant without requiring stiffening layers, bicomponent fibers or other reinforcing measures in the filter media layer.
US07754029B2
Steel and steel shaped articles with an excellent delayed fracture resistance and a tensile strength of the 1600 MPa class or more, containing, by mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.60%, Si: 0.50% or less, Mn: over 0.10% to 3%, Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, Mo: over 3.0% to 10%, and, as needed, one or more of W: 0.01 to 10%, V: 0.05 to 1%, Ti: 0.01 to 1%, Nb: 0.01 to 1%, Cr: 0.10 to 2%, Ni: 0.05 to 1%, Cu: 0.05 to 0.5%, and B: 0.0003 to 0.01%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities and, further, a method of production comprising shaping the above steel to a desired shape (for example, a bolt shape), quenching it, then tempering it at 500 to 750° C. in temperature range.
US07754023B2
A composition and method for treating oversprayed paints in paint spray booths is provided. The method includes contacting the paint overspray with a wash water system comprising an agitated solution containing a microorganism concentrate so as to collect the paint overspray in the agitated solution. The solution containing the paint overspray is passed to a holding area for phase separation into an organic phase containing paint overspray and an aqueous phase. The organic phase containing the paint overspray, which contains the paint solids portion, and, optionally, an organic solvents portion, is separated from the aqueous phase. The wash water system for treating paint overspray in paint spray booths contains a microorganism concentrate in an amount effective in precipitating the paint solids and, optionally, organic solvents, from the system.
US07754018B2
The invention concerns a cleaning process for an immersed and towed seismic streamer (1), characterised in that a cleaning appliance (11), including a tool for cleaning the seismic streamer, is engaged around the seismic streamer, together with a hydrodynamic drag structure which results in the free movement of the cleaning appliance along the length of the seismic streamer (1).
US07754017B2
A process for producing an enzyme-resistant starch uses an aqueous feed composition that comprises (i) starch that contains at least about 50% by weight amylose, (ii) water, and (iii) alcohol. The concentration of starch in the feed composition is between about 5% and about 50% by weight, and the pH of the feed composition is between about 3.5 and about 6.5. In a first heating step, the feed composition is heated to a temperature between about 130-170° C. for about 0.1-3.0 hours. The feed composition is cooled to a temperature between about 4-70° C. for about 0.1-6.0 hours. In a second heating step, the feed composition is heated to a temperature between about 110-150° C. for about 0.1-10.0 hours. The starch is separated from the majority of the water and alcohol and is dried.
US07754008B2
A method of forming a stressed thin film on a substrate includes forming a plurality of islands on a viscous layer that is present on a surface of a substrate. Adjacent islands are bridged with a stressor layer. The structure is annealed at an elevated temperature above the glass flow temperature of the viscous layer to transfer at least a portion of the stress from the stressor layer to the underlying islands. The bridges are then removed to expose the stressed islands of thin film on the substrate.
US07754006B2
A process for making calcined gypsum in slurry or powder form. The process includes adding at least two types of crystal modifiers to the slurry. The first crystal modifier is to control crystal morphology of the calcined gypsum (such as succinic and/or malic acid). The second crystal modifier is to prevent or retard setting to control set time (such as tetrasodium pyrophosphate (TSPP)) to form a water stable product. An accelerator is typically added at the site of use for specific applications such as setting type joint compound, media casting, exterior/interior coating, and sprayable fireproofing. A composition made by the process and a kit for using the composition are also disclosed.
US07754005B2
The invention relates to methods, compositions, kits and systems for determining one or more cement material properties. In one variation, a color change agent is introduced into bone cement to allow a physician to determine when a cement has the desired viscosity for insertion into a patient. In another variation, the composition comprises one or more curable bioactive agents and one or more color change agents. The curable bioactive agent(s) may be one or more bone cement(s). These Bone cements contain a color change agent that allows a physician to tell when the cement has reached the property viscosity for insertion of the bone cement into a patient at the bone site.
US07753997B2
The present invention is directed to a cleaning device for process gases of a reflow soldering system that includes a plurality of cleaning chambers. The plurality of cleaning chambers contain a cleaning liquid for the process gas, where each of the cleaning chambers is adapted to be flown through via a supply line for the contaminated process gas and via a discharge line for the cleaned gas. The cleaning chambers also include a plurality of cleaning walls along which the cleaning liquid is flown for take-up of impurities in the process gas into the cleaning liquid. A plurality of the deposition walls is provided, where at least one of the deposition walls also forms an outer wall of the cleaning device.
US07753993B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for treating contaminated water in a steam power installation, and to a corresponding steam power installation. According to the invention, steam and water are separated between a first steam-collecting drum of a pressure level and a second steam-collecting drum of a lower pressure level.
US07753987B2
The present invention concerns a high vacuum in-situ refining method for high-purity and superhigh-purity materials and the apparatus thereof, characterized in heating the upper part and lower part of crucible separately using double-heating-wires diffusion furnace under vacuum, thereby forming the temperature profile which is high at upper part and low at lower part of crucible, or in reverse during different stages; then heating the crucible in two steps to remove impurities with high saturation vapor pressure and low saturation vapor pressure respectively in efficiency; and obtaining high-purity materials eventually. The whole procedure is isolated from atmosphere, reducing contamination upon stuff remarkably. The present invention could provide products with high-quality and high production capacity, which are stable in performance, therefore is reliable and free from contamination. The present invention is appropriate for manufacture of high-purity and superhigh-purity materials, particularly for manufacture of high-activity high-purity materials.
US07753972B2
The Portable Renewable Energy System for Enhanced Oil Recovery (“PRESEOR”) is a truck mobile system that reforms biomass into CO2 and hydrogen, following which the gases are separated, with the CO2 sequestered underground for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and the hydrogen used to generate several megawatts of carbon-free electricity. In contrast to large central power plants that are generally not well-located to support EOR, the small PRESEOR can go directly to the oilfields where it is needed, and do so in a timely manner. The PRESEOR sequesters more biomass-derived carbon than is released by the burning of the oil it yields, thereby producing not only carbon-free electricity but carbon-free oil. Using PRESEOR, over 80 billion barrels of U.S. oil would be made recoverable, without the need to drill new wells in pristine areas.
US07753967B2
Novel crystalline forms of and a process for converting perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximide of the general formula I to a form used as a fluorescent dye. The process including: a) dissolving or suspending the perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximide in a solvent to obtain a solution or suspension; and b1) cooling the solution obtained in step a) to a temperature at or below the crystallization temperature of the perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboximide and, if the solvent is organic, removing excess solvent until the first crystals form, otherwise, adding water or dilute aqueous solutions of the solvent until the first crystals form, and maintaining the solution at that temperature for further crystallization; or b2) cooling the suspension obtained in step a) to or below the crystallization temperature when the temperature in step a) was above the crystallization temperature, and maintaining the suspension at the temperature for further crystallization to form one or more solvate crystals.
US07753961B2
A thighbone shaft has a pole and a bolt. The pole defines an inclined threaded hole therein. Tooth portions are respectively formed at opposite sides of the pole. A head is arranged on a front portion of the pole. A sleeve is provided on the head. A threaded portion is formed on the bolt and is retained in the inclined threaded hole for engaging the bolt and the pole. The thighbone shaft is assembled easily, reduces planting area and replacement cost, decreases stress force, and promotes planting fixedness.
US07753951B2
A catheter system for treating lesions is provided. The system is suitable for treatment of bifurcation lesions, has a low profile and provides substantially predictable translational and rotational positioning. In one embodiment, the system includes a fixed wire balloon catheter and a partially attached guidewire lumen, wherein the guidewire lumen is attached to the catheter at a crotch point. The location of the crotch point is predetermined so as to provide substantially predictable positioning. Several embodiments of the system are described for various types of lesions and vessel configurations.
US07753948B2
A beam is provided for intraluminal devices. The beam is defined by a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface is tapered at a different rate than the second side surface. One advantage of the beam is that strain which is normally concentrated in adjacent, interconnected bends is redirected onto the length of the beam. This may increase the fatigue life of intraluminal devices or may be used to fashion new structures with improved performance.
US07753942B2
A fixture which is intended to be screwed firmly into bone tissue. The fixture includes a generally cylindrical anchoring portion provided with an external screw thread. The anchoring portion includes a cavity which extends from the insertion end of the anchoring portion. A number of slots which connect the cavity with the outside of the anchoring portion extend from the insertion end of the anchoring portion. Each slot is delimited by a leading slot wall and a trailing slot wall, the leading and trailing slot walls rotating in the direction defined by the screw thread when screwing in the anchoring portion. At least the radially outermost part of the trailing slot wall defines an angle with the radial direction and is inclined obliquely forward from within and outward in the direction of rotation.
US07753936B2
A fastening device for clamping and fastening tissue together with fasteners formed from an adhesive is disclosed. An embodiment of the adhesive fastening device can clamp a first and a second portion of tissue together between a first and a second jaw, and can place a fluid polymer adhesive into tissue and form it into a polymerized surgical fastener within the tissue. The adhesive fastener can be formed as a polymerized shank or shaft extending through the tissue, and can have one or more heads formed on the shank. The shank can be formed solely from the polymerizable adhesive, or can be formed from another material such as nitinol, titanium, stainless steel, suture, or a plastic. Shanks of other material can be combined with the adhesive. Alternately, an adhesive fastener can be formed extending distally from a distal end of the surgical device. And, an adhesive fastener can be formed around a luminal tissue or within luminal tissue.
US07753933B2
An apparatus for sealing a passage through tissue includes a bioabsorbable, threaded plug carried by a delivery device. A guide wire is receivable through lumens in the plug and delivery device that includes wings on a bioabsorbable distal portion. With the wings collapsed, the guide wire is advanced through the passage into a blood vessel, the wings expanding once located within the vessel, and the guide wire is withdrawn until the wings contact the vessel wall. The plug is threaded into the passage over the guide wire until the plug is disposed adjacent the wings. The distal portion of the guide wire is secured to the plug, e.g., by compressing a collet within the plug lumen that seals the lumen, and is severed from a proximal portion thereof. Thus, the plug and distal portion are deployed with the plug sealing the passage.
US07753922B2
Devices and methods generally provide enhanced stabilization, exposure and/or treatment of a cardiac valve annulus. Methods generally involve introducing a stabilizing member beneath one or more leaflets of a heart valve to engage the annulus at an intersection between the leaflets and the interior ventricular wall of the heart. Force is then applied to the stabilizing member to stabilize and/or expose the valve annulus. In some embodiments, the stabilizing member may include a series of hydraulically driven tethered anchors, such as hooks or clips, for engaging and cinching valve annulus tissue to decrease the diameter of a regurgitant valve. Alternatively, other treatments may be delivered by a stabilizing member, such as radiofrequency energy, drugs, bulking agents or shape memory stents. A second stabilizing member may also be introduced above the leaflets for further stabilization.
US07753919B2
A wire for removing an intravascular foreign body comprises a flexible wire body, a branch part branching out from the forward end of the wire body, and a plurality of filaments extending across the branch part. The branch part and the filaments form a space for capturing a foreign body therein. At least one of the filaments is changeable in length so that the loop formed by the filament and the branch part changes in size. The wire is capable of relatively reliably capturing and removing a foreign body in the vessel.
US07753917B2
A medical grasping device (10) for vascular use, having an outer sheath (12), an elongate control member (50) extending within an outer sheath (12) to a distal tip section (54), and a proximal control assembly (22) including an actuation section (24) joined to the elongate control member (50). Adjacent to the distal tip section (54) is a grasping portion (70, 70′) that is extendable from the outer sheath (12) to create loops (74, 74′) for grasping a target object (T) for repositioning within the vascular system, or for removal from the patient, with loops being retractable into the outer sheath to hold the target object against the device (10) during movement of the device. Elongate control member (50) is preferably a cannula or tube having a lumen (58) extending completely therethrough for placement over a guide wire (28) already in the patient.
US07753910B2
A device is presented for temporarily mounting an image tracker to a patient during surgery. The device preferably includes a first aperture and a axially-align second aperture. The apertures are sized to receive a securing mechanism, such as a bone screw that is temporarily inserted into a patient's bone for holding the image tracker near the vicinity of a surgical site. The device further preferably includes at least one projection such as a pin to stabilize the device from rotating.
US07753909B2
An electrode sealing assembly for use in combination with an electrosurgical instrument includes first and second jaw members which are movable from a first, spaced-apart position to a second position to grasp tissue. Each of the jaw members includes an insulative housing, a thermally conductive, electrically non-conductive material and a sealing plate. The insulative housing has a series of electromechanical interfaces which mate with a corresponding series of electromechanical interfaces which extend from the sealing plate such that the sealing plates are a capable of conducting bipolar energy through tissue held between the jaw members. The thermally conductive, electrically nonconductive material is configured to encapsulate and secure the sealing plate to the insulative housing.
US07753906B2
A catheter is provided having anchoring and stabilizing devices adapted to respectively sit in and outside an opening of a tubular region. A sheath covering the catheter body forms the anchoring and stabilizing devices, which sheath comprises slits cut into the sheath creating spines. The spines are radially expanded by distal movement of the sheath relative to the catheter body. Radial expansion of the anchoring device generally anchors the distal end of the catheter inside the tubular region. Radial expansion of the stabilizing assembly generally stabilizes the distal end of the catheter against the ostium of the tubular region. The pressure exerted on the tubular region by the anchoring and stabilizing devices minimizes translational and rotational movement of the distal end of the catheter. Alternatively, the catheter may include a telescoping portion extending from the distal end of the catheter in which the anchoring and stabilizing devices are deployed by movement of a puller wire.
US07753899B2
In a rising gathered member 4 of an absorbent main body 3 attached to an external sheet 2, an inward folded base end 4b is joined astride a side end 13a of a top sheet 13 as a top surface of the absorbent main body 3 and a side end 14a of a back sheet 14 so that the rising gathered member 4 rises from a most side edge 3a in a width direction of the absorbent main body 3 and, also, the back sheet 14 of the absorbent main body 3 is attached onto a skin-contacting surface side of a crotch part R of a second external sheet 8 at an inward position at a prescribed width W5 from the most side edge 3a of the absorbent main body 3 as an outermost joint position. With the above constitution, it is possible to effectively prevent any lateral leakage of urine and the like, even if a disposable absorbent article is shifted. Moreover, the base end of the rising gathered member is merely joined to the side end of the top surface of the absorbent main body, thereby requiring no sheet winding step or the like, such a simple process can achieve inexpensive production, and further, the stability of product precision becomes improved.
US07753898B2
An array of disposable absorbent articles. The array has a first absorbent article and a second absorbent article. The first absorbent article is enclosed in a first tampon applicator having i.) an outer surface wherein the outer surface has an outer surface area and ii.) a first identifier having a first surface area. The first identifier is disposed on the first absorbent article and corresponds to a first absorbency. The first identifier is disposed on the first absorbent article. A second absorbent article is enclosed in a second tampon applicator having i.) an outer surface wherein the outer surface has an outer surface area and ii.) a second identifier having a second surface area. The second identifier is disposed on the second absorbent article and corresponds to a second absorbency. The first surface area is different than the second surface area.
US07753875B2
The present invention provides a balloon having a non-uniform thickness that is adapted to facilitate folding of the balloon. The balloon comprises at least one relatively thin section formed between inner and outer surfaces of the balloon, and at least one relatively thick section formed between the inner and outer surfaces. The balloon may be formed from a balloon preform that similarly comprises at least one relatively thin section and at least one relatively thick section. The shape of the balloon preform may be formed, for example, by extrusion. The balloon preform may be placed in a balloon mold having a substantially cylindrical interior surface, and blow-molded to form the finished balloon configuration. The balloon comprises a non-uniform thickness, while comprising a substantially cylindrical outer diameter both after removal from the balloon mold and in an inflated state.
US07753870B2
Methods and devices for simulating a gastric bypass and reducing the volume of the stomach involve placing a tubular liner along the lesser curve of the stomach cavity. Also, methods and devices for slowing gastric emptying involve placing valves within the stomach cavity near the gastro-intestinal junction and/or the pylorus. These methods and devices may prevent a patient from drinking and eating large volumes at one time and from eating slowly all day.
US07753869B2
A method and apparatus for preventing and treating septicemia in patient blood is provided. The extracorporeal system includes an antimicrobial device to inactivate at least 99% of bloodborne microorganisms, a hemoconcentrator/filtration unit to remove approximately 50-75% of target molecules from the patient blood and a filter unit to remove target molecules from patient blood from the sieved plasma filtrate. Target molecules are produced by microorganisms, as well as by the patient's cells. These molecules include endotoxins from Gram negative bacteria, exotoxins from Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria, as well as RAP protein mediator from Staphylococcus aureus, and cell mediators such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and interleukin 1-beta, interleukin 6, complement proteins C3a and C5a, and bradykinin.
US07753859B2
A guide wire includes a wire body having a core wire and a resin coating layer covering an outer periphery of a distal section of the wire body, and an annular member provided on the proximal side of the resin coating layer. The outer diameter of the distal end of the annular member and the outer diameter of the proximal end of the resin coating layer are preferably equal, and a distal end face of the annular member is joined to a proximal end face of the resin coating layer.
US07753855B1
An implantable cardiac stimulation device determines sudden cardiac death susceptibility of a heart. The device comprises a first measuring circuit that measures intrinsic rest rate of the heart, a second measuring circuit that measures heart rate response of the heart and a third measuring circuit that measures heart rate recovery of the heart. The device further comprises a comparator that compares the measured intrinsic rest rate, the measured heart rate response, and the measured heart rate recovery to respective first, second, and third standards and a response circuit that provides a predetermined response when the comparisons of the measured intrinsic rest rate, the measured heart rate response, and the measured heart rate recovery to the respective standards indicate a susceptibility of sudden cardiac death.
US07753851B2
A robot for medical ultrasonic examination has an articulated robot arm with a plurality of arm units (14-16), mounted one on the other to be pivotable, and a computerized system for controlling the movements of the arm, the outermost arm unit being arranged to carry a probe. The outermost arm unit has a carrying member rotatable about a longitudinal axis (IV), and carries a probe holder pivotable about a transverse axis (V) perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (IV). The probe holder has a housing rotatable about the transverse axis, and a holder sleeve rotatable about a longitudinal axis (VI). The three axes (IV, V, VI) intersect at a single point. The probe holder has an opening through which the probe can be inserted from the back and locked in position in the probe holder.
US07753850B2
An ultrasound imaging system transmits a broad beam of ultrasound into tissues that are perfused with blood containing microbubbles. The ultrasound has an intensity that is sufficient to destroy the microbubbles in the tissues. A plurality of ultrasound imaging beams are then transmitted into the tissues over a sufficient period to allow the tissues to re-perfuse, and reflections from the transmitted imaging beams are processed to provide a perfusion image. The transmitted microbubble-destroying ultrasound may be in the form of a single beam or a plurality of beams that insonify a substantially larger area than the area insonified by the transmitted imaging beams. As a result, the microbubbles are all destroyed at substantially the same time, and the imaging ultrasound is transmitted only into regions of the tissues from which ultrasound reflections will be received.
US07753848B2
A method for determining speed-of-sound factors in ultrasound images of a body, includes: capturing at least two ultrasound images of an internal body region from different directions; registering the at least two ultrasound images with respect to a corresponding region in a body reference model; comparing two-dimensional registrations of each of the at least two ultrasound images with a registration of at least one other ultrasound image captured from a different direction, or with another reference registration; and determining the speed-of-sound factor for each individual ultrasound direction from the comparison of reference model point distances for a particular registered structure.
US07753844B2
An apparatus for holding a surgical retractor comprises a support handle and a surgical retractor holding element pivotally attached to the support handle. A rod engages the retractor holder element at a position spaced from the pivotal attachment to the support handle with the rod being movable thereby pivoting the holding element to move the position of the retractor blade of the surgical retractor.
US07753839B2
The present invention provides a urethral prosthesis including a first and a second arm that join to form a junction, and a stem that is also joined to the junction. The junction is adapted to exert sufficient pressure on a portion of a patient's urethra to prevent unintentional voiding of the patient's bladder. However, upon exerting a tension force on the stem, the pressure exerted by the junction is reduced such that the patient's bladder may be intentionally voided.
US07753834B2
A solid-bowl centrifuge comprising, a centrifugal drum rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation, the centrifugal drum including a weir to drain a liquid out of the centrifugal drum, the weir including a passage having at least one passage opening in an axial end region of the centrifugal drum that includes a drum lid: a deflector plate arranged outside the centrifugal drum and in front of the drum lid, the deflector plate being stationary during an operation of the centrifugal drum and widening at least in sections as the deflector plate extends away from the centrifugal drum: and the deflector plate including an interior jacket, and a distance of the interior jacket from the horizontal axis of rotation not being constant but widening.
US07753815B2
A bicycle chain wheel assembly is provided with a chain wheel and a chain wheel cover. The chain wheel has a central mounting portion and an outer gear with a plurality of outer gear teeth. The chain wheel cover is disposed on an exteriorly facing side of the chain wheel. The chain wheel cover has a mounting portion coupled to the chain wheel and an outer peripheral portion with a chain drop prevention protrusion projecting outwardly from the outer peripheral portion at a location that is radially inward of the outer gear teeth.
US07753812B2
A mechanism for securing a handle to a head, particularly of a lacrosse stick, comprises a shaft having a wedge portion positioned at a distal end thereof, a binding plate positioned adjacent to said shaft, and a means for moving said wedge portion in a longitudinal direction relative to said binding plate. Longitudinal movement of said wedge portion causes latitudinal movement of said binding plate, thereby binding said handle to said head. Such a mechanism can be used in a method for securing and maintaining secure the joint between a handle and a head, either in a new lacrosse stick or as a retrofit.
US07753803B2
A shaft of a billiard cue includes a first section and a second section connected to the first section. The first section is made of natural wood and has a front end to be a top end of the shaft and a rear connecting end to connect to the second section. The second section is not made of natural wood but of a material with a hardness being greater than that of the first section. The second section has a front connecting end to connect with the rear connecting end of the first section and a rear end to be a bottom end of the shaft.
US07753799B2
A constant velocity joint (1) comprising: a male element (2) with multiple arms (4), a female element (8) having a central axis (X′-X′) and defining tracks (9A, 9B) which are symmetrical in relation to a radial longitudinal plane (P), and an outer roller (12) with a rolling surface (30). The tracks and the rolling surface define two contact points (Z1, Z2) therebetween. The tangent planes of the track and rolling surface coincide and are parallel to the plane (P) at not less than one contact point. The cross profiles of the tracks and rolling surface at not less than one contact point are rectilinear or convex.
US07753796B2
The present invention provides a game device that can display strings more suited to speech recognition at the time of speech input. A priority input device information acquisition unit (56) acquires priority input device information. When the priority input device information represents a character input device, an input criteria display unit (58) and a determination unit (60) display character input criteria as input criteria and determine whether or not that input corresponds to the input criteria. When the priority input device information represents a speech input device, the input criteria display unit (58) and the determination unit (60) display character input criteria as input criteria, and in regard to predetermined character input criteria, display speech input criteria corresponding to the character input criteria as input criteria, and determine whether or not that input corresponds to speech recognition data corresponding to the input criteria. A controller (62) controls the game on the basis of the determination result.
