US07773728B2
A circuit (10) and method for providing test and/or monitoring access to at least two telecommunication lines (18). This circuit (10) comprises at least one bus (12) and at least two primary branches (14) extending there from, at least one of the primary branches (14) being provided with at least one switch (26), which in a first state connects the primary branch (14) with the bus (12) and in a second state connects the primary branch (14) with ground. The method comprises the step of connecting only that primary branch (14), through which access to a telecommunication line 18 is to be established, with the bus (12).
US07773727B1
An arrangement analyzes a plurality of call detail records and determines that a particular call processing code has occurred a predetermined number of times during a previously defined time interval. The fact of these multiple occurrences of these processing codes is determined to be an indication of a trunk failure. A maintenance request is issued to address the detected failure.
US07773723B2
A radiation system includes a radiation source, and a patient support for supporting a patient, the patient support located adjacent to the radiation source such that the radiation source can deliver radiation towards the patient while the patient is supported on the patient support, wherein the patient support and the radiation source are positionable at least partially around a same spatial region. A system for use to determine a treatment plan includes a user interface for allowing a user to define a plurality of control points, a first parameter, and a second parameter, wherein the user interface also allows the user to prescribe which of the first and second parameters is to be optimized, and which of the first and second parameters is to be interpolated.
US07773722B2
One aspect relates to inducing at least one induced X-ray fluorescing photon at a X-ray fluorescence event within an at least some matter of an at least a portion of an at least one individual responsive to an at least some input energy being applied to the at least some matter of the at least the portion of the at least one individual. The aspect can relate to detecting the at least one induced X-ray fluorescing photon, wherein the inducing at least one induced X-ray fluorescing photon and the detecting the at least one induced X-ray fluorescing photon is configured to be performed at least partially with at least one device which is configured to be transported portably by a person.
US07773706B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, transmits a plurality of known symbol sequences each including a plurality of known symbols by using the antennas, each of the known symbols having subcarrier arrangement on which plural known information of the each of the known symbols are carried on, and inversion/non-inversion of a phase of known information on one of two adjacent subcarriers of the subcarrier arrangement being controlled in accordance with the number of the known symbols and time position of the each of the known symbols, and transmits data symbols by using the antennas after the known symbol sequences are transmitted.
US07773703B2
Special DC tone treatment in a wireless communications system, e.g., an OFDM system, is discussed. In the downlink, a wireless terminal receiver introduces self-interference at the DC tone from the RF/baseband conversion. A base station every so often does not transmit on the downlink DC tone while continuing to transmit on other downlink tones. Wireless terminals measure received signal on the downlink DC tone during the time of suspended DC tone transmission, estimate self-interference and apply a correction to other received downlink DC tones. In the uplink DC tone interference is a composite of the assigned wireless terminal transmitter's baseband/RF conversion self-interference and air link noise. During one symbol interval of an N symbol interval dwell, the uplink DC tone is reserved for a special modulation symbol, which is a predetermined function of the other N-1 modulation symbols. At the base station, its receiver receives a set of modulation symbols conveyed by the uplink DC tone for a dwell, calculates the average DC component and corrects the received N-1 modulation symbols.
US07773697B2
Where the additional data throughput is added using an amplitude offset or a combination of phase and amplitude offset, the legacy differential demodulator does not recover the amplitude information. The present invention provides a method for demodulating amplitude offsets in a differential modulation system in order to recover the amplitude information. The demodulated amplitude information may be used to recover the additional Level 2 data transmitted as an amplitude offset or combination phase and amplitude offset in a differential multiple phase shift keying (D-MPSK) transmission, such as across adjacent OFDM symbols and/or adjacent frequency subcarriers.
US07773693B2
A direct power amplifier modulator that accepts bipolar I and Q data, either baseband or multi-carrier digital IF, and generates the resultant magnitude and sign components. Also described is a direct power amplifier modulator that generates quadrature terms of the carrier frequency offset by 90°, wherein each term is shifted by 180° under control of the respective sign components of the quadrature I and Q samples. The present invention also provides a transistor structure configured to accept differential quadrature frequency components that are combined in a post PA outphasing combiner.
US07773690B2
Angle estimation for modulated signal. A novel compensation technique is presented by which angle estimation may be performed for a modulated signal. More specifically, the angle between a constellation corresponding to a received signal and a constellation corresponding to a received signal may be very efficiently estimated using any one of the possible embodiments corresponding to various aspects of the invention. After this angle has been estimated, the received signal or the expected constellation may be rotated (or de-rotated) to compensate for this angular difference. In doing so, better estimates of the information bits that are demodulated and decoded from the received signal may be made. This approach may be implemented and adapted to any of a wide variety of communication systems including, but not limited to, single-input-multiple-output (SISO), single-input-multiple-output (SIMO), multiple-input-single-output (MISO), multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), and even space-time block code (STBC) communication systems or other communication systems.
US07773685B2
This invention describes a wireless system comprising a plurality of transmitters and receivers, wherein each transmitter has between 1 and n antennas and each receiver has between 1 and m antennas wherein one of said transmitter is arranged to transmit to one of the receivers, said one transmitter is controlled in dependence on at least one of at least one parameter of said transmitters, at least one parameter of said receiver, and at least one parameter of a wireless environment between said transmitter and said receiver.
US07773674B2
A matching section performs motion estimation upon a predetermined processing unit of input video (p) by, e.g., an iterative gradient method. A motion vector (v) obtained by the iterative gradient method is obtained by the expression v=α·Δv+v0 (wherein v0 indicates an initial displacement motion vector and Δv indicates a differential vector). A characteristic amount extraction section extracts a characteristic amount from the distribution of motion vectors obtained by the motion estimation. A parameter determination section determines a conversion parameter α applied to the next processing unit by the characteristic amount. If the characteristic amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold, the conversion parameter α is determined to be larger (e.g., α=1). If the characteristic amount is smaller than the threshold, the conversion parameter α is determined to be smaller (e.g., α=0.1).
US07773659B2
Disclosed herein is an Ultra WideBand (UWB) M-ary Code Shift Keying (MCSK)/Binary Pulse Position Modulation (BPPM) wireless communication system and method. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter selects a specific TH code using MCSK according to an additional data stream, performs BPPM on a desired signal according to the selected TH code, and transmits the modulated signal via a channel. The receiver receives the signal transmitted from the transmitter via the channel, and estimates the transmitted signal, which is transmitted from the transmitter, through detection of a Maximum Likelihood (ML) sequence.
US07773657B2
A laser-induced optical wiring apparatus includes a substrate, first and second light-reflecting members provided on the substrate separately from each other, an optical waveguide provided on the substrate for optically coupling the first and second light-reflecting members to form an optical resonator, a first optical gain member provided across the optical waveguide and forming a laser oscillator along with the first and second light-reflecting members, and a second optical gain member provided across the optical waveguide separately from the first optical gain member, and forming another laser oscillator along with the first and second light-reflecting members.
US07773653B2
A diode laser apparatus includes a plurality of laser bars, each laser bar having an emission direction and a beam path. The laser bars are disposed along an arc, the emission directions of the laser bars are directed toward an inside of the arc, and a slow-axis direction of each laser bar is oriented along the arc.
US07773652B2
In a gain-coupled distributed feedback semiconductor laser, a coating of a low reflectivity is provided on a front facet from which laser light is emitted and a coating of a high reflectivity is provided on a rear facet, thus forming asymmetric coatings. The semiconductor laser has a structure in which an absorption diffraction grating is located along an optical waveguide, and the diffraction grating includes a phase shift region.
US07773648B2
Disclosed herein is a high-reliability semiconductor device. The laser diode includes: a substrate; a multi-layer film including a first conductivity type cladding layer provided on the substrate, a first conductivity type guide layer provided on the first conductivity type cladding layer, an active layer provided on the first conductivity type guide layer, a second conductivity type guide layer provided on the active layer, and a second conductivity type cladding layer provided on the second conductivity type guide layer, each of the layers being made of a nitride-based III-V group compound semiconductor; a first protective layer made of nitride and provided on a light emitting surface of the laser diode; and a second protective layer provided on the first protective layer and made of nitride having a refractive index different from that of the first protective layer.
US07773645B2
A laser package comprising a semiconductor laser having an operating temperature range and a heater, wherein the heater is configured to heat the laser when the laser package is positioned in an environment having an ambient temperature which lies outside of the operating temperature range of the laser, so that the laser will remain within the operating temperature range.
US07773636B2
An information processing apparatus that processes a multiplexed stream including a frame having multiple slots, which is obtained by multiplexing multiple streams containing time information describing times is disclosed. The apparatus includes extracting means for extracting predetermined one or more slots from the frame of the multiplexed stream, storage means for storing data of the slot(s), and frequency dividing means for generating a second clock signal by frequency-dividing a first clock signal by a frequency division ratio N:M based on the number of clocks N corresponding to the time for one frame in the multiplexed stream and the number of clocks M for reading the data of the slot(s) extracted from the one frame from the storage means in the time for the one frame. The data of the slot or slots stored in the storage means is read in synchronization with the second clock signal.
US07773623B2
A first controller calculates a first read-out speed based on the traffic volume in a first buffer and information of a request for the first read-out speed, sets the speed in a first scheduler. The first controller also generates information of a request for a second read-out speed based on the traffic volume in the first buffer. A second controller calculates the second read-out speed based on the traffic volume in a second buffer and the information of the request for the second read-out speed, sets the speed in a second scheduler. The second controller also generates information of a request for the first read-out speed based on the traffic volume in the second buffer.
US07773619B2
The device comprises a memory (3) for storing several user share parameters and several amounts capable of advancing. A decision means (6) allocates a chosen service slice of the resource to a user selected as possessing the least advanced amount. It subsequently advances his amount according to a chosen increment. A memory link means (5) defines user queues of “FIFO” type, such that the user having the least advanced amount in a queue appears at the head of this queue. According to the invention, the memory (3) stores a limited number of values of increments. The memory link means (5) associates one of these values of increments with each user and allocates an increment value to each queue.
US07773605B2
An MPOA system for establishing communication by using layer 3 protocol on an ATM network, in which data about the layer 3 address of a source of data packets is added to an address resolution request packet which is transmitted in order to establish a shortcut VCC toward a destination of the data packets in each communication node and hence transmitted to the destination, and in the case of accepting the address resolution request packets to be transmitted in order to establish the respective shortcut VCCs toward the destination of the data packets, as for the same communication, from a plurality of the communication nodes, a shortcut VCC is established only between the destination and the communication node remotest from the destination on the network.
US07773600B2
A flow classifier having a flow CAM having plural flow entries, a search key generator for generating a search key of a format which differs by a flow condition, and a table holding a flow search result corresponding to an address of respective flow entry of CAM, in which access is made to CAM by the search key of a variable format including at least one header information item extracted from a packet header and the flow search result is obtained from the table in accordance with the address of the flow entry coinciding with the search key outputted from CAM to thereby constitute high speed formation of flow classifying by a variety of flow conditions.
US07773598B2
An arrangement, system, and method for switching data packet flows in a communication system. A flow processing core classifies packet flows and defines processing flow sequences applicable to the packet flows. A distributing arrangement directs the packet flows to appropriate functional units or processors according to each packet flow's applicable processing flow sequence. The current position of each packet flow in its respective processing flow sequence is indicated. Packet flow sequence information may be determined so that reclassification of already classified packets is avoided.
US07773589B2
There is provided architecture of a storage system, which has high scalability, low performance ununiformity, and strong fault tolerance, and a control method thereof. The storage system is connected to a host computer. The storage system has four or more nodes. Each node has a host interface unit which is connected to the host computer to communicate with the host computer, and a switch which communicates with the host interface unit. The switch is connected to the switches of other four or less nodes to communicate with the switches of other nodes, such that the nodes are connected to one another in a two-dimensional lattice shape.
US07773588B2
A multimedia communication system and method are described where a communication controller receives a multimedia data stream from a communication device in a first protocol. The controller detects a type of the first protocol, such as text-based protocol or a binary protocol and then converts the first protocol into an intermediate protocol. The multimedia data stream in this intermediate protocol is then transmitted to a second communication controller connected to the destination communication device. The multimedia data stream is then converted at the second communication controller from the intermediate protocol into a second protocol which is then used to transmit the multimedia data stream to the destination communication device.
US07773584B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for processing session initiation protocol (SIP) messages associated with a Voice over IP (VoIP) terminal. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network proxy having a controller that manages a communications interface in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to receive from a VoIP terminal a SIP message comprising a request to communicate with a destination point, detect from the SIP message a lack of location information associated with the VoIP terminal, and transmit a location query to one among the VoIP terminal, and a gateway connecting the VoIP terminal to the network proxy. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US07773573B2
A network appliance includes a first media access controller with a first transmit queue storing one or more data packets to be transmitted to a first wireless device. A second media access controller includes a second transmit queue storing one or more data packets to be transmitted to a second wireless device. A baseband processor communicates with the first and the second media access controllers. An arbitration module arbitrates access of the first and second media access controllers to the baseband processor based on whether the first and second transmit queues have data packets to be transmitted to the first and second wireless devices, respectively. When both have data packets to be transmitted, the arbitration module instructs the first or second media access controller to flush any data packets stored in the first or second transmit queue so that transmission of a flushed data packet can be re-tried.
US07773568B2
Inter-station transmission method, radio base station monitoring method, and device using the method
A inter-station transmission method of extending time allocated for a transmission path delay of an inter-station transmission path within a predetermined turnaround time, and increasing an inter-station transmission distance. A radio base station reproduces a clock synchronized with a BSU transmission clock DCLK used when transmitting downlink transmission data from a communication control station. The radio base station processes the downlink transmission data. The clock synchronization eliminates a necessity of data format conversion between the communication control station and the radio base station, a buffer accumulating transmission data in preparation for the conversion is not necessary. This reduces a turnaround time of a mobile communication system. When the inter-station transmission method is applied to dedicated short-range communications, having a fixed turnaround time, a distance between the communication control station and the radio base station can be increased by a distance according to the eliminated delay time.
US07773561B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, that preserves the service quality level of data communications in a radio communication system in which communications are handed off between access points, or other fixed-site entities. Data stuffing operations are performed by a data sequence expander prior to effectuation of hand over period during a service interruption during the handoff of communications of a data, containing the extra data is played out in real time, and the service interruption is less noticeable.
US07773560B2
The invention provides systems, devices, and methods for frequency hopping. In one method embodiment, the invention hops between frequencies by using the same channel to transmit data from a master to a slave, and from the slave to the master. One system embodiment provides an enhanced master coupled to an enhanced slave. In one device embodiment, the invention is a computer readable medium adapted to enable frequency hopping in a frequency band.
US07773558B2
Multi-hop wireless networks have benefits in coverage extension and throughput improvement. In this multi-hop wireless networks, multiple channels are available to improve system performance through concurrent transmission. In this invention, a multi-channel assignment method is described. For efficient utilization of multiple channels considering different channel condition at each node, the multi-channel assignment method is comprising the steps of: a) gathering neighbor relay node information by relaying control messages which include node information, such as the list of neighbor nodes, the preferable channel list of nodes, and the number of available radio interfaces; b) connectivity graph construction, by generating the multi-graph connectivity graph from the gathered node information; c) conflict graph composition, by generating the multi-channel conflict graph which exhibits interference among links from the multi-graph connectivity graph; and d) multi-channel assignment, by allocating channels to links considering channel interference by referring the multi-channel conflict graph using the list coloring algorithm.
US07773557B2
In a mobile communication system with a shared downlink traffic channel, the mobile terminals in contention for the downlink traffic channel report channel conditions to the base stations. The base station schedules the mobile terminals based on channel quality estimates from the mobile terminals and selects a transmitter configuration. The transmitter configuration may comprise, for example, the antenna configuration, and/or power and code allocations used by the base station. The base station broadcasts the transmitter configuration to all active and inactive mobile terminals. Knowledge of the transmitter configuration by the inactive mobile terminals improves the accuracy and reliability of the channel quality estimates.
US07773555B1
Base stations exchange first information with first users over first wireless communication links. A mobile switching center provides mobile telephone service. An Internet access system provides Internet access service. A data system provides a data service. An Ethernet backhaul system uses an Ethernet format to exchange the first information between the first base stations and the mobile switching center, the Internet access system, and the data system. A second base station exchanges second information with second users over second wireless communication links. A first interface is exchanges the second information with the second base station. A second interface exchanges the second information with the first interface over a cable television distribution network. The Ethernet backhaul system uses the Ethernet format to exchange the second information between the second interface and the mobile switching center, the Internet access system, and the data system.
US07773554B2
IIF architectures and corresponding call flows are provided for CDMA2000/GPRS roaming scenarios such as GPRS foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, GPRS foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6, CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Mobile IPv4, and CDMA2000 packet data foreign mode with Simple IPv4 or IPv6.
US07773546B2
A method of receiving data from a first computing device to a second computing device through a network is disclosed. The transfer adheres to a packet-based network protocol. A connection between the first and second computing devices is established according to the protocol. A data packet is received from the first device at the second device, where the data packet includes payload data and a header. A packet header template is defined for acknowledging receipt of the data packet, and the template has static fields filled with static values and variable fields that can acquire packet-dependent values. The header template is stored in a memory device of the second device. Packet-dependent values of the variable fields of the template are updated. An ACK packet that includes a copy of the updated packet header is sent from the first computing device to the second computing device to acknowledge the receipt of the packet.
US07773540B1
A system processes data communications traffic by detecting data communications traffic arriving at a network device for an intended recipient device and determining if the data communications traffic is at least one of initial data communications traffic for a new data communications session, or continuing data communications traffic for an existing data communications session. If the data communications traffic is initial data communications traffic, the system proxy responds to a source of the initial data communications traffic with an expected response that provides an appearance of the existence of an intended recipient device of the initial data communications traffic, regardless if the intended recipient device of the initial data communications traffic actually exists. The system prevents effective use of network probes or scans to identify network devices.
US07773536B2
A system for the assessment of network performance criteria, and applying this criteria to the classification of network addresses into appropriate ranges, using these ranges to consolidate performance measurements for the associated addresses, and applying these metrics toward the optimization of the network towards performance or policy objectives.
US07773535B2
In a wireless communication system, a method and apparatus for closed loop transmission is disclosed. In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a time frequency portion of an uplink frame is dynamically reserved as a sounding zone for uplink channel sounding. A first message is transmitted to a first subscriber station in a downlink frame assigning a time-frequency resource within the sounding zone, and a sounding waveform. Furthermore, a signal is received from the subscriber station within the assigned time-frequency resource, a partial channel response is determined from the received sounding signal, and the subsequent transmission to the subscriber station is tailored based on the at least partial channel response.
US07773531B2
A method for testing a data packet transceiver as a device under test (DUT) by communicating, between one or more test instruments and the DUT, multiple data packets having at least one mutually distinct signal characteristic, such as data packet type, transmission power or transmission frequency.
US07773529B2
A director device arrangement for enabling a plurality of monitoring functions to be performed on data traffic traversing through a network is provided. The arrangement includes a set of network ports for receiving data traffic and outputting the data traffic. The arrangement further includes a set of switch chips, which is configured to include at least a first switch chip and a second switch chip, which are configured to interact with one another to perform the plurality of monitoring functions on the data traffic received by the set of switch chips. The arrangement yet also includes a set of monitoring ports, which is configured to receive at least one of the data traffic traversing through the network. The data traffic is configured to traverse the director device arrangement irrespective whether the power is provided to the circuitry of the director device arrangement.
US07773521B2
A switch including a processor and method for monitoring bandwidth in the storage switch. The switch includes at least one physical port coupling at least one target and at least one initiator via the physical port. The monitoring method may include the steps of determining whether congestion occurs on the physical port and assigning a weight to bandwidth usage between the initiator and the target based on a minimum and maximum bandwidth settings for each target. The switch may further include a step of controlling bandwidth usage by each of said at least two targets based on minimum and maximum bandwidth settings for each of the targets.
US07773511B2
Details of media encoding and decoding devices which support generic homing sequences, and methods for operating such devices are disclosed. The use of generic homing sequences may permit an embodiment of the disclosed invention to support real-time, bit-exact testing of existing and future media encoding and decoding devices. An embodiment of the present invention may permit the initialization of encoding and decoding algorithms to a known state, enabling bit-exact testing of a large group of devices using these algorithms, including those whose specifications do not support such functionality. This capability may permit the full-speed, bit-exact, testing, of both locally and remotely situated media encoders and decoders.
US07773507B1
A traffic selector table for a network switch is populated with one or more entries that each identifies a tiered service. A traffic flow that matches an entry in the table is identified by the switch. The matched traffic flow is redirected to an intrusion prevention device to determine whether the traffic presents a threat to the network. The switch detects a condition in network traffic flowing through the switch. The traffic selector table is dynamically modified in response to the detected condition.
US07773504B2
Bandwidth is allocated among network interfaces of, for example, a switch, router, or server among based on network packet traffic. In one example the network device has a plurality of network interfaces, a performance monitoring unit to monitor buffer events for the network interfaces and to generate an interrupt if a network interface buffer is near an overflow state, and a processor to receive the interrupt and increase a priority of the associated network interface in response thereto.
US07773500B2
A transmitting apparatus and receiving apparatus of a multi-carrier system using multiple antennas is proposed. A linear complex field (LCF) encoder performs linear precoding of input signals to be transmitted using a linear complex matrix based on the number of antennas and the number of subcarriers, and a subcarrier allocator allocates a subcarrier to each precoded signal. A transmitter transmits the signals through the multiple antennas. In a receiving apparatus, a subcarrier de-allocator extracts a linear-precoded signal by de-allocating a subcarrier of the received signal, and an LCF decoder outputs a bit reliability of the received signal based on the number m of antennas and the number n of subcarriers. Performance may be improved by using space diversity using multiple antennas and frequency diversity using OFDMA, and system complexity may be reduced by using a lattice reduction and a 2-branch Chase decoder.
US07773494B2
Provided is an optical disk drive adapter comprising: a first rotating portion disposed at the center of an optical disk drive and installing a turntable on which a standard optical disk is mounted; a second rotating portion disposed beside the first rotating portion and installing a turntable on which a subminiature optical disk is mounted; a force transmitting portion disposed between the first rotating portion and the second rotating portion and transmitting a rotary force between the first rotating portion and the second rotating portion; and a housing supporting the entire optical disk drive adapter so that the first rotating portion, the second rotating portion, and the force transmitting portions can be rotated on their axes while maintaining their overall shape. Accordingly, without an additional subminiature optical disk drive, a subminiature optical disk can be driven using a conventional standard optical disk drive.
US07773483B2
The objects of the present invention are to facilitate the driving of the recording energy source, and to secure sufficient cooling time of the recording medium to promote the high-speed formation of high-precision marks and to provide high-speed and large-capacity information recording apparatuses at a low cost. To achieve the above objects, at the time of information recording, p is chosen as the integer constant for marks natural number k times long of the detection window width by referring to the mark length in the recording data sequence, the recording data sequence is discriminated according to the quotient obtained by and the remainder remaining after dividing k+p by two or more integer constants, and the energy generating means is driven according to different procedures based on the result of discrimination obtained thereby.
US07773481B2
In a recordable optical disc apparatus, the efficiency of the work necessary for optimizing the write pulse condition (write strategy) is improved and the read compatibility among drive units is ensured by a minimum addition of circuitry. An edge shift amount or a read signal and a binarized result are stored in an external memory as digital data and are later processed by analysis software in a host PC. The write pulse shape and power conditions can be optimized to individual optical disc media in a short time by means of a simple circuit. Further, by optimizing the write pulse shape and power condition in view of the PRML class or the difference in NA of the head, any deterioration of read compatibility can be avoided.
US07773470B2
A pickup control device includes a servo system which processes a first signal for error control read from an optical disk to generate a servo control signal. A clock signal is synchronized with the rotation of the optical disk. Two memories store a frequency component at or lower than a predetermined frequency contained in the first signal and a rotational frequency component contained in the first signal. A first adder adds data from the first memory to the first signal and a second adder, in synchronization with the clock signal, data from the memories to generate a second signal. A correction unit writes into the second memory the frequency component or the rotational frequency component and reads data and supplies data to the first adder, and reads and updates data stored in the first memory.
US07773466B2
The invention relates to a tray mechanism consisting of sliding means comprising an electrical tray motor, for moving a tray—provided for containing a disc (for example an optical disc) on which information is recorded—from a projected position, for the placement of the disc or its discharge, to a contained one, for the reproduction of recorded information, or reciprocally, and a drive power source, for supplying an applied voltage to said tray motor. Control means supply different values of the voltage applied to the tray motor according to different mechanical functions controlled by said motor. According to the invention, it is provided, for the tray steering, a motor current feed-forward loop comprising a first direct branch, itself comprising in series a first amplifier of the input voltage applied to the loop, the tray motor and a resistor, and a second branch, itself comprising in series a second amplifier and an adder, which receives on one input the input voltage applied to the loop and on the other one the output of said second amplifier.
US07773465B2
Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to provide for managing data storage media to provide secure storage of the data storage media in an automated data storage library. A logical library partition vault is created in the automated data storage library that is not accessible by any host computer. Data storage media in the logical library partition vault may only be accessed by an operator using a secure means. The logical library partition vault may comprise various components of the automated data storage library by assigning storage shelves, service bays, data storage media, data storage drives or other library components to the logical library partition vault.
US07773459B2
Methods and apparatuses process signals. The method according to one aspect of the present invention receives a first signal; obtains a second signal and a third signal from the first signal, wherein a gain of the second signal is smaller than a gain of the third signal; detects saturation in the third signal; and generates a composite signal from the second signal and the third signal, the step of generating a composite signal including selecting a part of the second signal for the composite signal, when the detecting step detects saturation in the third signal, and selecting a part of the third signal for the composite signal, when the detecting step does not detect saturation in the third signal.
US07773457B2
Systems and methods are provided for acquiring seismic data using a wireless network and a number of individual data acquisition modules that are configured to collect seismic data and forward data to a central recording and control system. In one implementation, a number of remote modules (301) are arranged in lines. Base station modules (302) receive information from the lines and relay the information to a central control and recording system (303). Radio links operating on multiple frequencies (F1-F12) are used by the modules (301). For improved data transfer rate, radio links from a remote module (301) leap past the nearest remote module to the next module closer to the base station.
US07773446B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for thermal regulation of a non-volatile memory IC. The systems and apparatus may include a thermal sensor on a memory IC; and a heating element coupled to the thermal sensor and adapted to heat the memory IC in response to a signal from the thermal sensor. The methods may include sensing a temperature of a memory IC using an integrated thermal sensor on the memory IC and heating the memory IC, using an integrated heating element operatively coupled to the thermal sensor, if the sensed temperature is below a threshold temperature.
US07773441B2
A memory malfunction prediction system and method, such as those that sequentially stress each row of memory cells in an array by decreasing the refresh rate of the row. Prior to doing so, the data stored in the row can be copied to a holding row, and a CRC value for the data can be generated and stored. After the test, the data stored in the row being tested can be read, and a CRC value for the data can then be generated. This after test CRC value can be compared to the stored pre-test CRC value. In the event of a match, the row can be considered to be functioning properly, and the next row can then be tested. If the CRC values do not match, a predicted malfunction of the row can be considered to exist, and corrective action can be taken, such as by repairing the row by substituting a redundant row of memory cells.
US07773439B2
A multi-port memory device includes a plurality ports, a plurality of banks, a plurality of global data buses, first and second I/O controllers, and a test input/output (I/O) controller. The ports perform a serial I/O data transmission. The banks perform a parallel I/O data transmission with the ports. The global data buses are employed for transmitting data between the ports and the banks. The first I/O controller controls a serial data transmission between the ports and external devices. The second I/O controller controls a parallel data transmission between the ports and the global buses. The test I/O controller generates test commands based on a test command/address (C/A) inputted from the external devices and transmits a test I/O data with the global data bus during a test operation mode.
US07773436B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a memory which can efficiently improve a yield by employing a structure which facilitates the use of a spare memory cell. The semiconductor device includes a memory cell array having a memory cell and a spare memory cell, a decoder connected to the memory cell and the spare memory cell, a data holding circuit connected to the decoder, and a battery which supplies electric power to the data holding circuit. The spare memory cell operates in accordance with an output from the data holding circuit.
US07773425B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory that improved a read rate. In a memory cell array in which each memory cell includes two storage areas, thresholds of outer storage areas of two memory cells which are symmetrical with respect to two adjacent bit lines are set so as to create a pair relation between them. A word line selection circuit applies read voltage to a word line to which the two memory cells to be read are connected. A bit line selection circuit applies ground voltage to two bit lines just outside the two memory cells and applies predetermined read voltage to two bit lines inside the two memory cells. A read conversion circuit compares drain currents which run through the two memory cells activated by the word line selection circuit and the bit line selection circuit, and converts the drain currents into data.
US07773423B1
A memory cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor. Gates of the transistors are coupled together to form a floating gate. During programming, a first voltage is applied to a source and a drain of the first transistor, such as a negative voltage (like −5V). This causes electrons from the source and the drain of the first transistor to be injected onto the floating gate. During erasure, a second voltage could be applied to a source and a drain of the second transistor, such as a positive voltage (like +5V). This causes hot holes from the source and the drain of the second transistor to be injected onto the floating gate. The memory cell could also be erased by generating an electric field across a gate oxide of the second transistor, which allows electrons on the floating gate to tunnel through the gate oxide.
US07773422B2
A page buffer for a non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a switch configured to couple a first bitline coupled to a first memory cell to a second bitline coupled to a second memory cell, a first latch block coupled to the first bitline and configured to transfer a first latch data to the first memory cell, and a second latch block coupled to the second bitline and the first latch block, and configured to transfer a second latch data to the second memory cell.
US07773415B2
A flash memory device includes a memory block including word lines arranged between a first selection line and a second selection line, the word lines being divided into a first group and a second group, a control logic configured to determine an activation order of the first and second selection lines and determine first and second read voltages to be supplied to unselected word lines, the control logic determining the activation order according to whether a selected word line belongs to the first group or the second group, and a row selection circuit configured to, during a read operation, drive the unselected word lines with the first and second read voltages, and activate the first and second selection lines, according to the control logic.
US07773413B2
A method for data storage includes programming a first group of analog memory cells at a first time at a known first temperature, so as to cause the analog memory cells in the first group to assume respective first analog storage values. Respective second analog storage values are read from the analog memory cells in the first group at a second time at which the analog memory cells are at a second temperature. A shift is estimated between the first analog storage values and the second analog storage values, and a memory access parameter is adjusted responsively to the estimated shift. A second group of the analog memory cells is accessed at the second temperature using the adjusted memory access parameter.