US07753794B2
A method for viewing a televised event, the televised event includes at least two competing parties in a playing area, each party being visually distinguished in respect of any other parties. Each party is associated with a distinctive region in the playing area of the televised event. The televised event includes a score indication with score portion for each party; the method including receiving a processed televised event for display on a display device. The score portions are associated with direction indications so as to facilitate visual association of each score indication portion to a respective party according to its distinctive region in the playing area.
US07753786B2
To reduce the number of parts in assembly of a trigger button in a controller for games, reduce the material cost, and heighten assembly efficiency.In a controller for games in which trigger buttons are partially protruded outward from opening portions formed in a case, and the trigger buttons are energized by springs and provided slidably by guide of trigger guides, left and right fitting grooves extending up and down are provided on left and right sides of back end surfaces of the trigger guides; ribs for holding the lower end portions of the trigger guides are provided for the case; left and right standing portions are provided on the outsides of the ribs thereby to hold the lower ends of the trigger guides by the ribs; and the left and right standing portions are fitted into the left and right fitting grooves thereby to hold the trigger guides.
US07753781B2
A fully automatic table game player tracking system for Blackjack and other casino games wherein players have individual betting positions on the table is disclosed. An individual B&W CCD chip reading turret is placed inches in front of each player's betting position to scan wagered chips using ambient casino lighting. The turret also has a “comp” light to indicate to the player at the beginning of every hand that his bet was read credited for his complimentaries (meals, room, entertainment, etc.), thus delivering to the player extra gaming satisfaction every hand. Patterns of repeated coding around the playing chips' peripheral surface represent with light and dark contrasting colors the dollar value and particular casino issuer of the chips. The aesthetically pleasing chip identifying coding patterns are comprised of unique referenceless error controlled self-clocking (n,k) code words, which are repeated around the chip's periphery without space therebetween, for improved efficiency and accuracy no matter the orientation of the wagered chip placed on the table.
US07753768B2
A mahjong gaming apparatus with suit variable mahjong tiles has a server apparatus and multiple player terminal apparatuses. The server apparatus has a server and a random number generator. The random number generator is controlled by the server to randomly generate a suit of a particular mahjong tile. Each player terminal apparatus has at least one suit variable mahjong tile and a player terminal. The suit variable mahjong tile is capable of generating lines corresponding to the suit. The player terminal corresponds to a player, accepts inputs from the player, receives the suit from the server apparatus and controls the suit variable mahjong tile to generate the lines corresponding to the suit. Players may hold the suit variable mahjong tile to feel the lines before uncovering the mahjong tile.
US07753766B2
A data center comprising an air humidity- and temperature-conditioned space where heat producing ICT and/or telecom equipment is arranged, a heat wheel and means for supplying recirculation of air heated by the equipment as a first air stream to the heat wheel and the heat wheel being configured to cool the first air stream using a separate second air stream.
US07753763B2
A tubular net arrangement is made by placing a tubular net on a transfer tube and inserting a support tube coaxially inside the transfer tube. The support tube has a support tube diameter that is smaller than the transfer tube diameter. The tubular net is then moved off the transfer tube and past the end of the transfer tube to fold the tubular net onto the support tube in the form of multiple successive concentric layers. The transfer tube then moves relative to the support tube to expose the support tube as the layers are formed on the support tube. The inner diameter of each layer is adjacent the support tube and is equal to the support tube diameter and the outer diameter of each layer is spaced away from the support tube and is greater than the support tube diameter and at most equal to the transfer tube diameter.
US07753759B2
An article of apparent is disclosed comprising a pocket for concealing objects proximate to a breast.
US07753753B2
Playsets are disclosed. The playsets may include a support surface and a pop-up structure. The pop-up structure may be adapted to be selectively transitioned between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. In the stowed configuration the pop-up structure may be collapsed and may extend along the support surface. In the deployed configuration the pop-up structure may stand substantially transverse to the support surface.
US07753751B2
It is an object of the invention to provide a technique to manufacture a display device with high image quality and high reliability at low cost with high yield. The invention has spacers over a pixel electrode layer in a pixel region and over an insulating layer functioning as a partition which covers the periphery of the pixel electrode layer. When forming a light emitting material over a pixel electrode layer, a mask for selective formation is supported by the spacers, thereby preventing the mask from contacting the pixel electrode layer due to a twist and deflection thereof. Accordingly, such damage as a crack by the mask does not occur in the pixel electrode layer. Thus, the pixel electrode layer does not have a defect in shapes, thereby a display device which performs a high resolution display with high reliability can be manufactured.
US07753739B2
An electrical terminal block, especially for locking onto a mounting rail, has a plurality of adjacent base terminals and connectors. Each base terminal has a terminal housing, with at least one conductor terminal element and at least one receptacle electrically connected to the conductor terminal element or at least two interconnected receptacles. The individual connectors have a connector housing, with at least one conductor terminal element and a plug-in contact electrically connected to the conductor terminal element. The individual connectors can be plugged onto the individual terminal housings. Reliable mechanical fixing of the connectors on the base terminals is ensured since each outer side of the base terminals has a fixing device on the terminal housing. Sides of adjacent connectors have a fixing cover with a fixing mechanism corresponding to the fixing device, so that the connectors can be mechanically connected to the fixing base terminals via the fixing covers.
US07753737B2
An electrical connector assembly comprises a first connector and a second connector, the first connector comprises a first insulative housing defining a guide groove extending from the top face to the bottom face, and a plurality of first terminals received in the first passageways; The second connector comprises a second insulative housing defining a guide post adapted to mate with the guide groove for fastening the first connector and the second connector, and a plurality of second terminals received in the second passageways, wherein the guide post penetrates through the guide groove and the transition portion of each first terminal respectively engages with the engagement section of corresponding second terminal when assembled together.
US07753731B2
An electrical connector includes a wafer formed with a ground shield made from a non-conductive material made conductive with conductive particles disposed therein, thereby eliminating the necessity of the metal ground shield plate found in prior art connectors while maintaining sufficient performance characteristics and minimizing electrical noise generated in the wafer. The wafer housing is formed with a first, insulative housing at least partially surrounding a pair of signal strips and a second, conductive housing at least partially surrounding the first, insulative housing and the signal strips. The housings provide the wafer with sufficient structural integrity, obviating the need for additional support structures or components for a wafer. Ground strips may be employed in the wafer and may be formed in the same plane as the signal strips. The second, conductive housing may be connected (e.g., molded) to the ground strips and spaced appropriately from the signal strips. The wafer may also include air gaps between the signal strips of one wafer and the conductive housing of an adjacent wafer further reducing electrical noise or other losses (e.g., cross-talk) without sacrificing significant signal strength.
US07753724B2
A stacked electrical connector includes a front mating face, an insulative housing comprising and a plurality of contacts. The insulative housing has a first housing and a second housing arranged in an up-to-down direction. The first housing defines a plurality of inserting ports. The second housing defines a receiving space. The contacts include a plurality of first contacts and second contacts. The first contacts each has a first contact portion extending into the inserting port and a first soldering tail extending out of the insulative housing downwardly. The second contacts each has a second contact portion extending into the receiving space and a second soldering tail extending out of the insulative housing downwardly. All the first soldering tails are arranged closer to the mating face than the second soldering tails.
US07753715B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed that may include a contact pin; and a plurality of loops of conductive wire, coated with insulation material, disposed in proximity to the contact pin, wherein along at least one portion of the conductive wire, at least one edge of the contact pin extends through the insulation material and thereby forms conductive electrical contact with the conductive wire.
US07753710B2
A latching system is described. The latching system includes a lower latch, an upper latch slidably engaging a top surface of the lower latch, a latch release mechanism connected to the upper latch, and a lock receiving member. The lower latch has a body with the top surface, a head formed at one end of the body, and a pivot formed at an opposite end of the body. The head includes a leading edge and a latching portion. The upper latch has a wedge portion. The receiving lock member has a lower arm with an upturned lip at a leading end formed to engage the leading edge of the lower latch, an inside face continuously formed with the leading end and a bottom formed on an inner part of the upturned lip, and an upper arm that engages the wedge portion of the upper latch.
US07753708B2
A headrest side connector unit mounted on a headrest of a vehicle includes a stay as a holder and a connector. The connector includes a projection 430 to be received in a projection insertion hole formed on the stay. A tip part of the second connector at a side to be connected to the mating connector is disposed further outside of the stay than an end of the stay near a seat. An outer surface of the tip part is arranged on the same plane as an outer surface of the end of the stay.
US07753704B2
An electrical contact (5) adapted for connection a BGA device to a PCB includes a pair of arm portions defining a pair of clamping portions (51, 52) at top ends thereof for corresponding solder balls of the BGA device, a C-shaped spring portion (53) extending from a bottom end of one arm portion (51) and a contacting portion (54) extending from a free end of the spring portion for touch the PCB. The spring portion opens perpendicularly to the arm portions.
US07753688B1
A bridge connector assembly may provide access to signals of a circuit that includes an integrated circuit. The bridge connector assembly may include first and second circuit boards that are mated edge to edge, structural members that maintain the position of each circuit board in relation to each other and connectors to carry signals from edge connectors on one board to corresponding connectors on the second board.
US07753674B2
A method and apparatus for fabricating a flat panel display device is disclosed. A thin film is patterned in a patterning process using a soft mold without using a photo process. A thin film layer and a resist are sequentially formed on a substrate. A designated resist pattern is formed by applying pressure to the resist using a soft mold. The resist has a dipole moment μ value equal to or higher than 2(D), or has a solubility parameter value lower than 6 (cal/cm3)1/2 or higher than 11 (cal/cm3)1/2.
US07753654B2
An aerofoil 26 for a gas turbine engine (10, FIG. 1) comprises a cavity 38, a cellular material 42 located in the cavity 38 for stiffening the aerofoil 26, and a vibration damping medium 44 located in the cavity 38 for damping the aerofoil. The cellular material 42 is preferably a metal foam bonded to the inner surface 34a, 36a of the hollow aerofoil 26, and the vibration damping medium 44 is preferably a viscoelastic material. Various methods for fabricating the aerofoil 26 are also described.
US07753653B2
A composite vane includes an airfoil portion having an inner core composed primarily of fiberglass epoxy; a carbon epoxy fabric located outward of the inner core; a relatively thin layer of fiberglass epoxy, and an outer metal sheath.
US07753647B2
An inner diameter vane shroud for use in a gas turbine engine is comprised of lightweight cast forward and aft shroud components. The forward and aft shroud components are made with an investment casting technique that creates a hollow cavity that runs in a circumferential direction through each component. The forward and aft shroud components are matable to form sockets that receive inner diameter ends of variable stator vanes.
US07753643B2
A ceramic ring segment for a turbine engine that may be used as a replacement for one or more metal components. The ceramic ring segment may be formed from a plurality of ceramic plates, such as ceramic matrix composite plates, that are joined together using a strengthening mechanism to reinforce the ceramic plates while permitting the resulting ceramic article to be used as a replacement for components for turbine systems that are typically metal, thereby taking advantage of the properties provided by ceramic materials. The strengthening mechanism may include a bolt or a plurality of bolts designed to prevent delamination of the ceramic plates when in use by keeping the ceramic plates in compression.
US07753641B2
A latch is capable of automatically latching and unlatching an implement, such as a thumb used on the stick of a hydraulic excavator. The thumb may be moved to a stored, inactive position by the operator and automatically latched, or locked, in that position by the latch. To automatically engage the latch, and latch the thumb in its stored position, the operator moves the thumb to its stored position under the force of the thumb actuator. To automatically disengage the latch, and unlatch the thumb, the operator moves the thumb out of its stored position. The force of the thumb on the latch will overcome the latch's unlatching force. But unintentional drifting of the thumb will not cause a force great enough on the latch to overcome the unlatching force and disengage the latch. Also, the latch can be easily manually disengaged by a technician.
US07753632B2
A fastening device includes a fastening member that fixedly fastens fastened members, and a driving member that is capable of releasing a fastening state of the fastening member by applying a driving force to a moving portion provided in the fastening member to drive it, wherein the driving member is formed of a shape memory alloy, and the driving force is a restoring force of the shape memory alloy to its memory shape.
US07753629B1
A tilt table for use with a milling machine. The tilt table includes at least one pivot support attachable to the milling machine. The tilt table includes a table top pivotally attached to the at least one pivot support. The table top has two ends. The tilt table includes at least one movement assembly attached to at least one end of the table top to move the table top about the at least one pivot support.
US07753626B2
A micro-adjustable differential screw assembly for providing fine adjustment of the axial and/or radial position of a cutting insert is disclosed. The micro-adjustable differential screw assembly can be mounted directly to a boring bar or to a mounting cartridge, which in turn, can be mounted to the boring bar. An axial micro-adjustable differential screw assembly provides fine adjustment of an axial position of the cutting insert, while a radial micro-adjustable differential screw assembly provides fine adjustment of a radial position of the cutting insert. The differential screw assembly includes a rotatable drive screw with threads of different thread pitches, and a non-rotatable adjusting screw with threads for mating with the drive screw. The difference in the thread pitches of the drive screw causes a greatly reduced axial and radial movement of the boring cartridge in relation to the relative movement of the drive screw, thereby providing fine adjustment in the axial and radial position of the cutting insert.
US07753620B2
An automotive road milling machine, in particular large milling machine, for milling a ground surface or traffic surface, with a chassis provided with a front axle and a rear axle, consisting of crawler track units or wheels, a machine frame carried by the chassis with lateral outer walls and a longitudinal center-line, a milling drum supported at the machine frame between the crawler track units or wheels of the front axle and the rear axle, where one front end of the milling drum reaches as far as an outer side of the machine frame called the zero side for the purpose of close-to-edge milling, and an operator station with a platform for the machine operator, it is provided that the part of the machine frame located on the zero side in front of the platform of the machine operator when seen in the direction of travel is set back inwards in such a manner that a recess running in vertical direction and open towards the outer side, as well as towards the bottom and towards the top is formed in the machine frame, the said recess widening downwards and towards the front when seen in the direction of travel.
US07753618B2
Compositions comprising synthetic rock, e.g., aggregate, and methods of producing and using them are provided. The rock, e.g., aggregate, contains CO2 and/or other components of an industrial waste stream. The CO2 may be in the form of divalent cation carbonates, e.g., magnesium and calcium carbonates. Aspects of the invention include contacting a CO2 containing gaseous stream with a water to dissolve CO2, and placing the water under precipitation conditions sufficient to produce a carbonate containing precipitate product, e.g., a divalent cation carbonate.
US07753617B1
A utility cover system which includes an outer frame having an opening defined by an inner tapered edge, and a wedge cover plate formed of a resilient material having an outer tapered edge that fits within the opening of the outer frame. The outer frame preferably has an inner segment and an outer segment, wherein the outer segment is thinner than the inner segment. The cover plate is sufficiently flexible to be removably positionable into engagement with the outer frame by passing through the outer frame opening.
US07753609B2
Product applicators that are separable from a product reservoir and that heat a portion of product and a product applicator fitted with an electronic heating element capable of connecting to a low voltage power source. Most of the electric circuitry is incorporated into a circuit subassembly, for example a flexible substrate with printed-on circuit. The preferred heating element is a flexible heater. Heat emanates from the surface of the separable applicator so that the product that is closest to the applicator surface is heated prior to and/or during application.
US07753604B2
An ink sheet cartridge provided with a bobbin case easy to assemble and disassemble, formed with no protrusion on the outer surface thereof and capable of inhibiting the number of components from increase is obtained. This ink sheet cartridge is provided with a pawl and a receiving portion on upper and lower components respectively. The pawl is provided with a projecting engaging portion, and the receiving portion is provided with a groove engaging with the engaging portion. The groove has a guide for guiding the engaging portion and a stop portion fixing the engaging portion.
US07753603B2
In a digital camera system, a lens barrel adapted to a first camera body can be attached to a second camera body having a flange focal length which is shorter than that of the first camera body via an intermediate adapter, and the intermediate adapter is interposed to thereby set the flange focal length to be equal. Moreover, a compensating optical device is incorporated in the intermediate adapter to thereby match an optical distance from a mount surface to an image capture surface of the first camera body with an optical distance from a mount surface of the intermediate adapter to an image capture surface of the second camera body in a state in which the intermediate adapter is attached.
US07753601B2
A control method for a mechanical shutter in an image sensing apparatus that has the mechanical shutter which includes and a second curtain held in a pre-travel initial position using electric power, that performs image sensing using an image sensor, and that has an electronic viewfinder function. The voltage of the electric power for holding the second curtain is reduced during execution of the electronic viewfinder function, the voltage of the electric power for holding the second curtain is raised if a shutter speed set for image sensing is faster than a preset period in a case where still image sensing is instructed, and the second curtain is made to travel when a period corresponding to the shutter speed has elapsed.
US07753596B2
A multiport includes a multiport housing top piece, and a multiport housing bottom piece welded to the housing top piece. Alternatively, a method for fabricating a multiport includes providing a multiport housing top piece, providing a multiport housing bottom piece, and welding the housing top piece to the housing bottom piece. Additionally, a method of fabricating a multiport housing piece includes providing a body, and welding a plurality of connector adapters to the body. Alternatively, an optical fiber connector closure includes a connector housing top piece, a connector housing bottom piece, and a strength seal positioned between the top piece and the bottom piece such that said connector closure has a burst test rating of about 5 to about 125 Pounds per Square Inch (PSI).
US07753592B2
Bearing caps and methods for manufacturing bearing cap are disclosed. Bearing cap includes a body that comprises an abutment surface, a bearing surface, an exterior surface, and a recess portion. The abutment surface provides for the bearing cap to be coupled to an engine along a flat and even surface. The bearing surface provides for the bearing cap to at least partially capture the bearing shaft to secure the bearing shaft when the bearing cap is abutted to the engine. The recess portion extends into the body of the bearing cap from the exterior surface to reduce the weight of the bearing cap. The recess portion can be located anywhere along the exterior surface and be any shape and dimension that retains sufficient structural integrity of the bearing cap to secure the balance shaft to the engine.
US07753584B2
A thermocouple disposed on a substrate comprises a first leg of thermoelectric material, a second leg of thermoelectric material, and a thermocouple junction electrically connecting the first leg and the second leg, wherein a height of the thermocouple junction is substantially a height of the first or second legs.
US07753578B2
A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel for modulating light to form an image, and a back light unit having a plurality of lamp tubes with outside electrodes and without inside electrodes. Each of the plurality of lamp tubes has a first outside electrode disposed at one end portion and a second outside electrode disposed at another end portion. The first outside electrode which is disposed at one of the plurality of lamp tubes is electrically connected with the first outside electrode disposed at an adjacent another of the plurality of lamp tubes by a conductive member, and the second outside electrode which is disposed at the one of said plurality of lamp tubes is electrically connected with the second outside electrode disposed at the adjacent another of the plurality of lamp tubes by a conductive member.
US07753572B2
An illuminating device installed on a truck's wheels includes a hubcap having a positioning base and at least one fixing base. The positioning base is provided with a chamber and two notches formed in its one side wall. The fixing base has a recess, a through hole bored in the recess to communicate with an outside of the hubcap, and two recessed slot. A generator is fixed at an inside center of the hubcap, provided with two conducting blades extending into the chamber of the positioning base. At least a light is fitted in the through hole of the hubcap and connected with the conducting blades by conducting lines. By means of rotation or vibration of the wheels, the generator can create electromotive force to supply the light with power to make rotary brilliant brightness so as to achieve a warning effect for traffic security.
US07753568B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) assembly includes a heat dissipation device (30) and at least one LED (10). The heat dissipation device has a connecting surface (33) with circuitry (20) being directly formed thereon. The at least one LED is electrically connected with the circuitry, and is maintained in thermal and mechanical contact with the connecting surface to dissipate heat generated thereby through the heat dissipation device. A method for making the LED assembly includes steps of: (A) providing a heat dissipation device having a surface for the LED to be mounted thereon; (B) insulating the surface; (C) forming circuitry on the insulated surface directly to obtain a connecting surface; (D) attaching the LED to the connecting surface of the heat dissipation device thermally and mechanically, and connecting the LED with the circuitry electrically to form the LED assembly.
US07753567B2
A backlight unit for a test device of an LCD panel is disclosed. The backlight unit includes: a chamber enclosing a predetermined space, the chamber being provided with a plurality of through holes formed around the chamber perimeter to allow air flow between the interior and exterior of the chamber; a backlight provided in the chamber to emit a light to an LCD panel positioned in the chamber; and a plurality of circulating fans provided in the chamber to circulate air inside the chamber.
US07753566B2
In a projection video display system, display devices are irradiated with light emitted from a light source 1 housed in a body case, and a video image is projected to the outside of the body case. The system includes: a cooling fan for cooling the display devices; and an air passage for guiding air generated by driving the cooling fan to the display devices. Openings for making the display devices communicate with outside air are formed in positions corresponding to at least the display devices in the body case.
US07753565B2
An exemplary prism sheet includes a transparent main body. The main body includes a first surface, a second surface and a plurality of spherical micro-depressions and a plurality of triangular pyramidal micro-depressions. The first surface and the second surface are on opposite sides of the main body. The spherical micro-depressions are formed in the first surface and the triangular pyramidal micro-depressions are formed in the second surfaces. A backlight module using the present prism sheet is also provided.
US07753557B2
An improved formed lighting fixture having a frame, a plurality of bulbs, and a refracting layer, in which the frame is formed by gathering a plurality of rods and profiled in a specific contour, the bulbs are installed on the frame to serve as lighting ornaments, and the rod frame is coated with a refracting layer of a transparent material. A formed lighting fixture so constructed can offer a dazzling effect to thereby reduce bulb amount and facilitate production.
US07753543B2
An exemplary prism sheet includes a transparent main body. The main body includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface are on opposite sides of the main body. The first surface and the second surface define a plurality of first micro-depressions and a plurality of second micro-depressions respectively. Each first micro-depression is defined by four connecting curved inner sidewalls. A transverse width of each curved inner sidewall of each first micro-depression progressively decreases with increasing distance from the first surface. Each second micro-depression is defined by four connecting inner sidewalls. A transverse width of each inner sidewall of each second micro-depression progressively decreases with increasing distance from the second surface. A backlight module using the present prism sheet is also provided.
US07753530B2
A display has a screen which incorporates a light modulator. The screen may be a front projection screen or a rear-projection screen. Elements of the light modulator may be controlled to adjust the intensity of light emanating from corresponding areas on the screen. The display may provide a high dynamic range.
US07753526B2
Alteration of a fixation or peripheral stimulus displayed on a computer-driven display allows a human subject to maintain extended visual fixation upon the resulting dynamic stimulus. The fixation is presented upon the display and the stimulus is altered to allow resensitization of the subject's retina, thereby allowing prolonged visual fixation upon the resulting dynamic target. A dynamic stimulus may utilize a frequency doubling illusion.
US07753524B2
A device and method are provided for treating the visual system of a human including the retina, visual cortex and/or other neuro-cellular structures. The method includes the steps of locating and defining a blind zone of deteriorated vision within the human's visual system, defining a treatment area which is located predominantly within the blind zone, and treating the human's visual system by presenting visual stimuli to the human's visual system. The majority of the visual stimuli are presented to at least a portion of the blind zone.