US07773412B2
A flash memory architecture that provides a mechanism for reducing floating gate to floating gate coupling. The floating gates of the memory cells are shifted, either vertically or horizontally thereby offsetting the floating gates of the memory cells to an intervening space between the gates of adjacent memory cells. The shift of the floating gates decreases the floating gate to floating gate coupling.
US07773409B2
A writing method for a phase change memory is disclosed. The writing method inputs a first writing pulse signal to a phase change memory to heat the phase change memory to above a first temperature and inputting a second writing pulse signal to the phase change memory to keep the phase change memory at a second temperature.
US07773408B2
Ferromagnetic layers have magnetizations oriented to such directions as to cancel each other, so that the net magnetization of the ferromagnetic layers is substantially zero. That is, the ferromagnetic layers are exchange-coupled with a nonmagnetic layer interposed therebetween, thereby forming an SAF structure. Since the net magnetization of the ferromagnetic layers forming the SAF structure is substantially zero, the magnetization of a recording layer is determined by the magnetization of a ferromagnetic layer. Therefore, the ferromagnetic layer is made of a CoFeB alloy having high uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, and the ferromagnetic layers are made of a CoFe alloy having a high exchange-coupling force.
US07773404B2
Optical and optoelectronic devices and methods of making same. Under one aspect, an optical device includes an integrated circuit an array of conductive regions; and an optically sensitive material over at least a portion of the integrated circuit and in electrical communication with at least one conductive region of the array of conductive regions. Under another aspect, a method of forming a nanocrystalline film includes fabricating a plurality of nanocrystals having a plurality of first ligands attached to their outer surfaces; exchanging the first ligands for second ligands of different chemical composition than the first ligands; forming a film of the ligand-exchanged nanocrystals; removing the second ligands; and fusing the cores of adjacent nanocrystals in the film to form an electrical network of fused nanocrystals. Under another aspect, a film includes a network of fused nanocrystals, the nanocrystals having a core and an outer surface, wherein the core of at least a portion of the fused nanocrystals is in direct physical contact and electrical communication with the core of at least one adjacent fused nanocrystal, and wherein the film has substantially no defect states in the regions where the cores of the nanocrystals are fused.
US07773401B2
A semiconductor device is provided to have two groups of nonvolatile memory cells, two groups of data registers and a compare circuit. Each of the two groups of the nonvolatile memory cells stores a set of predetermined data and a set of complementary data respectively. The two groups of data registers are respectively connected to the two groups of the nonvolatile memory cells. The compare circuit is connected to the two groups of the data registers, for performing a comparison to generate a compare result.
US07773382B2
An apparatus and method for supporting a plurality of components, at least one of which is a heat-generating electrical device such as a power semiconductor device, are disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a first structure having a first surface on one side of the structure configured for interfacing a first of the plurality of components and a second surface on another side of the structure, and also includes a second structure capable of receiving the first structure, where one of the second surface and an additional surface of the second structure includes a tip that is in contact with the other of those surfaces. The apparatus further includes at least one component configured to assist in retaining the first and second structures relative to one another, where notwithstanding the at least one component the first structure is capable of pivoting relative to the second structure about the tip.
US07773377B2
An integrated personal information management system is described. In one embodiment, for example, an integrated personal information management system is described that comprises: a receptacle holding at least one paper page that is capable of receiving pen strokes from a digital pen; a digital pen for recording pen strokes when a user writes on a particular paper page; a page identifier for identifying the particular paper page on which the user is writing; and a handheld personal information device in communication with the digital pen and page identifier for processing the recorded pen strokes associated with the particular paper page and displaying the processing results on a display screen.
US07773372B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display has an increased mechanical strength by improving the shape of a bezel combined to a panel assembly. The OLED display includes a panel assembly having a display area and a pad area, and a bezel accommodating the panel assembly. The bezel includes a bottom part on which the panel assembly is mounted, a side wall provided on a side of the bezel, and a hemming flange provided at another side of the bezel on which the side wall is not provided. The panel assembly is mounted in a manner that the pad area is turned towards the another side.
US07773371B2
The present invention is a computer controlled display device. In one embodiment, the display device includes a flat panel display having an input for receiving display data. Additionally, a moveable assembly may be coupled to the display. The moveable assembly may provide at least three degrees of freedom of movement for the flat panel display device. Additionally, the moveable assembly may have a cross-sectional area, which is substantially less than a cross-sectional area of a display structure of the flat panel display.
US07773369B2
A cooling arrangement is disclosed for electrical components which are arranged in a housing of a soft starter which in particular may be designed for operation of an electric motor. In at least one embodiment, the cooling arrangement includes at least one fan arranged inclined in an opening in a housing wall such that the rotation axis of the fan is at an angle to the normal to the housing wall.
US07773367B1
A capacitor and a method for assembling a capacitor. A capacitor is assembled from a case, which contains an anode that is electrically coupled to the case and defines wells or slots receiving a plurality of cathode plates. A header is placed on the case. The header also supports a glass seal that insulates the lead tube and cathode lead coming from the cathode. Once assembled, the capacitor is filled with electrolyte. A weld extends around the header to secure the header to the case. A bent cathode configuration enables a plurality of cathode plates electrically coupled together from a common cathode plate.
US07773357B2
An auto-detecting input circuit is operative to sustain relatively high voltages applied to an input pad and generate corresponding signal levels at a native supply voltage range. The input circuit includes floating wells, corresponding bias selectors, and input biasing transistors to ensure that no gate oxide exposed to external voltages sustains a voltage greater than a predefined value. Bias selectors select an available highest voltage to reverse bias corresponding floating wells and ensure transistors are not electrically overstressed. As input-related terminals experience switching related voltages, the bias selectors select alternate terminals to continue selection of the highest voltage available and provide correct reverse biasing conditions. A resistor and clamp generate translated output voltage levels limited to the native supply voltage range. A latch is triggered by a first input signal excursion above the native supply voltage. The latch output enables pull-down transistors to provide a correct low-level output signal.
US07773340B2
A thin-film magnetic recording head utilizing a timing based servo pattern is fabricated by sputtering a magnetically permeable thin film onto a substrate. A gap pattern, preferably a timing based pattern, is defined by the thin film. The gap pattern includes termination patterns or endpoints that are elliptical or diamond-shaped.
US07773331B2
The optimum head-field intensity for saturation recording is assumed to be 560×103 A/m or more. Under a condition where the recording track width of an information recording medium is equal to or less than 60 nm, the optimum head-field intensity Y satisfies the following inequalities (1) and (2): Y≧(X2−119×X+4135)×1000 (1) Y≦(X2−119×X+const)×1000 (2) where X denotes the nondimensional value of the recording track width divided by 10−9 m, and Y denotes a magnetic field (expressed in units of A/m) which a magnetic pole for head-field application applies to the center of the information recording medium in the direction of the thickness thereof. Note that const=−0.8×v2+33.7×v+4250 if the relative velocity v between the head and the medium at the position of the head is less than 20 m/sec, or const=4600 if the velocity v is equal to or more than 20 m/sec.
US07773327B2
Frequency error combination for a multi-channel data detection system with a phase locked loop for each channel, comprises receiving frequency error information with respect to each channel; combination logic configured to combine the received frequency error information and generate a combined phase error, weighting the received frequency error information from each channel; and a frequency error output configured to apply the combined frequency error to at least one channel phase locked loop.
US07773318B2
An objective optical system for endoscopes is characterized by comprising, in order from its object side, a stop, a first lens and a second lens. The first lens comprises a positive meniscus lens concave on its object side and the second lens comprises a positive lens convex on its object side. The following conditions (1), (2), (3) and (4) are satisfied: −1.2
US07773317B2
A lens system comprising an inner lens structure and an outer lens structure. The inner lens structure comprises an inner positive lens, a first transparent substrate and an inner negative lens. The outer lens structure comprises an outer positive lens, a second transparent substrate and an outer negative lens.
US07773314B2
A laser diode/pre-scan assembly associated with a printhead for a laser printer is presented. The laser diode/pre-scan assembly includes a pair of collimation lenses that are de-centered from the axes of a pair of laser beams to direct the pair of beams inwardly in a process direction and into a single pre-scan lens. A corresponding method of constructing a laser diode/pre-scan assembly for a laser printer is also presented.
US07773312B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group of negative refracting power, a second lens group of positive refracting power and a third lens group of positive refracting power, wherein the first and second lens groups are configured to move during a zooming operation, and wherein a focal length of the whole system at a wide-angle end, a focal length of the whole system at a telephoto end, focal lengths of the first, second, and third lens groups, the lateral magnification of the second lens group at the wide-angle end, and the lateral magnification of the second lens group at the telephoto end are appropriately set to assure a zoom lens which is small in the lens whole system size and which provides good optical performance throughout the whole zoom range.
US07773305B2
A wide-angle lens is disclosed that includes a front lens group and a rear lens group that are arranged in order from an object side to an image side with an aperture being arranged between the front lens group and the rear lens group. The front lens group includes at least two lenses arranged toward the object side that have negative powers, and at least one lens arranged toward the image side that has a positive power. The rear lens group includes at least one lens having a positive power. One of the lenses of the front lens group arranged second in order from the object side has a lens face that is arranged into an aspheric surface. The front lens group, the aperture, and the rear lens group make up an image forming system having an angle of view greater than 180 degrees.
US07773298B2
A portable screen assembly includes: a casing having an opening extending in a longitudinal direction on the upper surface thereof, and formed by a pair of separable case members that extend in the longitudinal direction; a spring-biased roll rotatably mounted in the casing; a screen wound around the spring-biased roll in a storage position and extended from the opening in use; a top bar fixed to one end of the screen which is used as a cover body to close the opening in the storage position; and an extendable column having one end erectably pivoted from a center part of a side face of the casing to hold the screen in a stretched state.
US07773294B2
There is provided a parabolic pulse amplifier for amplifying a pulse light signal. The amplifier comprises an ytterbium-doped amplification waveguide pumped using a pump source with a pump central wavelength substantially offset from the absorption transition peak wavelength. The pump wavelength is selected such that the absorption coefficient of pump light and the gain coefficient of the signal are substantially equal in the amplification waveguide such that the amplification gain is distributed substantially uniformly along the amplification waveguide.
US07773291B2
A light filter or an array of filters can be either one or two dimensional. The filter or filters use multiple beam interference by varying an optical path length between semi-reflective surfaces. The optical path length between the semi-reflective surfaces is varied by changing a thickness of a polymer film in response to an electric field formed between two semi-transparent electrodes. The filter can be configured in either a transmissive or reflective mode.
US07773281B2
A beam irradiation apparatus includes: an optical element which changes a travel direction of a laser beam by being rotated in a predetermined direction; an actuator which rotates the optical element in the direction; a refractive element which is disposed in the actuator and rotates in association with rotation of the optical element; a servo beam source which emits a servo beam to the refractive element; a photodetector which receives the servo beam refracted by the refractive element and outputs a signal according to a position where the servo beam is received; and a power adjustment circuit which adjusts emission power of the servo beam source. The power adjustment circuit adjusts the emission power so that a reception amount of the servo beam in the photodetector becomes constant based on an output signal from the photodetector.
US07773277B2
A light refracting element formed in parallel plate shape is attached to a support shaft of a mirror holder, a semiconductor laser and a PSD are disposed at positions between which the light refracting element is sandwiched. The light refracting element is rotated by rotation of the mirror holder, and whereby a laser beam irradiation position is changed on a light acceptance surface of PSD. The laser beam irradiation position on a light acceptance surface corresponds to the mirror rotation position, so that the mirror rotation position and a laser beam scanning position in a target area can be detected based on an output from the PSD.
US07773270B2
Systems are disclosed for detecting an unwanted artifact in an image scanner. An exemplary system includes a treated component of the image scanner, the treated component treated such that light reflects differently from the treated component than light reflected by an image being scanned by the image scanner. The light reflected from the treated component facilitates detection and removal of the unwanted artifact in the image being scanned, the unwanted artifact caused by the light reflected by the treated component.
US07773269B2
A scanner capable of being folded and unfolded, the scanner including a first unit having a first scanning unit which scans a document; a second unit which is rotatably disposed to the first unit, and having a second scanning unit which moves between a folded position in which the second scanning unit faces the first scanning unit, and an unfolded position in which the second scanning unit is unfolded from the folded position; and a moving unit which moves at least one of the first scanning unit and the second scanning unit in at least one of a focus adjusting direction and a transverse direction according to a transport direction of the document.
US07773264B2
The invention discloses an apparatus for converting gray scale. The apparatus includes a receiving module, an encoding module, and a decoding module. The receiving module is used for receiving an input image, wherein the input image has an N-bit first gray level. The encoding module is used for selectively calculating a first color level based on both M higher bits and T lower bits of the first gray level, and then calculating a second color level and a third color level based on M higher bits of the first gray level. The decoding module is used for converting the first, second, and third color levels into an N-bit second gray level by using a gray scale conversion formula.
US07773263B2
A multimedia pen having a plurality of modular components with male and/or female connectors linkable via a four wire serial bus. The pen includes a camera module having an image sensor for capturing an image in an RGB (red, green, blue) color space, along with a central processing module arranged in communication with the camera module, the central processing module having a central processing unit with program memory for storing program steps for execution by the central processing unit to operate the camera module, along with image storage memory for storing the captured image. The pen also includes an image processing module arranged in communication with the image storage memory, the image processing module configured to dynamically convert the stored image from a L*a*b* color space to a CMY color space. Finally, the pen has a printer module having a drop-on-demand inkjet printhead operatively producing bi-level dots for printing the CMY image on business card-sized media fed through the printer module.
US07773262B2
An image rendering method includes the following steps. Firstly, a source image is provided. Then, raster operations (ROPs) are performed on the source image by a first bit operating engine to obtain ROP values, and the source image are divided into at least one first region and at least one second region. Then, a first operation is performed on the first region by the first bit operating engine and a render process is executed, thereby generating first bit image data. Then, a second operation is performed on the second region by a second bit operating engine and a render process is executed, thereby generating second bit image data. Afterwards, the second bit image data of the second region are converted into first bit image data of the second region according to a screening table between the first bit operating engine and the second bit operating engine.
US07773254B2
A method and system reconstructs a contone image from a binary image by first tagging pixels to identify one of a multiplicity of image content types. The tag information and the pattern of bits surrounding the pixel to be converted to a contone value are used to reconstruct a contone image from a binary image. The pattern of bits in the neighborhood is used to generate a unique identifier. The unique identifier is used as the address for a lookup table with the contone value to be used wherein each lookup table corresponds to an image context type.
US07773240B2
Image forming devices and methods of assisting with maintenance of image forming device consumables are described. According to one aspect, an image forming device includes: an image engine configured to utilize a consumable to form hard images; an interface adapted to communicate with a network comprising a plurality of network devices external of the image forming device; and processing circuitry coupled with the image engine and configured to forward a search request to the interface for communication to the network, to receive information regarding the consumable from the plurality of network devices via the interface responsive to the search request, to generate a message including information received from at least one of the network devices, and to control communication of the message.
US07773238B2
An image forming apparatus to reduce time required for printing consecutive pages of printing data and an image forming method thereof. The apparatus includes a data processing unit for performing a pre-printing process of received printing data in single page units. A printing unit for printing a first page and performing an after-printing process when there is not a second page or when the pre-printing process of the second page is not complete. A controlling unit for controlling the printing unit to end the after-printing process for the first page when the pre-printing process of the second page is complete.
US07773237B2
An image forming apparatus includes a communicating unit (123) that performs communication with an external apparatus (200), a recording unit (97) that stores image information, an image processing unit (96) that performs image processing, and a control unit (91) that performs control to secure the image processing unit from the external apparatus via the communicating unit, when a request signal for performing processing of the image information is received, if the image processing unit can be secured, convert a file format by expanding the image information and compressing the image information again using the image processing unit secured and transfer the image information converted via the communicating unit, and, if the image processing unit cannot be secured, transmit an indication that the image processing unit cannot be secured and the image information before the conversion to the external apparatus via the communicating unit.
US07773236B2
An image forming processing circuit and an image forming apparatus having a clock stop function of the invention perform, in an image forming processing process, supply of a clock for processing only in a period in which the clock is required and stop the supply of the clock for processing in a period in which the clock for processing is not required. An ASIC itself realizes a low power consumption function (a clock stop function) without requiring control from a CPU or the like as in the conventional sleep function. Thus, it is possible to effectively reduce power consumption of the ASIC compared with that in the past.
US07773233B2
A measurement method of measuring a wavefront aberration of an optical system to be measured, comprising a first measurement step of measuring wavefronts of the optical system to be measured with respect to linearly polarized light beams along at least three different azimuths, a first calculation step of calculating a wavefront of the optical system to be measured with respect to non-polarized light and a birefringent characteristic of the optical system to be measured, based on the wavefronts of the optical system to be measured, which are measured in the first measurement step, and a second calculation step of calculating a wavefront of the optical system to be measured with respect to arbitrary polarized light, based on the wavefront and the birefringent characteristic of the optical system to be measured, which are calculated in the first calculation step.
US07773227B2
An optofluidic microscope device is disclosed. The device includes a fluid channel having a surface and an object such as a bacterium or virus may flow through the fluid channel. Light imaging elements in the bottom of the fluid channel may be used to image the object.
US07773223B2
An image scanning apparatus has an organic CMOS image sensor mounted in a base, and a photoreceptive surface of the image sensor is exposed on a top side of the base. A subject is placed directly on the photoreceptive surface, and the subject and the photoreceptive surface are covered up with a cover light-tightly. Thus the image sensor detects only chemiluminescent light from the subject. As for a fluorochrome-labeled subject, the subject placed directly on the photoreceptive surface is irradiated with excitation light from a light source mounted in the cover. The image sensor is provided with a filter for blocking the excitation light from its photoelectric conversion layers, so the image sensor detects only fluorescent rays generated from the excited fluorochrome-labeled subject. The image scanning apparatus needs no redundant space in perpendicular direction to the photoreceptive surface.
US07773221B2
A color measurement device designed for use at various stages of an industrial process is provided. The device offers enhanced insensitivity to ambient light, measurement depth variations, and/or ambient or environmental temperature variations. The device may be embodied as an LED-based, non-contact color measurement spectrophotometer. Over-illumination in full-spectrum of the target object facilitates effective color measurements over varying depths of view. Collected light is measured at discrete wavelengths across the entire visual spectrum. The hardened, rugged design and packaging of the measurement device allows color measurement to be performed at various stages of industrial processes wherein the device can add value by enabling enhanced detection of color errors.
US07773209B2
Improved method and apparatus for machine vision. One embodiment provides automated imaging and analysis, optionally including Scheimpflug's condition on the pattern projector, telecentric imaging and projecting, an IR filter, a mask to constrain observed illumination, and/or a sine-wave projection pattern for more accurate results. Another embodiment provides circuitry for a machine-vision system. Another embodiment provides a machine-vision system, optionally including accommodation of random orientation of parts in trays, irregular location of features being inspected, crossed pattern projectors and detectors for shadow reduction, detection of substrate warpage as well as ball-top coplanarity, two discrete shutters (or flash brightnesses) interleaved (long shutter for dark features, short shutter for bright features). Another embodiment provides parts inspection, optionally including a tray elevator that lifts trays to an inspection surface, moves trays in short tray dimension, provides first tray inspection at a major surface of the elevator, and/or provides a tray flipper.
US07773205B2
A three-dimensional imaging radar operating at high frequency e.g., 670 GHz, is disclosed. The active target illumination inherent in radar solves the problem of low signal power and narrow-band detection by using submillimeter heterodyne mixer receivers. A submillimeter imaging radar may use low phase-noise synthesizers and a fast chirper to generate a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) waveform. Three-dimensional images are generated through range information derived for each pixel scanned over a target. A peak finding algorithm may be used in processing for each pixel to differentiate material layers of the target. Improved focusing is achieved through a compensation signal sampled from a point source calibration target and applied to received signals from active targets prior to FFT-based range compression to extract and display high-resolution target images. Such an imaging radar has particular application in detecting concealed weapons or contraband.
US07773204B1
Spatial encoding of a search space is achieved by an array of radiation or acoustic energy detectors receiving data from at least one radiation or energy source. At least one radiation source capable of providing a predetermined type of radiation is used. The radiation may be in the form of a plurality of beams arrayed along at least one directional axis, and arranged in successive alignment to exhibit a directional component. The directional component is characterized by a frequency variance between successive beams in accordance with direction and disposed so radiation therefrom propagates within the search space. At least one radiation detector capable of detecting the radiation is provided, and is disposed to detect at least that type of radiation.
US07773203B2
A distance-measuring apparatus is disclosed. The distance-measuring apparatus includes: an emitter, emitting a light to be measured toward a target, a receiver, receiving a reflected emitted light; a reflector, reflecting the emitted light to the receiver; a condensing lens, condensing the reflected emitted light, reflected by the target to the reflector; a driving module, adjusting the inclination angle of the reflector; and a control unit, controlling the driving module to rotate according to a result of comparing the intensity of the emitted light received by the receiver and a predetermined value.
US07773200B2
The present subject matter include methods and apparatus for creating three dimensional digitized models of at least one ear impression, the apparatus comprising a frame, a linear axis mounted to the frame, the linear axis having an axis of motion, a first spindle axis mounted to the frame, the spindle axis having an axis of rotation, wherein the axis of rotation of the first spindle axis is parallel to the axis of motion of the linear axis, a first scanner mounted to the linear axis, the scanner includes a laser for projecting a narrowly localized spot of laser light at a target mounted on the first spindle axis and a sensor array for receiving at least a portion of the laser light reflected from the target and a controller configured to communicate with the first scanner.
US07773189B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided that includes a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with a liquid crystal therebetween, and columnar spacers that are substantially equal in height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of the pair of substrates, where the columnar spacers include a first columnar spacer which is in contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate of the pair of substrates and a second columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of that other substrate.
US07773180B2
A liquid crystal display and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed, which can yield maximum liquid crystal efficiency from all areas within the pixels by orienting the liquid crystals in a manner that the liquid crystals are twisted by 90° in an area above the electrodes and twisted by 180° in an area in-between the electrodes. The liquid crystal display device includes, a pixel electrode insulated from a counter electrode having a plurality of slits on a first substrate, a second substrate facing into and adhered to the first substrate and having a liquid crystal layer formed therebetween, and an orientation layer formed on each inner surface of the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein one orientation layer is oriented to be twisted by 90° from above the pixel electrode and the other orientation layer is oriented to be twisted by 180° from above the slit.
US07773179B2
First rubbing is performed on an entire surface of an alignment film provided on a substrate, and then a mask part for masking a first region and a region of an alignment mark is formed on the alignment film by using a resist layer. After performing second rubbing on the alignment film through the mask part, the mask part is removed, and a liquid crystal layer is formed on the alignment film. In this way, the alignment mark is formed as a region having an optical function different from an optical function of a region surrounding the alignment mark. Thus, it is possible to produce a substrate having an alignment mark formed without increasing processing steps at such a position as to contact the liquid crystal layer.
US07773175B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first color filter pixel and a second color filter pixel. The substrate includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region adjacent to the first pixel region for displaying an image. The first color filter pixel is formed in the first pixel region to change a white light into a colored light. The first color filter pixel includes a first color layer, and a second color layer on the first color layer. The second color filter pixel is formed in the second pixel region.
US07773172B2
A method and apparatus is provided for selectively attenuating narrowband high intensity bright sources from an incoming light source in an imaging system creating a focal plane array. The method comprises receiving and conditioning incoming light in a at least one group of optics; receiving the into a line attenuation tunable optical filter (LATOF) which creates a rejection band; tilting the LATOF at least one increment to selectively attenuate the bright sources from the receive conditioned light; receiving the conditioned light and selectively attenuated light into an opto-electronic detector; and converting the light into an output for an electronic image, wherein saturation of the focal plane array decreases and contrast is restored in the electronic image.
US07773168B2
A liquid crystal display includes an insulating substrate, a semiconductor, a gate insulating layer, a gate line, an interlayer insulating layer, a data line, a drain electrode, a passivation layer, and a pixel electrode. The semiconductor is formed on the insulating substrate and includes source, drain, and channel regions. The gate line is formed on the gate insulating layer over the semiconductor, and overlaps the channel region thereof. The data line is formed on the interlayer insulating layer and has a source electrode electrically connected to the source region and a drain electrode electrically connected to the drain region. The passivation layer is formed on the data line and drain electrode. The pixel electrode is formed on the passivation layer, and electrically connected to the drain electrode. The data line overlaps the drain region.
US07773165B2
The liquid crystal display includes a thin film transistor (TFT) panel including a pixel electrode in a rectangular shape having a transverse length longer than a longitudinal length, the pixel electrode including a first domain divider and having upper and lower half portions arranged symmetrically with respect to a transverse long axis passing through a center of the pixel electrode, a common electrode panel including a common electrode facing the pixel electrode, the common electrode including a second domain divider arranged parallel with the first domain divider, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the TFT panel and the common electrode panel.
US07773162B2
There is described a signing film wherein provided on a background of the signing film is a decorative printing which forms a security feature and which fluoresces when viewed under UV light. So that the decorative printing which fluoresces under UV light is not to be perceived when viewing the surface of the signing film at different viewing angles in ambient light, it is proposed that the background of the signing film has at least two background layers and between them the decorative printing comprising a lacquer which contains a high-viscosity binding agent and is mixed with pigments which fluoresce under UV light, so that after the printing operation and the drying operation it is of a small layer thickness as a consequence of the high viscosity.
US07773159B2
Systems for switching a displayed signal for a display between a plurality of signals are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a microcontroller; a chooser for choosing a primary signal from a plurality of program-variable signals at the microcontroller; a monitor tuner coupled to the microcontroller for tuning the primary signal during switching of the displayed signal from the primary signal to a secondary signal; a detector coupled to the monitor tuner and the microcontroller for detecting a predetermined condition in the primary signal; and a selector coupled to the microcontroller for switching the displayed signal from the secondary signal to the primary signal upon occurrence of the predetermined condition. A user can switch between signals such as television channels or other dedicated functions without the risk of missing a portion of the program material.
US07773146B2
A focus control apparatus includes a signal generator for generating a first signal in accordance with a predetermined frequency component of an image signal obtained by photoelectrically converting an image of a subject formed by an image-taking optical system, a detector for detecting a second signal different from the first signal, and a controller for detecting a movement of the subject based on the second signal and for switching driving of the image-taking optical system based on the detection, wherein the controller controls driving of the image-taking optical system based on the first signal.
US07773141B2
A monitor control apparatus is provided in an optical device, such as a digital camera. A brightness control processor controls a brightness of a monitor of the optical device. A detecting processor detects an amount of change of an image sensed by an imaging sensor mounted in the optical device. The brightness control processor has an economy mode, in which the brightness is decreased when the amount of change is greater than a threshold value.
US07773140B2
A stereo image pickup apparatus having a plurality of image pickup units, an input selection unit for executing a selection processing of an input signal, a sensor driving signal generation unit for driving the image pickup units, and a camera signal processing unit for executing camera signal processing of output data of the image pickup units. The plural image pickup units simultaneously execute exposure and the sensor driving signal generation unit executes mask control of the driving signal and makes different the output timing of the image pickup data from the image pickup unit. The camera signal processing of the image data outputted from the image pickup units can be carried out by a smaller number of camera signal processing units than the image pickup units.
US07773124B2
A modular multimedia pen has a camera module and a printer module. The camera module has an image sensor and a central processing unit. The central processing unit has program memory, image storage memory and an image processing unit for transforming the captured image into an L*a*b* format for printing by the printer module.
US07773111B2
An embodiment of the present invention provide a system for measuring and modifying at least one model parameter of an object of an image in order to distinguish the object from noise in the image includes a perceived image generator, an image-match function, and a parameter adjustment function. The perceived image generator produces a first perceived image of the object based on the at least one model parameter. The image-match function compares the first perceived image with a real image of the object. The parameter adjustment function adjusts the at least one model parameter so that the perceived image generator produces a second perceived image of the object that more closely matches the real image than the first perceived image.
US07773108B2
A view morphing algorithm is applied to synchronous collections of video images from at least two video imaging devices, and interpolating between the images, creates a composite image view of the local participant. This composite image approximates what might be seen from a point between the video imaging devices, presenting the image to other video session participants.
US07773107B2
The present invention relates to an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface) system, and more particularly, to a method for setting mute flag in connection with transmission of audio data and auxiliary data transmitted through HDMI system, and an HDMI system using the same method.
US07773105B2
A display method and a display device capable of performing light emission control without the need for an external light sensor are provided. The display device uses the display pixel to detect the external light. A panel drive current that is a sum of drive currents flowing into the red, green and blue pixels is detected. The panel drive current and a set current value that has been previously set are compared with each other. When the panel drive current is equal to or higher than the set current in a standard luminance display mode, the standard luminance display mode is switched to a high luminance display mode. When the panel drive current is lower than the set current value, the high luminance display mode is switched to the standard luminance display mode.
US07773092B1
The current invention involves new systems and methods for increasing texture filtering performance based on pixel coverage. When half of the pixels in a 2×2 pixel quad are not covered, texel coordinates for the uncovered pixels are not output. Therefore, the texels for the uncovered pixels are not read or processed, allowing the texel filtering processing throughput to be used to produce filtered results for covered pixels. This optimization is particularly useful when anisotropic filtering is used since the number of texels needed to produce a filtered result for a pixel increases as the anisotropic ratio increases. Elimination of unnecessary texel processing for uncovered pixels may improve texture filtering performance.
US07773091B2
A method for simulating the appearance of at least one fringe of lashes may include generating, based on at least one value of at least one simulation parameter that is modifiable by a user, at least one 3D image of the at least one fringe of lashes. The at least one 3D image may be generated from a multizone simulation of the fringe. The multizone simulation may allow the user to define values of simulation parameters specific to at least two different zones of the at least one fringe of lashes.
US07773088B2
Methods, systems, apparatus and computer software/computer code products operable to enable computer graphics systems to simulate Markov chains (and thus trajectories of photons and the like) comprise simulating, and/or means for simulating, Markov chains using a quasi-Monte Carlo methodology, wherein the simulating of Markov chains comprises sorting states, and wherein the sorting comprises proximity sorting.
US07773087B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus to determine a coordinate system to use when traversing rays through a portion of a spatial index corresponding to a dynamic object which has a unique object coordinate system. An image processing system may take into consideration a number of factors including, but not limited to, a distance form a viewpoint to the dynamic object, a distance from the origin of the world coordinate system to the object coordinate system, a rate of traversal of the dynamic object, and a number of primitives which make up the object. These factors alone or together may indicate whether it is more efficient to perform ray intersection tests in an object coordinate system or in a world coordinate system. Embodiments of the invention may update a spatial index according to the selected coordinate system.
US07773086B2
Rendering with a punching mask is performed without voxelization. A plurality of sub-volumes are identified as a function of the punching mask. The sub-volumes are generally layered in range. Each sub-volume is rendered separately or independently. The renderings from multiple passes or sub-volumes are composited together.
US07773083B2
An active matrix display device includes: a plurality of pixels that are disposed in a matrix; a plurality of image signal lines that are disposed to correspond to respective columns of the pixels; a plurality of scanning signal lines that are disposed to correspond to respective rows of the pixels; an image signal line driving unit that supplies image signals for driving the pixels to the image signal lines; and a timing control circuit that transmits an image display control signal to the image signal line driving unit with a predetermined cycle even during a vertical blanking period. The timing control circuit performs a control operation allows the image signal line driving unit to intermit a read operation of image display data during the first period that is defined within the vertical blanking period and that includes at least a second half of the vertical blanking period.
US07773081B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the efficiency of a fluorescent lamp suitable for use as a backlight in an avionics or other liquid crystal display (LCD). The apparatus includes a channel configured confine a vaporous material that produces an ultra-violet light when electrically excited. A first electrode and a second electrode assembly disposed within the channel and configured to apply an electrical potential across at least a portion of the channel to electrically excite the vaporous material. Control circuitry is configured to provide control signals to the first and second electrodes to apply the electrical potential in a manner that produces a mean electron energy that substantially maximizes probabilities of collisions between electrons and particles that that produce more emissions in the light-producing channel having wavelengths substantially less than 400 nm than emissions having wavelengths greater than 800 nm.
US07773076B2
Motion of a writing instrument is tracked from sensors located in the vicinity. The signals generated from the sensors are processed and used in a wide variety of ways.
US07773068B2
In order to improve accuracy in determining whether or not an object touches a display screen, a display device includes a display unit and a processor. The display unit includes an image display unit which displays an image on a display screen, an optical input unit which picks up an image of an object adjacent to the display screen and a capacitive coupling detector which detects a capacitive coupling to the object adjacent to the display screen. The processor determines that the object touches the display screen by using, and concurrently calculates the coordinates touched by the object by using the capacitive coupling detected by the capacitive coupling detector, and the image picked up by the optical input unit.
US07773065B2
A black insertion dimming PWM generation portion (32) outputs a black insertion PWM pulse VBL to drive a fluorescent lamp (43) in such a manner that a black insertion period during which the fluorescent lamp (43) is lit OFF and a light-ON period during which the fluorescent lamp (43) is lit ON are provided within one vertical period. A luminance dimming PWM generation portion (31) outputs a dimming PWM pulse Vpwm1 to PWM-drive the fluorescent lamp (43) so as to be lit ON and lit OFF repetitively during the light-ON period. An AND circuit (33) outputs an inverter driving signal Vout1 generated by superimposing the dimming PWM pulse Vpwm1 and the black insertion PWM pulse VBL. An inverter (42) drives the fluorescent lamp (43) by applying a voltage corresponding to the inverter driving signal Vout1 to the fluorescent lamp (43).
US07773060B2
A method, medium, and apparatus compensating for differences in the persistence of phosphors in a display panel. The method of compensating for differences in persistence of phosphors in a display panel, having two or more light-emitting elements with different response characteristics, may include compensating for the response time of a first light-emitting element that represents the longest response time, selecting data response time for a second light-emitting element, which is different from the longest response time, and compensating for the differences in the persistence of phosphors due to a difference between the response times of the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element by compensating for the selected video data based on the compensated video data for the first light-emitting element.
US07773051B2
A display apparatus driving circuitry for driving a plasma display panel. A first transistor is electrically connected between an output terminal and a high-voltage power supply terminal. A second transistor is connected between the output terminal and a reference power supply terminal. A buffer circuit supplies a voltage lower than a low voltage VDL for logic to a gate of the second transistor to make a drop in an output waveform gradual during an address electrical discharge. In a preferred embodiment, during this drop in the output waveform, a p-channel type MOSFET of the buffer circuit is turned on, whereby the VDL is suppressed due to a back gate effect. Therefore, a signal at a potential lower than the VDL is inputted to the gate of the second transistor. As a result, the drop in the second transistor output waveform is gradual, so that noise and damage are prevented.
US07773043B1
A Variable Aspect Ratio Tapered Slot Antenna For Increased Directivity And Gain (NC#98102). The apparatus includes a tapered slot antenna having a length and a height, and having an aspect ratio greater than or equal to 2.5. The tapered slot antenna includes a first antenna element comprising conductive material and configured to receive and transmit RF signals; and a second antenna element comprising conductive material, operatively coupled to said first antenna element, configured to receive and transmit RF signals.
US07773042B2
Provided is a conical scanning antenna system using a nutation method. The conical scanning antenna system includes: a main reflecting unit; a sub-reflecting unit which is disposed apart from the main reflecting unit by a predetermined distance and performing a conical scanning tracking by using the nutation method; and a feeding horn which doubly reflects electromagnetic wave inputted and radiated by the main reflecting unit and the sub-reflecting unit and inputs and outputs the electromagnetic wave by electrically steering beams.
US07773038B2
Electronic devices may be provided with sensors for determining the presence and position of extendable and removable antennas. The antennas may extend by rotating about an axis, by reciprocating along their length, or by flexing from a retracted position to an extended position. The electronic device may determine when a removable antenna is attached or detached using signals from the sensors. The electronic device may determine the extent to which an antenna has been extended using signals from the sensors. The electronic device may control the operation of a radio-frequency transceiver that is coupled to the antenna based on signals from the sensors. The electronic device may turn the transceiver off when the antenna is retracted or removed. When the antenna is partially extended, the electronic device may place the transceiver in a low-power mode or place a dual-band transceiver into a single-band mode.
US07773037B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus including a main body to be detachably docked with an external apparatus including a first antenna and a first radio communication unit which performs radio communication by using the first antenna, a second antenna provided in the main body, a third antenna provided in a predetermined position in the main body, which is closer to the first antenna than to the second antenna, when the main body is docked with the external apparatus, and a second radio communication unit which is provided in the main body, and communicates by radio with the external apparatus by using the third antenna, when the main body is docked with the external apparatus.
US07773032B2
A method and apparatus for a simplified approach for determining the output of a total covariance signal processor. A single set of offline calculations is performed and then used to estimate the output of the total covariance signal processor. A simplified approach for performing matrix inversion may also be used in determining the output of the total covariance processor.
US07773026B2
One embodiment relates to a transceiver. The transceiver includes first and second phase-locked loops. The first phase-locked loop is adapted to receive a reference signal and output a transmission signal based on the reference signal. The second phase-locked loop is adapted to receive the reference signal and output a local oscillator (LO) signal based on the reference signal. The frequency of the LO signal is shifted relative to the frequency of the transmission signal. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US07773023B2
A successive approximation type A-to-D converter includes a cyclic D-to-A converter (11), a comparator (12) for comparing an analog value with an output value of the D-to-A converter (11), and memory means (13) for sequentially storing an output value of the comparator (12) and supplying the stored value to the D-to-A converter (11) in a reverse order.
US07773022B2
A system and method, including computer software, for storing digital information uses multiple NAND flash memory cells. Each memory cell is adapted to receive charge during a write operation to an analog voltage that corresponds to a data value having a binary representation of more than 4 bits. An analog-to-digital converter converts the analog voltage from each memory cell into a digital representation of the analog voltage during a read operation of each cell.
US07773018B2
A sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter may include a sigma-delta modulator and a decimation filter. The sigma-delta modulator may convert a first analog input signal into a first bit stream having a first pattern using sigma-delta modulation and convert a second analog input signal into a second bit stream having a second pattern using the sigma-delta modulation. The decimation filter may integrate the number of bits having a particular value in the first bit stream, output a first digital value, calculate a bitwise complement value of the first digital value, integrate the number of bits having the particular value in the second bit stream with the bitwise complement value of the first digital value as an initial value of a second digital value, and output the second digital value.
US07773015B2
To avoid the measurement disturbances occurring in a conventional, multi-channel measurement data acquisition apparatus there is proposed a multi-channel measurement data acquisition apparatus which includes at least one analog input assembly having a plurality of analog inputs, a controllable electronic analog signal switch device (12) and a central controllable analog-digital converter, wherein the channels of the analog inputs can be successively switched through by means of the analog signal switch device so that the analog signals at the inputs of the individual channels are successively applied as input signals to the central analog-digital converter, and wherein the electronic analog signal switch device and/or the analog-digital converter have control inputs connected to associated control lines.
US07772996B2
The present inventions provide a system and method for providing a warning using at least one wireless communication link between an approaching object and the location where a warning is to be given based in part on the location of the object and its proximity to the warning location. One aspect of the inventions includes receiving a communication from an object, for example a vehicle, which includes location information, at an alert node, wirelessly communicating alert information to a warning node, and causing a warning device to generate a warning. Preferably the alert node communicates with a plurality of vehicles and a plurality of warning nodes and determines to which of the plurality of warning nodes to communicate alert information based in part on the location information received from at least one of the vehicles and the location of the warning device.
US07772994B2
A system and method for displaying aircraft glide slope includes determining a glide slope deviation that is representative of a difference between a desired aircraft glide slope and an actual aircraft glide slope. A glide slope icon that is representative of the desired aircraft glide slope and a glide slope deviation icon that is representative of the determined glide slope deviation are simultaneously rendered on a display.
US07772992B2
The invention relates to a device (1) comprising a set (2) of information sources for determining the active values of a plurality of parameter of an aeroplane, calculating means (3) for determining, by means of said active values, a first position corresponding to a position which is extrapolated from the nose of the aeroplane following a particular time interval from the current instant. The inventive device also comprises a database (5) provided with at least one pre-determined unauthorized zone of the airport, comparison means (6) for comparing said first position to said pre-determined unauthorized zone of the airport, and warning means (9) for emitting at least one warning signal if the first position is located in the unauthorized zone.
US07772989B2
An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment. The electric meter retrofits into existing meter sockets and is available for new meter installations for both single phase and three phase electric power connections. The meter utilizes an all electronic design including a meter microcontroller, a measurement microcontroller, a communication microcontroller and spread spectrum processor, and a plurality of other communication interface modules for communicating commodity utilization and power quality data to a utility. The electric meter utilizes a modular design which allows the interface modules to be changed depending upon the desired communication network interface. The meter measures electricity usage and monitors power quality parameters for transmission to the utility over a two-way 900 MHz spread spectrum local area network (LAN) to a remotely located gateway node. The gateway node transmits this data to the utility over a commercially available fixed wide area network (WAN). The meter also provides direct communication to the utility over a commercially available network interface that plugs into the meter's backplane or bus system bypassing the local area network communication link and gateway node.
US07772988B1
An apparatus and method for producing specified output intensity distribution requirements from a single LED source, wherein the apparatus includes a single LED source and a cover, including a lens, that captures and controls the non-collimated light of the LED source and limits its spread vertically and horizontally as well as producing intensity variations within the output pattern. In one aspect of the invention, the lens is on the same order of size as the LED source, the cover has an exposed surface area several times larger than the area of the lens and is primarily configured to have retroreflective properties.
US07772986B2
Verbal warning labels and other audible warning systems for use with different devices, containers, products and other things in various environments are disclosed herein. An audible warning system configured in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes a device having a standardized textual warning associated therewith, and a sound playback system operably coupled to the device. The sound playback device can be configured to audibly output a verbal warning corresponding to the textual warning. The verbal warning can be provided by at least one of a manufacturer, supplier, distributor or retail vendor of the device, and the verbal warning can supplement or replace the standardized textual warning.
US07772985B2
A detection device for passengers includes a passenger judgment unit which has a specified load judgment unit and a stability judgment unit, and a plurality of load sensors disposed on supporting parts of a seat of a vehicle. The passenger judgment unit makes a judgment on a state of a passenger on the seat of the vehicle according to output values of the plurality of load sensors. If a summation of the output values of the plurality of the load sensors is judged to fall into a specified load range of a child-seat by the specified load judgment unit, the passenger judgment unit will make a judgment on whether the child-seat is attached to the seat or not according to a summation of detected output values of the plurality of the load sensors detected when the stability judgment unit judged that the output values of the plurality of the load sensors are in stable state.
US07772980B2
A method and system for localizing an object among a set of objects, each equipped with an improved RFID tag. The tag includes an RFID chip, an antenna, a visual indicator, an AC/DC converter, and at least a pair of conductive surfaces adapted for receiving power from an external source and for powering the electronic chip according to capacitive coupling. Each conductive surface of the pair is designed to form the half of a capacitor, the capacitor being formed when the electronic tag and a similar electronic tag are attached to a neighboring adjacent object. To localize an object, an RFID reader is used, fed with the identifier of the object to be localized. All the capacitively coupled RFID, in the RFID reader range, receive a reading trigger that carries the identifier. The RFID tag compares the received identifier with its own identifier and if they match, then the capacitively coupled RFID reacts by providing a visual indicator; otherwise, if they do not match, the capacitively coupled RFID does not react.
US07772972B2
States of security and risk are accurately recognized and an appropriate measure can be taken. Therefore, in a security monitoring device connected to a security device for securing security of an asset and monitoring the security, information from the security device is monitored and collected in real time on the basis of a set monitoring condition. On the basis of the monitored and collected information, a security risk change is analyzed and estimated, and the analyzed and estimated results are displayed, etc., and outputted.
US07772967B2
A vehicle security system including an intrusion determining unit that transmits a transmission wave in a vehicle, and determines, based on an output of a reflected wave of the transmission wave, whether or not a body intrudes into the vehicle. The security system also includes an adjacent body detecting unit that detects a body adjacent to the vehicle. The intrusion determining unit determines that the body does not intrude into the vehicle, when the output of the reflected wave is within a predetermined range and the adjacent body detecting unit detects the body adjacent to the vehicle.
US07772963B2
A method of and system for acquiring data by a data reader from a transponder in which the data from the transponder does not require a preamble to denote the beginning of the data sequence. A radio frequency signal is continuously transmitted by the card reader to generate a radio frequency field. Once a transponder enters the RF field, then response data is generated by the transponder and received by the card reader. The transmission of the radio frequency signal by the card reader is temporarily stopped on detection of the response data from the transponder, and then reinitiated by the card reader after it stops receiving response data from the transponder in order to regenerate the radio frequency field. The response data subsequently received from the transponder in the radio frequency field is then stored in memory.
US07772961B2
A chip-shaped electronic part includes: a substrate; a pair of upper surface electrodes formed on an upper surface of the substrate; a functional element formed to be electrically connected to the upper surface electrode pair; a pair of lower surface electrodes formed on a lower surface of the substrate at positions opposing the upper surface electrode pair; a pair of end surface electrodes formed on end surfaces of the substrate so that each of the end surface electrode pair is electrically connected to one of the upper surface electrode pair, and to one of the lower surface electrode pair corresponding to the one upper surface electrode; a protective film formed in such a manner as to cover at least the functional element; and a plated layer formed in such a manner as to cover at least each of the upper surface electrode pair, wherein the protective film or the plated layer has at least two points of application at which a load from above the substrate is exerted.
US07772956B2
A multilayer transformer component includes a chip body including a primary-side coil and a secondary-side coil, and first to fourth external electrodes. The primary-side coil includes a body portion, a first lead, and a second lead, and the secondary-side coil includes a body portion, a third lead, and a fourth lead. A first projection and a second projection of each body portion are arranged to lie substantially on a linear line. The first lead and the fourth lead are arranged to be line-symmetrical with respect to a center line which is arranged at an approximate center between respective distal ends of the first projection and the second projection, and which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an overlying direction of the primary-side and secondary-side coils. The second lead and the third lead are also arranged to be line-symmetrical with respect to the center line.
US07772954B2
Various embodiments of multi-phase transformers are disclosed. For example, a transformer includes primary windings, secondary windings and third windings. Primary windings, secondary windings and third windings may include sub windings coupled to form junctions. Primary windings are coupled at ends to form a delta configuration. Secondary windings are coupled to primary windings. Third windings are coupled to primary windings and secondary windings. Secondary windings and the third windings may be magnetically coupled to primary windings. The outputs at second ends of third windings are greater than the outputs at the second ends of secondary windings. In some embodiments, the outputs at adjacent second ends of the third windings are substantially equal. In other embodiments, a phase angle difference of outputs at adjacent second ends of third windings is substantially equal. In some embodiments, the phase angle difference of outputs at adjacent second ends of secondary windings is substantially equal.
US07772947B2
A system is provided for positioning an article. In this regard, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be broadly summarized as follows. The system contains a frame and a series of actuators connected to the frame, where the series of actuators contains at least one armature therein. The at least one armature is connected to an article and the series of actuators provides a force on the at least one armature to actuate movement of the at least one armature, thereby causing movement of the article. Each actuator further contains at least one winding set capable of providing a coil flux, at least one permanent magnet capable of providing a permanent magnet flux, and a magnetically conductive core having the permanent magnet therein and at least a portion of the at least one winding set therein. The series of actuators provides the at least one armature and the article with more than one degree of freedom.
US07772946B2
An electric power connection part of an electromagnetic clutch field coil assembly connected with an electric power connector at a side of a vehicle engine, includes a housing assembly connected to the field coil assembly with electric wires, which is extracted therefrom, interposed therebetween; a discharge device for absorbing a surge voltage; and a magnetic field elimination device for eliminating a residual magnetic field are injection molded and combonined within the housing assembly. Accordingly, the electric power connection part has an advantage in that it is not directly influenced by heat radiated from a field coil assembly so that electric/electronic devices can be prevented from being damaged; since an epoxy applying process for attaching electric/electronic devices such as a discharge device and a magnetic field elimination device is omitted, a manufacturing process is greatly simplified; and the number of components are reduced so that manufacturing process thereby decreasing costs.
US07772945B2
An electrical switching device facilitates selectively controlling residential power. The switching device is configured to couple between a residential electrical-energy meter and a residence. The device includes a solenoid assembly, a yoke, and at least two conductor busbars. The solenoid assembly includes an electrically-activated solenoid that is coupled to an actuator assembly. The actuator assembly includes a biasing mechanism and a plunger. The yoke is coupled to the actuator plunger such that the plunger is substantially centered relative to the yoke. The biasing mechanism is coupled to the yoke to bias the yoke away from the solenoid. The yoke includes at least two shorting bars that are oriented in a mirrored-arrangement on opposite sides of the actuator plunger. The solenoid assembly selectively moves the yoke between a first position in which the shorting bars are spaced a distance away from the conductor busbars, and a second position in which each of the shorting bars are electrically coupled against the conductor busbars. Each of the at least two conductor busbars has a substantially rectangular-shaped cross-sectional profile.
US07772937B2
A circulator/isolator housing is provided that includes body and a plurality of slots within the body configured to receive therethrough inserts having magnetic permeability. The housing further includes a plurality of receiving portions within the body corresponding to the plurality of slots and configured to maintain a position of the inserts.
US07772925B2
Amplifier apparatus comprising a power amplifier having an operating frequency in the radio frequency or microwave or higher ranges and a pre-distorter, the characteristics of the power amplifier comprising a distortion from a linear transfer function. The pre-distorter comprises a non-linear path and a linear path including amplifiers having substantially identical physical characteristics, an input divider responsive to an amplifier input signal for applying respective pre-distorter input signals to the paths, and an output coupler for combining the signals from the linear path and the non-linear path to produce a pre-distorted signal. The characteristics of the pre-distorter comprise a distortion relative to a linear transfer function that compensates for the distortion of the transfer function of the power amplifier.
US07772922B1
A method and apparatus for testing a data signal amplifier having an output signal power dependent upon multiple signal power control parameters, e.g., signal gain control and amplifier bias current control.
US07772919B2
A charge pump circuit comprising a plurality of charge pumps connected in parallel, each charge pump receiving a plurality of clock signals, having an output (VCP) that is coupled to the output of the at least one other charge pump, and further comprising a first capacitor that is being charged by a switching circuit receiving the clock signals to charge the first capacitor, a second capacitor coupled in series with the first capacitor, the second capacitor provided between a first terminal (IN) of the charge pump and a second terminal (OUT) of the charge pump, wherein the first terminal (IN) of the charge pump is connected to a second terminal (OUT) of another charge pump and the second terminal (OUT) of the charge pump is connected to the first terminal (IN) of another charge pump.
US07772917B2
The well voltage of a CMOS circuit having low-threshold-voltage MOSFETs is controlled when the power supply is turned on, during normal operation, and when the supply voltage is cut off. The CMOS circuit can thus operate stably with lower power consumption, because latching-up is reduced when the supply voltage is applied to the CMOS circuit or when the supply voltage is cut off, and subthreshold current is decreased during normal operation.
US07772913B2
A mixer circuit includes a grounded-gate amplifier disposed between an input node and a first node, and first through nth (n denotes an integer equal to or greater than 1) series transistor rows disposed between the first node and a second node, each of the first through nth series transistor rows includes two or more transistors coupled in series between the first node and the second node, and the transistors constituting the first through nth series transistor rows are controlled by first through mth (m denotes an integer equal to or greater than 2) control signals.
US07772911B2
Disclosed is a timing control circuit that receives a first clock having a period T1, a group of second clocks of L different phases spaced apart from each other at substantially equal intervals and selection signals m, n supplied thereto and generates a fine timing signal delayed from the rising edge of the first clock signal by a delay td of approximately td=m·T1+n·(T2/L). The timing control circuit includes a coarse delay circuit and a fine delay circuit. The coarse delay circuit includes a counter for counting a rising edge of the first clock signal after an activate signal is activated and generates a coarse timing signal whose amount of delay from the first clock signal is approximately m·T1. The fine delay circuit comprises L-number of multiphase clock control delay circuits disposed in parallel, delays by n·T2/L the timing of sampling of the coarse timing signal by respective clocks of the group of L-phase second clocks, and takes the OR among the resulting delayed pulses to thereby produce the fine timing signal.
US07772905B2
It is made possible to provide a flip-flop circuit capable of implementing the error correction function with a small area increase as far as possible and a pipeline system using such a flip-flop circuit. A flip-flop circuit includes: a flip-flop configured to operate based on a rising edge or a falling edge of a first clock signal; a decision circuit configured to compare an input of the flip-flop with an output thereof and output a request signal when the input of the flip-flop is different from the output thereof; and a control circuit configured to receive a second clock signal from outside and generate the first clock signal and a confirmation signal. When the request signal is sent from the decision circuit after the flip-flop has been activated, the control circuit inverts the first clock signal, sends the confirmation to the decision circuit, and makes the decision circuit cancel the request signal.
US07772897B2
A switched-capacitor charge pump device is proposed, which is designed for integration to a circuit system, such as a PLL (phase-locked loop) circuit system, for generation of an output direct-current (DC) voltage with a wide amplitude range; and which is characterized by the utilization of two switched-capacitor circuit units in addition to the output capacitor circuit and the utilization of an output voltage comparing circuit (such as a Schmitt trigger) for comparing the end-result output DC voltage against a half-amplitude drive voltage such that when the switched-capacitor circuit units are subjected to a charging-discharging action for voltage pump-up or pump down operations, the switched-capacitor circuit units are switched between a full-amplitude drive voltage and a half-amplitude drive voltage. This feature allows the invention to provide an output DC voltage with a wider amplitude range than prior art.
US07772895B2
A signal generating circuit includes a detecting circuit, a charge pump, a first level shifter, a filtering circuit, a second level shifter and a controllable oscillator. The detecting circuit outputs a detecting signal according to a reference signal and an oscillating signal. The charge pump outputs a first output signal by performing a charging or discharging operation according to the detecting signal. The first level shifter adjusts a voltage level of the first output signal to thereby output a second output signal. The filtering circuit generates a first filtered control signal according to the second output signal. The second level shifter adjusts a voltage level of the first filtered controlling signal to output a second filtered control signal. The controllable oscillator outputs the oscillating signal according to the second filtered control signal.
US07772885B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for shifting the voltage level of signals from the high voltage domain to a low voltage domain, where VDD_IO is the supply voltage of the high voltage domain and VDD_Logic is the supply voltage of the low voltage domain. A level shifting circuit using a combination of I/O and logic transistors avoids exceeding a maximum tolerable voltage across the gate and source of any of the transistors. The level shifting circuit operates includes a reference voltage circuit that is independent of VDD_IO, so the same level shifting circuit may be used for various VDD_IO voltages. Additionally, the voltage level shifting circuit is not sensitive to scaling of VDD_Logic and operates properly when VDD_Logic is reduced due to shrinking silicon process technology and/or is reduced for a low power application.
US07772883B2
A level shifter is operated at high speed. An input unit 2 generates a first one-shot pulse signal at the rise of an input signal and a second one-shot pulse signal having the same polarity as the first one-shot pulse signal at the fall of the input signal, and eliminates the generated first and second one-shot pulse signals using an output signal. A level shift unit 3 includes a level shift circuit LS1 that converts the signal level of the first one-shot pulse signal and a level shift circuit LS2 that converts the signal level of the second one-shot pulse signal. An output unit 4 is driven corresponding to the first and second one-shot pulse signals whose levels have been shifted and generates the output signal. A hold unit 1 maintains the level of the generated output signal.
US07772881B1
A PLD having real-time in-system programmability (ISP) capability is provided. The PLD includes a configuration memory region into which the updated configuration is obtained. A user memory region stores the state for registers of the PLD. The configuration memory region communicates the updated configuration to a core logic region that includes a real-time ISP detection block that detects the initiation of a real-time ISP operation. A controller is in communication with the logic block. The PLD maintains register data by reading a state of the registers of the PLD/logic block and clamping the output pins before the core logic region is being updated. The state of the registers is saved in the memory region as directed by the controller. Upon completion of the update into the logic array, the registers of the PLD are cleared and a control signal from a memory interface triggers the controller to read stored the register data back from the memory and reload the registers. Upon the completion of reloading the registers, the output pins are released for normal device operation.
US07772880B2
A high performance 3D semiconductor is described with cubic dimensional multi-node reprogrammable components for multi-functionality and intelligent behaviors. The system is modeled with dynamic EDA techniques. Applications of the intelligent SoC are specified, particularly embedded, multifunctional, DSP and high-performance computing applications.
US07772861B2
The present invention discloses a probe card for testing a wafer. The probe card comprises a printed circuit board for transmitting test signals, a fastened ring arranged at the downside of the printed circuit board, and a plurality of needles passing through the fastened ring, each needle having one end connecting to circuits of the printed circuit board, and having a tip portion at the other end connecting to a pad of the wafer, where each needle has at least one bent portion between the fastened ring and the tip portion, to absorb stress between the needle and the pad.
US07772855B2
There are disclosed an instrument for measuring the concentration of particulates in a fluid, which is capable of determining the concentration of the particulates in the fluid with high accuracy. The instrument for measuring the concentration of the particulates in the fluid includes particulate collecting means, temperature measuring means, flow rate measuring means, impedance measuring means, time measuring means, constant determining means for determining an impedance change per unit time-particulate concentration constant from temperature and flow rate, impedance change per unit time computing means for computing the change of an impedance per unit time, and particulate concentration determining means for determining the concentration of the particulates from the change of the impedance per unit time computed by the impedance change per unit time computing means.
US07772851B2
The invention relates to a new VRLA battery float model. The model covers the steady state and transient float charge behavior of both positive and negative electrodes. Backup analysis verifies the internal polarization distribution for a conventional 2V-cell polarization behaviors can be identified without the need for a physical reference electrode. The estimated individual electrode polarization allows early detection of common failure modes like negative plate discharge as well as a reference for float voltage optimisation. Furthermore, the positive polarization relating to minimum grid corrosion may be correlated with the occurrence of the peak of a “Tafel” like resistance used by the model. The model encourages utilisation of low signal perturbation for testing a cell's state of health and state of charge conditions while at float.
US07772847B2
Phase and magnitude correction is performed in two dimensions to reduce ghosting in single shot and multi-shot EPI scans. First, a phase/magnitude correction in the readout direction is carried out to reduce echo shifts and gradient waveform distortions. Then, a two dimensional phase/magnitude correction is performed to remove the remaining xy phase/magnitude errors.
US07772845B2
A method for spin magnetic resonance applications in general, and for performing NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy) and MRI (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging) in particular is disclosed. It is a quantum theory-based continuous precision method. This method directly makes use of spin magnetic resonance random emissions to generate its auto-correlation function and power spectrum, from which are derived spin relaxation times and spin number density using strict mathematical and physical equations. This method substantially reduces the NMR/MRI equipment and data processing complexity, thereby making NMR/MRI machines much less costly, much less bulky, more accurate, and easier to operate than the current pulsed NMR/MRI. By employing extremely low transverse RF magnetic B1 field (around 0.01 Gauss), MRI with this method is much safer for patients. And, by employing continuous spin magnetic resonance emissions, NMR with this method is of virtually unlimited spectral resolution to satisfy any science and engineering requirements.
US07772844B2
A system for magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy includes a plurality of gradient coils positioned about a bore of a magnet and an RF coil assembly coupled to a pulse generator to emit RF pulse sequences and arranged to receive resulting MR signals from a subject of interest. A system control is also included in the MR spectroscopy system and is coupled to the plurality of gradient coils and the RF coil assembly. The system control is programmed to cause the RF coil assembly to emit a first RF pulse and a second RF pulse, wherein at least one of the first and second RF pulses is spectrally selective and at least one of the first and second RF pulses is spatially selective. The system control is also programmed to cause the RF coil assembly to emit a third RF pulse after a pre-defined time delay to generate a stimulated echo and detect MR signals resulting from the stimulated echo.
US07772832B2
A manipulator for positioning a test head is provided with a positioning means by which the test head is three-dimensionally positionable and with a cradle to which the test head is securable and which is connected to the positioning means. The manipulator includes a compensator which can be loaded by the mass of the test head. The positioning means includes a column and at least one lead screw extending in the vertical direction. The compensator is connected to the cradle and can be moved by the lead screw in the vertical direction. The compensator includes a driver cooperating with the lead screw and is guided in the vertical direction on the column. The compensator has a spring element which is biased and supported by the driver.
US07772826B2
A lightning detector for lightning detection and a lightning detection method, wherein the lightning detector uses at least two separate channels or frequency bands for lightning detection, and wherein the lightning detector is a mobile RF device provided with radio interfaces for at least two communication channels or frequency bands, whereby at least one of which is normally a telecom channel/frequency range and wherein these channels/ranges are used in lightning detection.