US07753522B2
The invention is directed to a method and a device for opthalmological equipment for examining the fundus of the eye by means of an optical system and electronic sensors for image recording. The focusing device, according to the invention, for opthalmological equipment based on the nonmydriatic principle comprises a projection unit which projects at least one focusing mark in the infrared spectral region on a surface in the eye and a focusing unit, both of which are displaceable along the optical axis. The displacement carried out by electronically controllable adjusting elements is carried out simultaneously or individually based on the corresponding presets of a control unit that is provided. The necessary synchronization between the projection unit and the focusing unit can be ensured in a simple manner by means of the inventive solution. Accordingly, not only can the sequence of displacement paths be optimally adapted over the entire focusing range, but the tolerances of the optics assemblies can also be compensated individually in a simple manner from one device to another.
US07753518B2
Disclosed herein are eyeglass frames and eyeglass frame kits made from a polymer composition comprising PCTG, and eyeglasses comprising a pair of lenses mounted on the eyeglass frames or eyeglass frame kits disclosed herein. The polymer composition disclosed herein may optionally comprise one or more additives such as colorants and fillers.
US07753504B2
A printhead and ink supply arrangement suitable for utilization in a print on demand camera system includes a housing. A baffle unit is encased in the housing and, together with the housing, defines a number of ink storage chambers. The baffle unit is configured to inhibit ink acceleration as a result of movement of the camera system. An ink distribution manifold is arranged on the baffle unit and defines a series of slots. The series are in fluid communication with respective storage chambers and ink outlets. A printhead is arranged on the ink distribution manifold to receive ink via the ink outlets.
US07753499B2
Disclosed is a jet printing method, which includes firing printing fluid drops and deflecting them. The drops are then deflected again in a second direction, which can allow them to be deposited in a collimated swath. Also disclosed is dynamically adjusting the deflection to achieve a dynamic swath density and/or a dynamic swath width.
US07753498B2
There is disclosed an image recording apparatus including an inkjet printhead and a cap. The inkjet printhead has a plurality of pressure chambers, a common ink chamber that is commonly connected to the pressure chambers to supply ink therefrom to the pressure chambers, and a nozzle surface including a nozzle area and an overlapping area. In the nozzle area, a row of nozzles respectively connected to the pressure chambers are open, and the ink supplied to the pressure chambers is then supplied to the corresponding nozzles to be ejected therefrom. The overlapping area overlaps with the common ink chamber as seen in a direction perpendicular to the nozzle surface. The cap has a close-contact portion, and is brought into contact with, and away from, the nozzle surface, and when in contact with the nozzle surface, the cap air-tightly closes the nozzle surface with the close-contact portion encircling the nozzle area and not contacting the overlapping area.
US07753492B2
Provided is a micro-electromechanical fluid ejection mechanism. The mechanism includes a substrate defining an ink passage in fluid communication with a tapered ink chamber having an ink ejection port, as well as a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator arranged within the chamber. The actuator is configured to straighten when heated and to return to a bent state upon subsequent cooling to facilitate ejection of ink via the ejection port.
US07753490B2
An inkjet printhead that has a substrate with a first layer, a second layer; and a flexible element supported by the second layer. The flexible element has an orifice through which ink is ejected. An actuator deflects the flexible element to force the ink through the orifice. The substrate has an opening formed through the first layer and a hole through the second layer such that the hole and the opening are in fluid communication to supply ink to the flexible element.
US07753489B2
A wiring pattern having a plurality of terminal lands and leads independently respectively connected therewith is formed on one face of an insulator of a flexible wiring substrate. The insulator is provided with through-holes whereby the terminal lands are exposed on the other side. The terminal lands are electrically connected and fixed on the other face of the insulator by joining with the head terminals of the inkjet head with conductive adhesive, through the through-holes. Isolation between the leads and terminal lands arranged on the one side thereof from the conductive adhesive is provided by the insulator.
US07753482B2
A pattern forming method forms a pattern on a substrate by relatively moving a plurality of nozzle groups each including a plurality of nozzles arranged in a first direction and the substrate a plurality of times in a main-scanning direction to allow the nozzles to discharge liquid droplets thereon. The method includes (i) relatively moving each nozzle group and the substrate in a sub-scanning direction such that a rear end of a former nozzle group overlaps a front end of a latter nozzle group when viewed from the main-scanning direction after every relative movement between the nozzle group and the substrate in the main-scanning direction; (ii) selecting a plurality of former nozzles among the nozzles of the former group that overlap those of the latter group to allow the selected former nozzles to discharge liquid droplets upon the relative movement between the former group and the substrate in the main-scanning direction; and (iii) selecting a plurality of latter nozzles positioned between the selected former nozzles among the nozzles of the latter group that overlap those of the former group to allow the selected latter nozzles to discharge liquid droplets upon the relative movement between the latter group and the substrate in the main-scanning direction.
US07753469B2
An inkjet drop ejection apparatus that has a chamber with a plurality of nozzles, and an actuator with associated drive circuitry for selectively ejecting drops of ink through any one of the nozzles. By using a single actuator for ejecting ink from multiple nozzles, it reduces the drive circuitry etched into the printhead. This in turn allows the nozzle spacing to be reduced.
US07753462B2
The image forming apparatus comprises: an applying device that applies a first liquid containing a diffusion preventing agent for a coloring material, onto a recording medium; a droplet depositing device that deposits a second liquid containing the coloring material, onto the recording medium onto which the first liquid has been applied; a radiation irradiating device that radiates radiation onto the recording medium onto which the second liquid has been deposited; and a controlling device that controls a time from the second liquid being deposited to the second liquid being irradiated with the radiation, according to deposition data for the droplet depositing device.
US07753461B2
A refrigerator shelving system includes an item retainer for securing items carried on a shelf, a mounting member for releasably securing a shelf to a cabinet of the refrigerator, and a spill tray carried by the shelf. The item retainer is movable between a first position and a second position such that when in the first position, a first side upwardly extends from the shelf and defines a fence and when in the second position the first side is parallel and adjacent to an upper surface of the shelf. The shelf mounting member includes a first portion rotatably interconnected to a lateral side of the shelf and a second portion for selectively engaging a horizontal slot of a cabinet of the refrigerator. The mounting member is rotatable from a first position to a second position to engage the second portion with the horizontal slot. The spill tray includes a main body portion and a plurality of mounting elements. The main body portion is disposed parallel to and substantially adjacent a lower side of the shelf and is positioned completely below the shelf. The plurality of mounting elements releasably engage the shelf.
US07753460B2
A multi-section slide assembly includes an outer slide, an intermediate slide, an inner slide, a positioning member, and an actuating member. The outer slide forms a locking tab. The intermediate slide is received in the outer slide. The intermediate slide defines two receiving slots and at least one slit. The positioning member is mounted to the intermediate slide, and includes at least one positioning tab extending downward therefrom. The positioning tab extends through the slit and abuts against the locking tab. The actuating member is mounted between the intermediate member and the positioning member. The actuating member forms two arms. Two arrises protrude downward from the arms of the actuating member and extend through the corresponding receiving slots of the intermediate slide. The inner slide is received in the intermediate slide. The inner slide is capable of being slid in to depress the arms of the actuating member to tilt the actuating member, whereby the positioning tab is lifted up to disengage from the locking tab.
US07753459B2
A closure assembly configured to urge a drawer of a refrigerator from an open position that permits access to an interior of the drawer toward a closed position that impedes access to the interior of the drawer. The closure assembly includes a cam block configured to be disposed on one of the drawer and a portion of the refrigerator other than the drawer. The cam block includes a cam surface. A cam member is configured to be disposed on the other one of the drawer and the portion of the refrigerator other than the drawer. The cam member includes a contact surface configured to contact the cam surface to urge the drawer from the open position toward the closed position.
US07753458B2
A mounting apparatus for holding an expansion card with a slot cover, the mounting apparatus comprises a rear panel and a fastener. The rear panel defines a slot, and forms a holder above the slot. The holder forms a pivoting axis at a free end thereof, and the pivoting axis is in parallel with the rear panel. The fastener is pivotably attached to the pivoting axis, and comprises a pressing portion pressing the slot cover to the holder and a locking portion locked to the rear panel.
US07753447B2
An apparatus comprising a cantilever having a distal end and a proximate end, a frame portion coupled to the distal end, a base portion coupled to the proximate end, and a locking apparatus coupled to the frame portion, the base portion, or the cantilever, wherein the locking apparatus has a locked position and an unlocked position, and wherein the locking apparatus prevents the frame portion from tilting relative to the base portion when the locking apparatus is in the locked position.
US07753445B2
A child seat includes: a base member; a seat body switchable at least between a forward facing state and a sideways facing state in a bed shape on the base member; a prop or strut member attached to a front end of the base member and extending to a position where the prop member abuts on a floor of an automobile; and a rigid bar-shaped support member supported by the prop member so as to be displaceable between an upper position and a lower position. A side engagement portion is provided in a side surface of the seat body. The side engagement portion engages with the support member when the support member is brought to the upper position in the sideways facing state in the bed shape.
US07753442B2
A base for fixing the safety seating system in a passenger car has an external guiding member that more than equatorially encompasses an internal guiding member for a direct spherical guiding of a removable seated newly born infant. The infant is seated with respect to the geometrical pivoting center and an overall mass axis of the rotating portions such that neck bending and head whip lashing are minimized during a vehicle crash. The encompassing spherical and direct guiding provides for a free impact aligned reorientation of the seated infant unimpeded by adjacent elements of the car that are eventually forced into contact during crash. The direct spherical guiding provides also for a lightweight construction of the rotating portions with low momentum of inertia and consequently high responsiveness of the safety seating system.
US07753438B2
An open roof construction for a vehicle having a roof opening defined in a stationary roof part includes a roof assembly having a movable panel for opening and closing said roof opening, with a slide which is movable along a stationary slide guide and which is provided with panel engagement device cooperating with a panel curve of the movable panel, wherein a movement of the slide is capable of generating a tilting and/or sliding movement of the panel. The roof assembly further includes a locking lever which by means of a hinge point is connected to the panel and which is provided with slide engagement device cooperating with a slide curve of the slide. A guide member cooperating with a stationary lever guide and a locking member cooperating with a stationary locking guide, such that in a first position of the slide the locking member is housed in a first stationary locking guide part preventing a translational movement of the locking lever and panel connected therewith and in a second position of the slide the locking member is housed in a second stationary locking guide part allowing a translational movement of the locking lever, and thus of the panel connected therewith at the hinge point.
US07753437B2
Motor vehicle with a body having a floor structure and at least one reinforcing element for reinforcing the floor structure, wherein the reinforcing element is designed wave-shaped, wherein the waves run across the vehicle longitudinal axis.
US07753426B2
An object is to enhance the sound absorbing functions of an interior member, and furthermore, to increase ease of assembly of the interior member, and the interior member for the cab is integrally formed so as to have a laminated structure where a sound absorbing material is contained between an outer layer material and a foundation body panel, or inside a foundation body panel. In addition, such an interior member is formed in accordance with a reaction injection molding method.
US07753418B2
A door latch operator includes a hand grip actuator lever for retracting one or more latch bolts mounted at a free side edge of a door, such as an entry door for a residence or place of business. The actuator lever is pivotally mounted at an inboard side of a manually grasped handle for grasping and squeezing with the fingers against the door handle to operate a torque converter or cam module for indexing a rotary cam through a rotary step. The rotary cam is coupled to a latch bolt retractor mechanism for retracting the latch bolt or bolts and thereby permit opening of the door. In a preferred form, the latch bolt retractor mechanism operates multiple latch bolts mounted along the free side edge of the door.
US07753409B2
A mechanism (30) in a steering assembly (8) allows asymmetry of a steering wheel (8) to be quickly corrected by the driver without use of tools.
US07753403B2
In a steering column provided with a knee airbag device to a vehicle, an airbag module, which is integrally provided on an airbag door formed separately from a column lower cover, is fitted to a column tube after a steering column body is assembled, and before a steering lock is fitted to the column tube. Then, after the airbag module is fitted to the column tube, a steering column sub-assembly, which is formed by fitting at least the steering lock to the column tube, is fitted to an instrument panel provided in a vehicle at a predetermined position. After the steering column sub-assembly is fitted to the instrument panel, the column lower cover and a column upper cover, which cover a rear end portion of the steering column, are fitted to the steering column.
US07753398B2
A baby stroller comprises a collapsible wheeled frame, a swivelable seat, and a swivelable connector connected between the collapsible wheeled frame and the swivelable seat. The swivelable connector is pivotally connected atop the collapsible wheeled frame and has a locking mechanism for fixing the swivelable connector in a plurality of predetermined directions. The swivelable seat has a pair of push bars connected to both sides thereof through a pair of lockable swivel base, wherein the lockable swivel base can be used to lock the push bars either forwardly or backwardly and comprises a driving mechanism for unlocking the locking mechanism so as to permit the swivelable connector to rotate relative to the collapsible wheeled frame 1 thereby to change the direction of the swivelable seat.
US07753395B2
A trailer tongue assembly is provided which has a first section, a second section and a hinge pivotally connecting the first and section sections. The first section has a first end with a cross-sectional configuration and the second section has a second end with a cross-sectional configuration. The hinge has a fixed section, a rotatable section, and a pivot member. The fixed section has a first attachment flange with a cross-sectional configuration corresponding to the cross-sectional configuration of the first end. The rotatable section has a second attachment flange with a cross-sectional configuration corresponding to the cross-sectional configuration of the second end. The pivot member rotatably connects the fixed and rotatable sections and the first attachment flange is fixably attached to the first end while the second attachment flange is fixably attached to the second end.
US07753394B2
A trailer hitch apparatus for connecting a hitch coupling of a towed vehicle at adjustable heights to a hitch coupling of a towing vehicle includes an elongated member disposed on a predetermined portion of a rear end of such towing vehicle and extending in a vertical direction during use of the apparatus. Apertures are formed through the elongated member in a horizontal direction and are spaced apart in the vertical direction. The elongated member is secured in the vertical direction directly to such predetermined portion of such rear end. The hitch coupling of such towed vehicle is adjustably secured to the elongated member.
US07753392B2
A slidable trailer hitch apparatus comprises a trailer hitch head operable to receive a cooperating portion of a trailer, the trailer hitch head adapted to be slidable and rotatable relative to the vehicle about an axis of rotation, first and second parallel spaced part guides fixedly located relative to the vehicle, and a body affixed to and rotatable with the trailer hitch head, the body having a center of rotation about the axis and a distal surface adapted to engage either of the first or second guides when the body is rotated relative to the first and second guides. The engagement of the distal surface upon either of the first or second guides displaces the center of the body and the trailer hitch head parallel to the first or second guide when the trailer hitch head is rotated relative to the first and second guides.
US07753385B2
A suspension system for an agricultural or construction industry vehicle is described. The suspension system comprises two hydraulic cylinders which support a frame in relation to an axle of the vehicle, the hydraulic cylinders being hydraulically connected to one another in a cross connection, so that a piston-side chamber of the one hydraulic cylinder is connected to the piston rod-side chamber of the other hydraulic cylinder and vice versa, in each case one hydraulic accumulator assigned to a hydraulic cylinder, a hydraulic source, a hydraulic tank, a control valve device, an electronic control unit, electrically switchable switch valves which are arranged in the cross connection between the hydraulic accumulators and the hydraulic cylinders, and a first and second supply line, which supply lines connect the control vale device to the cross connection. In order to prevent the activation of a suspension state in critical vehicle states, means for the detection and compensation of load states of the vehicle are provided in the suspension system.
US07753384B2
A four-point suspension control arm (1) is provided for the axle suspension of a rigid axle especially of a utility vehicle. The four-point control arm (1) has four bearing eyes (7, 8, 9, 10), wherein two bearing eyes (9, 10) can be connected to the rigid axle and two bearing eyes (7, 8)are to be connected to the vehicle frame, each in an articulated manner. The four-point control arm (1) is designed as a one-piece hollow housing (2, 3, 4, 5, 6), which can be twisted and is inscribed in the rectangle or trapezoid formed by the bearing eyes. The hollow housing (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) is formed essentially by a tube, which is arranged horizontally in respect to the vehicle and is open on both sides, with a cross section ranging from an essentially rounded rectangular to O-shaped.
US07753383B2
A device for exposing an opening in a housing part of a steering gear in a vehicle steering system has a closure element that closes the opening and a component that, when it comes into contact with a liquid, changes at least one of its properties such that, after the component cooperates with the closure element, the closure element exposes the opening.
US07753379B2
A gasket can include a body adapted to form a seal in an engagement region between two members. A first sealing portion can be formed in the body and define a first plane. A second sealing portion can be formed in the body and occupy a space outside of the first plane. A first transition portion is formed between the first and second portions. The first transition portion defines a first width in the engagement region that is greater than a second width defined in the first and second portion adjacent to the first transition portion.
US07753374B2
An automatic shuffling machine has a shuffling wheel and a card input mounted adjacent to the shuffling wheel for conveying and inserting cards into slots formed in the shuffling wheel. An insertion panel is mounted securely between the card input and the shuffling wheel, may be a curved shape corresponding to the shuffling wheel and has a tangent surface opposite to the shuffling wheel and an abutting portion disposed between an inlet passage of the card input and one corresponding card slot of the shuffling wheel. Thus, by controlling the rotation of the shuffling wheel, the automatic shuffling machine input the cards in a simple and efficient manner.
US07753366B2
The sheet feeding apparatus includes a sheet stack tray on which sheets to be fed are stacked, a drive motor for moving up the sheet stack tray, a detection sensor for detecting the position of an uppermost sheet stacked on the sheet stack tray, and a control part for controlling the function of the drive motor, wherein, when the detection sensor detects that the uppermost sheet reaches a predetermined height while the drive motor executes a drive so as to move up the sheet stack tray, the control part tentatively stops or decelerates the drive motor and thereafter drives the drive motor so as to move up the sheet stacked on the sheet stack tray to a feed position.
US07753362B2
Disclosed is a sheet feeding apparatus capable of easily changing an amount of conveyance of sheet materials without increasing the costs. A sheet feeding roller body is constructed of a cylindrical sheet feeding roller support member provided with a sheet feeding roller and a gear on both sides thereof. A support portion of a sheet feeding shaft is inserted with a gap through a through-hole of the sheet feeding roller body, whereby the sheet feeding roller is rotatably supported by the sheet feeding shaft. The sheet feeding shaft receives a driving force via a sheet feeding shaft gear and thus rotates. The sheet feeding roller of the sheet feeding roller body receives a driving force via the gear from an ASF control gear and thus rotates, whereby the sheet feeding shaft and the sheet feeding roller can be rotated with different numbers of rotations.
US07753361B2
A paper feeding apparatus includes a driving shaft, a swing arm unit sleeved rotatably on the driving shaft, a pickup shaft disposed rotatably on the swing arm unit, and a device configured as an idle wheel unit or a damping gear. The device is interconnected between the driving shaft and the pickup shaft such that rotation of the driving shaft results in upward and downward pivoting movement of the pickup shaft, thereby allowing for paper loading and paper pickup, respectively.
US07753359B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus having: a conveyance roller, wherein a surface roughness Ra of a surface layer remains in a range from 8 μm to 30 μm, at a stage where a total length of sheets conveyed reaches at 42,000 m.
US07753354B2
There is provided a sensor 48 for detecting penetration of a sheet by a punch hole aligning pin 42, and there is provided controlling means for retrying a penetrating operation by returning the punch hole aligning pin to an initial position when a time period from starting to move the pin to penetrating the sheet exceeds a reference time period. Even when a degree of unalignment of the punch hole of the sheet P is considerable and the punch hole aligning pin cannot penetrate through the sheet by once, the punch hole aligning pin is penetrated therethrough frequently by repeating the penetrating operation and therefore, an error in aligning the sheet can be reduced. In a case in which the pin is not penetrated through the sheet even when the penetrating operation is carried out by a predetermined number of times, the pin is returned to the initial position and an error is displayed.
US07753337B2
In a fluid injection valve, a valve needle and a moving core are installed in the valve housing to be slidable in an axial direction. The moving core has a through hole in which the valve needle is slidably inserted. A stopper provided on the valve needle moves the valve needle integrally with the moving core when the moving core travels toward the fixed core with respect to the needle valve. An elastic member biases the valve needle away from the fixed core, and a helical spring biases the moving core toward the fixed core. A spring seat supports one axial end of the helical spring in both of the axial direction and a radial direction of the helical spring.
US07753332B2
An improved adjustable mounting system for mounting a flat panel display to a surface. A mounting bracket is configured to attach to the surface, while an adapter bracket is operatively connected to the mounting bracket and is configured to operatively connect to the flat panel display. At least one carrier mechanism operatively connects the mounting bracket and the adapter bracket, the first carrier mechanism positioned with a set of substantially straight guide paths or surfaces to couple the adapter bracket to the mounting bracket. When the flat panel display is operatively connected to the adapter bracket and the mounting bracket is attached to the surface, the flat panel display is generally selectively rotatably positionable about an axis substantially parallel to the surface as a result of the interaction of the first carrier mechanism with the set of substantially straight guide paths or surfaces.
US07753328B1
A mounting system for providing, inter alia, an attachment point for hanging about a frame.
US07753325B2
A mounting apparatus for mounting a data storage device that has a protrusion protruding from a sidewall thereof includes a bracket for holding the data storage device, a mounting member, a locking member, and a resilient member. The bracket includes a first side wall. The first side wall defines a slideway, for receiving the protrusion of the data storage device to slide therealong. The mounting member is mounted to the first side wall. The locking member slidably mounted to the mounting member includes a projecting part adjacent the slideway of the bracket, for locating the protrusion of the data storage device. The resilient member is located between the mounting member and the locking member.
US07753323B2
A diving board lift assembly for lifting a diving board from a substantially horizontal diving position to a substantially upright position is provided. The diving board having a diving end and a hinged end with the hinged end hingedly connected to a diving board support member. To raise the diving board, an actuator is rotated in a clockwise direction which rotation causes a portion of the top assembly to the lift mechanism to make contact with and raise the diving board to a near vertical position. To lower the diving board to its original position, the actuator need simply be rotated in a counter-clockwise direction.
US07753320B2
Disclosed is an improved mounting assembly for securely supporting elongated items against a surface. The assembly includes a device to attach at least one elongate object to the mount, a spring section, and a mount section. The mount section is in the form of a rectangular fir tree mount. The rectangular fir tree mount has a tapered tip and a generally rectangular shape. The center segment of the rectangular fir tree mount includes a number of curved branches. The spring section includes flexible springs extending downwardly from the mount. The flexible springs provide tension and resistance when the mount is inserted into a supporting surface. The flexible springs and the branches allow the rectangular fir tree mount to be utilized on panels of varying thicknesses.
US07753317B1
This invention relates to a portable low profile derail which is releasably securable to a railroad rail for derailing from the rail a flanged wheel of railroad equipment. The derail has a monolithic body including a flat rider plate and an integral elongated holding channel. At least three field side fasteners are mounted on the holding channel and connectable with the rail. A substantially straight rub bar is fixed to the derail body and is set at an angle to the rail when the derail is secured to the rail. The derail includes a securing assembly which is selectively connectable to the rail for securing the derail onto the rail.
US07753310B2
An aircraft with a long body 1 which has a forward end 2 and an aft end 3, which is able to achieve vertical take-off by means of a tilt-able rotor and blade assembly 4 at the forward part of the aircraft and a tilt-able turbojet 19 at the rear of the aircraft. The rotor and blade assembly is rotated by an engine assembly 8, with the engine assembly, the rotor and blades all positioned on top a multi-directional tilt enabling joint 9. The turbojet is fitted to a multi-directional tilt enabling joint 27 to allow control of lateral movement of the aircraft as well as providing vertical lift and forward propulsion during forward flight. The turbojet is connected to the tilt enabling joint 27 by a rivet 30 such that the turbojet can be rotated relative to the tilt enabling joint.
US07753309B2
An aircraft comprises two wings, a fuselage, a tail planform and a pair of counter-rotating propellers. The two wings are located at a longitudinal center of gravity of the aircraft. The fuselage is located forward of the longitudinal center of gravity and coupled to the two wings. The tail planform is coupled to the two wings and located aft of the longitudinal center of gravity. The pair of counter-rotating propellers are located at the longitudinal center of gravity and between the wings. Further, the pair are coupled to a tilting mechanism for tilting the propellers between a vertical flight position and a forward flight position. One of the propellers located beneath the wings when in the vertical flight position and one of the propellers is located above the wings when in the vertical flight position.
US07753305B2
In a seatbelt retractor of this invention is provided with an energy-absorbing means which performs an energy absorption by twisting a rotational shaft of a spool (first energy-absorbing means) and an energy-absorbing means which performs an energy absorption by twisting a wire 2b (second energy-absorbing means), a containing side (upper side of the disk member 2c) which contains the wire 2b and a take-up side (side between the disk member 2c and a plate body 2a) which takes up the wire after being pulled out from the containing side and being twisted are made on different planes, so that the length of the wire which constitutes the second energy-absorbing means can be made longer, and the energy-absorbing time by both the torsion bar and the wire can be extended.
US07753301B1
A guide-cutting sheet of a cutting wheel for a paper shredder is characterized in that two sides of a centerline of a planar linear guide-cutting sheet are opened respectively with blade shaft transfix holes corresponding to a spacing between the blade shafts of two parallel cylindrical rotary cutting wheels; below or above two blade shaft transfix holes are opened respectively with fixing rod transfix holes, corresponding to a spacing between two fixing rods; the centerline part above two blade shaft transfix holes is opened with a rabbet which can be latched at two aperture walls of a strip-shape aperture on a face cover; and a bottom of the rabbet is provided with a concaved knife-edge which can cut off paper sheets.
US07753298B2
A rotor processor includes a stator chamber and a rotor mounted for rotation within the chamber. The rotor has a perimeter edge spaced closely to the interior wall of the chamber so as to define a slit or gap there between. The rotor is slidably mounted upon a rotor shaft, for movement between raised and lowered positions during operation of the processor, so as to automatically adjust the dimension of the slit, without operator intervention. As air flows from a plenum beneath the rotor, through the slit, and into the chamber, a pressure differential is created, which provides a lifting force to raise the rotor. The pressure drop is maintained relatively constant at a predetermined level after a lifting equilibrium force is achieved, regardless of the air flow volume.
US07753286B2
A device providing for an overheated liquid to be sprayed in very fine droplets at a very high speed, comprised of a nozzle body followed by a mixer head and several injectors opening onto a divergent speed attainment nozzle. Fittings adjust the exit section of the nozzle by adding a profiled core that may slide on the axis of the divergent nozzle and enabling, depending on its position, the exit section of the nozzle to be adjusted to maintain a maximum ejection speed of sprayed droplets. The device is particularly applicable to the chemical and energy industries.
US07753285B2
An ultrasound apparatus capable of mixing and/or atomizing fluids is disclosed. The apparatus includes a horn having an internal chamber through which fluids to be atomized and/or mixed flow. Connected to the horn's proximal end, a transducer powered by a generator induces ultrasonic vibrations within the horn. Traveling down the horn from the transducer, the ultrasonic vibrations induce the release of ultrasonic energy into the fluids to be atomized and/or mixed as they travel through the horn's internal chamber. As the ultrasonic vibrations travel through the chamber, the fluids within the chamber are agitated and/or begin to cavitate, thereby mixing the fluids. Upon reaching the front wall of the chamber, the ultrasonic vibrations are reflected back into the chamber, like an echo. The ultrasonic vibrations echoing off the front wall pass through the fluids within the chamber a second time, further mixing the fluids.
US07753275B2
A point of sale device including a housing, a magnetic card reader disposed in the housing, the magnetic card reader including at least first and second heads, a flexible circuit board electrically coupled to the first and second heads and a unitary resilient head mounting element resiliently supporting the at least first and second heads independently of the flexible circuit board and electronic circuitry coupled to the magnetic card reader.
US07753269B2
Novel POS-based bar code symbol reading systems are disclosed having an integrated customer-kiosk terminal. Also disclosed are novel POS-Based Bar Code Reading Cash Register Systems having Integrated Internet-Enabled Customer-Kiosk Terminals.
US07753261B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for automatically preventing delinquency of payment on financial accounts. In one implementation, methods or systems may be provided for associating a credit cardholder's account to the cardholder's bank account. If the cardholder fails to make a required monthly payment on the credit card account, the required payment is automatically withdrawn from the bank account prior to credit card account being reported as delinquent.
US07753259B1
Methods of operating a promotional program for customers of a Banking institution are disclosed, comprising the dispensing a receipt with a symbol or picture thereon redeemable for a prize, wherein the dispensing of the receipt is accomplished through the use of an automated teller machine (ATM); and wherein the ATM machine dispenses the receipt after successful completion of a transaction. The symbol or picture may be printed or stamped or otherwise affixed on the receipt dispensed from the ATM, either before or during the transaction. ATM receipts with the symbol or picture may be irregularly or randomly dispensed. Such promotional programs may be used to give away varied prizes, including but not limited to tickets for sporting events.
US07753258B1
A system and method for completing a financial form including generating a navigation path by selecting a plurality of financial events, where the navigation path is used as a framework to complete the financial form, selecting a webinar event from the plurality of financial events in the navigation path, where the webinar event is one of the plurality of financial events associated with at least one webinar related to one of the plurality of financial events, and completing at least a portion of the financial form using the at least one webinar.
US07753256B2
A bank assembly comprising a bank storage unit, a bank holder and a closed bottom portion is provided. The bank storage unit defines a cavity therein for storing money. The bank holder is capable of being mounted to a vertical surface. The closed bottom portion is coupled to the bank holder and extends away from the bank holder. The closed bottom portion and the bank holder coact with each other to support the bank storage unit.
US07753250B2
One example of a surgical stapler may include a pusher, at least one generally planar staple, where the pusher holds at least one staple, and a splay arm that includes spaced-apart splay fingers extending generally distally, where at least one splay finger includes a splay tip extending therefrom, and where relative motion of said pusher and said splay fingers causes said at least one said splay tip to engage and then splay at least one said staple. Another example of a surgical stapler may include a plurality of staples positioned out of contact with one another; a pusher that engages each staple; and at least one splay tip, each splay tip configured to contact a distal surface of the distalmost staple. Another example of a surgical stapler may include a plurality of staples, a pusher that holds the staples, the pusher having a longitudinal axis and being slidable longitudinally both proximally and distally substantially along that longitudinal axis, where the pusher is substantially constrained against motion away from the longitudinal axis; and a splay arm movable in a direction away from the longitudinal axis, from a position in which the splay arm contacts one staple to a position in which the splay arm no longer contacts that staple.
US07753244B2
To upgrade the practicability of the feed of a nail connecting body in a magazine by using a spring. The magazine (4) is provided with (a) a rectilinear loading part (13) which loads the nail connecting body N; and (b) a feed member (34) which is loaded on this rectilinear loading part (13) so that it can slide easily. The feed member (34) is provided with (c) a slider (35) which makes up the main body; and (d) a feed pawl (43). The feed pawl (43) is attached to the slider (35) by the pin (42) so that it can turn freely and so that it can latch onto and be detached from the nail connecting body N and it is energized by the dual purpose compression torsion spring (46) at a latching position. The feel pawl (43) can be latched onto any nail n of the nail connecting body N. As a result, nail connecting bodies N can be added and nail connecting bodies N with a connection which is longer than the motion stroke of the feed member (34) can be used so that the applicability of the nail driving device can be significantly upgraded.
US07753238B2
A volume measurement and/or metering device includes a cylinder/piston and cock system for sucking in and/or discharging liquids in a defined way, the piston being movable in relation to the cylinder for sucking in or discharging the liquid. The cylinder is mounted, together with the cylinder bottom, rotatably with respect to the cock system about an axis of rotation parallel to the cylinder longitudinal axis. The cylinder bottom bears with a sealing seat against a cock element of the cock system, the cock element having at least one duct orifice. These orifices are arranged in such a way that the at least one orifice in the cylinder bottom can be brought into congruence with the orifices of the cock element when the cylinder and the cylinder bottom are rotated. Further, the cock element is brought into a sealing closing position for simultaneously closing of all the orifices of the cylinder bottom are provided.
US07753224B2
A cup lid having a top panel with an upwardly projecting rim peripherally thereabout, a recessed channel in the top panel extends from a central area thereof to the rim, the channel having a bottom with a sipping opening defined therethrough adjacent the rim, a closure member selectively receivable in said channel for movement between open and closed positions relative to said opening, the closure member being integrally formed with said lid, or a companion cup, remote from said channel for selective severing therefrom and subsequent mounting within the channel.
US07753220B2
A rack truss for use in forming shelf-type storage racks which may be assembled at the site using bolts and/or which includes reinforcement at the lower level of the rack truss.
US07753215B2
A weir assembly for use with a mixer-settler for liquid-liquid extraction includes in one embodiment an organic weir having an inlet opening below the free surface of the organic phase liquid and a vertically-adjustable front wall allowing adjustments in the position and/or height of the inlet opening. The organic weir can also feature an angled bottom coupled to a lip segment, an incline plate in the interior of the weir, and a front wall that is angled with respect to incoming fluid flow. In another embodiment the weir assembly can independently or additionally include an aqueous weir with a labyrinth section. The aqueous weir can optionally include an adjustable lip hingedly coupled to the top of the final partition in the labyrinth section.
US07753207B2
A light-weight capsule having internal components comprised of sample containers with living organisms in solid and liquid form, inner carrier, multiple seals is disclosed to protect the samples contained within and to withstand an impact of up to 4000 G in outer space or Earth applications being subject to extreme conditions of varying radiation, temperature, pressure, and shock. The present capsule provides a compact and durable design with features for reducing size, mass and weight while increasing strength, structural integrity, and sealing strength to protect the samples contained interiorly and to withstand extreme conditions for travel in deep space or inhospitable places on Earth.
US07753197B2
A cover member (1) for a container which includes a cap portion (2) and a leg member (3) depending from the cap portion, wherein the leg member has an internal surface arranged to face the container and an external surface which is visable when then the cover member is in use, the cover member further including one or more lugs (4a, 4b) arranged on the internal surface of the leg member, the one or more lugs being arranged to receive a hair removal tool.
US07753195B2
A foldable carrier is provided with a vertical support panel structure made as a first component, and an external side wall structure as a second component. The vertical support panel structure and the external side wall structure are joined together to form two separate receptacles extending from opposite sides of said vertical panel structure to hold objects to be carried in the carrier. Preferably, the vertical support panel structure is made of an untreated and relatively inexpensive material, and the external side wall structure is made of a material treated to give it good resistance to weakening when wet.
US07753192B2
An apparatus for orienting a spheroidal container comprising a spheroidal body and a neck portion and the method for using the same, the apparatus comprising a container feeder, a channel having a longitudinal gap and arranged for receiving the spheroidal containers from the container feeder and operative to orient the spheroidal containers in an upside down orientation with the body supported by the channel and the neck portion extending below the spheroidal body and into the longitudinal gap; and a twister for receiving the spheroidal containers in the upside down orientation and inverting the spheroidal containers. An apparatus for packaging a beverage in a spheroidal container and the method for using the same, comprising the apparatus for orienting a spherical container and further comprising a filler for receiving the spheroidal containers and filling the spheroidal containers with the beverage, and a sealer for sealing the beverage in the spheroidal containers.
US07753191B2
The invention relates to automated handling of baggage objects of variable sizes, shapes and consistencies, including baggage in an airport. The invention involves measuring at least length in two directions of the objects while supported on a conveyor means, turning selected objects in an angle according to a selection in response to the measured lengths in relation to a predetermined value, and transferring objects to a storage device to collect a plurality of objects, and preferably while the objects are supported on a conveyor means. The selection in response to at least one predetermined value provides one basis for deciding whether to turn the objects before the objects are transferred to the storage device. This facilitates automatic transfer of baggage objects without manual intervention.
US07753190B2
An escalator or moving walk has respectively a step band and steps, or a moving walk with a pallet band and pallets. A balustrade has a handrail that is held by a balustrade skirt. Arranged on the balustrade skirt is a wedging guard apparatus or deflector apparatus that prevents wedging or pinching of objects and persons between the steps and the balustrade skirt. The wedging guard or deflector apparatus has a carrier or base section and a brush unit that is arranged on a vertical area of the balustrade skirt. The carrier or base section has fastening parts for vertical mating or joining with the brush unit.
US07753188B2
A pallet lock comprising: (a) a housing including two opposing rails defining a channel therebetween; and (b) a biased double lock at least partially seated within the channel, the double lock repositionable between a pick side blocking position and a load side blocking position, the double lock including a load side portion and an opposing pick side portion, where the pick side portion includes a pick side lock, where the load side portion includes a load side lock, and where at least one of the pick side lock and the load side lock are recessed within the channel as a result of the bias of the double lock.
US07753187B2
A transmission for an internal combustion apparatus is provided in which a parking lock mechanism is commonly formed with an upstream side portion of a power transmission system of a shift change mechanism, whereby the number of parts is reduced and the parking lock mechanism is compactly incorporated therein to achieve miniaturization of the internal combustion engine. The transmission in which a shift change mechanism performs a shift change in response to an operation of a gear selecting apparatus is configured to include a parking lock mechanism which is driven in an interlocking relationship with a working portion of the shift change mechanism, and if the shift change mechanism is set to the parking position, then a rotary shaft of the transmission is locked against rotation by the parking lock mechanism thereby restricting rotation of the rotary shaft.
US07753183B2
A torque converter with a casing, a turbine, and a piston having a first friction surface located at a radially outer portion of the piston, and a first drive ring having second and third friction surfaces. The piston is displaceable to engage the first and second friction surfaces. The torque converter also includes a second drive ring having fourth and fifth friction surfaces. The first drive ring is displaceable to engage the third and fourth friction surfaces. The second drive ring is driveably connected to the piston and to an elastic member of a damper. The torque converter includes a sixth friction surface for the casing. The second drive ring is displaceable to engage the fifth and sixth friction surfaces, the first drive ring and the casing are nonreleasably connected, and the first drive ring is axially displaceable with respect to the casing.
US07753180B2
A magnetorheological (MR) piston includes an MR piston core, an MR piston end plate, a shim disc, and a flexible orifice disc. The end plate covers an end of the core to define a chamber and has a through passageway aligned with an MR-piston-core bypass passageway at the chamber. The shim disc and the orifice disc are positioned in the chamber. The orifice disc includes an orifice aligned with the bypass passageway at the chamber and includes an additional orifice. Under fluid pressure in a first direction the orifice disc lies substantially flat against one of the end and the MR piston end plate. Under fluid pressure in an opposite second direction the orifice disc is deflected by the presence of the shim disc to lift the additional orifice from the one of the end and the MR piston end plate.
US07753165B2
In a method and a device for canceling the noise in an exhaust gas channel of a vehicle, a noise signal is received from the exhaust gas channel using a sound sensor, and a frequency signal which has the same amplitude and the opposite phase as the noise signal is generated. The generated frequency signal is acoustically mixed with the noise signal in the exhaust gas channel using a sound converter, there by reducing the noise in the exhaust gas channel. In addition, the temperature in the exhaust gas channel is calculated based on the received sound signal.
US07753162B2
A vehicle steering apparatus includes a vehicle steering system and a supplemental steering force applying device. The supplemental steering force applying device is configured and arranged to apply a supplemental steering force to the vehicle steering system to reduce a steering load on the operator. The supplemental steering force applying device includes a steering torque detecting section, a rectilinear driving condition detecting section, a pulling suppression control section. The rectilinear driving condition detecting section is configured and arranged to detect a rectilinear driving condition of the vehicle. The pulling suppression control section is configured and arranged to adjust the supplemental steering force in a direction canceling a pulling force imparted on the vehicle during the rectilinear driving condition by using a pulling suppression force calculated based on historical data of the steering torque detected during the rectilinear driving condition.
US07753160B2
This invention relates to a lawn mower. In certain example embodiments, the lawn mower includes one or more of: (a) a cooling baffle for efficiently cooling a hydraulic fluid tank and/or fluid therein using air flow caused by a combustion engine used for driving mower cutting blade(s); (b) improved cockpit structure including fenders; (c) improved drive wheel(s) adjustment structure or assembly; (d) improved idler arm assembly for use in connection with the cutter deck and/or pump driving belt; and/or (e) improved hose routing structure.
US07753156B2
A control system for a vehicle includes an ECU, a front wheel speed sensor, a rear wheel speed sensor, and an engine. The ECU detects an actual slip speed and an actual slip ratio of a rear wheel on the basis of respective detected values of a front wheel speed sensor and a rear wheel speed sensor. Slip speed traction control is started when the actual slip speed exceeds a threshold value of a slip speed when a vehicle is at a low speed, and slip ratio traction control is started when the actual slip ratio exceeds a threshold value of a slip ratio when it is at an intermediate or high speed. An output of the engine is adjusted depending on the actual slip speed in the slip speed traction control, while being adjusted depending on the actual slip ratio in the slip ratio traction control.
US07753141B2
A drilling rig for drilling an underground borehole (5) into a seam (4) uses coiled metal tubing (8) fed by a tractor unit (11) from a drum (7) to provide a thrust force to a drilling head. The drilling head has a bent-sub assembly giving an angle of deviation which is controlled by rotating the coiled metal tubing in the borehole by way of rotation of the drum (7) in the frame (12) about the axis of the tube in the borehole (5).
US07753135B2
A handheld power tool with a rotating and/or hammering drive mechanism for a tool (11) that can be inserted into a tool receptacle (10) has a unit which transmit the rotation of a motor shaft (5) to an intermediate shaft (7), by which the tool receptacle (10) is set into a rotary motion and/or a hammering motion. A compact construction of the handheld power tool is attained by providing that the motor shaft (5) is coupleable or is coupled to the intermediate shaft (7) in one axis.
US07753128B2
Disclosed herein are methods for preparing a wellbore for production or injection. The methods may include the steps of positioning a completion longer than 300m comprising an inflow control device (ICD) having radial flow paths in the wellbore adjacent to a filtercake and determining the pressure required to lift the filtercake off of the wellbore. The radial flow paths of the ICD are designed such that when the filtercake adjacent to a downstream portion of the ICD completion is removed, the pressure drop across the first downstream part of the ICD completion is sufficient to maintain a drawdown pressure high enough such that the second upstream filtercake is also removed.
US07753123B2
Acidizing methods for subterranean formations formed of predominantly siliceous material as well as acidizing compositions. Some methods include injecting into a predominantly siliceous subterranean formation, an aqueous acidic mixture formed by blending an aqueous liquid, a fluoride source, and an effective amount of an alkane sulfonic acid, preferably methane sulfonic acid, to adjust the pH of the fluid where the alkane sulfonic acid where the alkane group may be an unbranched, a branched or a cyclic alkyl residue. Hydrofluoric acid (HF) may not be added to the fluid in some embodiments as the fluoride source, such as the case for an HF free fluid, and, in some instances, hydrochloric acid is not added to the fluid to adjust pH. Also described are compositions containing an aqueous acidic mixture formed by blending an aqueous liquid, a fluoride source, and an effective amount of an alkane sulfonic acid to adjust pH.
US07753121B2
An assembly that is usable with a well includes a base pipe, a screen and at least one perforating charge. The base pipe includes at least one radial port to communicate well fluid, and the base pipe has an outer surface. The screen is mounted to the base pipe and is adapted to at least partially surround the base pipe. The radial port(s) of the base pipe are covered by the screen. The perforating charge(s) are mounted to the outer surface of the base pipe.
US07753119B2
Many reservoirs of interest include heavy oil. In such reservoirs, partly at normal temperatures, many instruments commonly used for formation evaluation may not be able to distinguish between heavy oil and bound water in the formation. Passive or active heating is used to elevate the temperature of the fluids in the formation. At elevated temperatures, distinguishing between heavy oil and bound water is easier. Of particular interest is the increase in the resolvability of the transverse relaxation time T2 of NMR spin echo measurements. Additionally, the dielectric constant and the loss tangents of water and heavy oil show different temperature and frequency dependence.
US07753109B2
A heat dissipation device adapted for dissipating heat from a heat-generating device includes a heat pipe assembly and a fin set. The heat pipe assembly is adapted for absorbing heat from the heat-generating device, and includes a plurality of bending heat pipes each having a top face and a bottom face. The fin set thermally engaged with the heat pipe assembly includes a plurality of fins and has a bottom surface cooperatively formed by bottom edges of the fins. The heat pipes of the heat pipe assembly are juxtaposed with each other; the top faces of the heat pipes are thermally attached to the bottom surface of the fin set; the bottom faces of the heat pipes are positioned level with each other to form a contacting surface for contacting with the heat generating device.
US07753098B2
A tooling head for bi-directional tire cord application to an annular surface reciprocates in a forward and a reverse direction across the annular surface. The tooling head includes a housing; a nose block assembly coupled to the housing and reciprocating in an axial direction relative to the tooling head housing; a pair of cord engaging rollers mounted to a remote end of the nose block assembly and moving therewith in a forward and a reverse direction across the annular surface, the rollers positioning at least one cord against the annular surface in the forward and reverse directions; and a biasing element engaging against the nose block assembly for alternatively biasing the rollers against the annular surface.
US07753096B2
A filling device for container filling machines including an exchangeable centering socket for a mouth of a container, a bayonet joint for mounting the centering socket to the filling device, and at least one permanent magnet for removably fixing the centering socket in a locked position.
US07753089B2
A tank (10) for storing a liquid with a device (11, 12) for feeding one or more substances thixotroping the liquid to the liquid in the tank (10) is characterised in that the device (11, 12) is designed so that it feeds the thixotroping substance or substances to the liquid in the tank (10) as a result of a signal from a signal transmitter, so that the liquid completely thixotropes, at least in a closed outer layer inside the tank (10) that cannot be penetrated by a residue of the liquid, not thixotroped if necessary. This ensures that by simple means the liquid present in the tank (10) is pretended from being discharged or from escaping under certain defined conditions, particularly in emergency situations.
US07753088B2
A system and method for filling hydrodynamic bearings with fluid. The fluid filling system includes a vacuum vessel for receiving the hydrodynamic bearing therein, a pump hermetically connected to the vacuum vessel and exhausting air from the vacuum vessel to the outside, an ultrasonic generator for generating vibrations in the vacuum vessel, and a fluid dispenser for dripping the fluid into the hydrodynamic bearing. When air is exhausted from the vacuum vessel to the atmosphere by the pump, the hydrodynamic bearing is vibrated by the ultrasonic generator and air is exhausted from a micro-gap between the shaft and sleeve of the bearing the atmosphere.