US07772817B2
A constant voltage circuit which is capable of quickly responding to a sudden change of an output voltage includes an output transistor, and first and second error amplifiers. The output transistor outputs a power with an output voltage and an output current to a load. The first error amplifier is configured to increase a response speed with respect to changes of the output voltage in accordance with an increase of the output current so as to control operations of the output transistor. The second error amplifier has a response speed faster than the first error amplifier with respect to changes of the output voltage, and is configured to decrease a gain thereof in response to a drain current of the output transistor.
US07772804B2
A method for testing the health of locomotive battery blocks includes coupling a load to a first and a second battery block, the first and second battery blocks are coupled in series, activating a contactor coupled between the first and second battery blocks and the load to channel electrical energy from the load to the first and second battery blocks, and determining a voltage of the first and second battery blocks to determine the health of the locomotive battery blocks. A portable battery block health tester and a locomotive including a battery block health tester are also described herein.
US07772802B2
A charging display system and method for operating a display system are provided with the method comprising sensing the presence of a wirelessly rechargeable device proximate to or on a surface through which a presentation area of a display can present image information; identifying a type of the wirelessly rechargeable device; obtaining device representation having features that are related to a portion of the presentation area that can be occupied by the presence of the identified type of rechargeable device; determining a position and orientation of the rechargeable device proximate to or on the surface; and segmenting the presentation area into a wirelessly rechargeable device portion and a graphic presentation portion outside of the determined of the rechargeable device portion. A wireless power signal is transmitted through the rechargeable device portion and graphic information related to the rechargeable device is displayed in the graphic presentation portion.
US07772797B2
A motor controller for correcting offset of a drive current of a motor. An offset amount calculating section (14) calculates offset amounts (Iuofs, Ivofs, Iwofs) of the drive currents (Iu, Iv, Iw) when the motor is being driven. A drive signal correcting section (18) corrects offset of the drive currents (Iu, Iv, Iw) by correcting the duty ratios of drive signals (Suo, Svo, Swo) based on the offset amounts (Iuofs, Ivofs, Iwofs).
US07772792B2
To rotate a rotary body at a constant velocity, a swing control device of an electric rotary excavator controls rotation of the rotary body with a small first torque command value. By contrast, when operating a swing lever for acceleration, the rotation is controlled with a larger second torque command value. The first torque command value is generated based on a deviation between a velocity command value for an electric motor that rotates the rotary body and a measured velocity of the rotary body, and the second torque command value has a larger absolute value than the first torque command value and is obtained by adding a feed-forward torque command value to the first torque command value.
US07772788B2
In a method of driving a light source, light generated by a light source is sensed in order to detect color coordinates of a red color, color coordinates of a green color and color coordinates of a blue color. A light source color space formed by the color coordinates of the red, green and blue colors is compared with a reference color space formed by red reference color coordinates, green reference color coordinates and blue reference color coordinates. Then, color temperature of the light generated by the light source is controlled so that the light source color space covers the reference color space.
US07772761B2
Techniques are described for forming an organic light emitting diode device with improved device efficiency. Materials having at least one energy level that is similar to those of a phosphorescent light emitting material in the diode are incorporated into the device to directly inject holes or electrons to the light emitting material.
US07772760B2
An active matrix organic light emitting device having a structure where a plurality of emission layers having each separate current path are stacked. In the active matrix organic light emitting device of the present invention, a plurality of emission layers are stacked on an insulating substrate. A thin film transistor is formed on the insulating substrate and is connected in common with a number of electrode layers to independently drive the plurality of emission layers.
US07772753B2
In an electrodeless lamp, at least one core assembly is coupled to a tubular lamp envelope. The core assembly includes a lamp envelope protector disposed over an outer surface of the lamp envelope, and a core member surrounding the lamp envelope at a core mounting location such that lamp envelope protector is disposed between the core member and the lamp envelope. The core assembly further includes a coil bobbin coupled to the core member, and a coil wounded around the coil bobbin.
US07772746B2
An electroactive transducer converts between acoustical power and electrical power. The transducer includes a diaphragm and a perimeter member. The perimeter member includes at least one electroactive element and is mechanically coupled to the perimeter of the diaphragm such that displacement of the diaphragm stresses the electroactive element.
US07772744B2
It is an object to provide a small ultrasonic actuator whose voltage control is easy. The ultrasonic actuator acts on a rotatable rotor to rotate the rotor, the ultrasonic actuator includes: a plate vibrator having one end which contacts the rotor, a corner portion bent at a midpoint in the vibrator, and the other end which is fixed; and a piezoelectric device which contacts a part of the vibrator between the one end and the corner portion, and transmits a vibration to the vibrator by vibrating in response to application of an alternating voltage between one of electrodes provided respectively on both surfaces or the plate vibrator serving as the one of the electrodes and the other of the electrodes.
US07772740B2
A brush holder (2) has a carbon holder (4) which forms a guide (38) for a carbon brush (6) and at which a holding spring (10) that presses the carbon brush (6) against a first guide side of the guide (38) with a holding pressure force (HF), is provided, with the holding spring (10) having two portions (12, 21) which are biased against one another, and with the carbon holder (4) and the carbon brush (6) projecting through between the two portions (12, 21).
US07772732B2
An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft with a longitudinal axis. The rotor shaft has a locating groove formed substantially continuously around the rotor shaft. The locating groove has a base and a pair of opposing sidewalls. The base is arranged substantially parallel to the axis of rotation. The pair of opposing sidewalls extends from the base wall substantially perpendicular to the axis of rotation. The motor includes a thrust system mounted on the rotor shaft, and a locator disposed in the groove for locating the thrust system in a predetermined position along the rotor shaft.
US07772728B2
An electric, drive system for floor conveyances with one or more vehicle chassis (3; 10, 11) in active connection with one another allowing relative movement and with at least one electric, drive motor and/or an electric, steering motor, with an electric transverter associated with each of these and an electronic, control system. At least one of these electric or electronic components is designed to be cooled by a liquid and is connected via an associated cooling circuit (5; 12) to at least one cooling device.
US07772726B1
A modular irrigation controller includes a processor for executing a watering program and turning a plurality of irrigation valves ON and OFF in accordance with the watering program. The irrigation controller includes a plurality of receptacles for each receiving a station module including a station module circuit connectable to a corresponding one of the irrigation valves. A manually actuable mechanism locks the station module in the corresponding receptacle and applies power to the processor when the station module is locked.
US07772719B2
A threshold voltage control circuit includes a first voltage supplying unit for supplying a first power supply voltage, in response to an enable signal which is activated when a bank is enabled, as a back bias voltage of a first MOS transistor, wherein the first MOS transistor drives an internal voltage, and a second voltage supplying unit for supplying a second power supply voltage, in response to the enable signal, as the back bias voltage of the first MOS transistor.
US07772718B2
A master/slave outlet system includes at least one master outlet and at least one slave outlet. Moreover, the slave outlet is turned on to start the device connected to the slave outlet, while the master outlet supplies enough current to the device connected to the master outlet. Furthermore, the slave outlet is turned off to close the device connected to the slave outlet, while the device connected to the master outlet is shutdown or at sleep mode.
US07772716B2
Distributed maximum power point tracking systems, structures, and processes are provided for power generation structures, such as for but not limited to a solar panel arrays. In an exemplary solar panel string structure, distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) modules are provided, such as integrated into or retrofitted for each solar panel. The DMPPT modules provide panel level control for startup, operation, monitoring, and shutdown, and further provide flexible design and operation for strings of multiple panels. The strings are typically linked in parallel to a combiner box, and then toward and enhanced inverter module, which is typically connected to a power grid. Enhanced inverters are controllable either locally or remotely, wherein system status is readily determined, and operation of one or more sections of the system are readily controlled. The system provides increased operation time, and increased power production and efficiency, over a wide range of operating conditions.
US07772715B2
Power-generating units and compressor units are arranged in a compressed-air energy storage power station. According to one aspect of the invention, a common grid connection transformer is arranged, to which the power-generating units and the compressor units can selectively be connected. According to a further aspect of the invention, the power-station installation is subdivided into a power-generating area (I) in which the power-generating units are arranged, a switching and voltage-conversion area (II) in which a grid connection transformer is arranged, and a compressor area (III) in which the compressor units are arranged. The stated areas are arranged physically separately from one another. Power-station installations according to the invention can advantageously be combined to form modular power-station centers, which advantageously have common voltage rails and media rails.
US07772713B2
A control system for a wind turbine having a tower, a generator, and at least one rotor blade. The control system includes a sensor configured to measure an angle of inclination of the tower with respect to a surface, at least one pitch assembly configured to adjust a pitch angle of the rotor blade, and a controller configured to control at least one of the pitch assembly and the generator based on the measured angle of inclination.
US07772707B2
Methods for packaging microelectronic devices, microelectronic workpieces having packaged dies, and microelectronic devices are disclosed herein. One aspect of the invention is directed toward a microelectronic workpiece comprising a substrate having a device side and a backside. In one embodiment, the microelectronic workpiece further includes a plurality of dies formed on the device side of the substrate, a dielectric layer over the dies, and a plurality of bond-pads on the dielectric layer. The dies have integrated circuitry and a plurality of bond-pads electrically coupled to the integrated circuitry. The ball-pads are arranged in ball-pad arrays over corresponding dies on the substrate. The microelectronic workpiece of this embodiment further includes a protective layer over the backside of the substrate. The protective layer is formed on the backside of the substrate from a material that is in a flowable state and is then cured to a non-flowable state.
US07772700B2
As etch-stop films or Cu-diffusion barrier films used in insulation films constituting conductor layers of a stacked structure, films having smaller dielectric constant than silicon nitride films are used, and an insulation film at a lower-layer part of the stacked structure is made to have smaller dielectric constant than that at an upper-layer part thereof, and further this insulation film is a silicon oxide (SiO) film and has, in the interior thereof, nano-pores of from 0.05 nm or more to 4 nm or less in diameter as chief construction. This makes it possible to dramatically reduce effective dielectric constant while keeping the mechanical strength of the conductore layers themselves, and can materialize a highly reliable and high-performance semiconductor device having mitigated the wiring delay of signals which pass through wirings.
US07772694B2
An integrated circuit (IC) module (20) includes a ground plane (22) having adjoining cutouts (30, 32). The cutout (32) defines a critical signal pathway (38). A device (24) is positioned in the cutout (30) and a device (26) is positioned outside of the cutout (30) adjacent to the cutout (32). An electrical interconnect (56) positioned in the critical signal pathway (38) interconnects the device (24) with the device (26). A method (60) of packaging the IC module (20) entails encapsulating the ground plane (22) and devices (24, 26) in a packaging material, and forming conductive vias (92) in the packaging material (84) that extend between the ground plane (22) and an exterior surface (94) of the packaging material (84). The conductive vias (92) surround the device (24) and cutout (32) to protect again electromagnetic interference and to provide guided signal pathways for high frequency signals on electrical interconnect (56).
US07772691B2
A method of forming a package structure includes providing a plurality of dies; attaching the plurality of dies onto a heat-dissipating plate; and sawing the heat-dissipating plate into a plurality of packages, each including one of the plurality of dies and a piece of the heat-dissipating plate.
US07772686B2
A portable memory card formed from a multi-die assembly, and methods of fabricating same, are disclosed. One such multi-die assembly includes an LGA SiP semiconductor package and a leadframe-based SMT package both affixed to a PCB. The multi-die assembly thus formed may be encased within a standard lid to form a completed portable memory card, such as a standard SD™ card. Test pads on the LGA SiP package, used for testing operation of the package after it is fabricated, may also be used for physically and electrically coupling the LGA SiP package to the PCB.
US07772684B2
An object is to provide an electronic device of a multilayer structure with high density and high reliability that can be reduced in size while incorporating an electronic component therein, and further provide a production method for easily producing such an electronic device. An electronic device of the present invention includes wiring layers and electrically insulating layers stacked on a core board and establishes predetermined electrical conduction between the wiring layers through upper-lower side conducting vias provided in the electrically insulating layers. An electronic component incorporating layer formed by directly forming on a lower layer an insulating resin layer having a cutout portion for receiving an electronic component therein and upper-lower side conducting vias and by incorporating the electronic component in the cutout portion is provided at least between one of the wiring layers and one of the electrically insulating layers and/or between the core board and the electrically insulating layer. At least the uppermost-layer electronic component incorporating layer of electronic component incorporating layers has a metal frame body surrounding the electronic component and the upper-lower side conducting vias, and a metal cap having a flange portion fixed to the metal frame body of the uppermost-layer electronic component incorporating layer is provided.
US07772682B1
The present invention provides a substantially hermetically sealed enclosure about an active device area of a semiconductor substrate. The enclosure is created by forming a guard ring around the active device area on the substrate, and forming a metal panel over and in contact with the guard ring to enclose the active device area. The guard ring is a laminate of metal rings formed from alternating metal filled via rings and metal trace rings. The guard ring is formed on an ohmic contact ring on the surface of the substrate. An annealing process may be used to hermetically seal the guard ring to the ohmic contact ring.
US07772681B2
Semiconductor die packages are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor die package includes a premolded substrate. The premolded substrate can have a semiconductor die attached to it, and an encapsulating material may be disposed over the semiconductor die.
US07772676B2
A semiconductor body is formed from a first semiconductor material, e.g., silicon. A compound semiconductor region, e.g., silicon germanium, is embedded in the semiconductor body. The compound semiconductor region includes the first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material. The compound semiconductor region has a concentration of the second semiconductor material that varies along an interface between the side portion of the compound semiconductor region and the side portion of the semiconductor body
US07772672B2
The invention includes semiconductor constructions having trenched isolation regions. The trenches of the trenched isolation regions can include narrow bottom portions and upper wide portions over the bottom portions. Electrically insulative material can fill the upper wide portions while leaving voids within the narrow bottom portions. The trenched isolation regions can be incorporated into a memory array, and/or can be incorporated into an electronic system. The invention also includes methods of forming semiconductor constructions.
US07772666B2
A CMOS image sensor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The CMOS image sensor may be capable of improved thickness uniformity form microlenses formed at a reduced distance from the photodiodes. The CMOS image sensor can include: a semiconductor substrate on which a pixel array is formed, the pixel array including photodiodes formed on the semiconductor substrate to different depths for sensing red, green, and blue signals, respectively; an interlayer dielectric formed on the semiconductor substrate and having a trench at an upper portion of the pixel array; an insulating layer sidewall formed at a side of the trench; and a plurality of microlenses formed on the interlayer dielectric in the trench at predetermined intervals.
US07772658B2
A lead frame which is disposed in an outer package is composed of three members. The lead frame is provided with contact electrodes, connector terminals, and conductive interconnections which are connected to the respective connector terminals. The arrangement order of the contact electrodes is such that contact electrodes are connected to the connector terminals, respectively; that is, the arrangement direction of the contact electrodes is the same as that of the connector terminals. On the other hand, the arrangement order of the contact electrodes is such that contact electrodes are connected to the connector terminals, respectively, that is, the arrangement direction of the contact electrodes is opposite to that of the connector terminals. Lead terminals of a resin cell package are connected to the contact electrodes.
US07772652B2
A semiconductor component arrangement is disclosed. In one embodiment, the semiconductor component arrangement includes a power transistor formed within a semiconductor layer in at least one first region and further semiconductor components formed at least in a second region, an effective thickness of the semiconductor layer being smaller in the first region than in the second region.
US07772651B2
High-voltage device structures, methods for fabricating such device structures using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) processes, and design structures for high-voltage circuits. The planar device structure, which is formed using a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, includes a semiconductor body positioned between two gate electrodes. The gate electrodes and the semiconductor body may be formed from the monocrystalline SOI layer of the SOI substrate. A dielectric layer separates each of the gate electrodes from the semiconductor body. These dielectric layers are formed by defining trenches in the SOI layer and filling the trenches with a dielectric material, which may occur concurrent with a process forming device isolation regions.
US07772647B2
Methods, structure and design structure having isolated back gates for fully depleted semiconductor-on-insulator (FDSOI) devices are presented. In one embodiment, a method may include providing a FDSOI substrate having a SOI layer over a buried insulator over a first polarity-type substrate, the first polarity-type substrate including a second polarity-type well therein of opposite polarity than the first polarity; forming a trench structure in the FDSOI substrate; forming an active region to each side of the trench structure in the SOI layer; and forming a PFET on the active region on one side of the trench structure and an NFET on the active region on the other side of the trench structure.
US07772643B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a metal gate pattern is provided in which capping layers are used to control the relative oxidation rates of portions of the metal gate pattern during a oxidation process. The capping layer may be a multilayer structure and may be etched to form insulating spacers on the sidewalls of the metal gate pattern. The capping layer(s) allow the use of a selective oxidation process, which may be a wet oxidation process utilizing partial pressures of both H2O and H2 in an H2-rich atmosphere, to oxidize portions of the substrate and metal gate pattern while suppressing the oxidation of metal layers that may be included in the metal gate pattern. This allows etch damage to the silicon substrate and edges of the metal gate pattern to be reduced while substantially maintaining the original thickness of the gate insulating layer and the conductivity of the metal layer(s).
US07772639B2
Nonvolatile memory devices including device isolation patterns on a semiconductor substrate are provided. The device isolation patterns define a cell active region and a peripheral active region of the semiconductor substrate. Cell gate electrodes are provided that cross over the cell active regions. Memory cell patterns are provided between the cell gate electrodes and the cell active regions and extend toward the device isolation patterns. A tunnel insulation film is provided between the memory cell pattern and the cell active region. Related methods of fabricating nonvolatile memory devices are also provided herein.
US07772633B2
The invention includes a semiconductor structure having U-shaped transistors formed by etching a semiconductor substrate. In an embodiment, the source/drain regions of the transistors are provided at the tops of pairs of pillars defined by crossing trenches in the substrate. One pillar is connected to the other pillar in the pair by a ridge that extends above the surrounding trenches. The ridge and lower portions of the pillars define U-shaped channels on opposite sides of the U-shaped structure, facing a gate structure in the trenches on those opposite sides, forming a two sided surround transistor. Optionally, the space between the pillars of a pair is also filled with gate electrode material to define a three-sided surround gate transistor. One of the source/drain regions of each pair extending to a digit line and the other extending to a memory storage device, such as a capacitor. The invention also includes methods of forming semiconductor structures.
US07772630B2
A magnetic switching element includes a ferromagnetic layer which is substantially pinned in magnetization in one direction; and a magnetic semiconductor layer provided within a range where a magnetic field from the ferromagnetic layer reaches, where the magnetic semiconductor layer changes its state from a paramagnetic state to a ferromagnetic state by applying a voltage thereto, and a magnetization corresponding to the magnetization of the ferromagnetic layer is induced in the magnetic semiconductor layer by applying a voltage to the magnetic semiconductor layer.
US07772626B2
An image sensor and fabricating method thereof are disclosed by which damage to a protective layer can be prevented in a manner of reducing thermal stress of an uppermost metal line in performing thermal treatment for enhancing the dark characteristic. Such damage can be prevented by forming a poly layer pattern in an insulating interlayer on at least one side of the uppermost layer metal line.
US07772623B2
A CMOS image sensor and fabricating method can reduce leakage current of a photodiode reduced by configuring a triangular shape of a photodiode area to minimize an interface contacting the STI or performing deuterium annealing to remove dangling bonds from an interface contacting with oxide. The CMOS image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a device isolation layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of diodes, each having a shape minimizing an area of a boundary contacting with the device isolation layer.
US07772618B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell block. The memory cell block includes a plurality of n-type first MIS transistors with current passages connected in series. Each of the first MIS transistors includes a source, a drain, and a charge storage layer formed on a (001)-plane of a semiconductor substrate with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween and is configured to store data. A direction from the source to the drain in each of the first MIS transistors is set parallel to a [001]-direction or [010]-direction of the semiconductor substrate.
US07772598B2
A display device, comprising an insulating substrate; a data conductor formed on the insulating substrate and comprising a conductive film; a thin film transistor having at least one source electrode electrically connected with the conductive film, and a drain electrode formed along a circumference of the source electrode and spaced therefrom; and a pixel electrode which is electrically connected with the conductive film.
US07772595B2
There is provided a method of forming a nitride semiconductor layer, including the steps of firstly providing a substrate on which a patterned epitaxy layer with a pier structure is formed. A protective layer is then formed on the patterned epitaxy layer, exposing a top surface of the pier structure. Next, a nitride semiconductor layer is formed over the patterned epitaxy layer connected to the nitride semiconductor layer through the pier structure, wherein the nitride semiconductor layer, the pier structure, and the patterned epitaxy layer together form a space exposing a bottom surface of the nitride semiconductor layer. Thereafter, a weakening process is performed to remove a portion of the bottom surface of the nitride semiconductor layer and to weaken a connection point between the top surface of the pier structure and the nitride semiconductor layer. Finally, the substrate is separated from the nitride semiconductor layer through the connection point.
US07772591B1
Integrated circuit antifuse circuitry is provided. A metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor serves as an electrically-programmable antifuse. The antifuse transistor has source, drain, gate, and substrate terminals. The gate has an associated gate oxide. In its unprogrammed state, the gate oxide is intact and the antifuse has a relatively high resistance. During programming, the gate oxide breaks down, so in its programmed state the antifuse transistor has a relatively low resistance. The antifuse transistor can be programmed by injecting hot carriers into the substrate of the device in the vicinity of the drain. Because there are more hot carriers at the drain than at the substrate, the gate oxide is stressed asymmetrically, which enhances programming efficiency. Feedback can be used to assist in turning the antifuse transistor on to inject the hot carriers.
US07772579B2
Particle detection systems without knowledge of a location and velocity of a particle passing through a volume of space, are less efficient than if knowledge of the particle location is known. An embodiment of a particle position detection system capable of determining an exact location of a particle in a fluid stream is discussed. The detection system may employ a patterned illuminating beam, such that once a particle passes through the various portions of the patterned illuminating beam, a light scattering is produced. The light scattering defines a temporal profile that contains measurement information indicative of an exact particle location. However, knowledge of the exact particle location has several advantages. These advantages include correction of systematic particle measurement errors due to variability of the particle position within the sample volume, targeting of particles based on position, capture of particles based on position, reduced system energy consumption and reduced system complexity.
US07772568B2
An object of the present invention is to extract a micro foreign body of a few μm, which may cause a product defect of a device or the like, and to subject the foreign body to a mass analysis at a favorable S/N ratio without any contamination. A micro sample heating probe includes a sample holder made up of two members different in diameter, a supporting part, and a terminal part. The sample holder includes a heating mechanism only in a limited part, and just a region extremely close to the micro sample being an analysis target is heated locally. Therefore, even when a contaminated substance is attached to the probe, such substance is not heated, thereby preventing a noise from occurring, and enabling an analysis at a quite favorable S/N ratio.
US07772560B2
A radiation detecting cassette and a radiation image capturing system. A radiation detecting cassette has a radiation detector for detecting a radiation having passed through a patient and converting the detected radiation into radiation image data, a transceiver for transmitting the radiation image data by way of wireless communications, a cassette controller for controlling the radiation detector and the transceiver, a power supply for energizing the radiation detector and the transceiver, and a remaining power supply power level detector for detecting a remaining power level RC [%] of the power supply. The cassette controller includes a data transmission and reception controller. The cassette controller stops transmitting the radiation image data by way of wireless communications and prioritizes the capturing of a radiation image when the detected remaining power level of the power supply is smaller than a predetermined threshold.
US07772551B2
A refractive index variable element includes a structure including quantum dots having discrete energy levels and a dielectric matrix surrounding the quantum dots, and an electron injector injecting an electron into the quantum dots through the dielectric matrix.
US07772541B2
A fiber optic position and/or shape sensing device includes an optical fiber with either two or more single core optical fibers or a multi-core optical fiber having two or more fiber cores. In either case, the fiber cores are spaced apart so that mode coupling between the fiber cores is reduced, and preferably, minimized. The optical fiber is physically associated with an object. Strain on at least a portion of the optical fiber where it is associated with the object is determined by an OFDR using one or more Rayleigh scatter patterns for that portion of the optical fiber. The determined strain is used to determine a position and/or a shape of the object.
US07772534B2
A display device for modulating irradiation light with a spatial light modulation element to form an optical image, and displaying the optical image, includes a light source for emitting the irradiation light including four kinds of colored light having wavelength ranges, a temporal colored light separating section that spatially separates the irradiation light by the wavelength range to generate first irradiation light, and second irradiation light alternately every sub-frame period, a spatial colored light separating section that spatially separates the colored light included in each of the first irradiation light and the second irradiation light, and a spatial light modulation element provided with a plurality of sub-pixels, capable of independently modulating every sub-frame period.
US07772525B2
New methods are provided for manufacture ceramic resistive igniter elements that include injection molding of one or more layers of the formed element. Ceramic igniters also are provided that are obtainable from fabrication methods of the invention.
US07772506B2
The invention relates to a fluid-tight cable duct (1) which is used to guide a cable (2) into a chamber (3) which can be impinged upon by pressure, and which comprises a housing (4), at least one cable (2) and one first and one second seal (5a, 5b) which can be pressure-loaded. The two pressure-loaded seals (5a, 5b) and the housing (4) define an inner hollow chamber (4d), and the cable (2) enters into the inner hollow chamber (4d) via the first seal (5a), through which the inner hollow chamber (4d) extends, and exits the inner hollow chamber (4d) via the second seal (5b). The inner hollow chamber (4d) comprises a pressure discharge opening (4c) which leads into an outer chamber (6) which is located outside the chamber (3) which can be impinged upon by pressure.
US07772497B2
The invention relates to a data transmission electric wire comprising a plurality of conductor strands covered in at least one insulating covering including PTFE, the plurality of strands comprising an inner core of first strands covered by at least one outer layer of second strands, said first and second strands being constituted of different metals, the metal of said second conductor strands presenting hardness that is lower than that of the metal of said first conductors, and said first strands being constituted essentially by an alloy of copper and said second strands being constituted essentially of copper. According to the invention, said alloy is a homogeneous copper alloy in the alpha phase that is stable at a temperature less than or equal to 500° C.
US07772496B2
A flat cable in which at least end portions of a plurality of coaxial cables are securely arranged in parallel on a sheet is characterized in that a flat cable edge-machined portion for electric connection of the coaxial cables is formed at the end portion of the plurality of coaxial cables, and a part of the sheet is made to remain in a band shape across an entire width of the flat cable between a machined edge portion of the edge-machined portion and a distal end of the flat cable, and a jacket of the coaxial cable is secured to the band-shaped sheet.
US07772495B2
A wire cable of electric conductor forming of multiple metals or alloys includes single (bundle) wire cable or double (bundle) wire cables, in which at least in one bundle of electric conductor, each bundle of electric conductor is composed of slim electric wire made by two or more than two metals or alloys, which is covered by insulator to form a wire cable of electric conductor.
US07772492B2
Unitary multiple conductor electrical cables, such as electrical power cords, are disclosed. Multiple conductor electrical cables are insulated with one or more layers of a thermoplastic polymer composition. The outer layer of the thermoplastic polymer composition contains an anti-microbial agent that resists biological contamination.
US07772489B2
A network cabinet is provided includes a base member, two pairs of vertical frame rail members connected to the base member, and a top cover supported by at least one of the vertical frame rail members. The base member defines an opening and another opening is defined in the top cover. The vertical frame rail members are positioned spaced apart from four sidewalls from four corners of the cabinet formed by the four sidewalls, where each sidewall includes a panel or a door. The two pairs of vertical frame rail members and the four sidewalls define at least one cable management pathway and at least a portion of the cable management pathway is vertically aligned with at least a portion of the opening of the base member and the opening of the top cover.
US07772487B1
A photovoltaic apparatus may comprise two or more energy transfer layers and an acceptor layer. The energy transfer layers are configured such that excitons formed by absorption of radiation in one energy transfer layer transfer to an adjacent energy transfer layer that is closer to the acceptor layer by a dipole mechanism without the exciton diffusing to an interface between the two energy transfer layers. This can be achieved by appropriately configuring the HOMO and LUMO (or conduction and valence band) levels of the energy transfer layers and the acceptor layer.
US07772486B2
The present invention provides a photovoltaic device capable of keeping reduction of the yield in modularization in check. This photovoltaic device comprises a transparent conductive film, and a collector which is formed on the surface of the transparent conductive film so as to be in partial contact with a semiconductor layer.
US07772485B2
This disclosure relates to a polymer containing a first comonomer repeat unit and a second comonomer repeat unit different from the first comonomer repeat unit. The first comonomer repeat unit includes a cyclopentadithiophene moiety. The polymer can be used as a photoactive material in a photovoltaic cell. This disclosure also relates to such photovoltaic cells, as well as modules containing such photovoltaic cells.
US07772481B2
Methods and apparatus for simulating the sound of an acoustic percussion instrument. A first stored waveform signal representative of the impulse response of an acoustic percussion instrument is convolved with a waveform produced by a sensor circuit attached to a physical playing surface. Undesirable response characteristics of the playing surface and sensor circuit may be filtered out by deconvolving sensor output, or the stored waveform representing the acoustic instrument, with the impulse response of the combination of the playing surface and the sensor circuit.
US07772476B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for visualizing the rhythmic structure of musical compositions. Circular symmetry and geometric shapes are utilized to visualize representations of rhythmic structures about a central axis. In general, lower frequency rhythm instruments are represented by small geometric shapes, while relatively higher frequency instruments are represented by shapes of larger diameter. The visualizations can be presented in two or three dimensions and may incorporate the use of animation. The result is a graphical representation that is more intuitive and entertaining than traditional music notation.
US07772475B2
A main body 10 having a keyboard operated with player's hands is supported on both sides thereof by stand portions 22, 24. To the lower end of the stand portions 22, 24, a fixed unit 52 is fixed. On the fixed unit 52, a moving unit 60 is mounted so that the moving unit 60 can move frontward and backward. On the moving unit 60, a pedal 62 operated with a player's foot is mounted. Separately from the keyboard operated with the hands, as a result, the player is allowed to adjust his desired front-back directional position of the pedal 62.
US07772473B2
The claimed device is a drum rim extension. Previously, drummers playing cross-stick, (that is, laying the stick across the rim of the drum to produce a clicking or tapping sound), had difficulty maintaining a good grip on the drumstick and finding a consistent sound throughout performances. The drum rim extension is a block of metal, wood or plastic that connects to a portion of the rim of and drum and provides the player up to several inches of free space above the drum, improving stick handling and playing consistency. The drum rim extension improves drumming where rim playing is prominent in musical pieces.
US07772472B2
In a fipple flute, an instrument body includes an outer surface defining an interior resonating cavity. An airway extends from the outer surface into the resonating cavity and includes an adaptor which joins a brass instrument mouthpiece with a fipple flute. The tone produced from the brass instrument mouthpiece along with the separate tone generated by the fipple whistle allows the player the ability to create new sounds and harmonies.