US07753073B2
An occlusion valve with safety relief comprising a manifold block having an inlet and an outlet. A diaphragm connected to the manifold block and for being manually pressed to stop flow between the inlet and the outlet. A pressure relief valve internal to the manifold block and in fluid communication with downstream and upstream pressures and wherein when the diaphragm is pressed and downstream pressure exceeds a predetermined pressure the pressure relief valve opens allowing flow through the occlusion valve with safety relief.
US07753069B2
A drain valve for a vehicle compressed air system, which separates dirt, water, debris and other relatively heavy objects from a compressed air stream. The drain valve includes a sump with a tangential inlet. The tangential inlet creates a vortex within the sump that collects relatively heavy objects at the bottom of the sump and allows the compressed air to exit the drain valve through an outlet port located at the top of the drain valve. A pressure actuated valve and drain port allows for the water to be discharged from the drain valve while retaining the pneumatic signal.
US07753060B2
An aqueous tube cleaning system as described herein can be utilized to clean a plurality of tubes having different lengths. The system includes a tower assembly having a wash chamber that houses the tubes during the cleaning cycle. The tower assembly is held in a horizontal load/unload position for loading and unloading of the tubes. The system rotates the tower assembly into a vertical cleaning orientation to accommodate cleaning with cleaning and rinse solutions, which flow through and around the tubes using the force of gravity. After rinsing and draining, the tower assembly is rotated back to the horizontal position for unloading.
US07753054B2
A method for creating a monkey model of spinal cord injury, which includes exposing the dura mater of the cervical cord of a monkey and applying a load on the dura mater; the thus-created monkey model of spinal cord injury; and a method for evaluating a therapeutic drug for spinal cord injury by use of this model.According to the present invention, it is possible to create a monkey which is close to the human and thus useful as a model of human spinal cord injury. This model enables proper evaluation of therapeutic effects of various drugs on spinal cord injury. Through use of this model, it has been confirmed for the first time that transplantation therapy of human neural stem cells is efficacious against spinal cord injury.
US07753048B2
A solar air conditioning device (100) comprises a solar collector assembly (30), an inlet assembly (10) at an entrance of the solar collector assembly, and an outlet assembly (50) at an exit of the solar collector assembly. The solar collector assembly includes a heat-absorbing set (31) and a transparent panel (38) being assembled to a top of the heat-absorbing set. The heat-absorbing set comprises a plurality of heat-absorbing units (32) engaged with each other. The heat-absorbing set defines an air channel with the transparent panel and a heat-absorbing channel below the air channel. The inlet and outlet assemblies are in fluidic communication with the heat-absorbing channel.
US07753047B1
A barbecue grill stand. A stand is provided for supporting a barbecue grill. The stand has a top section and a bottom section. The top section may be independently used without the bottom section to provide for a compact apparatus that may be rested on a table, the tailgate of a pickup truck, or the like. The top section may be engaged upon the bottom section to provide a full-size barbecue grill stand that may free-stand upon the floor or ground. The top section connects and disconnects with and from the bottom section simply and without the use of tools or complicated fasteners. The apparatus employs one or two sets of wheels to provide for easy movement, and can be easily and quickly collapsed into a small space for transportation and storage between uses.
US07753042B2
The tubular bolt of a paintball gun communicates with a cylinder through bores when in a forward, firing position, allowing compressed gas from the cylinder to expel a paintball. In accordance with the invention a bore whereby the cylinder communicates with a source of compressed gas is occluded by the bolt when the bolt is in the firing position. By this arrangement only gas stored in the cylinder is used to fire a paintball and the source of compressed gas is not in communication with the cylinder except when the trigger is released and the bolt is in its retracted position.
US07753039B2
A first cylinder and a second cylinder are provided. A first exhaust pipe is connected to the first cylinder and a second exhaust pipe is connected to the second cylinder. A communicating pipe connects together an intermediate portion of the first exhaust pipe with an intermediate portion of the second exhaust pipe. An exhaust gas control catalyst is arranged in the second exhaust pipe downstream of the portion to which the communicating pipe is connected. Exhaust gas amount reducing devices are provided which reduce the amount of exhaust gas that flows from the first exhaust pipe into the second exhaust pipe through the communicating pipe during execution of rich/lean burn control which performs combustion with an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture that is richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio in one of the first cylinder and second cylinder and performs combustion with an air-fuel ratio of an air-fuel mixture that is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio in the other cylinder.
US07753029B2
Internal combustion engine with variable actuation of the valves that provides electronic control means that considers the activation delays of the cylinders so that new operating conditions are assigned for the first time to a cylinder which firstly, following an engine operating variation request, is effectively able to satisfy such new operating conditions.
US07753022B2
A resin intake manifold is provided with a surge tank, an independent intake passage connected to the surge tank, and a plurality of pieces formed in a predetermined shape and welded along a weld line. A funnel portion is formed in a portion connected from the surge tank to the independent intake passage, and the weld line is formed so as to cross over a portion near the funnel portion. A funnel partition wall separating a plurality of independent intake passages is formed in the funnel portion so as to protrude from one piece to another piece. A funnel wall receiving portion receiving the funnel partition wall is formed in another piece, and the funnel partition wall and the funnel wall receiving portion are welded in bonded surfaces.
US07753020B2
In a gearwheel mechanism for driving a secondary unit such as a fuel pump driven via the gear wheel mechanism by a primary unit, a driven gear mounted on the secondary unit is provided with a positioning element including sections covering teeth areas of the driven gear so that those sections cannot be engaged with a driving gear of the primary unit during mounting of the secondary unit, and in a pump having a gear provided with such a positioning element as wells as an internal combustion engine including a pump with a gear provided with a positioning element.
US07753016B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a variable valve mechanism that changes the duration of an intake valve, and a controller that controls the variable valve mechanism to change the duration based on the operating state of the internal combustion engine. If a determination that there is a possibility of engine stalling is made when the internal combustion engine idling, the controller controls the variable valve mechanism so that the duration of the intake valve is made shorter than the duration which is achieved when the determination is made, only during the period until several four-stroke cycles of the internal combustion engine have elapsed after the determination is made. Thus, it is possible to appropriately suppress occurrence of engine stalling when the internal combustion engine is running at a low speed.
US07753014B2
An improved electro-hydraulic intake and exhaust valve actuator for a “camless” internal combustion reciprocating engine. The present invention integrates an electric motor driven “plug type” rotary control valve and a single acting hydraulic cylinder in one housing for the actuation of an engine valve. The geometry of the hydraulic ports in the rotary control valve may be tailored for desired valve actuation profiles. The electronic control of the rate of rotation and angular position of the rotary control valve are used to infinitely vary the engine valve operating parameters. Thus, engine valve timing, speed, cycle duration and lift may be varied. A rotary control valve permits high speed operation and accommodates a broad range of valve sizes. Availability of a wide range of commercial open frame brushless electric motors and dedicated integrated circuit controllers contribute to the cost effectiveness of the present design.
US07753013B2
A variable compression ratio engine. The engine includes a piston disposed in a cylinder bore and constituting a combustion chamber, a variable compression ratio mechanism connected to the piston and causing a top dead center position of the piston to vary, an actuator connected to the variable compression ratio mechanism to actuate the variable compression ratio mechanism, and a controller connected to the actuator to control an engine state and the actuator. The controller performs operations including setting the compression ratio corresponding to a state of the engine, actuating the actuator so that the compression ratio is set, determining whether a state of the engine is either a state allowing actuation of the actuator, or a state limiting actuation of the actuator, and limiting actuation of the actuator in the state limiting actuation of the actuator.
US07753010B2
The present invention relates to a system capable of using kinetic/inertial and renewable energy to generate hydrogen for use as a fuel in vehicles and other applications. In certain embodiments, this invention relates to a system in which hydrogen is generated during vehicle braking and which is operable with an internal combustion engine, and which can be retrofitted to vehicles with such an engine as well as to stationary combustion devices. Methods for generating hydrogen to power vehicles and vehicles utilizing the inventive technology are also provided. The present invention also relates to stationary devices, such as space heaters and water heaters, capable of generating hydrogen for use as a fuel additive therewith, and methods of generating hydrogen using such devices.
US07753004B2
A blower system for livestock may include a housing. An air inlet may be located on the housing. A filter system may be located inside the housing and coupled to the air inlet. The filter system may include a filter and a muffler. One or more fans may be located inside the housing. The fans may intake air through the air inlet and expel air through an air outlet located on the housing. The blower system may be portable. The blower system may allow a user to apply the air from the air outlet to livestock.
US07752999B2
A wet processing system detects a globule of a process solution in a drippy or dripping state from the tip of any one of process solution pouring nozzles being moved to a pouring position for pouring the process solution onto a substrate by obtaining image data on the process solution pouring nozzle, and takes proper measures to prevent the process solution from dripping. A wet processing system 1 pours a process solution, such as a resist solution, through one of process solution pouring nozzles 10 onto a surface of a substrate, such as a wafer W, held substantially horizontally by a substrate holding device 41 surrounded by a cup 5 to process the surface by a wet process. A nozzle carrying mechanism 10a carries the process solution pouring nozzles 10 between a home position on a nozzle bath 14 and a pouring position above the substrate held by the substrate holding device 41. An optical image of the tips of the process solution pouring nozzles 10 is obtained by an image pickup means, such as a camera 17. Predetermined measures are taken according to the level of a drippy or dripping state of a globule of the process solution.
US07752973B2
Parachute signaling rockets in which the parachute (18) is connected to the effect charge (14) in the form a plug connection (16). This plug connection (16) can be made automatically, so that there is no longer any need for the previous manual connection of the parachute (18) to the pyrotechnic effect charge (14) for the parachute signaling rocket according to the invention.
US07752972B1
A shaped charge warhead having a longitudinal axis includes a casing; a liner disposed in the casing; an explosive disposed behind the liner; a wave shaper disposed in the explosive, the wave shaper comprising a low reaction rate high blast reactive material; and a detonator disposed adjacent the explosive. Preferably, the wave shaper is symmetrical about the longitudinal axis. The low reaction rate, high-blast material may be, for example, one of powdered silicon or boron and powdered silicon or boron in a plastic matrix.
US07752967B2
An arrangement for synchronizing printing presses and additional components, in which arrangement a printing press and/or an additional component form/forms a unit and are/is connected to further units, and the drives of the connected units are synchronized, the units having either AC drives and/or DC drives and being synchronized internally via synchronism regulators in the case of an AC drive and via at least one drive shaft in the case of a DC drive. For the synchronization of the units which are to be connected, at least one additional synchronism regulator is attached to at least one unit, all synchronism regulators of all units being connected to one another and being adapted to a setpoint value of the connected units.
US07752966B2
A method of developing a laser sensitive lithographic printing plate with ink and/or fountain solution is described. The printing member comprises on a substrate a photosensitive layer soluble or dispersible in ink and/or fountain solution and capable of hardening upon exposure to a laser. The plate is exposed with a laser, deactivated, and then on-press developed with ink and/or fountain solution. Alternatively, the plate is developed with ink and/or fountain solution or the like off press, and then mounted on press for lithographic printing. The deactivation or off-press development allows the plate to be handled on press under white light or other light which is unsafe for a non-deactivated plate.
US07752959B1
A knotter arrangement of a large square baler includes a plurality of knotter assemblies with each assembly including a knotter gear having a hub received on, and coupled for rotation with, a knotter drive shaft. Each assembly further includes a knotter frame including an upper end defined by a sleeve received on the gear hub. Mounted for rotation within four bores provided in the knotter frame are a worm gear spindle, a twine disk spindle, a billhook spindle and a knife arm shaft. A lubrication system includes a primary distribution manifold coupled between a lubrication pump and a plurality of lubrication delivery lines respectively leading to an inlet passage provided in each of the plurality of knotter frames, the inlet passage leading to a lubricant distribution valve mounted to the knotter frame and being operable for serially coupling the inlet passage to a plurality of lubricant distribution passages provided in the knotter frame and being coupled to respective lubrication points either directly by internal passages or indirectly by way of lubricant distribution lines extending exteriorly of the knotter frame.
US07752956B2
A support structure comprises image formers, weapons and sighting systems. An image former system is completely practicable by individuals of short stature or limited mobility, especially those in wheelchairs. Ordinary telescope optics and extremely rigid and simplified mechanical structural system allow the imagers incident optical axis to move through three-dimensional space while the eyepiece image moves in one plane. Elevational rotation of the imager about the eyepiece allows the observer to view 360 degrees in elevation without eye movement. A main tube tangential to the objective and parallel to the incident optical axis concentrically receives optical supports which retain the optics. The optical elements may be installed, removed, replaced and cleaned without realignment of the optics. The optical support design receives reflective or refractive optics of varying focal lengths; the objective support accommodates cameras without focal adapters. The structural elements may receive ordnance and sighting means.
US07752955B2
Methods and systems for an armor system are provided. The system includes a first face sheet and a shaped preform extending from the first face sheet. The preform includes a first edge proximate the first face sheet, a sidewall extending from the first edge to a flange extending substantially perpendicularly from the sidewall. The preform circumscribes an area of the first face sheet. The system also includes a tile of armor material complementarily-shaped to fit within the area circumscribed by the preform. The tile is positioned within the preform such that at least a portion of the tile is between the first face sheet and the flange. The system includes a second face sheet covering the preform and the tile on a side opposite from the first face sheet.
US07752943B2
In an actuator (1) in which an angle detector (13) of a magnetic encoder for detecting the rotational position of a motor (3) is incorporated inside a wave reduction gear (5), detection signals from Hall elements (11a, 11b) of the angle detector (13) are transmitted via sensor lead wires (17) that have been brought out through wiring holes (36a, 33a, 35a, 37a) formed inside the motor (3) to a sensor signal converter board (14) disposed on the rear end side of the motor. Since the wiring is not required to be brought out to the exterior, indirectly routed along the exterior of the motor (3), and brought out to the rear side thereof, the wiring is not mechanically damaged and can be brought out with the shortest possible wiring distance, and the effect of electromagnetic noise can be reduced.
US07752933B2
An actuator including a motor, clutch, gear train, solenoid, clock spring, and air brake is provided. The motor is configured to drive a control valve. The clutch is operably coupled to the motor and configured to prevent the motor from transferring more than a predetermined amount of torque. The gear train is operably coupled to the clutch and configured to receive the predetermined amount of torque from the motor. The solenoid is operably coupled to the gear train and configured to disengage one of the gears in the gear train from adjacent gears. The clock spring is operably coupled to another of the gears in the gear train, configured to store mechanical energy supplied by the motor, and configured to drive the control valve. The air brake is operably coupled to the gear train and configured to dissipate a portion of the mechanical energy released by the clock spring.
US07752930B2
A portable microbial gaseous-fluid sampler includes a gaseous-fluid flow system at least partially supported by a structure. The gaseous-fluid flow system includes a gaseous-fluid intake portion having an intake port, a blower in fluid communication with the intake port, and a gaseous-fluid exhaust portion having an exhaust port. The sampler can further include an exhaust filter operable to substantially filter a totality of the gaseous fluid flowing through the sampler prior to exhausting the gaseous fluid. The sampler also can include a control system operable to control at least gaseous-fluid flow through the sampler, and a remote sampling head.
US07752916B2
Methods and apparatus for testing a microscale or nanoscale sample. A testing stage comprises a frame having first and second laterally opposing ends and first and second side beams. At least one deformable force sensor beam is disposed near the first opposing end and extends laterally between the first and second side beams. A first longitudinal beam, having a free end, bisects the at least one force sensor beam, and a second longitudinal beam has a free end facing the free end of the first longitudinal beam to define a gap therebetween. A support structure comprises a plurality of laterally extending beams disposed such that the second longitudinal beam bisects the plurality of laterally extending beams. Each of a pair of slots disposed at each of the free ends of the first and second longitudinal beams comprises a tapered portion leading to a generally longitudinal portion aligned with the central longitudinal beam. The slots provide a seat for a dogbone-shaped sample.
US07752914B2
In a first embodiment of the present invention a method of monitoring individual vibrators in a pneumatic vibration testing system is disclosed. The method includes providing a pneumatic vibration testing system including at least one vibrator, where each vibrator is connected to a pressurized air system through an output of a valve. Pressurized air is then supplied at a known pressure to an input of the valve. When that air is supplied to the valve the valve releases air in measured bursts to the vibrator and the pressure between the valve and the vibrator is monitored. The pressure between the valve and the vibrator is compared to the known pressure, which indicates if the vibrator is failing or has failed. In preferred embodiments, the testing system includes a plurality of vibrators and an equal plurality of valves, each vibrator is connected to the pressurized air system through a single associated valve.
US07752913B2
A method and a device for detecting discontinuities in a material region having at least one probe which has a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements and having an evaluation and control device are proposed, in which the transducer elements are disposed diagonally at an angle to the surface of the material region and are actuated via delay elements in such a manner that a defocusing sound field is beamed in. The received signals of the transducer elements are supplied to a plurality of evaluation modules for parallel and simultaneous further processing for different angle values or angle ranges, the number of evaluation modules corresponding to the different angle values or ranges.
US07752910B2
A mass flow sensor is supported on an N or P-type silicon substrate with orientation <100>. This mass flow sensor comprises a central thin-film heater and a pair of thin-film heat sensing elements, and a thermally isolated membrane for supporting the heater and the sensors out of contact with the substrate base. The mass flow sensor is arranged for integration on a same silicon substrate to form a one-dimensional or two-dimensional array in order to expand the dynamic measurement range.
US07752908B2
In a flow sensor, detecting elements are provided at a sub-passage. A sub-passage wall contains a hole to drain accumulated liquid. A protrusion arranged close to the hole on an external surface generates dynamic pressure on the opening in response to external flow. Alternatively, a protrusion upstream from the hole on the inner wall surface produces a separation flow area for separating the flow from the internal surface near the hole, whereby pressure in the separation area is reduced and almost the same pressure differences on the internal and external surfaces openings result. This reduces leakage from the hole and changes in the distribution flow in the sub-passage between cases where the hole is blocked and not blocked, thus minimizing flow measurement errors. Structure may be provided close to the external surface hole opening to prevent a liquid film or drop from being formed on the opening by surface tension.
US07752904B2
A structure subjected to stresses that can lead to structural failure. The structure includes first and second conductive layers and an intermediate layer therebetween formed of a dielectric, semiconductive, or resistive material, such that the first, second, and intermediate layers form in combination an electrical element, namely, a capacitive or resistive element. The electrical element is located within the structure so as to be physically responsive to transitory and permanent distortions of the structure resulting from extrinsic and intrinsic sources. The structure further includes applying an electrical potential to at least one of the first and second conductive layers so as to generate an electrical signal from the electrical element, sensing changes in the electrical signal generated by the electrical element in response to the electrical element physically responding to the transitory and permanent distortions, and transmitting the changes in the electrical signal to a location remote from the structure.
US07752897B2
A molecule measuring apparatus capable of controlling the drawing directions of molecules always in a uniaxial direction in a measurement performed by extending and retracting the molecules on a substrate. In the apparatus, a cantilever (200) lifts one end of a molecule (900) on the substrate (100), and a control section controls the peeling point of the molecules, which is a boundary between the portion of the molecule (900) in contact with the substrate (100) and the portion of the molecule (900) separated from the substrate (100) by the lifting, and the position of the cantilever (200) so that the peeling point and the position of the cantilever (200) are positioned vertical to the substrate (100).
US07752894B2
The method measures consistency with a rotating consistency meter. The method comprises chopping with the teeth of a chopper structure optical radiation transmitted by an optical source to an optical detector while the shafts of the rotating consistency meter rotate. In addition, a chopper reference of the chopper structure chops optical radiation to form at least one reference pulse independent of the swivel between the shafts. The duration of each reference pulse is measured when measuring consistency. The change in the reference pulse is defined by comparing the duration of the measured reference pulse with the duration of the predefined reference pulse. The durations of the measuring pulses are corrected according to the change in the duration of the reference pulse.
US07752884B2
A method of analyzing a gas specimen mixture includes measuring the concentrations of inert components in the gas specimen mixture and the pressure and temperature of the gas specimen mixture. A number of sample gas mixtures are generated with varying percentages of hydrocarbon gases, each including the measured inert component concentrations. For each generated sample gas mixture, the method includes calculating the speed of sound therein based on the measured pressure and temperature and the particular percentages of hydrocarbon gases therein, measuring the speed of sound in the gas specimen mixture, and iteratively comparing the measured speed of sound with the calculated speed of sound in different sample gas mixtures until convergence for a particular sample gas mixture. The molecular weight of the particular sample gas mixture is calculated, and set the molecular weight of the gas specimen mixture to the calculated molecular weight.
US07752878B2
In a press installation including a number of presses with servo-drives for operating the presses and auxiliary equipment such as workpiece handling devices wherein an energy management system is provided including a DC voltage intermediate circuit connected to a power supply grid via an AC/DC converter and to the servo-drives via servo-converters, a fly-wheel storage device is connected to the intermediate circuit for supplying energy thereto and recapturing energy therefrom under the control of a control arrangement which controls the flow of power between the intermediate circuit, the servo-drives, the fly-wheel storage device and the power supply grid.
US07752874B2
A lock is provided with an electronics module (30) by forming the lock with a body (10) and a separate unit (18). The unit (18) includes a locking mechanism (23) and is inserted and removed from the lock body (10), removal allowing easy access to the electronics module (30) without requiring a separate access. This gives increased security. The locking mechanism (23), electronics module (30) and body (10) can be replaced with compatible components.
US07752871B2
The present invention relates to laundry machines, and more particularly, to a control unit assembly in a laundry machine which enables easy assembly and accurate alignment of an input device of a printed circuit board with a button portion of a control panel.The control unit assembly includes a control panel having various operation buttons and coupling portions, a plurality of coating guides coupled to a rear surface of the control panel having fastening portions corresponding to the coupling portions, a plurality of printed circuit boards respectively mounted on the coating guides, each having an electric circuit mounted thereon, joining portions for joining the coating guides together so as to place the coating guides closer to an inside of the control panel, and holders for preventing the coupling portions and fastening portions from moving with respect to each other when the fastening portions are aligned with the coupling portions, thereby improving assembly work, preventing malfunction of the laundry machine, and permitting easy detection of an operation progress.
US07752867B2
In order to flush with cooling air the goods stacked or palletized in a high-bay rack placed in a stationary store room or in the cargo space of a refrigeration ship by maintaining a constant cooling temperature in all the layers, an air recirculation system is proposed for which two superimposed air circuits (40, 140; 40′, 140′) are configured in the area of every rack module (30; 130), whereby at least one rack module, preferably two rack modules (30; 130), are placed in the cargo space and whereby a shaft (50) for the rack stacker is assigned to each rack module (30; 130) or a shaft (50) for the rack stacker is placed between the two rack modules (30; 130) placed the one besides the other, whereby the shaft (50) serves a common pressure distribution chamber of the inlet air for each rack module (30; 130).