US07772467B1
A novel inbred maize variety designated PHF3P and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize variety PHF3P with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHF3P through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred variety PHF3P or a trait conversion of PHF3P with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHF3P, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHF3P and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07772465B2
The invention provides nucleic acids, and variants and fragments thereof, obtained from strains of Bacillus thuringiensis encoding polypeptides having pesticidal activity against insect pests, including Lepidoptera. Particular embodiments of the invention provide isolated nucleic acids encoding pesticidal proteins, pesticidal compositions, DNA constructs, and transformed microorganisms and plants comprising a nucleic acid of the embodiments. These compositions find use in methods for controlling pests, especially plant pests.
US07772462B2
The present invention relates to methods of imparting virus resistance to plants. In one aspect, this method involves silencing a gene encoding a translation initiation factor eIF4E in the plant. In another aspect, this method involves overexpressing a heterologous translation initiation factor eIF4E in a plant. The present invention further relates to a genetic construct containing a nucleic acid molecule encoding a heterologous translation initiation factor eIF4E, as well as to an expression system containing the genetic construct and a host cell transformed with the genetic construct. The present invention also relates to transgenic plants, seeds, and plant parts transformed with the genetic construct. The present invention also relates to an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding a mutant translation initiation factor eIF4E that is effective in imparting virus resistance in plants. The present invention also relates to a mutant translation initiation factor eIF4E and a method for making the mutant.
US07772455B1
A disposable article adapted to receive bodily exudates which provides improved management of such bodily exudates by including an effective amount of one or more agents which act to modify the physical properties of feces or other bodily wastes which may be deposited in the article, or by including one or more compositions such as the aforesaid one or more agents which enhance the removability of bodily waste, such as feces, from the skin of the article's wearer.
US07772451B2
A system for chemically decontaminating radioactive material.
US07772446B2
A process for preparing substituted biphenyls in which R1=nitro, amino or NHR3, R2=CN, NO2, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C1-C6-alkylcarbonyl or phenyl, R3=C1-C4-alkyl, C2-C4-alkenyl or C2-C4-alkynyl, m=1 or 2; n=0 to 3, which comprises reacting a compound II in the presence of a base and of a palladium catalyst selected from the group of: a) palladium-triarylphosphine or -trialkylphosphine complex with palladium in the zero oxidation state, b) salt of palladium in the presence of triarylphospine or trialkylphosphine as a complex ligand or c) metallic palladium applied to support if appropriate, in the presence of triarylphosphine or trialkylphosphine, in a solvent, with a diphenylborinic acid (III)
US07772439B2
An amino or thiol linker building block for the synthesis of amino or thiol functionalized amino acids and generally of the following structure: is provided. Such building block may be introduced in the 5′ end position of an amino acid under standard coupling conditions. Such building block allows in-line coupling control, “trityl-on” purification, and solid support functionalization/derivatization. Such building block is a stable, solid compound and can therefore be easily handled. With the building block of the present invention, deprotection may be carried out under standard detritylation conditions.
US07772431B1
A compound consists of a fractal-like, plain or organometallic array useful for energy storage devices. A dendrimer useful in the synthesis of the fractal-like compound includes a single ligating moiety bound to a surface of each quadrant of the dendrimer. A method of making metallo-based (macro) molecules includes the steps of combining monomers selected from the group consisting of bipyridal- and terpyridal-based ligands with connecting metals and self assembling macrocycles wherein the monomes are interconnected by the metals.
US07772429B2
The invention relates to the compound of the formula 1 and to its physiologically acceptable salts. The compound is suitable, for example, as a hypolipidemic.
US07772427B2
The present invention relates to the use of compounds of the formula for treating obsessive compulsive neurosis.
US07772426B2
Disclosed is a method for efficiently and highly selectively producing L-2-amino-4-(hydroxymethylphosphinyl)-butanoic acid, which is useful as a herbicide, through a catalytic asymmetric synthesis reaction. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing L-2-amino-4-(hydroxymethylphosphinyl)-butanoic acid which is characterized in that a dehydroamino acid is subjected to an asymmetric hydrogenation by using a rhodium catalyst represented by the formula (2) below and having an optically active cyclic phosphine ligand, and then the resulting product is subjected to hydrolysis: [Rh(R4)(L)]X (2) [where R4 represents 1,5-cyclooctadien or norbornadien; L represents a substance represented by the following formula (6): (wherein R5 and R8 respectively represent a C1-4 alkyl group; R6 and R7 respectively represent hydrogen atom or hydroxyl group; and Y represents a group selected from groups represented by the following formula (7): (where Me represents methyl group)).].
US07772424B2
Disclosed is an optimized system for more efficiently and economically producing terephthalic acid. The system employs an evaporative removal step downstream of oxidative digestion. The evaporative removal step removes a portion of the liquid phase and promotes precipitation of certain aromatic impurities. By promoting precipitation of certain aromatic impurities, the amount of the precipitated impurities in the recycled solvent is advantageously reduced.
US07772408B1
Compositions of matter comprising 5-phenylalkoxypsoralen compounds and their method of synthesis and use. The compounds are useable to treat diseases or disorders in human or veterinary patients, including autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. The compounds inhibit potassium channels, including the Kv1.3 channel and at least some of the therapeutic effects of such compounds may be due at least in part to potassium channel inhibition.
US07772407B2
The present invention provides C-glycoside derivatives and salts thereof, wherein B ring is bonded to A ring via —X— and A ring is directly bonded to the glucose residue, and it is usable as a Na+-glucose cotransporter inhibitor, especially for a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for diabetes such as insulin-dependent diabetes (type 1 diabetes) and insulin-independent diabetes (type 2 diabetes), as well as diabetes related diseases such as an insulin-resistant diseases and obesity.
US07772405B2
The invention related to a novel process, novel process steps and novel intermediates useful in the synthesis of pharmaceutically active compounds, especially renin inhibitors, such as Aliskiren. Inter alia, the invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a compound of the formula II, or a salt thereof, and a compound of formula VI or a salt thereof, wherein R3 and R4 as well as Act are as defined in the specification, and processes of manufacturing these. Additionally transformation of compounds (VI) with metallo organic compounds (VII) give rise to the new compounds (VIII) which are direct precursors for the preparation of Aliskiren.
US07772402B2
The invention relates to compounds having general formula I in which X represents an optically detectable moiety, n is an integer with 1≦n≦20, R1 is an unbranched or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and R2 is hydrogen or —CH2—O—R3 group, wherein R3 has the same meaning as R1. These compounds are useful as inhibitors of lipolytic enzymes and can be used as tools for analysis as well as discrimination of lipolytic enzymes in biological samples.
US07772401B2
The invention provides a novel process for the preparation of lercanidipine or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt using novel intermediates. Thus, 2,N-dimethyl-N-(3,3-diphenylpropy1)-1-amino-2-propanol is reacted with trimethylsilyl chloride in presence of triethyl amine in methylene chloride to give 2,N-dimethyl-2-(trimethylsilyloxy)-N-(3,3-diphenylpropy1)-1-propanamine, which is then reacted with 2,6-dimethyl-5-methoxycarbonyl-4-(3-nitrophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carbonyl chloride for 2 hours and crystallized to obtain lercanidipine hydrochloride.
US07772400B2
The present invention relates to a method for optical resolution of amlodipines by using isopropanol solvent and optically active O,O′-dibenzoyl tartaric acid as chiral reagent. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method comprising (a) obtaining (R)- or (S)-amlodipine dibenzoyl tartrate salt or solvate thereof by reacting (R,S)-amlodipines with optically active O,O′-dibenzoyl tartaric acid in isopropanol solvent, and (b) treating the (R)- or (S)-amlodipine salt with a base, thus obtaining optically active amlodipine.
US07772399B2
The present invention provides a novel process for the preparation of amorphous form of donepezil hydrochloride.
US07772395B2
A process for the preparation of the compounds of the formula (I), or salts thereof, wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or difluoromethanesulfonyl, characterized in that compounds of the formula (II), or salts thereof, wherein R has the same definition as aforementioned, and n represents 0 or 1, are reacted in the presence of hydrogen peroxide and acetic acid.
US07772390B1
Methods and compositions for synthesizing polymers, such as nucleic acids, are provided. Aspects of the invention include methods in which lipids and monomeric precursors, e.g., mononucleotides, of the desired polymeric products are combined to produce a reaction mixture. The reaction mixture is then subjected to one or more steps of drying and rehydrating to produce a desired polymeric product, e.g., nucleic acid. Also provided are the polymeric products themselves, e.g., nucleic acid products, as well as systems and kits for practicing embodiments of the invention.
US07772389B2
The invention relates to isolated anti-microRNA molecules. In another embodiment, the invention relates to an isolated microRNA molecule. In yet another embodiment, the invention provides a method for inhibiting microRNP activity in a cell.
US07772384B2
Nucleosides and nucleotides are disclosed that are linked to detectable labels via a cleavable linker group.
US07772383B2
A composition for performing a polynucleotide amplification reaction at low temperature, including a polynucleotide amplification reaction mixture into which is incorporated a sufficiently high concentration of a low molecular weight compound selected from the group consisting of amides, sulfones, sulfoxides and diols, to accomplish the amplification at the low temperature.In another embodiment, a composition for enhancing a polynucleotide amplification reaction, including a polynucleotide amplification reaction mixture into which is incorporated a low molecular weight diol in an amount effective to enhance the polynucleotide amplification.
US07772380B2
α-Galactosylceramides and glycosylceramides (“ceramide-like glycolipids”) that modulate NK T cells. The ceramide-like glycolipids vary in the cytokines induced in NK T cells and vary in the antigen-presenting cells that are capable of efficiently presenting the compounds to NK T cells. Pharmaceutical compositions of the ceramide-like glycolipids are provided, as are pharmaceutical compositions of the ceramide-like glycolipids combined with dendritic cells. Methods utilizing the ceramide-like glycolipids in vaccines, to activate NK T cells, to stimulate the immune system, and to treat mammals are also provided. The invention also provides methods of evaluating a compound for its ability to activate an NK T cell in the presence of a cell expressing a CD1d protein.
US07772374B2
The invention relates to spore specific antibodies. Compositions and methods relating to the antibodies are provided along with the hybridomas that produce the antibodies. The antibodies are specific for the spores of Bacillus anthracis relative to the vegetative form of the cells. The antibodies are also specific for the spores relative to other Bacillus spores and cells. The antibodies may be used to detect the presence of Bacillus anthracis spores by use of methods provided herein. The invention also relates to articles of manufacture as well as kits comprising these antibodies which may be used in the detection methods of the invention.
US07772373B2
The present invention provides humanized, chimeric and human anti-CD74 antibodies, CD74 antibody fusion proteins, immunoconjugates, vaccines and bispecific that bind to CD74, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class-II invariant chain, Ii, which is useful for the treatment and diagnosis of B-cell disorders, such as B-cell malignancies, other malignancies in which the cells are reactive with CD74, and autoimmune diseases, and methods of treatment and diagnosis.
US07772372B2
The present invention features polypeptides, such as antibodies, and their use in the treatment and diagnosis of neoplasms.
US07772370B2
Compositions and methods for protecting a plant from a pathogen, particularly a fungal pathogen, are provided. Compositions include novel amino acid sequences, and variants and fragments thereof, for antipathogenic polypeptides that were isolated from microbial fermentation broths. Nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences that encode the antipathogenic polypeptides of the invention are also provided. A method for inducing pathogen resistance in a plant using the nucleotide sequences disclosed herein is further provided. The method comprises introducing into a plant an expression cassette comprising a promoter operably linked to a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention. Compositions comprising an antipathogenic polypeptide or a transformed microorganism comprising a nucleic acid of the invention in combination with a carrier and methods of using these compositions to protect a plant from a pathogen are further provided. Transformed plants, plant cells, seeds, and microorganisms comprising a nucleotide sequence that encodes an antipathogenic polypeptide of the invention, or variant or fragment thereof, are also disclosed.
US07772366B2
The present invention relates to novel classes of compounds which are inhibitors of interleukin-1β converting enzyme. The ICE inhibitors of this invention are characterized by specific structural and physicochemical features. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The compounds and pharmaceutical compositions of this invention are particularly well suited for inhibiting ICE activity and consequently, may be advantageously used as agents against interleukin-1 mediated diseases, including inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases and neurodegenerative diseases. This invention also relates to methods for inhibiting ICE activity and methods for treating interleukin-1 mediated diseases using the compounds and compositions of this invention.
US07772345B2
The invention is related to a hydrocarbylphenol-formaldehyde linear novolak resin modified with a vinyl monomer. A modified, hydrocarbylphenol-formaldehyde linear novolak resin of the invention is prepared by reacting a hydrocarbyl phenol-formaldehyde linear novolak resin with a vinyl monomer in the presence of an acid catalyst. The invention also relates to a rubber compositions with improved tack comprising a rubber or mixture of rubbers, and the modified, hydrocarbylphenol-formaldehyde linear novolak resin.
US07772343B2
The present invention relates to core/shell vinyl polymers wherein an at least partially crosslinked core is formed from a monovinyl monomer and/or a di/tri/ or higher multivinyl monomer wherein the degree of crosslinking in the core ranges from slight to high depending on the ratio of monovinyl and/or di/tri/ or higher multivinyl monomers, and wherein the outer shell is formed from a monovinyl and/or a di/tri/ or higher multi-vinyl monomer that optionally may be crosslinked, and wherein the outer shell has on its surface linear or branched C.sub.3-C.sub.30 alkyl chains formed from substituted vinyl monomers.
US07772340B2
A subject-matter of the invention is alkoxyamines resulting from β-phosphorated nitroxides corresponding to the formula: in which R represents an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 3, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a residue: in which R3 represents an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 20, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl radical having a number of carbon atoms ranging from 1 to 8, a phenyl radical, an alkali metal, such as Li, Na or K, H4N+, Bu4N+ or Bu3HN+, exhibiting a kinetic dissociation constant kd, measured at 120° C. by EPR, of greater than 0.05 s−1. These compounds can be used as initiators for the (co)polymerizations of at least one monomer which can be polymerized by the radical route.
US07772338B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of a high melt flow propylene homopolymer or random copolymer with low odor and low volatiles content, which is suitable for thin-walled injection molding applications, said process comprising the step of polymerizing propylene and one or more optional comonomers in presence of a Ziegler-Natta catalyst comprising a titanium compound having at least one titanium-halogen bond, and a diether compound as internal electron donor, both supported on a magnesium halide in active form, an organoaluminium compound and an optional external donor.
US07772333B2
Film-forming materials include resins and/or crosslinkers having a —Si(OR)3 group. Film-forming resins can include epoxy, acrylic, polyurethane, polycarbonate, polysiloxane, polyvinyl, polyether, aminoplast, and polyester resins. A process to produce a film-forming resin includes reacting various polymers to incorporate a pendent group comprising a —Si(OR)3 group. Film-forming resins can be used in methods of producing coating compositions. Coating compositions can be used to coat a substrate, such as a metal substrate, by electrodeposition. Applied coatings containing the film-forming resins can be cured to form crosslinked films on substrates.
US07772331B2
Provided is a method of producing a low viscosity phenol-modified aromatic hydrocarbon formaldehyde resin (C), including subjecting an aromatic hydrocarbon formaldehyde resin (A) and a phenol (B) to condensation reaction under the presence of an acid catalyst. The method includes: terminating, when a reaction mixture has a viscosity at 25° C. of 200 to 1,500 mPa·S, the condensation reaction by adding an inorganic basic compound and/or a tertiary amine compound having a boiling point of 300° C. or more; and distilling and removing the phenol (B) unreacted and a low boiling component after termination of the condensation reaction, whereby there can be produced a low viscosity phenol-modified aromatic hydrocarbon formaldehyde resin which is kept in a liquid state and contains small amounts of unreacted phenols, and in which increase in viscosity is small even after removal of low boiling components.
US07772330B2
The present invention provides a process for conditioning double metal cyanide (DMC) catalysts, which are employed in the preparation of polyether polyols based on starter compounds having active hydrogen atoms, the preparation of polyether polyols using the conditioned catalysts and the use of the polyether polyols prepared in this way for the preparation of polyurethane materials.
US07772325B2
A thermoplastic elastomer composition containing a dynamically cross-linked composition of (A) 10 to 70 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin, (B) 30 to 90 parts by weight of a modified butyl rubber composition containing a modified butyl rubber modified reacting, to butyl rubber, (a) a compound containing, in the molecule thereof, a nitroxide free radical stable at ah ordinary temperature in the presence of oxygen, and (c) a bifunctional or higher functional radical polymerizable monomer, and (C) 0.01 to 15 parts by weight of a cross-linking agent.
US07772324B2
An olefin polymer composition comprising (by weight, unless otherwise specified): A) 60-85% of a crystalline propylene homopolymer or a crystalline copolymer of propylene containing 3% or less of ethylene or C4-C10 α-olefin(s) or of combinations thereof, said homopolymer or copolymer having a Polydispersity Index (P.I.) value of from 4.5-6 and a content of isotactic pentads (mmmm), measured by 13C NMR on the fraction insoluble in xylene at 25° C., higher than 96%; B) 15-40% of a partially amorphous copolymer of ethylene containing from 35% to 70% of propylene or C4-C10 α-olefin(s) or of combinations thereof, and optionally minor proportions of a diene. The said olefin polymer composition exhibits a value of elongation at break ranging from 150 to 600% according to ISO method 527.
US07772323B2
The present invention relates to conjugated copolymers comprising blocks which are linked by random or partly random sections. The materials of the invention display an improved efficiency, a reduced operating voltage and a longer life.
US07772321B2
The present invention relates to polymer dispersions in polyester polyols, a process for producing them and their use for the production of polyurethanes, in particular microcellular polyurethanes. These polyester polyols have sulfur atoms and are free of olefinically unsaturated groups.
US07772320B2
A thermosetting coating material comprising (A) at least 50% by weight, based on the amount of nonvolatile substances in the coating material of (A1) from 0% to 50% by weight, based on the entirety of components (A1) and (A2), of a polymethacrylate copolymer containing more than 50% by weight, based on the entirety of comonomers in the copolymer (A1), of free-radically polymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated compounds (a1) containing at least one reactive group of the formula I —X—SiR″x(OR′)3-x (I) and (A2) from 50% to 100% by weight, based on the entirety of components (A1) and (A2), of an adduct of polyisocyanate and alkoxysilane, (A2) containing at least one reactive group of the formula II: —NR—C(O)—N—(X—SiR″x(OR′)3-x)n(X′—SiR″y(OR′)3-y)m (II) (B) a catalyst for the crosslinking of the —Si(OR′)3-x units, and (C) an aprotic solvent or a mixture of aprotic solvents.
US07772307B2
The present invention relates to a water dispersible polyisocyanate composition bearing urea comprising (a) an aliphatic polyisocyanate or a mixture of aliphatic polyisocyanates or a mixture of aliphatic polyisocyanates with other polyisocyanates; and (b) a reaction product of component (a) with component (c) a polyoxyalkylene amine or a mixture of a polyoxyalkylene amine and a polyoxyalkylene alcohol. The present invention also relates to a water dispersible polyisocyanate composition bearing urea and urea derivatives which is obtained by heating the above composition bearing urea for conducting a subsequent reaction, to increase the numbers of isocyanate functional groups contained in said composition, wherein the urea derivatives include biuret, triuret and tetrauret, and most of them are biuret.The present invention further relates to a water dispersible polyisocyanate composition bearing biuret which is obtained by heating the above composition bearing urea for conducting a subsequent reaction, to increase the numbers of isocyanate functional groups contained in said composition.The present invention another relates to an aqueous resin adhesive which contains the water dispersible polyisocyanate composition of the present invention and an aqueous resin containing active hydrogen reactive groups.
US07772301B2
A bitumen based adhesive that includes asphalt and/or coal tar and at least one silylated polymer and/or silyl-terminated polymer. The bitumen based adhesive can also include a plasticizer.
US07772300B2
A polymeric composition consisting of water-soluble or water-swellable copolymers containing sulfo groups and nonionic polysaccharide derivatives, such as methylcellulose (MC), hydroxyethylcellulose (HEC), hydroxypropylcellulose (HPC), methylhydroxyethylcellulose (MHEC), methylhydroxypropylcellulose (MHPC) and welan gum or diutan gum, and the use thereof as an additive in aqueous construction systems based on hydraulic binders, such as cement, lime, gypsum or anhydrite, is described. The composition can also be used in water-based paint and coating systems. The composition according to the invention exhibits a synergistic improvement of the properties and, when used in relatively small amounts, constitutes highly effective water retention agents in such construction and paint systems, which also achieve outstanding air pore stability and tack.
US07772291B2
A process for producing liquid and, optionally, gaseous products from gaseous reactants includes feeding at a low level a gaseous reactants feed comprising at least CO and H2 into an expanded slurry bed of solid non-shifting hydrocarbon synthesis catalyst particles suspended in a suspension liquid, the expanded slurry bed having an aspect ratio of less than 5. The gaseous reactants and any recycled gas are allowed to react with a per pass CO plus H2 conversion of at least 60% as they pass upwardly through the slurry bed at a gas velocity of at least 35 cm/s, thereby to form liquid and, optionally, gaseous products, and with the gaseous reactants and any recycled gas and any gaseous product assisting in maintaining the solid catalyst particles in suspension in the suspension liquid, and with the liquid product forming together with the suspension liquid, a liquid phase of the slurry bed.
US07772288B2
The invention provides a composition that is a dispersion made from a Group III nitride, a solvent system, and a dispersant. The dispersion can be used to prepare Group III nitride thin films on a wide range of substrates, for example, glass, silicon, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon carbide, aluminum nitride, sapphire, and organic polymers. The particle size of the Group III nitride used for producing the thin films can be controlled by adjusting centrifugation of the dispersion and selecting a desired layer of supernatant. The dispersant can be removed from the thin films by calcination. The Group III nitride can contain a dopant. Doped Group III nitride thin films can emit visible light upon irradiation. Green, red, and yellow light emissions result from irradiating erbium-, europium-, and cerium-doped gallium nitride, respectively.
US07772280B2
The present invention provides crystals of L-ornithine and a process for producing the crystals of L-ornithine including the steps of (i) exposing L-ornithine or a salt thereof, a composition comprising L-ornithine or a salt thereof, or a solution containing L-ornithine, a salt thereof, or the composition to a cation exchange resin to adsorb L-ornithine onto the cation exchange resin; (ii) eluting L-ornithine from the cation exchange resin on which L-ornithine is adsorbed with an aqueous alkaline solution, and removing an alkaline component from the resulting eluate to prepare an aqueous L-ornithine solution; and (iii) mixing the aqueous L-ornithine solution with a hydrophilic organic solvent, and crystallizing L-ornithine from the resulting mixed solution.
US07772279B2
A vegetable butter based dietary supplement of cetyl myristoleate is disclosed for use in the treatment of osteoarthritis and other joint inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system in animals, especially equines. In its preferred form, the cetyl myristoleate is a vegetable butter-based and is administered in doses of about 4000 to about 4500 mg. The dosage may also include 3000 mg methylsulfonylmethane, 3000 mg glucosamine HCL and 1000 mg of Vitamin C.
US07772278B2
The invention describes novel nitrosated and/or nitrosylated prostaglandins, and novel compositions comprising at least one nitrosated and/or nitrosylated prostaglandin, and, optionally, at least one compound that donates, transfers or releases nitric oxide, elevates endogenous levels of endothelium-derived relaxing factor, stimulates endogenous synthesis of nitric oxide or is a substrate for nitric oxide synthase, and/or at least one vasoactive agent. The invention also provides novel compositions comprising at least one prostaglandin and at least one S-nitrosothiol compound, and, optionally, at least one vasoactive agent. The prostaglandin is preferably a prostaglandin E1 compound, more preferably alprostadil, and the S-nitrosothiol compound is preferably S-nitrosoglutathione. The invention also provides methods for treating or preventing sexual dysfunctions in males and females, for enhancing sexual responses in males and females, and for treating or preventing cerebrovascular disorders, cardiovascular disorders, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), glaucoma, peptic ulcers or for inducing abortions.
US07772271B2
The present invention provides compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using such compounds or compositions for treating infection by a virus, or for affecting viral IRES activity.
US07772269B2
The invention relates to the compounds of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and solvate thereof, wherein R1 is F or H and to processes for the preparation of, intermediates used in the preparation of, compositions containing the uses of, such compounds. The compounds according to the present invention are useful in numerous diseases, disorders and conditions, in particular allergic and respiratory diseases, disorders and conditions.
US07772261B2
The disclosure relates to a compound of formula (I): in which: R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as described in the specification, to compositions containing them and to their therapeutic use, especially as anticancer agents. The disclosure also relates to the process for preparing these compounds and to certain intermediate products.
US07772257B2
The present invention comprises bicyclic aryl-sulfonic acid [1,3,4]-thiadiazol-2-yl-amides, their functional derivatives thereof as well as their physiologically acceptable salts and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that exhibit peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) PPARdelta and PPARgamma agonist activity. The structure of the compounds of the invention are defined by Formula I below, wherein the various substituents are defined herein, including their physiologically acceptable salts. Processes for the preparation of compounds are also disclosed. The compounds are suitable for the treatment of fatty acid metabolism and glucose utilization disorders, disorders relating to insulin resistance are involved as well as demyelinating and other neurodegenerative disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system.
US07772248B2
The present disclosure is directed to modulators of GABAA receptors and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, the chemical synthesis thereof, and the medical use of such compounds for the treatment and/or management of sleep disorders and/or for providing a patient in need with a hypnotic, anxiolytic or anti-convulsive effect are described.
US07772247B2
The invention relates to the inhibition of VEGF receptor signaling and HGF receptor signaling. The invention provides compounds and methods for inhibiting VEGF receptor signaling and HGF receptor signaling. The invention also provides compositions and methods for treating cell proliferative diseases and conditions
US07772246B2
The present invention is directed to compounds of Formula (I), and to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, their synthesis, and their use as Raf inhibitors.
US07772232B2
A compound of formula I wherein m, n, A, B, D, E, G, H, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R8, are described herein. Said compounds being useful as inhibitors of potassium channel function and in the treatment of arrhythmia, IKur-associated disorders, and other disorders mediated by ion channel function.
US07772227B2
The invention relates to tricyclic 1-[(indol-3-yl)carbonyl]piperazine derivative having the general Formula (I) wherein X is CH2, O or S; R represents 1-3 substituents independently selected from H, (C1-4)alkyl, (C1-4)alkyloxy and halogen; R1 is (C5-8)cycloalkyl; R2 is H or (C1-4)alkyl; R3, R3′, R4′ R4′, R5, R5′ and R6′ are independently hydrogen or (C1-4)-alkyl, optionally substituted with (C1-4)alkyloxy, OH or halogen; R6 is hydrogen or (C1-4)alkyl, optionally substituted with (C1-4)alkyloxy, OH or halogen; or R6 forms together with R7 a 4-7 membered saturated heterocyclic ring, optionally containing a further heteroatom selected from O and S; R7 forms together with R6 a 4-7 membered saturated heterocyclic ring, optionally containing a further heteroatom selected from O and S; or R7 is H, (C1-4)alkyl or (C3-5)cycloalkyl, the alkyl groups being optionally substituted with OH, halogen or (C1-4)alkyloxy; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said tricyclic 1-[(indol-3-yl)carbonyl]piperazine derivatives, and to the use of these derivatives in the treatment of pain, such as peri-operative pain, chronic pain neuropathic pain, cancer pain, and pain and spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis.
US07772216B2
The present invention provides a method for identifying inhibitors of protein kinases and/or protein phosphatases. Methods are also provided for inhibiting protein kinase and/or protein phosphatase activity. Specific non-peptide protein tyrosine kinase and/or protein phosphatase inhibitors are provided. The protein kinase or protein phosphatase inhibitors of the present invention may be used to treat a number of conditions in patients, including cancer, psoriasis, arthrosclerosis, immune system activity, Type II diabetes, and obesity.
US07772210B2
Interstitial cystitis and related GAG-deficient conditions of the bladder and urinary tract are treated by instillation of high dose chondroitin sulfate, such as 400 mg/20 mL. The higher dose of chondroitin is effective for the rapid reduction of symptoms, particularly in patients with severe and otherwise recalcitrant cystitis.
US07772209B2
A method of administering an antifolate to a mammal in need thereof, comprising administering an effective amount of said antifolate in combination with a methylmalonic acid lowering agent.
US07772207B2
A first aspect of the invention relates to a combination comprising a CDK inhibitor and 1-(2-C-cyano-2-dioxy-β-D-arabino-pentofuranosyl)-N4-palmitoyl cytosine, or a metabolite thereof. A second aspect of the invention relates to a pharmaceutical product comprising a CDK inhibitor and 1-(2-C-cyano-2-dioxy-β-D-arabino-pentofuranosyl)-N4-palmitoyl cytosine, or a metabolite thereof, as a combined preparation for simultaneous, sequential or separate use in therapy. A third aspect of the invention relates to a method of treating a proliferative disorder, said method comprising simultaneously, sequentially or separately administering a CDK inhibitor and 1-(2-C-cyano-2-dioxy-β-D-arabino-pentofuranosyl)-N4-palmitoyl cytosine, or a metabolite thereof, to a subject.
US07772203B2
Based at least in part on an understanding of the mechanisms by which small RNAs (e.g., naturally-occurring miRNAs) mediate RNA silencing in plants, rules have been established for determining, for example, the degree of complementarity required between an RNAi-mediating agent and its target, i.e., whether mismatches are tolerated, the number of mismatches tolerated, the effect of the position of the mismatches, etc. Such rules are useful, in particular, in the design of improved RNAi-mediating agents which allow for more exact control of the efficacy of RNA silencing.
US07772201B2
The present invention is directed to methods of transfecting cells with siRNA, by contacting a transfection complex with one or more cells, where the transfection complex includes a transport polymer and siRNA. The transport polymer may include for example, H3K8b and/or structurally similar compounds. The invention is also directed to such transfection complexes, and to compositions that include such transfection complexes. The invention is further directed to methods of treating patients using the transfection complexes of the present invention. PolymerStructure of Branched PolymersSequence of Domains H3K8b H8=HHHHNHHHH R=HHHKHHHKHHHK- HHH H3K4b R=KHHHKHHHKHHH- KHHHK H2K4b R=KHKHHKHHKHH- KHHKHHKHK HK4b R=KHKHKHKHKHKH- KHKHKHK
US07772193B2
A method and composition for the prophylaxis or treatment of humans or animals for septic shock and sepsis using a mixture of sophorolipids.
US07772192B2
Compositions and methods for treatment of disease with acetylated disaccharides and analogs thereof are provided.