US07752859B2
A method of controlling a refrigerator including an ice maker for making ice using chilled air is disclosed. The method includes supplying chilled air to a compartment, blowing chilled air in the compartment to an ice-making tray disposed in the compartment regardless of conditions in the compartment, and varying a blowing speed of the chilled air in the compartment to the ice-making tray according to a demand. According to the present invention, a large quantity of ice can be produced within a short time. Ice-making speed and the quantity of ice can be varied according to a user's demand.
US07752858B2
An exhaust air removal system and method for use with a rack or enclosure containing equipment is provided. The system and method are configured for removal of exhaust air vented from equipment during operation to thereby remove heat from the equipment. In one respect, the system includes a fan unit preferably configured to serve as a back door of an equipment rack or enclosure and configured to provide access to an interior of the rack or enclosure. The fan unit provides multiple fans coupled to internal exhaust ducts that are arranged to draw and to remove exhaust air vented from rack-mounted equipment. The fan unit is further configured to vent exhaust air to an area external to a rack or enclosure, such as an external exhaust duct or plenum. Removal of hot and warm exhaust air vented from rack-mounted equipment enables the equipment to operate effectively, drawing sufficient amounts of cooling air to meet its cooling requirements. The fan unit is constructed for portability and for easy attachment to and removal from a rack or enclosure, providing flexibility in handling equipment exhaust needs.
US07752857B2
A refrigerator has a coolant cooler for cooling a coolant at the entrance of a flow control valve, when the cooling amount in the coolant cooler is deficient as well as excessive. The refrigerator includes a compressor for compressing the coolant, a radiator for radiating heat from the coolant, a coolant cooler for cooling the coolant, a flow control valve for regulating the flow volume of the coolant, an evaporator for evaporating the coolant, and a heat-exchange-amount control for controlling the amount of heat exchanged in the coolant cooler. The coolant is circulated through the compressor, the radiator, the coolant cooler, the flow control valve, and the evaporator, in that sequence.
US07752833B2
A method for reducing or eliminating oscillations in a gas turbine fuel control system includes utilizing an engine model to regulate a gas supply pressure for a gas turbine, sensing the pressure of gas actually supplied, and applying integral state feedback plus gas supply pressure feedforward combined with integral plus state feedback to the engine model to control and reduce gas fuel supply variations.
US07752831B2
A system for activating a rotor drive (31) of an open-end rotor spinning machine (30), having an open-end rotor spinning machine (30) with a plurality of workstations (33), each having a rotor drive (31) with a control unit (4), which comprises at least one communication interface (18, 19) for connecting to a workstation control unit (35), and external means for substitute activation of the individual rotor drives (31) and for reading signals representing operating state data of the rotor drive from the individual control units (4) of the rotor drives (31) by means of at least one communication interface (18, 19) of the control units (4) for adjustment and checking purposes.
US07752821B2
A grid system is provided that is particularly suited for the suspended ceiling system that varies in the vertical plane. An elongated carrier tube is provided the spans substantially the width of the grid system that has a slot therein adapted to receive the strengthening bulb of a main runner. A clip is provided that seats on the carrier tube that has opposed faces for capturing the bulb of the runner, so as to secure the runner to the tube carrier.
US07752817B2
The present invention is directed toward a track assembly comprising two nested tracks, an inner track and outer track. The assembly is designed so that the outside width of the outer track is equal to or less than the outside width of the inner track to present a substantially flush external surface for attachment of exterior sheathing elements when the assembly is used in an external wall. The system may further comprise a strap or series of engaging surfaces on the inner and outer tracks that generally restrain the inner track relative to the outer track.
US07752803B2
A device for attracting and capturing or otherwise disabling insects includes a fan mechanism structured and arranged to provide an outflow of air out of the device to atmosphere, and to draw an inflow directed counter the outflow from atmosphere into the device, the outflow being substantially within the inflow outside of the device. The flow mechanism is also structured and arranged to provide an insect attractant in the outflow. The device can include mounting structure being adapted to position the device with the outflow directed in a substantially downward direction. The outflow attracts insects to the vicinity of the device, and the inflow urges the insects to enter the device. An insect disabling structure is arranged with the flow mechanism to capture or otherwise disable insects being urged into the device by the inflow.
US07752801B2
The invention relates to a fishing lure. The lure of the invention has long projections extending in a short direction formed in a plurality of columns on the lure main body, and a long groove traversing the long projections of the plurality of columns formed thereon. A predetermined color is given to a left side surface of the long projection, and a color different from the above color is given to a right side surface of the long projection. The color of the lure changes according to a viewing direction. Furthermore, air bubbles are unlikely to attach when the lure is floating in water.
US07752778B2
A first hydraulic cylinder is associated with the boom having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. A first sensor detects a boom angle of a boom with respect to a support (or a vehicle) near the first end. An attachment is coupled to the second end of the boom. A second hydraulic cylinder is associated with the attachment. A second sensor detects an attachment angle of attachment with respect to the boom. An accelerometer detects an acceleration or deceleration of the boom. A switch is arranged to accept a command to move to a preset position from another position. A controller is capable of controlling the first hydraulic cylinder to attain a boom angle within the target boom angular range and for controlling the second cylinder to attain an attachment angle within the target attachment angular range associated with the preset position in response to the command in conformity with at least one of a desired boom motion curve and a desired attachment motion curve.
US07752767B2
The invention is a bicycle rider fitting machine. It is used for finding optimal position of the rider on future bicycle/frame, based on parameters obtained during the workouts. Based on workout results like heart rate, power, speed, cadence, etc., what can be measured by integrated or independent electronic measuring devices, someone can compare those results and conclude the best possible positions of saddle and handlebars for particular rider.It is an apparatus that can simulate almost any position of the bicycle saddle and handlebar assembly with the reference to the Bottom Bracket centre (FIG. 1-4) as a starting 0/0 position. The saddle (FIG. 1-1) and handle bar assembly (FIG. 1-2) can be moved independently with respect to the bottom bracket. The obtained position of the saddle and handlebar position can be easily recorded for future adjustments of the machine, by means of Horizontal (X) Scales (FIG. 1-3) on the Seat Slider (FIG. 1-5) and Handlebar Slider (FIG. 1-6) and by means of Vertical (Y) scale (FIG. 1-7) on the Seat Tube (FIG. 1-8) and Handlebar Tube (FIG. 1-9) vertical scale (FIG. 1-10). The obtained measurements are of use in the design and fit of a bicycle to a particular individual.
US07752766B2
In order to determine spatial coordinates of a multiplicity of measurement points along a contour of a measurement object, a probe head is provided with a probe element that is movably supported on the probe head. During movement of the probe head along the contour, position measuring values of the probe head and deflections of the probe element relative to the probe head are determined. Spatial coordinates for the measurement points along the contour are determined from the position measuring values and deflections. The probe element is kept in contact with the contour during movement of the probe head by using an actuator to produce a defined contact force. The contact force is set as a function of a differential acceleration of the probe element relative to the probe head.
US07752755B2
A method for manufacturing a turbine nozzle assembly using a fixture including a biasing mechanism. The method includes moving the biasing mechanism from a biased first position to a second position using at least one of hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical power, positioning at least one datum of the turbine nozzle assembly adjacent at least one datum location point on the fixture, and aligning the turbine nozzle assembly at least one datum with the at least one datum location point by releasing the biasing mechanism such that the biasing mechanism moves from the second position into contact with the turbine nozzle assembly.
US07752752B1
A method of fabricating a substrate includes forming a first conductive layer on a dielectric layer, forming a resist layer on the first conductive layer, and forming laser-ablated artifacts through the first resist layer, through the first conductive layer, and at least partially into the dielectric layer. A second conductive layer is formed within the laser-ablated artifacts. The laser-ablated artifacts are filled to form an overfilled circuit pattern. The resist layer and the first conductive layer are removed. Further, a portion of the overfilled circuit pattern is removed to form an embedded circuit pattern embedded within the dielectric layer.
US07752751B2
A system and method for providing shielding to an electrical system is disclosed. A conformal shield is formed by applying a conformal insulating coating to an electrical system. A plurality of openings are formed in the insulating coating at desired locations and a first metallic layer is deposited over the insulating coating and in each of the plurality of openings, the first metallic layer being electrically connected with the circuit board at the desired locations. A second metallic layer is then deposited onto the first metallic layer to increase a thickness of the metallic layers.
US07752748B2
A method for detecting a condition of a nozzle member of a multi-nozzle type component mounting head, in which it is determined that a nozzle is pressed against a load cell when the difference between a measured vertical position of the nozzle and a reference positional information of the nozzle is equal to or greater than a determined value and the measured vertical position of the nozzle is at a lower level position than the reference positional information, and when it is determined that the nozzle is pressed against the load cell, measuring the output value of the load cell.
US07752737B2
In a method for manufacturing a powder magnetic core, magnetic layer green sheets is formed by using magnetic metal particles having an insulating oxide layer on a surface thereof, and insulating layer green sheets are formed by using insulating particles. The magnetic layer green sheet and the insulating layer green sheet are alternately laminated, and the layers are press molded.
US07752736B2
A method of providing axially alternating N and S poles in a portion of an axially extending, cylindrical, smooth shaft for a linear stepper motor and a method of manufacturing a magnetizing fixture are provided. A magnetizing fixture is provided including a hollow cylindrical mandrel formed from a non-magnetic material, a single conductive wire serially disposed in parallel, circumferential channels defined in an outer surface of the mandrel, and a central bore defined axially and centrally through the mandrel. The portion of the shaft is inserted in the central bore and a direct current is provided through the wire to magnetize alternating N and S poles along the cylindrical shaft. The wire may be placed in the parallel, circumferential channels such that the direction of flow of a direct current in one channel is in the opposite direction of the flow in the adjacent channels.
US07752730B2
The embodiments provide a barb assembly for use with a cable duct component to oppose removal of a cable duct section from the cable duct component. The barb assembly can comprise a releasable assembly for applying a force to a barb and, responsive to the application of the force, for moving the barb and one or more barb arms from an unengaged position to an engaged position without the use of tools. The barb assembly and/or cable duct component can also comprise a spring bias, which can bias the releasable assembly to the unengaged position upon actuating the releasable assembly to the unengaged position. The embodiments also provide methods of installing cable duct components and systems with the above-described features.
US07752729B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for shaping a metallic flat material to give a metallic wave profile, in which the flat material is passed between two meshing tooth systems of two rotating, toothed rolls. For setting a desired profile height, the centre distance between the rolls can be adjusted, and for presetting of a profile cross-section the flank clearance between the meshing tooth systems can be adjusted. The invention furthermore relates to a method and a plant for the continuous manufacture of a composite material from a metallic wave profile shaped with the aid of the above-described method or the above-described device, and at least one further flat material, which is firmly joined to the wave profile to give the composite material.
US07752727B2
A holding device (1) for holding a gear (60) stationary relative to an engine block. The device (1) includes a body (2) having a threaded passage extending axially therethrough, a projection (4) extending laterally of the body (2) and adapted to engage a recess (63) between teeth (62) of the gear (60), a hooked portion (3) adapted to (i) extend between the gear (60) and the engine block and (ii) hook behind the teeth (62) of the gear (60), and a jacking screw (5) extending through the threaded passage and rotatable relative to the body (2) such that an end (53) of the jacking screw (5) engages the engine block and moves the hooked portion (3) into firm engagement with the gear (60).
US07752718B2
A molded polymer snap fastener, including a first portion having a plurality of first barbs extending outwardly therefrom, the first barbs each having a first radius R1 and the second portion having a plurality of second barbs extending outwardly therefrom, the second barbs having a second radius R2. The first barbs are arranged along a first substantially circular line, the first substantially circular line having a third radius R3. The second barbs are arranged along a second substantially circular line, the second substantially circular line having a fourth radius R4. The third radius R3 is different from the fourth radius R4 and the second barbs and the first barbs are arranged such that the second barbs fall into spaces between the first barbs when the first portion and the second portion are mated.
US07752715B2
A method and a device for opening and dosing fiber feeds the fiber material via a feeding shaft of an opening device. The fiber material is processed in a first opening step of a dosing opener and is fed without an interconnecting pneumatic means to the feeding shaft of a second opening step. A large-volume feeding shaft has been placed before the first opening device from which the fiber material is delivered to a feeding shaft with a considerably smaller volume that delivers the fiber material to a second opening device. Both opening devices and their associated feeding shafts are placed on top of one other.
US07752706B2
The bagger attachment for a leaf blower has a large container that accommodates full size trash bags. The container is a barrel mounted on a wheeled cart and includes a cover that is hinged to the container and securely closed by a C-clamp. The exhaust conduit of a leaf blower is secured in an aperture in the cover. A filter is mounted on the cover to allow air from the vacuum to escape the container, permitting the collected leaves and debris to remain inside the container. A flexible hose is attached to the suction end of the blower for pulling the leaves and debris into the container. A trash bag is placed in the container. The container also includes a pivoting platform inside the barrel for supporting the trash bag thereon. A door is provided for allowing access to the interior of the container.
US07752705B2
A portable extraction surface cleaner apparatus wherein a surface to be cleaned is heated to an elevated temperature and a cleaning fluid is applied to the surface to be cleaned sequentially or simultaneously. The cleaning fluid is removed from the surface by suction from a vacuum source. Power is applied alternatively or simultaneously to a heating element and to the vacuum source for recovering the deposited cleaning fluid.
US07752702B2
A polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) brush bristle material has irregularities of 1 to 12 μm formed in its tapered section and offers flexibility and high powder-cosmetic trapping property equivalent to those of natural animal hairs.
US07752695B2
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for manufacturing a shoe sole, in which a shoe sole is preliminarily assembled by bonding together a plurality of layers with a temporary insert disposed between two adjacent layers. Then, an outer edge of the shoe sole is ground and, following that, the temporary insert is removed and a permanent insert is bonded in place of the temporary insert, such that the permanent insert forms a portion of a side wall of the shoe sole.
US07752686B2
A shower pan includes a draining base portion that drains to an orifice. The draining base portion includes a support structure for supporting a slab floor member (for example, a single piece of granite, marble, or engineered stone) above the orifice such that a planar upper surface of the floor member has a slight tilt. The pan is installed such that the tilt is toward a shower head. The shower enclosure is finished by cladding the enclosure walls with a finishing material (for example, granite, marble or engineered stone) such that the finishing material extends down into the pan. The floor member is placed on the support structure such that water from the shower head that falls on the floor member runs off one or more edges of the floor member and is conducted to the orifice under the floor member by a draining portion of the draining base portion.
US07752679B2
Protective gear for a wearer's body such as the joint of a limb, that has an attachment system with few components, and integrated with the protective gear. The attachment system uses straps that can be adjusted by a wearer once during a first use and, after removal, retain their adjustments for a second use by the same wearer. Securing the attachment system in place can be accompanied by an auditory signal.
US07757296B2
The invention relates to a method of managing an embedded system comprising at least one original code which is associated with a computer device, at least one embedded code which is associated with the embedded system, and at least one processor which is associated with said embedded system. The invention is characterized in that it comprises a first step involving the creation of at least one autonomous software component, consisting in: analyzing the original code in order to identify the target functions that are called by the original code but not implemented in said code; determining a corresponding function identifier for each of said non-implemented functions; and replacing said non-implemented function calls with at least one switching function PLUG call which is implemented by the embedded code. The invention is further characterized in that it comprises a second step involving the execution of the component on the embedded system, the aforementioned switching function PLUG controlling the rerouting of the processor towards the address of the non-implemented target function corresponding to the function identifier.
US07757288B1
A malicious e-mail manager provides protection from malicious e-mail attacks. A malicious e-mail manager examines an e-mail stream, and identifies suspicious e-mail messages therein. The malicious e-mail manager inverts responses to addresses from which identified suspicious e-mail originated. Where the target address of a suspicious e-mail message points to an existing recipient, the malicious e-mail manager returns an error code to the originating address indicating that the recipient does not exist. On the other hand, where the target address of a suspicious e-mail message points to a non-existent recipient, the malicious email manager returns a success code to the originating address, indicating that the e-mail message was delivered. Thus, senders of malicious e-mail believe that existing users are non-existent and vice versa. E-mail from legitimate senders is handled normally.
US07757282B2
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a taint mechanism. An object-based command declares a taint directive for a parameter within a command declaration. The taint directive is then associated with that parameter in a manner such that when an engine processes the command, the engine determines whether to process the command based on the taint directive and input for the parameter. The taint directive may specify that the input may be tainted or untainted. The command declaration may also include a taint parameter that specifies a taint characteristic for output from the command. The taint characteristic may be tainted, untainted, or propagated. Any type of object may become tainted. An untaint process may be applied to tainted data to obtain untainted data if an authorization check performed by the engine is successful.
US07757272B1
A system for mapping and translating address information in a network is provided. The system includes a client-side address translator (120) and a server-side address translator (140). The client-side address translator (120) is configured to receive a data packet from a client (110). The data packet includes a first destination address representing the real destination address. The client-side address translator (120) maps the first destination address to another address using a mapping algorithm and transmits the data packet with the via the network (160). The server-side address translator (140) receives the data packet, translates the mapped address information back to the real destination address and forwards the data packet using the real destination address.
US07757262B2
The present invention relates to a CATV circuit with an automatic noise controller and a CATV system using the CATV circuit. The CATV circuit is used for automatically reducing upstream noises occurred in a CATV circuit for bidirectional communications between a control center and a home terminal. A variable attenuation method is applied to the CATV circuit, and a noise level measurement method is applied to measure the upstream noise level and control the attenuation rate according to the measured noise level.
US07757257B2
An apparatus, method and data structure for generating at least one table in a broadcast environment, are provided. The apparatus includes a generator to generate an event information table (EIT) and an extended text table (ETT). The ETT has program guide information for an n-hour span and has a transmission interval. The ETT has a transmission interval and program description information according to the EIT. The transmission interval of the EIT is shorter than the transmission interval of the ETT.
US07757256B2
An apparatus, method and data structure for generating at least one table in a broadcast environment, are provided. The apparatus includes a generator to generate an event information table (EIT) and an extended text table (ETT). The ETT has program guide information for an n-hour span and has a transmission interval. The ETT has a transmission interval and program description information according to the EIT. The transmission interval of the EIT is shorter than the transmission interval of the ETT.
US07757249B2
A terrestrial digital television receiver includes a tuner, a demodulator, a demultiplexer, a decoder, and a controller. The tuner receives a terrestrial television signal having an emergency alert table which contains text representing an emergency alert message. The demodulator demodulates the television signal and the demultiplexer demultiplexes the emergency alert table from the demodulated signal. The decoder parses the text data representing the emergency alert message, and the controller control operation of a display device such that the emergency alert message is scrolled across a predetermined portion of a video screen.
US07757245B2
Disclosed is a spindle motor comprising: an integral turntable including: a table on which a rotating body to be installed, and an inner side wall and an outer side wall formed to be recessed upwards at a portion therebetween on a lower surface of the table so that a predetermined hollow is formed, a surface of thereof being formed slant; a ball cover for covering a ball inserted into the hollow and the hollow; a rotation shaft an upper portion of which is inserted into a center of the integral turntable; a bearing supporting a lower portion of the rotation shaft; a coil formed on an outside of the rotation shaft; and a magnet formed on an outside of the coil.
US07757239B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing the integration of different Web applications into an online workflow. The methods and systems allow suspension of a first Web application, initiation of interaction with a second Web application, and subsequent resumption of the first Web application, while maintaining the state of the first Web application.
US07757223B2
The problems noted above are solved in large part by a method and system to construct a data-flow analyzer for a bytecode verifier using existing hardware resources and software. Specifically, micro-sequences and JSM hardware resources may be employed fetch a first instruction, apply the first instruction to a decode logic of a processor, trigger execution of a first series of instructions by the decode logic that pops a first value off of a data structure, such as a stack or local variable map, the first value indicative of a parameter type pushed on the stack or local variable map by a previously decoded instruction; and verify that the first value is a parameter type expected by the first instruction.
US07757215B1
An approach is provided for performing software fault injection code testing in a framework that allows testers to place flexible tracing and monitoring actions into algorithmic scripts which provide instructions for dynamically switching called software program functions to corresponding fault injected functions during program execution and that allows testers to perform fault injection testing without requiring modification or access to the underlying source code of the software program being tested. The framework suspends execution of the software program when certain conditions are met, removes any existing linking to called functions, changes the software program's runtime dynamic linking, performs any other instructions provided by the algorithmic script, and then resumes the software program's execution until execution of the program is complete or until the framework is again instructed to change the software program's runtime dynamic linking.
US07757214B1
A system for automated concurrency configuration of multi-threaded programs comprises one or more processors and memory coupled to the processors. The memory stores program instructions executable by the processors to implement a resource management tool. The resource management tool is configured to determine respective target values for one or more concurrency configuration parameters to be set in a deployment of an application using an analytic model and a set of performance metrics obtained from the application (e.g., values of throughput, response times, and corresponding resource utilization measurements), and to deploy the application with the concurrency configuration parameters set to the target values.
US07757208B2
A method of generating a current user interface for an application includes receiving an indication of an event, obtaining a visual component for the current user interface based on the event, and building the current user interface using the visual component. The visual component is a constituent of the current user interface that defines a function of the current user interface.
US07757204B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for selectively supporting extensions to a modeling language. A method includes receiving a request to extend a modeling language entity and selectively providing support to define an extension of the modeling language entity. Support is selectively provided by determining whether the support to define the extension of the modeling language entity can be provided based on a definition of the modeling language entity in a visual modeling language. If the support can be provided, the support is provided; otherwise, the support is excluded. The method can further include selectively generating the extended modeling language entity. The extended modeling language entity can be selectively generated by determining whether the extension meets one or more conditions for being a valid extension to the modeling language entity, and if the extension meets the conditions, the extended modeling language entity is generated.
US07757202B2
A system and method for detecting memory leaks in a garbage collected environment. In particular, the present invention provides a mechanism by which objects in the memory space of a virtual machine are analyzed as to whether they are warm or cold, i.e., how long they have persisted in memory without being accessed or referenced by another object. Following this analysis, the objects are clustered into groups of warm or cold objects, and any links from warm clusters to cold clusters are determined. This information is then provided to the software developer for use in detecting and analyzing potential memory leaks.
US07757199B2
To present a logic description library of differential input circuit capable of expressing logically, in a differential input circuit, by including an input and output response characteristic depending on the voltage level of individual differential input signals in addition to an input and output response characteristic depending on the differential voltage between differential input signals. A logic description library 1a includes first detection logic primitive DPR1 and output control logic primitive OPR. A tristate buffer TBF functions as a buffer when first detection signal IS1 is at low level, and is controlled in a floating state when first detection signal IS1 is at high level. When at least either positive side logic input signal DINP or negative side logic input signal DINM is at undefined level, the first detection signal IS1 issued from inverter INV3 is at undefined level. Hence, output expectation value DOUT issued from output control logic primitive OPR is at undefined level.