US07772185B2
The subject invention pertains to the therapeutic use of certain GAG-degrading enzymes, and enzyme combinations, to promote nerve repair and regeneration.
US07772174B2
Compositions useful for removing a polymer material from a substrate, such as an electronic device, and methods of using such compositions are provided. These compositions and methods reduce the corrosion of any underlying metal surfaces, and are particularly suited to remove polymer residues from electronic device substrates.
US07772171B2
An internal combustion engine with a catalyst-containing exhaust-gas aftertreatment device is lubricated with a composition of a base oil; and a zinc salt of a mixture of phosphorus-containing compounds having hydrocarbyl groups R1 and R2 where the average total number of carbon atoms in R1 plus R2 for the mixture of phosphorus-containing compounds is at least 9.5, where 4 to 30 weight percent of such groups contain 2 to 4 carbon atoms and where in less than 8 mole percent of the phosphorus-containing molecules in the mixture of phosphorus-containing compounds each of R1 and R2 contain 2 to 4 carbon atoms.
US07772167B2
A fully formulated lubricating oil, lubricated surface, and lubricant additive concentrates for lubricants providing reduced sludge formation. The fully formulated lubricating oil composition has therein at least one succinimide dispersant, a metal containing detergent, at least one antioxidant, and a hydrocarbon soluble titanium compound. The lubricating oil has improved sludge reducing properties compared to the same lubricating oil composition devoid of the titanium compound.
US07772164B2
There is a viscoelastic fluid. The fluid has one or more cationic surfactants selected from the group consisting of certain quaternary salts, certain amines, and combinations thereof; one or more anionic polymers/anionic surfactants; one or more of certain zwitterionic/amphoteric surfactants; and water. There is also a method of fracturing a subterranean formation. The viscoelastic fluid is pumped through a wellbore and into a subterranean formation at a pressure sufficient to fracture the formation. There is also a method for gravel packing a subterranean formation.
US07772160B2
Pellets can be injected into oil and gas production equipment that may contain stagnant or slow moving system fluids to treat the stagnant or slow moving system fluids to prevent conditions such as corrosion. The pellets have a density such that they may be moved through the equipment by system fluids passing therethrough. When the pellets come into contact with the stagnant or slow moving system fluids, sufficient pellets enter the stagnant or slow moving system fluids to treat it. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07772157B2
The present invention relates to a superconducting film having a substrate and a superconductor layer formed on the substrate, in which nano grooves are formed parallel to a current flowing direction on a substrate surface on which the superconductor layer is formed and two-dimensional crystal defects are introduced in the superconductor layer on the nano grooves, and a method of manufacturing this superconducting film. A superconducting film of the invention, which is obtained at low cost and has very high Jc, is useful in applications such as cables, magnets, shields, current limiters, microwave devices, and semifinished products of these articles.
US07772156B2
Microbicidal compositions including (a) cyanodithiocarbimate and (b) an N-alkyl heterocyclic compound; a triazole compound or salt thereof or metal complex thereof; a microbicide with an activated halogen atom or a formaldehyde releasing compound; 1,4-bis(bromoacetoxy)-2-butene; 2-(thiocyanomethylthio)benzothiazole; a methylene-bis(thiocyanate); a halogenated acetophenone; a halopropynl compound; an iodosulfone; a phenol; a halocyanoacetamide compound and/or a quaternary ammonium compound are described. Components (a) and (b) can be present in a synergistically effective amount to control the growth of at least one microorganism. Methods for controlling the growth of microorganisms with the compositions are also disclosed.
US07772148B2
An annular unsupported catalyst for the heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of propene to acrolein at a propene hourly space velocity on the fixed catalyst bed of ≧120 1 (STP)/1·h and a total CO2 and saturated hydrocarbon content of the starting reaction gas mixture of below 15 mol %, the catalysts of the fixed catalyst bed are the annular unsupported catalysts whose active composition is a multimetal oxide in which the molar Co/Fe ratio=from 2 to 4 and the molar Co/Mo ratio=from 0.3 to 0.7.
US07772147B2
A solid catalyst carrier substrate coated with a surface area-enhancing washcoat composition including a catalytic component, a metal oxide and a refractory fibrous or whisker-like material having an aspect ratio of length to thickness in excess of 5:1.
US07772144B2
A soda-lime-silica based glass composition for manufacturing on a float line that has a faster refining rate due to the introduction of alkali earth oxides such as BaO, ZnO and/or SrO in the amount of from about 1-4% in total. These oxides replace part or all of the MgO in the base glass composition thereby decreasing the overall MgO content in the glass composition to about 2% or less. The glass can realize a lower viscosity at high temperatures so that refining of the melt may occur faster.
US07772142B2
In a protective material (liner, edge cover, and packing tape) formed by laminating a metal mesh and sheets, even if inexpensive sheets instead of high-strength fiber sheets are used, the integration between the sheets and the metal mesh is increased, the stitches of the metal mesh are prevented from misaligned, and sufficient cut resistance is provided.
US07772133B2
An oxide film forming equipment is provided with a reactor 10 in which a heater unit 14 holding a substrate 100 is stored, a piping 11 provided with a material gas introducing valve V1 for introducing a material gas containing organic silicon or organic metal into the reactor, a piping 12 provided with an ozone containing gas introducing valve V2 for introducing an ozone containing gas into the reactor 10, and a piping 13 provided with an exhaustion valve 13 for exhausting a gas in the reactor 10. When the material gas introducing valve V1, the ozone containing gas introducing valve V2, and the exhaustion valve V3 perform open-and-closure operations to alternately supply the material gas and the ozone containing gas into the reactor 10, the ozone containing gas introducing valve V2 operates to fall an ozone concentration of the ozone containing gas in a range from 0.1 vol % to 100 vol % and the heater unit adjusts a temperature of the substrate from a room temperature to 400° C.
US07772126B2
An interlayer is disposed on a pattern surface of a substrate. A buried hard mask may be provided on the interlayer. The buried hard mask includes a template opening having a template length along a line axis and a template width perpendicular thereto. The buried hard mask is filled with a fill material. A top mask is provided above the filled buried hard mask. The top mask includes a trim opening crossing the template opening and having a trim width along the line axis that is smaller than the template length. By etching the fill material and the interlayer using the top and buried hard mask a process section of the pattern surface may be exposed such that a target length and width of the process section result from the template and the trim widths. The planar dimensions of the process section may be decoupled from each other.
US07772119B2
A high tensile stress capping layer on Cu interconnects in order to reduce Cu transport and atomic voiding at the Cu/dielectric interface. The high tensile dielectric film is formed by depositing multiple layers of a thin dielectric material, each layer being under approximately 50 angstroms in thickness. Each dielectric layer is plasma treated prior to depositing each succeeding dielectric layer such that the dielectric cap has an internal tensile stress.
US07772117B2
Methods of fabricating highly conductive regions in semiconductor substrates for radio frequency applications are used to fabricate two structures: (1) a first structure includes porous Si (silicon) regions extending throughout the thickness of an Si substrate that allows for the subsequent formation of metallized posts and metallized moats in the porous regions; and (2) a second structure includes staggered deep V-grooves or trenches etched into an Si substrate, or some other semiconductor substrate, from the front and/or the back of the substrate, wherein these V-grooves and trenches are filled or coated with metal to form the metallized moats.
US07772115B2
A method for forming through-wafer interconnects (TWI) in a substrate of a thickness in excess of that of a semiconductor die such as a semiconductor wafer. Blind holes are formed from the active surface, sidewalls thereof are passivated and coated with a solder-wetting material. A vent hole is then formed from the opposite surface (e.g., wafer back side) to intersect the blind hole. The blind hole is solder filled, followed by back thinning of the vent hole portion of the wafer to a final substrate thickness to expose the solder and solder-wetting material at both the active surface and the thinned back side. A metal layer such as nickel, having a glass transition temperature greater than that of the solder, may be plated to form a dam structure covering one or both ends of the TWI including the solder and solder-wetting material to prevent leakage of molten solder from the TWI during high temperature excursions. Intermediate structures of semiconductor devices, semiconductor devices and systems are also disclosed.
US07772113B2
Metal residue on a semiconductor surface resulting from metal chemical mechanical polishing (“CMP”) process are eradicated using a dry clean process. The dry cleaning uniformly removes or substantially eliminates metal residue from the surface of the semiconductor. An unintended metal short that may be present due to the residue may thereby be eliminated by adjusting the dry cleaning process based on a type of dry cleaning material, and type and a thickness of the residue.
US07772088B2
A multilayered substrate structure comprising one or more devices, e.g., optoelectronic, integrated circuit. The structure has a handle substrate, which is characterized by a predetermined thickness and a Young's modulus ranging from about 1 Mega Pascal to about 130 Giga Pascal. The structure also has a thickness of substantially crystalline material coupled to the handle substrate. Preferably, the thickness of substantially crystalline material ranges from about 100 microns to about 5 millimeters. The structure has a cleaved surface on the thickness of substantially crystalline material and a surface roughness characterizing the cleaved film of less than 200 Angstroms. At least one or more optoelectronic devices is provided on the thickness of material.
US07772086B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having an active region and a termination region includes providing a semiconductor substrate having first and second main surfaces opposite to each other. The semiconductor substrate has an active region and a termination region surrounding the active region. The first main surface is oxidized. A first plurality of trenches and a first plurality of mesas are formed in the termination region. The first plurality of trenches in the termination region are filled with a dielectric material. A second plurality of trenches in the termination region. The second plurality of trenches are with the dielectric material.
US07772084B2
A process for self-aligned manufacturing of integrated electronic devices includes: forming, in a semiconductor wafer having a substrate, insulation structures that delimit active areas and project from the substrate; forming a first conductive layer, which coats the insulation structures and the active areas; and partially removing the first conductive layer. In addition, recesses are formed in the insulation structures before forming said first conductive layer.
US07772083B2
An electrical structure and method of forming. The method includes providing a semiconductor structure comprising a semiconductor substrate, a buried oxide layer (BOX) formed over the semiconductor substrate, and a silicon on insulator layer (SOI) formed over and in contact with the BOX layer. The SOI layer comprises shallow trench isolation (STI) structures formed between electrical devices. A first photoresist layer is formed over the STI structures and the electrical devices. Portions of said first photoresist layer, portions of the STI structures, and portions of the BOX layer are removed resulting in formed trenches. Ion implants are formed within portions of the semiconductor substrate. Remaining portions of the first photoresist layer are removed. A dielectric layer is formed over the electrical devices and within the trenches. A second photoresist layer is formed over the dielectric layer. Portions of the second photoresist layer are removed.
US07772082B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a buffer insulating film over a semiconductor substrate including a conductive pattern. The buffer insulating film is etched using a storage node mask to form a buffer insulating pattern exposing the conductive pattern. The buffer insulating pattern defines a region wider than a storage node region. An etch stop film is formed over the conductive pattern and the buffer insulating pattern. An interlayer insulating film is formed over the etch stop film. The interlayer insulating film is etched using the storage node mask to expose the etch stop film. The exposed etch stop film is etched to form the storage node region exposing conductive pattern. A lower storage node is formed over the storage node region.
US07772072B2
A non-volatile memory located on a substrate is provided. The non-volatile memory includes a tunnel layer, a charge trapping composite layer, a gate and a source/drain region. The tunnel layer is located on the substrate, the charge trapping composite layer is located on the tunnel layer and the gate is located over the charge trapping composite layer. The source/drain region is located in the substrate on both sides of the tunnel layer. With the charge trapping composite layer, the non-volatile memory has relatively better programming and erasing performance and higher data retention ability. Furthermore, since there is no need to perform a thermal process in the formation of the charge trapping composite layer, thermal budget of the manufacturing process is low.
US07772066B2
In one embodiment, a first transistor is comprised of a first p+ source region doped in an n-well in the substrate and a first n+ drain region doped on one side at the top of the pillar. A second transistor is comprised of a second p+ source region doped into the second side of the top of the pillar and serially coupled to the top drain region for the first transistor. A second n+ drain region is doped into the substrate adjacent the pillar. Ultra-thin body layer run along each pillar sidewall between their respective active regions. A gate structure is formed along the pillar sidewalls and over the body layers. The transistors operate by electron tunneling from the source valence band to the gate bias-induced n-type channels, along the ultra-thin silicon bodies, thus resulting in a drain current.
US07772061B2
A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer of a thin film transistor and a first electrode of a capacitor are formed of amorphous silicon and the whole or a part of source/drain regions of the semiconductor layer and the first electrode of the capacitor are crystallized by a metal induced crystallization method, and a channel region of the semiconductor layer is crystallized by a metal induced lateral crystallization method.
US07772055B2
The present invention recites a new method for manufacturing Group III-N field-effect devices, such as HEMT, MOSHFET, MISHFET devices or MESFET devices, grown by Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Expitaxy, with higher performance (power), by covering the surface with a thin SiN layer on the top AlGaN layer, in the reactor where the growth takes place at high temperature, prior cooling down the structure and loading the sample out of the reactor, as well as a method to produce some HEMT transistors on those heterostructures, by depositing the contact on the surface without any removal of the SiN layer by MOCVD. The present invention recites also a device.
US07772052B2
There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, in which removal of the resist after ion implantation becomes easy. In order to solve the above problem, the manufacturing method includes a step of removing a resist mask after a step of implanting an ion of a rare gas element. Also, another manufacturing method includes a first step of implanting an ion of an impurity element for imparting a conductivity type, a second step of implanting an ion of a rare gas element, and a third step of removing a resist mask after the first step and the second step.
US07772049B2
An exemplary embodiment includes a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device can include a channel including one or more compounds of the formula AxBxOx, wherein each A is selected from the group of Cu, Ag, Sb, each B is selected from the group of Cu, Ag, Sb, Zn, Cd, Ga, In, Ge, Sn, and Pb, each O is atomic oxygen, each x is independently a non-zero integer, and each of A and B are different.
US07772047B2
A semiconductor device having a redistribution layer, and methods of forming same, are disclosed. After fabrication of semiconductor die on a wafer, a tape assembly is applied onto a surface of the wafer, in contact with the surfaces of each semiconductor die on the wafer. The tape assembly includes a backgrind tape as a base layer, and a film assembly adhered to the backgrind tape. The film assembly in turn includes an adhesive film on which is deposited a thin layer of conductive material. The redistribution layer pattern is traced into the tape assembly, using for example a laser. Thereafter, the unheated portions of the tape assembly may be removed, leaving the heated redistribution layer pattern on each semiconductor die.
US07772046B2
A semiconductor device is made by forming an integrated passive device (IPD) structure on a substrate, mounting first and second electrical devices to a first surface of the IPD structure, depositing encapsulant over the first and second electrical devices and IPD structure, forming a shielding layer over the encapsulant, and electrically connecting the shielding layer to a conductive channel in the IPD structure. The conductive channel is connected to ground potential to isolate the first and second electrical devices from external interference. A recess can be formed in the encapsulant material between the first and second electrical devices. The shielding layer extends into the recess. An interconnect structure is formed on a second surface of the IPD structure. The interconnect structure is electrically connected to the first and second electrical devices and IPD structure. A shielding cage can be formed over the first electrical device prior to depositing encapsulant.
US07772040B2
The present invention includes a temporary fixing step of temporarily fixing a semiconductor element on an adherend interposing an adhesive sheet therebetween, a wire-bonding step of bonding wires to the semiconductor element, and a step of sealing the semiconductor element with a sealing resin, and in which the loss elastic modulus of the adhesive sheet at 175° C. is 2000 Pa or more.
US07772038B2
A method for the singulation of integrated circuit die, the method including: etching a semiconductor layer disposed on a silicon oxide dielectric layer, thereby forming a trench defining a boundary of the die; depositing a silicon nitride layer in the trench; coating the semiconductor layer with an oxide layer such that the trench is filled; removing part of the oxide layer from the semiconductor layer such that the oxide layer only remains in the trench; mounting the semiconductor layer to a carrier; removing the silicon oxide dialectic layer, the nitride layer, and the oxide layer; and releasing the die from the carrier. The method is suitable for irregularly shaped or extremely small die and is compatible with traditional CMOS processes.
US07772037B2
A method for producing a multilayer system on a substrate, wherein a first and a second layer are applied on the substrate, in each case by means of a vacuum coating process, provides adherence of the layers on each other, even if at least one of the layers of the multilayer system is porous. The layer applied first is, after its application and prior to the application of the other layer, partly removed again through an ion etching operation.
US07772034B2
A fabrication method of semiconductor device includes providing a substrate which has a plurality of electrical connection pads and is covered with an insulative layer, wherein the insulative layer has an opening formed for exposing the electrical connection pads; forming a filling material on the insulative layer of the substrate and compressing a semiconductor chip to the substrate through a plurality of bumps, the bumps electrically connecting the electrical connection pads and the filling material filling spacing between the semiconductor chip and the substrate so as to form a filling layer. By replacing the conventional underfilling process with the preprinting process of the filling material, the fabrication cost of the semiconductor device is reduced and the fabrication process is simplified.
US07772033B2
A method for making a semiconductor device includes creating conductive structures on a substrate. Contact pads of a semiconductor die are connected to first ends of conductive structures. The semiconductor die is encapsulated or embedded and the substrate is removed such that second ends of the conductive structures are exposed to the exterior.
US07772022B2
A method of fabricating a photonic device comprises the steps of providing a core pattern of waveguide core material (1) on a base layer (3) and applying a cladding layer (2) over the core material 1 and the base layer (3). The height of the surface of the cladding layer (2) over the base layer (3) varies in dependence on the pattern of core material (1). The core pattern is designed with at least two reference regions, each having a width w that is selected to provide a peak of the cladding layer (2) with a predetermined height h1 over each reference region. The core pattern is further designed such that a line between the peaks of the reference regions is higher than any intervening peaks of the cladding layer, whereby the peaks of the reference regions provide a vertical alignment reference.
US07772021B2
Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductive oxide thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate. The method includes forming gate wiring on an insulation substrate; and forming a structure in which a semiconductive oxide film pattern and data wiring are stacked on the gate wiring, wherein the semiconductive oxide film pattern is selectively patterned to have channel regions of first thickness and source/drain regions of greater second thickness and where image data is coupled to the source regions by data wiring formed on the source regions. According to a 4-mask embodiment, the data wiring and semiconductive oxide film pattern are defined by a shared etch mask.
US07772016B2
Measurement of the extinction coefficient k is employed for effective and prompt in-line monitoring and/or controlling of the metal film composition. The dependency of the extinction coefficient on the composition of a metal compound is characterized by measuring the extinction coefficients of a series of the metal compound with different compositions. A monitor metal film is then deposited on a wafer. The extinction coefficient k of the film on the wafer is measured and a film compositional parameter is extracted. The wafer processing may continue if k is in specification or the needed compositional change in the film may be extracted from the measured value of the k and the established dependence of k on the composition of the film for out-of-spec k values.
US07772009B2
A method for monitoring a chemical component in an industrial water system comprises irradiating a liquid sample from an industrial water system, containing at least one chemical component to be monitored, with light from an excitation light source. Room temperature phosphorescence emitted from the sample is detected after irradiation. The concentration of the chemical component to be monitored is then calculated from the detected room temperature phosphorescence. The liquid sample includes at least one room temperature phosphorescent material (RTPM) and at least one heavy atom perturber (HAP) dissolved therein. The HAP is present in the sample at a concentration sufficient to induce phosphorescence activity in the RTPM. The liquid sample is irradiated in a manner sufficient to induce the RTPM within the sample to emit room temperature phosphorescence, and the calculated concentration of the chemical component to be monitored is a function of the room temperature phosphorescence intensity or temporal metric. A phosphorimeter for measuring room temperature phosphorescence is also described.
US07772006B2
A method of assessing retinal disease in an eye of a patient by rapid, point of care, quantitative detection of cytokine levels is provided.
US07772004B2
The invention relates to a method allowing to determine at least one petroleum characteristic of a geologic sediment sample, wherein the sample is heated in an oxidizing atmosphere, its temperature being successively raised to a first, then to a second value, said first value below 200° C. being reached very quickly, then maintained substantially constant for a certain time, said second value ranging between 600° C. and 850° C. being reached with a temperature gradient ranging between 1 and 30° C./min, from said first value. According to the invention, the amount of SO2 contained by the effluent resulting from said oxidizing heating is measured continuously, every moment of the heating period of said sample.
US07771998B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for inducing an immune response in a human or animal, comprising dendritic cells loaded with at least five cancer/testis antigen and no lineage specific differentiation antigens or substantially no lineage specific differentiation antigens provided from at least one cancer cell line, as well as to isolated cell lines expressing a multiplicity of cancer testis antigens and no differentiation antigens, and to a method of inducing an immune response in a human or animal using the composition of the invention.
US07771993B2
A microutrophin containing a utrophin having internal deletions (relative to a native utrophin) in the hinge regions and a C-terminal deletion is provided. Also provided are vectors and compositions useful for delivering the microutrophin for the treatment of muscular disorders, including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
US07771991B2
A stackable flask for the culturing of cells is disclosed. The cell culture chamber is defined by a top plate and a rigid bottom tray of substantially rectangular shape connected by side and end walls, the body of the flask has imparted therein an opening connected to an angled neck, the neck being hydrophobic to keep fluid out. The neck is also modified to accept a snap-fit cap with a modified stepped skirt. The stepped skirt further prevents contamination by protecting the inner mating surface from contacting a surface. The size of the flask and location of an optional separate neck and cap section allows for flask manipulation by standard automated assay equipment, making the flask ideal for high throughput applications.
US07771978B2
The unique function of the gene egghead as a GDP-mannose: Glcβ1-Cer β1,4 mannosyltransferase is disclosed. The invention discloses isolated DNA molecules and DNA constructs encoding fragments of egghead and derivatives thereof by way of amino acid deletions, substitutions or insertions exhibiting egghead activity, as well as cloning and expression vectors including such DNA, cells transfected with vectors, and recombinant methods for providing egghead protein. Further, the invention discloses methods of obtaining β1,4-mannosylated glycosphingolipids by use of an enzymatically active egghead protein or by using cells stably transfected with a vector including DNA encoding an enzymatically active egghead protein as an expression system for recombinant production of such glycosphingolipids. Also a method for changing, altering or blocking the glycosphingolipid synthesis of cells by stably or transiently transfection with a vector including DNA encoding enzymatically active egghead protein. Furthermore, a novel method for stimulation of the immune system by cell surface presentation of βMan residues is disclosed.
US07771976B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a non-aromatic L-amino acid using a bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae family, particularly a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia or Pantoea, which has been modified to attenuate expression of the csrA gene.
US07771975B2
The invention comprises a two-step process for analysis of polynucleotides by chain extension of multiple polynucleotide primers attached to solid supports by first performing PCR of the samples in the presence of multiple oligonucleotides in solution, the oligonucleotides of both sets being similar or identical. This produces immobilized single-strand polynucleotides containing genetic sequence data derived from sample molecules. In a second step, support-bound polynucleotides are interrogated by hybridization with a single labeled oligonucleotide probe or by second-strand synthesis with a primer-dependent polymerase using an oligonucleotide primer and nucleotide monomers, in which either or both of the primer and nucleotide monomers are labeled. Incorporation of label demonstrates the presence of two separate defined-sequence primers within the sample polynucleotide. The presence or absence within the sample of the multiple combinations of primers is demonstrable in a single experiment by use of suitable apparatus, such as an oligonucleotide array.
US07771973B2
The invention provides modified nucleotide or nucleoside molecule comprising a purine or pyrimidine base and a ribose or deoxyribose sugar moiety having a removable 3′-OH blocking group covalently attached thereto, such that the 3′ carbon atom has attached a group of the structure —O—Z wherein Z is any of —C(R′)2-O—R″, —C(R′)2-N(R″)2, —C(R′)2-N(H)R″, —C(R′)2-S—R″ and —C(R″)2-F, wherein each R″ is or is part of a removable protecting group; each R′ is independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, substituted alkyl, arylalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, heterocyclic, acyl, cyano, alkoxy, aryloxy, heteroaryloxy or amido group, or a detectable label attached through a linking group; or (R′)2 represents an alkylidene group of formula ═C(R′″)2 wherein each R′″ may be the same or different and is selected from the group comprising hydrogen and halogen atoms and alkyl groups; and wherein said molecule may be reacted to yield an intermediate in which each R″ is exchanged for H or, where Z is —C(R′)2-F, the F is exchanged for OH, SH or NH2, preferably OH, which intermediate dissociates under aqueous conditions to afford a molecule with a free 3′OH; with the proviso that where Z is —C(R′)2-S—R″, both R′ groups are not H.
US07771958B2
This invention provides methods for determining or predicting response to cancer therapy in an individual.
US07771953B2
The invention features methods of evaluating the risk of cancer recurrence in a subject diagnosed with cancer.
US07771952B2
This invention relates to drug screening using mammalian repulsive guidance molecules and mammalian Neogenin. In addition, the invention provides for methods of preventing, alleviating or treating various disorders of the nervous system, angiogenic disorders or disorders of the cardio-vascular system and malignancies of different etiology by disrupting the interaction between RGM and Neogenin.
US07771949B2
Kits for highly multiplexed homogeneous in vitro screening assays for numerous possible nucleic acid targets, any of which might be present in a sample, that utilize fluorescent hybridization probes that are combinatorially coded from a panel of fluorophores by subdividing each probe into portions and differently labeling each portion such that, when portions are combined, each probe has a unique code. The kits may include reagents and primers for target amplification and real-time detection.
US07771943B2
A mass spectrometric method for determining the position of unsaturation in a compound is disclosed.
US07771942B2
The invention provides a method for determining a genetic predisposition to prostate cancer in a male human subject. In one aspect, the method comprises determining whether the subject has the genotype GG of refSNP rs125555, where the genotype GG of refSNP rs125555 indicates that the subject is genetically predisposed to prostate cancer.
US07771939B2
Described are methods of assay design and assay image correction, useful for multiplexed genetic screening for mutations and polymorphisms, including CF-related mutants and polymorphs, using an array of probe pairs (in one aspect, where one member is complementary to a particular mutant or polymorphic allele and the other member is complementary to a corresponding wild type allele), with probes bound to encoded particles (e.g., beads) wherein the encoding allows identification of the attached probe. The methods relate to avoiding cross-hybridization by selection of probes and amplicons, as well as separation of reactions of certain probes and amplicons where a homology threshold is exceeded. Methods of correcting a fluorescent image using a background map, where the particles also contain an optical encoding system, are also disclosed.
US07771938B2
This invention provides methods and devices for identifying and/or characterizing interactions involving molecules, including, but not limited to, identifying and/or characterizing interactions involving target molecules and candidate molecules. The present invention provides methods using multidimensional infrared spectrographic techniques, such as four wave mixing and pump-probe techniques, for identifying interactions involving biomolecules and therapeutic candidate molecules, and for characterizing such interactions in terms of their binding coefficients and/or equilibrium constants.
US07771936B2
The present invention provides methods for detecting the presence of methylation at a locus within a population of nucleic acids.
US07771935B2
Nature evolves biological molecules such as proteins through iterated rounds of diversification, selection, and amplification. The power of Nature and the flexibility of organic synthesis are combined in nucleic acid-templated synthesis. The present invention provides a variety of template architectures for performing nucleic acid-templated synthesis, methods for increasing the selectivity of nucleic acid-templated reactions, methods for performing stereoselective nucleic acid-templated reactions, methods of selecting for reaction products resulting from nucleic acid-templated synthesis, and methods of identifying new chemical reactions based on nucleic acid-templated synthesis.
US07771934B2
The present invention provides novel isothermal methods of generating multiple copies of, detecting and/or quantifying nucleic acid sequences of interest based on limited primer extension or attachment of oligonucleotide pairs using composite RNA/DNA primers. Methods for generating multiple copies of and/or detecting and/or quantifying nucleic acid sequences, wherein products of primer extension or attachment of oligonucleotide pairs comprising a cleavable portion are generated, and wherein cleavage of the products results in dissociation of cleaved products from target polynucleotides, are provided. The invention further provides compositions, kits and systems for practicing these methods.
US07771932B1
The invention relates to a method for identification of Tr1 lymphocyte regulators in a biological sample, based on the determination of the simultaneous presence of the molecular group CD4, CD18 and/or CD11a, CD49b and, where appropriate, by the demonstration of an over-expression of genes coding for the molecules CD4, PSGL-1, PECAM-1 and alphaV/beta3. The invention further relates to a method of quantification and a prognostic or diagnostic method for auto-immune or inflammatory diseases, based on said identification method. The invention also relates to an enrichment method for Tr1 lymphocyte regulators, based on the determination of the simultaneous presence of said molecules and, finally, an enriched composition from said enrichment method, for the treatment of an auto-immune or inflammatory disease, in particular Crohn's disease.
US07771931B2
The invention provides methods of diagnosing diseases and conditions associated with PKCλ, methods for identifying compounds that can be used to treat or to prevent such diseases and conditions, and methods of using these compounds to treat or to prevent such diseases and conditions. Also provided in the invention are animal model systems that can be used in screening methods.
US07771929B2
Families of compositions are provided as labels, referred to as eTag reporters for attaching to polymeric compounds and assaying based on release of the eTag reporters from the polymeric compound and separation and detection. For oligonucleotides, the eTag reporters are synthesized at the end of the oligonucleotide by using phosphite or phosphate chemistry, whereby mass-modifying regions, charge-modifying regions and detectable regions are added sequentially to produce the eTag labeled reporters. By using small building blocks and varying their combination large numbers of different eTag reporters can be readily produced attached to a binding compound specific for the target compound of interest for identification. Protocols are used that release the eTag reporter when the target compound is present in the sample.
US07771928B2
Disclosed are an immunoassay device which comprises a labeled substance dotting portion and a specimen dotting portion provided thereon, and an immunoassay method using the device.
US07771927B1
The invention concerns a nucleic material, in isolated or purified state, and a nucleotide fragment comprising a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting in (i) the sequences SEQ ID NO: 112, SEQ ID NO:114, SEQ ID NO: 117, SEQ ID NO: 120, SEQ ID NO. 124, SEQ ID NO: 130, SEQ ID NO: 141 and SEQ ID NO: 142, (ii) the complementary sequences of sequences (i); and (iii) the sequences equivalent to sequences (ii) and (iii), in particular the sequence having for every series of 100 contiguous monomers, at least 50%, preferably 70% homology with sequences (i) and (ii) respectively. The invention also concerns their uses for detecting a retrovirus associated with multiple sclerosis and/or rheumatoid arthritis.
US07771922B2
A biosensor includes a substrate member with a pattern of active areas of receptive material and a pattern of blocking material layers. The receptive material and blocking material are attached to the substrate member with a photo-reactive crosslinking agent activated in a masking process. The receptive material is specific for an analyte of interest.
US07771921B2
Devices, compositions, and methods for handling, separating, packaging, and utilization of spermatozoa (1) that can be derived from previously frozen sperm samples collected from a male mammal. Specifically, techniques to uniformly stain (2) spermatozoal DNA even when derived from previously frozen sperm and separation techniques to separate and isolate spermatozoa even when derived from previously frozen sperm samples into X-chromosome bearing and Y-chromosome bearing populations having high purity.
US07771920B2
A polymer for crosslinking an anti-reflective film has a high refractive index. An anti-reflective composition containing the polymer for crosslinking is useful in an immersion lithography process using ArF (193 nm) of a semiconductor device manufacturing process.
US07771918B2
In a pattern formation method employing immersion lithography, after a resist film is formed on a wafer, pattern exposure is performed by selectively irradiating the resist film with exposing light with a liquid including an unsaturated aliphatic acid, such as sunflower oil or olive oil including oleic acid, provided on the resist film. After the pattern exposure, the resist film is developed so as to form a resist pattern made of the resist film.
US07771912B2
A positive resist composition comprises: (A) a resin of which solubility in an alkali developer increases under the action of an acid, (B) a compound capable of generating an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, (C) a resin having at least one repeating unit selected from fluorine atom-containing repeating units represented by the following formulae (1-1), (1-2) and (1-3), the resin being stable to an acid and insoluble in an alkali developer, and (D) a solvent: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R2 represents a fluoroalkyl group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group; R4 to R7 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, a fluoroalkyl group, an alkoxy group or a fluoroalkoxy group, provided that at least one of R4 to R7 represents a fluorine atom, and R4 and R5, or R6 and R7 may combine to form a ring; R8 represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a monovalent organic group; Rf represents a fluorine atom or a fluorine atom-containing monovalent organic group; L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; Q represents an alicyclic structure; and k represents an integer of 0 to 3.
US07771905B2
A method for calculating an offset of an exposure dose and a focus position in an exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate via an original includes the steps of obtaining information of a shape of a pattern formed on the substrate using the exposure apparatus, calculating a shift amount between a critical dimension contained in the information of the shape of the pattern and a reference value of the critical dimension, and calculating an offset of the focus position based on the information of the shape of the pattern, and calculating the offset of the exposure dose based on the shift amount and the offset of the focus position.
US07771900B2
A method for manufacturing a photo mask includes forming a mask pattern over a transparent substrate; forming a photoresist over the transparent substrate; subjecting the photoresist to an exposure light from the rear of the transparent substrate to form a photoresist pattern on the mask pattern; and correcting a line width in the mask pattern using the photoresist pattern as a mask.
US07771898B2
A multilayer mirror used for EUV light includes a substrate, a reflection layer for reflecting the EUV light, a stress compensation layer, formed between the substrate and the reflection layer, for compensating a deformation of the substrate by the reflection layer, wherein the substrate has a first area, in which the stress compensation layer is layered but no reflection layer is layered.
US07771893B2
A light-shielding film for exposure light is formed on one principal plane of a transparent substrate made of quartz or the like that serves as a photomask substrate. The light-shielding film can serve not only as the so-called “light-shielding film” but also as an anti-reflection film. In addition, the light-shielding film has a total thickness of 100 nm or less, 70% or more of which is accounted for by the thickness of a chromium compound that has an optical density (OD) per unit thickness of 0.025 nm−1 for light having a wavelength of 450 nm. In the case where the photomask blank is used for fabricating a mask designed for ArF exposure, the thickness and composition of the light-shielding film are selected in such a manner that the OD of the light-shielding film is 1.2 to 2.3 for 193 or 248 nm wavelength light.
US07771890B2
The fuel reservoir for a fuel cell is a fuel reservoir detachably connected with a fuel cell main body, and it is equipped with a fuel-storing vessel of a tube type for storing a liquid fuel and a fuel discharge part; the fuel discharge part is provided with a valve for sealing communication between the inside and the outside of the above fuel-storing vessel. The valve assumes a structure in which a slit is formed in an elastic material and a structure in which a valve member is pressed by a resilient body, and is opened by inserting a fuel-supplying member.
US07771888B2
A purge valve for a split fuel cell stack design that prevents a direct flow path between the anode sides of the split stacks. The purge valve includes an inlet port that receives purge air from a compressor, a first outlet port in fluid communication with the anode side of one of the split stacks and a second outlet port in fluid communication with the anode side of the other split stack. A spring biased shaft maintains a diaphragm in a closed position to close off the flow channels between the inlet port and the first outlet port, the inlet port and the second outlet port and the first and second outlet ports during normal fuel cell operation. A hole is provided through the diaphragm to provide pressure equalization in the chamber.
US07771879B2
Provided is a method of producing a nanoparticle-filled phase inversion polymer electrolyte. The method includes mixing a nanoparticle inorganic filler and a polymer with a solvent to obtain a slurry; casting the obtained slurry to form a membrane; obtaining an inorganic nanoparticle-filled porous polymer membrane by developing internal pores in the cast membrane using a phase inversion method; and impregnating the inorganic nanoparticle-filled porous polymer membrane with an electrolytic solution. The polymer electrolyte produced using the method can be used in a small lithium secondary battery having a high capacity, thereby providing an excellent battery property.
US07771870B2
Electrode protection in electrochemical cells, and more specifically, electrode protection in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrochemical cells, including rechargeable lithium batteries, are presented. In one embodiment, an electrochemical cell includes an anode comprising lithium and a multi-layered structure positioned between the anode and an electrolyte of the cell. A multi-layered structure can include at least a first single-ion conductive material layer (e.g., a lithiated metal layer), and at least a first polymeric layer positioned between the anode and the single-ion conductive material. The invention also can provide an electrode stabilization layer positioned within the electrode, i.e., between one portion and another portion of an electrode, to control depletion and re-plating of electrode material upon charge and discharge of a battery. Advantageously, electrochemical cells comprising combinations of structures described herein are not only compatible with environments that are typically unsuitable for lithium, but the cells may be also capable of displaying long cycle life, high lithium cycling efficiency, and high energy density.
US07771869B2
A secondary battery for electronic appliance to be accommodated in an electronic appliance, thereby feeding an electric power to the electronic appliance, is disclosed, which includes a battery cell in which a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte are accommodated in a pack, and a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal from the positive electrode and the negative electrode, respectively are lead out from the same side face of the pack; a metallic battery can in which one opening from which the battery cell is inserted is formed and which accommodates the battery cell therein such that one side face from which the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal are lead out is faced towards the opening side; and a lid made of a synthetic resin in which a positive electrode terminal part and a negative electrode terminal part to be connected to the electrodes of the electronic appliance upon being connected to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal and being faced outwardly are provided and which plugs the opening of the battery can, the battery cell being accommodated in the battery can while the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal being curved between the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal and the lid.
US07771864B2
A cooling fan of a secondary battery and a cooling fan of a DC/DC converter are arranged in parallel to share the same air discharge path. A temperature sensor on an air intake side and a temperature sensor on an air discharge side are attached to the secondary battery. When the cooling fan is in failure, a temperature deviation between the air intake side and the air discharge side in the secondary battery increases because a backflow component of a discharge air is generated through the discharge path as the cooling fan operates. Based on this phenomenon, when operation commands for both of the cooling fans are issued, the control circuit senses a failure in the cooling fan by monitoring the temperature difference between temperatures detected by the temperature sensors. Failure detection is thereby possible without providing a sensor at each of the cooling fans.
US07771862B2
A secondary battery with a maximized cycle-life having a multi-stage safety valve so as to lower the inner pressure of the battery in stages. The multi-stage safety valve is installed on a case and the secondary battery is equipped with an electrode assembly including both positive and negative electrodes and a separator interposed therebetween.
US07771854B2
When an ignition switch is turned off, a hydrogen supply valve is closed. Operation of a compressor continues, and an air supply valve and an air discharge valve are opened to supply the compressed air into a fuel cell through a hydrogen supply port. The scavenging process of removing the fuel gas and the water remaining in the fuel gas channel is performed through the air discharge valve, a drain valve, and a hydrogen purge valve. Then, all the valves connected to the fuel gas channel are closed. The pressure when the valves are closed, and the pressure when a short time has elapsed after closing the valves are detected by a pressure sensor. Based on the pressure difference, a failure due to the leakage in the fuel gas channel is detected.
US07771853B2
A patterned magnetic medium includes: a substrate; a soft magnetic underlying film, a nonmagnetic film, an intermediate film and a recording layer which are formed on a principal surface of the substrate; a first protective film formed in contact with the recording film; a second protective film formed in contact with the first protective film; and a third protective film formed in contact with the second protective film. Moreover, the recording layer has a pattern structure formed by making a magnetic film come into contact with a concavo-convex pattern of a nonmagnetic material. The first protective film and the third protective film include carbon as the main constituent element and the second protective film is a wet-coated polymer film. High adhesion between carbon and the wet-coated polymer film can prevent peeling off and the wet-coated polymer film as a cushioning material absorbs impact.
US07771849B2
An epitaxial substrate including a single-crystal base material and an upper layer of a group III nitride crystal film which is epitaxially formed on a main surface of the base material undergoes heating treatment in a nitrogen atmosphere at 1950° C. or higher for one minute. The result showed that, while a γ-ALON layer was formed only at the interface between the base material and the upper layer, the dislocation density in the group III nitride crystal was reduced to one tenth or less of the dislocation density before the heating treatment. The result also showed that the surface of the epitaxial substrate after the heating treatment had a reduced number of pits, which confirmed that high-temperature and short-time heating treatment was effective at improving the crystal quality and surface flatness of the group III nitride crystal.
US07771844B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a substance that can emit phosphorescence. Further, it is an object of the present invention to provide a light emitting element with favorable color purity. The present invention provides an organometallic complex having a structure represented by a general formula (1). A light emitting element that can exhibit red or reddish emission of light with favorable color purity can be obtained by using the organometallic complex of the present invention as aluminescent substance. In addition, a light emitting element that can emit light efficiently can be obtained by using the organometallic complex of the present invention as a sensitizer.
US07771840B2
There are provided an aluminum alloy plate having high strength and excellent corrosion resistance even though the plate is made thinner, and a heat exchanger formed thereof. In an aluminum alloy plate having a core material and a surface material cladded on at least one side of the core material, the surface material includes 0.030-0.30% by mass of Fe, 0.40-1.9% by mass of Mn, 0.40-1.4% by mass of Si, and 2.0-5.5% by mass of Zn, the rest comprises Al and inevitably included impurities, and an area ratio of an intermetallic compound containing Al and Mn to a whole surface of the surface material is 1% or less.
US07771837B2
A derived timber board with a surface coating applied at least in parts is characterized in that at least one coating of a synthetic resin reinforced with fibers is applied as a surface coating. A method for applying the coating is also described.
US07771831B2
An infrared shielding film-coated glass plate comprising a glass substrate and an infrared shielding film formed thereon, wherein the infrared shielding film comprises fine ITO particles having an average primary particle diameter of at most 100 nm dispersed in a matrix containing silicon oxide as the main component and containing nitrogen in an amount of at least 2 at % based on Si and has a film thickness of from 200 to 3,000 nm.
US07771830B2
A coated article is provided so as to have a fairly high visible transmission (TY or Tvis) to sheet resistance (Rs) ratio (i.e., a ratio Tvis/Rs). The higher this ratio, the better the coated article's combined functionality of providing for both good solar performance (e.g., ability to reflect and/or absorb IR radiation) and high visible transmission. In certain example embodiments, coated articles herein may be heat treatable. Coated articles herein may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, architectural or residential monolithic window units, vehicle window units, and/or the like.
US07771820B2
A crystalline nano wire material which can be used as a nano-level wire is provided.A molecular monocrystal having a high anisotropy for electrical resistivity is used.
US07771813B2
The invention can be defined in its most general form as a 3-D light core from sheet material, especially from “NOMEX” polymeric paper, and can be used in production of sandwich panels as applied in aircraft production, construction and other branches of industry. With the aim to improve the core mechanical and unit weight properties, the paper base is perforated thereby increasing the base-binder bonding strength, whereof the binder is applied onto both sides of the base to increase its structure rigidity, owing to bonding of binder layers in-between at the locations of the holes. The quantity of the holes and their diameter are defined in a formula.
US07771809B2
This invention relates to a honeycomb comprising cells having edges forming a face of the honeycomb, the face defined by a plurality of points and having an area of curvature wherein at least two of the points are located in different tangential planes, the walls of the cells comprising 5 to 50 parts by weight thermoplastic material having a melting point of from 120° C. to 350° C., and 50 to 95 parts by weight of a high modulus fiber having a modulus of 600 grams per denier (550 grams per dtex) or greater, based on the total amount of thermoplastic material and high modulus fiber in the walls; wherein less than 25 percent of the honeycomb cells in the area of curvature have a re-entrant angle of greater than 180 degrees. This invention also relates to articles including panels and/or aerodynamic structures comprising the honeycomb.
US07771799B2
Liquid crystal-soluble particle, method for manufacturing the same and liquid crystal device element
A LCD device element of frequency modulation mode enables high speed on and off control of an electro-optical response by switching the frequency of applied electric field. The LCD device element is capable of changing a frequency modulation range freely. The LCD device element has conductive layers between two parallel substrates; liquid crystal (LC) alignment layers with pre-tilt angle on these conductive layers; and a LC layer between the two liquid crystal alignment layers. LC soluble particles (nanoparticles composing a core and a liquid crystal molecules or like molecules on its periphery), are in the LC layer. A control circuit applies voltage while modulating frequency on the conductive layer for varying light transmittance of the LC layer. Under a constant voltage, an electro-optical response is turned on by switching the frequency from low to high frequency and is turned off by switching the frequency from high to low frequency. The electro-optical response is varied also by varying voltage.
US07771795B2
Methods for applying and curing powder coatings, and for imparting a surface effect, e.g., texture or smoothness, to powder coated surfaces are provided. Preferred methods include pressing a textured release medium against the uncured powder coating and then curing the coating to form a thermally stable powder coating surface with the negative image of the texture on the release medium on its surface.
US07771787B2
Particles having a non-uniform property, such as non-uniform charge, can be used to form complex yet controlled particle assemblies. In one method of fabrication, particles are located on a substrate, and a surface treatment applied to the exposed portion of the particle surface. The surface treatment modifies the particle properties within the exposed portion. One or more lithographed regions are not exposed to the surface treatment, providing spatial selectivity in inter-particle bonding after the particles are removed from the substrate.
US07771784B2
A method for forming a thin film material which comprises depositing solid particles from a flowing suspension or aerosol onto a filter and next adhering the solid particles to a second substrate using an adhesive.
US07771783B2
A method of manufacturing a colored lens includes: applying a coating liquid for forming a dyeable hard coat layer over a lens substrate; firstly heating the lens substrate coated with the coating liquid after the coating step at a temperature of T1° C. for t1 hours; dyeing the heated lens substrate by dipping it in a dyeing liquid after the first heating step; and secondly heating the lens substrate which is dyed after the dyeing step at a temperature of T2° C. for t2 hours, wherein the following expression is satisfied when the product of the temperature T1 and the time t1 is a first management value Q1 and the product of the temperature T2 and the time t2 is a second management value Q2: 0.2
US07771777B2
A method for inspecting golf balls is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing at least one sensor capable of obtaining images of the infrared radiation emitted from the ball, obtaining at least one image of the ball using the sensor after paint or a coating has been applied to the surface of the ball, and determining whether the liquid was applied evenly on the surface of the ball. Preferably, the image is obtained during the transient period when the solvent in the paint or coating is evaporating. A number of numerical analysis can be used to determine the evenness of the paint or coating.
US07771775B2
A method of fabricating a medical implant component. The method may comprise producing a substrate from a first material in which the substrate has a bearing portion, and spraying particles of a second material by use of a thermal type spraying process onto at least the bearing portion of the substrate. The second material may be formed from a biocompatible material and a carbide source, in which the carbide source is 6.17% or more of the second material by weight. The biocompatible material may be cobalt chrome and the carbide source may be graphite. The thermal type spraying process may be a plasma spraying process or a high velocity oxygen fuel spraying process.
US07771772B2
Fatty acid esters, such as the unsaturated fatty acid esters of sterols and/or stanols, are used as a replacement for a substantial portion or all of the undesirable saturated and trans-unsaturated fats used as structure giving hardstocks in edible foods such as margarines, mayonnaise, cooking oils, cheeses, butter and shortening. Because of the similarity in the crystallinity and physical properties of the esters to those of the undesirable hardstock fats, the substitution or replacement contributes favorably to the flavor, texture and other sensory properties of the foods. Only the fatty acid portion of the phytosterol esters defined herein as texturizing agent is digested or absorbed with the sterol part being unabsorbable, thereby resulting in a reduction in total caloric uptake. Furthermore, the phytosterol fatty acid esters reduce the absorption of both dietary and biliary cholesterol from the digestive tract, thereby lowering the blood serum cholesterol level, especially the LDL-cholesterol.
US07771770B2
A packaged coffee drink containing chlorogenic acid in high concentration and having excellent flavor and suppressed precipitation when stored for a prolonged time is provided. The heat-sterilized packaged coffee drink contains (A) monocaffeoylquinic acid, (B) ferulaquinic acid and (C) dicaffeoylquinic acid, the drink containing (i) a total of from 0.19 to 4% by mass of the components (A), (B) and (C) in a dissolved state, (ii) 80% by mass or more of water and (iii) from 0.005 to 0.028% by mass of a brown colorant in terms of edible yellow dye No. 4, wherein (iv) the mass ratio of magnesium/sodium is from 0.04 to 1, and (v) the mass ratio of quinic acid/brown colorant is from 0.5 to 30.
US07771765B2
A novel method for controlling adhesion of food product to process surfaces by manipulating fryer oil composition and treating process surfaces. Adding various chemical species to fryer oil allows control of interfacial tension between food product and process surface. Process surfaces may be abraded to reduce surface area in contact with food product thereby reducing undesirable product adhesion.
US07771764B2
A method for producing an extract and/or a squeezed liquid, which includes: feeding a food to be extracted and/or squeezed into a crushing apparatus; adding a solvent into the crushing apparatus immediately after and/or while milling the food; extracting and/or squeezing a useful food component of the food into the solvent; and carrying out liquid-solid separation by removing the resulting extracted residue and/or squeezed residue with a continuous solid-liquid separation apparatus.
US07771760B2
Oils of capsaicinoids and methods of making and using them are described. In some variations, the oils of capsaicinoids comprise at least 40% w/w capsaicinoid and a solvent capable of solubilizing the capsaicinoid, wherein the oil of capsaicinoid is substantially free of capsaicinoid crystals or capsaicinoid precipitates. In other variations, the oils of capsaicinoids consist essentially of at least 40% w/w capsaicinoid and a solvent capable of solubilizing the capsaicinoid. The solvent may be a semi-volatile solvent, a non-volatile solvent, or a volatile solvent, and the oil may comprise at least 50% w/w capsaicinoid, 60% w/w capsaicinoid, 70% w/w capsaicinoid, 80% w/w capsaicinoid, 90% w/w capsaicinoid, or 95% w/w capsaicinoid. The oil of capsaicinoid may also include a crystallization inhibitor.
US07771757B2
A nasal irrigation solution comprising is disclosed comprising water and hydrastine extracted from one or more plants. Another solution comprises water and berberine extracted from one or more plants. These solutions are provided from an extract of goldenseal plant. Solutions are also disclosed having canadine, canadaline, and hydrastidine, all extracted from the goldenseal plant. More general solutions are disclosed including alkaloids extracted from one or more plants. The alkaloids are selected from one or more of the group consisting of: berberine, oxyberberine, berbamine, palmatine, magnoflorine, phellodendrine, jateorrhizine, candicine, menisperine, coptisine, worenine, columbamine, epiberberine, hydrastine, canadine, canadaline, hydrastidine, oxycyanthine, berberrubine, and isotetrandine. Alkaloids are provided from plant from the group consisting of: Oregon grape root, yellow root, phellodendron bark, coptis rhizome, barberry root, and Indian barberry root bark. Other constituents may include extract of grapefruit seed, vegetable glycerine, salt, and water soluble zinc. A method for using these solutions is disclosed which includes flowing the solution through desired portions of nasal cavities.
US07771750B2
A once a day bupropion hydrochloride formulation is disclosed.
US07771747B2
An oral pharmaceutical dosage form comprises pharmacologically effective amounts of an acid-susceptible proton pump inhibitor and an H2 receptor antagonist in combination with at least on pharmacologically acceptable excipient which causes a delayed release and/or an extended release of the proton pump inhibitor. The H2 receptor antagonist is included in the dosage form in such a way that it is rapidly released after administration.This dosage form is suitable for the treatment of conditions associated with an excessive secretion of gastric acid and provides a suitable combination of a rapid onset and a long-lasting duration of the effect.The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a dosage form and to a method for the treatment of conditions associated with the secretion of gastric acid.
US07771745B2
The present invention provides a method for making a fast dissolving tablet. The method includes the steps of (a) preparing a first solution containing a hydrophilic polymer and a starch; (b) preparing a second solution containing a pharmaceutically active ingredient and a surfactant; (c) blending the first and the second solution together to form a plurality of granule powders by granulation; (d) mixing the granule powders with excipients; and (e) applying a compression-molding process to form the fast dissolving tablet.
US07771742B2
Biocompatible intraocular implants include a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and a biodegradable polymer that is effective to facilitate release of the tyrosine kinase inhibitor into an eye for an extended period of time. The therapeutic agents of the implants may be associated with a biodegradable polymer matrix, such as a matrix that is substantially free of a polyvinyl alcohol. The implants may be placed in an eye to treat or reduce the occurrence of one or more ocular conditions.
US07771740B2
The present invention provides a medical device comprising a release region and a therapeutic agent disposed within or beneath the release region, and the release region includes a copolymer comprising a low Tg block and at least one graft copolymer endblock having a main chain and a plurality of side chains.
US07771722B2
A diagnostic test for preclinical and clinical Alzheimer's disease is based on plasma levels of Aβ40, Aβ42, their ratio, or their rate of entry following administration of antibodies that sequester Aβ. Alterations of any of these parameters from control values identifies preclinical or clinical Alzheimer's disease.
US07771720B2
The present application relates to compositions of humanized anti-PAI-1 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof which convert PAI-1 to its latent form. One aspect relates to antibodies having one or more modifications in at least one amino acid residue of at least one of the framework regions of the variable heavy chain, the variable light chain or both. Another aspect relates to antibodies which bind and neutralize PAI-1 by converting PAI-1 to its latent form or increasing proteolytic cleavage. Another aspect relates to the use of humanized antibodies which inhibit or neutralize PAI-1 for the detection, diagnosis or treatment of a disease or condition associated with PAI-1 or a combination thereof.
US07771707B2
An abuse-deterrent pharmaceutical composition has been developed to reduce the likelihood of improper administration of drugs, especially drugs such as opiods. In the preferred embodiment, the drug is modified to increase its lipophilicity by forming a salt between the drug and one or more fatty acids wherein the concentration of the one or more fatty acids is one to 15 times the molar amount of the active agent, preferably two to ten times the molar amount of the active agent. In one embodiment the modified drug is homogeneously dispersed within microparticles composed of a material that is either slowly soluble or not soluble in water. In some embodiments the drug containing microparticles or drug particles are coated with one or more coating layers, where at least one coating is water insoluble and preferably organic solvent insoluble. The abuse-deterrent composition prevents the immediate release of a substantial portion of drug, even if the physical integrity of the formulation is compromised (for example, by chopping with a blade or crushing) and the resulting material is placed in water, snorted, or swallowed. However, when administered as directed, the drug is slowly released from the composition as the composition is broken down or dissolved gradually within the GI tract by a combination of enzymatic degradation, surfactant action of bile acids, and mechanical erosion.
US07771701B2
In a hydrogen atom generation source in a vacuum treatment apparatus which can effectively inhibit hydrogen atoms from being recombined due to contact with an internal wall surface of a treatment chamber of the vacuum treatment apparatus and an internal wall surface of a transport passage, and being returned into hydrogen molecules, at least a part of a surface facing a space with the hydrogen atom generation source formed therein of a member surrounding the hydrogen atom generation source is coated with SiO2. In a hydrogen atom transportation method for transporting hydrogen atoms generated by the hydrogen atom generation source in the vacuum treatment apparatus to a desired place, the hydrogen atoms are transported via a transport passage whose internal wall surface is coated with SiO2.
US07771700B2
Systems are disclosed for making and using micro-porous particulates at least partially composed of metal sulfides, particularly alkaline earth metal and transition metal sulfides, as sorbents for removal of mercury from flue gas. Calcium sulfide micro-porous powders derived from the high temperature reduction of calcium sulfate and calcium sulfite are disclosed to be reactive substrates for a group of sorbents for adsorption of mercury from coal combustion flue gases produced by the utilities industry, as well as from natural gas and gaseous and liquid hydrocarbons. The sorbents are useful for cost-effectively adsorbing elemental mercury and oxidized mercury species such as mercuric chloride from flue gases, including those containing acid gases (e.g., SO.sub.2, NO and NO.sub.2, and HCl), over a wide range of temperatures.
US07771699B2
The present invention relates to the conversion of waste and low-value materials into useful products in reliable purities in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner. More specifially, the invention provides processes that can handle mixed streams of various feedstocks, e.g. shredder residue, offal, animal manures, municipal sewage sludge, tires, and plastics, that otherwise have little commercial value, to useful products including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids. The process subjects the feedstock to heat and pressure, separates out various components, then further applies heat and pressure to one or more of those components, according to processes based on thermal or catalytic cracking. The invention further comprises an apparatus for performing a multi-stage process of converting waste materials into useful materials, and at least one oil product that arises from the process. Useful products can also be obtained or derived from materials diverted at different points of the process.
US07771691B2
A compound of formula I and a corresponding method for the extraction of high-order fullerenes from a carbonaceous mixture including at least one solid-liquid extraction.
US07771689B2
A process of synthesizing metal and metal nitride nanowires, the steps comprising of: forming a catalytic metal (such as gallium, and indium) on a substrate (such as fused silica quartz, pyrolytic boron nitride, alumina, and sapphire), heating the combination in a pressure chamber, adding gaseous reactant and/or solid metal source, applying sufficient microwave energy (or current in hot filament reactor) to activate the metal of interest (such as gold, copper, tungsten, and bismuth) and continuing the process until nanowires of the desired length are formed. The substrate may be fused silica quartz, the catalytic metal a gallium or indium metal, the gaseous reactant is nitrogen and/or hydrogen and the nanowires are tungsten nitride and/or tungsten.
US07771687B2
The present invention relates to a method for mass preparation of granular polycrystalline silicon in a fluidized bed reactor, comprising (a) a reactor tube, (b) a reactor shell encompassing the reactor tube, (c) an inner zone formed within the reactor tube, where a silicon particle bed is formed and silicon deposition occurs, and an outer zone formed in between the reactor shell and the reactor tube, which is maintained under an inert gas atmosphere, and (d) a controlling means to keep the pressure difference between the inner zone and the outer zone being maintained within the range of 0 to 1 bar, thereby capable of maintaining physical stability of the reactor tube and efficiently preparing granular polycrystalline silicon even at a relatively high reaction pressure.
US07771678B2
The present invention relates to a catalytic converter element having a plurality of essentially parallel channels through which gas flows during operation of the catalytic converter element. The channels are bordered by channel walls which have a catalytically active coating arranged thereon in at least some areas where it is exposed to the gas. In some channels the coating thus begins with an axial offset from the admission end. This allows an improved temperature management within the catalytic converter element.
US07771673B2
A plasma generating electrode of the present invention includes a pair of unit electrodes 2, each of the pair of unit electrodes 2 including a plate-like ceramic body 19 and a conductive film 12 disposed inside the ceramic body 19 and including a plurality of protrusions 13 on a front surface, the pair of unit electrodes 2 constituting a basic unit 1 by being hierarchically layered at intervals corresponding to thickness of the protrusion 13 in a state that a plurality of spaces which are open on each end in the arrangement direction of the protrusion are formed, the basic units 1 constituting an electrode unit in which the basic units 1 are hierarchically layered at intervals corresponding to the thickness of the protrusion 13, and the plasma generating electrode being capable of generating plasma in the three-dimensionally arranged spaces V upon application of voltage between the unit electrodes 2 constituting the electrode unit. Therefore, the plasma generating electrode is capable of generating uniform and stable plasma and exhibiting excellent heat resistance.
US07771671B2
An air conditioning device comprises a substantially thin collector electrode capable of forming ions at a front and/or rear edge when charged. The thin collector electrode preferably having an insulating material disposed on the front and/or rear edge to prevent ions from being emitted therefrom. The collector electrode capable of being in the form of a thin elongated blade whereby an emitter electrode is upstream of the front edge or alternatively downstream of the front edge. The collector electrode alternatively in the form of a cylindrical structure or a porous grid having a plurality of air passageway cells therethrough.
US07771667B2
A transfer method and system (8) to discharge overflow slurry from a polymerization reactor (10) to a tank (14). The method includes thermally isolating a conduit extension (28) at a distal end of a transfer line (20) from a quench fluid inlet (42) to a quench chamber (12). The transfer system (8) is characterized by an annular thermal barrier around the conduit extension (28) that can include insulation (34) and/or thermally resistant support ring (36), and a trap-free conduit (20) in fluid communication between the reactor (10) and the conduit extension (28). The transfer method and system can reduce or eliminate incidents of transfer line (20) plugging in the manufacture of isoolefin polymers and copolymers.
US07771666B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the controlled synthesis of nanoparticles using a high temperature process. The reactor chamber includes a high temperature gas heated by means such as a plasma torch, and a reaction chamber. The homogenizer includes a region between the reactant inlets and the plasma (the spacer zone) to ensure that feeds from the reactant inlets are downstream of the recirculation zone induced by the high temperature gas. It also includes a region downstream of the reactant inlets that provides a nearly I dimensional (varying only in the axial direction) flow and concentration profile in the reaction zone to produce nanoparticles with narrow size distribution.
US07771658B2
A disposable cartridge for characterizing particles suspended in a liquid, especially a self-contained disposable cartridge for single-use analysis, such as for single-use analysis of a small quantity of whole blood. The self-contained disposable cartridge facilitates a straightforward testing procedure, which can be performed by most people without any particular education. Furthermore, the apparatus used to perform the test on the cartridge is simple, maintenance free, and portable.