US07757191B2
Techniques a race logic analysis on an integrated circuit (IC) design are described herein. In one embodiment, all hardware description language (HDL) defined system functions and/or tasks that have one or more side-effects when invoked in a first HDL language, but not when the same HDL-defined system functions/tasks are invoked in a second HDL language are identified. For all processing blocks that invoke the HDL-defined system functions/tasks that have side-effects, one or more triggering conditions of the processing blocks and HDL languages in which the processing blocks are coded are collected. When detecting a concurrent invocation race of the HDL-defined system functions/tasks statically or dynamically, checking is performed only the processing blocks that are coded in one or more HDL languages which render the HDL-defined system functions/tasks to manifest the one or more side-effects. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07757180B2
A print control operation system using icons including a display picture for displaying a print icon having predetermined set print conditions and a file icon of a file to be printed. By dragging the file icon and dropping the file icon on the print icon, print processing of the file is executed under the print conditions predetermined in the print icon. The print conditions predetermined in the print icon are displayed on the display picture in a recognizable display form
US07757176B2
A confluence calendar system and method is provided having a user platform with a user calendar having a number of events of importance to the user. Each of the user events can include date information, location information, and other event detail information. In addition, a serendipity server is provided for generating serendipitous events, based on information received from the user and third parties. The serendipity server sends the serendipitous events to the user for viewing, and for adding the serendipitous event to the user's calendar.
US07757175B2
A method and system is provided for testing and analyzing websites via a test-enabled web browser. In the representative embodiment a user controls a test-enabled web browser via a set of pull-down menus, thereby choosing between alternative testing and analysis functional capabilities, selecting files in which to store recordings (scripts), choosing files into which to place test results and messages, and setting various parameters that affect how the testing and analysis functions are performed. When the user requests it, the representative embodiment provides for deep recording of user interactions as they relate to a specific web page currently on display in the browser view area, for extracting key information from the current web page sufficient to validate that a future playback does or does not produce the same effects on the chosen website page, for playing back a prior recording to confirm that a website page continues to pass the user-defined tests, and for providing detailed analyses based on the specific contents of the current website page. The general result of systematic use of the test-enabled browser on websites is improved content quality, demonstrated website server behavior for deep tests, quicker delivery by the website server, and better serviceability for e-business.
US07757173B2
A voice menu system is disclosed. The present invention generally allows for updateable audio menus. Although a device might have some pre-packaged menu components, other menu components can be received from a server. Each menu component, regardless of whether it is original or received from the server, has an associated voiced name. When a user highlights a menu choice, the voiced name can be played. The user then has the option of selecting the menu choice or scrolling to a new menu choice. In this way, a user could navigate the menu without having to actually see a visual display of the menu, which may be especially useful for users unable to see the visual display or users with visual disabilities.
US07757167B2
A document processing apparatus according to the present invention capable of changing a layout of a document dynamically in accordance with data to be laid out in the document, comprises a storage unit to store a template which contains a plurality of combinations of region information representing a region to lay out data and priority order information representing a priority order associated with the region; and a layout unit which lays out the data corresponding to the region in an order represented by the priority order in accordance with the template and changes a size or position of the region in accordance with the data without invading a region associated with a higher priority order than the region, wherein the template stored in said storage unit contains the priority order information independently for each region information.
US07757166B2
A yearbook system is provided. The yearbook system provides a single, extensive resource to plan, create, educate about, sell, and distribute yearbooks. The system further provides an integrated yearbook system management and yearbook production system to enable the production of the yearbook to a printed output. A yearbook server hosts a client site and a client database. The client site is enables the school to plan, create, sell and distribute a yearbook. Further, their system may be used to create the yearbook online. A production server hosts a production database synchronizes with the yearbook server, providing images to the client for use in creating the yearbook, and accepting completed created pages submitted by the school from the yearbook server. The production server translates the created pages into the format to proceed through the regular preparation for production of the yearbook.
US07757165B1
Determining and applying format attributes associated with content in an electronic document that is cut or copied from an electronic document and pasted into the same or different electronic document. The determination may be based on the format attributes of the content within a region of an electronic document containing the cut or copied content and the format attributes of a region of content that includes the location where the cut or copied text may be pasted. Local formatting may be associated with the source region of content and the destination region of content. Direct, or emphasis formatting, may be associated with content that has been cut or copied.
US07757156B2
A Reed-Solomon (RS) decoding apparatus having high error correction capability and a method thereof are provided. The apparatus includes: error location and analysis polynomial generating units for performing a modified Euclid algorithm by receiving syndrome data upon receipt of an enable signal, and suspending input of the syndrome data and outputting error location polynomial data and error analysis polynomial data by executing the modified Euclid algorithm independently upon receipt of a disable signal; a controlling unit for controlling the error location and analysis polynomial generating unit and the input of the syndrome data; and switching units for providing the syndrome data to corresponding error location and analysis polynomial generating unit upon receipt of the enable signal and controlling the input of the syndrome data upon receipt of the disable signal. The number of the switching units is identical to that of the error location and analysis polynomial generating units.
US07757155B2
Disclosed is a signal transmission method in a mobile communication system. Unequal error protection (UEP) ratios are determined so that the bits may have different received qualities according to the weights of the bits. The bits are repeated by a bit sequence repeater (210) according to the determined UEP ratios to generate a repeated bit sequence having a predetermined number of bits. The generated repeated bit, sequence is interleaved by an interleaver (220) and the interleaved bit sequence is symbol-mapped by a symbol-mapper (230) to generate a transmission symbol sequence, and the generated transmission symbol sequence is transmitted by the transmitter to a receiver. Furthermore, also a corresponding signal reception method, a corresponding signal transmitter and a corresponding signal receiver are disclosed.
US07757154B2
A magnetic disk control apparatus includes an error determining unit and a correcting unit. When a correctable read error has occurred during read access to a disk drive, the error determining unit specifies an area on the disk drive where an error may occur due to the same cause as that of the correctable read error. The correcting unit corrects the area specified by the error determining unit by rewriting the area.
US07757152B2
A method for remedying data corruption in a first circuit, which may be a CAM or a TCAM. The method includes providing a RAM circuit external to the first circuit, the RAM circuit being configured for storing error detection information for data stored in the first circuit. The method also includes scrubbing the data stored in the first circuit during scrubbing cycles of the first circuit. The scrubbing corrects stored bit patterns read from the first circuit that fail an error detection test using error detection information corresponding to individual ones of the stored bit patterns. In an embodiment, ECC may be employed for the error detection test and also to correct any single bit error found.
US07757146B2
A method of transmitting content data to one or more receiving devices (5a, 5b) over a first communication channel (7) and transmitting recovery information associated with the content data over a second communication channel (9). The recovery information may be transmitted as a response to a request from the receiving device.
US07757142B2
Self-synchronizing techniques for checking the accuracy of a pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) are provided. The PRBS being checked may be generated by a device (e.g., a device under test) in response to a PRBS received by the device (e.g., from a PRBS generator). In an aspect of the invention, a PRBS checking technique includes the following steps/operations. For a given clock cycle, the presence of an error bit in the PRBS generated by the device is detected. The error bit represents a mismatch between the PRBS input to the device and the PRBS output from the device. Then, propagation of the error bit is prohibited for subsequent clock cycles. The prohibition step/operation may serve to avoid multiple errors being counted for a single error occurrence and/or masking errors in the PRBS output by the device.
US07757141B2
A method for testing integrated circuits (ICs) by automatically extending addressing for shared array built-in self-test (BIST) circuitry, includes polling a plurality of memories to determine which of the plurality of memories are sharing a first comparison tree and mapping a shared array BIST address space to each of the plurality of memories using the first comparison tree. Additionally, the method includes estimating a shared array BIST completion time corresponding to a most significant bits of a maximum total memory address size under test, reconfiguring the shared array BIST circuitry to accommodate the estimated shared array BIST completion time and testing the plurality of memories sharing the first comparison tree.
US07757117B2
In a method of virtual user compensation by a test run system of an enterprise system, the termination of a virtual user is identified and a new virtual user is created to compensate for the terminated virtual user. The new virtual user is then assigned to the enterprise system. Rules associated with the conditions of virtual user termination indicate how to compensate for the terminated virtual users.
US07757116B2
Hyperclusters are a cluster of clusters. Each cluster has associated with it one or more resource groups, and independent node failures within the clusters are handled by platform specific clustering software. The management of coordinated failovers across dependent or independent resources running on heterogeneous platforms is contemplated. A hypercluster manager running on all of the nodes in a cluster communicates with platform specific clustering software regarding any failure conditions, and utilizing a rule-based decision making system, determines actions to take on the node. A plug-in extends exit points definable in non-hypercluster clustering technologies. The failure notification is passed to other affected resource groups in the hypercluster.
US07757115B2
A feedback control device capable of continuously performing high-accuracy, stable control even in cases where any of multiple controllers for controlling a controlled system becomes incapable of control action. A controller (master controller) generates control data for stably controlling a heater by feedback control, controls the heater in accordance with the control data, and sends the control data to the other controller (slave controller). The slave controller receives the control data from the master controller but does not control the heater while the master controller is operating normally. If the master controller develops anomaly and becomes incapable of normal control action, the slave controller initiates feedback control of the heater in accordance with the control data received from the master controller immediately before the anomaly occurred, and controls the heater thereafter in accordance with control data generated thereby.
US07757092B2
A request signal requesting a response signal from an ID card is transmitted, and, when a response signal is received, it is compared with the data identifying the manager, which is stored in advance, and a determination is made as to whether or not the data identifying the manager is received. If the data is determined to be received, a timer is set, and, if there is a job being held up, the output processing of the job is executed. When it is determined that a predetermined time has elapsed, outputting is notified to be restricted, thereafter outputting is prohibited.
US07757076B2
We present technology that allows layman computer users to simply create, provision, and maintain secured infrastructure—an instant PKI. This technology can be used in a wide variety of applications including enabling secure communications to components of a vehicle, and enabling secure communications between the vehicle and associated infrastructure.
US07757074B2
A system and method for establishing a virtual private network (VPN) between a client and a private data communication network. An encrypted data communication session, such as a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) data communication session, is established between a gateway and the client over a public data communication network. The gateway then sends a programming component to the client for automatic installation and execution thereon. The programming component operates to intercept communications from client applications destined for resources on the private data communication network and to send the intercepted communications to the gateway via the encrypted data communication session instead of to the resources on the private data communication network.
US07757071B2
A return address in response to a return instruction corresponding to a call instruction is stored in a return address stack when a branch history detects presence of the call instruction. When the branch history detects the presence of the return instruction before a branch reservation station completes executing the call instruction, the return address in response to the return instruction is not stored in the return address stack. If so, an output selection circuit predicts a correct return target using information stored in the return address stack.
US07757064B2
A method of sending data on request from a memory to a device, wherein the memory receives a request from the device for sending predetermined data to the device, wherein the memory sends data and information about the data to the device.
US07757063B2
There are disclosed systems and computer program products for dynamically resizing memory pools used by database management systems. In one aspect, if a decrease in allocation to the memory pool is required, at least one page grouping that may be freed from the memory pool is identified as a candidate based on its position in a list of page groupings. If the page grouping contains any used memory blocks, the used memory blocks may be copied from a candidate page grouping to another page grouping in the list in order to free the candidate page grouping. Once the candidate page grouping is free of used memory blocks, the candidate page grouping may be freed from the memory pool. As an example, this system or computer program product may be used for dynamically resizing locklists or lock memory.
US07757061B2
A system and method for decoding command signals that includes a command decoder configured to generate internal control signals to perform an operation based on the command signals and an operating state. The same combination of command signals can request different commands depending on the operating state. A command is selected from a first set of operations according to the command signals when the memory system is in a first operating state and a command is selected from a second set of operations according to the command signals when the memory system is in a second operating state.
US07757060B2
For reducing wake latency time of an information handling system (IHS), a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) of the IHS is updated every time a main random access memory (RAM) of the IHS is changed or refreshed, thereby saving memory data. In response to a sleep event, the IHS is transitioned from a higher activity state to a sleep state, thereby removing power provided to the RAM. In response to a resume event, the IHS is restored back to the higher activity state from the sleep state. Upon restoring the power to the RAM, contents of the NVRAM are copied to the RAM to restore the memory data in a virtually instant manner.
US07757058B2
Access to a plurality of logical devices is enabled regardless of the number of ports provided in a storage system and the number of logical devices that can be allocated to a single port, thereby improving the usability of the logical devices. A storage system comprises a plurality of logical devices, a target device which is the object of access from a computer, and a juke box system for allocating one of the plurality of logical devices to the target device. The juke box system changes the logical device that is allocated to the target device in accordance with a request from the computer.
US07757057B2
The present invention is an optimized method for the rollback of copy-on-write snapshot volumes. A method in accordance with the present invention may comprise the following steps: (a) creating a copy-on-write snapshot volume; (b) receiving a base volume write request addressed to a base volume data block; (c) executing copy-on-write operations; (d) receiving a snapshot volume rollback request; (e) disabling the copy-on-write operations; and (f) executing volume copy operations.
US07757046B2
A method and apparatus for optimizing line writes in cache coherent systems. A new cache line may be allocated without loading data to fill the new cache line when a store buffer coalesces enough stores to fill the cache line. Data may be loaded to fill the line if an insufficient number of stores are coalesced to fill the entire cache line. The cache line may be allocated by initiating a read and invalidate request and asserting a back-off signal to cancel the read if there is an indication that the coalesced stores will fill the cache line.
US07757042B2
Disclosed is storage system, that is, an array-type disk apparatus which is provided with an error monitor section which monitors the status of error occurrence in a disk drive and instructs initiation of mirroring between the disk drive and a spare disk drive when the number of errors occurred of the disk drive exceeds a specified value, and a mirror section which performs mirroring between the disk drive and spare disk drive. Storage system, that is, the array-type disk apparatus may be provided with an error monitor section which monitors the status of error occurrence in a disk drive and gives such an instruction as to set the status of the disk drive in a temporary blocked state, and a data restoring section which executes data restoration by reading data from the temporary blocked disk drive when reading from another disk drive constituting a disk array group is not possible during data restoration.
US07757038B2
To enable a capacity of an entire storage device to be kept by adding a flash drive or a flash module in the flash drive for a flash memory that has a failure, even if the storage device using the flash memory has a failure in its part such as a part of flash memory chip has a failure, for example, the flash memory chip has run out of its lifetime. In a storage device 101 equipped with two or more memory device units 105 with a plurality of semiconductor memory devices 107, each of which has a functional capacity unit 109 smaller than a capacity of an entire semiconductor memory device and has a writing lifetime for each functional capacity unit, only a functional capacity unit whose writing lifetime is run out to be determined as unable to be written is substituted by a functional capacity unit in a memory device of the other memory device unit to keep a predetermined capacity of the entire device.
US07757037B2
A FLASH memory controller is disclosed. The controller comprises a microcontroller. The microcontroller including firmware for providing different mappings for different types of FLASH memory chips. The controller also includes FLASH control logic for communicating with the microcontroller and adapted to communicate via a FLASH data bus to at least one FLASH memory chip. The FLASH control logic including mapping logic for configuring the FLASH data bus based upon the type of FLASH memory chip coupled thereto. A method and system in accordance with the present invention provides the following advantages: Configurable data bus on the FLASH memory controller through software to simplify routing complexity. Configurable chip select and control bus for flexibility of FLASH memory placement. Elimination of external resistor network for layout simplicity. A scalable architecture for higher data bus bandwidth support. Auto-detection of FLASH memory type and capacity configuration.
US07757034B1
A system, method and computer program product for virtualizing a processor and its memory, including a host operating system (OS); and virtualization software that maintains a virtualization environment for running a Virtual Machine (VM) without system level privileges and having a guest operating system running within the Virtual Machine. A plurality of processes are running within the host OS, each process having its own virtual memory, wherein the virtualization software is one of the processes. An image file is stored in persistent storage and maintained by the host operating system. The image file represents virtualized physical memory of the VM. A plurality of memory pages are aggregated into blocks, the blocks being stored in the image file and addressable in block form. The virtualization software manages the blocks so that blocks can be mapped to the virtualization software process virtual memory and released when the blocks are no longer necessary. The host OS swaps the blocks between the image file and physical memory when a block that is not in physical memory is accessed by the VM. The image file size is not subject to limitation on virtual process memory size. A user of the VM can access a larger virtual process memory than the host OS permits.
US07757023B1
A system architecture for delegating a storage-centric manageability (SCM) task that includes a host system that includes a host computing element and a data storage area, wherein the host computing element operates to access the data storage area via a first communication or data path, a delegated computing element that operates to access the data storage area via second data path for executing a delegated SCM task, wherein the second data path is different from the first data path.
US07757022B2
Some interface signals are selected from among signals of a plurality of different parallel interfaces, then being multiplexed onto a serial connection. A transmitter of a signal transmission system includes an interface-signal selector IFS, and a transfer programmer TP for issuing a control signal to instruct the selection from among the parallel interfaces. The transfer programmer TP implements the multiplexing of the selected interface signals in such a manner that the specification of the parallel interfaces is satisfied. Also, the transfer programmer TP changes, as occasion requires, the control signal to instruct which interfaces to select. This change allows the interface signals to be multiplexed onto the serial connection while dynamically changing the interface signals to be multiplexed.
US07757018B2
A method for controlling the sequence of a plurality of functions which are executable on at least two interacting devices is provided, first of the functions being implemented on a first device and the second of the functions being implemented on a second device. A system for implementing the method is provided, including an administrative unit which controls a sequence of the functions in such a manner that it prevents a first function and a second function which interfere with one another from simultaneously running.
US07757011B1
Method and system for latency-independent peripheral device identification. In one embodiment, a computer system receives an interrupt from a peripheral device coupled to a computer system communications port. In response, an interrupt notification message is posted alerting a notification handler running on the system. It is determined whether the interrupt is indicates peripheral class compliance. In one embodiment, communications port device sense pin voltage is determinative. If the interrupt indicates peripheral class compliance and the communications port is inactive, the port is opened, and inquiry sent to the peripheral device via the open port. The computer system then waits for response from the peripheral device. If response is received within a predetermined time, identification is posted based on the response, including peripheral device classification information, so that a software handler registered with the operating system can handle the identification message when received. Thus, this embodiment imposes no time-critical interrupt response.
US07757003B2
A system and method are presented in which a plurality of transport protocol objects (TPOs) are instantiated at a server. In one embodiment, each of the plurality of TPOs is adapted to provide a translation between a first IM protocol and a different IM protocol.
US07757002B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for providing access to network content. Certain embodiments provide a proxy system for providing access to network content. The system includes a content retriever for retrieving a first content on a network. The content retriever is configured to pre-fetch additional content linked or connected to the first content. The system also includes a content analyzer for analyzing the first content and the pre-fetched additional content according to a content policy and allowing access to the first content and the pre-fetched additional content in accordance with the content policy. The system further includes a content renderer for rendering allowed content for provision to a user upon user request. The renderer can also modify links to content based on a status of the linked content.
US07756998B2
A method of managing virtual routing forwarding (VRF) tables at a provider edge PE router of a L3 virtual private network (VPN) is provided. An import route target (ImpRT) tree is maintained at the PE router, which keeps the association between all ImpRT attributes currently configured on said PE router and the virtual routing table VRF at that router. When an ImpRT attribute is configured on a VRF table, the PE router first searches the tree to identify a local VRF table that contains a route(s) with that ImpRT attribute. If this information is available locally, the VRF is updated by copying the route information, and there is no need to do a route refresh. When an ImpRT is deleted from a VRF, a route refresh is avoided by parsing all the routes in the VRF and removing the routes that no longer have a matching route target. In an alternative implementation, the local source is the master RIB (routing information base) which includes all routes in all VRFs at the router, and optionally even rejected routes that were filtered out using ImpRTs. In this variant, even routes associated with ImpRTs that are new to the router would be available to update the VRF without requiring a route refresh.
US07756997B2
Flexible network policies might be enforced by (a) obtaining a flow of network packets, (b) determining a content characteristic by characterizing content of the flow using bit-stream level statistics, (c) determining content-independent flow characteristics, port-independent flow characteristics, and/or application header-independent flow characteristics, and (d) enforcing a policy on the flow using both (1) the determined content characteristic and the (2) determined content-independent flow characteristics, port-independent flow characteristics, and/or application header-independent flow characteristics.
US07756995B1
Techniques for reducing propagation delay and message loss within a network when replicating information among host computing devices are provided. To maintain flow control among host computing devices, a distributed transmission rate for host computing devices is allocated. Host computing devices adjust the transmission rate based on determined use by each host computing device. Individual host computing devices can also reduce propagation delay and message loss when replicating information by adjusting the number of updates produced based on overflow detections.
US07756992B1
In one embodiment, an update file for an antivirus program is disassembled into several source packets. The source packets may be encoded using a forward error correction (FEC) algorithm to generate encoded packets. The encoded packets may include the source packets and redundant packets, the redundant packets including information that allows a client computer that includes the antivirus program to recreate the source packets even if it never receives all of the encoded packets. The FEC algorithm may be selected from several FEC algorithms based on the number of the source packets. The transmission of the encoded packets from a server computer to the client computer may be stopped when the client computer has received enough of the encoded packets to recreate the source packets.
US07756984B2
Systems and methods for providing a uniform network addressing scheme for a user accessing a network that is independent from the computer from which the user accesses the network. A virtual IP address is assigned to a user, a user session or a program run by user, where the IP address is different from the IP address of the computer of the user, and different from other users. A virtual host name is assigned to and associated with the virtual IP address of the user, user session or the program the user is running. As the user accesses the network from different computers, the user can be assigned the same virtual host name and in some cases the same virtual IP address. Furthermore, as the user accesses the network from multiple user sessions, the user can be assigned a virtual host name that uniquely identifies the user and the user session.
US07756980B2
Described is a system and method that use the concept of channels by which computer users select an appropriate set of network settings maintained in the computer system for a particular network. Upon selection, the corresponding settings are automatically applied by the system. A channel manager manages sets of network settings for various networks, including ad hoc networks, wherein each set contains the information that is necessary to connect to a network. A user interface allows selection of a channel, e.g., via a friendly name. The network settings may be stored in files to allow users to easily copy settings. Complex channels are capable of connecting to different networks at different times in a priority ordering, depending on network availability. The channel manager is able to determine the current channel from current network settings. Metadata may be received and displayed in conjunction with the channel-related user interface.
US07756978B2
A multiplicity adjustment agent collects request information database from a sub-system including an element of a system to be monitored. An individual sub-system's multiplicity adjustment server sorts and merges request information collected from each sub-system for each element/request path. An integrated multiplicity analysis server calculates a necessary multiplicity on the basis of the request information.
US07756974B2
The invention can enable monitoring of the display of content by a computer system. Moreover, the invention can enable monitoring of the displayed content to produce monitoring information from which conclusions may be deduced regarding the observation of the displayed content by an observer. The invention can also enable monitoring of the display at a content display site of content that is provided by a content provider site over a network to the content display site. Additionally, the invention can enable the expeditious provision of updated and/or tailored content over a network from a content provider site to a content display site so that the content provider's current and appropriately tailored content is always displayed at the content display site. Aspects of the invention related to transfer of content over a network are generally applicable to any type of network. However, it is contemplated that the invention can be particularly useful with a computer network, including private computer networks (e.g., America Online™) and public computer networks (e.g., the Internet). In particular, the invention can be advantageously used with computer networks or portions of computer networks over which video and/or audio content are transferred from one network site to another network site for observation, such as the World Wide Web portion of the Internet.