US07771656B2
A reagent dispensing mechanism (15), first and second dispensing-mechanism transfer means (26, 27), and a second reagent vessel (reagent cassette) carrying-in/out mechanism (24), which are constructed by employing an XY-mechanism, are arranged so as to travel above a reagent table (25) to carry in/out a reagent cassette (22). As compared with the case where the reagent cassette carrying-in/out mechanism (24) is installed radially of the reagent table (25), the area of an automatic analyzer in the horizontal direction can be reduced and a reagent vessel (16) can be moved to a predetermined position in a shorter time by combining the rotation of the reagent table (25) with the movement of the XY-mechanism. Further, as compared the case of dispensing reagents from reagent vessels in a matrix pattern by using the reagent dispensing/transferring mechanism, the travel distance of the transferring mechanism can be shortened and so can be the travel time. Thus, an analyzer adaptable as a machine of high processing capability with a shorter cycle time can be constructed.
US07771655B2
A device for preparing a fluid sample for use in a fluid analyte meter, including: a first portion, comprising: a septum piercing projection, a capillary channel, and a vent on an outer surface of the first portion; and a second portion, comprising: a treatment solution chamber, and a septum sealing the treatment solution chamber, wherein the vent is open when the first portion of the device is initially inserted into the second portion of the device, and wherein the vent is closed when the first portion of the device is fully inserted into the second portion of the device.
US07771648B2
A molded fibrous structure comprising a continuous molded element. The continuous molded element may be one-dimensional. A method for making a molded fibrous structure comprising a continuous molded element. A substrate for use as a wipe made from a molded fibrous structure.
US07771647B2
A method and apparatus for providing electric microcontact printing is provided. A stamp is brought into contact with the surface of a substrate to provide high resolution features. Aspects of the invention may be used for data storage, microcontact printing, and for other applications requiring high resolution pattern transfer.
US07771635B2
A melt cooler and valving system for an underwater pelletizer has a diverter valve that facilitates multiple modes of melt processing. The cooler has a cooler inlet line that conveys the melt to the cooler, and a cooler outlet line that conveys the cooled melt from the cooler. The diverter valve is configured to convey the melt to and from the cooler during a cooling mode of operation, to convey the melt around the cooler during a bypass mode of operation, and to drain the melt from the cooler and the diverter valve during a drain mode of operation. The diverter valve is compact and therefore contains a minimum of product inventory. The valve is streamlined and direct in its bypass mode, and includes a drain capability to allow for faster, easier cleaning of the process line, which in turn provides a fast changeover time with less lost product.
US07771631B2
An injection rate (cm3/sec) of a screw feeder at the time of starting an injection is the largest and the injection rate (cm3/sec) thereof gradually or sequentially decreases until an end of injection so that a temperature of a melted resin reaching the end portion of a cavity decreases within a range where the melted resin is not solidified.
US07771626B2
The invention provides a novel n-type thermoelectric conversion material which comprises low-toxic and abundant elements, and has excellent heat-resistance, chemical durability and the like, as well as high thermoelectric conversion efficiency, the thermoelectric conversion material comprises a metal oxynitride thermoelectric conversion material which has a composition represented by formula Ti1-xAxOyNz (wherein A is at least one element selected from the group consisting of transition metals of the 4th and 5th periods of the periodic table, and 0≦x≦0.5, 0.5≦y≦2.0, 0.01≦z≦0.6), and has an absolute value of thermoelectric power of at least 30 μV/K at 500° C. or above, and a novel n-type thermoelectric conversion material, a thermoelectric conversion element and a thermoelectric conversion module comprising the above metal oxynitride can also be provided.
US07771623B2
The present invention is directed to a thick film conductor composition comprised of (a) aluminum-containing powder; (b) at least one glass frit composition; dispersed in (c) organic medium wherein said glass frit composition upon firing undergoes a recrystallization process and liberates both a glass and a crystalline phase and wherein said glass phase of said recrystallization process comprises a glass that has a lower softening point than the original softening point of said glass frit composition.
US07771618B2
A liquid crystal material including an optical compensated bend mode liquid crystal molecule and a bend molecule is provided. The bend molecule has a structure presented as formula (1): In formula (1), the symbol A represents one of the following formulas: The symbol L represents hydrogen or fluorine, and the value r is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight. Besides, the symbol X represents carboxyl group or cyano group. The symbol B represents one of the following formulas: The symbol L represents hydrogen or fluorine, and the value r is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven or eight. The symbol C represents alkyl, alkoxyl, alkylcarbonyl or alkoxycarbonyl group with 1 to 12 carbon atoms.
US07771617B2
The cholesteric liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by Formulas (1) to (8): wherein R1 represents independently alkyl having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or alkoxy having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
US07771615B2
The invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal composite capable of sufficiently reducing the scattering of light in a focal conic state, a liquid crystal display element excellent in improvements of a color balance and a contrast, and electronic paper using the same. The content of a chiral material is higher in a cholesteric liquid crystal LCg for G than in a cholesteric liquid crystal LCb for B, and is higher in a cholesteric liquid crystal LCr for R than in the cholesteric liquid crystal LCg for G. The cholesteric liquid crystal LCr for R is prepared by mixing about 5 wt % of a chiral material CHl1 of an L-form with a base liquid crystal of an R-form, which contains 27 wt % of CHr1 of the R-form exhibiting a liquid crystallizability for a nematic liquid crystal LCn, and 3 wt % of a chiral material CHr2 of the R-form exhibiting no crystallizability.
US07771611B2
Novel compositions are provided containing a compound represented by the formula YOSF5 or ZOSF5, where: (a) Y is: (i) an organic cation other than (Me2N)3S+ or (ii) an inorganic cation, provided that when Y is the inorganic cation, the composition further includes a complexing agent; and (b) Z is C1-20 alkyl, aryl, cycloalkyl, combinations thereof, or analogues thereof containing at least one heteroatom, provided that the compound represented by the formula ZOSF5 is a molecular compound. Processes of making the cationic compounds are disclosed as are processes for using the compositions containing cationic compounds in nucleophilic replacement reactions to prepare the compositions containing molecular compounds including the OSF5 group.
US07771610B2
Disclosed is a nonflammable refrigerant composition consisting of pentafluoroethane in an amount from 62% to 67% based on the weight of the composition, a second component that is selected from 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane, 1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane, and mixtures thereof in an amount from 26% to 36% by weight; and an ethylenically unsaturated or saturated hydrocarbon compound that is at least 70% isobutane in an amount of from 1% to 4% by weight and up to 5% by weight based on the weight of the composition of another fluorohydrocarbon. The composition optionally may further include at least one additive, lubricant or combination thereof.
US07771607B2
A plasma processing method for processing a substrate with plasma by applying a high frequency to a reaction chamber, and applying a second high frequency to a substrate holder includes covering at least 90% of a total surface area of an inner wall of the reaction chamber that is directly exposed to plasma with a dielectric, disposing a DC earth comprising a conductive portion that is earthed and having an area less than 10% of the inner wall of the reaction chamber, and performing plasma processing to the substrate in the reaction chamber having the DC earth located at a position where a floating potential of plasma is higher than the floating potential of plasma at the inner wall of the reaction chamber that is closest to the substrate.
US07771595B2
A filter element includes a ring of filtration media circumscribing a central axis, and first and second end caps. The first end cap includes i) an annular body portion defining a central opening around the central axis, sealingly bonded to the first end of the media ring, ii) an annular sealing ring having an annular, peripheral resilient sealing portion; and iii) axial support stanchions around the periphery of the body portion. The stanchions support the sealing ring at a location spaced apart from the body portion, and define radial flow openings between adjacent stanchions. One or more non-radial flow members extend from each stanchion along the outer surface of the annular body portion to direct flow in a spiral or helical manner, where the flow then passes through the flow openings and downwardly along the outer surface of the media in a swirling manner.
US07771592B2
An aquarium filter assembly is mounted to an aquarium tank and defines a water flow path therethrough from upstream to downstream from an inlet to an outlet. A replaceable filter element is mounted in a filter chamber.
US07771591B2
A first filter basket (20) sits down into a catch basin (10) and has an upper flange (24) that rests on a shoulder (14) provided in the catch basin (10) for supporting a grate (16). The filter basket (20) has expanded metal side and bottom walls which are adapted to pass liquid and catch particulate material larger in size than the wall openings. A geo-textile liner (42) is optionally positioned inside of the filter basket (20). The liner (42) is supported on a lower rim flange (26). Posts (40) on the rim flange (26) extend upwardly through openings (66) in marginal portions of the liner (42). A smaller second filter basket (72) is optionally supported inside the larger first filter basket (20). An absorbent pillow (90) may be positioned between the bottoms of the two filter baskets (20, 72) to catch and absorb oils and greases that are in the liquid that enters the catch basin (10).
US07771588B2
The invention pertains to the use of a class of acetylenic surfactants to resolve or break water and oil emulsions. The surfactants are of particular advantage in resolving crude oil emulsions of the type encountered in desalter and similar apparatus designed to extract brines from the crude as they partition to the aqueous phase in the desalter. Also, the surfactants may be used to separate oil from oil sands and similar oil/solids matrices.
US07771586B2
A strontium-doped, calcium-alumina nickel supported reforming catalyst is useful for reforming reactions when it is desired to generate a low H2/CO ratio synthesis gas and to reduce coking. The catalyst can generate a synthesis gas having a H2/CO ratio of less than about 2.3. The catalyst includes alumina, from about 0.3 wt. % to about 35 wt. % of calcium oxide, from about 0.1 wl % to about 35 wt. % of a strontium promoter, and about 0.5 wt. % to about 30 wt. % nickel. The support is prepared by a method wherein the calcium oxide is combined with the alumina to form aluminum-rich calcium aluminates.
US07771581B2
An apparatus and process is disclosed for the electrolytic removal of metal from a device, such as a medical device. More particularly, the apparatus of the invention includes a mandrel having slots or openings therein to expose portions of a metallic device, such as a stent, to an electrolytic solution to remove metal from the exposed portion.
US07771579B2
A chemical solution for an electro chemical plating process includes an electro chemical plating solution; and an additive, added in the electro chemical plating solution, substantially consisting of a polymer with one or more kinds of impurities, wherein each kind of the impurities has a density, with respect to the polymer, lower then 1019 atoms/cc.
US07771578B2
In a method for production of a corrosion resistant and/or oxidation resistant coating, at least one metal of the platinum group or an alloy thereof is galvanically deposited onto a surface of a substrate, and thereafter the thusly galvanically coated substrate is aluminized. In a first stage of the galvanic deposition process a current magnitude applied for the galvanizing is increased continuously or step-wise beginning from an initial value up to a maximum value, and in a second stage of the galvanic deposition process the current magnitude applied for the galvanizing is maintained constant at the maximum value. The galvanic deposition of the or each metal of the platinum group or the corresponding alloy may be carried out using an open-celled or open-mesh or porous anode.
US07771575B2
The present invention relates to an analytical tool (1) comprising a substrate (10), a capillary (13) which is formed on the substrate (10) and into which a sample liquid is to be loaded by movement of the sample liquid in the capillary. The substrate (10) is provided with a liquid movement preventer for preventing the sample liquid loaded into the capillary (13) from moving further. Preferably, the liquid movement preventer includes a stepped portion (18B) projecting from the substrate or a recess provided at the substrate.
US07771572B2
A cone crusher fixed toothed plate fixing structure, including an upper chamber, a locking device, a fixed toothed plate and a plurality of bolt members. A passageway penetrates the interior of the upper chamber, and the fixed toothed plate, provided with protrusions corresponding to protruding pieces of the upper chamber and stop pieces of the locking device and clasping notches corresponding to indentations of the upper cover and recesses of the locking device, is disposed therein, and a ledge located interior of the passageway enables the locking device to be disposed thereon. The plurality of bolt members are rotated and bolted into a plurality of screw holes to enable abutting against the ledge, whereupon a locking action raises the fixed toothed plate and attaches it to the upper chamber, thereby enabling the fixed toothed plate G to realize simple assembly of the fixing structure, and achieve effectiveness to crush stones.
US07771571B2
A sputter coated article is provided with improved mechanical durability (e.g., pre-HT scratch resistance) and/or thermal stability by sputtering at least one Ag inclusive layer in an atmosphere including at least O2 gas. For instance, in certain example embodiments an Ag inclusive target may be sputtered in an atmosphere including a combination of Ar and O2 gas. In certain embodiments, this enables the resulting AgOx infrared (IR) reflecting layer to better adhere to adjacent contact layer(s).
US07771569B2
Light hydrocarbon enrichment is accomplished using a vertically oriented distillation column having a plurality of vertically oriented, nonselective micro/mesoporous hollow fibers. Vapor having, for example, both propylene and propane is sent upward through the distillation column in between the hollow fibers. Vapor exits neat the top of the column and is condensed to form a liquid phase that is directed back downward through the lumen of the hollow fibers. As vapor continues to ascend and liquid continues to countercurrently descend, the liquid at the bottom of the column becomes enriched in a higher boiling point, light hydrocarbon (propane, for example) and the vapor at the top becomes enriched in a lower boiling point light hydrocarbon (propylene, for example). The hollow fiber becomes wetted with liquid during the process.
US07771568B2
A self sustaining desalination system includes a chamber having a transparent inclined cover and a transparent bottom for receiving seawater or the like. The system includes a channel for conveying seawater to the chamber and a receptacle for receiving distillate at the base of the cover. The seawater is vaporized by solar energy passing through the incline cover and reflected up through the transparent bottom. A portion of the vaporized water condenses on the cooled inside cover and runs down into the receptacle. A second portion of the vaporized water is fed to the heat exchanger and condensed therein. In addition, a plurality of such systems are combined with a plurality of basic units each of which includes a wind turbine and an array of solar panels in a park like setting to provide electricity, drinking water and irrigation water for a small community.
US07771567B2
The salt water distillation system includes a sprinkler to form a mist of salt water over a distillation plate. The distillation plate is heated by applying electrical current to a heating coil. The steam is transferred to a condensation chamber and condensed fresh water is collected. During the desalination process, salt impurities are deposited on the hot distillation plate. A sludge remover, i.e., a steam head and movable ram, is provided to clean the distillation plate of the salt impurities. An exhaust fan is provided to cool fresh water condensate and lower air pressure in the system. Heat transferred from the steam during condensation is used to pre-heat the salt water to increase efficiency of the system.
US07771561B2
An apparatus and a method for surface treatment of substrates whereby the quality of substrates can be maintained by preventing excessive plasma treatment of substrates. In carrying out the plasma treatment on a surface of the substrate in a reaction chamber, there are provided an emission spectroscopic analysis device or a mass analyzer, and a controller, so that the energy of ions in plasma is controlled to decrease when, e.g., bromine included in the substrate is detected, and the surface treatment to the substrate is controlled to stop when the removal of impurities of the substrate is detected to end. The bromine once separated from the substrate is prevented from adhering again to the substrate and corroding the substrate. Moreover, ions are prevented from being excessively irradiated to the substrate when the removal of impurities ends, thereby reducing damage to the substrate.
US07771557B2
The invention relates to a method for joining an uncured stringer to a structural component of an aircraft or spacecraft. The uncured stringer is supplied with at least one joining section and at least one web section. A rapidly curing low-temperature auxiliary material is deposited on web flanks of the at least one web section, which are to be supported. The at least one joining section of the uncured stringer is fitted to the structural component. Curing of the auxiliary material then takes place at a first curing temperature in order to form cured supporting elements for the web flanks of the at least one web section, which are to be supported. Curing of the uncured stringer is undertaken at a second curing temperature which is greater than the first precuring/curing temperature, and then the deposited and cured auxiliary material is removed.
US07771554B2
The present invention includes an image transfer sheet. The image transfer sheet comprises a release layer and a polymer layer. One or more of the release layer and the polymer layer comprise titanium oxide or other white pigment.
US07771551B2
A system and method are provided which enable the joining of two materials via ultrasonic welding, including materials normally considered incompatible in traditional ultrasonic welding techniques. The system permits ultrasonic welding of a first material to a second material, the second material including material types normally considered incompatible with the first material and includes an abrader for altering the surface of the material/s to be joined. A first pressure device is operative to vary the position of the abrader and thereby vary the abrasion applied to the materials. An ultrasonic source provides acoustic energy to a weld interface between the materials. A second pressure device is operative to vary the force applied to the interface between the materials while a sensor senses the weld interface temperature. A controller dynamically adjusts the acoustic energy of the ultrasonic source, the second pressure device, and at least one of the first pressure device and a temperature varying device during junction formation. The temperature varying device is operative to modify the temperature of the material/s being welded before abrasion and/or proximate the weld interface location. In this manner, the system enables a smooth, continuous junction to form at a predetermined rate.
US07771546B2
An object of the present invention is to solve the problem in hot workability caused by Cu aggregation and provide semi-hard magnetic materials having good magnetic properties, bias materials for magnetic markers, magnetic markers and production methods of bias materials for magnetic markers. The present invention provides a semi-hard magnetic material including 2.0%≦Cu≦10.0% and 0.1%≦Nb≦5.0% by mass %, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, and having a microstructure in which Cu phase and an intermetallic compound of Fe and Nb are dispersed. The semi-hard magnetic material of the present invention is suitable as bias materials for magnetic markers. Furthermore, the bias materials for magnetic markers can be formed by disposing bias materials for magnetic markers mentioned above so that a bias magnetic field may be applied to a magnetostrictive element for a magnetic marker.
US07771540B2
A cleaning apparatus and method for cleaning dental and/or medical implements, and in particular to a system for quickly and thoroughly cleaning dental and/or orthodontic retainers, dental/orthodontic aligners, dental appliances, dentures, bridges, and the like. The preferred embodiment of the present invention contemplates a cleaning system utilizing a vibrating sonic wave bath comprising a vibration means to oscillate a container having at least some fluid therein engaging the item to be cleaned, coupled with the utilization of a preferably flavored tablet containing a non-toxic cleaning material, the tablet preferably also formulated to effervesce upon contact with water, generating bubbles and foam. It has been found that the sonic bath substantially enhances the cleaning and flavoring ability of the effervescent cleaning tablet, while reducing the amount of time to clean the dental appliance. The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a relatively cost effective, safe, easy to use and reliable system for cleaning and flavoring dental appliances and the like.
US07771536B2
The substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention is aimed to stably and efficiently perform a deposition process on a substrate W. The substrate processing apparatus supports the substrate W in a position facing a heater portion and thus rotates a holding member holding the substrate W. Furthermore, the heating portion houses a SiC heater and a heat reflecting member in an internal portion of a quartz bell jar made of transparent quartz, and depressurizes an internal space of a processing vessel and an internal space of the quartz bell jar at the same time; thereby allowing the thickness of the quartz bell jar to be thinner, and thus improving thermal conductivity of heat from the SiC heater and preventing contamination by the SiC heater.
US07771531B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of a crystallized rare-earth thin films on a glass or a silicon substrate. This manufacturing method of a crystallized metal oxide thin film includes a step of retaining an metal organic thin film or a metal oxide film containing at least one type of rare-earth metal element selected from a group comprised of Y, Dy, Sm, Gd, Ho, Eu, Tm, Tb, Er, Ce, Pr, Yb, La, Nd and Lu formed on a substrate at a temperature of 250 to 600° C., and a step of crystallizing the organic metal thin film or the metal oxide film while irradiating ultraviolet radiation having a wavelength of 200 nm or less.
US07771527B2
A bone substitute composition includes glass flake and a hardenable material. The glass flake is a particle with an aspect ratio of, at least, 20:1. The preferred thickness of the glass flake is in the range from 200 to 1,000 nm and the average particle size is, preferably, from 20 to 60 μm.
US07771522B2
A slug flow separator facilitates the separation of a mixture flow into component parts. The separator includes an upper-tier elongate conduit, a lower-tier elongate conduit and a plurality of spaced apart connectors. Each of the upper and lower-tier elongate conduits has an outlet and at least one of the upper and lower-tier elongate conduits has an inlet for receiving the mixture flow. The upper and lower-tier elongate conduits also each have a plurality of openings such that one connector of the plurality of connectors may interconnect one of the upper-tier elongate conduit openings with a one of the lower-tier elongate conduit openings. The connectors enable communication of at least one of a liquid component and the at least one of another liquid component and a gas component of the mixture flow therebetween.
US07771517B2
A fluid filter is preferably constructed from a relatively thick batting of high loft, non-woven, fluid permeable fibrous material. The filter batting is then passed through a manufacturing device, which slices the batting in the vertical as to create two continuous filter batts from the parent filter batt. The slicing also creates a relatively deep V-shaped zig zag or waveform pattern in the anterior filter surfaces of the top and bottom of the batt. The top half deep V-shaped zigzag patterns peaks and valleys correspond or line up with the bottom half's valleys and peaks since the waveform landscape of the first child batt is essentially a negative impression of the second child batt. Accordingly, the patterns nest within one another. When separated, the two children batts each comprise a waveform landscape for dynamically directing fluid streams from the anterior filter surface to the posterior filter surface.
US07771505B2
A controlled release fertilizer composition and methods to produce the controlled release fertilizer composition are described. The controlled release fertilizer composition comprises a water soluble fertilizer core that is coated with a polymeric layer, intermediate layer, and a sulfur layer. If desired, the sulfur layer can be coated with an outer water-insoluble layer.
US07771499B2
The multi-cyclone dust separating apparatus includes a first cyclone unit having a body and including an air inlet disposed at a side of the body, a first cyclone chamber adapted to form a first space for whirling air from the air inlet to separate dust form the air; a second cyclone unit adapted to be detachably disposed at the body of the first cyclone unit and including, a second air inlet to draw the air from the first cyclone chamber, at least one cyclone for whirling the air from the first cyclone chamber to provide a second separation of dust from the air; and a dust bin adapted to be detachably mounted to at least one of the second cyclone unit and the first cyclone unit.
US07771490B2
Disclosed are thiol dyes of formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 independently from each other are hydrogen; unsubstituted or substituted, straight-chain or branched, monocyclic or polycyclic, interrupted or uninterrupted C1-C14alkyl; C2-C14alkenyl; C6-C10aryl; C6-C10aryl-C1-C10alkyl; or C5-C10alkyl(C5-C10aryl); A is a residue of an organic dye; and Y1 is the direct bond; C1C10alkylene; C5-C10cycloalkylene; C5-C12arylene; or C5-C12arylene-(C1-C10alkylene). The compounds are used to dye hair with or without reducing agents. Furthermore, the present invention relates to compositions comprising thiol dyes of formula (I) and to process for the preparation of theses compounds.
US07771484B2
A modular tibial implant includes a tibial baseplate having a top surface, a bottom surface, and first and second openings extending between the top and bottom surfaces, and a bone engaging element having a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the distal and proximal ends, the proximal end of the bone engaging element having a threaded opening alignable with the first opening of the tibial baseplate and a post insertible into the second opening of the tibial baseplate. The implant include a threaded fastener insertible into the aligned first opening and threaded opening, wherein the threaded fastener is rotatable for securing the proximal end of the bone engaging element to the bottom surface of the tibial baseplate, and a cam element insertible into the second opening of the tibial baseplate for engaging the post. The cam element is rotatable for moving the baseplate relative to the bone engaging element along an axis that traverses the longitudinal axis of the bone engaging element.
US07771483B2
A method for mounting a tibial condylar implant includes forming a tunnel having a proximal end on a lateral, medial, or anterior side of a proximal end of the tibia and a distal end on an at least partially resected lateral or medial facet at the proximal end of the tibia. A condylar implant is positioned over the distal end of the tunnel. A fastener is advanced into the tunnel from the proximal end of the tunnel. The fastener which is at least partially disposed within the tunnel is secured to the condylar implant.
US07771476B2
An orthopedic implant device is non-rigid, i.e., flexible and/or malleable, in a first form for insertion into a desired in vivo site, and then transformable into a rigid, or hardened, form for providing a load-bearing function or providing other structural and/or mechanical function after implant. The device includes a biocompatible sheath and a curable material sealed within the sheath. The curable material is provided in a first form that provides flexibility to the device and is structured to rigidize in a second form after insertion to an in vivo location as a result of application of a cure-initiating energy to the material prior to insertion. Related methods and kits are also provided.
US07771467B2
An apparatus for repairing the function of a native aortic valve, defining a native valve annulus, of a patient includes a tubular valve support member having oppositely disposed first and second valve member ends and a valve member body located between the first and second valve member ends. The valve support member defines a longitudinal axis. A prosthetic valve has at least two prosthetic valve leaflets that are coaptable to permit the unidirectional flow of blood. The prosthetic valve is attached to the valve support member adjacent the second valve member end. At least two coronary openings in the valve member body are located longitudinally adjacent free edges of the at least two prosthetic valve leaflets. At least one of the coronary openings is located so as to be selectively radially aligned with a coronary ostium when the prosthetic valve is located substantially within the native valve annulus. At least two branch support members are provided, with each branch support member having first and second branch ends. Each first branch end is attachable to a coronary opening with the second branch end extending radially away from the valve support member and through a coronary ostium.
US07771466B2
A multi-section filamentary stent comprises a braided section, which is a cylindrical mesh of a first set of filaments, connected to at least one wound section comprising a second set of one or more filaments having a repeating configuration with a bent portion. The two sections are preferably connected by at least one continuous filament extending into both sections. The two sections may be connected by a weld, a suture, a common graft, an overlapping portion of the two sections, or one or more filaments of one section looping through portions of the other section. The stent may comprise a first section, having a braided first stent architecture with a first flexibility and a first radial force, and a second section, having a non- braided second stent architecture with a second flexibility less than the first flexibility and a second radial force greater than the first radial force, in which at least one continuous filament is integral to both the first and second sections.
US07771456B2
An intervertebral implant has two U-shaped inserts set over each other with a center piece in between. The two inserts each have an opposing base surface, two lateral side surfaces, and a contact surface. The contact surface has a channel configured to receive a spinal process of a vertebral body. The center piece has two resting surfaces corresponding respectively to each contact surfaces. The contact and resting surfaces each have corresponding structures that can engage each other such that the U-shaped inserts can each be fastened in a detachable manner to the center piece. The U-shaped inserts each have on the same lateral side surface connecting means to fasten the inserts to gripping elements of a surgical instrument. And the first and second structures can be engaged or disengaged only by the lateral side surface fitted with the connecting means.
US07771455B2
A closure device for closing a puncture wound has a distal section that can be placed against the interior wall of a vessel and a proximal section that bunches in the tissue tract to close the wound.
US07771450B2
Medical balloons and balloon preforms are made by methods which include the step of selectively removing material from the proximal and/or distal ends of a segment. In the case of a thermoplastic material characterized by one or more glass transition temperatures, the segment may optionally be maintained at a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the segment during the material removal step.
US07771443B2
A surgical tool including an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, first and second sets of tissue approximating structures having deployed and retracted positions relative to the elongated body, an actuating mechanism at the proximal end of the elongated body for independently deploying and retracting each of the first and second sets of tissue approximating structures, and a drainage lumen extending from a drainage aperture at the distal end of the elongated body to the proximal end. The tool further includes a main balloon adjacent to the distal end of the elongated body, wherein the first set of tissue approximating structures has a different configuration than the second set of tissue approximating structures.
US07771440B2
A gastric reduction apparatus provides for the secure attachment of multiple fasteners into the gastric wall, the fasteners being linked with a flexible member in a manner permitting the reduction of the effective size of an individual's stomach. The apparatus includes an applicator head including a proximal end and a distal end. The applicator head of the gastric reduction apparatus includes a cavity shaped and dimensioned for receiving tissue. A fastener attachment mechanism is positioned within the cavity for access to tissue that is pulled within the cavity and the fastener attachment mechanism includes a plurality of fasteners.
US07771435B2
A surgical instrument for fragmenting and extracting stones includes an outer sheath having a proximal end and a distal end and an inner core longitudinally extending through the core and longitudinally movable relative to the core. The outer sheath has a basket sized for entrapping the stones and located near the distal end of the outer sheath. The distal end of the inner core is longitudinally moveable from a retracted position within the basket to an extended position past the distal end of the outer sheath. The distal end of the inner core is also adapted to engage and fragment the stones. Longitudinal movement of the inner core relative to the outer sheath transforms the basket from an expanded condition to a collapsed condition to entrap stones within the basket and provide a small profile for insertion and withdrawal.
US07771428B2
This invention relates generally to devices, systems and methods for the internal fixation of bone fractures, and particularly, to intramedullary fracture fixation devices such as those used in, for example, the treatment of long bone fractures. An IM rod preferably is provided with multiple curved sections in different planes preferably designed to conform with the long bones of a patient, both during insertion and in the rod's final position in the long bone. In addition, the overlap of portions of the curved sections results in a co-planar curvature of portions of the IM rod which assist in the insertion process by guiding the proper rotation of the IM rod as it is inserted into the bone. Spiraling flutes extending down the distal portion of the rod also assist in properly guiding and orienting the rod about its longitudinal axis during insertion such that the appropriate segment of the curved rod conforms with the appropriate portion of the long bone at the appropriate place.
US07771426B2
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is used in the case of bone. A photosensitizing drug is administered to a mammal. A bone insertion member is secured into bone. A fiber optic cable sheath extends from within the bone insertion member and is accessible. A fiber optic cable is inserted in the fiber optic cable sheath to deliver light to the bone. A locking member is then attached to the insertion member. Non-thermal light at a specific wavelength is then delivered to activate the drug. The insertion member and the fiber optic cable sheath may remain inside the mammal for further photodynamic therapy.
US07771425B2
An endoscopic bipolar forceps includes a housing and a shaft, the shaft having an end effector assembly at its distal end, which includes two jaw members for grasping tissue therebetween. Each jaw member is adapted to connect to an electrosurgical energy source, enabling them to affect a tissue seal to tissue held therebetween. A drive assembly is included within the housing for moving the jaw members and it includes first and second gear-like cam members. A movable handle is also included, such that movement of the handle rotates the first gear-like cam member into cooperation with the second gear-like cam member to actuate the drive assembly to move the jaw members relative to each other.
US07771422B2
Devices and methods for electrolytic electrosurgery wherein a detector is located proximal to an active electrode on an electrosurgical probe, optionally disposed between the active electrode and a return electrode, the detector detecting at least on parameter relating to electrolysis. The detected parameter can include pH concentration, temperature, conductivity, impedance, ion, concentration, electrolytic gas consumption, electrolytic gas production, pressure or sound. The detected parameter can be employed in control systems to control systems to control activation or operation of the electrosurgical probe.
US07771419B2
Herein is disclosed a biomedical dispersive electrode which can redistribute the current in the subject body, increase subject safety, reduce the chance for burns and other tissue damage as well as discomfort experienced by subject during or after usage. Electrodes based on the principles of this invention can be made smaller than electrodes based on the principles of the prior art.