US07756965B2
In a load balancing system, user-configurable geographic prefixes are provided. IP address prefix allocations provided by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and associated geographic locations are stored in a first, static database in a load balancing switch, along with other possible default geographic location settings. A second, non-static database stores user-configured geographic settings. In particular, the second database stores Internet Protocol (IP) address prefixes and user-specified geographic regions for those prefixes. The specified geographic region can be continent, country, state, city, or other user-defined region. The geographic settings in the second database can override the information in the first database. These geographic entries help determine the geographic location of a client and host IP addresses, and aid in directing the client to a host server that is geographically the closest to that client.
US07756963B2
A system, computer program product and method for automated tool management in a multi-protocol environment. A user may issue a message in accordance with an object-oriented interapplication communication protocol to a corresponding application interface unit. The message may be a request to perform a particular action on a selected tool. The content of the message may be extracted by the corresponding application interface unit which may comprise data required by the requested action and a pointer to the object representing the tool. The application interface unit may invoke a method of the object pointed to by the pointers in the message. A value may then be procured by an equipment model where the value may be associated with particular information requested in the message about a tool or a notification informing the user that an event occurred. The equipment model may transfer the value to the appropriate user.
US07756961B2
Provided are a hardware device and a method for creating and managing socket information serving as a connection with a network protocol hierarchy in a network application program. The hardware device includes a TCP transmission processor for processing commands on requests for creating and eliminating a socket of a predetermined network program in response to the requests for creating and eliminating a socket, a TCP reception processor for creating a search signal for a corresponding socket identification when a new packet is received, a socket management unit for creating and eliminating a socket ID upon a command from the TCP transmission processor, and searching the socket ID and providing the socket ID to the TCP transmission processor upon a command from the TCP reception processor, and a memory unit for storing the socket information, and providing the socket information to the TCP reception processor.
US07756939B2
A displayed string of emails is effectively compressed for improved readability by deleting some or all headers and/or by skipping the cursor from one message body to another in response to “hot” key actuation (s) by a user.
US07756936B2
Instant messaging, also known as chat, is integrated with electronic mail in a user interface that provides for conversion of messages between electronic mail (email) and instant messaging. A user interface is provided for allowing a user who is composing an email message to convert the message to a chat message. The chat message will include any content that was present in the electronic mail message, and the user can continue to compose the chat message, and then send it to a chat address determined automatically from the email address of the original email message. Notifications are provided that indicate when chat users have logged on to or logged off from the chat service. These notifications assist a user composing a message to select the most appropriate communication method based upon the current online presence of the intended recipient. A user interface for converting messages in the opposite direction, from chat to email, is also provided.
US07756932B2
A system and method for processing messages being composed by a user of a computing device (e.g. a mobile device). Embodiments are described in which the performance of certain tasks is initiated before a direction is received from a user to send a message being composed by the user. This may involve, for example, “pre-fetching” security-related data that will be required in order to send a message that is in the process of being composed by the user securely. Such data may include security policy data, certificate data, and/or certificate status data, for example.
US07756928B1
A home-networking gateway may automatically provide a function based on data identified on a device on a home network. The home-networking gateway may perform the function using another device that is capable of performing the function and is accessible to the home-networking gateway.
US07756925B2
The methods and apparatus of the present invention operate in publish-subscribe messaging systems including at least publishing clients, subscribing clients and a plurality of broker machines. The broker machines form an overlay network responsible for receiving input messages from publishing clients, transforming information contained in the input messages according to pre-determined transformation specifications, and transmitting output messages containing the transformed information to the subscribing clients. The pre-determined transformation specifications are reduced to information transforms implemented as software modules that are distributed among the broker machines. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for placing transforms among the broker machines comprising the overlay network in such a way that the latency and throughput of messaging activities executed by the broker machines of the overlay network is improved.
US07756920B2
Methods and systems for submitting or resubmitting media to a media distribution site are disclosed. The submission or resubmission of media to the media distribution site can be performed by numerous submitters in a uniform and computer-assisted manner. The submitted or resubmitted media can then be processed in a largely automated manner at the media distribution site and then made available for online purchase and distribution.
US07756919B1
A large-scale data processing system and method includes one or more application-independent map modules configured to read input data and to apply at least one application-specific map operation to the input data to produce intermediate data values, wherein the map operation is automatically parallelized across multiple processors in the parallel processing environment. A plurality of intermediate data structures are used to store the intermediate data values. One or more application-independent reduce modules are configured to retrieve the intermediate data values and to apply at least one application-specific reduce operation to the intermediate data values to provide output data.
US07756918B2
A method to generate a group of entities from a plurality of participating entities, the method comprising: one of the participating entities expressing by indication which others of the participating entities they wish to meet; selecting to be a first member of the group an entity which has indicated at least one other of the participating entities it wishes to meet; adding a new entity to the group by selecting the new entity from the set of indications of the last member added to the group.
US07756909B2
Profiles hold cache settings externally from a requesting resource. The external cache settings stored within a profile may be associated with one or more resources. This allows the external cache settings for a group of resources to be managed from one location rather than having to change the internal cache settings for each resource. When a resource is processed by the server, the external cache settings are obtained from a cache profile and applied to the requesting resource. The external cache settings may also be merged with any internal resource settings. As a result of merging the settings some of the external cache settings and/or some of the internal cache settings may be overridden.
US07756907B2
A method for forming a visual plot using a hierarchical structure of a dataset. The dataset comprises a measure and a dimension. The dimension consists of a plurality of levels. The plurality of levels form a dimension hierarchy. The visual plot is constructed based on a specification. A first level from the plurality of levels is represented by a first component of the visual plot. A second level from the plurality of levels is represented by a second component of the visual plot. The dataset is queried to retrieve data in accordance with the specification. The data includes all or a portion of the dimension and all or a portion of the measure. The visual plot is populated with the retrieved data in accordance with the specification.
US07756902B2
An auto-identification system is described that includes a plurality of distributed auto-id nodes that are operable to track physical objects as they move through an operation of an enterprise, such as, for example, a supply chain network or a sales network. The auto-id nodes are distributed across sites of the network, and are in communication with enterprise application systems and/or data acquisition systems such as RFID readers or sensor devices. By focusing on their respective sites, the auto-id nodes minimize the amount of data tracked by their respective enterprise applications. Further, a simulator may be associated with one or more of the auto-id nodes. In this case, the simulator may project certain movements of the physical objects through an environment of an auto-id node, and then feed corresponding data to the auto-id node. In this way, the auto-id node may be tested and optimized, without requiring actual, physical testing.
US07756899B2
Files can be reassembled from fragments by (a) accepting adjacency scores for each pair of fragments from a set of fragments, (b) identifying header fragments from the set of fragments, and (c) for each of the header fragments, (i) setting a current fragment to the identified header fragment, (ii) selecting, from any of the fragments not identified as a header fragment, a fragment with a best adjacency score with the current fragment, (iii) determining if the selected fragment has a better adjacency score with any of the other fragments not identified as a header than with the current fragment, (iv) if so, then (A) selecting another fragment, from any of the fragments not identified as a header fragment, a fragment with a next best adjacency score with the current fragment, and continuing, and otherwise (A) adding the selected fragment to a reassembly path started with the identified header fragment, and (B) setting the current fragment to the selected fragment, and continuing until the file is reconstructed.
US07756897B2
A topic net management unit 1 reads one record from a table to generate the topic net (S1). Subsequently, from among the field data in the record, the unit 1 generates nodes corresponding to the field data for which a corresponding topic class exists (S2). Topics corresponding to those nodes are generated. If a node having the same topic is already generated, then the unit 1 does not newly generate a node having a duplicate topic (S2). The unit 1 mutually links the generated topics in accordance with the definitions between the topic classes (S3). Further, using a dialog information template, the unit 1 generates dialog information associated with the generated link (S4). The unit 1 performs Steps S1-S4 processing for all records in the table (S5). If there is a plurality of tables Steps S1-S5 processing is performed for all tables (S6).
US07756896B1
A risk analysis method uses a multi-dimensional risk representation that allows a standard OLAP engine to perform analysis on multi-dimensional data corresponding to a portfolio of financial positions. The analysis includes context-dependent, heterogeneous aggregation functions. The multi-dimensional data is represented as a multi-layered multi-dimensional cube (“outer” cube), which consists of dimensions and cells. Each cell includes a set of coordinates and an inner multi-dimensional cube (“inner” cube). Dimensions of the inner cube include all dimensions required for aggregations. Dimensions of the outer cube include only dimensions needed for context (or reporting). An aggregation is performed on the set of measures of the inner cube based on a context for the aggregation provided by the outer cube.
US07756889B2
Techniques for partitioning nested tables are provided. A parent table includes a column for collection items. A nested table is created for storing items that belong to the collection items. The nested table is partitioned to create a plurality of nested table partitions. Each nested table partition is a distinct, separately stored structure within a database. How the nested table is partitioned may, or may not, be based on how the parent table is partitioned. For example, a nested table may be partitioned based on the same criteria in which the parent table is partitioned. As another example, a nested table may be partitioned, whereas the parent table is not partitioned.
US07756888B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that provides heterogeneous resources for client systems. During operation, the system maintains a stateful resource database that tracks heterogeneous resources in a given environment. The system receives requests from client systems, and in response to the requests searches for a heterogeneous resource in the stateful resource database that matches the request. If the system finds an available heterogeneous resource that matches the request, it proceeds to submit the request to the resource. Maintaining and using the stateful resource database facilitates efficiently sharing scarce heterogeneous resources across a number of client systems.
US07756878B2
A system and method for processing e-mail is provided wherein an e-mail is received from an originator or a customer, a routing destination is determined and responses to the e-mail are retrieved from a library based on the selected routing destination. Customer data is then accessed and the responses are filtered based on customer information that is extrinsic to the e-mail. An agent can select a response from the list of filtered responses and the selected response can be sent to the originator.
US07756874B2
In connection with a classification system for classifying media entities that merges perceptual classification techniques and digital signal processing classification techniques for improved classification of media entities, a system and methods are provided for automatically classifying and characterizing musical consonance properties of media entities. Such a system and methods may be useful for the indexing of a database or other storage collection of media entities, such as media entities that are audio files, or have portions that are audio files. The methods also help to determine media entities that have similar consonance by utilizing classification chain techniques that test distances between media entities in terms of their properties. For example, a neighborhood of songs may be determined within which each song has a similar consonance.
US07756873B2
Processing data includes identifying a plurality of subsets of fields of data records of a data source, determining co-occurrence statistics for each of the plurality of subsets, and identifying one or more of the plurality of subsets as having a functional relationship among the fields of the identified subset.
US07756872B2
A searching device includes: a text memory that stores text data, the text data showing at least one character strings, the character strings including n-number of characters, n being a natural number; an input device that receives an input of a keyword, the keyword including m-number of characters, m being a natural number that satisfies m≦n; a selector that selects at least one search character from the m-number of characters included in the keyword, the search characters including a-number of characters, a being a natural number that satisfies a≦m; a search window controller that sets a search window, the search window including b-number of characters, the b-number of characters being selected from the text data, b being a natural number that satisfies b≧a; a determining unit that determines whether the search window includes the keyword on the basis of a comparison result of the characters in the search window with the search characters.
US07756865B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating and associating meta-data with a final form presentation datastream document where the meta-data is structured in accordance with the datastream component architectures. Meta-data objects (“MDOs”) are architected as components of a presentation document and thus are well defined to allow applications to reliably access and process the meta-data contained therein. The MDOs may be associated with other components of the document and are architected to be extensible and flexible while still adhering to an architectural structure. The MDOs may be descriptive (no affect in document presentation) or operational (affects document presentation if processed). Standard types of MDOs may include XML standard information, JDF standard information, PWG standard information, and digital signature information. A variety of standard categories further define typical meta-data forms and applications thereof.
US07756861B2
An apparatus and method to optimize a query access plan in a computer database system. In preferred embodiments, the query optimizer determines the query can be optimized and generates for the query an optimized access plan that eliminates records defined by a Where clause and one or more ordering criteria prior to ordering the records (sorting or grouping) and then returning a first n rows.
US07756859B2
A method and system for searching multi-segment strings is provided. The search system receives a query string containing part or all of the segments that are to be matched as query segments. Upon receiving the query string, the search system compares the query segments provided in the query string with segments gathered from previously stored strings. If any segments match the query segments, the search system selects the strings that contain matching segments as search results.
US07756857B2
A method is disclosed that can be used to reduce the size of the indexes 130 of structured-documents 150. The method uses the schema 110 of structured documents 180, in particular XML documents, to determine the existence of certain deterministic relationships 140 among the indexing components 170. Using such knowledge when indexing the data and formulating query execution plans can greatly reduce the size of the indices 170 and allow querying of such documents more efficiently.
US07756851B2
A system for full text indexing optimization that operates based on identification of idle and active content in a content source, and by prioritizing indexing of idle content over active content. Active and idle content items are automatically identified, and idle content items are given a higher priority for indexing, while active content items are given a lower priority. Active content items are generally those that are considered relatively more likely to be located by the user without using the full text indexing function, while idle content items are those content items that are relatively more likely to be located through use of the full text indexing function. The specific content item attributes that are used to determine whether a given content item is active or idle may depend on the type content source for which the full text index is being provided. Additionally, the determination of which content items are active and which are idle may be based on predetermined, static criteria, and/or dynamically determined use patterns determined by monitoring operations performed on content items by a user.
US07756850B2
Method and apparatus for formatting information within a directory tree structure into an encyclopedia-like entry. The method includes performing a search by utilizing a selective one or more search methodologies including keyword search, hierarchical search, dichotomous key search, and parametric search to correlate a search criteria to a searchable database for generating one or more matching items, wherein the searchable database is formatted in the directory tree structure. The directory tree structure includes nodes comprising a collection of related data and branches comprising links between the nodes. Each matching item represents a node from within the directory tree structure. The method further includes selecting one of the matching items, formatting the collection of related data corresponding to the node of the selected matching item into an encyclopedia-like entry, and displaying the encyclopedia-like entry corresponding to the node of the selected matching item. The encyclopedia-like entry can include text, graphics, links to related topics within the directory tree structure, links to related web sites external to the directory tree structure, or any combination thereof. Utilizing the search methodologies can be performed by a server, preferably accessible over the internet through the public switched telephone network.
US07756842B2
Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients of the system.
US07756838B2
A method of invalidating an unused log file in a database includes examining a discard log information storage area and determining if a discard log exists. If the discard log exists, the log is invalidated. The headers of each of the log files that have been fully invalidated are then invalidated. The discard log is then fully invalidated and a new log file may be generated on top of the discarded log. The method may be interrupted by a failure, a changeover, or crash and will be repeated until it completes.
US07756832B1
An embodiment of the invention provides an apparatus and method that use auto support data for upgrade compatibility. The method includes capturing the input commands that are used by a user (customer) of a storage appliance and that are processed by a current storage operating system in the storage appliance. These input commands are then stored in a database and are the auto support data that is transmitted from the storage appliance via a network to the database. These input commands can be recorded or categorized in the database, based upon the command name or command line arguments of the input commands. These input commands can then be mapped to new input commands that are used with an upgraded storage operating system in a storage appliance. These mapping can be implemented in, for example, a data structure that maps previous input commands to new input commands.
US07756817B2
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a compressed data file providing access to one or more selected portions of data contained within the data file. The file is partitioned into one or more chunks, a given chunk comprising a separate unit of data representing a subset of data from the file. The one or more chunks are compressed through use of a compression algorithm, and the one or more chunks are combined to form a compressed file. Metadata is also generated that indicates a chunk offset of a given chunk, thereby allowing direct parallel access to one or more given chunks. Similarly, legacy applications may ignore the chunk structure in the compressed file and access the file according to techniques know in the art, thereby preserving backwards compatibility with such legacy applications.
US07756811B2
A method is provided for promoting agenda awareness in a communication client. A system user's agenda of tasks with associated contact information is provided to the communication client. Matches are sought between the associated contact information from the agenda and a contact in a contact list in the communication client. Contacts matching the associated contact information and the tasks associated with the contact information are presented at a user interface.
US07756806B1
Systems and methods to facilitate the thinking and problem solving abilities of groups and multiple individuals working collaboratively or collectively in arbitrary problems and inquiry based projects, in both formal and informal settings and situations.
US07756805B2
A method of distributed approximate query tracking relies on tracking general-purpose randomized sketch summaries of local streams at remote sites along with concise prediction models of local site behavior in order to produce highly communication-efficient and space/time-efficient solutions. A powerful approximate query tracking framework readily incorporates several complex analysis queries, including distributed join and multi-join aggregates and approximate wavelet representations, thus giving the first known low-overhead tracking solution for such queries in the distributed-streams model.
US07756804B2
A method, system, and computer program product that automatically generates data mining models of adequate or even optimum quality in a way that reduces the need for user interaction and reduces the cost and improves the quality of model building. A method for automatically building and evaluating data mining models comprises the steps of receiving information specifying models to be built, generating a model setting array based on the information specifying models to be built, the model setting array including at least one model settings combination, preparing specified source data for training and testing each model to be built, for each model settings combination included in the model settings array, performing the steps of building a model based on the model settings combination, evaluating the built model, and outputting results of the model building and evaluation, and selecting a model from the built models based on a selection criterion.
US07756800B2
A method and system are provided for classifying data items such as a document based upon identification of element instances within the data item. A training set of classes is provided where each class is associated with one or more features indicative of accurate identification of an element instance within the data item. Upon the identification of the data item with the training set, a confidence factor is computed that the selected element instance is accurately identified. When a selected element instance has a low confidence factor, the associated features for the predicted class are changed by an annotator/expert so that the changed class definition of the new associated feature provides a higher confidence factor of accurate identification of element instances within the data item.
US07756799B2
A partial order among a set of classifiers is constructed, where the partial order indicates which classifiers can be input as features for other classifiers. Based on the partial order, a function based on an output of one classifier is selected as a feature for another classifier.
US07756795B2
A mail piece verification system for processing a mail piece having associated therewith mail piece data includes an incoming mail processing center, an outgoing mail processing center located downstream from the incoming mail processing center and a data center in operative communication with the incoming mail processing center and the outgoing mail processing center. The incoming mail processing center receives the mail piece, obtains the mail piece and uploads the mail piece data to the data center. The data center performs a verification check on the mail piece data and downloads instructions based upon the verification check to the outgoing mail processing center. The outgoing mail processing center uses the instructions to process the mail piece.
US07756788B2
Methods and systems for performing sales transactions using a mobile communications device and without requiring text messaging or paging services are disclosed. In one example, a subscriber desiring to purchase goods or services proceeds to a point of sale device where the purchase price for the goods or services is totaled. The subscriber then initiates a voice call with a central transaction server. The subscriber provides a point of sale device identifier and the purchase price to the central transaction server. The central transaction server contacts a local transaction server using the identifier provided by the subscriber. The central transaction server also prompts the subscriber to select the payment account for the transaction and verifies that the subscriber has sufficient credit to purchase the goods or services. The central transaction server locates a pending transaction entry in a database local to the point of sale using the device identifier provided by the subscriber. Upon locating the pending transaction entry and verifying that the subscriber has sufficient credit, the central transaction server notifies the subscriber and the point of sale device that the transaction is complete.
US07756781B2
A system and method are disclosed for presenting a reason for the rejection of 5 a credit application from an applicant is disclosed. The method includes obtaining a factor from a credit bureau identified as a factor that influences the FICO score assigned to the application by the credit bureau. The factor identified by the credit bureau is mapped to an internal rejection code. A rejection reason is provided that corresponds to the internal rejection code to the applicant.
US07756775B1
A client terminal displays on a graphical interface a first indicator of a price associated with a lowest traded price of a tradable object during a predetermined period of time, a second indicator of a price associated with a highest traded price of the tradable object during the predetermined period of time, along with at least one quantity indicator associated with at least one order to buy/order the tradable object. The first indicator, the second indicator, and the at least one quantity indicator are displayed in relation to a static axis of price, and the client terminal dynamically updates the first and second indicator to new lowest and highest traded prices based on market updates received from an exchange.
US07756768B2
This invention relates to hedge fund indexing in general and methods and systems for constructing and maintaining investable hedge fund indices in particular.
US07756766B2
The present invention provides a method of and apparatus for setting a selling price of each of a plurality of items to be subsequently offered for sale to a plurality of prospective purchasers, the method including: accepting a plurality of expressions of interest in the items, each of the expressions of interest nominating at least a number of the items and an offer price; then determining a moving price from a plurality of factors including at least the plurality of nominated numbers of items and offer prices; then issuing the moving price on demand to the prospective purchasers; repeating the above steps; and then establishing the selling price based on the moving price and issuing the selling price.
US07756756B1
A method of providing recommendations is disclosed and includes receiving input from a visitor of an online site. The input indicates a request to receive data related to an offering from a member of a social network associated with the visitor. The offering is available for purchase via the online site. The method also includes sending a communication to the member of the social network in response to the request. The communication requests data related to the offering.
US07756752B2
Modification of the presentation of page appearance, page navigation flow, and other aspects of the user experience of an online shopper navigating the virtual shopping cart and checkout pages of an online store is achieved without compromising the security of checkout processing. The modification may include customization, and various configuration and customization tools may be employed. The online shopper experiences continuity between unsecured-connection pages presenting items for purchase and secured-connection pages presented for checkout processing. In one embodiment, page navigation flow is modified using continuations implemented using a relatively small stack to save information relating to the flow. In another embodiment, a page designer enables a dynamic version of a page specification program to be generated, such as by way of a page customization interface. Partial evaluation is employed to generate a version of the program that is executed at request time.
US07756750B2
A request for shopping is placed from inside a procurement system. Intelligent agents are launched to retrieve information from catalog sources web-enabled over the internet or within the intranet. Retrieved catalog information is aggregated and associated with other data items. Business rules are applied to make decisions on what part of aggregated information will be rendered to User. Sorting/multi-level refining operations are enabled. The User selects one or more catalog results, whereupon an XML shopping cart is created and submitted to the procurement system through published interfaces. The procurement system is enabled to place an order on supplier web-enabled transaction system.
US07756749B2
A system and method for charging a user for printing services. In one arrangement, the system and method include the steps of receiving a debiting request from a printing service via a network, verifying privileges of the printing service to access a user account, and debiting a user account for the printing services.
US07756741B2
Method, procedure, algorithm, system, and computer program for improving and attempting to optimize the performance of messaging campaigns, particularly to marketing campaigns in which advertisements or other messages are distributed over an interactive measurable medium such as the Internet. A goal is to allocate the message alternatives to the customer population to optimize business objectives. The includes reading prior stage message state data pertaining to a prior stage including a cumulative number of trials and a cumulative number of successes for a particular message. Message performance results representing message trials and message successes from the previous stage based on the prior-stage state are then read, and a current message state is computed. A current message allocation is generated based on the current message state. Desirably the cumulative number of trials and the cumulative number of successes are discounted based on the age of the information. This inventive procedure may be applied to various message types including, for example, web site banner advertisements, electronic advertisements generally, email messages and promotions, and the like. In one embodiment, the messages are internet web site banner ads, trials are impressions of the ads presented to the user, and successes are measured by clickthroughs from the banner ad to the web site associated with the banner ad. Computer system, computer program, and computer program product associated with the inventive method and procedures are also provided.
